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1 Riffles (through)
6 Kitty cries
10 Like some
chatter or threats
14 Birdbath buildup
15 Plant “pet”
16 Bellyache
17 *Game with a
barrel-throwing
gorilla
19 “Flip or Flop”
cable channel
20 Dueling sword
21 Stare unsubtly
22 Slammer
23 Wreck
completely
25 “Moi?”
27 __ Lingus
28 Reason for an R
rating
31 “I __ thought of
that”
34 Place to
overnight
35 Crooner Cole
36 Stat that’s better
when it’s lower
37 *Lock insert
41 Expressive rock
genre
42 Architect
Maya __
43 Serengeti grazer
44 Crease-resistant
fabric
46 Sewer system
entry points
49 Back when
50 Alpine warble
51 Art form profiled
in the
documentary
“Between the
Folds”
55 Joint sometimes
twisted
57 Fishing decoy
59 Have __: be
connected
60 “Are you for __?!”
61 *Karl Marx opus
63 Motown’s Marvin
64 Prefix meaning
“all”
65 Singer Baker
66 Call router: Abbr.
67 Bread served
with chicken tikka
masala
68 Go to pot ... or a
phonetic hint to
the answers to
starred clues
DOWN
1 Stored in the hold
2 Become running
mates?
3 Dancer de Mille
4 Skin bronzing
from a bottle
5 “Understand?”
6 Jim of “Wide
World of Sports”
7 Self-help website
8 [Don’t take me
too seriously]
9 Hang loosely
10 Announcement
from the foyer
11 *Temporary
housing for Fido
12 Behind schedule
13 Green-eyed
monster
18 “Son of
Frankenstein”
role
22 D.C. insider
24 No longer
working: Abbr.
26 Sharpen
28 Computer
invader
29 Hunter’s garb, for
short
30 Thames school
31 Captain’s
position
32 Opera highlight
33 *“The Court
Jester” star
38 Stare rudely at
39 “He’s a priest,”
not a beast, per
Ogden Nash
40 Bear or Berra
45 Propecia rival
47 Shout out
48 Glorifying verse
49 Word after work
or play
51 Pest control
company
52 Bit of slapstick
53 Sporty Mazda
54 Cavity filler
55 Jason’s vessel
56 Half-moon tide
58 Midshipman’s sch.
61 Ex-Dodger
manager
Mattingly
62 __ Thai: rice
noodle dish
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
TV REVIEW
Laugh track goes
West, mostly fails
Netflix’s “The
Ranch” is just a
basic sitcom
By SAM ROSENBERG
Daily Arts Writer
There’s a certain artifice about
laugh tracks in traditional, multi-
camera sitcoms. The laugh track
can be an over-
used, frequently
unnecessary
aural element on
TV that strives to
elevate a show’s
humor
but
instead becomes
too
distracting
for its own good.
CBS’s
“Mom”
and NBC’s “The Carmichael
Show” are currently some of the
only TV comedies with a laugh
track that manage to subvert
traditional sitcom standards by
incorporating socially conscious
themes and emotionally involved
characters into their plots. Netf-
lix’s newest sitcom “The Ranch”
has the potential to do the same,
but it first needs to learn how to
escape the dreadful quality of the
laugh track. And then some.
Balancing on a tricky tight-
rope between ribald comedy and
melodrama, “The Ranch” centers
around the dysfunctional Ben-
nett family. Considering its con-
servative undertones, you might
expect “The Ranch” to take place
somewhere in the South, but the
show is surprisingly set in the
swing state of Colorado. Regard-
less, everything about the show
screams red state values, from the
country-themed opening credits
to the good ol’ American town
backdrop. Ashton Kutcher (“Two
and a Half Men”) and Danny Mas-
terson (“Men at Work”) reunite
from their “That ’70s Show” glory
days as the two dysfunctional
Bennett brothers — swagger-
ing Colt and sarcastic Jameson
“Rooster,” respectively. After six
years apart from his stern father
Beau (the stellar Sam Elliott,
“The Big Lebowski”), Colt returns
home to make amends while try-
ing out for the local football team.
Colt’s endearing mom Maggie
(Debra Winger, “Rachel Getting
Married”) also comes back into
the family picture after Colt pre-
sumed her and Beau to be separat-
ed, but that they are in fact seeing
each other again.
