4 Weeks In…
So 4 tv weeks are in the books, with a 5th about to drop. I started the season watching a record number of new shows. Where am I now?
Rookies:
Tell Me You Love Me, this is the newest show on HBO, known for its explicit sex scenes. Unfortunately the show has nothing else beyond that. And it’s at that point when you realize that you can see harder stuff from other places.
Chuck, so this show has grown on me each week. And I don’t know why, or maybe it’s just Yvonne Strahovski. This might be my new guilty pleasure, replacing Las Vegas.
Journeyman, I haven’t even watched this yet, I just have the episodes saved up on my dvr. I was just going to delete them all, but I watched about 10 minutes from last night and was intrigued. I’ll get to it at some point.
Reaper, so the pilot was great. And the rest has been exactly the same. This show better evolve or it might just evolve off my dvr.
Private Practice, turd a roo. I knew it going in, but thought I’d still give it a shot for completeness sake. Yep it’s a turd. Hopefully Kate Walsh is cashing those checks quickly.
Pushing Daisies, so this one is weird. Not what was I expecting. Very quirky. First 3 episodes have been funnyish and I’m coming back for more. But is that because of the show or Anna Friel?
Life, this is my word of mouth show. For the show synopsis it sounded interesting as a concept but silly as a show. Well I was wrong, but I say that cautiously. Yes the first 4 episodes have been good, but I still fear that it will wear thin if the overarching story line is dragged out.
Bionic Woman, this is the biggest disappointment of the year. Battlestar Galactica is soooo good, how could this be so boring. I am just watching week to week hoping that it gets better, but it never does. And the bionic woman herself could be better looking.
Dirty Sexy Money, this is my favorite new show and my second favorite show on tv at the moment. Completely surprise by this one, just pure fun
Kville, this revolutionary cop show was the same shit, just with an Anthony Anderson bow on top. This never graced my dvr and after 2 episodes my eyes.
Returning Veterans:
Dexter, great, just great.
Heroes, this is a mystery. So far it’s been slow to build. There are too many characters with too many stories, only a few of them interesting. I wish they would cut the number of characters featured in each episode, so that the ones that are shown can have more screen time. And the Mexican wonder twins, no mas.
House, last season was a complete waste of time. This season they got back to basics and it’s my favorite show on tv. Brilliant!
Grey’s Anatomy, last season was horrible, this season is only slightly better. This show is on life support but I fear it might have signed a DNR.
Las Vegas, James Caan out, Tom Selleck in, same shit different person. This show is like a guilty pleasure for me, but now I’m just feeling guilty about it. I may leave this show in Vegas and forget about it.
24, does not return until January
Lost, does not return until January
Battlestar Galactica, does not return until 2008. Will it still be the best show on tv?
Nas Update…
Little bit late on this. The new NAS came. After approx 10 hrs of syncing it was up and running like a champ. No problems so far.
Oh Noes, Nas Problems…
So the PSU in my NAS caught on fire...well it started started to smoke and then made an extremely loud popping sound and then the pleasant aroma of burnt ozone filled my room.
So yeah, luckily i was still under warranty, so a replacement unit is on it's way...shipping was 20 bucks though. 
The Kingdom…
CSI has finally gone overseas. And the newest hot local to grace the Crime Scene Investigator mantel is Riyadh. No, that is not entirely true, but that is exactly what The Kingdom feels like; a non-interesting formulaic yet technically well done procedural set in an exotic local (Riyadh) with a twist on the normal (terrorism).
All the technical qualities are there, acting, action, etc… But this film is boring at times, extremely predictable and devoid of any excitement or intrigue throughout its two hour running time. One of the things that makes it so boring is that it’s a completely fictional story. True all of Hollywood is fictional, hell every the true life movies are probably more fictional than true, but this doesn’t have any sense of realism what so ever with an ending that is purely only in Hollywood. What made Black Hawk Dawn so compelling was that it was based on a real story and the characters felt real.
The Kingdom starts off good, pulling on the heart strings and laying the foundation for a cast that one might care about, but once the sand and camel ratio soars the character development stops and the boring crime investigation starts. And the Jason Bateman character…I wish the terrorist would have won in that particular battle.
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