HBO

Today and tomorrow at Zoom In I'm discussing new HBO seasons. [Programming note: I'll cover more TV there than I do here for obvious reasons]. The latest, John From Cincinatti, was difficult to write about since I sometimes didn't know what I was watching. Jake Gyllenhaal's bff Austin Nichols plays the title character but the story is about a surfing family. The review is pretty lengthy and I still couldn't find a way to work this in: There's a couple of scenes in which I suspected that Rebecca DeMornay (playing the surfing family grandma) was doing some avant garde channeling of Ellen Requiem Burstyn. I closed my eyes to make sure. Yup, "Sara Goldfarb"'s vocal cadences, accent, rage... it's uncanny. And then it vanishes again. It would've freaked me out more but it's just a drop of weirdness in a whole bucket of nutty. (the review)