I'm too busy watching the World Series to write much about tonight's penultimate episode of "Bored to Death" season one. After last week's George/Ray breakthrough, I was disappointed that the two had so little shared screentime tonight, but at least "The Case of the Stolen Sperm" had one of the show's funnier faux-noir storylines so far, with some nice guest work by Jenny Slate (filmed before she was cast on "SNL") as the stoner from the food co-op, and some good Schwartzman/Galifianakis teamwork throughout. What did everybody else think?
Very funny episode, but then again I've been really happy with the whole series so far. I haven't seen an HBO comedy this good since Extras from 2005. I prefer Bored to Death, actually.
ReplyDeleteAlan, it sounds like you liked the episode. Does this break the pattern of only the even-numbered episodes being good?
I also remember you mentioning on this blog that you're a big fan of The Treatment. Have you listened to Elvis' interview with Jason Schwartzman from last week? It's really good. Schwartzman is every bit as articulate and intelligent as I hoped he'd be.
A few more things I wanted to say about Bored to Death. Does it seem like this first season is following a three-act structure, or am I mistaken? If I remember right, the second episode didn't really continue to set up the show, so instead of the first, second and third acts breaking up into 2-4-2, it's more like 1-5-2. Does that make sense? The final two episodes are clearly supposed to wrap up Season 1.
ReplyDeleteAnd I got a good laugh from that last line.
The last 2 episodes have been great. It seems like the show has found its footing...hopefully this carries over to next season
ReplyDeleteAny idea what the Beach Boys-esque song was during the montage?
ReplyDeleteBeach Boys type song = The Explorers Club, a great band from South Carolina.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.myspace.com/explorersclub
This was easily my favorite episode of the series to date.
ReplyDeleteI cant believe the show only had 8 episodes. This was the funniest one for me, I found every scene LOL. I want, no I need, one of those vaporizers.
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