ABC

(Season 1, Episode 2)

What’s real, and what’s not real?

As you’ll recall from the screenshot above, this episode wasted no time at all in telling us that the mystery surrounding Sam’s predicament is fresh on his mind and not shuffled off to a comfortable back seat already. Viewers are going to be invested in this show to learn what the heck is going on. As long as we’re constantly getting fed information and clues, everyone should be happy. It’s when the clues lead to nothing new that gets viewers pissed off (see: Lost).

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CBS

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m getting old.  I mean, I’m only 26, still in my mid-twenties and denying the fact that I am aging. However, it seems like the world around me is constantly reminding me that I am no longer a kid, especially my stupid TV. I don’t get why my TV feels the need to make me feel so old. I treat it well. I watch it all the time, tell it how much I love it. It’s my best friend! That doesn’t stop the big high-definition bastard from telling me how old I am almost every time I turn it on. I’ve threatened to turn it off, but it knows I can’t stay mad at it for long.

It’s depressing and makes me want to rip out all the hair that I can see turning gray. So how exactly does my TV tell me I am getting older?  Come find out.

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ABC

Fringe was “meh.” Gary Unmarried was unmemorable. Worst Week wasn’t the worst, but it wasn’t the best. Kath & Kim was a disaster, and The Ex List was a piffle. 90210 was neither interesting or salacious enough. But last night at 10, we finally got a new show whose pilot was well-done enough to get me excited about what’s next. That show was Life on Mars.

Let me preface this by saying that I never saw the original British version of this show, so I’ve got nothing to compare the American version to. But all the mishegas surrounding the show — David E. Kelley came and went, the original pilot was scrapped, the locale was moved from LA to New York, there wasn’t a first episode ready to show as recently as three weeks ago — made me wary of what I was going to see last night at 10. But at the end of the hour, I was glad I tuned in. Read the rest of this entry »