Favorite HBO/Showtime shows?

It used to be that whenever I saw J.K. Simmons on screen he'd register as' Hey! It's that Guy! who's been in like 50 different things' but now everything I see or hear him in I keep thinking of him as Schillinger. Which gets pretty weird when you see him as the dad in Juno or hear him as one of the voice actors in M&M commercials.

As for attractiveness of the leads, it wasn't so much that they were pretty but you had a group of excellent actors who could make their characters just ooze charisma and sex appeal. Chis Meloni did an excellent job of selling Keller as a guy that many people wanted to get involved with even though you just knew he was utter bad news. Same goes for Dean Winters ('Lord of the ****ing dance' indeed) and I'd even put Eamon Walker's Said in that group.

It used to be that whenever I saw J.K. Simmons on screen he'd register as' Hey! It's that Guy! who's been in like 50 different things' but now everything I see or hear him in I keep thinking of him as Schillinger. Which gets pretty weird when you see him as the dad in Juno or hear him as one of the voice actors in M&M commercials.

As for attractiveness of the leads, it wasn't so much that they were pretty but you had a group of excellent actors who could make their characters just ooze charisma and sex appeal. Chis Meloni did an excellent job of selling Keller as a guy that many people wanted to get involved with even though you just knew he was utter bad news. Same goes for Dean Winters ('Lord of the ****ing dance' indeed) and I'd even put Eamon Walker's Said in that group.

Completely agree, it's hard to look at Simmons on any of the Law and Order shows without thinking he's going to carve a swastika in someone's butt with a bic pen.

Have you ever noticed that every single actor that ever appeared on OZ has also appeared on Law and Order at some point? It's the same writer right?

I think that most of the people in the L&O side of the East Coast crime drama group are different than the Tom Fontana & David Simon side of the group, but that they use the same four casting directors who keep bringing in actors they know are reliable and that all different parties there talk to each other on a regular basis(see the Homicide and L&O crossover stuff). The overlap of Oz with Homicide:Life on the Street and The Wire actors is also pretty huge.

That and they were able to get a lot of good actors on that show to work for scale because you just didn't get that many chances to do what the show did on screen, and the actors liked the chance to stretch their skills. It's impressive how much work a lot of the Oz regulars have gotten since leaving Em City.

It used to be that whenever I saw J.K. Simmons on screen he'd register as' Hey! It's that Guy! who's been in like 50 different things' but now everything I see or hear him in I keep thinking of him as Schillinger. Which gets pretty weird when you see him as the dad in Juno or hear him as one of the voice actors in M&M commercials.

As for attractiveness of the leads, it wasn't so much that they were pretty but you had a group of excellent actors who could make their characters just ooze charisma and sex appeal. Chis Meloni did an excellent job of selling Keller as a guy that many people wanted to get involved with even though you just knew he was utter bad news. Same goes for Dean Winters ('Lord of the ****ing dance' indeed) and I'd even put Eamon Walker's Said in that group.

Are these the people in OZ? Or, am I confused?

Yeah, characters and actors from Oz.

entourage.. and a show that I could see being on HBO that's great is It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, that comes on FX thurs nights.

Carnivale and Deadwood are still my favorites!

entourage.. and a show that I could see being on HBO that's great is It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, that comes on FX thurs nights.

The season premiere was hysterical and the sneak preview of Archer was over the top.

Bored To Death has promise, if you like Schwartzman. It was very tight for a premier.

Tim - HBO: The Life & Times of Tim

Regarding Flight Of The Conchords - I am curious how many people think it totally blows.

whats HBO?

Bored to Death was better than I expected it to be, though the jury's still out for me on whether the world needs yet another movie or series about a neurotic New York Jewish guy.

Flight of the Conchords just didn't work for me but I can understand why others like it.

I was entertained by the season premiere of Curb last night. Seems like they're setting up Larry to mock the whole cancer thing, and it could actually be pretty funny if he doesn't pull his punches along the way.

whats HBO?

You've got to be kidding.