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The show, based off the unflinchingly honest memoir of restaurateur/general badass Eddie Huang, fit snugly among ABC’s other family-friendly Wednesday night sitcoms (the unstoppable \u003cem>Modern Family \u003c/em>and unexceptionally likable \u003cem>The Middle\u003c/em>). The show, like the book, chronicles Huang’s formative years growing up in very white Orlando in a very Taiwanese family. It’s non-offensively funny, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2015/02/04/383785757/a-skilled-cast-perks-up-the-sweet-and-funny-fresh-off-the-boat\">sweet\u003c/a> and cute; everything Huang feared it would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not one to keep his feelings to himself, Huang penned a fiery \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/eddie-huang-fresh-off-the-boat-abc.html\">essay\u003c/a> for \u003cem>New York Magazine\u003c/em>, in which he called out the network and people he worked with for attempting to water down his story. As he saw it, they were trying to make his authentic Taiwanese Chairman baos into Orange Chicken from Panda Express.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I began to regret ever selling the book, because Fresh Off the Boat was a very specific narrative about SPECIFIC moments in my life...The network’s approach was to tell a universal, ambiguous, cornstarch story about Asian-Americans resembling moo goo gai pan written by a Persian-American who cut her teeth on race relations writing for Seth MacFarlane. But who is that show written for?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the central question Huang has been wrestling with since \u003cem>Fresh off the Boat \u003c/em>began an arduous journey to become a sitcom on the increasingly colorful network. And now that the show is out for public consumption, it’s a question audiences have to answer too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang is right to be angry at the idea that his show needs to be “Americanized” to become palatable to an audience. (We all know “American” is a friendly euphemism for white and male.) His \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/books/review/fresh-off-the-boat-by-eddie-huang.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">book\u003c/a> is bawdy, it doesn’t shy away from the complexities of race and feelings of otherness, and it’s rife with those wonderfully awkward life lessons that transform children into the adults they’ll one day become. Most importantly, it reveals new dimensions to what it means to be Asian in America, going beyond stereotypes to delve into the hearts of the people—his people. Basically, it’s the stuff of great television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as Huang aptly points out in his essay, his very specific perspective doesn’t jibe with the myth that Americans are all one in the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ABC may feel they need to sanitize the messiness of Huang’s life to make it universally relatable, they’re wrong. What makes the show relatable is that Huang is different. Everyone, everywhere feels like an outsider looking in at some point in his or her life, which is how young Eddie feels most of the time. Eddie’s different from his Lunchable-eating classmates, from his freewheeling neighbor, even from his swagger-less family. It’s those recounted memories that made the book a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestseller and it's those onscreen moments that pull viewers in, bringing the show to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a non-Asian American from a non-immigrant background, this show is not \u003cem>for\u003c/em> me (ABC airs \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/09/27/its-early-but-murder-and-blackish-are-delivering-for-abc/\">mine\u003c/a> on Wednesdays at 9:30 and Thursdays from 9-11 PM). That’s okay; I’m going to keep watching. Although a show like \u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em> doesn’t tell my exact story, I can still be entertained and educated by what I see; maybe more so because I’m looking at the world with the fresh eyes of foreigner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all his frustration with the show, even Huang can see that the audience he intended is broader than anything he ever imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This show isn’t about me, nor is it about Asian America…Sell them pasteurized network television with East Asian faces until they wake up intolerant of their own lactose, and hit 'em with the soy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now it’s up to us as audience; if we like what we see—and there’s a lot to like—then ask for more. If we let networks decide what we want and how we want it, then we’ll continue to have a television landscape that doesn’t accurately reflect the true \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/article/2014-wasnt-diverse-tv-year-it-could-have-been-its--212698\">diversity\u003c/a> of the America they’re trying to please. So let them know that you’ll slide over your mac ‘n’ cheese to make room for something new.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After months of speculation, viewers finally got a chance to see how ABC handled telling an Asian-American story.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1423164495,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":763},"headData":{"title":"Fresh Off the Boat: Did ABC Do Eddie Huang's Life Story Justice? | KQED","description":"After months of speculation, viewers finally got a chance to see how ABC handled telling an Asian-American story.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"14949 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14949","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/02/05/fresh-off-the-boat-did-abc-do-eddie-huangs-life-story-justice/","disqusTitle":"Fresh Off the Boat: Did ABC Do Eddie Huang's Life Story Justice?","path":"/pop/14949/fresh-off-the-boat-did-abc-do-eddie-huangs-life-story-justice","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After months of speculation, controversy and high hopes, \u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat \u003c/em>finally arrived last night. The show, based off the unflinchingly honest memoir of restaurateur/general badass Eddie Huang, fit snugly among ABC’s other family-friendly Wednesday night sitcoms (the unstoppable \u003cem>Modern Family \u003c/em>and unexceptionally likable \u003cem>The Middle\u003c/em>). The show, like the book, chronicles Huang’s formative years growing up in very white Orlando in a very Taiwanese family. It’s non-offensively funny, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2015/02/04/383785757/a-skilled-cast-perks-up-the-sweet-and-funny-fresh-off-the-boat\">sweet\u003c/a> and cute; everything Huang feared it would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not one to keep his feelings to himself, Huang penned a fiery \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/eddie-huang-fresh-off-the-boat-abc.html\">essay\u003c/a> for \u003cem>New York Magazine\u003c/em>, in which he called out the network and people he worked with for attempting to water down his story. 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(We all know “American” is a friendly euphemism for white and male.) His \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/books/review/fresh-off-the-boat-by-eddie-huang.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\">book\u003c/a> is bawdy, it doesn’t shy away from the complexities of race and feelings of otherness, and it’s rife with those wonderfully awkward life lessons that transform children into the adults they’ll one day become. Most importantly, it reveals new dimensions to what it means to be Asian in America, going beyond stereotypes to delve into the hearts of the people—his people. 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It’s those recounted memories that made the book a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestseller and it's those onscreen moments that pull viewers in, bringing the show to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a non-Asian American from a non-immigrant background, this show is not \u003cem>for\u003c/em> me (ABC airs \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/09/27/its-early-but-murder-and-blackish-are-delivering-for-abc/\">mine\u003c/a> on Wednesdays at 9:30 and Thursdays from 9-11 PM). That’s okay; I’m going to keep watching. Although a show like \u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em> doesn’t tell my exact story, I can still be entertained and educated by what I see; maybe more so because I’m looking at the world with the fresh eyes of foreigner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all his frustration with the show, even Huang can see that the audience he intended is broader than anything he ever imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This show isn’t about me, nor is it about Asian America…Sell them pasteurized network television with East Asian faces until they wake up intolerant of their own lactose, and hit 'em with the soy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now it’s up to us as audience; if we like what we see—and there’s a lot to like—then ask for more. If we let networks decide what we want and how we want it, then we’ll continue to have a television landscape that doesn’t accurately reflect the true \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/article/2014-wasnt-diverse-tv-year-it-could-have-been-its--212698\">diversity\u003c/a> of the America they’re trying to please. So let them know that you’ll slide over your mac ‘n’ cheese to make room for something new.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14949/fresh-off-the-boat-did-abc-do-eddie-huangs-life-story-justice","authors":["3222"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_2743","pop_2742","pop_266"],"featImg":"pop_14950","label":"pop"},"pop_14538":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14538","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14538","score":null,"sort":[1422972643000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-cant-we-get-a-strong-female-lead-in-a-cop-show-without-violence-against-women","title":"Why Can't We Get A Strong Female Lead in a Cop Show Without Violence Against Women?","publishDate":1422972643,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>By Aya de Leon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">I see a trend over the past 20+ years: cop shows offer female audiences what we’ve been craving—strong, complicated, brilliant women protagonists—yet there seems to be a sexual violence “trade-off.” Older, more experienced women get to be powerful investigators, but the cases they get to investigate include disproportionate (and graphic) representations of violence against younger women and girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cem>The Fall,\u003c/em> for example, follows Belfast detective Stella Gibson, played by Gillian Anderson (\u003ci>The X-Files\u003c/i>), a brilliant, independent female lead who defies convention. According to \u003ca href=\"http://bitchmagazine.org/post/in-the-fall-gillian-anderson-plays-a-detective-who-doesnt-care-about-being-likeable\">TV critic Emily Hashimoto\u003c/a>, “It is clear that the detective is in charge of herself without any shame and guilt-ridden trappings often bestowed on female characters. Too often, women in TV and film are cast as incapable in their professional lives, waylaid by personal issues or a hysterical abundance of emotions….it is utterly refreshing to see a female character be good at her job without worrying about having a boyfriend or children.” However, the antagonist is “a serial killer…who favors targeting pretty young professional women,” Hashimoto says. “We see the way he stalks and plans; we see his violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">In \u003cem>The Bletchley Circle\u003c/em>, we have a 1950s historical drama about four women who must return to civilian life after cracking Nazi codes during WWII. Sworn to secrecy about their classified work, they have to fit back into a world that denies the existence of their intelligence and crushes their ambition. They begin to investigate a series of murders that the police have gotten wrong. And you guessed it: the serial killer preys on women (the second season continues with more than one case featuring sexual violence).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Perhaps we have the U.K. to thank for this trend. In 1991, \u003cem>Prime Suspect\u003c/em> premiered on ITV, starring Helen Mirren as Detective Chief Inspector, one of the first females to hold the position in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service. Her original case involves the rape and murder of a young woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">On this side of the Atlantic, the trend escalated in 1999 with \u003cem>Law & Order: Special Victims Unit \u003c/em>with the ascension of detective Olivia Benson. It seems that one “advantage” of shows with bright female protagonists that investigate violence against women is that the villain can turn his sights on the show’s heroine. This certainly happens in both seasons of \u003cem>Bletchley\u003c/em>, and most famously with \u003cem>SVU\u003c/em>’s Benson being kidnapped by a sadistic rapist/murderer. Violence-on-the-job also affects Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief, played by Kyra Sedgwick in TNT’s \u003cem>The Closer\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">There seem to be no age boundaries for many of these shows, offering stories of toddlers and small children who are raped and/or killed. In the pilot of the U.S. version of \u003cem>Prime Suspect\u003c/em>, a woman is raped and murdered in front of her children. I had to stop watching, several shows later, when an episode featured the confession of a convicted sex offender. It was the dramatization of the perverse pleasure he took in sexually assaulting a child that was the deal-breaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">These things happen and we must acknowledge them so we can end violence against women and children. However, giving airtime to the perspectives of the abusers is troubling. I can’t get that guy’s voice out of my head, even years later. But it’s not just the children, it’s the ever-escalating sexual violence, mostly against woman and girls, episode after episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Part of the problem is that these shows take this kind of violence as a fact of life. Even Helen Mirren herself has criticized such casual violence. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/baftas-2014-helen-mirren-criticises-growing-portrayal-of-dead-women-in-dramas-as-actress-to-receive-british-academy-fellowship-9131942.html\">\u003ci>The Independent\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Mirren spoke out “against the extensive images of dead young women in contemporary dramas. Agreeing with playwright David Hare’s recent remark that he ‘can’t stand the body count in contemporary drama,’ Ms. Mirren...added: ‘Most of those bodies are young women.’” There’s no parallel interest in shows about women healing from sexual violence, or shows about changing the society to prevent such violence from happening, only the ratings-grabbing police procedurals with the glorified and desensitizing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">The same year that the U.S. \u003cem>Prime Suspect\u003c/em> debuted, so did another police procedural with a strong female lead: Fox’s \u003cem>The Chicago Code.\u003c/em> This series featured an ensemble cast, with Jennifer Beals starring as the newly appointed first-female Chicago Police Superintendent, Teresa Colvin. Colvin vows to clean up Chicago’s notorious corruption, and sets her sights on a corrupt alderman. \u003cem>The Chicago Code\u003c/em> has the same suspenseful cat-and-mouse structure, where we see the hero and the villain stalking and trying to outsmart each other. But in this series, violence against women is not at the center, rather it's the integrity of a city. The show was cancelled after its first season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">I’m left with a chicken or egg question: is the culture of TV simply preoccupied with violence against women and it develops shows with strong female protagonists in order to capture women audiences? Or do producers worry that shows with strong female leads will fail to attract broad audiences unless they offer an underlying violent threat against female power and autonomy overall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Either way, I find myself dropping these shows from my watch lists. I miss following the lives and minds of the protagonists, but it’s just not worth it.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Does TV culture only allow a strong female lead as long as there's an underlying violent threat against female power? ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1422989704,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":2,"wordCount":956},"headData":{"title":"Why Can't We Get A Strong Female Lead in a Cop Show Without Violence Against Women? | KQED","description":"Does TV culture only allow a strong female lead as long as there's an underlying violent threat against female power? ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"14538 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14538","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/02/03/why-cant-we-get-a-strong-female-lead-in-a-cop-show-without-violence-against-women/","disqusTitle":"Why Can't We Get A Strong Female Lead in a Cop Show Without Violence Against Women?","path":"/pop/14538/why-cant-we-get-a-strong-female-lead-in-a-cop-show-without-violence-against-women","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>By Aya de Leon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">I see a trend over the past 20+ years: cop shows offer female audiences what we’ve been craving—strong, complicated, brilliant women protagonists—yet there seems to be a sexual violence “trade-off.” Older, more experienced women get to be powerful investigators, but the cases they get to investigate include disproportionate (and graphic) representations of violence against younger women and girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cem>The Fall,\u003c/em> for example, follows Belfast detective Stella Gibson, played by Gillian Anderson (\u003ci>The X-Files\u003c/i>), a brilliant, independent female lead who defies convention. According to \u003ca href=\"http://bitchmagazine.org/post/in-the-fall-gillian-anderson-plays-a-detective-who-doesnt-care-about-being-likeable\">TV critic Emily Hashimoto\u003c/a>, “It is clear that the detective is in charge of herself without any shame and guilt-ridden trappings often bestowed on female characters. Too often, women in TV and film are cast as incapable in their professional lives, waylaid by personal issues or a hysterical abundance of emotions….it is utterly refreshing to see a female character be good at her job without worrying about having a boyfriend or children.” However, the antagonist is “a serial killer…who favors targeting pretty young professional women,” Hashimoto says. “We see the way he stalks and plans; we see his violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">In \u003cem>The Bletchley Circle\u003c/em>, we have a 1950s historical drama about four women who must return to civilian life after cracking Nazi codes during WWII. Sworn to secrecy about their classified work, they have to fit back into a world that denies the existence of their intelligence and crushes their ambition. They begin to investigate a series of murders that the police have gotten wrong. And you guessed it: the serial killer preys on women (the second season continues with more than one case featuring sexual violence).