Fox has put in development Catalina, a single-camera comedy project from Max Winkler and Jake Johnson’s the Walcott Company and 20th Century Fox TV where the company is under an overall deal. Written by Winkler, Johnson and Dr. Ken executive producer Mary Fitzgerald, Catalina centers on a carefree party-girl bartender who has never left her home town on the island of Catalina, and who is forced to finally take on the responsibilities of adulthood after the death of her…...
- 11/21/2016
- Deadline TV
Lucky Louie, Season 1, Episode 10: “Confession”
Written by Mary Fitzgerald and Aaron Shure
Directed by Andrew D. Weyman
Aired on August 13th, 2006 on HBO
Maybe Lucky Louie has just been searching for the right material for its jokes. Over the past few weeks, these reviews have derided the show for being racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and using subjects such as rape and alcoholism for comedic material. For too much of the season, Lucky Louie has come across as a way for a white man to crack jokes at the expense of those less fortunate than him. In Louie, Louis C.K. reveals an overwhelming amount of empathy, but his earlier series often feels burdened by his failure to understand anyone’s perspective other than his own.
“Confession” doesn’t find C.K. being any more empathetic, but it does show him aiming his humor in a more suitable (and funnier) direction. Rather...
Written by Mary Fitzgerald and Aaron Shure
Directed by Andrew D. Weyman
Aired on August 13th, 2006 on HBO
Maybe Lucky Louie has just been searching for the right material for its jokes. Over the past few weeks, these reviews have derided the show for being racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and using subjects such as rape and alcoholism for comedic material. For too much of the season, Lucky Louie has come across as a way for a white man to crack jokes at the expense of those less fortunate than him. In Louie, Louis C.K. reveals an overwhelming amount of empathy, but his earlier series often feels burdened by his failure to understand anyone’s perspective other than his own.
“Confession” doesn’t find C.K. being any more empathetic, but it does show him aiming his humor in a more suitable (and funnier) direction. Rather...
- 8/19/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
Cougar Town Season 5, Episode 12 “Love Is A Long Road”
Written by Mary Fitzgerald
Directed by Michael McDonald
Season finale airs Tuesday, April 1st at 10pm Et on TBS
I’ve said it numerous times before in Cougar Town reviews, but it holds true once again with “Love Is A Long Road”; the presence of Chick always adds emotional levity to episodes, even to stories he has nothing to do with. Following the events of “Refugee”, it would be easy to expect “Love Is A Long Road” to be a very serious episode of Cougar Town focused on Chick’s growing Alzheimer’s – instead, we get a light-hearted episode about old man farts, Ellie’s insecurities, and Bobby’s always-unorthodox approach to being a good father, all centered around Travis’s upcoming graduation.
Except that it is kind of a serious episode of the show: with no word on a sixth season as of yet,...
Written by Mary Fitzgerald
Directed by Michael McDonald
Season finale airs Tuesday, April 1st at 10pm Et on TBS
I’ve said it numerous times before in Cougar Town reviews, but it holds true once again with “Love Is A Long Road”; the presence of Chick always adds emotional levity to episodes, even to stories he has nothing to do with. Following the events of “Refugee”, it would be easy to expect “Love Is A Long Road” to be a very serious episode of Cougar Town focused on Chick’s growing Alzheimer’s – instead, we get a light-hearted episode about old man farts, Ellie’s insecurities, and Bobby’s always-unorthodox approach to being a good father, all centered around Travis’s upcoming graduation.
Except that it is kind of a serious episode of the show: with no word on a sixth season as of yet,...
- 3/26/2014
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
Cougar Town Season 5, Episode 5 “Hard On Me”
Written by Mary Fitzgerald
Directed by John Putch
Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm Et on TBS
There aren’t many recurring characters who bring as much gravitas to a comedy as Ken Jenkins does on Cougar Town. Anytime Chick Cobb shows up in town, Cougar Town morphs from a slapstick comedy about 40-somethings into something more existential, using the established father/daughter relationship to explore some of the more difficult, unanswered questions we face as we head into the middle portion of our lives. “Hard On Me” is no exception: even when it’s not focused on Chick and his Alzheimer’s, death (in the form of an infected Ellie) hangs over the entire episode, a symbolic reminder of life’s cruelest inevitability whenever Chick isn’t on-screen.
As expected, Chick’s presence yanks the attention away from anything else going on this season,...
Written by Mary Fitzgerald
Directed by John Putch
Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm Et on TBS
There aren’t many recurring characters who bring as much gravitas to a comedy as Ken Jenkins does on Cougar Town. Anytime Chick Cobb shows up in town, Cougar Town morphs from a slapstick comedy about 40-somethings into something more existential, using the established father/daughter relationship to explore some of the more difficult, unanswered questions we face as we head into the middle portion of our lives. “Hard On Me” is no exception: even when it’s not focused on Chick and his Alzheimer’s, death (in the form of an infected Ellie) hangs over the entire episode, a symbolic reminder of life’s cruelest inevitability whenever Chick isn’t on-screen.
As expected, Chick’s presence yanks the attention away from anything else going on this season,...
- 2/5/2014
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
Cougar Town Season 4, Episodes 15 & 16 ‘Don’t Fade On Me’/'Have Love Will Travel’
Directed by John Putch
‘Don’t Fade On Me’ written by Melody Derloshon & Blake McCormick
‘Have Love Will Travel’ written by Mary Fitzgerald & Peter Saji
Cougar Town returns for season 5 in 2014
It’s been an interesting season for Cougar Town, one that’s had it’s share of emotional highs (‘Make It Better’) and overly broad comedic lows (last week’s ‘The Criminal Kind‘). Tonight’s two-part season finale falls somewhere in the middle: it’s one of the funnier episodes of the season, but is often too sentimental for its own good, despite having its heart in the right place in the most important moments, when the themes of family and hope are at their strongest.
A lot of tonight’s two episodes – ‘Have Love Will Travel’ in particular – felt like an old version of Cougar Town...
Directed by John Putch
‘Don’t Fade On Me’ written by Melody Derloshon & Blake McCormick
‘Have Love Will Travel’ written by Mary Fitzgerald & Peter Saji
Cougar Town returns for season 5 in 2014
It’s been an interesting season for Cougar Town, one that’s had it’s share of emotional highs (‘Make It Better’) and overly broad comedic lows (last week’s ‘The Criminal Kind‘). Tonight’s two-part season finale falls somewhere in the middle: it’s one of the funnier episodes of the season, but is often too sentimental for its own good, despite having its heart in the right place in the most important moments, when the themes of family and hope are at their strongest.
A lot of tonight’s two episodes – ‘Have Love Will Travel’ in particular – felt like an old version of Cougar Town...
- 4/10/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
The scene in Newtown, Johannesburg, shortly after South Africa scored against Mexico in the World Cup’s opening match. Photograph by Austin Merrill. The entrance to Mary Fitzgerald Square is beneath the hulking overpass of the M1 expressway, which cuts through Johannesburg north-to-south. I got out of my taxi and walked along in the shadow of the towering concrete, heading to where thousands of people were already in place to watch the opening match of the World Cup on a giant public screen. It’s more like getting dropped off under the Fdr in lower Manhattan for a stroll through Pier 17 than, say, being plopped down under the Bqe near the Gowanus Canal—but it’s a daunting and gritty urban setting nonetheless.
- 6/12/2010
- Vanity Fair
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