Hamlet, the Royal Shakespeare Company tonight on PBS....

[WCGreen]

The best three hours on TV in a very long time...

Pichard as Claudius...

[WCGreen]

1. It's better the sixth or seventh time....

Claudius just called Hamlet, a pussy...

Cease this unmanly grief...

I love understanding what is going on...

[slay]

2. Yes! Finally! Wish it was in widescreen here. David Tennant (Doctor Who) as Hamlet

Patrick Stewart as the evil uncle. I.. um... saw it earlier and it's excellent!

[WCGreen]

3. He is doing a great job...

Wasn't it cool how they introduce each scene by showing the "stage" through surveillance cameras, like we are watching as it unravels.

[WinkyDink]

18. Laertes looks like a young Farley Granger.

[Hayabusa]

4. Thanks for the head's up.

nt

[BlueIris]

5. Hee. Thanks. I'm re-reading "Hamlet" right now, so this will be a nice addition. nt

[WCGreen]

6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern....

Anti-Semitic device or just plain pawns in a grand scheme...

[BlueIris]

13. Pawns. To me, R and G represent the rational antidote to the madness sweeping over the rest.

They show up, rationality rules. They leave, madness descends.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Thanks for the heads-up!

I'll check to see if it's on out here!

I LOVE Hamlet.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. It's on, and we will get it later!

Programmed the DVR so we can see it at our leisure...

[TreasonousBastard]

9. DVRing it-- started three hours ago when I was busy, and...

had to check out "Happy Town."

[slay]

10. i heard happy town is a cheap twin peaks rip off

i love amy acker so that kinda sucks..

[TreasonousBastard]

11. But, you don't really know until you watch it yourself, do you?

[slay]

12. Why would I waste my time?

When every single reviewer from Herc at AICN to USA Today to the New York Times to the Washington Post to Televisionary to The Boston Herald to Variety - exactly NONE - zero gave it a good review. I like good shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad and Angel and The Sopranos and Carnivale and Weeds and Lost and Wiseguy. Give Happy Town to people who don't know what good TV is.

So no, sometimes you can know without watching. I don't care to share the firsthand negative experience all the critics had here: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44842

<-- What Amy Acker did to herself so she wouldn't have to be in any more episodes of Crappy Town. :rofl:

[Orsino]

14. Goddammit.

Why couldn't I have found this thread yesterday? Will have to see if I can find a repeat.

[elehhhhna]

15. reruns here at 1 a.m. Friday (tonight) on PBS. SET THE DVR!

[WinkyDink]

16. Utterly brilliant.

[pokerfan]

17. Isn't that *Sir* Pichard?

[NNadir]

19. I can't, more recently watch any than Branaugh's.