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Something’s Up, and It’s Not the Surf
Something’s Up, and It’s Not the Surf
June 8, 2007, By ALESSANDRA STANLEY , NYTimes.com
John P. Johnson/HBONone of the music in David Milch’s new surfing series on HBO is by the Beach Boys. The surfing scenes are few and fleeting.
Instead seedy characters spit out a lot of obscenities, and some use oddly mannered speech, giving “John From Cincinnati” a flavor of “Deadwood,” only in a contemporary beach setting – “Driftwood.”
And then there are those magical happenings in the style of Gabriel Garc
