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Corporate thinking

posted 10 years ago by xstrym
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I enjoyed the fact that Kee RUINED all of those billable hours for his new firm! They were sooo pissed and since it was a combo of miscommunications and low expectations... Kee is clean! I hope that it becomes more of a habit in the writing to keep finding ways to punish them for hiring him! And I hope he gets some dirt on that VP, whatshisname, "Bob" Robert Ebell!

Not only will he then continue on with the reasons why this show is so good, but in the words of Tyler Durden's kindly alter-ego, "Now we have corporate sponsorship"!! Ben will NEVER condemn his friend, plus he doesn't like "Bob" anyway, so that avenue is wide-open, too. I loved Kee's reactions to the news, "I WON YOUR CASE!" Duhhhh!

This is how a lot of corps make their money... and it's sickening. I have been involved in a great deal of these schemes while working for corps and they work fundamentally the way it was portrayed in the ep. Kee being the 'little guy' in his previous type of practice, I can see him being very tuned in to this kind of horsesh!t and taking strides to tear them down a couple pegs here and there. Do I want him to Erin Brockovich the joint? Nyah, nothing that revolutionary, but Kee's favorite subject is Kee. He is constantly behind the eight ball with some seedy underbellied figure and money will always be his issue, even if he did have a recent upturn. However, he still has a heart when it comes to the 'little guy', which is why he is still likable even with all of his misguided eccentricities.

I just hope that he uses his new gig as a stepping stone to even greater levels of debauchery at the expense of his new corporate limo service and credit card! Ben will get mad about it eventually, but that is a lonnnnng rope that Kee has use of, and it will be awhile before he starts to feel the constriction.

I have seen many Greg Kinnear projects and it's a real treat to see him on a weekly basis. Dear God, As Good as It Gets, Ghost Town, Stuck on You, What Planet Are You From?, etc. rate right up there on my personal Top 50.

Hope this show goes the distance, if nothing more than to show those southern hemisphered, exiled brits that even though they gave us that useless 2004 Holden GTO (that ended up killing a major US auto manufacturer!) that we can take one of their hit shows and make it even better!!! USA USA USA USA USA

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[–] OccamsBarber 10 years ago

In most foreign countries there is less impediment between the creative process and the final product. Between the Network Hive Mind, fear of sponsorship backlash, public protest groups and FCC regulation it is nearly impossible to turn out anything but an homogenized product. The pay channel route and a few networks with balls like AMC are about the only routes that a US remake has a chance at being as good or better than the foreign original. There are of course one or two exceptions that mostly succeeded because the original material itself while being clever was within the realm of the completely non-threatening.

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"That was the year of the gas leak, but I won't use that as an excuse."

[–] sluggr-2 10 years ago

It is with a bit of sadness that I accept the Rake AU will air its last episode tomorrow. 24 hours of pure genius in writing and acting. I have enjoyed the US episodes which weren't based on the AU episodes, although for some reason last nights was similar to something I think was lifted from Ray Donovan about a gay actor needing heterosexual cred to stay viable. In addition to needing to be on a network which allows more risque material, the US characters aren't nearly as intertwined in their personal pathology.

And of course, missing from last night, which was partially based on an AU episode, Keegan (Cleaver) had done something good, but was then upstaged by Harry, sorry David Potter getting shot breaking up a robbery. And then to add insult to injury, the paper reported that Cleaver was a barrista, not a barrister on page 6, below the fold of a story about a woman who was attacked in a posh neighborhood. He then went on to rant about these great injustices at every opportunity. That is something else the US version is missing, the 2-3 minute rants about all things petty.

"I think my percentage of Chimp DNA is higher than others" Cleaver Greene