I don’t like this show. I tried, but I just don’t feel the love.
I have heard through the grapevine (TV industry insiders I trust) that HBO has hired people to “seed” the web with positive spin about this show. Bloggers and blog-commenters are coming from out of NOWHERE to proclaim their undying love for this (mediocre and confusing) television program.
Unfortunately, they keep coming here to leave comments on my blog entry. Unfortunately those comments are largely inane. (”This show blows Deadwood “out of the water”. ) Unfortunately, they are often insulting.
Wow, I can see why your writing reviews and David Milch is writing TV shows. Two episodes and I’m hooked. I love been taken places I’ve never been before and I love the anticipation of not already knowing what is going to happen next. I’m with BK, its a show that keeps creeping back into your mind, bits at a time. I’m just sorry I aready erased the first episode from my PVR>
Fellow, I can see why “your” writing blog comments. Two episodes and you’re hooked? So, I guess in that way JfC is not unlike Crystal Meth. Nice.
There are a lot of places I’ve never been before. Dirty junkie dens in abandoned motels being one of those places. There’s a reason I’ve never been, friend.
Anyway, I just wanted to politely ask those of you who are on this kamikaze mission to justify JfC to take it elsewhere. Thanks.
Blows Deadwood out of the water? Really? What ARE you smoking?
That show does absolutely nothing for me, and I love Ed O’Neill to an unreasonable degree.
I think you are being a bit too harsh. I think that many who like JFC are searching to get intrepretations from others on the web since it is so unlike anything else out there. Every episode can be up to the intrepretation of the viewer and it is only natural for those who like it to seek other viewpoints.
A suggestion: Maybe you ought to flag your pages in the robots.txt if you don’t want people to find and be compelled to comment on your JFC posts. Google is currently giving your JFC posts a lot of love.
I think you are being a bit too harsh
Maybe I’m reacting harshly to the criticisms of my writing from strangers. Sorry about that.
Google is currently giving your JFC posts a lot of love.
That’s a shame, because while my blog is fairly high-ranking, it’s NOT a JfC blog. (obviously.)
That DOES explain, though, why the comments are trickling in on a weeks-old post.
I like the show ~~ I don’t know if it is as good as Deadwood because I never watched Deadwood. In my defence, though, I haven’t had HBO for all that long, so I’ve only seen like two episodes of Deadwood, and I didn’t know what was going on. Although, I did like the scene where two guys got into a fight and one put the other guy’s eye out ~~ that was pretty cool!
Slow, weak, and tepid. Deadwood was a masterpiece compared to this.
I tried to watch a couple of episodes, and I just don’t get it. Granted, I’m pretty dense at times, but still - it’s just a bizarre show. It was somewhat akin to watching paint dry, but I was determined to at least give it a chance.
I tried…I really tried to like this show. And it’s a shame because they are wasting what should be a breakout performance by Austin Nichols in the title role.
I watched my first episode tonight. I couldn’t figure it out. Is there no hope for me since I missed the first few episodes?
If you read the episode guides on HBO.com it will help you catch up.
http://www.hbo.com/johnfromcincinnati/episodes/season1/episode1.html
Inside the Episode articles will point out things one probably misses on the first viewing
http://www.hbo.com/johnfromcincinnati/inside/season1/episode01.html
It’s Milch at his finest, everything has a purpose and meaning. That said, it is not a show for everyone. If you want to sit back and have everything spoon fed to you, John from Cincinnati is not the show for you.
Jonah Platt captured it best when he says:
–QUOTE–
If a bunch of people who are used to looking at Andy Warhol pop art renditions of Marilyn Monroe take their first look at a Jackson Pollock drip painting, they might respond with similar confusion, boredom, indignation, or disinterest. But for true lovers of art, who take the time to understand the Pollock painting and accept it on its own terms, there is a wealth of enjoyment to be had in patient viewing of this messy, unique canvas.
Which is to say that John From Cincinnati is without a doubt worth your time, if you’re willing to accept the show on its own terms without trying to force it within the confines of your usual television expectations. The beauty of serialized television is that the resolution is not supposed to be instantly provided on a silver platter at the end of each episode.
–END QUOTE–
in his blog entry http://mediamm.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/another-show-you-should-be-watching-but-arent-john-from-cincinnati/
If you want to sit back and have everything spoon fed to you, John from Cincinnati is not the show for you.
This is exactly why I don’t like these comments. (whaa! poor me!)
Seriously.
I am not stupid person nor a lazy thinker. My dislike of JFC has nothing to do with me sitting at home Forrest Gumping my way through Baby Einstein videos. It has everything to do with me thinking that David Milch spent a lot of years high and a lot more years being told by a handful of starry-eyeds that he’s some type of revelatory writer of genius. So he’s combined the sensibility of a heroin romantic with a midlife desire to protect his rep by churning out pages of goofcake with just enough carny mysticism to make people go “ooh aaah” and think he’s still a genius.
No offense was intended, you shouldn’t read into the comments that I believe one has to be stupid or lazy not to like the show. One can certainly be a smart thinking viewer and still dislike JFC. But if one is looking for a show to sit down and escape for an hour and just be entertained it is definately not the show for you. It does require effort to figure out what is going on. I’m not sure why you would disagree w/that.
John, thanks for the tip. I’ll check them out and see if it starts to make sense.
Did you know that the original cast for JFC included Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte and Ed Harris? They walked off the set together shooting the first episode…
John is an Alien.
I like the show alot myself,(not as much as Deadwood) but the thing I don’t understand is why anyone would be angry at someone else not liking it it. I mean I knew from the first ep that I liked it and that lots of people probably wouldn’t dig that type of thing. And there’s nothing wrong with that. People should just chill.