Comments on: Raines http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nancy Montalbano http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3046 Nancy Montalbano Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:01:05 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3046 Raine's is by far one of the best shows in a long time to come aboard the NBC lineup. His acting is superb. Get rid of the reality shows, we watch TV to escape the reality of the day and be entertained. Bring back Raines. The writers hit on something good here, don't blow it. Raine’s is by far one of the best shows in a long time to come aboard the NBC lineup. His acting is superb. Get rid of the reality shows, we watch TV to escape the reality of the day and be entertained. Bring back Raines. The writers hit on something good here, don’t blow it.

]]> By: Cynthia A. Marian http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3045 Cynthia A. Marian Sun, 20 May 2007 02:02:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3045 Hi an TY for your reply to my comments. I greatly appreciate your offer to help. A administrator of the Raine's board recently posted that our best chance would be to have the show picked up by USA,TBS,or TNT. We would prefer USA as their past history is of giving unique programs the chance an time needed. If you or anyone has a contact at one of those stations,a good word to those in charge would be a great help. We are trying to impress upon them the wisdom of giving a show such as this a chance to find it's audience, as there is a place for a program, which shows police as caring human beings, who are affected by the carnage they see daily, and still find the humor in the worst of it. I also believe the recent decision to only order 7 episodes of a new program, would have surely doomed many if not most, of the past programs we now consider "classics" to a distant memory. We are also trying to find a way to enlist Graham Yost to help save his baby. Please, anyone who can help I would love to hear from you. Ideas are welcome. Hi an TY for your reply to my comments. I greatly appreciate your offer to help. A administrator of the Raine’s board recently posted that our best chance would be to have the show picked up by USA,TBS,or TNT. We would prefer USA as their past history is of giving unique programs the chance an time needed. If you or anyone has a contact at one of those stations,a good word to those in charge would be a great help. We are trying to impress upon them the wisdom of giving a show such as this a chance to find it’s audience, as there is a place for a program, which shows police as caring human beings, who are affected by the carnage they see daily, and still find the humor in the worst of it. I also believe the recent decision to only order 7 episodes of a new program, would have surely doomed many if not most, of the past programs we now consider “classics” to a distant memory. We are also trying to find a way to enlist Graham Yost to help save his baby. Please, anyone who can help I would love to hear from you. Ideas are welcome.

]]> By: Cynthia A. Marian http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3044 Cynthia A. Marian Sat, 19 May 2007 00:58:52 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3044 I agree with everything you have said although, I do not have your ability with words. I am very angry that NBC has decided to cancel Raine's an instead continue on the downward spiral that has so far landed them in the bottom of the rating heap. I must say I am! a Jeff Goldblum fan but I do agree that too often, he comes over as self important(as if he knows something we don't) but in Raine's he has shown more depth an now was in a showcase that would have worked with his more mature style. I am a member of the NBC Raine's boards an we are working to have the program picked up by a network such as USA where it can truly shine. If anyone can or will help, it would be greatly appreciated. I do not enjoy the mindless reality programs, which cater to the lowest element of society and I will be very happy when the dumbing down is over. I agree with everything you have said although, I do not have your ability with words. I am very angry that NBC has decided to cancel Raine’s an instead continue on the downward spiral that has so far landed them in the bottom of the rating heap. I must say I am! a Jeff Goldblum fan but I do agree that too often, he comes over as self important(as if he knows something we don’t) but in Raine’s he has shown more depth an now was in a showcase that would have worked with his more mature style. I am a member of the NBC Raine’s boards an we are working to have the program picked up by a network such as USA where it can truly shine. If anyone can or will help, it would be greatly appreciated. I do not enjoy the mindless reality programs, which cater to the lowest element of society and I will be very happy when the dumbing down is over.

