STILL NEIL'S TURN: I thought NPH showed some decent directing chops with last night's HIMYM, in particular drawing the least douchy performance we've seen in a good while out of Josh Radnor and pulling together some nice editing. Sure, it meant we had almost no Barney in the episode, but it's nice to see the show avoiding being overly dependent on the Barney character for laughs. (Though what was with Jason Segel's hair for most of the episode--looked like a bad hairpiece?)
But that's not the biggest NPH news of the day--not only is he in the final stages of negotiating a deal to guest on Glee (subject to CBS's approval), but the episode he'd appear in is the Joss Whedon-directed one (in a part written especially for him, and yes, there will be singing). Hear that over there? That was the sound of some heads exploding in the distance.
NPH is doing it right.
ReplyDeleteI say, wouldn't an undiginified "Squee!" be appropriate about now?
ReplyDeleteIt is not overstating things when I say this just made my entire day.
ReplyDeleteAmazing what NPH has done to make the transition from child star to this. I was flipping through channels the other day and came across the exercable "Starship Troopers" (a terrible film made from one of my favorite books) and when I saw that in the theater in 1997, I recall thinking - wow, NPH is going to be stuck in basic cable made-for-tv crap for the rest of his life. Not so. And hurrah for him. (And I will rejoin Glee for this episode)
ReplyDeleteI call shenanigans on professors wanting to hang out with their students.
ReplyDeleteMade my day too, LB. Just hoping none of the Glee cast members get bloodily impaled during the episode. Though they already had a throwaway bit where Sue made an elderly teacher fall down the stairs so she could replace her as arts adviser, so who knows.
ReplyDeleteIf they could work in a spelling bee angle (yes, I know high school is too old) and some reference to the Olympics in the episode, I'm pretty sure that the readership of this site could die happy.
ReplyDeleteHey now, Starship Troopers is an excellent movie. It's a wicked little satire of war films/propoganda films/Robert Heinlen's novel. Would you like to know more?
ReplyDeletePlus, it has Clancy Brown. Everything is more awesome with Clancy Brown.
Agreed. It's not Verhoeven's fault that critics didn't get it.
ReplyDeleteClancy Brown was even able to make Kerri Weaver seem attractive and desirable. No mean feat.
ReplyDeletewhether as Viking or Brother Justin, Clancy brings it with the same whimsical gravitas.
ReplyDeleteSign me up as digging Starship Troopers as well.
My husband would like to know why I use the word "douchebag" incessantly whenever we watch HIMYM, and exactly never the rest of the time. It is just an uncontrollable impulse whenever Radnor is on the screen.
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