Quick thoughts from HBO’s Sunday night line-up… Sex and the City: wow. New love interest for Carrie? Mikhail Baryshnikov, no less. Miranda and Steve back together, good. Though I’ll miss the hottie factor provided by Robert (Blair Underwood); there’s still Smith, I suppose. Yum. (Forgive me for using the word “hottie” in an otherwise respectable blog.) Interesting twist for Charlotte, with her miscarriage and all. I felt so bad for her. Oh, and there’s Samantha and her bush, oh my. (What was that about respectability?) So yeah, now we wait until January for the next new episodes. Grr. By the way, when is Six Feet Under coming back? Anyone?
I passed on Carnivàle, but will be TiVo-ing the premiere when it repeats. Any thoughts out there from those who caught it? K Street: eh. Just not compelling. It’s supposed to have a documentary feel, but it just felt like watching so many reels of investigative reporting footage. Boring. I guess there’s a niche for this stuff; I’m not just in it.
In other programming, from last night’s Queer Eye, our grooming guru, Kyan, is rummaging through the bathroom and seems to take issue with straight guy Tom’s blow dryer. Tom gets playfully defensive: “It blows good.”
Kyan doesn’t miss a beat. “Listen, I know all about good blow jobs. This isn’t it.” (Okay, fine, the aforementioned blog respectability is out the window.)
Later on, as the Fab Five are watching from their loft lair, Carson says, “He looks like a poor man’s David Hasselhoff. Not that that’s bad, because before he looked like a poor man’s Charo.” Ha. And oh my god, that shirt that Jai is wearing—sleeveless with the orange and gray “coiffeur” design on the front, and patchwork on the back—I have that! It’s by Custo Barcelona.
Speaking of design cuties, Nate Berkus—the search string which still provides the majority of Google referrals to this website, by the way—will be on today’s Oprah show, to redecorate Oprah’s office. Judging from the photos on the website, it looks amazing. Her wardrobe area looks like a store. I want that!
Lastly, the Emmys will be telecast this Sunday night. I was just looking over some of the nominees, and I’m wondering, is there any logic to the “Reality/Competition” category? They have two documentaries (both centennial in nature, it seems: AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Passions and 100 Years of Hope and Humor) grouped together with three game shows (The Amazing Race, American Idol, and Survivor). Why the former didn’t belong in the clearly designated “non-fiction” categories, I have no idea. Let’s go to the rules, a 111-page document that I would warn against reading unless one has nothing better to do. Apparently, I do not.
Reality/Competition Program includes all game shows or any program that gives a prize or is itself a contest and/or competition. Additionally, this area includes so-called special class programming, e.g., programming that does not fit into any other category or area and programming that has potential eligibility in more than one category or area.
Huh? Yeah, it’s as convoluted as I’d imagined.