12 posts tagged “showtime”

The local cable just raised our rates so high that us old retirees are now paying over a hundred dollars a month, and HALF of that is for Showtime!  So if Brotherhood is not renewed my husband says we must give up your service!  PLEASE!  I need Brotherhood to save me from those boring reruns of Law and Order and such which my husband loves!  Of course he uses the better of our two sets, while I watch Showtime on our second set, a mediocrity!  But I would rather see Brotherhood snowy and blitzed, that not get to see it at all!  PLEASE!  Renew Brotherhood NOW! I need the Caffees to save me from boredom, ennui, silliness, repetitious junk, and who know what other moral evils!

I DO NOT WANT TO SEE MIKE  CAFFEE ON THE FLOOR/GROUND/ANYWHERE, HALF DEAD AND MAYBE GONE!  noooooooooooooooo. 

IDO NOT WANT TO SEE SILLY TOM CAFFEE WITH A SCRAWNY ANOREXIC BOTTLE BLONDE WHEN HE HAS A BEAUTIFUL, INTELLIGENT WIFE WHO HAS BORNE HIS CHILDREN AND CARES FOR THEM AS BEST SHE CAN!

MOST OF ALL I WANT TO SEE A WHOLE NEW SEASON OF MY FAVORITE TV SERIES, THE ONE I WATCH AT LEAST FOUR NITES A WEEK, SOMETIMES FIVE BECAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL RERUNS, ON SHOWTIE.!

IF THEY CANCEL BROTHERHOOD,  I WILL PROMPTLY CANCEL SHOWTIME, BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY SHOW I WATCH ON THAT EXPENSIVE NETWORK!

Poor Pete!  Dead and gone and finally noticed! 

A friend who is a devoted fan of the actor, Stivi, who played Pete so very well, sent me her own carefully hoarded screen caps of Pete.

That poor tortured, abused boy!  Who doesn't remember that pathetic scene where he and Mike Caffee are sent to find a suit for Freddie Cork's dead son, and find the evidence of the son's homosexual relationship with another young man,  The son killed himself jumping off the an overpass down onto the rainy interstate, causing mayhem and death below in the slipping and sliding traffice. 

Pete stands among all the clothes and fine furniture, and asks Mike if he has ever considered suicide.  Confident and well and strong in his convictions, Mike replies that he never even thought of it.  It just wasn't on his list of options.  But Pete admits that back when he was about eleven years old in an abusive foster hom situation, feeling no love from his real family or his acquired family, he tried hanging himself.  But the rope broke and "I thought even God didn't want me." 

Pete tries to help Eileen deal with drug and alcohol addiction, and has little success when she shares her stash of cocaine with him as he waits to go in to an AA meeting.  But Pete pulls himself together somehow, only to be shot in a strip bar brawl by a low-ranking Mafioso, and his mangled body dumped across the street from Mike's mother's house, as if to taunt Mike.

The funeral is pathetic, with only Mike and Eileen attending.  Mike says "He had a crush on you,' to which Eileen replies, "a girl could have done worse."

I complained publicly about not seeing enough of this extraordinary quiet character who is Freddie Cork's personal assassin.  He is important in most episodes involving the gangster moves.  He is the only one to recognize that it is not right to mock and ignore the murder of poor Pete!  He offers a nice wad of money to Colin for Pete's funeral, shaming Freddie into acknowledging some small obligation toward a memorial for a comrade in arms.

SJ is a really built guy, and has a nice collection of tatoos.  As I have watched him in the various scenes with Mike, both in the background as Freddie's looming threat, or in "Jobs" with Mike where Mike used to be second in command, but is now brain damaged and not exactly trustworthy.  The actor plays the part thorougly and well, and though he has few lines, he uses them well. 

Interesting to see him keep track of the slip into drugs and girls of Declan.  He must report every detail very well to Freddie, because Freddie always seems to know exactly what to say to Dec to get the most use out of him.

A friend who is a fan of SJ sent me these screencaps when I commented on SJ.  She has just seen the latest Morgan Freeman film in which the actor playing SJ has a small role, and one line, which I think I better not repeat here!  She thinks it is a wonderful line, so go see the movie, and see our Silent John, not always silent!

