The Most Beautiful Show Brought to Cable Cancelled....So Sad....
This is a sweetly beautiful show filled with a very complex purity. It was one of my favorite shows. (I am extremely disappointed to see that it was cancelled this month.) In any case, Laura Dern is just superb in her complexity and "cuteness factor". And Mike White, and all the rest of the cast, along with the entire production, are just genius. So very sad to see it cancelled.....But thank you HBO for bringing us this TRUE gift for the two seasons it was on. I am definitely buying the DVD's now.....
A New Pilgrim's Progress
What can an everyday person do to help change the world? Enlightened Season Two maps the territory in an erratic, sometimes aimless way that eventually delivers its punch through underplaying (yes, even Laura Dern and her mother try underplaying here, to great result) and some script surprises which I dare not reveal in this public space, eve though the show's been cancelled and anyone who cared for it has doubtless subscribed to HBO and gone for it. But anyhow when the end times came for Enlightened I put aside my grudges and totally embraced the ethos of the show, confusing and arbitrary as it is/was.
I should add that some varied acting helped the pace of Season Two. Viewers, some of us, had a hard time with Laura Dern's continual swing between relentless optimism and Nazimova-like gloom, which occurred in every episode; one wanted to reach out and counsel her, Amy Jellicoe, don't stop taking your meds just because you saw a flower in your mother's garden. And...
HBO needs to release this on blu-ray
I emailed HBO asking them to please release Enlightened Season 2 on blu-ray. They never responded, which is another slap in the face (the first slap being the cancellation of Enlightened).
Still, the show ends on an okay note instead of one which leaves you hanging (like the finale of Season 1) but Season 1 was released on blu-ray, so why not Season 2?
Is HBO really that stingy that they are only going to release Season 2 on DVD? I don't even buy DVDs anymore.
If ANYONE working for HBO happens to read this...PLEASE tell whoever you need to that fans of the show would like to own both seasons on blu-ray, not just one.
Our show was cancelled. Please, be gentle with us and give us Season 2 on blu-ray. Please.
If you haven't checked out Enlightened yet, I recommend buying Season 1 on blu-ray. I watched Season 1 during a difficult time of my life, and it really picked me up and touched me. I'm sad to see it end, but both Season 1 and...
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