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Perhaps we have the U.K. to thank for this trend. In 1991, \u003cem>Prime Suspect\u003c/em> premiered on ITV, starring Helen Mirren as Detective Chief Inspector, one of the first females to hold the position in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service. Her original case involves the rape and murder of a young woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">On this side of the Atlantic, the trend escalated in 1999 with \u003cem>Law & Order: Special Victims Unit \u003c/em>with the ascension of detective Olivia Benson. It seems that one “advantage” of shows with bright female protagonists that investigate violence against women is that the villain can turn his sights on the show’s heroine. This certainly happens in both seasons of \u003cem>Bletchley\u003c/em>, and most famously with \u003cem>SVU\u003c/em>’s Benson being kidnapped by a sadistic rapist/murderer. Violence-on-the-job also affects Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief, played by Kyra Sedgwick in TNT’s \u003cem>The Closer\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">There seem to be no age boundaries for many of these shows, offering stories of toddlers and small children who are raped and/or killed. In the pilot of the U.S. version of \u003cem>Prime Suspect\u003c/em>, a woman is raped and murdered in front of her children. I had to stop watching, several shows later, when an episode featured the confession of a convicted sex offender. It was the dramatization of the perverse pleasure he took in sexually assaulting a child that was the deal-breaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">These things happen and we must acknowledge them so we can end violence against women and children. However, giving airtime to the perspectives of the abusers is troubling. I can’t get that guy’s voice out of my head, even years later. But it’s not just the children, it’s the ever-escalating sexual violence, mostly against woman and girls, episode after episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Part of the problem is that these shows take this kind of violence as a fact of life. Even Helen Mirren herself has criticized such casual violence. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/baftas-2014-helen-mirren-criticises-growing-portrayal-of-dead-women-in-dramas-as-actress-to-receive-british-academy-fellowship-9131942.html\">\u003ci>The Independent\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Mirren spoke out “against the extensive images of dead young women in contemporary dramas. Agreeing with playwright David Hare’s recent remark that he ‘can’t stand the body count in contemporary drama,’ Ms. Mirren...added: ‘Most of those bodies are young women.’” There’s no parallel interest in shows about women healing from sexual violence, or shows about changing the society to prevent such violence from happening, only the ratings-grabbing police procedurals with the glorified and desensitizing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">The same year that the U.S. \u003cem>Prime Suspect\u003c/em> debuted, so did another police procedural with a strong female lead: Fox’s \u003cem>The Chicago Code.\u003c/em> This series featured an ensemble cast, with Jennifer Beals starring as the newly appointed first-female Chicago Police Superintendent, Teresa Colvin. Colvin vows to clean up Chicago’s notorious corruption, and sets her sights on a corrupt alderman. \u003cem>The Chicago Code\u003c/em> has the same suspenseful cat-and-mouse structure, where we see the hero and the villain stalking and trying to outsmart each other. But in this series, violence against women is not at the center, rather it's the integrity of a city. The show was cancelled after its first season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">I’m left with a chicken or egg question: is the culture of TV simply preoccupied with violence against women and it develops shows with strong female protagonists in order to capture women audiences? Or do producers worry that shows with strong female leads will fail to attract broad audiences unless they offer an underlying violent threat against female power and autonomy overall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Either way, I find myself dropping these shows from my watch lists. I miss following the lives and minds of the protagonists, but it’s just not worth it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14538/why-cant-we-get-a-strong-female-lead-in-a-cop-show-without-violence-against-women","authors":["2421"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_197","pop_266"],"featImg":"pop_14912","label":"pop"},"pop_14442":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14442","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14442","score":null,"sort":[1420552829000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"11-new-tv-dramas-to-watch-in-2015","title":"11 New TV Dramas to Watch in 2015","publishDate":1420552829,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>We just finished an incredible year of television drama, and 2015 promises to be just as good. New projects from beloved creators, risky genre mashups, and further expansion in what constitutes television promise to make this year another groundbreaker. Here are 11 exciting television projects to look forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Galavant\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNVhGbw_Sg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Galavant \u003c/i>isn’t breaking the TV mold so much as betting on the fact that audiences are missing the more family-friendly fare that once had a regular place on network TV (something \u003ci>Jane the Virgin \u003c/i>and \u003ci>Flash \u003c/i>have recently proven). A musical fairy tale comedy about a down-on-his-luck knight, I'm getting some serious \u003cem>Spamalot \u003c/em>vibes from the promo. If it's half as good as the Monty Python musical and manages to sustain creative momentum in both storytelling and soundtrack, \u003cem>Galavant \u003c/em>could be something special. Of course, it could just as easily be a spectacular failure, but we applaud its kooky ambition and its diverse cast, and the immense fun they \u003ca href=\"http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/galavant/news/1932435/watch_galavant_sneak_peek/\">seem to be having.\u003c/a> Early guest stars include John Stamos, Weird Al, and Ricky Gervais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Sunday, January 4th at 8pm on ABC.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Agent Carter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwDSolYG1Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another network mid-season filler, \u003cem>Agent Carter \u003c/em>is the newest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe—and the first MCU property to be led by women both in front of and\u003cem> \u003c/em>behind the camera (Tara Butters and Michelle Fazekas will serve as showrunners). The eight-part miniseries will pick up shortly after the events of \u003ci>Captain America: The First Avenger \u003c/i>in 1946 as Peggy Carter deals with a post-war America. Working for the Strategic Scientific Reserve by day and going on missions with S.H.I.E.L.D. founder (and Iron Man's dad) Howard Stark at night, \u003cem>Agent Carter \u003c/em>seems like the perfect mix of \u003cem>Alias' \u003c/em>spy drama and \u003cem>The Hour\u003c/em>'s mid-century office period piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This promising set-up is bolstered by an excellent returning cast from the \u003cem>Captain America \u003c/em>films (namely, the talented and charismatic Hayley Atwell in the lead role, but also notably Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark). The first installment was penned by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, \u003cem> \u003c/em>writers of both \u003cem>Captain America \u003c/em>films, with the second written by Eric Pearson, who was responsible for writing the superb \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1b8lwz_%E0%B8%8B-%E0%B8%9A%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2-marvel-one-shot-agent-carter_shortfilms\">\u003cem>Agent Carter \u003c/em>short film \u003c/a>that inspired the television series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Tuesday, January 6th at 9pm on ABC.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Sense8\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re not sold on the name of the upcoming Netflix drama, \u003cem>Sense8\u003c/em>, but that may be the only reservation we have for the newest project coming from the Wachowski siblings (a.k.a. the directors of \u003cem>The Matrix\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Cloud Atlas\u003c/em>, and the upcoming \u003cem>Jupiter Ascending\u003c/em>), created in collaboration with J. Michael Straczynski (creator of \u003cem>Babylon 5\u003c/em>). Given that the Wachowskis are known for their visual flair and philosophical storytelling, while Straczynski is considered one of the first TV creators to bring long-form serialized storytelling to television, it’s hard not to get excited about this project based on its creators’ pedigrees alone, but the show is also incredibly ambitious in its scope and refreshing in its casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set and filmed in locations around the world -- including Nairobi, Reykjavik, Chicago, London, Mexico City, and Mumbai -- \u003cem>Sense8\u003c/em> tells the story of eight strangers who become emotionally and mentally linked following a tragic death. Familiar faces include Naveen Andrews (\u003ci>Lost\u003c/i>’s Sayid), Freema Agyeman (\u003ci>Doctor Who\u003c/i>’s Martha), Bae Doona (\u003ci>Cloud Atlas\u003c/i>, \u003ci>The Host\u003c/i>), and Daryl Hannah, along with a diverse cast of actors from Spain, India, and Germany, as well as a transgender actress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on Netflix\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Bloodline\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de50trNEvf8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Netflix has kept many of the details concerning its new drama \u003cem>Bloodline \u003c/em>shrouded in secrecy, but I'm putting anything starring Kyle Chandler on my must-see list based on \u003cem>Friday Night Lights \u003c/em>withdrawal symptoms alone. This drama about four adult siblings whose dark pasts are brought to the surface upon the return of their black sheep brother to the Florida Keys is brought to you by the men behind \u003cem>Damages\u003c/em>, which probably means edge-of-your-seat storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moody teaser trailer has a similarly dark and mysterious aura about it, but will it capture the same narrative energy as the FX drama? Given that all 13 episodes will be simultaneously released in March, we don't have to wait long to find out. This project is a collaboration between Netflix and Sony Entertainment, the first of its kind between a major movie studio and a streaming service, making it interesting on a production level as well as a narrative one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: March 2015 on Netflix\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Shannara\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTV is throwing its hat in the high fantasy drama ring with an adaptation of Terry Brooks' classic series \u003cem>Shannara, \u003c/em>a swashbuckling epic set several millennia in our future after a global apocalypse has simultaneously wiped out life as we know it and brought back magic. The 10 episode order will draw material from the second book in the series, \u003cem>The Elfstones of Shannara\u003c/em>, and has \u003cem>Arrow\u003c/em>'s Manu Bennett and \u003cem>The Carrie Diaries' \u003c/em>Austin Butler signed on to star. This is an exciting and surprising move for MTV, another bold step away from its reality past to a schedule featuring more original drama content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on MTV\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Westworld\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBCb0Wstn4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who isn't looking forward to \u003cem>Westworld\u003c/em>? Husband-and-wife team Jonathan Nolan (co-screenwriter for \u003cem>The Dark Knight\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>, etc.) and Lisa Joy (writer for \u003ci>Burn Notice\u003c/i>, \u003cem>Pushing Daisies\u003c/em>) are spearheading the HBO re-imagining of the 1973 Yul Brynner cult hit, bringing some thematically diverse backgrounds to what is already an awesome concept. The \u003cem>Westworld\u003c/em> film, written and directed by Michael Crichton,\u003cem> \u003c/em>tells the story of two tourists at an adult-themed amusement park of the future who are hunted by a Western gunslinger robot. Presumably, the television series will follow a similar narrative. With an all-star cast for the pilot, including Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Miranda Otto, and Ed Harris, this TV show has a lot of promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Fortitude\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqpH9NmmQPE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Described by \u003cem>The Guardian \u003c/em>as \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/dec/09/fortitude-review-sophie-grabol-christopher-eccleston-twin-peaks\">\"\u003cem>Twin Peaks \u003c/em>in the arctic,\"\u003c/a> this British drama series is not the most watchable on this list, but that isn't a critique. \u003cem>Fortitude \u003c/em>tells the story of a murder in a small Scandinavian town and, from the looks of the trailer, it will be just as brutal and dark as you'd imagine life in the Arctic to be. The series has brought on some amazing talent, such as Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci, Sofie Gråbøl, and Christopher Ecclestone. Add a unique setting and an expansive budget to this great cast, and there's no good reason to not make room for \u003cem>Fortitude\u003c/em> on your TV schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Thursday January 29th at 10 p.m. on Pivot\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>iZombie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CW has been on fire this season with its new shows, and we're hoping the network will continue its streak of excellence with its midseason premieres, especially comic adaptation \u003cem>iZombie\u003c/em>. A series about a zombie morgue assistant who eats murder victims' brains and uses the memories she absorbs to solve their murders is a little high-concept, but the show is helmed by \u003cem>Veronica Mars \u003c/em>creator Rob Thomas. We'd watch \u003cem>iZombie \u003c/em>based on that fact alone, but we have to admit its odd premise and comic book origins have us seriously intrigued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on The CW\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UijYwmlCJQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adapted from the bestselling tome of the same name, \u003cem>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell \u003c/em>is a seven-part British fantasy series set in an alternate version of early 19th century England, where magic is possible, but no longer practiced. The source material is nothing short of magical (forgive me), and the adaptation has secured screenwriter Peter Harness (\u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em>'s \"Kill the Moon\") and director Toby Haynes (\u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em>'s \"The Reichenbach Fall,\" one of the best episodes of television in the last few years) to bring it to the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on BBC America\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Cucumber/Banana/Tofu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJ0hc7ifTo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the title confuses you, it's because it actually refers to three separate shows being broadcast across three different British channels. The shows share the same subject matter, queer life, and exist in the same narrative universe, interweaving across station and series borders. Here's hoping there's as much storytelling as shock factor. With TV veteran Russell T. Davies at the helm and \u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em>'s Luke Newberry as one part of a great ensemble cast, we have high hopes for the emotional resonance of this quirky drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Cucumber and Banana will air on Logo TV in early 2015, but -- so far -- there are no plans to broadcast Tofu in Ameri\u003c/em>ca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Killjoys\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bounty hunters. \u003cem>I\u003c/em>\u003cem>n space.\u003c/em> Are you convinced yet? That is the premise for SyFy's upcoming \u003cem>Killjoys\u003c/em>, a drama from Michelle Lovretta (creator of the excellent \u003cem>Lost Girl\u003c/em>) and the studio that brings us \u003cem>Orphan Black.\u003c/em> We're hoping this show has the same fast-paced storytelling and female-centric narrative that have made both \u003cem>Lost Girl \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Orphan Black \u003c/em>so refreshing and watchable. Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Ashmore, and Luke MacFarlane play three interplanetary bounty hunters chasing targets through a planetary system on the brink of class war. There aren't enough space dramas on TV. Could \u003cem>Killjoys \u003c/em>be the drama that fills the \u003cem>Firefly\u003c/em>-shaped hole still in many of our television-loving hearts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on Syfy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What TV shows are you most looking forward to in 2015? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bounty hunters in space. A zombie mortician/detective. \"Twin Peaks in the arctic.\" 2015 TV is looking pretty good to us. 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Here are 11 exciting television projects to look forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Galavant\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/hPNVhGbw_Sg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/hPNVhGbw_Sg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Galavant \u003c/i>isn’t breaking the TV mold so much as betting on the fact that audiences are missing the more family-friendly fare that once had a regular place on network TV (something \u003ci>Jane the Virgin \u003c/i>and \u003ci>Flash \u003c/i>have recently proven). A musical fairy tale comedy about a down-on-his-luck knight, I'm getting some serious \u003cem>Spamalot \u003c/em>vibes from the promo. If it's half as good as the Monty Python musical and manages to sustain creative momentum in both storytelling and soundtrack, \u003cem>Galavant \u003c/em>could be something special. Of course, it could just as easily be a spectacular failure, but we applaud its kooky ambition and its diverse cast, and the immense fun they \u003ca href=\"http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/galavant/news/1932435/watch_galavant_sneak_peek/\">seem to be having.\u003c/a> Early guest stars include John Stamos, Weird Al, and Ricky Gervais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Sunday, January 4th at 8pm on ABC.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Agent Carter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FmwDSolYG1Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FmwDSolYG1Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another network mid-season filler, \u003cem>Agent Carter \u003c/em>is the newest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe—and the first MCU property to be led by women both in front of and\u003cem> \u003c/em>behind the camera (Tara Butters and Michelle Fazekas will serve as showrunners). The eight-part miniseries will pick up shortly after the events of \u003ci>Captain America: The First Avenger \u003c/i>in 1946 as Peggy Carter deals with a post-war America. Working for the Strategic Scientific Reserve by day and going on missions with S.H.I.E.L.D. founder (and Iron Man's dad) Howard Stark at night, \u003cem>Agent Carter \u003c/em>seems like the perfect mix of \u003cem>Alias' \u003c/em>spy drama and \u003cem>The Hour\u003c/em>'s mid-century office period piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This promising set-up is bolstered by an excellent returning cast from the \u003cem>Captain America \u003c/em>films (namely, the talented and charismatic Hayley Atwell in the lead role, but also notably Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark). The first installment was penned by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, \u003cem> \u003c/em>writers of both \u003cem>Captain America \u003c/em>films, with the second written by Eric Pearson, who was responsible for writing the superb \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1b8lwz_%E0%B8%8B-%E0%B8%9A%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2-marvel-one-shot-agent-carter_shortfilms\">\u003cem>Agent Carter \u003c/em>short film \u003c/a>that inspired the television series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Tuesday, January 6th at 9pm on ABC.