Anybody want to talk about The Black Donnellys? (ducking)

POSTED BY: Grizwald
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 00:56
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GRIZWALD

Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:58 AM

I know it's nothing close to scifi, but I bet there are others like me who got started on it because it was after Heroes. I am really stuck on this show. I call it Mommy's Soap Opera.

I wish they could use the same storytelling gimmicks for a more positive show. I have such a sense of doom about the whole thing. You know these people are just screwing up their lives.

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MISSTRESSAHARA

Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:54 AM

8:00 comes..... I place my butt in my chair, click on the tv and get lost for an hour on my Heroes and all their crazy antics. 9:00 comes, I turn off the tv and go straight to the Heroes forums online.

Maybe someone else will come along and discuss. Btw, no need to duck, we all have our likes and dislikes. Makes us human.

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What do you mean I have to wait
4 fricken weeks for Heroes?

GINOBIFFARONI

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:12 AM

I love that show

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:18 AM

I don’t watch it, but with the season finale of Rome, I’m looking for a new show to take its place. I only watch a set number of shows every week. I hadn’t really considered the Black Donnelley’s since it seems like a show about a bunch of drunk Irishmen, sort of playing off the same kinds of stereotypes that the Sopranos does. Doesn't look like something that would appeal to me, on the surface anyway, but if someone made a strong enough case for it, I might give it a try.

Now Rome, that was an awesome show. I couldn’t get enough of it.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:23 AM

This show is great!

My one prediction:

All of this is compeletely fabricated by Johnny Icecream. Maybe he knew four brothers growing up, but none of this stuff ever happened. He's a pathological liar.

The reason I think this is because in the first episode when the FEDs are asking about the bodies, and he's through telling them about how the Donnelly's killed the Italian and Irish bosses and the italian goons, he tells the FEDs he didn't know what happened to the bodies. He said the Italians must have cleaned them up.

Then, in about the 3rd or 4th episode, the entire story is centered around the funerals of the Irish and Italian bosses, who supposedly the italians had just cleaned up.

This isn't very noticible when you're watching the show in 1 hour blocks, but he's lying about this story as if he were writing a 1 hour TV show which reset itself at the end of each episode. I don't consider this a flaw of the show... just another hint that Johnny is completely full of crap and lives his life that way.

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ILUVYOSAFFBRIDGE

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:41 AM

I'd rather be watching Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip at that time, but it seems that NBC isn't really giving me the option. I'm afraid I haven't given Black Donnely's a chance just for that reason.

ETHAN

Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:25 AM

This is a really good show with really interesting characters in absorbing situations. Real and not gimmicky slick like the Matt Perry/Sorkin show. I'm super picky about the time I give up to the boob tube-so I'm very much surprised when a show wins me over like this one has. It also doesn't hurt that Olivia Fox is super hot in a 'older sister version of Summer Glau' kind of way.

ZEROKIRYU

Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:25 AM

"Studio 60" and "The Black Donnellys" are both very good shows with good writing.

But their ratings aren't great,people aren't giving these shows the time of day.

Pretty soon they'll both end up like "Firefly" and "Tru Calling".

While crap like "According to Jim" is still around.

Is there no justice in the world.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:31 AM

Hey! Give Jim a break. He was the man in "El Principal"!!!!

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

ZEROKIRYU

Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:52 AM

Well, would you rather have "Firefly" or "According to Jim".

If you put "Jim" up against most of the cancelled shows you'll find most of them are better.

And I wasn't putting down Jim just his show, it's not funny.

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