We’ve been keeping busy this week, but there are were a few things that slipped by us. For your summer weekend reading pleasure, here are some links we were talking about this week and didn’t get to cover.
1) CNN is airing another documentary, but this time about the seventies, according to MediaPost. The eight part series premiered last night. It’s a neat little package and people seem to not hate it. Series like this are akin to clickbait, it’s Twitter-bait. It’s a good way to get people talking on social media and watching your channel in the middle of summer, but its a little forced. Oh, did we mention that they have Spotify playlists with Wolf Blitzer’s “groovy” tunes?
Enjoyed the TV episode of #SeventiesCNN. Not deep, but lots of fun and some great clips & talking heads.
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— Joe Adalian (@TVMoJoe) June 12, 2015
2) Here’s some BBQ chatter for you this weekend: PornHub is crowdfunding a space program on Indiegogo (SFW). The video service is trying to make the first ever sex tape in space. And people are paying for it: they’ve already raised $14,000 in two days. 3) Speaking of summer television, if it’s not a nostalgic docu-series, what does make a good show? Margaret Lyons writes in Vulture about the qualities of a “dream summer show:”
Defining a dream summer show is more of an art than a science. Just because some DSS are on the fluffy side doesn’t mean all lighter shows are ideal summer series — the D in DSS signifies not only style but quality. Procedurals like Psych, Monk, Rizzoli & Isles, Drop Dead Diva, and evenSuits — summer premieres, all of them — lack the urgency to be a dream anything, and antihero detritus (Ray Donovan, Californication, Tyrant) is too inessential. And lest you think all DSS viewing needs to be summer-seeming, recall 1990’s exemplary summer series: Northern Exposure. Or 1991’s Sisters. They emphasize emotional potency, and both had a major eccentric streak. Surfboard not required.
So far, Orange is the New Black is holding its own, too.