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I skipped watching a new show on Monday to watch Castle. Kind of a mistake. Castle seems to have lost every shred of originality that it once had. Wouldn't call it bad. Maybe I've just seen enough of it.
Last night I watched The Muppets with low expectations. The fact that they brought back The Muppet Show after all these years shows how short of new ideas this generation of entertainment executives are. The show wasn't at all bad. It just wasn't exceptionally good like the original. It did seriously miss the talents of Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Miss Piggy sounded fine, but most of the other characters were less distinctive than the old voices. The old show was a variety show. The new one is a sit-com for puppets, albeit puppet characters we are all familiar with. In the lead up to the show in the past few weeks, it was said that The Muppets is not a kids' show. Having seen it I have to disagree. It's certainly less mature than the original, less sly humor and inuendo, more slapstick. I think its big audience, if it can attract one,will be kids and younger adults who are too young to remember the original Muppet Show and who definitely need a break from the unrelenting moody comic-book based shows , moody police shows, moody teen shows and moody medical shows that seem to be all that the networks can come up with these days.
( Yogi )
Last night I watched The Muppets with low expectations. The fact that they brought back The Muppet Show after all these years shows how short of new ideas this generation of entertainment executives are. The show wasn't at all bad. It just wasn't exceptionally good like the original. It did seriously miss the talents of Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Miss Piggy sounded fine, but most of the other characters were less distinctive than the old voices. The old show was a variety show. The new one is a sit-com for puppets, albeit puppet characters we are all familiar with. In the lead up to the show in the past few weeks, it was said that The Muppets is not a kids' show. Having seen it I have to disagree. It's certainly less mature than the original, less sly humor and inuendo, more slapstick. I think its big audience, if it can attract one,will be kids and younger adults who are too young to remember the original Muppet Show and who definitely need a break from the unrelenting moody comic-book based shows , moody police shows, moody teen shows and moody medical shows that seem to be all that the networks can come up with these days.
( Yogi )