Re: TV 5: Cliffhangers and Intros!
Ahh, good catch, I didn't pick up on that one. (To be honest the scenes with her and her boyfriend bored me and I zoned out a bit.)
Yeah, there's always so much really subtle, deep stuff going on that I miss a lot too. It's nice that there's a show that actually trusts the audience to catch that stuff, as opposed to every reality TV show, where the characters narrate every stupid thing going through interviews.
I watched the first two episodes of Rubicon on-demand last night. I pretty much agree with the general sentiment that it's been pretty slow, but intriguing enough that I want to see where it's going. I don't think it's Mad Men, but I had the same, 'I'm not sold, but I'll see where this going' feeling through the first couple episodes of Mad Men--though after re-watching, the pilot for Mad Men is amazing. Part of it is that it just takes a while to get used to so many characters in something that big. It's hard to shed light on a shadowy world-dominating conspiracy group and not make it seem stupid. Hopefully they can do it.
My other summer TV watching:
1. Lie to Me- Pretty big disappointment. The change in show runners has led to a pretty big decline in the quality of the show. Tim Roth is still incredibly awesome, but the cases are too predictable and not that interesting.
2. Deadliest Catch-I was kind of worried how they'd handle Phil's death, because it would be very easy to do that poorly, but they did such an amazing, beautiful job with it. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that was some of the greatest television ever.
3. Hot in Cleveland-Basically a Golden Girls remake. Kind of dumb, but an entertaining 30-minute sitcom.
4. Futurama-I think it's been really good so far, and stands up to the original episodes, which is a pretty big compliment, since I think few shows are as good as the original Futuramas. The Bender-Hermes story was a little too blatantly trying to copy earlier stories that worked, but it still works, and plus, we learned that Hermes ate a calculator to gain its powers, so it was worth it.
I missed this week's episode, but I have it DVR-ed for this weekend.
I started DVRing it in June, just got around to watching them last weekend. I want more episodes - although every scene with Allison makes me cringe. I hated girls like her. What a *****.
