Thursday, September 08, 2005
LAX
watched first episode of LAX (starring Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood) last nite.
thought it pretty cool - the net disagrees
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/9863/index.html
... LAX (Mondays; 10 to 11 p.m.) you’d think would be surefire. Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood each want to run an international airport, but between drunken pilots who want to go back to the Balkans, illegal immigrants from the Philippines, and missing children and runaway dogs and a drug bust and a bomb scare, they must learn to share, with Heather in charge of the runways and Blair the baggage carousels—Miss Outside and Mister Inside. Meanwhile, all around them, human-interest stories are contagious and ought to be quarantined. The problem is that we are told that we are having fun instead of our having fun without being told.
http://www.popmatters.com/tv/reviews/l/lax-2004.shtml
The pressing story for LAX is exactly this: how a major airport conducts business. It might be funny, darkly satirical, maybe surreal, even campy (again, the Locklear factor). In any shape that's not so blandly conventional as this series, it's hard to imagine a more compelling subject these days, or a more alarming one.
http://tvmegasite.net/prime/reviews/2004/lax.shtml
http://www.chucklehound.com/reviews/102.html
thought it pretty cool - the net disagrees
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/9863/index.html
... LAX (Mondays; 10 to 11 p.m.) you’d think would be surefire. Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood each want to run an international airport, but between drunken pilots who want to go back to the Balkans, illegal immigrants from the Philippines, and missing children and runaway dogs and a drug bust and a bomb scare, they must learn to share, with Heather in charge of the runways and Blair the baggage carousels—Miss Outside and Mister Inside. Meanwhile, all around them, human-interest stories are contagious and ought to be quarantined. The problem is that we are told that we are having fun instead of our having fun without being told.
http://www.popmatters.com/tv/reviews/l/lax-2004.shtml
The pressing story for LAX is exactly this: how a major airport conducts business. It might be funny, darkly satirical, maybe surreal, even campy (again, the Locklear factor). In any shape that's not so blandly conventional as this series, it's hard to imagine a more compelling subject these days, or a more alarming one.
http://tvmegasite.net/prime/reviews/2004/lax.shtml
http://www.chucklehound.com/reviews/102.html
// posted by werner @ 10:34:00 am 