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Sense8\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re not sold on the name of the upcoming Netflix drama, \u003cem>Sense8\u003c/em>, but that may be the only reservation we have for the newest project coming from the Wachowski siblings (a.k.a. the directors of \u003cem>The Matrix\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Cloud Atlas\u003c/em>, and the upcoming \u003cem>Jupiter Ascending\u003c/em>), created in collaboration with J. Michael Straczynski (creator of \u003cem>Babylon 5\u003c/em>). Given that the Wachowskis are known for their visual flair and philosophical storytelling, while Straczynski is considered one of the first TV creators to bring long-form serialized storytelling to television, it’s hard not to get excited about this project based on its creators’ pedigrees alone, but the show is also incredibly ambitious in its scope and refreshing in its casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set and filmed in locations around the world -- including Nairobi, Reykjavik, Chicago, London, Mexico City, and Mumbai -- \u003cem>Sense8\u003c/em> tells the story of eight strangers who become emotionally and mentally linked following a tragic death. Familiar faces include Naveen Andrews (\u003ci>Lost\u003c/i>’s Sayid), Freema Agyeman (\u003ci>Doctor Who\u003c/i>’s Martha), Bae Doona (\u003ci>Cloud Atlas\u003c/i>, \u003ci>The Host\u003c/i>), and Daryl Hannah, along with a diverse cast of actors from Spain, India, and Germany, as well as a transgender actress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on Netflix\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Bloodline\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/de50trNEvf8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/de50trNEvf8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>So far, Netflix has kept many of the details concerning its new drama \u003cem>Bloodline \u003c/em>shrouded in secrecy, but I'm putting anything starring Kyle Chandler on my must-see list based on \u003cem>Friday Night Lights \u003c/em>withdrawal symptoms alone. This drama about four adult siblings whose dark pasts are brought to the surface upon the return of their black sheep brother to the Florida Keys is brought to you by the men behind \u003cem>Damages\u003c/em>, which probably means edge-of-your-seat storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moody teaser trailer has a similarly dark and mysterious aura about it, but will it capture the same narrative energy as the FX drama? Given that all 13 episodes will be simultaneously released in March, we don't have to wait long to find out. This project is a collaboration between Netflix and Sony Entertainment, the first of its kind between a major movie studio and a streaming service, making it interesting on a production level as well as a narrative one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: March 2015 on Netflix\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Shannara\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTV is throwing its hat in the high fantasy drama ring with an adaptation of Terry Brooks' classic series \u003cem>Shannara, \u003c/em>a swashbuckling epic set several millennia in our future after a global apocalypse has simultaneously wiped out life as we know it and brought back magic. The 10 episode order will draw material from the second book in the series, \u003cem>The Elfstones of Shannara\u003c/em>, and has \u003cem>Arrow\u003c/em>'s Manu Bennett and \u003cem>The Carrie Diaries' \u003c/em>Austin Butler signed on to star. This is an exciting and surprising move for MTV, another bold step away from its reality past to a schedule featuring more original drama content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on MTV\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Westworld\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZrBCb0Wstn4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZrBCb0Wstn4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Who isn't looking forward to \u003cem>Westworld\u003c/em>? Husband-and-wife team Jonathan Nolan (co-screenwriter for \u003cem>The Dark Knight\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Interstellar\u003c/em>, etc.) and Lisa Joy (writer for \u003ci>Burn Notice\u003c/i>, \u003cem>Pushing Daisies\u003c/em>) are spearheading the HBO re-imagining of the 1973 Yul Brynner cult hit, bringing some thematically diverse backgrounds to what is already an awesome concept. The \u003cem>Westworld\u003c/em> film, written and directed by Michael Crichton,\u003cem> \u003c/em>tells the story of two tourists at an adult-themed amusement park of the future who are hunted by a Western gunslinger robot. Presumably, the television series will follow a similar narrative. With an all-star cast for the pilot, including Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Miranda Otto, and Ed Harris, this TV show has a lot of promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Fortitude\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JqpH9NmmQPE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JqpH9NmmQPE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Described by \u003cem>The Guardian \u003c/em>as \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/dec/09/fortitude-review-sophie-grabol-christopher-eccleston-twin-peaks\">\"\u003cem>Twin Peaks \u003c/em>in the arctic,\"\u003c/a> this British drama series is not the most watchable on this list, but that isn't a critique. \u003cem>Fortitude \u003c/em>tells the story of a murder in a small Scandinavian town and, from the looks of the trailer, it will be just as brutal and dark as you'd imagine life in the Arctic to be. The series has brought on some amazing talent, such as Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci, Sofie Gråbøl, and Christopher Ecclestone. Add a unique setting and an expansive budget to this great cast, and there's no good reason to not make room for \u003cem>Fortitude\u003c/em> on your TV schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Thursday January 29th at 10 p.m. on Pivot\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>iZombie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CW has been on fire this season with its new shows, and we're hoping the network will continue its streak of excellence with its midseason premieres, especially comic adaptation \u003cem>iZombie\u003c/em>. A series about a zombie morgue assistant who eats murder victims' brains and uses the memories she absorbs to solve their murders is a little high-concept, but the show is helmed by \u003cem>Veronica Mars \u003c/em>creator Rob Thomas. We'd watch \u003cem>iZombie \u003c/em>based on that fact alone, but we have to admit its odd premise and comic book origins have us seriously intrigued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on The CW\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5UijYwmlCJQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5UijYwmlCJQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Adapted from the bestselling tome of the same name, \u003cem>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell \u003c/em>is a seven-part British fantasy series set in an alternate version of early 19th century England, where magic is possible, but no longer practiced. The source material is nothing short of magical (forgive me), and the adaptation has secured screenwriter Peter Harness (\u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em>'s \"Kill the Moon\") and director Toby Haynes (\u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em>'s \"The Reichenbach Fall,\" one of the best episodes of television in the last few years) to bring it to the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on BBC America\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Cucumber/Banana/Tofu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lyJ0hc7ifTo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lyJ0hc7ifTo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If the title confuses you, it's because it actually refers to three separate shows being broadcast across three different British channels. The shows share the same subject matter, queer life, and exist in the same narrative universe, interweaving across station and series borders. Here's hoping there's as much storytelling as shock factor. With TV veteran Russell T. Davies at the helm and \u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em>'s Luke Newberry as one part of a great ensemble cast, we have high hopes for the emotional resonance of this quirky drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: Cucumber and Banana will air on Logo TV in early 2015, but -- so far -- there are no plans to broadcast Tofu in Ameri\u003c/em>ca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Killjoys\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bounty hunters. \u003cem>I\u003c/em>\u003cem>n space.\u003c/em> Are you convinced yet? That is the premise for SyFy's upcoming \u003cem>Killjoys\u003c/em>, a drama from Michelle Lovretta (creator of the excellent \u003cem>Lost Girl\u003c/em>) and the studio that brings us \u003cem>Orphan Black.\u003c/em> We're hoping this show has the same fast-paced storytelling and female-centric narrative that have made both \u003cem>Lost Girl \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Orphan Black \u003c/em>so refreshing and watchable. Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Ashmore, and Luke MacFarlane play three interplanetary bounty hunters chasing targets through a planetary system on the brink of class war. There aren't enough space dramas on TV. Could \u003cem>Killjoys \u003c/em>be the drama that fills the \u003cem>Firefly\u003c/em>-shaped hole still in many of our television-loving hearts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Premiere date: T.B.D. on Syfy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What TV shows are you most looking forward to in 2015? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14442/11-new-tv-dramas-to-watch-in-2015","authors":["3220"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_156","pop_266"],"featImg":"pop_14466","label":"pop"},"pop_14439":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14439","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14439","score":null,"sort":[1420450258000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"downton-abbey-season-5-premiere-recap-lover-you-shouldnt-have-come-over","title":"'Downton Abbey' Season 5 Premiere Recap: We Didn't Start the Fire","publishDate":1420450258,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Friends! Welcome back to the wonderful world of \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em> recaps! How have you been? How is your pig farm? Your missing/dead spouse? Your murdered valet? Your orphan child? Are you ready to get back into the mud? Get dirty and not talk too much about our feelings? Because here we go!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music is starting and the dog is walking toward the house and the bell rings for someone. Maybe it's you! Want to get caught up before we get started on Season 5? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/24/downton-abbey-season-4-finale-recap-bonjour-et-au-revoir/\" target=\"_blank\">Here's the recap from last year's finale.\u003c/a> As before so it will be again: \u003cstrong>SPOILER ALERT\u003c/strong>. Now, to the Abbey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We begin with Edith on a bicycle! Such a modern woman! Where could she be going, a woman on her own, unescorted?? Well, to spy on her baby of course! Michael, her almost-husband, is obviously still missing and yes, we have a new baby on the block, but this baby is so low class she plays with laundry! Outside! Oh, Edith, please rescue this baby!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it is 1924. Rose is still living at Downton. As they are wont to do whenever youngs and olds mix in the drawing room, things get political and nonsensical, and Robert makes sure his first line of the season is problematic, saying: “I couldn’t care less if he [the prime minister?] was the son of Fu Manchu.” Class warfare starts early this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Branson jumps in with some comment about how he wants to “support the school more” (with romance because he loves the teacher!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For whimsical and cuteness reasons, we get all the babies and Isis, the dog, in a single scene. They are all getting so big! Maybe it's time for a spin-off series?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Daisy and Patmore are back in action! Things are getting really descriptive—Hughes gets in a bunch of explanatory stuff about the general situation of service people in Great Britain and then Daisy does her adorable baby impression, talking fancifully about the distant future of 1958. By my calculation, Daisy is like 86 at this point in Downton Time. Why is she still talking like a baby?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Baby Watcher's Farm, Edith’s baby appears distressingly to be about the same age as Baby Sibby and Baby Whatever Boy Name, unless maybe she's just a huge baby and a future basketball legend? Sobbing as she leaves, Edith is clearly not 100% cool with her farmed-out baby situation. Don't cry though, Edith! Your baby is named Marigold!! Best name on the show yet. I’m naming all my babies Marigold! No one take that!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old ladies go for a walk and talk about boys boys boys. This would \u003cem>not\u003c/em> pass the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test\" target=\"_blank\">Bechdel test\u003c/a>. The Dowager Countess starts the season strong by telling Mrs. Crawley that her new suitor just “wants what all men want.” So funny because sex! And old people! Ewwwwww!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas and the cute footman Jimmy are flirting in the dark corners. Carson catches them and is not cool with the obvious sex talk. Hey, Carson, everyone's doing it, bro. Stop being such a prude!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Rose is clearly taking Sybil’s place. Doesn't anyone remember Sybil?! Her of the original rebelliousness and the actual style? R.I.P. Sybil. I'll never forget you and your slender ankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Bateses do some more explicating and backstory-ing and Thomas does his Thomas-y thing and sneaks up behind the current target of his maliciousness, Baxter, and tries to pump her for information. Is this Thomas’ season? Will he finally take down Downton, causing the sun to go dark and the water to dry up, and rule the grounds and the village like Scar did in Simba’s absence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things get political before dinner downstairs. They also get political upstairs in bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very Important Plot Point Alert: The Village War Memorial. Where will it go?! Carson, it turns out, is “a considerable figure in the village” and some ladies want him to chair some committee that will oversee this Very Important Plot Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, a second crucial plot point comes through the mail: James is getting a ton of love letters from Old Boss the Cougar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dowager House, Robert chats with his mom about how sad he is that the village wants Carson to head a committee and not him. Mommy is like “Your dad wouldn't have stood for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Downton, more mysterious mail arrives! This time, it's for Daisy! Drama! Suspense!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson is still deciding whether or not to chair this stupid committee and it is going to tear this family apart! The very fabric of society is threatened. Whatever choice he makes will change history, I’m sure of it! (Look, I’m trying to pep up this incredibly dull memorial/Robert's ego based plot line until we can get back to Edith’s illegitimate baby.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert tells Cora she doesn’t need to know the details about Tom’s School Teacher. Ladies don’t need to busy their tiny heads with \u003cem>details\u003c/em>, Cora. You should know that by now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary, the cold, feelingless monster, is super stoked that the village likes Carson more than her dad. She just likes to see her family feel bad, for whatever reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school, Tom’s School Teacher love interest is so modern! She’s not even wearing a hat!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dowager House, Violet interrogates one of Mrs. Crawley’s many suitors, the doctor. Is Violet trying to set up some sort of geriatric love triangle? How bored is she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front of a fire, Robert pretends he so doesn’t care that the village likes Carson more than him. Mary, in a strange moment of “kindness”, says to her dad: “I want you.” Not super appropriate, Mary. This is 1924, not, I don’t know, some time when incest was popular or social acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Thomas threatens Baxter. As usual. Again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Edith romantically touches a book. Could this book please be a clue to the whereabouts of Marigold's father?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Daisy reveals that her mail was about a course she's taking because, as she says: “I want to be grown up!” Hey, girl, you're in, at the very least, your late 20s at this point. You're a grown-up. Or...does she have some sort of disease that keeps her young forever?? Oh no, she’s just dyslexic. Is this dyslexia the reason Thomas has been able to trick her so many times? I didn’t realize being susceptible to villains was a side effect of dyslexia. Maybe it's just an unrelated condition she also has. Guys, Daisy’s dyslexia will be a plot point. Mark my words\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bathroom somewhere, Molesley dyes his hair black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an office somewhere, Rose the Little Upstart tries to convince Tom to bring the School Teacher to the house. Oh, Rose! First you consorted with an African-American jazz singer and now you encourage your cousin-in-law to see a school teacher?! When will it stop?! My heart can’t take this sort of scandal-induced stress!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, the Granthams lie about how happy they are that the village wants Carson on a committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an alley, Edith talks with Baby Watcher about Marigold, Best Baby Yet. The farmer tells Edith he knows she is Marigold’s mom. Really? What gave it away? The shirt she always wears when she’s visiting that says “World's Best Mom of a Marigold!”? Or was it the tears?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson delivers to Hughes the one-line summary of this episode: “But he was sad, not at me but maybe because things are changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bateses flirt mercilessly over cards in the downstairs dining room. We get it. You’re in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimmy and Thomas flirt mercilessly over cigarettes. We get it. You’re in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violet continues on whatever scheme she’s on that seems like maybe it actually doesn’t involve setting Isobel up? She makes a \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> joke, which allows us to forget about our confusion momentarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hall, Molesley counsels Baxter on how to deal with Thomas of Dark Corners. How is he the voice of reason here? How is he the only one who realizes that, in all situations, Thomas is the villain, forever, always, until he dies?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, the music swells as the Grantham girls eye Branson and start scheming away some sort of plan for the parents’ anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Help Cartel (Carson/Hughes/Patmore) discuss Daisy’s seditious desire to learn basic math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary and Mrs. Bates finally have a few minutes alone for Mary to say rude things and make oblique references to sex followed by comments about how gross it is to talk about sex. Hey, Mary, remember that time you basically had sex with a dead guy?! That seems pretty gross to me, but I guess I’m a total prude. Guess who’s not though, suddenly? Mary! Who tells Anna that she totally believes in checking out the equipment pre-maritally! Bow chicka wowow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson sets up Bates to be the valet for Lord Gillingham—oh, my favorite of Mary's suitors, the Pirate!—whose previous valet was, oh you know, just Anna's rapist who was murdered by Bates!