First Kafka made Gregor wake up as a bug. Now, Drex Greene is waking up in a body bag.  Sony pictures is venturing into webisodes (jumping on the same bandwagon as NBC with The Office and SyFy with Battlestar Galactica, to name two others). In Woke Up Dead, Jon Heder, probably best known for playing the starring role in Napoleon Dynamite, plays Drex Greene, just a regular guy in his twenties, who wakes up in a body bag, scaring the young medical student tech (Krysten Ritter from 27 Dresses and Breaking Bad) who was presumably about to slice him open for an autopsy (or cut his clothes away, who knows?)

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(Season 2, Episodes 5-8)

Season two of Veronica Mars continues and I’m not seeing the drop off that some people warned me about. I think it’s quite similar to season one, actually. I’m wondering if the season long mystery isn’t going to end up as tight as the one in season one. At this point in the season, the mystery is still a little unclear. I suppose it’s the bus crash and what exactly happened. Certainly, that’s not as compelling as Lily’s murder in season one. Maybe if the writers had actually killed some characters that we had cared about, I would be more invested in the crash, but….

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