What a wonderful Episode, this episode 4 of Brotherhood on ShowTime.  Every actor had a great new stab at something different, and the very best part to me was the Adventure of Grandma's Blue Car!  I loved every minute of it, having once had a teenage child who would sneak off at nite trying our Dad's big station wagon, and getting caught by the city cops, who called us to come rescue the fool!  Lucky he never scraped that car of Dad would have exploded!  But seeing Kat and Eileen together was just wonderful for me!  And when she took out that gun and said Mike had taught her how to use it, and all that, GREAT!  Of course, seeing clearly that Granny is jealous of Kat, and being mean as a snake to Colin too, was very good!  So maybe we should ask just which man is Colin's father?  Did his errant mama, Granny's sister, have a fling with one of Granny's boy friends?  Is that why Granny is so irate with poor Colin?  Well, back to the girlies--smoking pot and sharing sexual images, that was just great!  Now I am left with a wonderful image of Mike (Jason) as a wild animal in bed or on the floor or anywhere he can catch her!  I just love that image which they leave there for me to imagine instead of showing it to me!  I am from that old school which prefers to not SEE everything concretely, but rather to be told, with hints and laughter, something which I can elaborate upon in my own nasty Granny imainagion.  Thanks, BrotherHood for really good episode!

Since Brotherhood, Showtime's rough and ready series of Irish Mafia violence and background families, has entered a really great second season, I for one would like a whole rundown on the crooks and creeps facing my Mike!  I found a really nice image of the slimey Moe with a bit about him.  It's a very nice piece for my photo files.  But I would really, really appreciate a picture and rundown on Silent John!  I know he is just another roughneck assassin, engaged in murdering Freddy Cork's supposed enemies, and he will probably, like the deceased Pete, be somewhat worried about whether or not all his digging and delving in that mysterious Overpass where he deposits his victims will give him cancer!  But I perversely find him extremely attractive.  Maybe it is because he doesn't talk too much!  Of maybe he just cuts a nice masculine figure in that t-shirt, plus the tatoos.  But I certainly would appreciate a nice portrait of him, like the one of silly Moe who lies and cheats all his comrades from Mike Caffee to Freddie Cork!  He seems to understand Declan very well.  Is the goregous blond he was with at the Irish Wedding at the end of Season One his wife, or just one of the more expensive ladies of the evening from the establishment he runs for Freddy?  And I have missed learning his name.  Is it Irish?  Or just humdrum American wasteland.  I liked him a bit more when he gave money off his roll for Pete's funeral, showing up Freddie and Moe for the pikers they really are.

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A Brotherhood Wallpaper from caps by Char and images off Showtime Site.

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I define this as my worst vice!  I watch each episode at least three times a week, because Showtime puts it there withing such easy reach!  I am a Brotherhood addict!  I am not satisfied until I have actually memorized most of the script of each episode, by watching each one at least three times.  Showtime, drat you, for putting these on at all sorts of reasonable times.  When there is nothing else except yet another crime/cop show, another rerun of sexcrimes from Lawand Order, another.... Well, I watch Brotherhood on Sunday, carefully avoiding Dexter which is just silly.  Then I watch it again on Monday when it hits a blank spot in the entire offering of all tvnetworks and cable offerings, and then a third time on Tuesday, when I simply record NCIS which is near to the top in my favorites but I can watch it in the morning when my husband watches it!  So now I have filtered the ins and outs of these wonderful scripts for this second season of my all-time favorite tv show!

Looking at the script and acting for Episode 3 of Brotherhood, I just have to say WOW! That fellow playing Declan, the rogue cop who clobbered Mike at the end of the first season, has really gotten some wonderful actor chances!  And he takes them ALL!  But what might happen if slime-ball Moe (and isn't he GOOD at his role?) accidentally lets fall the knowledge that Dec is the one who almost murdered Mike?  And now Freddie Cork is wiggling around trying not to have to battle the Italian Mafia?  Great looks from Freddie, that waffling around, trying to look brave, trying to be smart!  I liked it that Silent John, Freddie's private assassin, was the first to do the honorable thing and kick in cash for Pete's funeral.  I wonder that SJ hasn't reported more of Moe's slimey sneakiness straight to Freddie.  Or has he, and Freddie keeps it to himself!  Nice writing!  And I  liked it that Eileen admitted her friendship with poor dead Pete, and it was nice of her to go to that funeral, where only she and Mike, whom she has formerly loathed, are the only ones there.  Very nice.  And now we see the use of Cousin Colin!  He makes an excellent replacement as sidekick to Mike.  After all, he really is family, and has in the past admired Mike as a replacement father.  Mike can use all the help he can get.  I really enjoyed this episode, and will probably watch it several times on ShowTime, which offers it at many times and nites!  Thanks to Showtime for giving us this great series!