Episode 204: A Trillion Dollar Idea
Posted by billsimmon on 13 Jan 2013 at 03:23 pm | Tagged as: episodes
Sorry this post is so late. We don’t have a show this week though (happy 20th anniversary, Steve & Eve!), so you can enjoy last week’s show instead!
Pre-show notes follow after the jump…
Original air date: 1/6/13
Total run time: 1:56:23
File size: 55.9 MB
H+ online series
Twin Peaks redux?
Fringe returns this week
Downton Abbey returns tonight
Looper
Cabin/Avengers/Joss
Bill finished World War Z
The terrible, terrible Hill Valley Telegraph
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Job numbers
* Not bad
* An economic recovery is on track, unless Congress screws it up
Capitol Hill
* Congress approves fiscal agreement
* One crisis ends, one begins
* Trillion-dollar platinum coins?
* The failed attempted coup against Boehner
The election Lindsey Graham might have missed
House GOP blocks Violence Against Women Act
Sandy funding
Delayed decision on filibuster reform
Obama and the 51% Club
SPSST
1. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
2. Marion Hammer, former NRA president
3. Bill O’Reilly, Fox News host
Examples of fictional movies with no central character would have to include a bunch of Altman movies (e.g. Nashville, A Wedding, Short Cuts). I feel like there are plenty of TV series with an ensemble that doesn’t have one clear main character, but it’s always possible to center a particular episode around a character. Like West Wing, of course. Bartlet has the most power on the show, but the decisions on the show are often made at levels below his pay grade.
When it comes to movies, at least ones going for significant audiences, Altman appears to be something of an oddity in that he can do this and make it work. Probably a couple Martin Scorsese movies as well–The Departed doesn’t really have a main character, which is one of its problems.