Bored to Death a fitting name
by Oline H. Cogdill
September 30th, 2009I try to give TV shows a couple of viewings before I decide whether I like them or not.
I’ll be the first to admit that my initial response to ABC’s Castle was wrong. I didn’t like the first few episodes I saw.
Oh sure, Nathan Fillion was just as cute as could be, but the show just didn’t grab me. But about Castle‘s fourth episode, I had a sea change and began to like this light drama about a mystery writer who helps the NYPD. (And how cool was Michael Connelly’s guest appearance in the season opener?)
Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis. HBO photo
I doubt I’ll change my mind about the new HBO series Bored to Death, even if Michael Connelly would make an appearance. (No, he’s not.) It airs at 9:30 p.m. Sundays on HBO with frequent encores.
Bored to Death has been …well….boring.
This comedy about Jonathan Ames, a Brooklyn writer who can’t write his second novel. His girlfriend just left him; he drinks too much and runs around too much with his magazine editor who smokes too much pot.
It’s all too much
Because he can’t face reality, Jonathan moonlights as an unlicensed private detective so he pretend to be one of the heroes he loves from classic detective novels.
Couldn’t he have just wrote to DorothyL about the character he’d like to be for a day and be done with it?
Jason Schwartzman is charming as the lost Jonathan. Ted Danson is wonderfully smarmy as the insecure pot-smoking editor who seems to think that because Jonathan works for him the writer also is being paid to be his friend. And the HBO execs must be cheering that they landed Zach Galifianakis as Jonathan’s friend Ray Hueston, a comic book illustrator. Galifianakis showed his comedy chops in last summer’s The Hangover and he is quite funny in Bored to Death.
Despite the good cast, Bored to Death doesn’t rise above a mediocre comedy. It doesn’t capture the heart of private detective novels and it just isn’t funny. HBO has a much better track record than this for original series that grab viewers. Think The Wire, Entourage and a dozen other HBO series.
Bored to Death is on opposite Dexter, which begins at 9 p.m. Sundays on Showtime. Even with Dexter’s frequent encores, there’s no contest.
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