Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:37pmHas to be a tie between Six Feet Under and Angels in America for me.
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#1re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:30amWell, I was going to say Curb Your Enthusism, hands down, but since you mentioned Angels in America, I'd have to say that, too. Thanks for reminding me.
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#2re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:31amAngels in America. It's one of my favorite things to come out of TV at all.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#3re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:37am
Sex and the City
Rome
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Updated On: 12/2/05 at 12:37 AM
MyMeredithMonster
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/05
#4re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:44amI'm getting really hooked on Rome right now, so that's going to be my answer.
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#5re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:44am
ROME.
But I do love Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Angels in America, The Laramie Project and Tracey Takes On!
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#6re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 8:34amSix Feet Under and Sex in the City.
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beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#7re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 9:15am"Angels in America"
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#8re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:28amThe shot of Chris Meloni pissing in a bucket in OZ.
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#9re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:49amSex and the City, and for a while Carnivale. I haven't seen anything the last few seasons since I have basic cable.
#10re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:31pmCurb Your Enthusiasm, no contest.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#11re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 1:59pm
Sex and the City
Angels in America
Curb Your Enthusiasm
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#12re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:03pmOZ -- I was SO addicted to that show.
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#13re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:03pmThe Sopranos, greatest show ever! (If there wasn't so much time between seasons, I'd be even happier!)
#14re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:03pmReal Sex, baby.
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#15re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:12pm
The shot of Chris Meloni pissing in a bucket in OZ.
ALL shots of Meloni, pissing or not. I've seen more of that man's body than I've seen of my own.
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Updated On: 12/2/05 at 02:12 PM
#16re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:36pmOZ I was totally addicted.
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#17re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 3:02pmI thoroughly enjoyed...TaxiCab Confessions. That was HBO, right? The stories and situations on that series was great entertainment.
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NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#19re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 3:11pmI loved Band of Brothers (and I guess I’m in the minority on this thread, but I was very disappointed in Angels in America).
#20re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 3:41pm
Angels in America
The Sopranos
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
I couldn't get into Oz (expect for the Meloni nudity of which my favorite was the asscheek spread against the glass), Carnivale or Rome. Rome actually put me to sleep. I was so excited about the series, but alas, found it tedious.
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#21re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:19pm
NCGuy,
I also had many issues with the ANGELS film. While I'm glad a masterpiece was preserved, it lacks the wit, passion and urgency of the Broadway version. Not to mention it seemed drained of its gay sensibility (Kushner has talked about the importance of camp in the play -- it wasn't in the film). The whole enterprise seemed overly serious and ponderous and lugubrious. There was no spark to it. Part of it was Mike Nichols' direction (he seemed intimidated by the material as if he had to stamp every frame with the label "IMPORTANT" on it -- he managed to wring much of the humanity and spontaneity out of the play which was there in abundance in the stage version). Also part of the problem was the woeful miscasting of Justin Kirk as Prior (he was totally clueless as to how to play that part).
But, anyway, no need to rehash all that now .....
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#22re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:22pmAmen, girl! I didn't want to start in on AIA either, but thanks--I don't know if it was Nichols or what, but you are spot-on with Kirk and Shenkman wasn't much better. I saw a PBS "making of" special called "Waiting in the Wings" that was more exciting than the mini-series, though I thought Pacino was better than he'd been in years.
#23re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:25pmSex and the City for sure
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#24re: Your Favorite Thing to Come Out of HBO?
Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:26pm
Angels in America
Sex and the City
and...THE COMEBACK
Call me crazy, but I loved it. And, I think it should've been given more time to get an audience. I think it was one of the best new shows.
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