Friday, August 22, 2008

Top 5 TV Shows about TV


This week's Filmspotting theme was movies about movies. Here are TV shows about TV.

1. Mary Tyler Moore Show. Mary Richards works for the Minneapolis news with all the characters you expect. The cranky drunken boss; the vain in-front-of-camera whoever; the bitter, probably gay guy; and slightly sane Mary, who we can all identify with. I mean, they really haven't had to change this formula much. It was perfect coming out of the gate.

2. 30 Rock. And Tina Fey has brought back MTM-perfect really well. This show is absurdly funny, with a loving but skewering take on the single-girl-in-the-TV-industry theme. (image magically from google).

3. Seinfeld. I really enjoyed the ongoing pilot-plot on Seinfeld. It's kind of insane to think about everything that spun off from those few episodes--most obviously Susan, but also all mocking Ted Danson is now a regular theme on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

4. The Office (UK). So I can't actually remember if the documentary crew documenting the office on The Office works for BBC or not, but I'm pretty sure it does. Ricky Gervais is a brilliant brilliant man. I wish reality tv was half as good as the Office in real life.

5. The Real World, San Francisco. And this is the only reality tv that comes close to half as good as the Office. Okay it definitely better than half as good. Puck is of course memorable, Pedro is heartbreaking, and the other castmates seemed to be living legitimate lives, something not seen on reality tv in the many years since.

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