EPISODE
SEASON
Bored to Death - Season 1
The series follows a well-meaning but struggling writer as he decides to lead a sort of double life by pretending to be a private detective using the methods he read about in old detective novels.
23 September 1947, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
8 February 1953, Newport, Arkansas, USA
4 December 1965, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
June1971, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
12 July 1951, New York City, New York, USA
14 February 1981, Yalta, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Crimea, Ukraine]
9 August 1961, New York City, New York, USA
20 January 1970, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
6 August 1977, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
26 March 1964, The Bronx, New York, USA
September 18, 2009
(Ames') voice is enough to hold up a short story, but it works less well as a television program.
August 18, 2009
It's Schwartzman's absurd mix of self-obsession and sincerity that makes the show so fun to watch.
September 18, 2009
By hitching the conventions of the private-eye genre to a comedy about a Woody Allen-esque neurotic, creator Jonathan Ames has crafted a charming, if mostly low-key, show that grows on you as it goes along.
September 20, 2009
The show's lightness would be more bearable if the stories were sharper.
September 20, 2009
There is a bit of interest in seeing Schwartzman's intellectual awkwardness in an atypical world, but it grows stale much more quickly than the creators of the show probably envisioned.
September 21, 2009
Naming a tv sitcom Bored to Death is playing with fire. And in this new HBO gamble, the creators get burned because this is a show that lives up to its unfortunate name.
September 20, 2009
I'm happy Schwartzman has found a vehicle that's droll enough to capture his sensibility, but not too precious or willfully quirky.
September 20, 2009
When it's funny - and Bored certainly can be - it's a winner.
September 20, 2009
As pot-smoking, fad-embracing George, Danson is operating on his own hilarious wavelength, and consistently steals scenes not only from Schwartzman, but from Zach Galifianakis.
September 20, 2009
Jonathan Ames may be bored to death, but that's no reason he has to take the rest of us with him.
