Ricky Gervais: Deconstructionist?

Ricky Gervais: Deconstructionist?

The New York Times:

Ricky Gervais says he decided to make an 80-minute finale to his HBO series “Extras” because he had a few things left to say about the wages of fame, and the people who pay them.

…“I’ve always sort of deconstructed telly a little bit,” Mr. Gervais said in a telephone interview from New York this week, where he recently finished shooting his first starring role in a feature film, “Ghost Town.” “I’ve also been in my ‘study of fame’ years. ‘The Office’ was sort of my life’s work, where I downloaded everything I knew about the minutiae of behavior from working in a normal job. The last few years, I’ve been in the media, in the middle of fame. They say, ‘Write about what you know.’”

I think deconstruction is the logical ‘next step’ to the network’s repetitive structuralist approach to television. Oh yeah, the season finale of Extras is going to be on Sunday at 9PM on HBO.