Thursday, June 14, 2007

How annoying

What if a television crew pulled up to your house, came inside while your six-month old baby was sleeping, and started moving your furniture around? What if they then started plugging in huge lights, setting up camp at your dining room table and rehearsing scenes where people argue in loud voices, as if unaware an infant is napping?

Sounds pretty rude, doesn't it? It gets worse- the director encourages the actors to "escalate the emotional temperature" and doesn't dissuade them from swearing while the crew searches the area for interesting items to put into the scene for visual effect.


If that sounds like fun, we'd like to use your place as a location.

Fortunately, there are some friends of Tara's who welcome us in regardless. Today we returned to the scene of the Great Pizza Mishap (also known as the antique table debacle) and asked to use the beautiful children who live there as underage actors to help us build a sympathetic backstory for our character. Thanks Beth, Ruby and Maddy!

This episode (Number 9) saw its share of miracles, but the most amazing are the shots of Robyn with the children, which just leads me to believe that somebody up there likes us.

Great performances from Robyn Mincher who luminesced as our missing heroine, and all our bad guys and red herrings, Fernando and JD, who is going to be a caveman in a Geico ad (!) Nice job dude.

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