Saturday, September 30, 2006
Interim Review of the TV Season
So here's what's graced my TiVo over the past week.
Sundays, 9pm - Desperate Housewives (ABC) - Thumb in the air. Not to sound like all of the entertainment rags out there, but the show has returned to form after a not-quite-satisfying second season. The "mystery" involves people we care about. Gabby is back to vicious form (You've been in this country for a year, modify your nouns damn it.) Susan is less clumsy and really sweet. Bree is neurotic as ever. And Lynette (I smell another Emmy) is trying to control her out of control life.
Sundays, 10pm - Brothers and Sisters (ABC) - Thumb in the ass. And it was stopped half way through recording the pilot episode and promptly taken off the TiVo schedule. Word to the wise. Before you introduce the extended family - introduce the family first. Characters started going off and sleeping with each other or kissing on the lips. All of the sudden I thought the soapy part about this drama was that there was some serious incest going on. No character development, no reason to care, no ticks or quirks for any character to give them some form of identity. Think thirtysomething for the PAX crowd.
Mondays, 9pm - Heroes (NBC) - Thumb in the air. Half X-Men, half Six Degrees, but in a good and not treading-on-copywright-infringement way. This is the type of out on a limb programming that we need again. And nice twist with the flying politician in the end. Give this one a chance guys. Looks like we're in for a great story line (that trumps Jericho and keeps the fear firmly in the fantasy, where it needs to stay for now - BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!)
Thursdays, 8pm - Survivor: Cook Islands (CBS) - I know I already reviewed it, but three weeks in and the segregation is over (I guess Rosa Parks was playing the game too.) Placed into two, large, integrated tribes consisting of men and women....now let the games begin! I will say that Mark Burnett doesn't trust his own ideas. They float for a couple of weeks and then he changes them up for change's sake. I would have loved to see one of the segregated tribes go down to two or one before integrating them. Twists on rules are only ratings stunts if they don't last.
Sundays, 9pm - Desperate Housewives (ABC) - Thumb in the air. Not to sound like all of the entertainment rags out there, but the show has returned to form after a not-quite-satisfying second season. The "mystery" involves people we care about. Gabby is back to vicious form (You've been in this country for a year, modify your nouns damn it.) Susan is less clumsy and really sweet. Bree is neurotic as ever. And Lynette (I smell another Emmy) is trying to control her out of control life.
Sundays, 10pm - Brothers and Sisters (ABC) - Thumb in the ass. And it was stopped half way through recording the pilot episode and promptly taken off the TiVo schedule. Word to the wise. Before you introduce the extended family - introduce the family first. Characters started going off and sleeping with each other or kissing on the lips. All of the sudden I thought the soapy part about this drama was that there was some serious incest going on. No character development, no reason to care, no ticks or quirks for any character to give them some form of identity. Think thirtysomething for the PAX crowd.
Mondays, 9pm - Heroes (NBC) - Thumb in the air. Half X-Men, half Six Degrees, but in a good and not treading-on-copywright-infringement way. This is the type of out on a limb programming that we need again. And nice twist with the flying politician in the end. Give this one a chance guys. Looks like we're in for a great story line (that trumps Jericho and keeps the fear firmly in the fantasy, where it needs to stay for now - BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!)
Thursdays, 8pm - Survivor: Cook Islands (CBS) - I know I already reviewed it, but three weeks in and the segregation is over (I guess Rosa Parks was playing the game too.) Placed into two, large, integrated tribes consisting of men and women....now let the games begin! I will say that Mark Burnett doesn't trust his own ideas. They float for a couple of weeks and then he changes them up for change's sake. I would have loved to see one of the segregated tribes go down to two or one before integrating them. Twists on rules are only ratings stunts if they don't last.
// posted by ProudJock Matt @ 6:16 AM 
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