Fox Foxed It Up
Over the weekend, I rewatched Wonderfalls. This smart, hilarious show centers around an over-educated, under-employed Brown graduate named Jaye Tyler. Bucking the trend set by her highly successful family, Jaye lives in a trailer park in Niagara Falls where she works as gift shop retail clerk.
In the first episode, Jaye sort of goes over the edge and inanimate objects start to speak to her. She follows their instructions and, much to her dismay, good things happen.
While this may not sound like a homerun, the show is witty, dark and wonderful. It makes me remember a time when Fox went out on a limb and made hits out of shows like In Living Color, Married with Children and The Simpsons. While I'm not a huge fan of In Living Color or Married with Children, Fox knew how to market the them, where to place them and how to get them the attention they deserved. And, I don't even need to discuss The Simpsons because it's still on the air and continues to be ridiculously popular.
Why can't Fox do the same thing with shows like Wonderfalls or Arrested Development? Fox has become a death wish for smart shows and a breeding ground for crap.
By crap, I mean Prison Break.
Prison Break RERUNS replaced Arrested Development...And it's horrible! The actors can't act. The writing is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is the how-the-heck-are-they-going-to- break-out-of-that-prison factor.
The bottom line is that I hate Fox and it Foxing up good shows.
In the first episode, Jaye sort of goes over the edge and inanimate objects start to speak to her. She follows their instructions and, much to her dismay, good things happen.
While this may not sound like a homerun, the show is witty, dark and wonderful. It makes me remember a time when Fox went out on a limb and made hits out of shows like In Living Color, Married with Children and The Simpsons. While I'm not a huge fan of In Living Color or Married with Children, Fox knew how to market the them, where to place them and how to get them the attention they deserved. And, I don't even need to discuss The Simpsons because it's still on the air and continues to be ridiculously popular.
Why can't Fox do the same thing with shows like Wonderfalls or Arrested Development? Fox has become a death wish for smart shows and a breeding ground for crap.
By crap, I mean Prison Break.
Prison Break RERUNS replaced Arrested Development...And it's horrible! The actors can't act. The writing is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is the how-the-heck-are-they-going-to- break-out-of-that-prison factor.
The bottom line is that I hate Fox and it Foxing up good shows.
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