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose ambushes the Hatless Political School Teacher at the school to convince her to come to the anniversary party. Uh oh. Lord Grantham is gonna be so piiiiisssssssssed. Good old Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere, Violet’s Torture Isobel Tea gets underway. The love triangle appears to be taking on more complex shapes. Violet should potentially take up knitting. She’s clearly bored out of her skull and is playing around with Isobel’s life for a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony the Pirate shows up in the library. He and Mary flirt about guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At tea, more flirting: this time, the doctor with Isobel. Isobel gets jealous over the other, fancy man suitor who seems to be overly enjoying Mrs. Shackleton (so many characters—\u003ca href=\"http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Lady_Shackleton\" target=\"_blank\">I’m going to need to check the fan wiki to see if we’ve met her before\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas steals a pair of shoes and corners Baxter in a shoe shining room and threatens to tell her story to her ladyship. What is her story?! It’s probably worse than she once invited a school teacher over, at least, that’s what her terrified crying is saying to me…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pirate, Mary and Tom walk in the foggy woods with guns. Who will die today? Mary tells the Pirate she’s a Buddhist. Or maybe a sociopath. She says: “Tony, I do love you, you know, in my cold and unfeeling way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A familiar looking stranger sweeps into Downton, her car apparently having broken down. Suddenly, the third-tier Jimmy plot is becoming clear. This is the old lady who’s in love with him. I mean, she’s not that old…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, Lord Grantham gets inappropriate again: “Molesley, you look very Latin all of a sudden. Do you have Italian blood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the hair dye did contain a transfusion of Italian blood, if Italian blood makes you into a wise, good person, because once again, Molesley is the only voice of reason in the whole house, telling Baxter to just tell Lady Grantham whatever her terrible story is (she knows a school teacher, she is a quarter Italian, she put the soap on the floor that caused the Lady to slip and lose her baby).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Baxter tells Lady Grantham her big secret. She’s a super duper thief who did prison time for stealing jewels. Now, if there is one thing I know, it is that whatever Baxter’s motive for her crime, which she will not yet reveal as a British person who values her dignity and the slow pacing of a good plot over everything else, whatever her motive, it will completely exonerate her from everything. Like, probably the people she stole the jewels from were Nazis and she gave them back to the Jews the Nazis originally stole them from. Or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Murderer Bates menacingly brushes the Pirate's coat, fishing for info on the person he murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Baxter and Molesley talk about trust. So romantic. This is clearly the romance of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hall, the Old Boss Cougar sexually harasses Jimmy hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, all the plots converge as the School Teacher enters and Lord Grantham looks on aghast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The older ladies are also here, clearly a bit miffed with each other about the earlier tea party. Violet works hard to remind Edith about the Downton caste system. Oh, Violet, did you not hear Carson announce the theme of the episode?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining room, Lord Grantham objectifies Lady Grantham by calling her “a bumper prize.” Way to rub in the fact that she’s alive to the many, many people in the room with dead spouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Old Boss Cougar continues to openly fondle Jimmy at the dinner table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Teacher gets political about the war memorial. She apparently hates stones. And wars, but mainly stones. Which of course makes Robert \u003cem>super\u003c/em> pissed. Hey, guys, aren’t there rules about talking politics with old people at dinner? Or was that instituted in the Reagan years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh no! The School Teacher calls out Robert’s saddest thing: the fact that the village hates him and doesn’t want him on their committee. Things get wild, by which I mean everyone goes silent and tries to avoid eye contact. Carson, as usual, rescues the whole thing by concocting some lie about how the village totally actually really does like Lord Grantham. The old ladies get their dander up a bit. Isobel defends the School Teacher for standing up for her anti-stone principles and Violet says: “Principles are like prayers—noble, of course, but awkward at a party.” Put it on a shirt!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson continues to keeps his eyes on all developing situations and demands that Jimmy show him a note the Old Boss Cougar passed him at dinner. Thomas comes to his aid. Oh, definitely, Thomas is someone you want coming to your aid, Jimmy. Totally. Great idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, the School Teacher announces she wants to meet the staff downstairs. Okay. We get it. Political. Branson sure has a type.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith sighs deeply in a corner of the drawing room so Mary comes over to torment her in a not sweet or sisterly way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prediction: The School Teacher has to go downstairs so she can meet Daisy, offer to teach her math, diagnose her learning disability and then save the day by teaching her strategies to deal with it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bottom of the stairs, Thomas tries to tell Cora about Baxter the Thief’s horrible shameful past and it backfires! Cora sort of calls him out. Thomas is probably going to murder Baxter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Branson and Robert exchange heated words, which quickly become unheated. Mainly, they say the word “lover” in a sort of uncomfortable way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Cora’s bedroom, Honorable Baxter refuses to reveal her criminal motivations. But Cora never fires a lady’s maid, even when they kill her unborn baby, so Baxter gets a reprieve. For now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson tells Molesley that his sad dye job is dumb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her room, Edith throws the old Michael clue book at the fire and starts crying. And then it catches on fire. Is Downton about to burn down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hall, Tony the Pirate sneaks into Mary’s room like a good pirate and Thomas and Jimmy, who are about to engage in some illicit behavior of their own, see him. Great. More ammo for Thomas. Can we please fire him, like, yesterday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mary's room, Tony has clearly overheard Mary’s talk with Anna and he says: “I want us to be lovers, Mary.” Lovers: the word of the episode!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, as the fire breaks out, Thomas gets to be a hero. Sand is thrown, hoses unfurled, babies rescued, and Jimmy is caught in a compromising position with Old Boss Cougar. Firefighters dressed as knights show up and everything is okay enough for Mary to tell the Bateses: “Lady Edith chose to set fire to her room, but we’re all fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert fires Jimmy for his naked wrestling and conveniently one of the firefighters is the Baby Watcher and Hughes, of course, knows something is up when she sees Edith consorting with him, but Hughes probably already knows everything anyway because she's Hughes!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Character Ranking:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Tony the Pirate:\u003c/strong> The Pirate is hot and I am so glad Mary chose him over the much-less-pirate-y Pig Farmer. He hasn't done much yet, but I believe in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Marigold:\u003c/strong> The newest baby also hasn't done much yet, but come on, she's named Marigold! Plus, her dad is in a camp somewhere starving to death and her mom is setting houses on fire due to sadness and she's being forced to play with laundry, while her cousins are probably swimming in pools of gold pieces and eating chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Violet: \u003c/strong>She had some misses this episode, but her prayers-at-parties line was solid. I hope the fact that she left the party early doesn't mean she's dying!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Molesley:\u003c/strong> He's really coming into his own now that he's 52! His pathetic guise may make him the perfect person to take down Thomas. Fingers crossed!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Mary:\u003c/strong> I used to hate Mary, but somehow, her consistent nastiness is growing on me. She's a horrible, horrible person and she knows it. I can't wait to see what kind of emotional damage she inflicts this season!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See you guys next week!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Downton Abbey has returned at last! If you haven't seen the episode yet, pretend you never saw this. Everyone else, join us for a hilarious analysis of the season premiere!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1420450812,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":81,"wordCount":3158},"headData":{"title":"'Downton Abbey' Season 5 Premiere Recap: We Didn't Start the Fire | KQED","description":"Downton Abbey has returned at last! If you haven't seen the episode yet, pretend you never saw this. Everyone else, join us for a hilarious analysis of the season premiere!","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"14439 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14439","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/01/05/downton-abbey-season-5-premiere-recap-lover-you-shouldnt-have-come-over/","disqusTitle":"'Downton Abbey' Season 5 Premiere Recap: We Didn't Start the Fire","path":"/pop/14439/downton-abbey-season-5-premiere-recap-lover-you-shouldnt-have-come-over","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Friends! Welcome back to the wonderful world of \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em> recaps! How have you been? How is your pig farm? Your missing/dead spouse? Your murdered valet? Your orphan child? Are you ready to get back into the mud? Get dirty and not talk too much about our feelings? Because here we go!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music is starting and the dog is walking toward the house and the bell rings for someone. Maybe it's you! Want to get caught up before we get started on Season 5? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/02/24/downton-abbey-season-4-finale-recap-bonjour-et-au-revoir/\" target=\"_blank\">Here's the recap from last year's finale.\u003c/a> As before so it will be again: \u003cstrong>SPOILER ALERT\u003c/strong>. Now, to the Abbey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We begin with Edith on a bicycle! Such a modern woman! Where could she be going, a woman on her own, unescorted?? Well, to spy on her baby of course! Michael, her almost-husband, is obviously still missing and yes, we have a new baby on the block, but this baby is so low class she plays with laundry! Outside! Oh, Edith, please rescue this baby!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it is 1924. Rose is still living at Downton. As they are wont to do whenever youngs and olds mix in the drawing room, things get political and nonsensical, and Robert makes sure his first line of the season is problematic, saying: “I couldn’t care less if he [the prime minister?] was the son of Fu Manchu.” Class warfare starts early this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Branson jumps in with some comment about how he wants to “support the school more” (with romance because he loves the teacher!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For whimsical and cuteness reasons, we get all the babies and Isis, the dog, in a single scene. They are all getting so big! Maybe it's time for a spin-off series?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Daisy and Patmore are back in action! Things are getting really descriptive—Hughes gets in a bunch of explanatory stuff about the general situation of service people in Great Britain and then Daisy does her adorable baby impression, talking fancifully about the distant future of 1958. By my calculation, Daisy is like 86 at this point in Downton Time. Why is she still talking like a baby?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Baby Watcher's Farm, Edith’s baby appears distressingly to be about the same age as Baby Sibby and Baby Whatever Boy Name, unless maybe she's just a huge baby and a future basketball legend? Sobbing as she leaves, Edith is clearly not 100% cool with her farmed-out baby situation. Don't cry though, Edith! Your baby is named Marigold!! Best name on the show yet. I’m naming all my babies Marigold! No one take that!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old ladies go for a walk and talk about boys boys boys. This would \u003cem>not\u003c/em> pass the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test\" target=\"_blank\">Bechdel test\u003c/a>. The Dowager Countess starts the season strong by telling Mrs. Crawley that her new suitor just “wants what all men want.” So funny because sex! And old people! Ewwwwww!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas and the cute footman Jimmy are flirting in the dark corners. Carson catches them and is not cool with the obvious sex talk. Hey, Carson, everyone's doing it, bro. Stop being such a prude!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Rose is clearly taking Sybil’s place. Doesn't anyone remember Sybil?! Her of the original rebelliousness and the actual style? R.I.P. Sybil. I'll never forget you and your slender ankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Bateses do some more explicating and backstory-ing and Thomas does his Thomas-y thing and sneaks up behind the current target of his maliciousness, Baxter, and tries to pump her for information. Is this Thomas’ season? Will he finally take down Downton, causing the sun to go dark and the water to dry up, and rule the grounds and the village like Scar did in Simba’s absence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things get political before dinner downstairs. They also get political upstairs in bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very Important Plot Point Alert: The Village War Memorial. Where will it go?! Carson, it turns out, is “a considerable figure in the village” and some ladies want him to chair some committee that will oversee this Very Important Plot Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, a second crucial plot point comes through the mail: James is getting a ton of love letters from Old Boss the Cougar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dowager House, Robert chats with his mom about how sad he is that the village wants Carson to head a committee and not him. Mommy is like “Your dad wouldn't have stood for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Downton, more mysterious mail arrives! This time, it's for Daisy! Drama! Suspense!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson is still deciding whether or not to chair this stupid committee and it is going to tear this family apart! The very fabric of society is threatened. Whatever choice he makes will change history, I’m sure of it! (Look, I’m trying to pep up this incredibly dull memorial/Robert's ego based plot line until we can get back to Edith’s illegitimate baby.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert tells Cora she doesn’t need to know the details about Tom’s School Teacher. Ladies don’t need to busy their tiny heads with \u003cem>details\u003c/em>, Cora. You should know that by now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary, the cold, feelingless monster, is super stoked that the village likes Carson more than her dad. She just likes to see her family feel bad, for whatever reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school, Tom’s School Teacher love interest is so modern! She’s not even wearing a hat!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dowager House, Violet interrogates one of Mrs. Crawley’s many suitors, the doctor. Is Violet trying to set up some sort of geriatric love triangle? How bored is she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front of a fire, Robert pretends he so doesn’t care that the village likes Carson more than him. Mary, in a strange moment of “kindness”, says to her dad: “I want you.” Not super appropriate, Mary. This is 1924, not, I don’t know, some time when incest was popular or social acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Thomas threatens Baxter. As usual. Again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Edith romantically touches a book. Could this book please be a clue to the whereabouts of Marigold's father?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Daisy reveals that her mail was about a course she's taking because, as she says: “I want to be grown up!” Hey, girl, you're in, at the very least, your late 20s at this point. You're a grown-up. Or...does she have some sort of disease that keeps her young forever?? Oh no, she’s just dyslexic. Is this dyslexia the reason Thomas has been able to trick her so many times? I didn’t realize being susceptible to villains was a side effect of dyslexia. Maybe it's just an unrelated condition she also has. Guys, Daisy’s dyslexia will be a plot point. Mark my words\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bathroom somewhere, Molesley dyes his hair black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an office somewhere, Rose the Little Upstart tries to convince Tom to bring the School Teacher to the house. Oh, Rose! First you consorted with an African-American jazz singer and now you encourage your cousin-in-law to see a school teacher?! When will it stop?! My heart can’t take this sort of scandal-induced stress!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, the Granthams lie about how happy they are that the village wants Carson on a committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an alley, Edith talks with Baby Watcher about Marigold, Best Baby Yet. The farmer tells Edith he knows she is Marigold’s mom. Really? What gave it away? The shirt she always wears when she’s visiting that says “World's Best Mom of a Marigold!”? Or was it the tears?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson delivers to Hughes the one-line summary of this episode: “But he was sad, not at me but maybe because things are changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bateses flirt mercilessly over cards in the downstairs dining room. We get it. You’re in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimmy and Thomas flirt mercilessly over cigarettes. We get it. You’re in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violet continues on whatever scheme she’s on that seems like maybe it actually doesn’t involve setting Isobel up? She makes a \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> joke, which allows us to forget about our confusion momentarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hall, Molesley counsels Baxter on how to deal with Thomas of Dark Corners. How is he the voice of reason here? How is he the only one who realizes that, in all situations, Thomas is the villain, forever, always, until he dies?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, the music swells as the Grantham girls eye Branson and start scheming away some sort of plan for the parents’ anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Help Cartel (Carson/Hughes/Patmore) discuss Daisy’s seditious desire to learn basic math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary and Mrs. Bates finally have a few minutes alone for Mary to say rude things and make oblique references to sex followed by comments about how gross it is to talk about sex. Hey, Mary, remember that time you basically had sex with a dead guy?! That seems pretty gross to me, but I guess I’m a total prude. Guess who’s not though, suddenly? Mary! Who tells Anna that she totally believes in checking out the equipment pre-maritally! Bow chicka wowow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson sets up Bates to be the valet for Lord Gillingham—oh, my favorite of Mary's suitors, the Pirate!