The second Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was very good, better than the first episode as I suspected it would be. The biggest problem I see, is that this is Sports Night, plain and simple. Sports Night is a gem that should have been treasured more when it originally aired and lightning rarely strikes twice. Brilliance is hard to duplicate and Sports Night was indeed a brilliant show, can Studio 60 even come close? Let's hope so.
But, this show is having an identity crisis of sorts. Studio 60 is a comedy, saying it's a drama, which is problematic. Every scene on Sports Night wasn't laughs and giggles, give me a break, and neither is this, but there is too much inflection of comedy to pretend this is a drama. Besides that, you know how Sports Night ends with them starting on the show they've been working on throughout the episode and it always was a nice fade out. Here, they did the same thing control room and all, and they showed the first skit they'd come up with at the end of the show. Not bad. But it won't be good every week, last week's wasn't hilariously funny either, I think they'd do better to fade into the show without doing the skits, because you don't want it to hinge on whether people loved the skit. But it was good, they need to call themselves a comedy, and it's getting better.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
The Nine
WOW! Now, this is show!!! Rarely do you see a premiere episode of such high quality, no wonder it was on most critics "Must See" lists. I can't wait to see what happens next.
How great is it to see Bailey (Scott Wolf) back on TV? And he comes on right after his big brother Charlie's show (that would be Lost, of course, starring Matthew Fox). If you're not familiar with my name references, you need to start subscribing to Netflix pronto because if you've never watched Party of Five, you are really missing out.
So, Scott Wolf's character Jermey, we now know has split up with his pre-robbery girlfriend Lizzie on the show, who is pregnant with his child. Why did she break up with him? We haven't been told yet, something happened during the bank robbery that caused her to break up with him. I am kind of thinking it is something along the lines of the gunmen were about to shoot or something else pretty objectionable and when Jeremy had the chance to protect or shield someone he got in front of Camille Guaty's character Franny instead of protecting his girlfriend at the time Lizzie (don't know her name yet - and the Imdb information on the show is surprisingly slim - they don't even list Scott Wolf, Kim Raver, or Tim Daly as being part of the main cast). Lizzie girl, if this is the case, I completely understand, it would piss me off too!
I am loving the chemistry between Audrey (played by Kim Raver - it will take some time for me not to refer to her by her name on 24) and Tim Daly on the show. I like where that is going for sure. I hope his life was changed enough by the bank robbery that he gives up his gambling addiction, but let's be for real, this is TV, so that is highly unlikely since it will make for good internal conflict for Tim's character, and it would also be unrealistic, gambling, like almost any addiction, is very hard to kick.
P.S. It is nice to see Tim Daly on a show that will likely be a hit. His other show, Eyes, which was an ABC mid-season replacement in 2005 and very critically acclaimed, never should have been canceled, so it's great to see him in a great new show. One of his co-stars from Eyes, Eric Mabius (for those who watched Eyes - that would be the guy whose ear was shot off), has also found a new home on Ugly Betty.
How great is it to see Bailey (Scott Wolf) back on TV? And he comes on right after his big brother Charlie's show (that would be Lost, of course, starring Matthew Fox). If you're not familiar with my name references, you need to start subscribing to Netflix pronto because if you've never watched Party of Five, you are really missing out.
So, Scott Wolf's character Jermey, we now know has split up with his pre-robbery girlfriend Lizzie on the show, who is pregnant with his child. Why did she break up with him? We haven't been told yet, something happened during the bank robbery that caused her to break up with him. I am kind of thinking it is something along the lines of the gunmen were about to shoot or something else pretty objectionable and when Jeremy had the chance to protect or shield someone he got in front of Camille Guaty's character Franny instead of protecting his girlfriend at the time Lizzie (don't know her name yet - and the Imdb information on the show is surprisingly slim - they don't even list Scott Wolf, Kim Raver, or Tim Daly as being part of the main cast). Lizzie girl, if this is the case, I completely understand, it would piss me off too!
I am loving the chemistry between Audrey (played by Kim Raver - it will take some time for me not to refer to her by her name on 24) and Tim Daly on the show. I like where that is going for sure. I hope his life was changed enough by the bank robbery that he gives up his gambling addiction, but let's be for real, this is TV, so that is highly unlikely since it will make for good internal conflict for Tim's character, and it would also be unrealistic, gambling, like almost any addiction, is very hard to kick.
P.S. It is nice to see Tim Daly on a show that will likely be a hit. His other show, Eyes, which was an ABC mid-season replacement in 2005 and very critically acclaimed, never should have been canceled, so it's great to see him in a great new show. One of his co-stars from Eyes, Eric Mabius (for those who watched Eyes - that would be the guy whose ear was shot off), has also found a new home on Ugly Betty.
Heroes on NBC - Hope You're Watching
So, I really hope you watched Heroes on NBC (if you missed it, nbc.com has the last episode that aired online available to watch and the Sci-Fi channel also airs the repeats). This show has the potential of being much better than just good, possibly fantastic. The thing that worries me the most is that people will try it out and won't stick with the show as it develops the characters. Hopefully people will see the potential in this show instead of bailing immediately. It's like the X-Men movies. Most people will agree that X2: X-Men United was the better of the first and second movie, but I don't think they should be compared. X-Men was the introduction of the series where we get to know how or why these people we are watching realize that they are mutants and discover the strength of their powers, whereas, X2 we already knew the characters and we watched them be just them. Heroes has already been compared to X-Men, so I think this is a good way to think of the show. Stick around past the development of the characters and I have a feeling none of us will be disappointed.
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