The TV Set

Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran... Review: Television is an easy target. All you have to do is channel surf for five minutes any day of the week to nail the medium for its unabashed stupidity and venality. Most movies on the topic, recently "American Dreamz", screw up by pushing too hard. Jake Kasdan (son of Lawrence), the writer and director of The TV Set, wisely avoids that trap. He knows the drill too well having worked with Judd Apatow on "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared", two sitcoms that show how often smart equals quick cancellation on the tube. In his third feature (after Zero Effect and Orange County), Kasdan traces the birth pangs of a sitcom called "The Wexler Chronicles" which the show's writer Mike Klein (a pricelessly deadpan David Duchovny) fashioned around the suicide of his brother. Naturally, the network... Rating: 3 Stars

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