—whose previous valet was, oh you know, just Anna's rapist who was murdered by Bates!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose ambushes the Hatless Political School Teacher at the school to convince her to come to the anniversary party. Uh oh. Lord Grantham is gonna be so piiiiisssssssssed. Good old Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere, Violet’s Torture Isobel Tea gets underway. The love triangle appears to be taking on more complex shapes. Violet should potentially take up knitting. She’s clearly bored out of her skull and is playing around with Isobel’s life for a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony the Pirate shows up in the library. He and Mary flirt about guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At tea, more flirting: this time, the doctor with Isobel. Isobel gets jealous over the other, fancy man suitor who seems to be overly enjoying Mrs. Shackleton (so many characters—\u003ca href=\"http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Lady_Shackleton\" target=\"_blank\">I’m going to need to check the fan wiki to see if we’ve met her before\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas steals a pair of shoes and corners Baxter in a shoe shining room and threatens to tell her story to her ladyship. What is her story?! It’s probably worse than she once invited a school teacher over, at least, that’s what her terrified crying is saying to me…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pirate, Mary and Tom walk in the foggy woods with guns. Who will die today? Mary tells the Pirate she’s a Buddhist. Or maybe a sociopath. She says: “Tony, I do love you, you know, in my cold and unfeeling way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A familiar looking stranger sweeps into Downton, her car apparently having broken down. Suddenly, the third-tier Jimmy plot is becoming clear. This is the old lady who’s in love with him. I mean, she’s not that old…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, Lord Grantham gets inappropriate again: “Molesley, you look very Latin all of a sudden. Do you have Italian blood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe the hair dye did contain a transfusion of Italian blood, if Italian blood makes you into a wise, good person, because once again, Molesley is the only voice of reason in the whole house, telling Baxter to just tell Lady Grantham whatever her terrible story is (she knows a school teacher, she is a quarter Italian, she put the soap on the floor that caused the Lady to slip and lose her baby).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Baxter tells Lady Grantham her big secret. She’s a super duper thief who did prison time for stealing jewels. Now, if there is one thing I know, it is that whatever Baxter’s motive for her crime, which she will not yet reveal as a British person who values her dignity and the slow pacing of a good plot over everything else, whatever her motive, it will completely exonerate her from everything. Like, probably the people she stole the jewels from were Nazis and she gave them back to the Jews the Nazis originally stole them from. Or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Murderer Bates menacingly brushes the Pirate's coat, fishing for info on the person he murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Baxter and Molesley talk about trust. So romantic. This is clearly the romance of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hall, the Old Boss Cougar sexually harasses Jimmy hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, all the plots converge as the School Teacher enters and Lord Grantham looks on aghast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The older ladies are also here, clearly a bit miffed with each other about the earlier tea party. Violet works hard to remind Edith about the Downton caste system. Oh, Violet, did you not hear Carson announce the theme of the episode?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining room, Lord Grantham objectifies Lady Grantham by calling her “a bumper prize.” Way to rub in the fact that she’s alive to the many, many people in the room with dead spouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Old Boss Cougar continues to openly fondle Jimmy at the dinner table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Teacher gets political about the war memorial. She apparently hates stones. And wars, but mainly stones. Which of course makes Robert \u003cem>super\u003c/em> pissed. Hey, guys, aren’t there rules about talking politics with old people at dinner? Or was that instituted in the Reagan years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh no! The School Teacher calls out Robert’s saddest thing: the fact that the village hates him and doesn’t want him on their committee. Things get wild, by which I mean everyone goes silent and tries to avoid eye contact. Carson, as usual, rescues the whole thing by concocting some lie about how the village totally actually really does like Lord Grantham. The old ladies get their dander up a bit. Isobel defends the School Teacher for standing up for her anti-stone principles and Violet says: “Principles are like prayers—noble, of course, but awkward at a party.” Put it on a shirt!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson continues to keeps his eyes on all developing situations and demands that Jimmy show him a note the Old Boss Cougar passed him at dinner. Thomas comes to his aid. Oh, definitely, Thomas is someone you want coming to your aid, Jimmy. Totally. Great idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, the School Teacher announces she wants to meet the staff downstairs. Okay. We get it. Political. Branson sure has a type.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith sighs deeply in a corner of the drawing room so Mary comes over to torment her in a not sweet or sisterly way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prediction: The School Teacher has to go downstairs so she can meet Daisy, offer to teach her math, diagnose her learning disability and then save the day by teaching her strategies to deal with it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bottom of the stairs, Thomas tries to tell Cora about Baxter the Thief’s horrible shameful past and it backfires! Cora sort of calls him out. Thomas is probably going to murder Baxter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Branson and Robert exchange heated words, which quickly become unheated. Mainly, they say the word “lover” in a sort of uncomfortable way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Cora’s bedroom, Honorable Baxter refuses to reveal her criminal motivations. But Cora never fires a lady’s maid, even when they kill her unborn baby, so Baxter gets a reprieve. For now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson tells Molesley that his sad dye job is dumb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her room, Edith throws the old Michael clue book at the fire and starts crying. And then it catches on fire. Is Downton about to burn down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hall, Tony the Pirate sneaks into Mary’s room like a good pirate and Thomas and Jimmy, who are about to engage in some illicit behavior of their own, see him. Great. More ammo for Thomas. Can we please fire him, like, yesterday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mary's room, Tony has clearly overheard Mary’s talk with Anna and he says: “I want us to be lovers, Mary.” Lovers: the word of the episode!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, as the fire breaks out, Thomas gets to be a hero. Sand is thrown, hoses unfurled, babies rescued, and Jimmy is caught in a compromising position with Old Boss Cougar. Firefighters dressed as knights show up and everything is okay enough for Mary to tell the Bateses: “Lady Edith chose to set fire to her room, but we’re all fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert fires Jimmy for his naked wrestling and conveniently one of the firefighters is the Baby Watcher and Hughes, of course, knows something is up when she sees Edith consorting with him, but Hughes probably already knows everything anyway because she's Hughes!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Character Ranking:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Tony the Pirate:\u003c/strong> The Pirate is hot and I am so glad Mary chose him over the much-less-pirate-y Pig Farmer. He hasn't done much yet, but I believe in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Marigold:\u003c/strong> The newest baby also hasn't done much yet, but come on, she's named Marigold! Plus, her dad is in a camp somewhere starving to death and her mom is setting houses on fire due to sadness and she's being forced to play with laundry, while her cousins are probably swimming in pools of gold pieces and eating chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Violet: \u003c/strong>She had some misses this episode, but her prayers-at-parties line was solid. I hope the fact that she left the party early doesn't mean she's dying!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Molesley:\u003c/strong> He's really coming into his own now that he's 52! His pathetic guise may make him the perfect person to take down Thomas. Fingers crossed!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Mary:\u003c/strong> I used to hate Mary, but somehow, her consistent nastiness is growing on me. She's a horrible, horrible person and she knows it. I can't wait to see what kind of emotional damage she inflicts this season!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See you guys next week!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14439/downton-abbey-season-5-premiere-recap-lover-you-shouldnt-have-come-over","authors":["2130"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_9","pop_8","pop_266"],"featImg":"pop_14455","label":"pop"},"pop_14261":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14261","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14261","score":null,"sort":[1418073178000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-music-man-live-picking-the-perfect-cast-for-nbcs-next-musical","title":"'The Music Man Live': Picking the Perfect Cast for NBC's Next Musical","publishDate":1418073178,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Last week’s live TV musical production proved once again that \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em> will never grow old for audiences, at least not where ratings are concerned. Thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz1IKfhStbg\">Christopher Walken prancing around\u003c/a> in a pirate costume and a pink parasol as Captain Hook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7TFZB7tXAU\">Allison Williams\u003c/a> as Peter Pan surprising viewers with a smooth singing voice (and a mostly passable British accent), and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/files/files/styles/nbc_bio_image/public/images/2014/11/20/2014_1120_PeterPan_Nana_1230x1230.jpg?itok=ioKp8Hgk\">Nana \u003c/a>(Bowdie, a rescue dog from Utah) stealing every scene she was in, the network was able to help people mostly forget the kitschy, B-movie quality of last year’s NBC musical revival \u003cem>The Sound of Music\u003c/em> with the stiff Carrie Underwood. Although \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em> did well in the ratings (although far below \u003cem>The Sound of Music\u003c/em>’s historic numbers), the reviews were still relatively mixed, demonstrating that, when it comes to live musicals, everybody’s a critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_American_television\">NBC’s announcement of next year’s live musical\u003c/a>, \u003cem>The Music Man, \u003c/em>based off the classic 1957 Meredith Wilson songbook – already has some reviewers wondering how they’ll manage to pull off this complex show. Who can possibly play Harold Hill better than Robert Preston from the 1962 film? What about filling Shirley Jones’ shoes as Marian the librarian? Can they fit all seventy-six trombones on a single soundstage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Music Man\u003c/em> is a relatively safe choice for NBC to make. They don’t have to worry as much about audiences expecting a new actor to overcome a true legend in their role or any politically incorrect situations or language. And while they don’t have to compete against any upcoming films or theatre debuts, NBC needs to hope viewers don’t remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvUfAC5xmc\">the flat and uninspired remake\u003c/a> ABC attempted in 2003 with Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Broderick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if I had anything to do with the casting decisions, there wouldn’t be trouble, not right here, not in this new River City. Here’s some of my more inspired ideas:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbPVnrKgPNw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Stephen T. Colbert as Harold Hill:\u003c/strong> Okay, I get it, it’s a bit unorthodox to cast a quirky comedian in the title role when there are legitimate Broadway stars like Hugh Jackman to consider. But, after Broderick’s version of this character, I believe it’s important to think outside the box. We already know Colbert can sing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYf2yFD-iIk\">(his Christmas sing-alongs are quite good\u003c/a>) and his Colbert Nation fanatics would rally viewers behind him. Best of all, thanks to \u003cem>The Colbert Report\u003c/em>, viewers already know that he’s good at playing characters who aren’t exactly always telling the truth, a strong plus for his ability to play the conniving Harold Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jqpeRH0n4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Kristen Bell as Marian Paroo:\u003c/strong> Thanks to her time on \u003cem>Veronica Mars\u003c/em>, Kristen Bell fans have realized she’s great at witty one-liners, a must for Marian Paroo. And, of course, her vocals on that endlessly-popular little film called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyVUScALsdo\">\u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em> \u003c/a>have proved she just might have the pipes to pull off a new arrangement of the complicated “Goodnight, My Someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLKbc2hvxk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Bernadette Peters as Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn:\u003c/strong> Broadway fans will be thrilled by this selection and NBC can rest easy knowing that someone in the ensemble has a strong background in live theatre. Besides, have I mentioned already that she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgrh56clNUE\">\u003cem>the\u003c/em> Bernadette Peters\u003c/a>? After not being cast in the new \u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em> film (Meryl Streep was given the role of The Witch, which Peters originated), it also might be a small moment of redemption for the incomparable actress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cmD1uYUan0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>August Maturo as Winthrop Paroo:\u003c/strong> Unfortunately, Ron Howard has outgrown his part as Marian’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ASuSnGdWeU\">lisping little brother\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The Music Man\u003c/em> film. However, seven-year-old curly-haired Maturo has stolen many scenes on the show \u003cem>Girls Meets World\u003c/em>, and surely would be able to do a convincing scene as the Wells Fargo Wagon comes to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8tGWIqA-c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Jimmy Fallon’s Ragtime Gals (with Justin Timberlake) as the Mayor’s Barbershop Quartet:\u003c/strong> There’s nothing quite like seeing the mayor’s entourage break out into beautiful a capella melodies. While it might be hard to think about how to cast these roles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8tGWIqA-c\">Jimmy Fallon has made the job easy\u003c/a>. The other members of the quartet, Tom Shillue (a comedian) or A.D. Miles (one of Fallon’s head writers) could easily play the mayor if Fallon and Timberlake are too busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vblz2n1N190\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Dulé Hill as Marcellus Washburn:\u003c/strong> Sure, Buddy Hackett is always fun to watch as Harold Hill’s only friend in River City, Iowa, and the only person who knows the new band leader’s real scheme in the town. However, Dulé Hill has strong credentials as a tap dancer and, thanks to his years on \u003cem>Psych\u003c/em>, proves well-suited for a straight-laced “buddy” role. If the \u003cem>Psych\u003c/em> musical and his stint with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3DHFyohh2I\">Broadway's \u003cem>After Midnight \u003c/em>\u003c/a>taught viewers anything, it’s that Hill is a triple threat; his songs were the hit of both shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Music Man\u003c/em> isn’t the only iconic show that NBC executives could pick to prepare for 2015. I’ve got plenty more suggestions for the network from James Marsden as Conrad Birdie in \u003cem>Bye, Bye Birdie\u003c/em> to Patton Oswalt as Tevye the milkman in \u003cem>Fiddler on the Roof\u003c/em> to Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Danny Zuko in \u003cem>Grease\u003c/em> so no viewer ever has to suffer through a bad remake again. Hollywood, I await your call.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With 'Peter Pan Live' in the bucket, we take a look ahead at NBC's next musical and pick the perfect cast.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418073178,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":987},"headData":{"title":"'The Music Man Live': Picking the Perfect Cast for NBC's Next Musical | KQED","description":"With 'Peter Pan Live' in the bucket, we take a look ahead at NBC's next musical and pick the perfect cast.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"14261 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14261","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/12/08/the-music-man-live-picking-the-perfect-cast-for-nbcs-next-musical/","disqusTitle":"'The Music Man Live': Picking the Perfect Cast for NBC's Next Musical","customPermalink":"the-music-man-live-picking-the-perfect-cast-for-nbc-next-musical-peter-pan","path":"/pop/14261/the-music-man-live-picking-the-perfect-cast-for-nbcs-next-musical","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week’s live TV musical production proved once again that \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em> will never grow old for audiences, at least not where ratings are concerned. Thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz1IKfhStbg\">Christopher Walken prancing around\u003c/a> in a pirate costume and a pink parasol as Captain Hook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7TFZB7tXAU\">Allison Williams\u003c/a> as Peter Pan surprising viewers with a smooth singing voice (and a mostly passable British accent), and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/files/files/styles/nbc_bio_image/public/images/2014/11/20/2014_1120_PeterPan_Nana_1230x1230.jpg?itok=ioKp8Hgk\">Nana \u003c/a>(Bowdie, a rescue dog from Utah) stealing every scene she was in, the network was able to help people mostly forget the kitschy, B-movie quality of last year’s NBC musical revival \u003cem>The Sound of Music\u003c/em> with the stiff Carrie Underwood. Although \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em> did well in the ratings (although far below \u003cem>The Sound of Music\u003c/em>’s historic numbers), the reviews were still relatively mixed, demonstrating that, when it comes to live musicals, everybody’s a critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_American_television\">NBC’s announcement of next year’s live musical\u003c/a>, \u003cem>The Music Man, \u003c/em>based off the classic 1957 Meredith Wilson songbook – already has some reviewers wondering how they’ll manage to pull off this complex show. Who can possibly play Harold Hill better than Robert Preston from the 1962 film? What about filling Shirley Jones’ shoes as Marian the librarian? Can they fit all seventy-six trombones on a single soundstage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Music Man\u003c/em> is a relatively safe choice for NBC to make. They don’t have to worry as much about audiences expecting a new actor to overcome a true legend in their role or any politically incorrect situations or language. And while they don’t have to compete against any upcoming films or theatre debuts, NBC needs to hope viewers don’t remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvUfAC5xmc\">the flat and uninspired remake\u003c/a> ABC attempted in 2003 with Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Broderick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if I had anything to do with the casting decisions, there wouldn’t be trouble, not right here, not in this new River City. Here’s some of my more inspired ideas:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KbPVnrKgPNw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KbPVnrKgPNw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Stephen T. Colbert as Harold Hill:\u003c/strong> Okay, I get it, it’s a bit unorthodox to cast a quirky comedian in the title role when there are legitimate Broadway stars like Hugh Jackman to consider. But, after Broderick’s version of this character, I believe it’s important to think outside the box. We already know Colbert can sing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYf2yFD-iIk\">(his Christmas sing-alongs are quite good\u003c/a>) and his Colbert Nation fanatics would rally viewers behind him. Best of all, thanks to \u003cem>The Colbert Report\u003c/em>, viewers already know that he’s good at playing characters who aren’t exactly always telling the truth, a strong plus for his ability to play the conniving Harold Hill.