A&E vs Space
So, the last three nights Space was running what turned out to be an excellent miniseries, ‘The Lost Room‘. It was kinda spooky and weirdly normal. Based on the discovery of some everyday objects with odd powers; just a pair of scissors, but they rotate objects; an ordinary watch that hardboils an egg. The thing was that these and dozens of other objects with other odd powers came from an strange event at a New Mexico motel in 1961. One religious group thinks that God is dead and these are pieces of God; collecting them all together will bring back God or allow them to talk to God. One man wants to collect all these objects and recreate the event that created them and so bring back his dead son.
The logic and reasoning within the show was remarkably internally consistent for this sort of thing but it also seemed like the paranoid delusions of a madman (one of whom we meet in the last episode). Put these three objects together to open a secret door. But where’s the door? We’ll find it by examining these decades old Polaroids!
Do you remember the wall full of newspaper clippings in ‘A Dangerous Mind’?
Moody, creepy, big fun!
Now A&E’s been advertising ‘Wedding Wars‘. What if the gays went on strike?
During the first episode of The Lost Room I was surfing during a commercial break. I landed on A&E and saw a newsdesk with a female anchor on the left and a male anchor on the right. The male anchor is saying “I’m on strike too, asswipes.” Who wouldn’t laugh?
So when A&E reran the show at 1:00am, I watched it. Here’s the gist: the Maine governor’s daughter’s fiance’s gay brother is hired to plan the Governor’s daughter’s wedding to the gay wedding planner’s brother. The Governor comes out (you should pardon the expression) against gay marriage, which pisses off the gay wedding planner and sparks a strike by gays across the continental United States. The part with the news anchor that I surfed to was just as the strike was spreading; the teleprompter guy was a friend of Dorothy.
Turned out to be a nice little screwballish comedy with some good jokes and a happy ending, but what would you expect?
Now, if you really want a crazzy (sic) Christmas comedy, check out, on A&E (I’m sure they’ll run it a dozen more times in the next week and a half), a comedy based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ called ‘Karroll’s Christmas‘. The twist is that the spirits get the wrong address and start harrassing Mr Rosecog’s neighbour, who it turns out, has Christmas issues of his own. Highlights are Wallace Shawn as Mr Rosecog (anagram it) and Verne Troyer as Christmas Future.