While most of “The Ranch”
’s humor is crass and childish
— there’s a recurring pee joke
and jab at Ugg boots in the first
episode “Back Where I Come
From” — there are a few instanc-
es of witty dialogue, especially
when it involves a cuss word or
two. “The Ranch” benefits from
allowing its characters to curse,
a factor that obviously wouldn’t
work in the sanitized confines
of network and standard cable
censorship. Because Netflix is a
great platform to showcase TV
programs with explicit content,
“The Ranch” has the opportunity
to be a raunchy family sitcom à la
HBO’s short-lived “Lucky Louie.”
Yet it still suffers from the strains
of ordinary sitcom tropes, even
with sitcom veterans Kutcher
and Masterson at the helm of the
show’s acting and executive pro-
ducing. They don’t make nearly as
much of an effort as Elliott, whose
charismatic
Southern
drawl,
bushy mustache and strong emo-
tional range are enough to make
him stand out. In addition to the
show’s god-awful laugh track, the
comic timing of almost everyone,
except Elliott, is way off, with
each character spewing rote joke
set ups and predictable punchline
after punchline. The only hilari-
ously down to earth line in “Back
Where I Came From” comes dur-
ing a nice scene between the Ben-
netts during a rainstorm in the
end of the episode, when Maggie
utters, “You know, if someone
took a picture of us, you’d never
know how fucked up we really
were.”
Even with the comedic quali-
ties dragging the show down,
“The Ranch” could be a mild suc-
cess if it continues to highlight
the faults of its characters and
the family tensions that reside
underneath the surface. Unlike a
lot of Kutcher’s previous sitcom
characters, his role as Colt feels
more mature, with the character
occasionally making dumb deci-
sions but also taking responsibil-
ity for his actions. Despite being
in his 30s and having gone to
Florida State University to play as
a backup quarterback, Colt isn’t
back in Colorado just to try out for
football, but to regain a trusting
bond with Beau. If it weren’t for
the talent of Kutcher, Masterson,
Winger or Elliott, “The Ranch”
would also have trouble finding
some form of dramatic depth and
seriousness.
Like Colt, “The Ranch” still has
some growing up to do. But with
the right tools and mindset, the
show has the ability to come back
from its mistakes and find a way to
make things right again.
B-
The
Ranch
Series Premiere
Netflix
By MARIA ROBINS-SOMER-
VILLE
Daily Arts Writer
The United States currently
incarcerates 2.2 million people,
a number that has increased
fivefold in the
past thirty
years. There
are currently
40,000 indi-
viduals incar-
cerated in the
state of Mich-
igan. In con-
junction with
a series of
lectures, art
exhibitions
and other
events hap-
pening locally
this spring
through the
Humanize
the Numbers project, the Uni-
versity’s Prison Creative Arts
Program’s annual Exhibition
of Art by Michigan Prisoners
sheds light on the experience
of being incarcerated and the
ways in which humanity can be
restored in the face of a system
highly based on punishment.
In working with the PCAP
over the past two decades, Art
Prof. Janie Paul has helped to
give a creative voice to such
populations often silenced by
a life behind bars. She founded
the PCAP Art Show with her
husband Buzz Alexander in
1996.
Paul said her observation of
the injustice in the country’s
system of incarceration, cou-
pled with her experience and
identity as a visual artist led to
her involvement with PCAP.
“It turned out the first year
that it was so compelling that
we made it an annual event,”
Paul said.
She collaborated with cura-
tors Sari Adelson and Charlie
Michaels, a project coordinator
in the Stamps School of Art &
Design, Adelson said the cura-
torial timeline for the project is
exhaustive.
“The very first step is that
we have to get approval from
the Department of Correc-
tions,” Adelson said. “And once
we get that we send out a letter
to all of the people who were
in the show the year before,
letting them know the show
is going happen, letting them
know what the theme is going
to be ... (then) we contact the
special activities director at
each of the facilities to set up
a date and time for us to physi-
cally come and visit and meet
with the men or women to see
their work and then make our
decisions.”
“The artwork then goes
through a process of being pho-
tographed and matted and then
installed,” Paul added.
