WRITING PROMPTS ARE PERMITTED ONLY IN THE WEEKLY WRITING PROMPT THREAD! This thread is always reachable from the sidebar link. The wiki includes author and reader resources, guides, story listings, and author/series pages. The Formatting Guide has some helpful pointers on using Markdown. New to HFY? Read the FAQ, read the Subreddit Rules, and check out our Wiki. We welcome sci-fi, fantasy, and all other stories with a focus on humans being awesome! Beginner's Guide I guarantee more laughs and heaps more satire than the botched EDTV can ever provide.We're a writing focused subreddit welcoming all media exhibiting the awesome potential of humanity, known as HFY or "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" Or, better yet, rent THE TRUMAN SHOW and cap it off with a re-run of TV's ELLEN. With her balance of quirky humor and self-doubting charm, she manages to infuse the film with some sense of purpose and it is she (not wrongly cast lead Matthew McConaughey) that we care about. All hail, however, the film's bright spot, Ellen DeGeneres. In fact, the stars of the film (Hurley, DeGeneres, Harrelson) could have made a more interesting documentary on the price of fame than EDTV does at it's cautious best. (An entire subplot about an EdTV imitator that ends with tragedy was completely eliminated from the final cut.) Why then did they end up on the cutting room floor? Howard can't seem to get away from Mayberry sentimentality enough to make EDTV the film it needs to be by it's very nature. Unfortunately, these scenes are also some of the darkest, funniest and most telling in the script. If you doubt this (and considering Howard's track record, you may), visit EDTV on DVD and you'll be treated to numerous deleted scenes that satirically drive home the point that fame is indeed a bitch. In fact, throughout this dull and relentless tale of ordinary Joe Ed turned real-life 24-hour television star, Director Ron Howard consistently resists the obvious satire on the fallout of fame and focuses on the cloyingly saccharine romance that lies at EDTV's mushy core. EDTV is more concerned with "Ed" than "TV".
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