Monday, September 28, 2009

'Bored to Death' | Brooklyn Is the New Noir


Paul Schiraldi/HBO In “Bored to Death,” Jonathan Ames (Jason Swartzman) moonlights in style as a private detective.


It wasn't so long ago when, thanks to “Sex and the City,” a quartet of over-accessorized Manhattanites stood metonymically for New York City. For those without premium cable, it was the sextet of “Friends” that transmitted Western (Village) aesthetics of upward mobility. Brooklyn then was nothing but a distant punch line, a borough

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