Hypnotoad: Yeah, a show that starts out with an airplane crash from the guy who created Lost? How dry is THAT well? But America needs a new sci-fi show, even if it’s pretty much a clone of X-Files. Conspiracy theories and MacGuffins can really drag a show down (Rambaldi artifact, Alias fans?), but if this one finds an audience quickly, it’ll be around for a couple of years. 4 seasons. Ish.
Treadingonme: There is no way this show finds an audience. If this was a movie it would fall right between monkeys infected with rage, and monkeys ruling the world. Four episodes.
DearCrabby: Uh, I won’t lie. The trailer scared the living shit out of me. I just don’t have the time to be that stressed out on a Tuesday night and believe me, there won’t be any sound sleeping after watching that show (shudder).
Bbitz: I'm excited for this since I looooove "Lost". I'll be furious if it sucks. Pacey + facial hair = success!!! I fear that it'll get killed mid-season just as it's getting good because most people "won't get it".
LoLo: I keep debating whether my love for Pacey will trump my squeamishness of watching this dark-and-gory looking sci-fi drama. The fact that I still have no idea what it’s about after reading up on it and watching the trailer isn’t helping, either. One season.
J-Mo: Good thing in TV fantasy land there are super-hot über-gorgeous special-ops government agents around to save us from all the evil in the world, cuz all the uggo real-life ones don’t seem to be doing such a hot job of it in the right here and now. And stop showing so many damn plane crashes and disasters, I am nervous ENOUGH when I fly!
Flipit: What's this obsession with planes, JJ? At least try and pretend you've got more ideas in you. A train crash maybe? Who cares, it looks good. And the lead actress resembles Cate Blanchett. Joshua Jackson is also on board, which is scary, but it's a scary show so that's good, right? After a summer of The Closer and Golden Girls reruns, I am very very excited for this show. Even though it looks fairly retarded. I give it three seasons before it falls apart and everyone realizes that JJ Abrams has no plan to make sense of the mess he's made.
Privileged, CW, Sept 9
The story: Poor girl too sweet to work for a tabloid gets a job tutoring spoiled billionaires in Palm Beach.
LoLo: No, seriously, it’s totally different than 90210 or Gossip Girl. It’s set in Florida. Hel-lo! That being said, I’ll probably watch this too. I think my TiVo is embarrassed for me. .Will survive 1st season, likely multiple.
Hypnotoad: Joanna Garcia is a sweetie, but this show . . . yikes. No one looks comfortable acting in it. Even the music in the trailer sounds B-List. The writing/character development should improve after a few episodes, but by then the audience will have lost interest. Cancelled mid-season. Joanna Garcia, we hardly knew ye.
Bbitz: Ooohh - a show about rich kids. If only there was another show of similar plot lines to compete with it. If... only. Killed after 3 episodes.
Flipit: This was the most painful preview to sit through by far. Booooooooooooo! That is all. Full season, because you really have to fuck up big for the CW to yank ya midseason.
Treadingonme: This kind of looks like LC's life on Laguna Beach but with tutoring added. Oh, and LC wouldn't be as rich as she is. And she would have to work her way through life. But, other than that, mirror images.
J-Mo: Wow, the thought that super-rich-girls are worried about getting into the college of their choice is such a…. stupid premise.
Dear Crabby: A Yale-educated reporter tutors Palm Beach bitches into Duke University and in return has her student loans paid off? Think Dakota Fanning trying to do the same with Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. I was too bored to even watch the whole trailer. One upside: the tutor does get tazed, but I can get that on Cops.
TVgasm predicts:
Yanked midseason.
The Ex-List, CBS, Oct 3
The story: A psychic tells a woman she's already met her soulmate, so the chick goes back and redates all the guys from her past.
Flipit: I have trouble believing so many guys banged a girl who looks like Elaine Bennis in a funhouse mirror. That's harsh. Girls with giant foreheads should be allowed to be whores, too. My bad. But I'm still not watching this tripe. Yanked midseason. And I mean that as a prayer.
DearCrabby:
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Comments (1)
Only two looked possibly interesting. Both are apparently taken from the BBC.
I enjoyed watching both, if only out of curiosity for British vocabulary and culture.
Worst Week - although stupidly funny - didn't seem to last long. Not expecting the American version to be as funny or last as long.
I can't see the time-traveling cop thing holding my interest without the Brit aspect.
Looks like a good season to watch less TV.
1 of 1 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on September 2, 2008 10:55 AM