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/78jqpeRH0n4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/78jqpeRH0n4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Kristen Bell as Marian Paroo:\u003c/strong> Thanks to her time on \u003cem>Veronica Mars\u003c/em>, Kristen Bell fans have realized she’s great at witty one-liners, a must for Marian Paroo. And, of course, her vocals on that endlessly-popular little film called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyVUScALsdo\">\u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em> \u003c/a>have proved she just might have the pipes to pull off a new arrangement of the complicated “Goodnight, My Someone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LnLKbc2hvxk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LnLKbc2hvxk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Bernadette Peters as Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn:\u003c/strong> Broadway fans will be thrilled by this selection and NBC can rest easy knowing that someone in the ensemble has a strong background in live theatre. Besides, have I mentioned already that she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgrh56clNUE\">\u003cem>the\u003c/em> Bernadette Peters\u003c/a>? After not being cast in the new \u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em> film (Meryl Streep was given the role of The Witch, which Peters originated), it also might be a small moment of redemption for the incomparable actress.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3cmD1uYUan0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3cmD1uYUan0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>August Maturo as Winthrop Paroo:\u003c/strong> Unfortunately, Ron Howard has outgrown his part as Marian’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ASuSnGdWeU\">lisping little brother\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The Music Man\u003c/em> film. However, seven-year-old curly-haired Maturo has stolen many scenes on the show \u003cem>Girls Meets World\u003c/em>, and surely would be able to do a convincing scene as the Wells Fargo Wagon comes to town.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/UD8tGWIqA-c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/UD8tGWIqA-c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Jimmy Fallon’s Ragtime Gals (with Justin Timberlake) as the Mayor’s Barbershop Quartet:\u003c/strong> There’s nothing quite like seeing the mayor’s entourage break out into beautiful a capella melodies. While it might be hard to think about how to cast these roles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8tGWIqA-c\">Jimmy Fallon has made the job easy\u003c/a>. The other members of the quartet, Tom Shillue (a comedian) or A.D. Miles (one of Fallon’s head writers) could easily play the mayor if Fallon and Timberlake are too busy.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vblz2n1N190'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vblz2n1N190'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>Dulé Hill as Marcellus Washburn:\u003c/strong> Sure, Buddy Hackett is always fun to watch as Harold Hill’s only friend in River City, Iowa, and the only person who knows the new band leader’s real scheme in the town. However, Dulé Hill has strong credentials as a tap dancer and, thanks to his years on \u003cem>Psych\u003c/em>, proves well-suited for a straight-laced “buddy” role. If the \u003cem>Psych\u003c/em> musical and his stint with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3DHFyohh2I\">Broadway's \u003cem>After Midnight \u003c/em>\u003c/a>taught viewers anything, it’s that Hill is a triple threat; his songs were the hit of both shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Music Man\u003c/em> isn’t the only iconic show that NBC executives could pick to prepare for 2015. I’ve got plenty more suggestions for the network from James Marsden as Conrad Birdie in \u003cem>Bye, Bye Birdie\u003c/em> to Patton Oswalt as Tevye the milkman in \u003cem>Fiddler on the Roof\u003c/em> to Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Danny Zuko in \u003cem>Grease\u003c/em> so no viewer ever has to suffer through a bad remake again. Hollywood, I await your call.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14261/the-music-man-live-picking-the-perfect-cast-for-nbcs-next-musical","authors":["3218"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_1648","pop_627","pop_266","pop_2715"],"featImg":"pop_14329","label":"pop"},"pop_14149":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14149","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14149","score":null,"sort":[1416858595000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"if-you-loved-the-hunger-games-mockingjay-try-this-tv-series-from-the-same-director","title":"If You Loved 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay', Try This TV Series From the Same Director","publishDate":1416858595,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Even if you’re not a fan of \u003ci>The Hunger Games\u003c/i>, you can probably list several items off of star Jennifer Lawrence’s filmography. But what about the franchise’s \u003ci>other \u003c/i>Lawrence? We’re referring to director \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lawrence\">Francis Lawrence\u003c/a>, who took over direction of \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>film franchise from Gary Ross following the first installment\u003ci>. \u003c/i>Lawrence’s visual flair and talent for building cinematic worlds similar to our own made him an ideal choice for the job. Though Lawrence demonstrated these skills in \u003ci>I Am Legend \u003c/i>and \u003ci>Constantine\u003c/i>, it was his dual role as director and producer for the TV series \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_%28U.S._TV_series%29\">\u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>\u003c/a> that really showed his potential to take on the final three \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haven’t heard of \u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>? You’re not alone. The television drama was a mid-season premiere for NBC back in 2009, and it didn’t last long, despite its compelling plot, stunning visuals, and solid ensemble cast. Loosely based on the story of King David from the Bible, \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>is set in an alternate modern day world in the kingdom of Gilboa (New York City stands in for the capital city Shiloh). The story begins when our young protagonist, David (Christopher Egan), a Gilboan soldier serving in the war against the Republic of Gath, takes out a Goliath-class tank to save some of his fellow soldiers -- one of whom happens to be the son of King Silas (Ian McShane). David is whisked off to the capital for a celebration in his honor and is able to witness first-hand the machinations of the monarchy, a system into which he is reluctantly pulled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/u5c1Vr1fcZI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>is the perfect companion to \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>franchise. It’s \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>if it took place almost entirely in the Capitol with President Snow as one of many main characters. In addition to sharing a director -- Lawrence directed three episodes of the show’s 13-episode -- \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>shares a number of defining aspects with the YA franchise...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The reluctant hero trope: \u003c/b>Katniss and David are very similar heroes. Both hail from humble backgrounds and are thrust into the spotlight via reluctant acts of heroism. Unlike many in their respective worlds, they don’t vie for celebrity or power; these things are unwanted side effects of their desire to protect the people they love. Both have lost their fathers to the demands of the nation -- Katniss’ father died in a mining accident, David’s father in the Unification War -- and both are torn between the simpler lives they left behind and the demands of the cause that has ensnared and changed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Worlds similar to our own: \u003c/b>Both \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>and \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>franchise do a wonderful job of building an alternate reality that somehow manages to feel both eerily similar to our own and distinctly different, allowing the storytellers to make unique comments on our own contemporary reality. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebB1U8IlTw\">a video interview\u003c/a> Lawrence did with TVWeb at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, he described the power of this alternate reality effect in \u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever you have a story, whatever it is, you always want it to be somewhat relatable to today and, the great thing is [the King David story] almost just transplanted over, and so it fit everything that’s sort of going on in the world right now. And then, when we were building our version of the monarchy, and sort of getting rid of the real royalty of it -- the sashes and the medals and the pomp and circumstance and all that -- and you start to make it feel a little corporate and presidential, it starts to sort of line up to the way things are working right now in America, which is pretty interesting. It’s working out to be kind of a nice allegory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said of Panem, a vision of a dystopian future that has more in common with our current reality than many viewers would like to admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Strong ensemble casts: \u003c/b>I don’t need to tell you about the acting heavyweights represented in \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>series, but \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>boasts a similarly impressive cast. Led by the inimitable Ian McShane in a role fresh off of his turn in \u003ci>Deadwood\u003c/i>, other familiar faces include, \u003ci>Arrow\u003c/i>’s Susanna Thomas, \u003ci>The Winter Soldier\u003c/i>’s Sebastian Stan, and \u003ci>Terra Nova\u003c/i>’s Allison Miller -- and that’s just the royal family. Macaulay Culkin, Leslie Bibb, Dylan Baker, and Wes Studi all fill either regular or recurring roles in the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Effective visual propaganda: \u003c/b>One of the most striking visual parallels -- besides Lawrence’s talent in blending the gritty with the beautiful -- is the iconic visual language of the stories’ respective political movements. In \u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>, the butterfly is a ubiquitous motif, a tool Silas uses to represent the narrative of his rise to power. In \u003ci>The Hunger Games\u003c/i>, its equivalent is the mockingjay, for which the third and fourth film installments are named. Though this similarity may seem minor, Lawrence imbues both examples of visual propaganda with a weight lesser directors often fail to achieve. The butterfly and the mockingjay aren’t just symbols for the characters; they are an ever-shifting measure for the audience on who is winning, who is losing, and who doesn’t even bother to play the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>is available to watch in its entirety on \u003ca href=\"http://www.hulu.com/kings\">Hulu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Are there other on-screen stories that remind you of \u003c/i>The Hunger Games\u003ci>? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Can't bear the year-long wait until the next Hunger Games movie? 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We’re referring to director \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lawrence\">Francis Lawrence\u003c/a>, who took over direction of \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>film franchise from Gary Ross following the first installment\u003ci>. \u003c/i>Lawrence’s visual flair and talent for building cinematic worlds similar to our own made him an ideal choice for the job. Though Lawrence demonstrated these skills in \u003ci>I Am Legend \u003c/i>and \u003ci>Constantine\u003c/i>, it was his dual role as director and producer for the TV series \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_%28U.S._TV_series%29\">\u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>\u003c/a> that really showed his potential to take on the final three \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haven’t heard of \u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>? You’re not alone. The television drama was a mid-season premiere for NBC back in 2009, and it didn’t last long, despite its compelling plot, stunning visuals, and solid ensemble cast. Loosely based on the story of King David from the Bible, \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>is set in an alternate modern day world in the kingdom of Gilboa (New York City stands in for the capital city Shiloh). The story begins when our young protagonist, David (Christopher Egan), a Gilboan soldier serving in the war against the Republic of Gath, takes out a Goliath-class tank to save some of his fellow soldiers -- one of whom happens to be the son of King Silas (Ian McShane). David is whisked off to the capital for a celebration in his honor and is able to witness first-hand the machinations of the monarchy, a system into which he is reluctantly pulled.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/u5c1Vr1fcZI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/u5c1Vr1fcZI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>is the perfect companion to \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>franchise. It’s \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>if it took place almost entirely in the Capitol with President Snow as one of many main characters. In addition to sharing a director -- Lawrence directed three episodes of the show’s 13-episode -- \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>shares a number of defining aspects with the YA franchise...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The reluctant hero trope: \u003c/b>Katniss and David are very similar heroes. Both hail from humble backgrounds and are thrust into the spotlight via reluctant acts of heroism. Unlike many in their respective worlds, they don’t vie for celebrity or power; these things are unwanted side effects of their desire to protect the people they love. Both have lost their fathers to the demands of the nation -- Katniss’ father died in a mining accident, David’s father in the Unification War -- and both are torn between the simpler lives they left behind and the demands of the cause that has ensnared and changed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Worlds similar to our own: \u003c/b>Both \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>and \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>franchise do a wonderful job of building an alternate reality that somehow manages to feel both eerily similar to our own and distinctly different, allowing the storytellers to make unique comments on our own contemporary reality. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebB1U8IlTw\">a video interview\u003c/a> Lawrence did with TVWeb at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, he described the power of this alternate reality effect in \u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever you have a story, whatever it is, you always want it to be somewhat relatable to today and, the great thing is [the King David story] almost just transplanted over, and so it fit everything that’s sort of going on in the world right now. And then, when we were building our version of the monarchy, and sort of getting rid of the real royalty of it -- the sashes and the medals and the pomp and circumstance and all that -- and you start to make it feel a little corporate and presidential, it starts to sort of line up to the way things are working right now in America, which is pretty interesting. It’s working out to be kind of a nice allegory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said of Panem, a vision of a dystopian future that has more in common with our current reality than many viewers would like to admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Strong ensemble casts: \u003c/b>I don’t need to tell you about the acting heavyweights represented in \u003ci>The Hunger Games \u003c/i>series, but \u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>boasts a similarly impressive cast. Led by the inimitable Ian McShane in a role fresh off of his turn in \u003ci>Deadwood\u003c/i>, other familiar faces include, \u003ci>Arrow\u003c/i>’s Susanna Thomas, \u003ci>The Winter Soldier\u003c/i>’s Sebastian Stan, and \u003ci>Terra Nova\u003c/i>’s Allison Miller -- and that’s just the royal family. Macaulay Culkin, Leslie Bibb, Dylan Baker, and Wes Studi all fill either regular or recurring roles in the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Effective visual propaganda: \u003c/b>One of the most striking visual parallels -- besides Lawrence’s talent in blending the gritty with the beautiful -- is the iconic visual language of the stories’ respective political movements. In \u003ci>Kings\u003c/i>, the butterfly is a ubiquitous motif, a tool Silas uses to represent the narrative of his rise to power. In \u003ci>The Hunger Games\u003c/i>, its equivalent is the mockingjay, for which the third and fourth film installments are named. Though this similarity may seem minor, Lawrence imbues both examples of visual propaganda with a weight lesser directors often fail to achieve. The butterfly and the mockingjay aren’t just symbols for the characters; they are an ever-shifting measure for the audience on who is winning, who is losing, and who doesn’t even bother to play the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kings \u003c/i>is available to watch in its entirety on \u003ca href=\"http://www.hulu.com/kings\">Hulu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Are there other on-screen stories that remind you of \u003c/i>The Hunger Games\u003ci>? 