Today, I wonder if you’ve ever had the experience of thinking you were watching a knockoff of a writer until you realized it was an official adaptation.
Pop Culture Theme Time is a feature where I put a question to you to see what you think about a particular theme. I might later revisit the theme for a future Drawing Crazy Patterns or Top Five.
I went into the new TV series, RJ Decker, completely blind beyond what the commercials for the TV show showed, which was Scott Speedman playing a former newspaper photographer who is now working as a private investigator in Florida.
While watching the episode, my wife and I kept noting that it really seemed like it was leaning HEAVILY into a Carl Hiaasen vibe, so much so that if felt like a knockoff of Hiaasen’s work. So I looked it up, and sure enough, it was a straight adaptation of one of Hiaasen’s earliest novels (the guy has a lot of novels, I’ve read some, but not all!).
Has something like that ever happened to you?
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I keep hoping somebody does a Skink adaptation while we still have Nick Nolte. At least we don’t have to worry about him aging out. On topic, I gotta go with the Louie episode where out “ahem” hero gets tapped to take over from Letterman but first he has to meet with a producer which involves going down this long creepy hallway and just before I say “This has a David Lynch vibe..”we find out who’s playing the producer. (And he was GREAT! How that show didn’t absolutely dominate the Guest Actor Emmy category is a mystery to me).