Monthly Archives: May 2009
‘Surviving Suburbia’ Morality
This week brought another fine example of how U.S. network TV series often send laudable moral messages even when the context is one of seeming immorality. In "Burn, Bougainvillea, Burn!," the most recent episode of Surviving Suburbia, a new sitcom starring Bob Saget, there was the usual complement of sexual innuendo and leering, bawdy humor. Yet the overall thrust of the episode was that the central character, Steve Patterson, a married suburbanite played by Saget, was trying hard to avoid putting himself in a situation where sexual temptation was likely to occur, while his wife and others were certain that he was indulging in lascivious thoughts and actions.
The Citizen Kane of Puppet Movies
With Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen coming out June 24th to transform all sequel numbers into colons and subtitles, you should make a point to check out Team America: World Police. Not only did it use the same colon, but it also poked fun at Hollywood’s gravitation towards puppet movies before anyone realized that action movies no longer require actors.
Another ‘Goode’ Work by Mike Judge?
TV writer-producer-actor and filmmaker Mike Judge has a new TV series premiering tonight on ABC. It sounds like another winner for the politically incorrect satirist, writes S. T. Karnick.
‘Terminator Salvation’ Delivers Action but Little Real Drama
Terminator Salvation is a solid entertainment but unfortunately too beholden to contemporary big-budget action-movie conventions. Analysis by S. T. Karnick.
Gary Wolf’s Fiction Reveals Hallucinatory Reality of Socialists
Mike D’Virgilio argues that works of fiction can show us how the logical conclusions of political correctness and other distorted ideas of the left are inimical to liberty and a well ordered society.
Amusing ‘Battle of the Smithsonian’
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is a classic–a classic example of an unnecessary sequel. But if you liked the first one, you’ll probably enjoy the follow-up, S. T. Karnick writes.
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