Great piece, CK. My favorite sentence:
"Put simply, too much contrivance refers us to TV writers at work, and their revealed presence “breaks the fourth wall” or all the walls, cracks the flat screen."
LOL. A very intelligent, but commonly distracted writer friend of mine thought he had watched the finale when, in fact, he had watched the second to last episode thinking it was the finale. He saw when Walt watches the Blacks with Charlie Rose etc, and thought, "Good for them for just ending it like that--with nothing 'tied up.'"
I explained to him that he had not actually seen the finale and we laughed. My writer friend had been a fan of BB in the early days and lost interest. I told him not to bother with the real finale and regretted having set him straight on the point.
Great piece, CK. My favorite sentence:
"Put simply, too much contrivance refers us to TV writers at work, and their revealed presence “breaks the fourth wall” or all the walls, cracks the flat screen."
LOL. A very intelligent, but commonly distracted writer friend of mine thought he had watched the finale when, in fact, he had watched the second to last episode thinking it was the finale. He saw when Walt watches the Blacks with Charlie Rose etc, and thought, "Good for them for just ending it like that--with nothing 'tied up.'"
I explained to him that he had not actually seen the finale and we laughed. My writer friend had been a fan of BB in the early days and lost interest. I told him not to bother with the real finale and regretted having set him straight on the point.