Thursday, September 22, 2005
New TV
Whell, the new wad of phlegmin shot out from the TV networks at us, the unsuspecting public, has prodded me to dip into the new TV shows and new season openers and dip out as quick as possible because it might be catching.
I love the supernatural genre but I wasn't able to get Lost, as it were, in the last season; yesterday's opener once again left me feeling that these are a group of people I don't care about, in a world they never made, and is so arbitrary in its story that it is insulting to the audience. This show, which could be called Desperately Seeking A Plot Line continually sabotages itself with flashbacks — a dagger stuck in its own small beating heart.
The Martha Stewart burp of a show doesn't work because it is operating at cross purposes. They, that is the team that is Martha, wants you to like her, so she is being infused with a personality where there was none before by people who really care — about profits — but the producers of her wannabe Apprentice want her to be mean, which is what that the show is all about. Did it work? Not.
The only thing that has so far come down the pike that has interest is Invasion, from Shaun Cassidy, of all people, you say. This guy has whatever it takes to produce and write TV shows; he knows how to assemble a team, get some movement on the screen, and engage you.
There are some new ones still to come — can hardly wait.