Grab the Handle, Push the Button
The Venture Bros. - Season Three (2008)
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
With each new season, I wonder how long the show's creators can sustain the exploits of the son of a famous adventurer and his neurotic, less adventurous brood. I tell myself that Rusty Venture's feelings of inadequacy are going to seem pretty stale this time around, that there are only so many ways for Brock Samson to kill a man, and that villains with names like Molotov Cocktease are not only childish, but dumb. On paper, The Venture Bros. belongs in the 1990s, but when Brock scalps himself to put his hair and Hawaiian shirt on a shark, the old joke about jumping it is transformed into something else - an indicator that the things that make this show great will never tire, never age, and never let you down. Sure, there's lots of shouting, and plenty of oddness for oddness's sake, but frantic is downright lovable when everything else I love is either silly or just low-key.
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
With each new season, I wonder how long the show's creators can sustain the exploits of the son of a famous adventurer and his neurotic, less adventurous brood. I tell myself that Rusty Venture's feelings of inadequacy are going to seem pretty stale this time around, that there are only so many ways for Brock Samson to kill a man, and that villains with names like Molotov Cocktease are not only childish, but dumb. On paper, The Venture Bros. belongs in the 1990s, but when Brock scalps himself to put his hair and Hawaiian shirt on a shark, the old joke about jumping it is transformed into something else - an indicator that the things that make this show great will never tire, never age, and never let you down. Sure, there's lots of shouting, and plenty of oddness for oddness's sake, but frantic is downright lovable when everything else I love is either silly or just low-key.
posted by NPK at 8:17 AM
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