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shannon_aDecided not to watch "Terra Nova". "Falling Skies" never actually became interesting, and that killed my interest in another Spielberg production. If it's great, people will say so, and we can get it on DVDs, but in the meantime, "Cool ... dinosaurs" wasn't enough. And we cancelled our season pass for "Faling Skies" too because I discovered that I neither remembered what the cliffhanger was for the season, nor did I care.
At K's suggestion, we tried out a comedy called "New Girl". I had little interest when she said it was about a girl living with some guys. But then she said, "Apparently she sings a lot" and that won me over. I wasn't actually impressed by the singing which was mostly little snippets here and there. But the show was damned funny. It's a keeper unless it crashes after the pilot.
Speaking of crashing, the whole time we watched the pilot of "Pan Am", I was praying that the plane was going to plummet to its death on a deserted island. Because this badly written, tone deaf, and entirely vapid show had nothing going for it. It had no idea how to deal with its time period in a nuanced way, and its inclusion of an ongoing **spy** subplot suggested how much the writers were grasping for any plots possible. Well, anything other than "Desperate Stewardesses". What a waste of 45 minutes! I couldn't cancel the season pass quickly enough!
So far, no real winners about the new shows except "New Girl". "Prime Suspect" could get there if has good ongoing plots. And then there was a whole lot of dreck.
Is it time for the mid-season replacements yet?
(Actually, lots more shows in late October for some reason, so there will be one more set of dreck before the good shows appear, that of course were pushed out of Fall premieres.)
At K's suggestion, we tried out a comedy called "New Girl". I had little interest when she said it was about a girl living with some guys. But then she said, "Apparently she sings a lot" and that won me over. I wasn't actually impressed by the singing which was mostly little snippets here and there. But the show was damned funny. It's a keeper unless it crashes after the pilot.
Speaking of crashing, the whole time we watched the pilot of "Pan Am", I was praying that the plane was going to plummet to its death on a deserted island. Because this badly written, tone deaf, and entirely vapid show had nothing going for it. It had no idea how to deal with its time period in a nuanced way, and its inclusion of an ongoing **spy** subplot suggested how much the writers were grasping for any plots possible. Well, anything other than "Desperate Stewardesses". What a waste of 45 minutes! I couldn't cancel the season pass quickly enough!
So far, no real winners about the new shows except "New Girl". "Prime Suspect" could get there if has good ongoing plots. And then there was a whole lot of dreck.
Is it time for the mid-season replacements yet?
(Actually, lots more shows in late October for some reason, so there will be one more set of dreck before the good shows appear, that of course were pushed out of Fall premieres.)
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