SWG’s long-story-short take on TV stuff from last week
March 22nd, 2009 by screenwriterguy
Big Love remains one of the best shows on TV. The big stink from the Mormons over the accurate (so HBO says) depiction of one of their sacred ceremonies was pointless. They did it with respect. (How many Mormons really watch pay cable?) Meanwhile, they did another great job of setting up a mess of internal politics to pay off over the next several episodes.
Kings was rich in mythology, but slow. After the groundwork in the first hour, it was the duplicity and intrigue that showed up in the second hour that offers the most promise that it’ll get good.
Castle was cute. Not cute enough to add to my overfull list of shows I follow, but if it were my genre, I’d be interested. Remember Moonlighting? That’s what they’re setting in motion.
Better Off Ted has promise, especially in its rich overall tone, but didn’t deliver the funny in the pilot. This may have been a case of all the funniest jokes being spoiled by the trailers.
Scrubs phoned it in. Sigh.
Lost was a serious filler episode. Some of the latest big questions seem like contrivances just to make plot happen. (Why did Sun land thirty years in the future? Why was Sayid miles from the landing point of Jack, Hurley, and Kate?)
Dollhouse got better. Not awesome yet, but markedly better.
The Battlestar finale was a loveable trainwreck. The structure of the two-hours was all over the place, and there was a whole lot that was unsatisfying. But, like in most of the series, you didn’t care about logic or unresolved questions as much as you cared about this cool Art taking place before your eyes. Mary McDonald is a fantastic actor, and Edward James Olmos made me cry.
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