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Last night, two new TV shows premiered! Hell On Wheels and it is a gritty, violent western about the building of the railroad on AMC starring Common. The other is called The Heart She Holler, and it is a bonkers soap opera about Appalachian nightmare people starring Kristen Schaal and Patton Oswalt. And now they must FIGHT! Just kidding, shows. You don’t have to fight. Did you guys watch these shows? Personally, I thought Hell on Wheels was OK. At the very least it has potential. The guy who looks like Alcide on True Blood was pretty good, and the whole thing is kind of like an episode of that video game Red Dead Revolver. I was also pretty on board with the Bad Guy at the end giving a very-on-the-nose metaphorical speech about what this whole thing is going to be about while beautiful b-roll images of our new friends played in the background. But the real show to watch was The Heart She Holler. What on EARTH? It is made by the guys who made Wondershowzen, and it is NUTS. Some of it is a little gross. Does it have to be that gross? I guess it does. But also it is very funny and weird. Like, 70/30 but flip it. Weird/Funny. Also: Heather Lawless. Also: did I mention it’s nuts? DON’T YOU GUYS LOVE NEW TV SHOWS? We are about to have so many new adventures!
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I gave up on television after that Walking Dead shitshow. Fucking Carl. Fucking Andrea.
Sorry, I know this isn’t at all related to these two decent-looking shows but still. I need to vent.
i’m going to take pride in seeing how potentially awful Walking Dead was going to get and I’m glad I abandoned it when i did [20 minutes into the season 1 finale]
Well, Miles O’Brien is on Hell on Wheels, so even though I don’t plan to watch either of them I’m going to root for that one!
Wait, what about a show with a guy who looks like Alcide? I NEED NAMES. Names I can type into IMDB then
googlestalkgo back to my spreadsheet.Ok, I did some research and I think it’s the grizzled guy with piercing blue eyes that go right into my soul.
THE GRIZZLED GUY WHO WAS IN CROSSROADS WITH BRITNEY SPEARS.
If that’s what you think “grizzled” looks like, badidea, I’m afraid to see your conception of “soft-handed prettyboy.”
I think this counts as grizzled (and a reason to set up a series recording on my DVR):
I only posted the Crossroads pic because hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Crossroads.
Okay, that’s better. And by strange coincidence, the above photo is exactly how I imagine I look (hat, dust, and all). So it’s nice to see that’s what the ladies are into, LADIES.
So you live in my old neighborhood and read American Studies books… Huh.
I meant to add #nopervo but I totally ended up Hermain Caining you. Sorry.
Or was I? You want that job, right?
I think we have a kind of kismet, badidea, and I say that not even knowing exactly what “kismet” means. (Possibly it means something uber-perverted and now I will never be president despite my Studies of America.)
Well now it does. I’ve been Cained!
For the record, I immediately regretted posting that.
That’s horrifying… until you put it in the context of Herman Cain. Then it’s like the fourth most awful thing I’ve seen today.
That is actually the least horrifying image that comes up when you image-search “caning.”
Is that Mel Gibson’s Jesus?
I don’t have AMC or have any friends who have AMC but I was pretty pumped for Hell on Wheels. Was Hell on Wheels good? Should I crawl to some dark corner of the Internet and start streaming it? I’ll probably have to fill out a survey about penis size to watch it, so I want to make sure it’s worth my while.
Hell on Wheels was terrible. We just got through Walking Dead which was not good, and the opening to HoW was embarrassing, filled with Anachronisms and terrible writing “the Year was 1865 (or whatever) and Lincoln had just died. America was an open wound.” and then the dialogue was horrible and nobody talked like a real person, and then I turned my TV off. didn’t even make it 5 minutes in. So I would say definitely don’t bother. Watch Homeland instead. Homeland is a very good show.
What I mean is, the 5 minute intro to Hell on Wheels was worse compared to anything in the 45 minutes of Walking dead I had just sat through. I hope you understand what that is worth.
Sorry, I still wasn’t very clear: definitely don’t let this dissuade you from taking penis size surveys, I mean, look there’s only one way to get that information, and it’s surveys.
