Venture BrothersThe best and most conventional show on Adult Swim these days has animation and jokes so stellar that everyone loves it. But, like all Adult Swim shows, full enjoyment presupposes comprehension of its intricate intertextuality.
Metalocalypse
Metalocalypse
The "brutal" facade belies the true theme of bourgeois boredom. A bunch of guys sitting around getting everything they want, hating each other and not doing anything about it sounds like internet culture to me. The animation isn't that great, but some of the design was clearly well thought out and visually stunning.
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
I'll admit that though I'm a public access maven, I didn't really get this show for a long, long time. The most recent season might have been substantially better than prior ones, but regardless, it resonated with me. Pure absurdism and hysteria without dissolving meaninglessness.
Robot Chicken
Still viciously hit or miss but often enough worth the ten minute run time. Other shows are tangentially dependent on parody, but God help you if you haven't seen Robot Chicken's source material.
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
I'll admit that though I'm a public access maven, I didn't really get this show for a long, long time. The most recent season might have been substantially better than prior ones, but regardless, it resonated with me. Pure absurdism and hysteria without dissolving meaninglessness.
Robot Chicken
Still viciously hit or miss but often enough worth the ten minute run time. Other shows are tangentially dependent on parody, but God help you if you haven't seen Robot Chicken's source material.
Mad Men
Though Mad Men might be a pure misogyinst fantasy - see Don Draper's perfect housewife, multiple mistresses, drinking habits - there's a clear pathos lying not too many layers underneath. Mad Men is really about the construction and deconstruction of illusions. The impeccable set design and lighting covers up for a few dull episodes here and there.
The Hills
The persistently vacuous and numbing crown jewel of MTV is falling apart into four or five separate storylines. Intentional or not, the show awesomely exhibits the station's blank values in fast-forward, ridden with drama but emotion free.
Feasting on Waves
Alton Brown is great... but I'm unsure what the seaborne sequel to Feasting on Asphalt has to offer over the other two million shows of its type except better production.
Entourage
The ultimate misogynist fantasy (moreso than Mad Men because of its immediacy) has returned for another season. It's hard to justify watching this one except for the fact that it's so entertaining.
I Love Money
VH1 vets getting their PhD in advanced reality strategy studies.
The Hills
The persistently vacuous and numbing crown jewel of MTV is falling apart into four or five separate storylines. Intentional or not, the show awesomely exhibits the station's blank values in fast-forward, ridden with drama but emotion free.
Feasting on Waves
Alton Brown is great... but I'm unsure what the seaborne sequel to Feasting on Asphalt has to offer over the other two million shows of its type except better production.
Entourage
The ultimate misogynist fantasy (moreso than Mad Men because of its immediacy) has returned for another season. It's hard to justify watching this one except for the fact that it's so entertaining.
I Love Money
VH1 vets getting their PhD in advanced reality strategy studies.
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