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Thanks to the availability of international TV the Internet and an expansive list of speciality channels has made available, you don’t have to travel to Scandinavia to watch the much-talked-about Danish series \u003cem>The Killing\u003c/em> or \u003cem>The Bridge\u003c/em>, on which the American adaptations were based. You can watch them from the comfort of your own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five European television dramas that are on par with the best of what American television has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Real Humans\u003c/em> (Sweden)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKOZoAdhHso\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love character-based science fiction, and the genre has enjoyed a renaissance on American television in recent years. But my favorite sci-fi series may be a Swedish one. Äkta människor, translated to Real Humans for English-speaking viewers, is the story of a near-future in which androids (called hubots) have been integrated into most peoples’ everyday lives, often in the most intimate of ways. That isn’t just a subtle reference to sex-bots, which do exist in this world, but to the way in which humans have become attached to the artificially-intelligent beings living in their homes and, in many cases, as parts of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its two seasons (20 episodes), \u003cem>Real Humans\u003c/em> follows two families and their respective members’ relationships to the hubots in their lives, as well as a ragtag band of liberated hubots, who have gained free will and have managed temporary escape from their lives of service. They work to gain their freedom, but are opposed by an ever-growing anti-hubot movement that calls itself “Real Humans.” Like the best science fiction, \u003cem>Real Humans\u003c/em> is nuanced, thought-provoking, and poses prescient questions about the consequences humanity risks when allowing technology to serve so many functions in our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> (France)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bv_5IBPVuo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a mountain town in rural France, five dead members of the community come back to life in \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em>, a French drama with one eight-episode season under its belt and another in production. \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> isn’t a tale of brain-dead zombies feasting on the living. These returned people don’t remember having died. They are not out to wreak havoc or eat brains. Their motivations are as myriad as their living counterparts, which is to say governed by a desire to be loved and accepted by the people they love and accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it has been told in many incarnations in the last decade -- including ABC’s \u003cem>Resurrection\u003c/em> and a forthcoming \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> adaptation from A&E -- but it is hard to imagine anything topping this atmospheric slow burn of a series. \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> is beautifully directed with stunning visuals of the French countryside. It yields powerful performances from its ensemble cast, and is thematically underscored by a haunting soundtrack from Scottish post-rock band Mogwai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em> (Denmark)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz_SyOXB1kM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you miss \u003cem>The West Wing\u003c/em> or are still lamenting the cancellation of short-lived British drama \u003cem>Party Animals\u003c/em>, then \u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em> is the show for you. Focused on the unexpected rise of the first (fictional) female prime minister of Denmark, this political drama masterfully straddles the line between realistic and idealistic, while also exploring the sometimes impossible balance between professional and private spheres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em>’s story is led by Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg, it is a true ensemble show. Its cast of well-drawn characters expands the world of political machinations to its many corrupt and complicated parts, from the various Danish political parties to the TV newsroom. With three seasons (30 episodes) already produced, the world of \u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em> has so much to offer and will have you caring about Danish politics more than you ever thought possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Black Mirror\u003c/em> (U.K.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0TmXRrDpP8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garnering comparisons to classic TV anthology series \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em>, Britain’s \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> has already made serious waves in the U.S. Its episodes explore the dark potentialities of our technology culture, a.k.a. the “black mirror” of our many screens. Each installment features an entirely different setting, premise, and cast. This non-traditional format may stretch the definition of what it means to be a TV series, but it’s too good not to include on this list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> is at its best when it examines large questions through an intimate lens, such as in “Fifteen Million Merits,” one of the series' best episodes, which tackles the topic of entertainment shows like \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em> and the culture of distraction of which they are a part. “Bing” Madsen is our gateway character for the episode, a 20-something bored by his everyday existence: generating power by cycling on an exercise bike for hours on end, perpetually bombarded by distraction in the form of ubiquitous screens. When he meets Abi, a beautiful girl he hears singing in the bathroom, Bing uses most of his merits to give her a chance to audition for TV talent show Hot Shots. What happens next is a comment on the dangers of accepting distraction without question, and the range of choices we are given and make in a world where even anger can be commoditized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> In the Flesh\u003c/em> (U.K.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uAJklDka_U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many contemporary TV shows and movies use apocalypse as a theme, but British drama \u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em> is concerned with what happens after the zombie apocalypse, expertly applying a supernatural filter to the real life horrors of social intolerance and discrimination. The show is set in post-zombie Britain, where scientists have found a way to “cure” the undead with medication. In the pilot, protagonist Kieren Walker, a partially-deceased syndrome (PDS) sufferer, returns to his family and rural community for the first time following his death and “rising.” The show follows Kieren’s struggle with his own guilt over the people he ate in his “untreated” state, as well as his efforts to reacclimate both to a family still dealing with his death and a town stuck in survival mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em> has run for two seasons, with the fate of its third yet to be announced by Britain’s BBC Three. It would be a shame to lose a TV series about the complexities of how we deal with trauma at the individual and societal level. But, even if it isn't renewed, \u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em> is still well worth a watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you watch any foreign TV shows? What European shows would you suggest to others looking to expand their media horizons? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tired of American TV? Check out these imports!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1421195099,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1170},"headData":{"title":"5 European TV Dramas You Should Be Watching | KQED","description":"Tired of American TV? 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You can watch them from the comfort of your own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five European television dramas that are on par with the best of what American television has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Real Humans\u003c/em> (Sweden)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VKOZoAdhHso'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VKOZoAdhHso'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>I love character-based science fiction, and the genre has enjoyed a renaissance on American television in recent years. But my favorite sci-fi series may be a Swedish one. Äkta människor, translated to Real Humans for English-speaking viewers, is the story of a near-future in which androids (called hubots) have been integrated into most peoples’ everyday lives, often in the most intimate of ways. That isn’t just a subtle reference to sex-bots, which do exist in this world, but to the way in which humans have become attached to the artificially-intelligent beings living in their homes and, in many cases, as parts of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its two seasons (20 episodes), \u003cem>Real Humans\u003c/em> follows two families and their respective members’ relationships to the hubots in their lives, as well as a ragtag band of liberated hubots, who have gained free will and have managed temporary escape from their lives of service. They work to gain their freedom, but are opposed by an ever-growing anti-hubot movement that calls itself “Real Humans.” Like the best science fiction, \u003cem>Real Humans\u003c/em> is nuanced, thought-provoking, and poses prescient questions about the consequences humanity risks when allowing technology to serve so many functions in our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> (France)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5bv_5IBPVuo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5bv_5IBPVuo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In a mountain town in rural France, five dead members of the community come back to life in \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em>, a French drama with one eight-episode season under its belt and another in production. \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> isn’t a tale of brain-dead zombies feasting on the living. These returned people don’t remember having died. They are not out to wreak havoc or eat brains. Their motivations are as myriad as their living counterparts, which is to say governed by a desire to be loved and accepted by the people they love and accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it has been told in many incarnations in the last decade -- including ABC’s \u003cem>Resurrection\u003c/em> and a forthcoming \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> adaptation from A&E -- but it is hard to imagine anything topping this atmospheric slow burn of a series. \u003cem>The Returned\u003c/em> is beautifully directed with stunning visuals of the French countryside. It yields powerful performances from its ensemble cast, and is thematically underscored by a haunting soundtrack from Scottish post-rock band Mogwai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em> (Denmark)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bz_SyOXB1kM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bz_SyOXB1kM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you miss \u003cem>The West Wing\u003c/em> or are still lamenting the cancellation of short-lived British drama \u003cem>Party Animals\u003c/em>, then \u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em> is the show for you. Focused on the unexpected rise of the first (fictional) female prime minister of Denmark, this political drama masterfully straddles the line between realistic and idealistic, while also exploring the sometimes impossible balance between professional and private spheres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em>’s story is led by Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg, it is a true ensemble show. Its cast of well-drawn characters expands the world of political machinations to its many corrupt and complicated parts, from the various Danish political parties to the TV newsroom. With three seasons (30 episodes) already produced, the world of \u003cem>Borgen\u003c/em> has so much to offer and will have you caring about Danish politics more than you ever thought possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Black Mirror\u003c/em> (U.K.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/d0TmXRrDpP8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/d0TmXRrDpP8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Garnering comparisons to classic TV anthology series \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em>, Britain’s \u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> has already made serious waves in the U.S. Its episodes explore the dark potentialities of our technology culture, a.k.a. the “black mirror” of our many screens. Each installment features an entirely different setting, premise, and cast. This non-traditional format may stretch the definition of what it means to be a TV series, but it’s too good not to include on this list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Black Mirror\u003c/em> is at its best when it examines large questions through an intimate lens, such as in “Fifteen Million Merits,” one of the series' best episodes, which tackles the topic of entertainment shows like \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em> and the culture of distraction of which they are a part. “Bing” Madsen is our gateway character for the episode, a 20-something bored by his everyday existence: generating power by cycling on an exercise bike for hours on end, perpetually bombarded by distraction in the form of ubiquitous screens. When he meets Abi, a beautiful girl he hears singing in the bathroom, Bing uses most of his merits to give her a chance to audition for TV talent show Hot Shots. What happens next is a comment on the dangers of accepting distraction without question, and the range of choices we are given and make in a world where even anger can be commoditized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> In the Flesh\u003c/em> (U.K.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3uAJklDka_U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3uAJklDka_U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Many contemporary TV shows and movies use apocalypse as a theme, but British drama \u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em> is concerned with what happens after the zombie apocalypse, expertly applying a supernatural filter to the real life horrors of social intolerance and discrimination. The show is set in post-zombie Britain, where scientists have found a way to “cure” the undead with medication. In the pilot, protagonist Kieren Walker, a partially-deceased syndrome (PDS) sufferer, returns to his family and rural community for the first time following his death and “rising.” The show follows Kieren’s struggle with his own guilt over the people he ate in his “untreated” state, as well as his efforts to reacclimate both to a family still dealing with his death and a town stuck in survival mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em> has run for two seasons, with the fate of its third yet to be announced by Britain’s BBC Three. It would be a shame to lose a TV series about the complexities of how we deal with trauma at the individual and societal level. But, even if it isn't renewed, \u003cem>In the Flesh\u003c/em> is still well worth a watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do you watch any foreign TV shows? What European shows would you suggest to others looking to expand their media horizons? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14034/5-european-tv-dramas-you-should-be-watching","authors":["3220"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_1632","pop_266"],"featImg":"pop_14036","label":"pop"},"pop_13968":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13968","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13968","score":null,"sort":[1415111439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"10-shows-netflix-needs-to-add-asap","title":"10 Shows Netflix Needs to Add ASAP","publishDate":1415111439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Netflix and all those other streaming video options, I was obsessed with TV shows on DVD. As soon as I’d hear that my favorite show had added another season to DVD, off I’d search, ready to plunk down any amount of money for a chance to spend another few hours engrossed in my favorite worlds. From \u003cem>M*A*S*H \u003c/em>to \u003cem>West Wing \u003c/em>to \u003cem>Psych\u003c/em>, I owned them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more beloved TV shows like \u003cem>Veronica Mars,\u003c/em> \u003cem>Gilmore Girls,\u003c/em> and now \u003cem>Friends \u003c/em>(the latter \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=048SNZIP40I\">debuts \u003c/a>in January) have made the jump to Netflix, but there are still so many greats – both famous and obscure – that deserve a second chance to be watched and loved. Here are 10 suggestions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13969\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/tumblr_inline_mq80tk4w4j1qb1pkp.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13969\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/tumblr_inline_mq80tk4w4j1qb1pkp.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Ed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the premise is a bit weird (a New York lawyer Ed Stevens --played by Tom Cavanaugh -- buys a bowling alley in his hometown of Stuckeyville, Ohio and tries to woo the woman of his high school dreams), but the show embraced its quirkiness, quickly amassing a legion of fans obsessed with the weekly $10 bets and random “Godfrey” characters. While the show featured such talent as Michael Ian Black, Julie Bowen, and Justin Long (and was co-produced by David Letterman), NBC pulled the plug in 2004 after just four seasons. Problems with music rights have delayed DVD production, so most fans (including myself) have had to watch their fuzzy VCR copies until they tore in the machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/039_41045.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/039_41045.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: ABC\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Three’s Company\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the show’s debut in 1977, \u003cem>Three’s Company \u003c/em>proved to be wildly popular. Starring John Ritter, Joyce De Witt, and Suzanne Summers as the original three platonic roommates involved in crazy hijinks centered around a Santa Monica apartment, these eight seasons have only continued to find fans through reruns, inspiring hope that Netflix will “come and knock” on their door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13972\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04-400x499.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: ABC\" width=\"250\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04-400x499.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Home Improvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were a girl in the 1990s, it was assumed you were in love with J.T.T. (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), who played the middle son on the show \u003cem>Home Improvement. \u003c/em>But J.T.T couldn’t have been the only appeal of the show; it was one of the highest ranked sitcoms for all eight seasons. Loosely based on Tim Allen’s stand-up routine, the story of a local tool-show host and his family and friends (including the partially-hidden neighbor Wilson) is arguably still one of the funniest shows on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13973 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de-400x334.jpg\" alt=\"rbk-full-house-de\" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Full House \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was so much to love in this show: Uncle Jesse’s good looks, Uncle Joey’s funny voices, little Michelle's adorable catchphrases, Stephanie's killer dance moves, everything Kimmy Gibbler said or did, and on and on. With \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/\">the often hinted news that there’s a potential reboot in the works\u003c/a>, it doesn’t hurt to start watching the show all over again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-13975\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: CBS\" width=\"307\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast.jpg 307w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CBS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Northern Exposure\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">From 1990 to 1995, the story of Joel Fleishman (played by Rob Morrow), a Jewish New York City physician sent to the eccentric small town of Cicely, Alaska as remuneration for his student loans was nominated for more 57 awards and won 27 of them. But it’s not the awards that matter to fans – it’s the monologues of ex-con-turned-radio-deejay Chris Stevens (John Corbett), the grand schemes from former astronaut Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin), the off-hand comments from local wannabe film director Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows) and the stories at the local bar, the Brick, that keep people watching their DVDs and traveling to show reunions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13976\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"NBC-Community\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Community \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Six seasons and a movie” has been the slogan of fans devoted to the friendships between Greendale Community College students. While the show has endured multiple casting / production changes, cancellation, and a recent move to Yahoo Screen for the sixth season, fans still haven’t given up on this ensemble comedy. Rewatching it all over again on Netflix would remind us why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13988\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Will & Grace\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">With \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> being added to Netflix, it seems like a no-brainer to add some of the other insanely popular shows from the “Must-See TV” NBC lineup. \u003cem>Will & Grace\u003c/em>’s eight seasons starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, and Sean Hayes were more than just great TV though; even Vice President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the show helped improve the American public opinion of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-400x300.png\" alt=\"Photo: Fox\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-1440x1080.