Everyone already knew showbiz is ridiculous, but the funniest example Kasdan can come up with is a manager who has never seen Taxi Driver.
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04/27/07
The TV Set (2007)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:47
Rotten:26
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Offering both broad and insider jokes, The TV Set is a sharp satire that will please both the average moviegoers and pop culture aficionados.
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $34,531
Synopsis: Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike... [More]
Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Reviews for The TV Set
Top Critic"The TV Set" feels a little underdone and half-realized, as if it were the pilot episode for a show that never got picked up for the fall season.
05/25/07
This doesn't rise to the level of awful. Like priests condemned to Dante's Inferno, there is a lower rating for movies this bad.
04/08/07
The jokes are things people shooting a pilot might actually say; the telling episodes of vanity or stupidity are entirely believable.
04/09/07
Top Critic[Kasdan's] execution can sometimes be laugh-out-loud clever... It isn't broad enough to expose why most programming is condescendingly terrible, but the cast is genuinely funny...
07/13/06
Kasdan should have the expertise to write a backstage exposé of the TV industry. This one simply isn't funny.
04/04/07
Top CriticDoesn't win any points in the originality department (television executives suck, apparently), but an unusually game, most likely overqualified cast manages to give it a fair amount of bite.
04/18/07
The TV Set, written and directed by Jake Kasdan, often possesses the gimlet-eyed wit of The Player or the mock docs of Christopher Guest.
04/23/07
Kasdan goes too far over the top on occasion. But he mostly straddles the line between reality and absurdity. But in network TV, reality is absurdity.
05/04/07
if Kasdan's point was to use the film as metaphor, its attitude towards the audience is spiteful at best
04/05/07
There's a smugness to TV Set that undercuts the humor. The movie is so confident of its artistic superiority to the commercial ventures it parodies that even its most sympathetic characters are not terribly appealing.
05/03/07
A mostly lightweight endeavor that never builds any genuine emotional traction. And you have to wonder if it's just a little too 'inside' to resonate with a sizable audience.
04/20/07
The TV Set skewers the television industry in a manner that occasionally feels familiar and at other times is humorously incisive.
04/09/07
Director Jake Kasdan's not-so-scathing satire of the slimy underbelly of television program development is neither funny enough nor biting enough to validate its overreaching goals.
05/03/07
Honestly, isn't it a little late to be bemoaning sleazy reality TV?
07/13/07
The TV Set is a little wonder of a movie, as smart and sad and true as any comedy I've seen this year.
08/18/07
What rescues The TV Set is the character work.
10/03/07
The satire is unrelenting but not too broad; it stays close to common observation.
04/09/07
Top CriticIt’s deftly calibrated and acted with relish: [writer-director] Kasdan is really good!
04/02/07
Top Critic...an intriguing, occasionally horrifying look at the behind-the-scenes shenanigans within the network-television world.
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