Only substitute Six Feet Under for The Pit, and 2/3 of the cast for "everyone."
Okay, so I lied a couple weeks ago when I said I was through watching SFU. I have no excuse except...I'm a hypocrite. That, and Sunday nights are when I'm feeling my least creative, so I rationalize that it's okay to space out in front of the great glass teat for a couple hours.
But enough of that. It's summertime, and the loving was easy last night. Keith nailed Celeste, and got fired for it. David banged that paintball guy - whose exhortations during said act earned the biggest laughs of the night. Nate got with Brenda...again, and both were caught by Joe, who promptly left (throwing my Billy returns to kill everyone plot prediction into disarray). Claire sorta kinda tried to get into some hot lesbian action with Mena Suvari, but decided Banky Edwards was right, so that's done.
Who am I leaving out? Rico finally got Biblical with "Infinity" last week, but the hilarious repercussions weren't felt until last night. I have to admit, after watching her play Vanessa, Rico's soon-to-be-ex-wife who went after Infinity and then destroyed the stripper's car, I've decided I'm in love with Justina Machado. Something about a woman with curves who can bust out a windshield with a baseball bat makes me tingly in ways I'm not comfortable discussing on a family forum.
The laughs are coming back, though they're more unintentional...such as when Nate hustled Maya out of the house, or Rico bunking down in the prep room, but 'll take what I can get.
And what happened to the talking corpses? The creators must have decided it was too cheesy, but I kind of liked the idea. It was a welcome bit of silly surreality that would help to offset some of the more cloying melodrama, and I wish they hadn't gotten rid of it.
Not that it matters. SFU will stay in my weekly rotation, for now. Quality writing, however spotty or occasionally pretentious, is tough to find on TV. And there's a certain amount of schadenfreude involved in taking pleasure at the screw-ups of the Fishers and their friends.
And in hoping Vanessa picks up the bat again. Ay caramba.
Try FX's firefighter drama, "Rescue Me." Now there's some characters who will make you laugh, cry and throw things at the screen, all at the same time.
I've put SFU on hiatus in my viewing rotation. Last season was waaaaay too andst ridden for me. So much of the humor, albeit black, was missing. Pretentious is right, Pete. I have a hard time enjoying any show if it smacks of self-satisfiedism (feel free to use my new word). Geez, life isn't THAT SERIOUS and frankly, neither is death. At least, on SFU, it never used to be deadly serious.
i thought the pre-catfight vaseline on the face was a nice touch, too. i enjoyed last night's episode as well, although now i think that all of them are bad, bad people.