‘BORED TO DEATH’ LOOKS F’N TERRIFIC
06.18.09“Bored .to Death” is a comedy series set to debut on HBO in September, and the first trailer has set my hopes impossibly high. It’s written by the excellent Jonathan Ames and stars Jason Schwartzman as a Brooklyn writer and Zach Galifianakis as his comic book-writing best friend. From a BuzzSugar post last year:
The show centers on Schwartzman’s character, Jonathan, a 30-something struggling writer living (and drinking heavily) in Brooklyn.
Whoa, it’s like looking in a mirror. A mirror made of words.
After he breaks up with his girlfriend, he decides to refashion himself as a private detective in the vein of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett heroes. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan “takes out an ad pretending to be a private detective and starts taking cases — solving some and making others worse.”
The trailer also includes Ted Danson, Kristen Wiig, and Parker Posey, plus “Daily Show” expert/author/”PC guy” John Hodgman gets punched in one episode, so there’s no way I could possibly be more excited for this. Unless Schwartzman cut that stupid f-ckin’ hair.

Well, maybe they’ll doing something original with the show, because this is probably the most unoriginal, cliched premise of all time. Can’t tell you how many Raymond Chandler wannabe writers I’ve come across or how many times I’ve heard this idea pitched. Whoever came up with this premise has all the originality of a teenager mooning out a bus window. I can’t believe HBO fell for this story, what a tired idea.
Rushmore is one of my favorite movies, but I have a really hard time looking at Jason Schwartzman. His impossibly conditioned hair freaks me out. For fuck’s sake guy, what do you brush it 1000 times on each side before you go to bed every night in your pretty pretty princess tower?
If I click the “Add New Tag” tag will I end up in a parallel universe?
The soundtrack to this show will be two Asian girls humming and Sofia Coppola hitting a triangle.
This looks so good that I just went out and bought two scarves, a pair of neon wayfarers and a 10-speed.
Oddly enough I was bored to death just reading that.
Ironically, the power of the Shwartz is weak in this one.
Jason Schwartzman’s nose was the inspiration for the Atlantic Center.
Proceed with caution, Uff, even Ted Danson can’t make up for Schwartzman’s shittiness.