Favorite of the month: The TV Set (2007)

Favorite of the month: The TV Set (2007)
What could be more fun than watching Sigourney Weaver as a stone-hearted bitch of a TV executive? How about the underrated David Duchovny as a compromised sitcom writer with Faulknerian delusions? This movie is a sneaky gem, a smart, scruffy painfully funny dressing down of the inside games people in the TV industry play. The best part about the movie is the way it refuses to pin down its characters. You’re never quite sure how much of Duchovny’s soul he is willing to sell, or how much of it Weaver would gladly eat in order to boost a Nielsen rating. The movie probably failed at the box office precisely because it refused to play by the rules it skewers.

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