Sampling New TV
Sep. 20th, 2006 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxOkay, my jaw is hurting. Remember when I broke a tooth a little over a month ago? I went to the dentist who fitted me with a temporary crown and scheduled another visit several weeks later to give me the permanent crown... only the crown didn't fit. He said he'd send it back to whoever it is who makes the crowns and for me to come back two weeks later. So today I had another visit and he again tried to place the permanent crown (for an hour), he ended up having to numb me twice, and the crown simply wouldn't fit. He ended up making a new mold and saying that he was telling (whoever it is who makes the crowns) to personally make the crown... and I'm scheduled for yet another visit to the dentist in two weeks. Guh. (And, no, he hasn't charged me for the last two visits, and, yes, he's an excellent dentist. Not only have I used this dentist for the last ten years, but he was rec'd to me as the best possible dentist in town by my sister's (sadly late) father-in-law, who had been the dean of UAB dental school. So I'm really not blaming the dentist, just tired of having to go to his office every couple of weeks.)
Anyway, with my jaw hurting, I'm sitting around sampling the new tv offerings. Impressions:
Jericho: the show where the inhabitants see a mushroom cloud in the distance and they have to wonder whether it was a localized thing or whether the US is under mass attack. Okay, let me admit I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories and there's just a bit of (far more realistic) The Stand in this one. Yes, it's somewhat cheesy, but I can like cheese. There were flaws, and I'm not at all sure that the show will find an audience, but I enjoyed it well enough. Best moment in the episode was where the kid shows up at the Mayors house with the answering machine tape. His mother had called saying that she wasn't making her flight and that she wouldn't make it home that day, then you heard something catastrophic in the background. He has to tell the others that his mom hadn't come home before the attack, and the maternal character of the series said how sorry she was. She hadn't realized that his mother was in Denver (which is where the mushroom cloud originated) and he says that his mother wasn't in Denver. She was in Atlanta.
It was a nicely executed moment that got the gut-clench it was looking for.
Anyway, it's somewhat cheesy, but I'll probably watch again to see how they develop the premise.
Kidnapped: the quality level shot up on this one. They have appealing leads. I always loved "Ordinary People" so Timothy Hutton can act. I also enjoyed "China Beach" so I tend to like Dana Delaney, even when playing a pretentious socialite. The kid that was kidnapped was also appealing. On top of that, the kidnap searching guy is kinda hot. (The bodyguard who was shot was also hot.) It's a bit confusing (please, please reduce the number of flash edits!) with a depressing premise (yes, worse than post-apocalypse!), and --again -- I'm not sure how well the premise can be stretched over a season (or multiple seasons), but I'll give it another chance. I also give it higher odds of survival as it did the unlikely of cross-breeding an action plot ala 24 with a sense of a procedural like Law and Order, so I give it fair odds of finding some kind of audience. Considering NBC's ill-health as a network, even a tepid hit is a hit by NBC standards these days, and Kidnapped may reach that somewhat low threshold.
Anyway, with my jaw hurting, I'm sitting around sampling the new tv offerings. Impressions:
Jericho: the show where the inhabitants see a mushroom cloud in the distance and they have to wonder whether it was a localized thing or whether the US is under mass attack. Okay, let me admit I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic stories and there's just a bit of (far more realistic) The Stand in this one. Yes, it's somewhat cheesy, but I can like cheese. There were flaws, and I'm not at all sure that the show will find an audience, but I enjoyed it well enough. Best moment in the episode was where the kid shows up at the Mayors house with the answering machine tape. His mother had called saying that she wasn't making her flight and that she wouldn't make it home that day, then you heard something catastrophic in the background. He has to tell the others that his mom hadn't come home before the attack, and the maternal character of the series said how sorry she was. She hadn't realized that his mother was in Denver (which is where the mushroom cloud originated) and he says that his mother wasn't in Denver. She was in Atlanta.
It was a nicely executed moment that got the gut-clench it was looking for.
Anyway, it's somewhat cheesy, but I'll probably watch again to see how they develop the premise.
Kidnapped: the quality level shot up on this one. They have appealing leads. I always loved "Ordinary People" so Timothy Hutton can act. I also enjoyed "China Beach" so I tend to like Dana Delaney, even when playing a pretentious socialite. The kid that was kidnapped was also appealing. On top of that, the kidnap searching guy is kinda hot. (The bodyguard who was shot was also hot.) It's a bit confusing (please, please reduce the number of flash edits!) with a depressing premise (yes, worse than post-apocalypse!), and --again -- I'm not sure how well the premise can be stretched over a season (or multiple seasons), but I'll give it another chance. I also give it higher odds of survival as it did the unlikely of cross-breeding an action plot ala 24 with a sense of a procedural like Law and Order, so I give it fair odds of finding some kind of audience. Considering NBC's ill-health as a network, even a tepid hit is a hit by NBC standards these days, and Kidnapped may reach that somewhat low threshold.
