Another week of Sweeps stunts:
24. Wow. James Cromwell is a bastard. "Don't make me murder my grandson." That's the most passive-aggressive threat ever. Kind of a thrilling chase at the end, with Milo and DoomedSisterInLaw.
Heroes. Eh. Felt like reading water until next week, when, according to the NBC promotions monkeys, "Someone's going to fly, someone's going to die." I'm trying to think if we learned anything new or saw anything cool. Oh, Sylar can now melt pots and pans. That was cool. Jessica as member of the Linderman equivalent of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad was kind of fun, although it got less fun when Parkman survived being thrown out a window.
Gilmore Girls. Chris and Lorelai . . . I wasn't really paying attention during their final break-up scene, because I was listing all the lost opportunities in my head: I think it was a serious mis-step to give Emily that speech about how Lorelai has to learn to compromise if she wanted to save her marriage and then never pay that off. Rory and Logan . . . I was hoping they were going to play Rory's crush on the T.A. a little differently. I'm still waiting for Logan to be revealed as the philanderer we all kind of know he is. Maybe the Rosenthal regime likes Logan? I still find him smarmy.
Veronica Mars. Well, hell. A week in which Veronica doesn't do anything completely atrocious. That alone was an improvement. Plus, we had some serious progress in the Dean Begley, Jr. mystery. Plus, an interesting A-plot, although I'm going to be sad next week when we learn that pretty, pretty Josh murdered his father. Not enough Wallace, either: couldn't we have excised a few scenes of Logan getting life lessons from Little Girl God?
Lost. Slept through, which is too bad, because it sounds like it was a good one? Stuff happened? Should I give it another chance?
Ugly Betty. Another good episode: some funny stuff from Michael Urie, Mark Indelicato and Becki Newton, continuing excellent handling of the Alex/Alexis subplot, good mix of subplots overall. I wonder if the network is giving the producers notes about how often Eric Mabius has to be shirtless. Otherwise, I don't understand his story last night. Oh, right -- stuntcasting! Lucy Liu is still kind of lost on me. On the other hand, Jerry O'Connell was pretty good as the homophobic jackass.
The O.C. I totally fell for every minute of that. I mean, not so much Taylor being helpless and stupid, and not so much Kirsten and Sandy's sense of entitlement, but Julie and Kaitlin bonding in the midst of adversity? Yes. Ryan appearing to be about to bleed out for the entire freaking hour? Oh God. You know, it's the penultimate episode, so I really kind of half thought that they could kill Ryan off. Really effective, and the meta-stuff was kind of fun, and the trip down memory lane. Seth trading the Range Rover for the shopping cart was a nice touch and good foreshadowing of decimation of the Cohen mansion.
The Office. This was maybe the best episode of the year? Jim as a vampire? Steve Carell channeling Ricky Gervais as a motivational speaker? Creed? I think any episode that has Creed in it, at all, is automatically really funny. -- Peter
Veronica did help a fugitive break into his own safety deposit box and then flee the country. Its not exactly good, and its not exactly evil, but it is not very law abiding either.
Didn't you think it was weird when they made her dad the sheriff, instead of, oh I don't know, promoting the deputy?
Posted by: Mike | February 21, 2007 at 10:30 AM