Thu, March 9, 2006
Sons & Daughters—9:19 AM
Did anyone else see it? We had to TiVo Scrubs and The Unit (damn David Mamet being involved in things!), so we only watched the second of the two premiere episodes: "Bowling Night."
Seemed pretty dismal to me. It seems to have adopted the quick pace and hand-held camerawork of Arrested Development without any of the laughs. The quick pace only really works if it's funny; otherwise it's just confusing. You can't substitute "overtalk" for humor.
It was hard to be sure which scenes were the improvised ones, but my guess was the scene in the van between Cameron and his dad and the scene in bed between Don and Sharon, brainstorming bedroom role-playing games. In both cases, it was easy to spot Lorne Michaels's influence: the actors were giggling at each other as they ran through the scene. It's the only thing Horatio Sanz and Jimmy Fallon did onscreen in Fallon's last season at SNL.
AC — Thu, 3/9/06 2:07pm
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