I just watched a couple episodes tonight on YouTube, I didn't even know the series existed! I thought it was pretty good but something seemed a little off to me-it was that I didn't like the Tony Shaloub character. He was a little bit too egocentric and mean. I usually adore Tony Shaloub in anything, I just didn't like the character to have so little sensitivity. I would watch him progress through a scene, and I KNEW that there were so many other layers which he could have given the character. I suppose I expected more of the sweetness of Antonio from Wings, or the complexity of Monk.
Regardless, overall a good show. It's really interesting to read the comments here from back, what is it REALLY 17 years ago???? People wondering if Neal Patrick Harris will go on to do anything more, I guess all he'd done was Doogie Howser M.D. Also I note as I get older how quickly that which interests us and is the talk of the time fades into the past......Also interesting to see people commenting on Shaloub before 'Monk'. Along those lines of thought, just read today that Mary Tyler Moore has died at the age of 80, and Debbie Reynolds/Carrie Fisher just died a few weeks ago.....People who were such icons....Who even thinks about the Mary Tyler Moore show nowadays, everything changes so quickly in our society. It's not like societies in which there is little cultural/technological/societal change for hundreds of years, or one in which the tribes stories are told from generation to generation with a kind of continuity and sense of reassurance that the 'tribe' is stable and the same. Loss of a sense of conectedness...."Future Shock": I remember a time before personal computers, before cell phones, digital cameras, before color TV, before VCR's, DVD's, and I remember when TV shows/movies etc. took their time to unfold, with a rhythm which was much more natural.
Regardless, overall a good show. It's really interesting to read the comments here from back, what is it REALLY 17 years ago???? People wondering if Neal Patrick Harris will go on to do anything more, I guess all he'd done was Doogie Howser M.D. Also I note as I get older how quickly that which interests us and is the talk of the time fades into the past......Also interesting to see people commenting on Shaloub before 'Monk'. Along those lines of thought, just read today that Mary Tyler Moore has died at the age of 80, and Debbie Reynolds/Carrie Fisher just died a few weeks ago.....People who were such icons....Who even thinks about the Mary Tyler Moore show nowadays, everything changes so quickly in our society. It's not like societies in which there is little cultural/technological/societal change for hundreds of years, or one in which the tribes stories are told from generation to generation with a kind of continuity and sense of reassurance that the 'tribe' is stable and the same. Loss of a sense of conectedness...."Future Shock": I remember a time before personal computers, before cell phones, digital cameras, before color TV, before VCR's, DVD's, and I remember when TV shows/movies etc. took their time to unfold, with a rhythm which was much more natural.