el miercoles estrenan por estos lados una nueva serie, men in trees, en la que supuestamente estarian involucrados un productor o creador o guionista o todos los anteriores de sex & the city.
la historia? mmm... por lo que he cachado, una especie de everwood sobrepoblado de hombres y por ende paraiso para mujeres, adonde llega a pasar sus penas la protagonista, una experta en relaciones amorosas y manejo de hombres, que ha sido engañada por su mismisimo novio. y a la que, detalle no menor, interpreta anne heche. de la que ya no tenemos claro por que lado de la vereda camina en la vida real... pero eso no viene al caso aqui, cierto?
en fin, rh+. podria ahorrarme una perdida de tiempo si me dieras tu opinion. ya sabes cuanto confio en ti. quizas ya me lo habias comentado, pero ya sabes, mi memoria...
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No veo esta sere (nome tincón ni un poquito), pero acá va la versión de los pesudo expertos del NYT:
September 12, 2006
TV Review
Beached in Alaska, Where Men Are Men (and Weird)
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
There are few things as repellent as the sight of good-looking people getting more than they deserve. Luckily, it doesn’t take long for the lovely, successful heroine of “Men in Trees” to fall on her face. Marin Frist (Anne Heche) is planning her wedding while she is on a promotional tour for her best-selling self-help book, “I’m Dating and So Can You.” On her way to a book-signing in Elmo, Alaska, Marin discovers that her perfect fiancé, Graham (Tobias Slezak), is having an affair.
Goodbye, Champagne and tulle. Hello, blubber, Balto and bear traps.
Her dreams crushed, her smug self-confidence shattered, Marin cancels an appearance on “Oprah” to stay in Elmo, a town where men outnumber women 10 to 1, and hopes to observe the male species in the wild and write a new advice book.
A series about a single urban woman who moves to Alaska to study the opposite sex sounds like a promising combination: “Sex and the City” meets “Northern Exposure.” Jenny Bicks, who was a writer and producer of “Sex,” is an executive producer of this one, and it has some amusing touches. But at least in the first episode the characters and dialogue don’t measure up. “Men in Trees” wants to be a “Sex and the Tundra” but is closer to “Northern Overexposure.”
Just like Dr. Joel Fleishman’s adopted town of Cicely, Alaska, Elmo is populated by charming eccentrics: Ben (Abraham Benrubi), a wise bartender who is disarmingly erudite beneath his brawny bulk; Patrick Bachelor (Derek Richardson), a bashful innkeeper who runs a 10-megahertz radio station that on clear days can be heard in Poland; and Jack (James Tupper), a strong, silent fish and game warden who clashes with Marin at their first meeting but keeps showing up when she finds herself in trouble.
And Marin has a hard time outdoors. She staggers around town in stiletto heels, appalled to find herself marooned in a world without Negronis, spinning classes, soy lattes or normal hotel amenities. “We don’t have minibars,” Patrick says apologetically. “But we have a full-sized one down on Front Street.”
“Men in Trees” takes its name from a road sign Marin spots after almost being conked on the head by a branch tossed by men perched high overhead. And road signs are the cutesy metaphor Marin uses in her motivational talks. Her female audience always laughs when she holds up one that says, “Slippery When Wet.”
The hourlong show is not meant to be straight comedy: it aims to be a lighthearted romantic drama. But Ms. Heche, as slim and ethereally pale as a Precog in “Minority Report,” has a hard time with whimsy. She is plausibly brisk and self-controlled in her pre-Alaska life, but even after her pitiable downfall, Ms. Heche doesn’t quite carry off the role of loveable heroine.
Like Carrie Bradshaw, and Meredith, the heroine of “Grey’s Anatomy,” Marin narrates each episode with a first-person voice-over that sounds like a diary or notes for her next book. Marin’s insights are earnest but not particularly interesting. “The truest thing I know about relationships is that sometimes we don’t know anything at all,” she says to herself after deciding to stay put in Elmo.
There are a few local women who also make good use of the abundance of men. One is a sultry waitress named Theresa (Sarah Strange). Another is Sara (Suleka Mathew), a native Alaskan prostitute who took to what she calls the “hospitality” business after her husband left her with a small child. Sara seems to sense Marin’s deeper pain: a case, perhaps, of female Inuition.
Since Jack, the love-hate object, is introduced in the premiere, it’s hard to see where the series is headed beyond the obvious. It’s possible, of course, that Alaska could provide some exotic subplots: maybe Marin could take up dog sledding and enter the Iditarod, tangle with a grizzly or study the mating habits of the Russian Orthodox dissenters in Nikolaevsk, their village.
But there are limits to location. “Men in Trees” has potential, but for the moment it suggests a different road sign: “Thin ice.”
Yo la empecé a ver pero era porque a esa hora no había nada más. No partió mal pero ya segundo o tercer capítulo era déeeeeeeebil. Después la cambiaron de día, la dan al mismo tiempo que E.R. y desde ahí nunca más.
chicas: al parecer mañana dormire. y sere feliz. muchas gracias por su info!!!
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