Irma Vep. HBO. Monday, June 6, 9 p.m.
Irma Vep is a TV adaptation of a movie adaptation of a century-old silent film serial. If you hadn't guessed, all three are French-made, and if you still hadn't guessed, this latest Irma Vep is as rife with cinematic allusions as a midnight bull session at a film school coffee shop. (Go ahead, start with the anagram of the title.) Like a lot of film school products, it's full of scathing wit and overheated erotic undertones and a little weak on narrative. And it's a lot of fun to watch, though the first person to announce "what it means" will get a hard slapping.
