Running Wilde

**Eggroll** · 2010-09-18 01:26

First episode is starting on the 21st on Fox. The trailer didn't look all that great, but the fact that Will Arnett is starring and Mitch Hurwitz (creator of Arrested Development) is attached is very promising.

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-18 15:43

David Cross (Tobias Funke) has a recurring character as well, so gonna watch it even if it's meh compared to AD.

**ZarakiKujata** · 2010-09-18 16:53

honestly that last show hurwitz made for fox had the potential to be AD-like if it was live action like they wanted but this could be good too

NAO WHERES MY AD MOVIE

**Trichocyst** · 2010-09-18 17:21

I love Will Arnett, but I have a really hard time buying him as a leading man. Especially since all of the promos have him acting like GOB, but not GOB. Michael Cera has the same issue for me. I watched the pilot to the spiritual companion series, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which features David Cross as the lead with Will Arnett popping in from time to time, and I have to believe it will fare better. It's being produced by a British studio and has a lot less restrictions if the pilot is any indication.

But I'd like for Running Wilde to surprise me.

**ZarakiKujata** · 2010-09-19 12:13

holy shit Todd Margaret is hilarious, what channel does this air on in the states?

edit: nvm IFC, wtf is that shit.

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-19 15:25

invisible fucking channel

**Eggroll** · 2010-09-20 01:00

Haha, after watching that Todd Margaret looks like it'll blow this show out of the water.

**Trichocyst** · 2010-09-21 09:43

Is that the original pilot or the one with the re-shoots? There's a version up on Hulu that cut some scenes out and isn't quite as profane, but I still think it looks like it will destroy Running Wilde.

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-21 12:09

I have no idea, but there's a good deal of cussin'. And yeah, RW is much more an attempt at broad appeal to avoid cancellation, but I don't have my hopes up too much.

**ZarakiKujata** · 2010-09-21 21:03

Ahh holy shit that was great. I think if they continue references to Arrested Development this could be as good as Todd Margaret, in the long run.

Also the mention of an unseen father/competing family members gives me hope for some other AD cameos..

edit: And it wasn't that broad, a lot of the humor felt very much like AD (which is to be expected)

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-21 21:12

I was assuming it was somewhat broad based on the trailer, about to watch the episode

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-21 21:36

Spoiler: show

fucking yes

**Eggroll** · 2010-09-22 18:58

I caught that too, haha

**Dryr** · 2010-09-24 01:26

Arnett had a very third season AD vibe to his character(very up front about his shallow-ness and unapologetic). Watching previews for the show I thought it would blow, but scenes like the one with arnett's character and his neighbor/friend Fahadd really give me hope for the show. Pilot eps aren't supposed to be amazing, but there were a few really funny bits to this one.

**ZarakiKujata** · 2010-09-24 06:58

where's links to MU of new Todd Margaret :O

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-24 10:14

idk when it airs or anything. wiki says october. the pilot was shown on some brit comedy thing

**Trichocyst** · 2010-09-24 21:02

Todd Margaret starts October 6th, IIRC. The first episode of Running Wilde was okay, but there was some painfully sitcom moments and trappings. It's impossible to not compare the show to Arrested Development which is pretty unfair. Time will tell if the show has the ability to bend, subvert and play with television standards and structures. Arrested Development took some episodes to really get going, maybe this will too.

**Qalbert** · 2010-09-24 21:52

yeah, being a huge AD fan now I hate admitting it, but there was a huge gap between when I saw the first episode, and when I watched the whole series.

**Trichocyst** · 2010-09-24 22:08

I didn't become a huge fan of the show until I saw "Pier Pressure" which was the turning point for the entire series to me. They blew to pieces every sitcom's very special episode and began to heavily paint the fourth wall. The show got really good from that point on and I enjoyed the earlier episodes more too. The first episode I watched was "Good Grief" and then I went back. I was lukewarm until "Pier Pressure" and now I'm a die hard. I actually got paid to screen the trailer for the series and it looked just awful. David Cross is right about FOX marketing.

I think people forget sometimes that there's a reason there's a billion Seinfeld reruns on all the time and you never see episodes from the first three seasons. Shows need time to develop. Cheers took three seasons to crack the top ten Nielsen ratings. A precious few are amazing right away. A lot of them canceled by FOX. Firefly, looking in your direction.

**ZarakiKujata** · 2010-09-24 23:18

idk, maybe its cause I watched AD in its entirety during the original broadcast run, but I loved the pilot initially, and was completely sold by Top Banana/Bringing Up Buster. I think if given a few more episodes this will get just as playful with the 4th wall as AD. The Russo brothers, who directed most of the big episodes of AD, as well as the pilot of this show and written/directed episodes of Community are pros with meta humor so this bodes well.

Seinfeld's a tricky exception imo, because it wasn't so much that the show needed to develop as much as Larry David was stifled with pushing the envelope as much as he wanted by the NBC executives (i.e. him wanting the show not to have a laughtrack) until the Chinese restaurant episode, (which coincidentally is remembered by most critics as the pivotal episode). Afterwards he was given more leeway with regards to this stuff and coincidentally thats when the show exploded. Also, maybe your affiliate just sucks, I've seen seaons 1-3 of Seinfeld on TBS and my local station that broadcasts it.

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