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I Hate 'Cincinnati'
by Eric Anderson, AccessHollywood.com Senior Content Editor
I'm a huge fan of smart television. I really am.
While we all inevitably try and try (usually with varying degrees of success), nobody likes being able to figure out the twist before the entire plot line plays out on their favorite show.
Then, on the complete opposite end of that genial spectrum is HBO's now defunct "John From Cincinnati," where no one had any clue whatsoever what was going on.
In case you haven't heard, the show has been cancelled. It's not coming back.
So for anyone else who labored through 10 head-scratching weeks with John, Butchie, Dylan McKay, Zach Morris and the rest of the dysfunctional-at-best Yost clan, I have one simple question for you…
WHAT DID ANY OF IT MEAN?
“Some things I know. Some things I don’t,” John liked to say.
Yeah, join the club buddy. I know a lot of things but one thing it looks like we will never know is what the heck that show was supposed to be trying to tell us.
Was he Jesus? Was he an alien? What does 9/11/14 mean? Is the world going to end on September 11, 2014? Is it a biblical reference?
"You're all going to be toast," John tells Linc in the final episode. "We're coming nine-eleven-fourteen."
So that means aliens, right? Or is that the second coming of Jesus and all us sinners are in trouble?
Just when Luke Perry seemed to be getting somewhere, the writer's took a complete left turn.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I can't take it!
I mean, this is right up there with the mystery of the pyramids. Akin to the great puzzle of Stonehenge. Not even "Da Vinci Code" super sleuth Robert Langdon could crack this nonsense.
So I offer this simple proposal to the writers of the show. Actually, forget proposal, it's a plea for the sanity of myself and anyone else who watched the show…
TELL US WHAT HAPPENED!!!
I extend to you an invitation to be heard. Contact me at Access Hollywood, give me just 5 minutes of your time and let me share the secrets of your story with the world.
And since we all know that's not going to happen, if anyone out there has any clue, any notion at all as to what the heck was going on in that show, please CLICK HERE to send it in.
I’m begging you. Please help me regain my sanity. It’s seriously keeping me up at night and I need to sleep!
For now, all I know is me and all of Cincinnati are officially on non-speaking terms until I get some answers.
Oh Thank God,
I thought it was just me, what the hell was all that about. When you get the answers please forward them on to the rest of us..
Confused
I loved the show. It was so
*#^%@ weird though. If you find out what it all meant at Access Hollywood, please tell me too. I hate that it ended because I want to know what it all meant. I kept thinking I could figure it out..no way...joke is on me and all those dying to know.
Eric:
What I want to know is, HOW YOU LASTED THROUGH 10 EPISODES OF SUCH CRAPPY TELEVISION TO BEGIN WITH? Unless you were being paid to watch and critique - how could you!?
I know Luke Perry is pretty cute, but seriously.
Nothing is more aggravating than writers who are trying SO hard to come up with TV that"weird, cool, and witty" that it just totally blows over everyone's heads -- and just totally blows.
Thank god for "Entourage" reruns.
JFC is an amazing work of art. Milch is brilliant. The cast is incredibly talented. Many of us are working hard to SAVE JFC, SO, just "google" SAVE JOHN FROM CINCINNATI and you will see how many folks are hard at work. Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen, and HBO will get a clue and bring it back.
JFC was hard to keep up with because.I liked it and will miss it.Sure Entourage is funny but predictable.I liked the JFC actors,wht they may be trying to reveal.Anyway I loved 6Ft.Under and it ended also.Igot aggrivated when JFC ended..just ended..What was the message?..We'll never know.I was MAD that it wasn't clearer.