Reality and cable are kind of doing their own thing... so let's take a look at McCue and Equinox' TOP FOUR SHOWS to have just wrapped up... and how about a nice look at the TV PERSONALITIES McCue and Equnox can't get enough of...
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GOSSIP GIRL... No more Creek, kids. No more Ben or Noel. No more summer season in that kick-ass by the beach co-op David Silver shared with Donna and Claire... aw, good old Claire. No! Now, years after McCue himself was filed away in the halls of a plush upper-east side all boys Jesuit prep school, worlds have collided... the master who brought him Adam Brody and Chrismukkah has delved into the most devious and wealthy crew of the east coast... the same posse that once shoved McCue and Nox to the curb. But you can't beat watching them... can you... hell's no... it's GOSSIP GIRL. McCue and Equinox have decided to open up in this wing of the site, paralleling personal experience to the plotlines of Season One, addressing the show's content and just plain getting down to it. Does Chuck have a heart? Does anyone really care about Blair's happiness? Can you beat Nate Archibald? Can any of us find one? And do we only love Lily Van der Woodsen because we're still smarting from Kiki's false rehab incarceration on The O.C.? Enquiring minds want to know. |
| MAD MEN... As writers, McCue and Equinox are the kind of nerds who spend full minutes laughing about how a script might have looked on the page -- what was direction, what was actually written-in. What makes Mad Men so damn excellent is that the dialogue simply wouldn't work without the chronic Lucky Strikes and Scotch. Bless a writers' room where someone is constantly adding in "takes a drag," "lights a fresh one," "adds ice to tumbler."
And what beats a television show where a child is wrapped in the plastic bag from the dry-cleaners and the parents only worry is whether or not their clean clothes have been ditched on the floor? Step into the underbelly of corporate America where fidelity and heart disease are cloudy mysterious mores men needn't abide or fear... where Nixon and Kennedy are about to duke it out... where the old boys club -- is it old or all? Are they two separate clubs? can you be in both or are they mutually exclusive? -- for now we'll say OLD boys club, where women are pushed aside, psychology is ignored, and someone can actually carry a baby to term nonchalantly. Well done, AMC. |  |
 | 30 ROCK... Tina Tina Fey Fey... you went from SNL news anchor to mislabeled "drug pusher" in your own fantastically scribed Mean Girls... and now look at you: running the best damn sitcom in town. You have Tracy Morgan actually doing good work, a feat in its own right. You, of all Americans, recognized that perhaps there was something to be said for Alec Baldwin's dozen turns as the SNL host. You let Krakowski sing. You nicknamed Broderick "Cooter." You even knew when to plug in a "Stern Rulez!" for maximum comedy.
And amazingly, like Ellen Degeneres, you've been able to make a socially-relevant, politically-critical, character-driven sitcom, that is just plain kind. Will Jack get the job? Will you get preg-o? Will Greenzo return? Grab the closeset bag of Sabor de Soledad and let's take a look-see! |
| LOST... McCue and Equinox may not be intellligent enough to properly analyze LOST. True, they spend their share of time talking about the program, they haven't missed an episode, they compare everyone in their lives to characters from the show... but they simply aren't up to snuff like our dear friend Jenn Heger or good old Trent over at Pink Is The New Blog.
However, as the greatest Twin Peaks fans in the history of the world, who have created TPEC ... The Twin Peaks Education Center... Messers McCue and Equinox can't simply let this drama with elements of sci-fi and the occult slip by. Though lacking in intelligence and Lost savvy, they will proceed to make vain attempts and at least direct the faithful NoxNet visitiors in the right direction. Long live Locke! |  |
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