]]> By: HLL http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3043 HLL Fri, 18 May 2007 23:35:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3043 to the NBC big wigs..... come on now. you pulled Studio 60-- we love Matthew Perry. Jeff Golblum is an eccentric character with a very dry sense of humor but this show is fun & refreshing. We do love CSI, C.I, Law & Orders The Shield, etc- this is one that has made it to our Ti-Vo. Dont pull another show from your line up- not this one. have a heart. to the NBC big wigs….. come on now. you pulled Studio 60– we love Matthew Perry.

Jeff Golblum is an eccentric character with a very dry sense of humor but this show is fun & refreshing. We do love CSI, C.I, Law & Orders The Shield, etc- this is one that has made it to our Ti-Vo. Dont pull another show from your line up- not this one. have a heart.

]]> By: Connie Wilson http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3042 Connie Wilson Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:06:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3042 "Raines" is, indeed, a worthy new addition to television viewing; therefore, in the same way that "Twin Peaks" and "Big Love" came and went in a flash (As the developers of "Twin Peaks" said in a recent interview, "We lived fast, died young, and left a good-looking corpse...just like Laura Palmer") , I fear the worst for Jeff Goldblum's fine turn as the detective who can "see" dead people. Giving Raines the flaw of mental problems (that seem to be getting worse) is a master stroke along the lines of Jonathan Lethem's giving his inept detective character Lionel ("Motherless Brooklyn", winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction) Tourette's Syndrome. The main character, whether film or book, must have an Achilles heel, a fatal flaw (think CSI's William Pederson's developing deafness) to succeed in today's movies or books, and Raines has it, in spades. Long may "Raines" reign. “Raines” is, indeed, a worthy new addition to television viewing; therefore, in the same way that “Twin Peaks” and “Big Love” came and went in a flash (As the developers of “Twin Peaks” said in a recent interview, “We lived fast, died young, and left a good-looking corpse…just like Laura Palmer”) , I fear the worst for Jeff Goldblum’s fine turn as the detective who can “see” dead people. Giving Raines the flaw of mental problems (that seem to be getting worse) is a master stroke along the lines of Jonathan Lethem’s giving his inept detective character Lionel (“Motherless Brooklyn”, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction) Tourette’s Syndrome. The main character, whether film or book, must have an Achilles heel, a fatal flaw (think CSI’s William Pederson’s developing deafness) to succeed in today’s movies or books, and Raines has it, in spades.

Long may “Raines” reign.

]]> By: Peter http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3041 Peter Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:15:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3041 Speaking of noir, Grant, have you seen the movie "Brick" ? Think film noir meets "Pretty in Pink". Superb. I also have to violently agree with Joshua on "The Wire" -- the best-written, best-acted, best-filmed, most vivid, TV show the USA has ever produced. It's not just a cop show -- it's about all of life itself in contemporary urban America -- a vision of human life as it is really lived which is as rich as Dickens. Speaking of noir, Grant, have you seen the movie “Brick” ? Think film noir meets “Pretty in Pink”. Superb.

I also have to violently agree with Joshua on “The Wire” — the best-written, best-acted, best-filmed, most vivid, TV show the USA has ever produced. It’s not just a cop show — it’s about all of life itself in contemporary urban America — a vision of human life as it is really lived which is as rich as Dickens.

]]> By: Joshua Porter http://cultureby.com/2007/04/raines.html/comment-page-1#comment-3040 Joshua Porter Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:01:36 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=491#comment-3040 Another great show is The Wire, on HBO. While I can't write the nice level of detail you wrote about Raines, I have to say that its the best written (and casted) show I've seen in years. It's a cop drama, but spends as much time making viewers empathic toward the lives of the people who come into contact with the cops (both good and bad) that it really stands apart from shows like Law and Order, etc. Another great show is The Wire, on HBO. While I can’t write the nice level of detail you wrote about Raines, I have to say that its the best written (and casted) show I’ve seen in years. It’s a cop drama, but spends as much time making viewers empathic toward the lives of the people who come into contact with the cops (both good and bad) that it really stands apart from shows like Law and Order, etc.

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