Great Television!!!
This week two of my favorite shows, HBO's The Sopranos and The Shield on FX return with all new episodes. Critics for the most part didn't give the Sopranos premier very good reviews, but after a 15 month drought, it sure was nice to see a new episode. I thought the episode was really good and teased enough to make me start wondering what would happen this coming season. Even though the Sopranos is an hour long, and commercial free, it's such a goos how that the hour just seems to fly by. You feel like the show is just getting ramped up, and it ends and you have to wait a whole week to see what happens. I'm very proud to announce that I have a small role in the Sopranos this year. I play young up and comer Benny Fazio. Check me out :-) http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/benny_fazio.shtml
I haven't watched the premier of the Shield yet, but it sits on my Tivo waiting for me to press play. I hope to be able to catch it tomorrow night. I haven't seen the first season of the Shield, but I started watching about half way through season 2 and I am hooked. The show is so dark, and so well done it's hard to tune out. When I first started watching it, I really didn't want to get involved in another TV drama. I already spend enough time watching TV, do I really need to add another hour a week to my viewing schedule? Well after 1 episode I was so hooked. So many things happen in one episode and the story is always on the verge of being blown apart. There was one particular episode last season where the cops head down to Mexico and find a drug lord who is wanted for dozens of crimes in the US. They know if they wait for the Mexican government to extradite him, it could take months or even years. So they take a chance and grab the drug lord, drug him, tie him up and throw them in their trunk. Sounds easy right? Well when they get to the Mexican/US boarder the guards ask them to pop the trunk. Talk about a heart racing situation!!!
Are these shows violent? Sure. Chances are I wouldn't be so interested in them if they weren't. But behind the violence, there are lots of talented actors and writers. Should the FCC regulate the amount of violence on TV? FAHGETABOUTIT!!!!
I haven't watched the premier of the Shield yet, but it sits on my Tivo waiting for me to press play. I hope to be able to catch it tomorrow night. I haven't seen the first season of the Shield, but I started watching about half way through season 2 and I am hooked. The show is so dark, and so well done it's hard to tune out. When I first started watching it, I really didn't want to get involved in another TV drama. I already spend enough time watching TV, do I really need to add another hour a week to my viewing schedule? Well after 1 episode I was so hooked. So many things happen in one episode and the story is always on the verge of being blown apart. There was one particular episode last season where the cops head down to Mexico and find a drug lord who is wanted for dozens of crimes in the US. They know if they wait for the Mexican government to extradite him, it could take months or even years. So they take a chance and grab the drug lord, drug him, tie him up and throw them in their trunk. Sounds easy right? Well when they get to the Mexican/US boarder the guards ask them to pop the trunk. Talk about a heart racing situation!!!
Are these shows violent? Sure. Chances are I wouldn't be so interested in them if they weren't. But behind the violence, there are lots of talented actors and writers. Should the FCC regulate the amount of violence on TV? FAHGETABOUTIT!!!!
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