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The Perfect Follow-up?

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Lance on The Black Donnelys:

Note to Paul Haggis, Oscar winning director intent on ruining his reputation by producing a TV show so cliched and hackneyed it will make his Walker Texas Ranger days seem like a time of ferocious artistic integrity:

You are not excused for indulging in an ethnic stereotype just because you’ve acknowledged you’re indulging in an ethnic stereotype.

Five minutes into the first episode of The Black Donnellys tonight the Donnelly brothers get into a fistfight. In a bar. During a wake.

But just before all hell breaks loose, the narrator, a character named Joey Ice Cream, who is supposedly telling the story from his jail cell to a couple of cops, says something like, “The Irish are often stereotyped as drunks who like to get into fights. This is so unfair it makes you so mad that sometimes you just got to get drunk and punch somebody.”

I should have turned it off right then.

I didn’t see it, so I can’t judge its overall quality. But having characters justify the stalest cliches by pointing out the cliches? You can’t get a better replacement for Studio 60 than that!

Catherine Andrews and the rest of the flophouse think it’s horrible, although unlike Lance think it’s marginally better than Studio 60.

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