Arts Morning Roundup: The Problem With TV Remakes…

Is that they all suck, apparently. Morning, y’all! Re TV: You got Chris Klimek and Glen Weldon gracefully dropping huge turds on the new Prisoner, and here’s Bill O’Reilly meh-meh-mehing about how the script writers for the alien invasion show V are taking “potshots” at the Obama Administration. Incidentally, Klimek and Weldon are criticizing a not-very-good apolitical remake of a very good political show, while nutters from all over are railing for and against the supposedly political and very good remake of an apolitical and very bad show. How complicated is that? There’s no pleasing these motherfuckers. All I know is that I would love it if my friends would stop accusing me of being a birther every time I mention V.

Further evidence that Tobias Wolff is the only author in existence who doesn’t sound put upon when interviewed for the millionth time , a great piece on Edward P. Jones, the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, and more, after the jump.

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