Lizbeth Finn-Arnold

I was left speechless by Speechless

How can a TV show about sensitivity be so insensitive to women?

Last week, I finally found time to tune into the new ABC comedy Speechless. The show has been positively praised by just about every TV critic as being one of the best, if not the best comedy of the year. If you scan the reviews you’ll find words such as: aspirational, offbeat, genuinely funny, compelling, irreverent, nimble, quirky, and heartfelt. The show is hailed for showing the complexity of living with a disability, while not becoming overly-sentimental or sappy. One reviewer said: “Speechless exemplifies simple human decency without emphasizing it. Its world exists as ours should; unembellished. And in that, its powerful message could become extraordinary.”

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Walking Dead's 'Moldavian Massacre' Finale...

Walking Dead season finale cliffhanger...the moment you realize you are now rooting for the psychopath with the leather jacket and a baseball bat named Lucille because you no longer care who lives or dies from Rick's self-righteous group.

Seriously...a Moldavian Massacre cliffhanger is so 1980s....if you promise us a shocking finale, you have to deliver on that promise. Instead you give us 90 minutes of the most boring episode ever only to leave us with a who-is-it mystery to ponder for next seven months?

Yes, Negan is awesome. But you can't build an entire season around his arrival. You have to develop plot points and character arcs that make sense and are deep and resonant with the audience. And btw, I'm so done with the idea that every person in the apocalypse is a murderous psychopath. Negan would be more shocking if we hadn't met various versions of him already.

 

Suffering from Netflix Malaise...

Suffering from Netflix/Hulu Malaise...it's a very common illness that comes over you when you've spent the last couple of weeks binge-watching 65 plus episodes of tv series only to come to the end of said series and be left with that anti-climatic feeling of "Now what the hell am I supposed to do with my life?"

For the next couple of aimless days you are left trolling Netflix/Hulu/Amazon for your next big binge. But it's not easy. Everything seems lame in comparison.

Don Draper Teaches the World to Sing In Perfect Harmony

Mad Men has left the building...

SPOILER ALERT (do not read if you haven't watched the finale yet):

Todd over at Vox nailed the ending (good job, Todd), and I have to say as I was watching Don Draper meditate at Esalen surrounded by New Age hippies, with Peggy's words to his broken, lost self echoing in my head (encouraging him to come home and work on Coke) I actually gasped. I realized YUP, Todd was right, we were going to end this thing with a Coke and smile and a song.

True, I expected (like Todd) to see one last Don Draper miracle pitch. I thought we'd see Don come home. Home being NYC, and advertising, and Don being great at what Don does -- creating illusions and inventing love to sell nylons. I thought we'd see Don pick himself up and once again, shake off the dirt and grime from the hobo life and the previous night's bender and make everything shiny, and new in the dawn. Usually for Don that just meant putting on a clean white shirt and tie, and slicking down his jet black hair.

Wit's End Receives Excellence Award at Honolulu Film Fest

Like-Minded Entertainment is proud to announce that the original sitcom pilot, Wit's End, has received the Aloha Accolade Award for Excellence in Filmmaking from the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival.

The Festival takes place March 6 – 8, 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii and the Excellence Award will be handed out at the Closing Night  Awards Ceremony on March 8, 2009 at the Hawaii Theatre in the heart of Honolulu.

According to the congratulatory letter from the film festival manager, Wit's End received the award because it "demonstrated superior and standout filmmaking and is deserving of one of our our most esteemed awards.  Your film was among the very best of the several hundreds of films submitted from over 30 countries around the world."

Wit's End was produced by LME in association with Whirlaway Productions, and was co-created by Lizbeth Finn-Arnold, Sandra Longo, and Mitchell Olson.