Mon, Apr 28th, 2008
11:30 New Amsterdam
12:30 Flight Of The Conchords
New Amsterdam. Episode 6. Legacy. Now this is more like it. Instead of an irrelevant case-of-the-week, we get a fascinating story linked to the background of the main character. The flashbacks take us back a hundred years and highlight a fascinating period in John's life, the transition from one family to another. His wife has grown too old for him, and he is drawn to a younger woman. His family breaks apart. In the present day, we see what became of that family's descendants (John's descendants). One of them lies dead and the whole family seems to have been drawn into a life of crime. John takes this to heart, and tries to find out how it happend and what happened to the son who left all those years ago.
It's a great story. Totally fresh and very enjoyable. This show is built on the shoulders of a flawed, but fascinating, central character. The romance gets very little airtime this week and the problems from last week are resolved a little to easily for my liking. No matter. The episode, as a whole, was superb.
Flight Of The Conchords. Episode 7. Drive By highlights an ugly world. The world of rampant discrimination against New Zealanders. Yes. I said "rampant discrimination against New Zealanders". I mean, who knew? But, there you go. It's very real. Apparently. They can't buy fruit from stands on the street and they are forced to sit at the back of the bus. And on it goes. Ugly, indeed.
This may be the most insane episode yet of Flight of the Conchords. And I say that while fully conscious of the fact that "David Bowie" was walking on the walls in the previous episode. However, in that instance, we were still in the real world. Or, at least, close to it. With this episode, FotC dives full tilt into Crazy World. And it's a blast. The episode, sadly, has no cool songs up to the standard of previous outings, but it has some truly sublime gags.
New Amsterdam, Flight Of The Conchords
