It’s hard to please everybody. Went on RTÉ’s The View last night, talking about Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love at the Peacock Theatre; Martin Amis’s collection of essays prompted by 9/11, The Second Plane; the Oscar-winning Daniel Day Lewis starring, There Will Be Blood…; and, the best show on television — The Wire.
I was wonderng how The Wire fangroup over on Boards.ie would react to our review of the show. (Wire fans can be as obsessive and protective of the show as some people are of Barack Obama *cough*).
(Click the image to watch).
It’s hard to know how you come across on telly, but I was glad that we didn’t come across as too ill-informed…though I have to say i’m a bit puzzled about what exactly we were supposed to do to poor Nuala O’Faolain when she dissented about the show:
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Originally Posted by DeepBlue View PostJohn Kelly, Brian Keenan and Richard Delevan were clearly fans of the show and they should really have called her out.
Not something they would ever, ever condescend to do on The View. I saw the programme myself and thought her contribution on that part was odd but she did concede a dislike for it. Sometimes that’s just the way it goes however brilliant people think it is.
Now I just have to worry what the Martin Amis haters have to say about us going too soft on him…
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1 Piaras Kelly // Feb 27, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Would have thought more people would have been annoyed about one of the panelists spoiling the ending of There Will Be Blood. My flatmate tuned in to listen to the Wire discussion, but after the other discussion swore never to watch the show again
2 Richard // Feb 27, 2008 at 6:24 pm
God. Was that me? Wasn’t me, right? Forgot about it entirely.
3 Killian // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:12 pm
My lifetime media appearance ambition is to go on The View, I even know what my keyline for whatever film I was sent to see. “yes John….. I eh, I … admire the film and I felt it had a great sense of itself”.
But it has to be said with aching sincerity and followed with a piercing but vulnerable stare at one of your fellow guests, the cue for them to comment on your meaningless gospel.
Anyway missed the show. As for The Wire fans I thought you were refering to that fine 70/80’s punk band. Also fiercely obsessive bunch.
4 Sean P.Brady // Feb 28, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I missed the show but considering your own daytime profession, I would be interested to get your take on the Wire’s lowdown on the the media world.
I saw an advert in the form of an interview where he spelt out his view that unless there is a fully funded media and agressive media in the US the other so-called societal problems won’t be fixed.
Surely that’s as idealistically simplistic as saying: ‘if everyone could just love one another, blah, blah…’
The French have a top class media that focuses on policy and, until very recently, ignored personalised politics or tabloid nonsence. But France is a basket case of strikes, workers who wont work and ethnic dissent.
The US media are more than aggressive with their liberal libel laws compared to here or the UK and if anyone wants to buy a good-quality newspaper they can.
If people buy the Irish Sun and watch Coronation Street more than they watch the news, is that the media’s fault?
Myquestion is, is the Wire’s media focus misplaced and wrong-headed? (I hope this is the series you reviewed).
5 Sean P.Brady // Feb 28, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Ooops, the ‘he’ in the second paragraph is one of the writers of the Wire series.
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7 The View // Mar 31, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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