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May 1, 2013Jon and I ended up not talking at all about the Cleveland Indians offensive explosion tonight, but we had a good conversation just the same.
- Mad Men, Stan and why they keep Betty Draper around at all
- Roger Sterling’s likeability and charisma
- Lost and getting spouses caught up on shows
- Deadwood and its awful ending
- Long runs for shows and short shows
- The end of the Sopranos and the end of Lost
- Louis CK’s most recent special on HBO
- Is it time for a break for Louis CK
- The NFL draft and the baseball guy’s perspective
- Gauging the reaction to the draft
- Balancing the draft vs. free agency
- The opportunity to get a corner and a safety
- Micro-managing physical attributes
- Mingo and his lack of sack statistics at LSU his last year
- The meaninglessness of those college stats
- Justin Blackmon and his question marks biting the Jacksonville Jaguars
- From Elway to Marino 30 for 30
- Jim Kelly’s press conference when he was drafted to Buffalo
- Randy Moss and how he quit on the Raiders
- NFL GMs and their enormous egos
- Setting goals and trying to figure out what success looks like
- Personal over/unders vs. what Vegas might do
- Pat Shurmur and whether or not he was actually good at anything as a head coach
- The summer movie podcast
- The sinking cultural relevance of movies as more movies get made
- House of Cards and TV vs. movies
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– Re Mad Men, don’t think it’s getting weird because Matt Weiner or the writers are spent. I think it’s attempting to evolve from the fleeting Kennedy era to the dramatically different all-hell’s-breaking-loose late 60’s. And it’s trying to do so in a risky way, avoiding cliche and instead showing the individual affect of a new era upon each character. Like that time, it was often a sloppy mess. (I am an unapologetic defender of that show and its self-indulgence).
– Re Louis CK, he should take a break, Craig? Do you watch his weekly series, and if so are you not always dying for the next episode? (I am an unapologetic defender of all things Louis).
– This is truly a golden age of tv. If you don’t believe so check out the listings of what was on 15, 20, 25 years ago.
John,
I feel exactly the same way about TV > Movies. Especially at home. Seeing a movie in a theater full of other people is still good though.
Craig, I was the same way with Lost… got married and had to catch my wife up on the show. I didn’t mind re-watching the shows, I picked up on some things that I had missed the first time. Brilliant show. I hated the ending, but it didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the show… like with all art, hate as an emotion isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just another dimension to your reaction to the art.