Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Morning After: Enlightened: What Is This Show, Anyway? – TIME (blog)

HBO
There are plenty of reasons to critique some of the half-hour series on HBO and Showtime (Weeds, Hung, The Big C) but the critique I’ve never gotten, nor had much patience for, is: “It’s supposed to be comedy, but it’s not funny enough!”
I know that classifying things helps make sense of the world, and as a writer I am familiar with the problem that you have to call things something. But it’s at best arbitrary to decide that things that are a half-hour

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