Anyone read TALK OF THE TOWN this week in the New Yorker?
There's a piece on the new season of Taxicab Confessions on HBO, the show where you the viewer get to experience, in the comfort of your own lazy ass, the many colorful taxicab riders New York city has to offer. You listen in on their perverse sex stories, their bitch sessions, their favorite time they killed a motherfucker, etc.
Anyway, the show's creator, Sheila Nevins, actually says "I think Shakespeare would have liked this show. He was a voyeur. He listened.รข€
On that note, some new programming ideas for HBO, take em or leave em:
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM will now be known as MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
THE CAPULETS
Poor Lord Capulet. When it comes to family business everyone's on his side but daughter Juliet, who wishes to escape the feudal nature of her father's dislike for true love Romeo. In this week's episode, Samson, servent of the Capulets puts the moves on Romeo unexpectedly at the construction site where they work. Will Romeo go through with Samson's advances, keep quiet, and attend the Mets game with him, or is this all gonna end with someone wacking someone before taking their own life?
RUSSEL SIMMONS PRESENTS DEM JAM SONNETS
Why you be frontin? Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war. How to divide the conquest of thy sight, bitch!
TITUS ANDROGYNOUS
War, sex, and transexuals. This is could be HBO at it's finest.
GIVE UP THE GHOST
In this weekly supernatural thriller, young haunted Hamlet joins beloved Ophelia on ghost hunts, each finding the ghost within themselves. In a unique twist in the pilot episode, Ophelia herself joins the ranks of the undead, only aiding to their ghost studies. Season two will follow the exploits of that wacky pair Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and series regulars, "the gravediggers," played by rap superstars Gravediggaz.
Tis not TV, Tis HBO
