teeeeeveeeee, in brief

Beauty and the Geek: Thumbs up so far this season. Everyone seems genuine and eager, even if I am still a bit suspicious of the Bizarro Beauty and Geek.

Reaper: Thumbs up. I'm a sucker for offbeat dialogue phrasing, whimsical cuts, and Ray Wise being weird, so it's all upside for me. Also: "tape hand." Plus I like that it was created and written by two women. Nice.

K-Ville: Wavering thumbs up. The second episode was stronger than the pilot, I thought. Now I just have to decide if I really want to keep watching a cop show, since that's not generally my thing. But damn, do I love the New Orleans scenery.

ANTM: Thumb-neutral, as every season I hate myself a little for watching. The one girl who made me say "Her? Really?" when they chose her last week was the girl eliminated tonight. It gives me hope that they will eliminate girls in the order they should. I'm sure this hope will be dashed next week. Also, so not surprised the Queens girl and the Jersey City girl were mixing it up. Sigh.

Bionic Woman: Thumbs kind of up. It's frustrating to watch something that has so obviously been dumbed down; it makes the frustrated writer in me twitch. The direction was not great, I thought. (When Katee Sackhoff is making me wince, that's not a good sign.) Still think the change of direction for the younger sister is laaaame. The boyfriend is milquetoast. I wish Michelle Ryan had just a smidge more charisma and/or gravitas. But damn if it isn't the next closest thing to watching BSG (how did I not know Aaron Douglas was in this episode? Seriously, how did I not know that?), so I'll be tuning in next week. I'm also amused that they wanted Mark Sheppard so badly that they hired him for a role that would require him to wear bad old man makeup. Heh.

Dirty Sexy Money: Thumbs WAY up. I am in looooooove. Mostly I am in love with Jeremy Darling which frightens the hell out of me. But oh, this show really is Arrested Development only not as funny and with parents who actually love their children. And it doesn't take itself seriously and it had a couple twists I didn't see coming and one of the characters is having a transsexual romance, for god's sake, and Peter Krause and Donald Sutherland are made of win and did I mention I'm in love with Bryce Dallas Howard's husband? I totally am. I enjoyed this show so much, and I predict it will be canceled after three episodes.

And I inadvertently got spoiled for tonight's Top Chef so I'm not happy about that.

This is a good post to remind myself and everyone else that, as the Futon Critic explains, TV networks are not out to kill your show. Really. I mentioned to em_meredith at Dragon Con that I'd love to do a panel at a con called How Hollywood Actually Works.

They've been filming the Sex and the City movie around my workplace and I haven't seen anybody. My co-worker saw SJP, CN and KD the other day. Dammit. Today I did watch a fight scene for some Terrence Howard movie being shot outside my window, so that was something.

By the way, if you have some spare change lying around, they're auctioning off a copy of the Magna Carta. This document contains this odd precept called habeas corpus, perhaps you've heard of it. We used to have it in this country. Anyway, the copy is currently owned by Ross Perot. Who knew?

And here's something that made me reconsider my perspective: mine workers don't WANT more safety regulations. A reminder from the universe that you don't necessarily understand what someone wants or needs unless you've walked in their shoes.

Although I'm pretty sure that sick children would like to be taken care of, even if I haven't been a sick child in some time.

Although I think I might be sick now. Unless it's possible to get a sore throat from stress? If anyone could pull that off, I could. I don't have a fever. Maybe it's the Splenda. I've been using it in my coffee the past few months, but I think I need to go off it.