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Weekend In Review: The Good, The Bad, and the Globular - TVgasm

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Well, for most people another three day weekend has passed. If you were fortunate, that meant you spent the past few days drinking, sleeping, drinking, eating, and drinking again. But even in the midst of good ole weekend fun, there was TV to be had, and unfortunately, not much of it was spectacular. We had the frenetic, migraine-inducing Jonny Zero, some old fashioned "Dead Person's Remains In Your Face" on Desperate Housewives, a snooze-tastic Golden Globes show, and oh yeah, two missed field goals by the Jets (but we won't talk about that). Where to begin?

Jonny Zero: Here's a question. How can you tell something is urban on Fox? If you answered "shaky cameras", "jump cuts", or "grainy filters", you are correct! Such were the lessons learned on Fox's latest attempt to catch the gritty world of Da Streetz. Yes, "Jonny Zero" finally made its muscle-clad arrival Friday night, and after a brief bout of nausea brought on by an assault of edits, I was able to settle in and kind of enjoy this determinedly OK show. Unfortunately, the first episode seemed to borrow heavily from the Stephen Soderbergh school of obvious camera filters, but at least there weren't a bunch of pretentious, hyper kinetic camera movements to distract me from the action. Oh wait. There were. Sort of surprising, considering the director of the episode was none other than Mimi Leder, whose previous foray into gritty drama was über-schmaltzfest, "Pay It Forward." No word yet if Haley Joel Osment has any plans to pop up as a troubled youth ready to take on Jonny Zero (or is his name Calvo? I don't know. Nay, I don't care). Speaking of actors, the cast seems to have cornered the market on "G" celebrities as it stars Frankie G and some guy named GQ (I think he was the white guy in "Drumline"). I'm hopeful that Warren G., McG, or G. Gordon Liddy will join the cast in the imminent future, but I'm not holding my breath. Impressively enough, the show did feature a pleasant level of blood and violence, but if there's anything The OC has taught us, any edginess will soon be replaced with banter and Cotillions. I wouldn't be surprised to see Frankie G babbling about comic books and Death Cab for Cutie next week.


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