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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
David Milch should get back in the game.
I loved DEADWOOD. Absolutely adored every cocksucking second of it. I loved the characters, the tone, the look, the direction, the sense of time and place. And when HBO and/or David Milch pulled the plug (I’ve read differing accounts of what went down) a year before the story should have ended, it felt like a betrayal, and as a result, I refused to tune in to Milch’s follow-up series, JOHN OF CINCINNATI. I didn’t read about it. I didn’t watch it. I ignored it completely out of spite.
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“John From Cincinnati” has left the planet.
HBO execs said Monday the channel will not order a second season of the supernatural David Milch drama, whose first season concluded Sunday.
(HBO’s announcement, of course, contradicts talkbacker “AnimalStructure,” who has insisted in several “Cincinnati” talkbacks that HBO secretly ordered “Cincinnati’s” second season when it ordered season one. “AnimalStructure” also claims friends of his are already gearing up to shoot season two in Imperial Beach this autumn.)
Milch, who also created HBO’s “Deadwood,” is said to be developing other projects for the channel.
There’s no word on whether the two oft-discussed “Deadwood” TV-movies will ever actually go into production.
HBO’s less-expensive Sunday-night freshman, “Flight of the Conchords,” has not yet received a second-season order.
Jesus Christ Jesus Christ!!
Read all of the Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Last week brought a “John From Cincinnati” in which the title character did not appear!
HBO says:
Episode #10: "His Visit: Day Nine" (season finale)
Debut: SUNDAY, AUG. 12
Butchie (Brian Van Holt) and Kai (Keala Kennelly) wake up to a joyous revelation; Imperial Beach plays host to a makeshift parade organized by a revamped Stinkweed. Written by Zach Whedon; directed by Dan Minahan.
A reader writes:
I read your JFC post and you said: "Say. What's with that circle of chain-link John Monad keeps staring at?"
I read this over at TivoCommunity.com:
Actually, that thing is called a Circular Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA). My husband recognized it from his time in the Navy when they first showed it several episodes ago. It was part of the Imperial Beach Naval Security Group Command, which is no longer active. It is a large circular antenna array used by the military to triangulate radio signals for radio navigation, intelligence gathering and search and rescue.
Below are some pictures and explanations of what it does. Personally, I find it extremely fascinating that the show is making use of something like this.
Cheryl
photo of antenna array
http://www.navycthistory.com/IB_JackSmith_1.html
CDAA = circular diposed antenna array
Nicknames - elephant cage, wullenweber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber
Purpose - High Frequency Direction Finding - detecting particular radio signals.
http://www.navycthistory.com/Imperial_beach_intro.html
local.live.com has a great overhead view of the one in IB.
If you zoom out, you can see it is right down the street from the El Camino Motel, where the Snug Harbor scenes are shot.
Dennis
CloverfieldClues.com
Is this a season finale or a series finale?
The two top HBO execs said at the channel’s Television Critics Association presentation several weeks ago that “Cincinnati” had not yet received an order for a second season, but talkbacker “AnimalStructure” keeps telling us some friends of his are already preparing to shoot season two this autumn.
9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.
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Say. What's with that circle of chain-link John Monad keeps staring at?
HBO has sent along loglines for the final two episodes:
Episode #9: "His Visit: Day Eight"
Debut: SUNDAY, AUG. 5
Attempting to conjure some courage, Mitch (Bruce Greenwood) tracks down a reclusive "chemist" in Mexico; Cissy (Rebecca De Mornay) heads up a citywide search team; Bill (Ed O'Neill) loses his feathered medium; Palaka's (Paul Ben-Victor) good-luck gift to Freddy (Dayton Callie) ends up with Barry (Matt Winston). Written by Wayne Loren Wilson; directed by Adam Davidson.
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“I don’t know what it’s about. I don’t know the bottom line,” “John From Cincinnati” mastermind David Milch told Craig Ferguson Thursday night. “But if God were trying to reach out to us, and if he felt a certain urgency about it: That’s what it’s about.”
Milch, who attended Yale with the president, also says he’s never surfed. “If God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something, the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.”
Will there be more “Deadwood”? “One hopes,” Milch told Ferguson and his CBS late-night audience. “It’s kind of a fluid situation over [at HBO] right now.”
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What’s doing with the wedding-day edition of “John From Cincinnati,” the best show on pay cable at the moment?
More miracles this week.
Cass, in her expensive hotel room, chugs from the minibar.
Shaunie has mommy porno.
Cass is offered a return to Linc’s payroll.
John Monad arranges a sitdown with ex-cop Bill Jacks and ganja-loving Vietnam Joe. “He’s imitating my wife! Who has passed!”
Cass makes music with a lid.
The motel pool is scrubbed. Dr. Smith happens by. “How would you be, drowning in lowlifes?” “A lot of quick healers in this zip code.” “Excuse me, I gotta clean the four.”
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With the first four episodes of “John From Cincinnati” behind us, we’re about one third of the season in. It is time to check in with viewers.
What did the talkbackers say beneath our last JfC post? The reaction to the first episode was not overwhelmingly positive!
“eppdude” said:
FUCK this show. and fuck David Milch - the cocksucker. Choosing to go with a surfing show over DEADWOOD? It's fucking unforgivable.
“Mel Garga” said:
… sometimes a turd is just a turd no matter whose overrated ass it came from. We're expected to have patience enough to wait for this show to find itself?
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It’s a supernatural comedy-drama, from “Deadwood” mastermind David Milch, about an exceedingly strange young man named John Monad who may secretly be Jesus or Starman or something. When he gets involved with a Southern California surfing dynasty, exciting levitation and resurrection ensue. Bruce Greenwood and Rebecca De Mornay play the grandparents of a teen. This serves as a bracing reminder that “St. Elsewhere” and “Risky Business” came along more than two decades ago. Others in the cast include the great Ed O’Neill and Luke Perry.
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