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Fox\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Simpsons \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">It’s a simple question: Why shouldn’t America’s longest-running sitcom, longest-running animated program, and longest-running scripted primetime television show be on Netflix? For a show that has inspired countless others and even warranted entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, there’s just never enough Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie to go around. While FXX recently aired a 12 day marathon of all 552 previously broadcast episodes (and film) in chronological order, many fans argue there’s still a need to re-watch the antics of the town of Springfield on one's own timetable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13979 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"goldengirls\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-1440x959.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Golden Girls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">In 1985, \u003cem>The Golden Girls \u003c/em>debuted and, by the end of the show’s run in 1992, the show was truly “golden” having earned 11 Emmy awards (including one for each cast member) and the love of millions of fans worldwide. 30 years later, viewers still can’t get enough of the warm friendship of these four unusual roommates – Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia. Borrowing a favorite phrase from Sophia, “Picture This: Netflix, 2015” has a particularly good ring to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Seinfeld\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/21d8a23363056d719a4aa1d6806eacac50c07ff1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13980 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/21d8a23363056d719a4aa1d6806eacac50c07ff1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"374\" height=\"222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">All I really need to say is this: everyone loves this show. The rest, as George’s girlfriend Marcy would say, is just “yada-yada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Which shows do you wish you could watch on Netflix?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"I’ll be there for you...soon? Here are the TV classics we need on Netflix pronto.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418162841,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":1039},"headData":{"title":"10 Shows Netflix Needs to Add ASAP | KQED","description":"I’ll be there for you...soon? Here are the TV classics we need on Netflix pronto.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"13968 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=13968","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/11/04/10-shows-netflix-needs-to-add-asap/","disqusTitle":"10 Shows Netflix Needs to Add ASAP","path":"/pop/13968/10-shows-netflix-needs-to-add-asap","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Netflix and all those other streaming video options, I was obsessed with TV shows on DVD. As soon as I’d hear that my favorite show had added another season to DVD, off I’d search, ready to plunk down any amount of money for a chance to spend another few hours engrossed in my favorite worlds. From \u003cem>M*A*S*H \u003c/em>to \u003cem>West Wing \u003c/em>to \u003cem>Psych\u003c/em>, I owned them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more beloved TV shows like \u003cem>Veronica Mars,\u003c/em> \u003cem>Gilmore Girls,\u003c/em> and now \u003cem>Friends \u003c/em>(the latter \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=048SNZIP40I\">debuts \u003c/a>in January) have made the jump to Netflix, but there are still so many greats – both famous and obscure – that deserve a second chance to be watched and loved. Here are 10 suggestions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13969\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/tumblr_inline_mq80tk4w4j1qb1pkp.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13969\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/tumblr_inline_mq80tk4w4j1qb1pkp.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Ed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the premise is a bit weird (a New York lawyer Ed Stevens --played by Tom Cavanaugh -- buys a bowling alley in his hometown of Stuckeyville, Ohio and tries to woo the woman of his high school dreams), but the show embraced its quirkiness, quickly amassing a legion of fans obsessed with the weekly $10 bets and random “Godfrey” characters. While the show featured such talent as Michael Ian Black, Julie Bowen, and Justin Long (and was co-produced by David Letterman), NBC pulled the plug in 2004 after just four seasons. Problems with music rights have delayed DVD production, so most fans (including myself) have had to watch their fuzzy VCR copies until they tore in the machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/039_41045.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/039_41045.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: ABC\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Three’s Company\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the show’s debut in 1977, \u003cem>Three’s Company \u003c/em>proved to be wildly popular. Starring John Ritter, Joyce De Witt, and Suzanne Summers as the original three platonic roommates involved in crazy hijinks centered around a Santa Monica apartment, these eight seasons have only continued to find fans through reruns, inspiring hope that Netflix will “come and knock” on their door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13972\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04-400x499.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: ABC\" width=\"250\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04-400x499.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/Home-Improvement-tv-04.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Home Improvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were a girl in the 1990s, it was assumed you were in love with J.T.T. (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), who played the middle son on the show \u003cem>Home Improvement. \u003c/em>But J.T.T couldn’t have been the only appeal of the show; it was one of the highest ranked sitcoms for all eight seasons. Loosely based on Tim Allen’s stand-up routine, the story of a local tool-show host and his family and friends (including the partially-hidden neighbor Wilson) is arguably still one of the funniest shows on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13973\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13973 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de-400x334.jpg\" alt=\"rbk-full-house-de\" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/rbk-full-house-de.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Full House \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was so much to love in this show: Uncle Jesse’s good looks, Uncle Joey’s funny voices, little Michelle's adorable catchphrases, Stephanie's killer dance moves, everything Kimmy Gibbler said or did, and on and on. With \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/\">the often hinted news that there’s a potential reboot in the works\u003c/a>, it doesn’t hurt to start watching the show all over again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-13975\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: CBS\" width=\"307\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast.jpg 307w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nexp_cast-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CBS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Northern Exposure\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">From 1990 to 1995, the story of Joel Fleishman (played by Rob Morrow), a Jewish New York City physician sent to the eccentric small town of Cicely, Alaska as remuneration for his student loans was nominated for more 57 awards and won 27 of them. But it’s not the awards that matter to fans – it’s the monologues of ex-con-turned-radio-deejay Chris Stevens (John Corbett), the grand schemes from former astronaut Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin), the off-hand comments from local wannabe film director Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows) and the stories at the local bar, the Brick, that keep people watching their DVDs and traveling to show reunions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13976\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13976\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"NBC-Community\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/NBC-Community.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Community \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Six seasons and a movie” has been the slogan of fans devoted to the friendships between Greendale Community College students. While the show has endured multiple casting / production changes, cancellation, and a recent move to Yahoo Screen for the sixth season, fans still haven’t given up on this ensemble comedy. Rewatching it all over again on Netflix would remind us why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13988\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/will-and-grace.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Will & Grace\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">With \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> being added to Netflix, it seems like a no-brainer to add some of the other insanely popular shows from the “Must-See TV” NBC lineup. \u003cem>Will & Grace\u003c/em>’s eight seasons starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, and Sean Hayes were more than just great TV though; even Vice President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the show helped improve the American public opinion of the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-400x300.png\" alt=\"Photo: Fox\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/The_Simpson__s_Family_by_Simpsonix-1440x1080.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Fox\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Simpsons \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">It’s a simple question: Why shouldn’t America’s longest-running sitcom, longest-running animated program, and longest-running scripted primetime television show be on Netflix? For a show that has inspired countless others and even warranted entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, there’s just never enough Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie to go around. While FXX recently aired a 12 day marathon of all 552 previously broadcast episodes (and film) in chronological order, many fans argue there’s still a need to re-watch the antics of the town of Springfield on one's own timetable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13979 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"goldengirls\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/goldengirls-1440x959.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Golden Girls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">In 1985, \u003cem>The Golden Girls \u003c/em>debuted and, by the end of the show’s run in 1992, the show was truly “golden” having earned 11 Emmy awards (including one for each cast member) and the love of millions of fans worldwide. 30 years later, viewers still can’t get enough of the warm friendship of these four unusual roommates – Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia. Borrowing a favorite phrase from Sophia, “Picture This: Netflix, 2015” has a particularly good ring to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Seinfeld\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/21d8a23363056d719a4aa1d6806eacac50c07ff1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13980 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/21d8a23363056d719a4aa1d6806eacac50c07ff1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"374\" height=\"222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">All I really need to say is this: everyone loves this show. The rest, as George’s girlfriend Marcy would say, is just “yada-yada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Which shows do you wish you could watch on Netflix?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/13968/10-shows-netflix-needs-to-add-asap","authors":["3218"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_438","pop_266","pop_2787"],"featImg":"pop_13982","label":"pop"},"pop_13191":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13191","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13191","score":null,"sort":[1414515915000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-degrassi-still-matters-35-years-later","title":"Why Degrassi Still Matters, 35 Years Later","publishDate":1414515915,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>By Erika Schmidt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Empathy is hard to teach. In \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, Atticus Finch tells his daughter that “you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” She discovers it for herself when she stands on the Radley front porch, seeing the world -- her world -- through Boo’s eyes. She imagines what his life must be like, and thus her life is changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Empathy requires imagination, vulnerability, courage, and dedication. It’s a quality that’s too often missing in our public discourse and our political leaders. It’s a muscle we too often neglect, so when we find a tool that can help us acknowledge our shared humanity,\u003ci> \u003c/i>we should grab it and run with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Enter \u003ci>Degrassi,\u003c/i> just a little Canadian sensation you may have heard of, (the 14th season of the Next Generation reboot premieres tonight!). For those who don’t know: back in the '80s, a student at \u003cspan class=\"s1\">Degrassi Junior High \u003c/span>got pregnant and kept the baby. That baby grew up to be seventh grader Emma Nelson, who ushered in the next generation of Degrassi students back in 2001. \u003ci>Degrassi: The Next Generation \u003c/i>grew into a bona fide hit, got picked up by Teen Nick, and continues to churn out the drama to this day. As the years pass, old favorites graduate, new “niners” come in, and the beat goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/znox2ocEi8Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Let’s be clear: \u003ci>Degrassi \u003c/i>isn’t a masterpiece. You can spot most storylines a mile away, the acting is wildly varied, the dialogue hovers between clunky and unintentionally hilarious, and there is rarely any subtext. But, if you’re looking for hijinks and scandal, you won’t be disappointed (two words: throat gonorrhea). The number of disasters, both tragic and ridiculous, that have befallen the students of Degrassi defies all logic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But beneath the drama and beyond the camp is \u003ci>Degrassi\u003c/i>’s enduring commitment to portraying its teenage characters as multifaceted individuals. They have histories, flaws, challenges, and tendencies that compel us to see them as people rather than examples. Before we know it, we’re putting ourselves in their shoes as they make decisions, mistakes, and progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">When hot-button “issues” do come up (sexuality, gender identity, teen pregnancy, self-mutilation, bipolar disorder, rape, and death are all topics that have been addressed more than once), they affect characters in which we’re already invested, who have more going on than just this one storyline, and are thus defined by more than this one issue. 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Adam, along with his older brother Drew (a cocky football player with a nasty streak), is new to Degrassi. He becomes friends with Eli Goldsworthy and Clare Edwards (who are circling a romance). The three hang out and work on school projects together. Adam is mischievous, spontaneous verging on irresponsible, and smart. He has an offbeat sense of humor and a knack for calling out his friends on their BS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-13946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/tumblr_ndoowq5bqL1szvdl9o1_500-400x172.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_ndoowq5bqL1szvdl9o1_500\" width=\"400\" height=\"172\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">It isn’t until Adam’s fifth episode that we’re introduced to his home life, and we learn that he is a transgender boy. By the time this part of his story -- still a secret to everyone at Degrassi -- is revealed to us, it’s one element in the context of a larger whole. We’ve already characterized Adam, based on several unrelated storylines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">This can be a powerful experience -- having something society might deem a person’s defining trait revealed only after we’ve already formed our opinions based on the content of that person’s character. In Adam’s case, the reveal to the audience is a gentle one, and his storyline progresses from there much the way any other kid’s would, its universal problems, thrills, and heartbreaks made new by the particulars of the character. Adam gets himself into trouble, experiences misunderstanding, and feels the pain of first love just like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Simultaneously, \u003cem>Degrassi\u003c/em> doesn’t back away from delving into the specific conflicts Adam faces as a transgender teen. His identity is revealed at school by an ignorant bully. He faces harassment and violence, as well as more subtle forms of bigotry. He handles these challenges with the blend of preternatural grace and impulsive explosiveness that is unique to him -- and, importantly, we see him do it and hear what he has to say. When, in “My Body Is A Cage,” his mother asks him to dress up as “Gracie” to make his grandmother feel more comfortable, we feel the hit right along with him. Because we know Adam. And Adam isn’t Gracie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">While Adam’s story might be the first one of its kind on the show, in many other cases, \u003ci>Degrassi \u003c/i>normalizes a wide range of human experiences by recycling them, keeping the plots fresh by focusing on the distinct characters involved. We see stories, not politics; characters, not avatars. Manny Santos’ unplanned pregnancy is unique from Liberty’s, from Mia’s, from Jenna’s. Marco del Rossi’s experience of grappling with his sexuality is different from Paige’s, from Alex’s, from Riley’s, from Tristan’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Coming out is never simple. Bigotry is never simple. A woman’s choice is never simple. All because no one’s life is ever simple, and no one makes it through without some help. It’s a reality we would all do well to remember, and watching a slightly ridiculous, noble-hearted teen drama isn’t the worst way to do it. So watch it with your kids, and talk about it. Or watch it with your partner, like I do, and practice withholding fear-based judgment, preparing for that inevitable day when you are a parent and your teen comes to you and says, “Mom, I think I have throat gonorrhea.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 14th season of Degrassi: The Next Generation premieres tonight. 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