The weekend started surprisingly good with gorgeous Anna Hutchison’s nude scene on Spartacus. Breathtakingly beautiful. Sadly, it just
went downhill from there.
I am not sure if there’s any comedic value left in sitcoms
running on TV these days. It’s like watching a shock and awe campaign episode
after episode, from start to finish, with few laughs in between. And I am not
speaking about the artificially added laughing soundtrack, which is usually added
in post-production, because, I guess, producers think I am to stoopid to know
when a character delivers a witty line.
I honestly stopped watching Californication because the
situations these characters find themselves in are so unrealistic that they are
not funny anymore, at least not to me.
This weekend’s competition to come up with the most
shocking, embarrassing, awkward and outrageous moment on the TV was won by
HBO’s Girls. No, it was not another gross scene featuring Lena Dunham, It was the
highly anticipated Shiri Appleby’s nude debut. I am not so sure if those fans of
her, who wanted to see her naked ever since the Roswell days, were pleased with
a scene showing a guy cumming on her breasts. Just disgusting.
I mean, if I want to watch porn, I download porn, and if the
show’s or movie’s description says comedy, then I expect comedy. Yes, I am
talking about This Is 40 now, Judd Aptow’s directed “comedy”, starring his
wife, Leslie Mann and their two kids, which I also watched over the weekend.
Well, just 35 minutes (out of 134???) of it was all I could
manage. It was the most depressing movie I’ve seen in a while. It’s about a
married couple, who apart from the two kids, have absolutely nothing in common.
After a while I just skipped to the nude parts and Megan Fox in lingerie. Since Aptow also co-wrote the screenplay, all
I can say is, if he based it on his marriage, his days as a married man are
numbered.