The sun doesn’t always shine on TV! As a matter of fact, as far as TV-series goes this season has been a huge disappointment. In particular when it comes to some of my favourite shows which have all fallen flat on their faces! First is “Californication” which you by now know how much I’ve loved and praised. When the third season kicked off it had all the necessary ingredients for a great season but unfortunately wasted every bit of it! In an unjustifiable manner. So much they could have capitalized on with the relations and intrigues yet nothing of the kind happened. The plot became banal and all the characters became parodies of their original selves. The show became a lame joke and lost that philosophical depth which put the comic side of it into balance. It was truly frustrating to watch it going on empty in an entire 12 episodes!
Next is “Crash” which’s second season basically went against everything that the first season had established. They miscalculatedly stripped it off all kinds of sexual tension that sharpened the edges of the intrigues compared to other series and lost many of the viewers. Halfway through the season they realized their culpa and attempted a damage-control by basically over-dosing it all with sex! But the sudden decontextualized sex just felt like fish-out-of-water and had the opposite effect on the viewers (even sex-addicts like me!lol). As the story was heading a thousand ways they ended it all with a premature wrap-up and forced closure which gave the title a whole new meaning and will most likely put the entire Crash franchise to eternal rest!
The third disappointment was the second season of the vampire-themed “True Blood“. It departed from the quality of the first season which managed to mix humor and horror in a balanced blend. The show lost nuance and its sex, just like Crash got entangled in a line that went slowly but surely to nowhere! It all ended with one of the wackiest and weakest cliff-hangers ever!
And finally was the brand new “Flashforward” which tried to tap on the whole “Lost” formula and even borrowed its title form the lost terminology. However lacking the solid structure that Lost benefits from the show got lost in its Lost imitation! Which means entangled in the mess of lose ends, much like the ill-fated “4400″. This show is also an example of the “orientalistic” ignorance which tragically still plagues Hollywood, the scene below is from the season finale which ironically revolved around a character played by Shohreh Aghdashloo, yet when Persian script was to be displayed and read it ended up in literally pure nonsense! Look at the background, don’t you recognize Persian …according to Hollywood?lol
