The New Zealand Sopranos
This clip from Facelift on Monday was a classic. I like the term “the smiling assassin”
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September 12th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
There’s a great episode in the final series where Tony and Pauly go on the run and head to Miami. They’re meant to be keeping a low profile but Pauly can’t stop telling everyone he meets “I remember the time…” and relating some incident from the past when he actually had some influence and significance.
When he’s not doing that, he’s making remarks like “He’s a stand-up guy”… about a paraplegic.
Tony, meanwhile, fumes and pointedly eyes an axe, a gun, and other possible solutions to the problem, but eventually returns home, Pauly in tow, so as not to disturb the balance of power.
An embattled leader forced to contend with a loud mouthed windbag who no longer has any relevance and lives on tales of his past glories while embarrasing those who have to contend with him.
No guesses for which character Winston will pop up as, then.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
It appears I’m missing some good TV on Monday night.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Unfortunately Facelift, like the Labour Party, promises more than it delivers. A bit ho-hum.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I haven’t seen a full episode of Facelift, so, yeah don’t know if it is holding it’s own for 30 minutes, but that Sopranos piss take is gold.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I think it does an injustice to Tony Soprano to compare him with Helen. She’s more like Johhny Sack who through manouvering and assassinating potential enemies, weaseled his way to the top all the while attempting to look and stay clean.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Classic shot in recent Sopranos was Silvio reading a book entitled ‘How to Clean Practically Anything” Would have been useful for Benson-Pope! The final episode this week centres around the remark ‘You probably don’t even hear it, right?” rferring to the assassins bullet. Words which might have resonance for Helen in the next 12 months!?!
September 12th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
resonance…. do you think she will hear it ?
September 12th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Nice to see they Facelif has a handle on John Key’s incompetence.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Facelift? Yeah well they’re such a non partisan outfit aren’t they? If Key gets elected, that bunch of Klark suckholes might just have to earn their money rather than have it gifted to them by their political cronies. Of course they’re going to be fair and balanced right?
September 12th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Beautiful
Lefties and righties scrapping over the partisan directions of a political satire production. Marvelous.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:41 am
I can’t imagine fair and balanced satire as being at all interesting or funny.
Facelift is not perfect but it’s the nearest we seem to have to political comedy.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:47 am
For once, I half agree with sonic – fair and balanced satire often is a bit of a dud. Good political satire is a precious thing – for me it is akin to the sound of puppies on Christmas morning, the smell of a freshly mowed lawn on a Spring day, and sensing the fragrant breath of the one you love as she falls, laughing into your arms.
However, After a full season of Facelift, and a mere three weeks of reading kiwiblog, I find myself diasgreeing with sonic.
Sonic – you are too modest, it is you, rather than Facelift that qualifies as the ‘nearest we seem to have to a political comedy’.
By a country mile.
hahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha…..
ha!
September 13th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Now get back to work.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I thiknk Lee should get a job with Facelift, every comment he makes is just comedy gold!
September 13th, 2007 at 9:23 am
He wouldn’t qualify. Only socialist permitted at TV One.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:41 am
I do dress to the left, if that counts….
September 13th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Lately Im finding more and more difficulty to distinguish the real Ms Clark and the character on Facelift. They are merging into one and the same.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:08 am
The ultimate rubber doll???!! (I know a few on this blog who would purchase one)
September 13th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
gd,
I so agree. Every time I think of HC the picture of the Facelift Klark comes into my head. I can’t picture the real one. But, can anyone?
Also, when I saw the Facelift Klark smoking the cigar, the penny dropped as to why Klark has smokers toothpaste in her office basin(SST,9th Sept 07)