Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'American Me'

Posted at 12:00 PM Nov 18, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Welcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming.

And while yesterday saw a moving documentary about children of prostitutes get turned into a perverse, ethically questionable experiment in voyeurism, today we welcome one of NCDSUV's favorite pock-marked thespians, Edward James Olmos (and yes, that is the second consecutive post in which we've managed to link back to this previous Olmos-referencing post), into the Info-Bar hall of "huh?"

Today's entry is:

American Me
The Actual Story: Olmos plays a gang figurehead who tries to reform himself after spending nearly two decades behind bars.
Cable-Info Bar Synopses: "A Latino gang leader gets 18 years, then gets out."
What Their Descriptions Would Have You Believe: That they give away the fucking ending. Why am I going to watch this film for 90 minutes, tensely wondering if the reformed James Olmos (or would that just be Olmos?) will get paroled or spend the rest of his life in the slammer if you're busy playing Info-Bar Synopsis spoiler? Geesh.

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