HBO Does Fort Greene
Did anyone watch “Bored to Death” last night? The Local’s Andy Newman ran an interview with the show’s writer and main character, Jonathan Ames, last week about the process of representing/misrepresenting Brooklyn on international television. Newman and Ames, who live in Park Slope and Boerum Hill respectively, talk about how the show takes place in…

Did anyone watch “Bored to Death” last night? The Local‘s Andy Newman ran an interview with the show’s writer and main character, Jonathan Ames, last week about the process of representing/misrepresenting Brooklyn on international television. Newman and Ames, who live in Park Slope and Boerum Hill respectively, talk about how the show takes place in Fort Greene even though Ames never lived there (the central character lives on South Portland), how the trailer showed only white people despite Fort Greene’s diversity, and Ames’ predilection for the ladies who frequent Smooch Cafe. The interview was light-hearted and full of banter, but some of the topics covered are hot-button issues for Brooklynites. Did anyone see the first episode? How did HBO’s Fort Greene compare to the real thing?
Bored to Death [Official site]
A Sense of (Semi-fictionalized) Place [The Local, NYT]
The Flight of the Conchords pffft…
Mighty Boosh!
“How’s this barely employed guy able to pay his rent again? I’ll probably never find out.
Look! A thousand strollers by the coffee shop! Hardy-har-har.”
Not everyone around the country is as Brooklyn savvy as us. Most people still associate Brooklyn being cheaper vs Manhattan and are probably not aware of the ‘stroller mafia’ in Brooklyn neighborhoods.
The show was pretty painful to watch, due to an overwhelming amount of cliches – real ones, as well as some invented ones. How’s this barely employed guy able to pay his rent again? I’ll probably never find out.
Look! A thousand strollers by the coffee shop! Hardy-har-har.
personally i find scripted cable shows very blah. scripted tv in general is not my cup of tv, except for Hannah Montana of course. 🙂 but that show is life imitating reality or something like that anyway so maybe it deosn’t count?
besides, everything eventually comes out on dvd box sets so if you wait a few months you can just buy it on dvd and not have to pay for cable. we have cable, but not the premium channels. unless you really watch a lot of premium tv it’s not worth the cost.
also, im not sure if anyone knows, but if you plan to stay at your residence for more than 2 years you can call the cable company right now and get a big discount on your bill.
*rob*
somehow I can’t imagine your cable TV/HBO is $20 a month.
I may be elite but no elitist. Am not pretending to be reading the best books or any books for that matter.
Just saying computers have now become big source of entertainment…..
And besides from Judge Judy…anything else seems so stupid.
Last thing I tried to watch (from DVD rental) was some prison thing (either from an HBO or showtime series)…and after 3 episodes couldn’t take it anymore.
Oh god _ i forgot about Flight of the Conchords – when does that start back up!??!
Ditto what Rookie said for $20/month. Thought the first episode was great. I watched a special about the show, in which the creator said that, even though they’re filming in Brooklyn, they’re not going to be hyper rigid about authenticity vis-a-vis neighborhoods, e.g., having Fort Greene stand in for Boerum Hill.
Yeah, clearly the good arty writing is in premium Tv now…not in books so much anymore.
Zach Galifianakis is really getting around nowadays.