Cool Show
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Television |Tags: Jack_and_Bobby
This is such a cool show: Jack and Bobby on the WB, Sunday nights at 9:00 PM. It has drama, politics, and conflict. It explores the formative, coming-of-age years of a fictional character who is to become the 52nd President of the United States in 2041. The cool thing is that this character (Bobby McAllister) is known as the greatest president of the 21st Century.
The show is set in the present day (2004). Last night’s show featured Kerry-Edwards campaign signs, which I was not too happy about seeing. And another thing: the show has a cool montage of past presidents and their youth, but the images are skewed towards the friggin Dems: I think only Reagan appears, maybe Nixon, but the last president is Clinton kissing his feminazi wife (what a joke). Surprisingly, there is no Bush (either in picture or his name mentioned), yet the second show featured Kerry-Edwards campaign paraphenalia. But I was glad to learn that the character, Bobby, is a Republican. He must have rebelled from his mother’s liberal politics. However, because of his moderate stance, he runs for the presidential election as an Independent (splitting the votes for the Republican party??). Update: — Link to Bobby’s mother’s (Grace’s) Moonlight Address speech
There are several character conflicts in the show:
- Mother-son (Jack, the older brother).
- Mother-son (Bobby, younger sibling).
- Grace-Peter (professor-president).
- Jack-Courtney (tension, romantic angst).
- Jack-Bobby (brother-brother).
- political tensions.
There is plenty to mull over. But the show does not seem to tackle too many conflicts at any given time, giving each one carefuly development and consideration (at least from what I can observe after two shows). There is plenty of material to explore for several seasons.
The acting is excellent for a WB show. I’d say it’s some of the best on that channel. It’s gunning for my favorite show behind Smallville. Smallville doesn’t have the best acting talent on display, but hey, it’s the Superman mythology.