There’s only room in my heart for one fake horror comedy show.
Hey, noclevername here. Long time blah, first time blah blah.
Anyway, I kinda liked Hell on Wheels; I’m a sucker for a Western. One thing that was a little bit off-putting was that the show was trying to have its cake and eat it too with its hero, what with him fighting for the Confederacy but having freed his slaves before the war started. It just seems like the show was trying to drape him in some old-timey Lost Cause horseshit but not realistically examine the moral implications of that. I’d actually like to hear what other people think, in case I’m actually making a mountain out of a molehill.
nah, i mentioned that in the walking dead topic, it would’ve been interesting to follow a realistic southern slave owner having to adjust to post-civil war America and maybe coming to regret his lifestyle but i don’t think this show is going to deal with the slavery subject with any depth
**puts on a pretentious hat**
Well, I hate myself for it but I am a grad student getting my masters in American History, specifically Civil War era, and you are NOT wrong. I didn’t even try to watch this show because I read the description of the anti-hero and wanted to slap somebody. I can’t imagine the level of naivety and gullibility the show’s writers are imagining when they create such an obviously anachronistic, revisionist, modernized protagonist.
I once read (on Videogum? maybe) that it’s hard to get audiences to bond with historical characters because if they are written realistically, we have nothing in common with them. So that is why historical characters are always weirdly feminist or open-minded or progressive or racially aware. It’s idiotic but it’s the easy path and writers go for it.
This show could have been good if they’d actually tried to make us like / understand a Confederate soldier. Confederates were people too. Sometimes they had slaves. Usually they didn’t randomly free them just to advance some watery thin storyline. UGH.
**takes off stupid hat and stomps it into the ground**
Thanks for the responses to my comments. It seems especially weird in light of the fact that two of the other shows on AMC feature a drug-dealing murderer and a guy who’s basically a misogynist as protagonists; you’d think AMC would be willing to have a pro-slavery protagonist on this show.
I said actually twice in the last sentence. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
what channel is the heart she hollar program on?
I thought hell on wheels was hella lame. My box set of Deadwood dvds stood up and shouted: “Hell on Wheels … aint got nuthin’… ON ME!!!!”
It’s on Adult Swim. I literally don’t think it could be on any other station. I just watched it on my lunch break, it was good enough but not great.
I didn’t watch Hell on Wheels because I forget about AMC when Breaking Bad or Mad Men aren’t on.
Hey, Steve Winwood: this pertains to your interests:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/11/somehow-possibilities-seem-limitless.html
As a fan of all involved, I’m pleased to report that The Heart, She Holler is fucking horrible and borderline unwatchable. Hooray!
I guess you could say The Heart, She Holler is… unCommon. NOW WHERE DID I PUT MY BULLETS?
I wish we were talking about American Horror Story because that show is bonkers!
I can’t get anyone to watch this crazy show! For some reason my friends all think it sounds boring? No matter what you say about it, it is not boring. Unless dead pregnant college students, Mrs. Coach Taylor, and crazy scientists sewing dead babies back together using animal parts sounds boring. And I haven’t even mentioned Jessica Lange yet.
I KNOW. Nobody will watch it and discuss it with me. Sometimes my boyfriend is even in the room with me while I watch it and after it is over I will try to discuss how absolutely insane what we were just watching was and he will hold up a book dismissively.
I just need to talk about Tate’s deal with someone. Starting with his name being Tate.
Yeah, me neither. That’s why I go here after every episode to pretend that I just talked about it with someone: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/american-horror-story-10-questions-about-piggy-piggy/2011/11/09/gIQAhM2Z8M_blog.html
I watched two episodes and was completely bored. There’s nothing scary or horrific about it. It just tries to throw a bunch of weird shit at you (none of it original), and it does it at such a break-neck speed that none of it ends up having a real impact. The editing is infuriatingly bad, there is no tension or suspense or shock. It’s too bad, because I was really hoping for something creepy.
“The Heart She Holler”? More like “The Sleep I Fall Into Uncontrollably”
Just kidding, I haven’t watched it yet, nor read this article. I just thought this would be a hilarious comment. You’re welcome