Besides Eli Manning, one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, doing it again, AGAIN, there wasn’t much interesting in terms of the ads.
I like the commercial with the graduate who thinks his parents got him a car, that was pretty good (and filmed about 5 minutes from where I work) but the rest was blah. I mean how many bikinis can you look at?
But there was something that grabbed my attention. An ad for a new television show starring the awesome Jason Isaacs with as wild a premise as I have seen. I will definitely check it out next month.
Here is the preview for Awake. Isaacs plays a detective who after a terrible car crash goes to sleep and wakes up in two realities. In one, his wife died and his son lived. And in the other, his son died and his wife lived. He cannot tell which is reality and which is the dream. This has potential.
February 6, 2012 at 11:41 am
Fun fact: The "happy grad" who went crazy is the producer of the Busted Halo show on the Catholic Channel on Sirius.
February 6, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I actually really liked the Sandman commercial:
http://www.5min.com/Video/Kia-Optima—Sandman—Sweet-Dreams—Super-Bowl-Commercial-517263698
I just think it's sweet that in his "ultimate" dream, the husband races away from the bikini models, crashes into his wife's dream, and takes her back to real life where they're happier than they are in their dreams. Of course they're selling a car, but to me, they're also "selling" marriage.
February 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Love the Banner, guys. I should have made Tito do the same at TAC.
February 6, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Ohh, THAT was Brett?? We laughed our heads off at that one. I am SO phyched for this new TV show. I don't think anyone believed me when I said, "It's Jason Isaacs!! YOU know…Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies!!" You guys predicted "Person of Interest" would rock, and you were right…will this be 2 for 2? 🙂
February 6, 2012 at 8:36 pm
"I mean how many bikinis can you look at?"
I'll have to get back to you on that one!
February 7, 2012 at 4:50 am
Frankly, "Awake" sounds like the kind of cheap "ontological mystery" that lazy writers use in lieu of coming up with good plots and settings. After all, "wait, which one of these is real, and which one's fake?!" is much easier to write drama around than, you know, things actually happening.
Let's start a betting pool: who says it's going to turn out both realities are fake? Who says it's going to turn out to be the Afterlife, or some waiting room in the Celestial Bureaucracy for the not-quite-dead? Sorry, that's a decent premise for a one-shot Japanese horror comic ("Celestial Bureaucracy" is an actual term in the Sinosphere), but I refuse to watch a TV series about it.
February 7, 2012 at 9:38 pm
"You are living in a detailed alternate reality"
Bingo!!!!!
The True Story of my life!
I'm definitely watching this one.
Thanks for the post.
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