It’s hard to resolve which aspect of K Street was the most satisfying…
* The ending was positively incandescent. For all those who would, confidentially, treasure to stick it to Saudi Arabia, watching the “abominable guy” trail away with the loot unbiased pulled my grin from ear to ear.
* The first two episodes verily lifted me out of my chair, mouth agape, asking, “How are they doing this? ” Now that time has passed, you’ll have to luxuriate in that these topics were *peaking* as news stories -right as K Street was wrapping production for the week-. For those ‘tuned in’ to politics and world news, it was a thrill that is indescribable. Carville actually interacting, on camera, live (as in -real life-!) with Howard Dean and Phili mayor Street at the height of their news cycles? You could actually peer C-SPAN (and FOX News! remember the debate? ) to look a true-to-life angle of a K Street episode! Beat that!
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* There were more cameos than I could enumerate… all A-list Washington insiders. Accurate senators, true journalists, playing full-blown _parts_ in the week’s fable. And how vivid each one was! Never did you feel that they were phoning it in for air time. No, these cameos furthered the pulse of the record.
* There is no arrangement that the season could have been planned as it was… It must have been decided around the 3rd or 4th week that it would be the CIA-informant-leak legend that would bring the Carville-Matalin office down. I’m almost determined that the writers could have allowed a worthy brighter, upbeat epic to carry through, but they _abided_ by their dynamic philosophy… as Washington goes, so goes the demonstrate. Bravo.
* The cinematography was improbable. Even when the dialogue faltered, the obscene off-angle shots kept the tempo staunch. And so many extended shots, with only one chance to develop it work! I can’t remember a failed scene.
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* Who could have shone brighter than Carville and Matalin? This was their vehicle, and there is no K Street -concept- without them. Certainly Soderbergh’s chronicle took center stage in the second half of the series, leaving Mary and James to simply wonder outloud what the hell was happening… But if you care about politics, you care about the epic, because you care about these two people.
* Roger Guenveur Smith (playing Francisco Dupre) is a -star-. His aura is undeniable, his character is the heart of the mystery. He was given these lines, probably sometimes in mid-shot (probably some improvised, on his bear), and he *stuck* _every single one_. The actors in the room must have been left breathless.
For all those out there who’ve ever said or notion, “Now -that’s- television.” and want to experience that once again, you can’t pass this display up. Mediate the experiment for yourself… I came in with no expectations and was floored. Regardless, you’ll have a better consume of what works and what doesn’t work in dynamic art after one viewing of K St.
Practically everything about HBO’s “K Street” and its hasten was a runt weird.
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Produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, it was a television series that debuted in drop 2003 and centered around a political consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
The cast was a mixture of actors and political figures – James Carville and Mary Matalin played fictionalized versions of themselves interacting with trusty congressmen, senators, lobbyists and journalists. Howard Dean, Tom Daschle, Orrin Hatch, Joe Klein and lots of others had cameos.
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Episodes were semi-improvised and shot snappy with a handheld camera, by Soderbergh, unprejudiced a few days before the shows aired so they could incorporate unique events into the plots.
Cool notion. Sounds like one heck of a lot of work. And, overall, the basic thought objective didn’t play. The main characters often had to jump through hoops to integrate themselves into the topics and most of the politicians on-camera were uneasy and distracting. Rather than seeming “ripped from today’s headlines,” “K Street” kind of felt Scotch taped to the day-before-yesterday’s.
But then the point to started getting bizarre, and bizarre in a profitable arrangement.
Most TV shows have been in the can for weeks or even months by the time their reviews and ratings advance out, but Soderbergh was tranquil shooting the reveal as it was being panned by critics and ignored by viewers. In apparent response, the series abruptly went from being a minimalist, more cynical “West Hover” to behaving like a long lost Alan Pakula thriller from the ’70s.
The characters got creepy: Maggie (Mary McCormack) met a suitor (Talia Balsam) who came on strong and then suddenly accused her of stalking; the robotic Francisco (Roger G. Smith) deepened his secret ties to his Howard Hughesian boss (Elliott Gould), who was making deals with the Saudis; and kinky, hallucination-prone Tommy (John Slattery) slept with his father’s much-younger fiance, who then killed herself in his hotel room.
At the peak of all this exertion, suddenly and with no trusty explanation, the note ended, yanked after two-and-a-half months, supposedly by mutual agreement between HBO and Soderbergh (who, according to HBO’s Web region, is composed on the hook for 10 episodes of another, similar series) .
Good or at least inspiring shows derive canceled in mid-sentence all the time – c’est la vie – but now suddenly all 10 episodes of “K Street” have been released on DVD. This would’ve been a tall arrangement for Soderbergh, who does extremely amusing and entertaining director commentaries on most of his DVDs, to
explain the expose – how and why they did it, who all the cameos are and how he convinced them to appear and, most of all, what happened in the waste. It’s hobble to be an equally inspiring myth.
Unfortunately, like the series itself, the DVD is incomplete and comes with no extras at all, honest 10 episodes followed by a sudden terminate.
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