Word: zeitgeist
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...make a date with your couch to view the pilot? Of course you didn’t. And you probably missed the new-show bandwagon last season, too. But it’s not too late to catch a front row seat to this season’s televised zeitgeist!Here are five shows that are each only one season old, so you can still get in on the ground floor. To help gauge your priorities, we’ve given each one a “Public Scorn Index”—the likelihood that your peers...
...Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the Brit TV comedy-writing duo who both turned 70 this year, the movie constructs six characters in search of the '60s Zeitgeist: the Liverpudlian Jude (Jim Sturgess), his American girlfriend Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), Lucy's rebellious brother Max (Joe Anderson), the Janis Joplin-like Sadie (Dana Fuchs), the Jimi Hendrix-ish JoJo (Martin Luther McCoy) and the Asian, vaguely Yokonian, finally lesbian Prudence (T.V. Carpio). They come together in New York City and manage to get involved in or affected by most of the decade's Big Movements: student unrest...
...than a dozen films that grossed at least $100 million in North America, and usually much more worldwide, but his high price tag and off-putting offscreen antics led Paramount, his home studio, to sever relations last year. In addition to the dearth of action stars, there's the zeitgeist to contend with: in internationally edgy times, intimate comedy gives an audience more comfort than blow-up-the-world melodrama. So it's out with the musclemen, in with the funnymen...
...right now, for Judd Apatow's slacker romantic comedy, it's beginning to smell a lot like Zeitgeist. (Which in this case has underodors of bong smoke and turd jokes.) Maureen Dowd, the New York Times' ageless arbiter of sexual politics, weighed in with a column on the movie. So did just about everyone who writes for The Huffington Post. Yesterday I received a promotion for a 1982 Eastern European art film that the publicist ID'd as "'Knocked Up,' Polish style." And there's the lawsuit from the author of a humorous memoir called Knocked Up: Confessions...
...only fuels the antiviolence Zeitgeist that 24 has become not only a poster show for gore but also a bte noire of Iraq-war opponents, who say that it rationalizes state brutality. They seized on a New Yorker article in which Army officers complained that West Point students cited 24 as an argument for torture. (G.O.P. Senator John McCain, a 24 fan, has made the same criticism...