Vineland, the TV Series

[Brock Vond]

Carnivale was the closest any tv show ever came to being pynchonesque  
I think... Also cancelled...

On Feb 18, 2009, at 16:12, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> too bad it didn't last --had potential--considering some of the other
> crap HBO replaced it with, I was bit surprised they pulled the plug so
> quickly.
>
> i agree with you--it had that vibe (I know bad word) or Vineland-like
> sensibility
>
> rich
>
> On 2/18/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> John From Cincinatti seemed to be an approximation of what  
>> Vineland:  The TV
>> Series might be like.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>>> Sent: Feb 18, 2009 1:10 PM
>>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Subject: Re: Vineland, the TV Series
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:
>>>
>>>> For me, VL stands out in the Pynchon canon as, next to COL49, the
>>>> easiest
>>>> read, but more importantly, the most exterior, i.e. least internal,
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> There's more to the Tube in VL than the usually entertaining
>>>> references to
>>>> shows, real and imagined. This one has a higher dialogue to weight
>>>> ratio
>>>> than any other P-work (someone talk me down if I'm wrong), making  
>>>> it
>>>> easier
>>>> to transfer to the Tube, and with less loss, than any other work by
>>>> OBA.
>>>>
>>>> Henry Mu
>>>
>>> I concur, Vineland consciously is modeled after made-for-TV movies  
>>> and
>>> miniseries, from its flashbacks within flashbacks right up to its
>>> happily-ever-after conclusion.
>>
>>