Shut Up It's On

The final two episodes of the fourth series of The IT Crowd were funny. Haha and such. All apologies for the long delay. Read more…

No follow-up story on Douglas’ new robot hand. Very disappointing. Read more…

When the days of my senior year of high school were winding down I had one of five conversations I ever had with an acquaintance of mine whose name is 83 percent likely to have been Rob. I do not at all remember what the topic of conversation was, but we were most definitely at one point walking side by side on the sixth floor, and he absolutely said that I was most likely in our graduating class to start a cult. It’s been nine years and I still don’t know whether it was an insult, a compliment, or just a strange observation.

Whatever the case, I have yet to start a cult, despite writing on this website for eight months now. Bummer City. In the meantime, I guess I can enjoy myself watching Douglas Reynholm’s diving into a cult’s rabbit hole of crazy. Read more…

So England: what’s up with them? They’re a lot like the United States, with them speaking English, their children being overweight and losing in the World Cup and all. The only difference seems to be that there’s a ton more fog, warm beer and cool accents. That and they take more offense to jokes about their soccer team. So sorry about that.

Anyway, they also know how to do television, with the standard being six episodes of a series (season). If you’re good and you get ratings, you come back with another series if the showrunner chooses to*. “Quality over quantity” is on the British television family crest, the perfect example of this being the original and superior The Office which aired in Britain with two series of six episodes each. The IT Crowd is another good example, enjoying a very high quality batting average with only having three six episode seasons. The show is about the weird dudes and dudettes at the I.T. department at your work place. Roy is an Irish techie who is normal/lazy considering his job, Moss is very weird and Jen is their boss who isn’t a techie but seems to be about as graceful as a stereotypical one. At its finest the show is the perfect blend of wit and sillyness. Last Friday I was pleasantly surprised to find that the fourth season premiere ran. And now I’m going to write about what happened, because that’s what we always do here and change scares me.

*Two notable showrunners that decided to end their funny shows after two seasons: Ricky Gervais and Simon Pegg
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