So, love all the threads about overrated and underrated and so forth. However, I was wondering if there are things you like that nobody else you know seems to like. I mean, I don't get to share in all the excitement over Harry Potter or some of the other things people are talking about in the Lounge, and wondered if anyone else wanted to talk about their own personal 'fave things' that no one else seems to get. Who knows, maybe someone else here likes "According to Jim" as much as you do?
One of the things I love with a passion that is crazy is the TV show "Popular." It was on the WB from 1999-2001, and it was a thing of camp genius. It was widely uneven and sometimes painful, but when it was good, it was a thing of glory. It is the only show I own all the DVDs for (granted, we're talking 2 seasons) and that I can watch over and over again.
I miss it so, and miss the actors from the show who don't get enough work anymore. But what made it so spectacular were 2 characters:
Mary Cherry (Leslie Grossman) and Nicole Julian (Tammy Lynn Michaels): they almost got their own show after "Popular" went off the air, or they were going to do a show with Mary Cherry and her momma, Cherry Cherry, played by Delta Burke. If only this had happened, it would have been brilliant.
The creator of the show, Ryan Murphy, has gone on to bigger and better things ("Nip/Tuck" "Running With Scissors"), and so have some of the actors (Leslie Bibb, Christopher Gorham, Sara Rue), and one even married Melissa Etheridge (Tammy Lynn Michaels), but I'll still miss "Popular."
One of the things I love with a passion that is crazy is the TV show "Popular." It was on the WB from 1999-2001, and it was a thing of camp genius. It was widely uneven and sometimes painful, but when it was good, it was a thing of glory. It is the only show I own all the DVDs for (granted, we're talking 2 seasons) and that I can watch over and over again.
I miss it so, and miss the actors from the show who don't get enough work anymore. But what made it so spectacular were 2 characters:
Mary Cherry (Leslie Grossman) and Nicole Julian (Tammy Lynn Michaels): they almost got their own show after "Popular" went off the air, or they were going to do a show with Mary Cherry and her momma, Cherry Cherry, played by Delta Burke. If only this had happened, it would have been brilliant.
The creator of the show, Ryan Murphy, has gone on to bigger and better things ("Nip/Tuck" "Running With Scissors"), and so have some of the actors (Leslie Bibb, Christopher Gorham, Sara Rue), and one even married Melissa Etheridge (Tammy Lynn Michaels), but I'll still miss "Popular."