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Straight Out of Brooklyn: Bored to Death Gets a Return Date

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | July 20, 2010 | +

I will be the first to admit that my enjoyment of Bored to Death is at least partly based in personal bias. I live in Brooklyn, and while HBO is heavy on shows that love my borough (In Treatment, Boardwalk Empire and Flight of the Conchords all shot there, at least in part), Bored to Death is the Brooklyniest of them all. It’s suffused with Brooklyn slacker charm (-lessness, depending on how well you like Brooklyn slackers) and uses so many locations I fully expect to find them shooting in my living room someday.

Still, as objectively as I can judge as a critic, while the comedy started off slow last fall, it grew in confidence and screwball appeal as the season grew on, while Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis developed an unlikely stoner-buddy-comedy rapport over the short season. There was even an odd tenderness to the relationship between Schwartzman’s writer-turned-detective and Danson’s age-denying magazine editor.

The show (along with Eastbound and Down) announced a return date of September 26, and its second-season trailer is above. Get yourself an egg cream and enjoy.

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  • chriskw

    Hung sometimes films on location in Michigan. The BP gas station that Ray walks through in the opening credits is about a mile from where I live. Actually, the house he on the lake (Middle Straits Lake) is only a couple of miles away as well.

    In fact, the only reason I stuck with season one so long was to see how much I recognized. Can’t say I have done the save for season two.

  • http://djtrudeau.wordpress.com djtrudeau

    I’m actually enjoying Hung, even though it keeps finding ways to keep itself from being truly great.

    Bored To Death started out as a show I kind of liked and by the end of the season I couldn’t wait to see the next episode. Something clicked when the three main characters all started hanging out. I can’t wait for the new season.

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