Auteur Watch - Rashaad Ernesto Green

...oh, right!  Guess I should say / blog something about him.  Well, he seems to be well on his way to mainstream success, but he's got a long way to go before getting to David Gordon Green levels.  Also, given his model-ish looks he might want to consider acting fulltime instead of spreading his energy around to so many other side interests!  I mean, look at all these categories you can jump to: director, actor, producer, writer, editor... catering.  Always like to throw that one in.  Someday it'll be its own category as it deserves to be, as soon as Taylor Hackford has moved on to the big director's chair in the sky.
But it looks like TV directing is the way to go, and Rashaad has taken it.  I've actually heard of some of those shows!  We've got "Grimm" and... something else.  Jim Kouf got tired of writing about cops, and decided to move onto more ratings-friendly fare.  So there's "Grimm" and "The Vampire Diaries."  See, the nice thing about directing TV shows is that the titles are kinda grandfathered in.  The writers take care of all that stuff.  Usually titles will be taken from the world of rock stars.  Take his episode of "Supernatural" called "Thin Lizzie", for example.  The boys are back in town, indeed!  Or how about "One Way or Another," which used to be a Blondie song, but now it's a critical episode of "The Vampire Diaries."  Incidentally, is it just me, or is that horrible Imagine Dragons song "Lightning and Thunder" kind of a structural ripoff of Blondie's "One Way or Another"?  The internet for now is still far too text-based to pick up on sh.. stuff like that.  But in Rashaad's pre-TV period, he had a pretty good handle on titles.  Gun Hill Road is a great one, The Can Collector has potential; depends on the film itself, of course.  But Showtime?  C'mon.  I mean, we've already got 2002's Showtime with Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro.  And I believe there's a whole channel called that.
Oh, but I probably complain too much.  Keep up the good work!  Use your position for good, and for shepherding the next generation into the world of film directing.