Quick hits:
American Horror Story: It is so cheesy, but so good. I literally tried to explain what it was about to my wife’s best friend and my description of the plot was like something out of an 8 year old’s mouth. There’s this house and its haunted. There are ghosts, but you don’t know what the ghosts are at the beginning. There’s this maid who is a ghost, but they don’t know she’s a ghost and she looks both young and old. Oh and there’s other dead people too and they can’t leave the house and there’s this thing with babies and Satan and the black Dalia and murals and gazebos and cheating... It was agreed it was more fun to have me try and explain it then to actually watch it. I kept on saying it was all very clear when you were watching. In retrospect it probably wasn’t. But it was good scary fun.
Louie Season 2: This is my new favorite show. Louie C.K. basically said to FX give me way less than other people get for a show. But – here’s the caveat... I get to give you the show and you don’t get to change anything. The result is a very personal show that when it works is amazing. It reminds very much of Woody Allen at times in that it is very surreal. Plus the stand up is awesome in the show. This show is a can’t miss.
AWSIP7: Solid. Never fails to make me laugh. I appreciated that Mac actually gained 50-60 pounds just so his character could gain “mass”. That is commitment.
Now I am back to Deadwood Season 2 which I abandoned mid watch to watch these. Something about Deadwood is making hard for me to finish. It is good, but it is uninteresting. Except for Wu. He is the best. Wu is literally the head Asian in an old west town on the lawless frontier sometime in the past (the fact that I can’t even give you a decade shows you that I am not your phone a friend when it comes to history).
Wu works as a butcher of pigs and has a relationship with the saloon owner (Al Sweringer) where he literally serves as the disposal outlet for the dead bodies that pile up at the saloon. They are fed to Wu’s pigs. The awesome thing about Wu is he actively tries to communicate with Sweringer about what is going on in the camp when he learns information about what people are planning. The only English words he knows are Sweringer, Wu and Cocksucker. The scenes between the two are hilarious because both earnestly try to communicate but often there are misunderstandings.
One such misunderstanding has to do with Sweringer trying to understand why there are suddenly other Asians in the camp (they are working for a rival saloon owner). Wu knows they are there, but can’t communicate it to Sweringer very well. Sweringer wants to understand what “juice” the Asian has (i.e. what backing he has). Wu thinks he means Jews and hijinks ensue. The scene might be one of the more offensive scenes on TV as it simultaneously offends both Asians, Jews and I guess women (as I think one of the people being eaten by the pigs is a whore who was killed for no reason). That being said this was America circa I don’t know (see above). I imagine that this level of racism is probably historically accurate.
It does remind me of my interactions with my some of my wife’s family. My wife’s grandparents consists of me smiling waving and them saying Tiiiiiiiiiiim and nodding. Evidently my name sounds like “wealthy” which is good luck and the totality of our communication. I sometimes broaden our communication by naming dim sum items in Chinese.
I sometimes wish that I had a need to communicate with them like Wu and Sweringer have because then we would get to know each other better.
I would also learn whether the barbecued pork they bring for dinner comes from man-eating pigs.
Maybe ignorance is bliss.
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