Monday night was a HOME-FREAKIN-RUN for NBC:
Chuck – B+
Heroes – SOLID A
Journeyman – B-
The reason Journeyman was the weakest was because I can see Chuck and Journeyman switching timeslots very very soon. It was one hell of a roller coaster ride night. Can’t say enough and hope this lineup lasts for a long time.
It’s here, finally. The new season is about to embark and I, for on and ready, more than ready, BORN READY ! LET THE GAMES BEGIN. RELEASE THE HOUNDS! OK, so I am just a bit excited. Well, tonight is a good one and I don’t even have to do anything but hide the remote, cuz everything is on NBC.
One of the smartest episodes EVER in the current incarnation of the good doctor ran last Friday, Blink. If you didn’t see in catch the rerun. If you did, don’t even try to tell me how amazing it was. I know, I know. .. To me, it seemed like another perfect spin off, but then again, what the heck do I know?
Yes, I am an idiot. I am the same guy who loves ALF as one of the best sci fi TV shows EVER. I am the same guy who hated The White Album. I am indeed the same guy who thought Ron Goulart ghost wrote all the Shatner novels (oh wait, he did).
Vampires, ghosties for everyone and something beside a vampire rises’ from the dead
Moonlight
(Steaks don’t kill him either)
Nic St. John reprises the role of Angel, ONLY NOT, only better? The quote to remember, “Being a vampire sucks” What really sucks is being in the Friday night deadzone. Add to this, the cast is filled with OC castoffs and unknowns and one of the producers is Ron Koslow (Birds of Prey – guilty pleasure alert).
Does anyone remember Phil Hartman doing his Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? And Jim Morrison doesn’t sing Touch Me at all in Pushing Daisies. Note to Barry, consider this for the soundtrack!
Barry Sonnenfeld is a very twisted and funny guy and he has created at Sci-Fi comedy about Ned, a baker, who can briefly resurrect the dead. Now before you hurt yourself laughing at the idea of dead people, remember Sonnenfelds’ track record (Men In Black{forget the sequel}, The Addams family) and Producer/Writer Brian Fuller (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Heroes). Add to the mix the amazing Swoozie Kurtz and I’m guessing if they can get past 13 weeks they are gonna be solid. This is one I am rooting for.
The new season – Jamie Sommers, Jamie Sommers, the newest sitcom from Norman Lear is about a fictional town in…..oh god, never mind, I just had a 70’s flashback. Wait a moment so did this show.
Journeyman
The Specifics:
Title – Journeyman
Network – NBC
Timeslot – after Heroes Monday night at 10:00pm
Responsibility – Producers and Writers from The West Wing
Derivation – Billy Pilgrim – Slaughterhouse 5 By Kurt Vonnegut
so, last nights episode was good, not great, not awesome, just good. The reason for this is that 4400 has moved from storytelling to preaching. The characters are not talking to each other anymore. Some examples:
This is part 3 of a 3 part series about what’s going on in the Sci Fi Network, what’s working, what isn’t and what’s making me flip to The Golf Channel.
First, a sidebar. SFN has become a home for many canceled sci fi network shows. Some are good, some are bad and some are just cringingly ugly.
The Noobs:
The 4400
Currently First Run episodes of Season 4 of this amazing series are running on USA Network. When they end they usually get a repeat run on SFN a few months later. What an awesome idea this was!!!. This is a real sleeper favorite of mine. MY hope is for a SFN Marathon, running all 4 seasons sometime soon.
