This week, the greatest trial in the history of ever came to a close.
Well, maybe not--trials never really end these days, but all the fun stuff seems to be over.
I'm talking about Nicolette Sheridan vs. Marc Cherry, ABC, and pretty much anybody who had anything to do with Desperate Housewives.
I should preface this post by saying I know absolutely nothing about the law or about the legalities of whatever it is that happened during this trial.
All I know is that a television show that passed its prime years ago was being argued about in court as if it was the Magna Carta...or something.
My favorite day had to be opening statements, when Sheridan's lawyer accused Cherry of killing off her character, not just prematurely, but in a poorly written episode.
Has this guy watched Desperate Housewives recently? Every episode is poorly written.
Then there was an argument about whether or not the show has killed off any of its main characters.
Again, I side with Sheridan. The four prime housewives have always stayed intact. Everybody else has always stayed fair game. Edie (Sheridan's character) always hovered on the periphery, but it was reasonable to believe she was also a character who would stick around to the end, if only because she was the foil of all the other characters.
Then Cherry's lawyers countered by saying a major character would be killed off soon. (Spoiler Alert: They meant James Denton's Mike--as if killing a character off with six episodes left in the final season is the same thing as killing someone off in the middle of the show's run.)
This all stems from an incident where Cherry slapped Sheridan. I don't know who to side with on this. On one hand, Marc Cherry does seem like a little bitch who would slap someone, and on the other hand, I often find myself wanting to slap Nicolette Sheridan.
If I were the judge, I'd probably have to rule that one a wash.
Part of me wishes they'd had a trial like this after Oz went off the air. They were killing main characters twice a week on that show, and none of them sued. And what about on Lost, when two of the actresses who had just been added to the show were arrested for drunk driving, and then subsequently killed off in a rash and very odd way on the show.
Everybody knows if you piss off the producer, you're getting written off the show. Love it or hate it, those are the rules--unless your character's name is Jack Cooper and the show is called "All Coopered Up." Even then, they'd probably try to replace you with Sandy Duncan.
To use an overused yet appropriate expression here--it's nothing to make a federal case out of it.
Although I sure am glad they did. Maybe they just should have filmed the trial and aired it in place of the actual show.
Now that I would have watched.
Well, maybe not--trials never really end these days, but all the fun stuff seems to be over.
I'm talking about Nicolette Sheridan vs. Marc Cherry, ABC, and pretty much anybody who had anything to do with Desperate Housewives.
I should preface this post by saying I know absolutely nothing about the law or about the legalities of whatever it is that happened during this trial.
All I know is that a television show that passed its prime years ago was being argued about in court as if it was the Magna Carta...or something.
My favorite day had to be opening statements, when Sheridan's lawyer accused Cherry of killing off her character, not just prematurely, but in a poorly written episode.
Has this guy watched Desperate Housewives recently? Every episode is poorly written.
Then there was an argument about whether or not the show has killed off any of its main characters.
Again, I side with Sheridan. The four prime housewives have always stayed intact. Everybody else has always stayed fair game. Edie (Sheridan's character) always hovered on the periphery, but it was reasonable to believe she was also a character who would stick around to the end, if only because she was the foil of all the other characters.
Then Cherry's lawyers countered by saying a major character would be killed off soon. (Spoiler Alert: They meant James Denton's Mike--as if killing a character off with six episodes left in the final season is the same thing as killing someone off in the middle of the show's run.)
This all stems from an incident where Cherry slapped Sheridan. I don't know who to side with on this. On one hand, Marc Cherry does seem like a little bitch who would slap someone, and on the other hand, I often find myself wanting to slap Nicolette Sheridan.
If I were the judge, I'd probably have to rule that one a wash.
Part of me wishes they'd had a trial like this after Oz went off the air. They were killing main characters twice a week on that show, and none of them sued. And what about on Lost, when two of the actresses who had just been added to the show were arrested for drunk driving, and then subsequently killed off in a rash and very odd way on the show.
Everybody knows if you piss off the producer, you're getting written off the show. Love it or hate it, those are the rules--unless your character's name is Jack Cooper and the show is called "All Coopered Up." Even then, they'd probably try to replace you with Sandy Duncan.
To use an overused yet appropriate expression here--it's nothing to make a federal case out of it.
Although I sure am glad they did. Maybe they just should have filmed the trial and aired it in place of the actual show.
Now that I would have watched.
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