Cougar Town is really about a mother and son
Cougar Town has been criticized for being demeaning to women and simply a tasteless flaunting of cougar sex. There is that, though it is done with such humor and respect that it isn’t offensive to me. That’s also not what this show is really about. The interactions between the quirky characters are what carries the show, and my favorite is the interplay between Jules and her son, Travis.
Let’s explore….
The Good Wife is CBS’s new charmer
Get past the fact that it’s actually not a crime drama on CBS … the Powers That Be saw fit to produce The Good Wife, a legal drama centered around lawyer Alicia Florrick, played by Julianna Margulies, who recently returns to work to support her family. Why? Her husband Peter was basically a giant douchebag politician, tossed in jail for a sex scandal, and other illegal acts.
It sounds pathetic, doesn’t it? But this, my friends, is not a sob story. It is a charming story of a woman’s strength and her love for her family, her interactions with the quirky people she meets in her revived career, and her relationship with her estranged inmate husband and her mother-in-law (who lives with her and her children).
Three reasons why NCIS: LA works
Strangely enough, in all these years, I’ve never caught a full episode of NCIS. I really liked JAG when it first came on and I generally like Mark Harmon, so I’m not sure why it never graced my screen. When I heard they were making a spin-off starring Chris O’Donnell (my gimme) and LL Cool J, I couldn’t wait to check it out (and now I’ve seen the pilot). With that star power, there had to be something good going on, right?
[What? You don't know what a gimme is? You all have them. In the event I meet Chris O'Donnell someday and he wants to sleep with me, I have permission to do so. He's been my gimme for about 15 years ... Keith's changes with the wind.]
It will be interesting to see what NCIS fans think of this show, but I’m hoping some non-fans will give it a try, because it works for me on a number of levels.
Defying Gravity is accessible science fiction, and what’s wrong with that?
It’s time to try
Defying gravity
I think I’ll try
Defying gravity
And you can’t pull me down!- “Defying Gravity,” Wicked
If you know me well enough, you had to know that I would find some way to work a Wicked reference into the post (the title of the show is also the title of one of the cornerstone songs of the musical). The United States premiere (actually the first two episodes, “Pilot” and “Natural Selection”) of the new “sexy Sci-Fi” drama Defying Gravity ran on ABC tonight. The lyrics fit nicely on how I like the show, and most out there don’t seem to.
Keith previewed the show a couple of weeks ago, so for my inaugural post, I won’t really rehash TOO MUCH on what’s already been said as much as I just want to rant on the reviews the show has been getting, particularly in comparison to Ronald D. Moore’s stalled Virtuality (my preview here).
The Philanthropist is quite an adventure – CliqueClack Preview
Hmmm … what to say about The Philanthropist…. I was pretty excited by the premise of this show when NBC announced it, simply because it was very different from everything else out there. You’re not going to believe this, but the main character, Teddy Rist, is not a cop, a doctor nor a lawyer. No, I’m not making that up. He’s not a vampire, either.
Businessman, philanderer, philanthropist … no medical degree — did I say that already? Teddy Rist is an interesting character, and what struck me immediately about him is that he’s understatedly spunky. His adventure to get a vaccine to a remote village in Nigeria is juxtaposed with him ordering his assistant to have some decent booze delivered, because all they have is Jim Beam. James Purefoy’s got a great face — expressive, wise-assy, tender, hard.
It gets better, though.
Will The Listener find its groove? – CliqueClack Preview
I’m generally a pilot-hater. There are not too many shows that catch me on the first go around. Most need some time to find their groove and usually, I give a series a few episodes before I dump it. OK, that’s not entirely true; sometimes, like with Mental, I give it about fifteen minutes, whether it’s fair or not.
The Listener I gave two episodes, because that’s all I had. Some things really work for me; elements of the show have huge potential. Other things fell flat and I hope it gels soon. Watching the second episode become more painful as it went on, and I found myself drifting off … so slow … is this show still on?… how many more minutes left? … that sort of drifting off.
Diary of a Supernatural Virgin – Darkness, death, clowns and vamps
(Season 2, Episodes 1-3)
Oh, Supernatural, how I have missed you so. My loyalties have been divided between my duties at CliqueClack, which require me keeping up with that pesky current television, and my new guilty pleasure, the Winchester boys. Well, tonight, duties be damned … I’m watching a Supernatural marathon, so bring on season two!
I seriously can’t believe I have let weeks go by without watching the resolution of the season one cliffhanger. I just knew if I started that I might not have the willpower to watch a reasonable amount of episodes. Here I am again, on the emotional roller-coaster of Supernatural, enjoying the heartbreaking dysfunction of the Winchester family, the comedic relief (thanks, Dean!) and the lessons learned along the way.
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