Mile-a-Minute Catchup
The last few nights’ shows, 60 words or so per each. If the count’s off, feel free to blame Bill Gates or that animated paper clip in Microsoft Word.
Veronica Mars: As much as I love this sassy new Nancy Drew, I feel like Veronica’s lost in space. The first two seasons were built around year-long story arcs; trying to break that pattern seems to have sent the show floundering. Characters and plots come and go, and the news that the last five eps will be stand-alones is particularly discouraging.
Friday Night Lights: Despite its second best night of ratings, The Dillon Panthers’ future is still in doubt, on and off the field. There’s only so far critical acclaim will go. Anyway, fairly standard episode this week… which means it’s fairly fantastic. Great relationship stuff, romantic and otherwise, throughout the entire ensemble cast. Maybe the most honest show on TV.
Smallville: This show gets better as it gets more “super.” Justice League Junior is floating around, classic hero Martian Manhunter saved Clark last week, and this episode featured the best break from the original “no flights, no tights” rule when Clark flew Lois across the moon to one-up her former boyfriend, Green Arrow. Lex & Lana’s relationship is still ick, tho.
The Office: Wow. Killer ep. Set up all the things that make the show sing and knocked ‘em down in style. Have to agree with some other posters that this Office may have outdone the British Office. It’s not quite an apples to oranges comparison, maybe more like oranges to tangerines, but still – these Dunderheads are reliably brilliant.
The OC: To borrow a bit of Seth’s comic fanboy lexicon… retcon alert! Heavy flashback episode inserted Taylor into the gang’s past and played with the various Cohens’ futures. While I appreciate recasting the flashbacks (as opposed to actors trying to play 10-30 years younger), the choices were odd – apparently Kirsten had a lot of work done and Sandy was JFK, jr.
Veronica Mars: As much as I love this sassy new Nancy Drew, I feel like Veronica’s lost in space. The first two seasons were built around year-long story arcs; trying to break that pattern seems to have sent the show floundering. Characters and plots come and go, and the news that the last five eps will be stand-alones is particularly discouraging.
Friday Night Lights: Despite its second best night of ratings, The Dillon Panthers’ future is still in doubt, on and off the field. There’s only so far critical acclaim will go. Anyway, fairly standard episode this week… which means it’s fairly fantastic. Great relationship stuff, romantic and otherwise, throughout the entire ensemble cast. Maybe the most honest show on TV.
Smallville: This show gets better as it gets more “super.” Justice League Junior is floating around, classic hero Martian Manhunter saved Clark last week, and this episode featured the best break from the original “no flights, no tights” rule when Clark flew Lois across the moon to one-up her former boyfriend, Green Arrow. Lex & Lana’s relationship is still ick, tho.
The Office: Wow. Killer ep. Set up all the things that make the show sing and knocked ‘em down in style. Have to agree with some other posters that this Office may have outdone the British Office. It’s not quite an apples to oranges comparison, maybe more like oranges to tangerines, but still – these Dunderheads are reliably brilliant.
The OC: To borrow a bit of Seth’s comic fanboy lexicon… retcon alert! Heavy flashback episode inserted Taylor into the gang’s past and played with the various Cohens’ futures. While I appreciate recasting the flashbacks (as opposed to actors trying to play 10-30 years younger), the choices were odd – apparently Kirsten had a lot of work done and Sandy was JFK, jr.
2 comments:
I've seen one full episode of the The Office UK and it was funny. Then I started to watch another episode and it was just ok. Maybe it's because I'm more familiar with The Office US, but I find it immensely funnier than the UK version. I did notice that Jim Halpert does copy the Tim Canterbury expressions a bit, but he's still hysterical.
I'm still holding to my prediction that something big will happen between Jim and Pam at Phyllis' wedding.
Do you (and/or guys in general) care much about the Jim/Pam love story or is it merely incidental?
The US Office is funnier. On one hand, it's more overtly jokey, where the Brit version depended more on uncomfortable pauses. But also, the US Office has done maybe three times as many episodes, so they've taken the show in a bunch of different directions.
And love the Jim/Pam love story – it's one similarity with the Brit version, where it's really the backbone of the show.
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