The Minor Accomplishments Of Jackie Woodham –
Season One
Picture:
C Sound: C+ Extras: C- Episodes: C
Why are
films, dramatic TV series and even reality TV shows about Hollywood so shallow,
silly, predictable, condescending and bad?
Because they do not take their subject seriously enough, might be
playing it too safe and displays knowledge of the town, business and its
product badly. The latest offender is
the unbelievably lame recent TV series The
Minor Accomplishments Of Jackie Woodham created by and starring Laura
Kightlinger.
She is
the title character and the series is the equivalent of the vanity project
feature films we used to suffer though all the time. Nobody talks like this, the world the show
paints never feels real and people talk at, not to each other. All the characters are two-dimensional and
the only thing people will get out of this show is not liking the film business
and maybe even thinking that it being this way is why so many films are so
bad. Minor accomplishments indeed!
The
letterboxed 1.78 X 1 image is weak in color, detail, depth and is pale
throughout, even if it is consistently so.
Add the shaky camerawork that we get too often and this is not easy to
sit through. The Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo has no surrounds and is not recorded that well throughout to begin
with. Extras include a preview for the
next season and an introduction featurette to the show.
- Nicholas Sheffo
