I completely forgot to post on Wednesday. I came to the site to write up my post, saw that Lisa had posted her Tales from Hollywood about her recent experiences on the movie G-Force and CSI: Miami, read them instead of writing my post, then promptly forgot all about the original reason I came to the site. Yes, my brain is on overload this week. Then yesterday I was so busy I didn’t have time to write up anything, so now I hope to make up for it.

My TiVo is getting nice and full of all the new shows. I haven’t been able to watch as much as I’d like (see previous paragraph about overloaded brain and being too busy to breathe) but they’re waiting there for my next free moment. I love TiVo.

I have had a chance to watch a few things. I saw Cold Case. It was okay. I’d probably rate it a C. Not a memorable episode. I’d rate this season’s first episodes of Heroes and How I Met Your Mother with a B/B-. They were satisfactory episodes, but again, nothing overly memorable in either of them. I enjoyed seeing Hiro in feudal Japan, and the mention of slapcountdown.com in HIMYM, which leads me to believe there are better storylines to come this season from both of these shows. This week’s episode of The Unit I’d have to give a C- too. I was bored. I’m ready for this storyline to wrap up so the Unit can get back to saving the world, rather than all this “who’s betraying whom” crud they have going on now. Law & Order: SVU came back with a bang. I’d easily rate this as one of my favorite episodes from the last couple years. Maybe it’s my lifelong fascination with Dissociative Identity Disorder, but this episode kept me glued to my seat and got an A rating from me. Plus, Cynthia Nixon was amazing as the SGS of the week. A stellar return for L&O: SVU.

My biggest surprise of the week was Bionic Woman. I originally didn’t plan to watch this show. I saw the original pilot at Comic Con and was overall unimpressed. But my hubby wanted to watch it, so I kept him company. The version that aired this week was surprisingly better than the pilot I saw at Comic Con. I was up-in-arms when I learned they recast and re-imagined the role of Jaime Sommers’ sister. I like the actress who portrayed her in the pilot–in fact that was one of my favorite things about the pilot, which was why I didn’t plan on watching the new version. But the new sister isn’t half bad. I still have some concerns about the show. I feel zero chemistry between Jaime Sommers and her doctor love interest on the show. Watching scenes between them borders on painful for me. I actually fast forwarded through the love scene in the episode–and me, FF through a love scene, that never happens. It doesn’t help that the background music during their scenes–a low, solo saxophone–screamed bad B movie to me. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good saxophone, but “good” this was not. Honestly, Katee Sackhoff and Michelle Ryan have better chemistry. They sizzle on screen together. I’d give Bionic Woman a solid B- and I’ll be checking in again next week to see if the problems I had with the first episode improve.

Oh, on Monday I mentioned the TV show Life, which I got the advance preview of on DVD through Blockbuster. This is another show that just didn’t work for me. I love the main actor–Damian Lewis–and thought he was especially great in Band of Brothers, so I was interested to see how he’d bring this tortured character to life. The show is just a bit too…odd for me. Or maybe it’s the main character. Or maybe it’s the premise. Or maybe it’s the interactions between the characters. I can’t quite define what didn’t work for me, I just know I had no interest in continuing to watch it. Now, my husband enjoyed it more than I did–he watched the entire first episode whereas I bailed out after only seeing the first half. But even he’s not convinced he’ll tune in for the second episode.

Tonight I’ll be tuning in for Moonlight, even though, I hate to admit it, the teasers I’ve seen for the show have felt stale. I’m keeping up hope it was just bad choice on the marketing department and the show itself has more life than the promos make it appear. I also love Jason Dohring, formerly of Veronica Mars fame–another show I miss dearly–so I’ll tune in just to see how he plays a vampire.

So that’s it for me. What did everyone else like and dislike about this week in TV?

2 Responses to “Premiere week TV–a wrap up”

1. TV » Premiere week TV–a wrap up Says:
   September 28th, 2007 at 10:18 am

   [...] James_Lileks wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptTonight I’ll be tuning in for Moonlight, even though, I hate to admit it, the teasers I’ve seen for the show have felt stale. I’m keeping up hope it was just bad choice on the marketing department and the show itself has more life than … [...]

2. Melina Says:
   December 20th, 2007 at 8:17 am

   very interesting. i’m adding in RSS Reader

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