When we create things, they have impact. For the most part, that impact is immediate and local. But when we can foresee what the culture needs to experience before it demands it, we are innovators. David Milch, a very curious ONTO, broke many fans hearts when he seemed to stand by and let his last HBO creation, Deadwood, fade into reruns after three of four promised seasons. Now he's back and just as he did with NYPD Blue and Deadwood Milch takes us into an unknown world. This time, he had the unenviable challenge of following the final episode of The Sopranos, written by another mysterian, David Chase. With John From Cincinnati, Milch confronts the culture's existential angst through the struggles of three generations of surfing prodigies and the dysfunctional world within and around them. Milch's innovation? He inserts a stranger, "John" into the mix, to serve as a pebble in the pond of this collection of misfits, has beens, addicts and vultures. The show is not about claiming the moral high ground or wallowing in it's valley. It's about riding the waves inbetween. Milch writes John From Cincinnati from inside the ONTO perspective of each of the characters and creates a tapestry that allows all the other domains to surfaces and join in; like life.
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See God, Somas.... Having had a crazy few days, I haven't had much time to put my thoughts together for this week's blog entry.. let me just say this... John from Cincinnati gets better every week.. Once again thanks to Milch I can not WAIT until Sundays... Milch took the Deadwood characters, threw in a bunch of awesome metaphysics, and traded in the cowboy hat and open air BJs for a surfboard, a seemingly Asperger stranger, and magical happenings. Both shows have tons of dysfunctional characters-then again who among us isn't at least a little dysfunctional? This show has a little bit of everything I love... Hey Milch-please do not pull the rug out from under us like you have done in the past...I dont think I can take another premature series ending...
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