No posts since before November Sweeps -- partly, I've been busy, and partly there wasn't much to post about. Now that the fall season is over, though, I thought it would be a good time to recap the season:
Sundays. Desperate Housewives is still on and I'm still not watching. Everyone says it's just as good as the first season, which . . . not quite good enough. I did see the sweeps stunt in which Laurie Metcalf shoots up a supermarket. Although Metcalf was great, the whole thing was disorienting, because one of the hostages was the younger guy (Matt Roth, Metcalf's real-life husband, which . . . even weirder) Jackie dated that time who beat her up and then Dan went to jail for beating him up. Anyway, apparently enough people are watching that show again to float Brothers & Sisters, which I am watching, although I still don't know why. Oh, right. Almost everyone in the cast is really, really attractive. The show still hasn't quite gelled -- one week it's a screwball farce, the next it's an emo-fueled cry-fest. My Mom likes it a lot . . .
Mondays. Prison Break got really good this season. I don't think I've posted about it before, but it's really good. As soon as they got out of prison, it got really, really fun. Basically, from week to week, it's about three or four geniuses (Wentworth Miller, Paul Adelstein, Robert Knepper, William Fichter) alternately teaming up and betraying one another. The central love story (between Miller and Sarah Wayne Callies's dope addict/prison doctor) works for me. Add in a multi-episode arc for Diana Scarwid* as a sexed-up housewife and Knepper walking around with an inexpertly-reattached hand -- as if he's wandered in out of a Coen brothers movie -- and you've got classic, classic television. Heroes ended on a high note. I think I'll keep watching when it returns next year. But. There are serious problems, chief of which is that the episodes seem to be structured around a big cliffhanger about 48 minutes into the episode, followed by a handful of filler scenes. I don't get it. When I remember to watch How I Met Your Mother, I enjoy it.
Tuesdays. I've written a lot about Gilmore Girls -- I still think that it's a lot better than most people seem to think it is -- at least as good as last season, a solid B+ overall. I think Veronica Mars is handling the transition to college relatively gracefully, but I'd like to see a lot more of Mac and Wallace, and I didn't love the rape mystery, overall. Laura San Giacomo is going to go full Double Indemnity on Keith, right? Am I the only one seeing that? -- Peter
*Let's develop a pilot for USA Network, starring Scarwid and Donna Murphy as Upper East Side matrons who solve mysteries between museum board meetings. What do you say?
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