Has my creative well run dry? Do I have nothing more to contribute? Good questions, considering that I am basically writing a sequel to my original post on NBC’s crime action/comedy/drama Life. Why repeat the same message, you ask? Obviously, the only reason to repeat something is if you’re unconvinced that the intended recipients heard you.
Well, hear this intended recipients, “LIFE is moving to Wednesday nights @ 9/8 Central” and it needs your help before Lost comes back to destroy it! Me and one other guy must have been paying attention the last time because since Life returned for round two, it’s been getting killed by Numb3rs. You know who watches Numb3rs? That’s right…people who eat dinner at 4:30pm, solve 10,000 piece puzzles and RUIN network television. That’s who. So, recipients, I’m asking you one more time to give Life a chance. I need my quirky, Zen Buddhist, fruit loving, ex-con detective show to live on! Continue reading ‘LIFE (Again).’
(Stridex here. Sorry the updates didn’t flow freely today– we truly are trying to get to the point that we offer you SOMETHING new at LEAST daily. We’re actively gearing up for webcomic launches this weekend, and as such are trying to add a bunch of new elements to the site. Not that this prep is a valid excuse for the lack in content, but I figured I’d let you know. I also figured that I could quickly give you a short run down of the newest show to hit U.S. airwaves.)
The procedural is the bread and butter of television. So, in any new season, we get a lot them. Just last Thursday we got two American knock-off’s of British science fiction investigation shows; Eleventh Hour and Life on Mars. Tonight began a knock-off of an even older Scottish tale, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, updated with sleek visuals and the standard NBC vehicle tie-in’s (Heroes = Nissan, Knight Rider = Ford, and our subject = Chevy).
So you don’t have to search any further through my wall of text– NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy is good enough to watch, but nothing to get excited about. This is an ever-increasing trend, with more and more utterly okay television out there. Not that there aren’t amazing shows on occasionally, but they are fewer and fewer.
Continue reading ‘My Own Worst Frenemy’
I just watched the season 2 opener of Chuck. I gotta say, it was awesome. I didn’t feel like I needed to know what happened in season 1, I got the gist of it from the episode itself. It was funny, great pacing, great characters. I gotta say, all around, it did the best job of a season opener of a series I hadn’t yet seen in making me addicted. Also, the soundtrack for the episode was pretty good.
Now I’m off to hope that the lines for gas in atlanta are lower so that I can make it into school for class!
I remember when Life premiered last season. I remember the commercials with star Damian Lewis being all creepy and charismatically weird. I also remember not caring at all. In any given TV pilot season there are shows I always look forward to ignoring. Life was one of those shows.
Then I started managing a video store part time and discovered that I had one single friend on Monday and Tuesday afternoons as I was cleaning DVDs that must have been used as projectile weapons over the weekend. This friend was hulu.com. Hulu and I would walk, hand in hand through the doldrums of a video store Monday afternoon. We watched a lot of Burn Notice and Battlestar Galactica. We tried Bones, but decided that if we’re going to enjoy our time together I had to stop watching things in alphabetical order.
Enter Life. When I stumbled across it, I remembered how the original ads for this show were very vague. Maybe I’m not that sharp, but I thought they were nearly incomprehensible. Hence, my disinterest the first time around. Continue reading ‘Life is Good(ish).’
New shows are popping up, and I have no choice but to confront some of them. Primary example, the new J.J. Abrams project Fringe. Even though FOX is the stronghold of all that is wrong in entertainment (especially when it comes to axing good TV)… one must admit they have a strong track record with shows about government agents tracking the paranormal.
Fringe premiered last night with an hour and a half pilot (and it was actually just about an hour and a half… sixty and ninety second commercials breaks being a delight to my viewing cohorts) and a blitz of vague marketing. The story was simple enough– a young, attractive, female FBI agent gets tapped to work on a case that involved everyone on-board a plane dying horrible, gruesome deaths. During the investigation, her boyfriend/coworker is stricken with whatever killed the passengers, so young FBI lady gets fired up about solving the case. The only way she sees to do this is to get a crazy old man out of a mental institution who used to work in a similar field, and the “only” (I’m still fuzzy on why exactly this is the “only” way… it would seem this could have easily been avoided, but what do I know?) way to get this crazy old man out of said institution is to get his son to cooperate. Cows, robot arms, flying canoes, and LSD ensue. Continue reading ‘Considering “Fringe”’
Has my creative well run dry? Do I have nothing more to contribute? Good questions, considering that I am basically writing a sequel to my original post on NBC’s crime action/comedy/drama Life. Why repeat the same message, you ask? Obviously, the only reason to repeat something is if you’re unconvinced that the intended recipients heard you. 
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