I did catch the new Fox series New Amsterdam last night. It's definitely got potential I think. I will certainly watch the next few episodes to see where it goes at least. I was explaining the concept of it to my husband last night--a guy gets made immortal by Native Americans and can't die until he finds his true love, so he decides to be a detective in New York. His response, "It worked for Highlander." Now I must confess I have seen absolutely nothing in the Highlander universe (which given my love for Sean Connery and sci-fi is an oddity, to say the least), but as I said, I kind of dug New Amsterdam. It looks like they'll be playing with its time slot for a few episodes--there's a new one on tomorrow after that travesty of a television show known as American Idol--but then it's supposed to settle down into its official Monday night slot. Fox is also airing a new series, Canterbury's Law, on Mondays staring Julianna Marguiles. This leads me to wonder when the heezy we're going to get new episodes of Bones, which I was led to believe was going to be moving to a Monday night time slot come spring. Sigh. Oh Fox, why can't you stop jerking that wonderful show around like it's a yo-yo? Grr. Argh. As long as they do actually bring it back and pick it up for a new season I won't complain (too much) though.
I also caught the new episode of Jericho, which I have started watching live in the vain hope that it might get a shot at a season three. Okay, huge frakkin' spoiler coming up for season two of Jericho. Turn back now if you haven't seen the episode and don't want to know.
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HOLY FREAKING #$@^&!!!!! I cannot believe they %$^&*$%# killed Bonnie! What the heck is up with that? Although I've gotta give her props, she took some of those jerkwads down with her when she went. That scene was just incredibly done, as horrific as it was. Hopefully this, and the arrest and summary sentencing of Dale, will get Stanley on the "Jennings and Rall is evil" wagon. Good gravy. I've seen this show get a lot of flak lately because the new season has become something of a conspiracy-theory based show in its second season. But seriously, we already knew the government was involved in/aware of the initial attacks, and it's really not like the town can stay isolated forever. I am actually really enjoying the story arc this season has followed. What's the point of this show if the country doesn't try to put itself back together in the wake of the initial tragedy? But, true to its name, we need to get our story of that process from the point of view of the citizens of Jericho. It just so happens that we've got citizens in Jericho who know more about the attacks than they should--and that means that when it becomes clear that the new rising government has at least a few dirty fingers, well, the citizens of Jericho feel they need do something about that, don't they?
So yeah. New Amsterdam has potential. Jericho rocks even though they killed off one of my favorite characters and there's probably only three episodes left ever. At least they'll probably tell a better story in those three episodes and bring it to a better close than Smallville ever will with it's whole (groan) eighth upcoming season.
Now I'm back to vacation.
Take care,
C
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