New TV Shows, Week One



Some scattered thoughts on the the first week of new network TV.

- For Pete's sake, why aren't more of you people watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip? I netflixed the pilot and it was one of the best hours of TV I've seen recently. I'm going to be really pissed if it gets cancelled early. Then again, I wonder if the figures weren't depressed a little by the fact that so many people had seen the pilot already...

- On the same disc I got Studio 60 on NBC included the pilot to Kidnapped. Good cast, silly premise. I'm not really sure how you stretch the kidnapping of one kid over 20+ episodes and keep it interesting and realistic. Then again, despite the documentary style, maybe Kidnapped isn't supposed to be realistic. In the pilot the kidnappers instigate the kidnapping on a busy New York street, three or four people are killed in the ensuing shootout (two bodyguards and at least one, maybe two of the kidnappers, I forget), and yet somehow the whole thing is kept a secret from the police and the FBI? That's less likely than most of the stuff we saw on Lost last season.


"Homer!!!"

- Can someone tell me why I should watch the second episode of Jericho? It's the most obvious Lost rip-off yet -- the residents of a small town in Kansas see a nuclear explosion and lose all contact with the outside world, so they have to form a new society, blah, blah, blah. Unlike Lost, the scenario isn't as mysterious as the writers seem to think it is, and the characters are completely uninteresting. As near as I can tell the biggest character mystery is where Skeet Ulrich has been. The only mystery I want to answer less than where Skeet Ulrich has been is what Madonna's armpits smell like after a workout.

Posted: Mon - September 25, 2006 at      

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