Oscars: A gauntlet is thrown
Today in the Daily News, we try to deflate awards' season's overly bulging balloon a smidgen with an argument that today's best TV is better than the movies that we're spending so much time celebrating on this blog.
Check out the story, linked below, then feel free to agree or disagree -- as vociferously as you like. Call us -- OK, me -- any name that won't get you censored. And we'll respond. 
Blogs are about dialogue, and that's what we want to start here, and if the give-and-take can be funny and insightful at the same time, all the better. (If you/we can only be funny, so be it; if it can only be insightful, the world may end.)
Full disclosure: I used to be a movie critic -- a real movie snob, to be honest -- before reviewing TV for the Daily News (in fact, the Daily News was one of the local outlets for which I reviewed films; I've since withdrawn my membership from the LA Film Critics Association). Which either solidifies my position as a TV champion or makes me an abject turncoat. Which is your call.
Comments
While there has been a unusually high number of outstanding films released this year, I agree that some of the most creative and gripping work can be found on television. A two-hour film, no matter how good, simply doesn't allow for the type of long-term story arcs and character development of episodic tv at its best. (Series like Deadwood, Farscape, Veronica Mars...) The Oscars may get all the glitz, but there are more than a few gems sitting right in people's living rooms from week to week.
Posted by: Kaya | January 12, 2006 10:09 PM