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 January 1951, Detroit, Michigan, USA
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
27 January 1969, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
22 January 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 September 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 March 1959, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
25 September 1984, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
26 April 1984, Kansas, USA
7 July 1966, Chesterton, Indiana, USA
15 September 1981, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
24 April 1985, Orlando, Florida, USA
30 November 1972, Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
September 18, 2009
(Ames') voice is enough to hold up a short story, but it works less well as a television program.
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.
September 20, 2009
When it's funny - and Bored certainly can be - it's a winner.
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.
August 18, 2009
It's Schwartzman's absurd mix of self-obsession and sincerity that makes the show so fun to watch.
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
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
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 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
The show's lightness would be more bearable if the stories were sharper.