Adelson highlighted a piece
called Cerca Trova, a large, col-
orful and detailed watercolor
by a prisoner of something
the inmate calls “Little Rik’s
World.” Amid the chaotic nar-
rative scenes of his artwork, he
always paints himself, “Little
Rik,” a small boy with a beret
and a magenta crayon, into his
pieces.
“He’s telling a really in-
depth story. He uses a lot of
his personal history and also
cryptographs and linguistics,”
Adelson said.
“His work is happy, it’s
humorous. It’s also sad. It’s
cynical. It’s political,” she con-
tinued. Amid the hundreds of
signs, buildings, humans, ani-
mals and other creations Rik
has included, Adelson added
that Rik even painted a cartoon
of her into the painting.
Although the process starts
months before the show opens,
the curators make the visits to
30 prisons included in the proj-
ect during January and Febru-
ary, which Paul noted was also
challenging.
The group makes on average
two trips to the facilities each
week during the winter, with
some trips to farther parts of
the state taking a whole week-
end. The curators also collect
art from prisons in the Upper
Peninsula, a trip that can take
four or five days.
“What’s challenging is that
you know that, especially in
the prisons that are further
away from Ann Arbor that
aren’t getting a lot of regular
programming from us. A lot
of these artists have waited
an entire year to have this
one five-to-ten minute
conversation with you and
you can feel that and I’m
really aware of that going in,”
Michaels said.
Although visiting up to three
or four facilities in a single day
can be emotionally draining,
Paul said is also “exhilarating
and inspiring.”
He pointed to a particularly
impressive piece done by art-
ist Samantha Bachynski of an
anatomically correct, life-sized
crocheted skeleton. He says
that Bachynski wasn’t allowed
to have it fully assembled in
her cell and waited until all the
pieces were completed to put
the whole sculpture together.
When he visited her, she
showed him 50 pages of hand-
written diagrams.
The curators emphasized
that face-to-face interaction
with the artists is important,
noting that it’s the first year
that all of the prisons have
allowed them to meet individu-
ally and in groups with all of
the 420 artists in person, as
opposed to simply collecting
the art.
Although many of the pieces
in the exhibition reflect years
of experience, most of the
artists have never received
formal training. In many of
the facilities, though, cura-
tors said there is a culture of
people educating each other
and working within the lim-
ited scope of what’s available
inside. One man writes letters
to his mother to send him pic-
tures of kitchen sinks or house-
hold objects he wants to paint.
Another, D’Artagnan Little,
created sculptures of presi-
dents using only toilet paper,
soap and pigments lifted from
magazine pages.
“A lot of people will say
that they loved art when they
were a kid,” Paul said. “They
loved to draw but it never went
anywhere. They didn’t get the
classes; they didn’t get the sup-
port.”
The exhibit tries to incor-
porate the artists as much as
possible. The art is for sale,
and the artists name their
own prices. Aside from the 21
percent tax on the pieces, all
proceeds go directly back to
the artists. In addition, the art-
ists designate a family member
or friend to receive the art for
them if it doesn’t sell.
Additionally, the exhibit
includes a guestbook for visi-
tors to sign, leaving notes or
feedback on the art. The entire
book is then copied and sent to
the artists.
“The project goes on all year
round because it’s very impor-
tant for us to be including the
artists in many ways since they
can’t be here,” Paul said. “After
the show is finished we make
a video in which we include
every piece in the show. This
video includes shots of the
reception and is sent to each
prison where it is shown over
closed-circuit TV.”
Paul said one of his favorite
pieces was a self-portrait titled
“Orange Nation” by R. DeJe-
sus, a man serving 60 to 100
years for distribution of crack
cocaine and having trouble
getting a lawyer. It depicts the
straight-on view of the artist
from the shoulders up in the
foreground, the shadows of
barbed wire crisscrossing his
face. The background is filled
with fellow inmates, talking
and working out; one interacts
with a prison guard whose face
is obscured, another is elderly
and in a wheelchair. If it were
a photograph, DeJesus would
stare directly into the camera
lens, his expression somber and
silent.
“He’s asking us, I think, to
do something about it,” Paul
said.
PCAP showcases art
by the incarcerated
EVENT PREVIEW
21st
Annual
Exhibition
of Art by
Michigan
Prisoners
Until Apr. 6
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