Enterprise was good.
Jake 2.0 was pretty good for a Six Million Dollar Man retread. Fun! Whee!
Angel, Tru… I dunno, there anything else?
About the only new shows I’m excited about watching are Cold Case Files and Carnivale. Nothing else really appeals to me this year.
Of course, I am dying to see the new seasons of 24, Alias, Six Feet Under, Survivor, ER, and CSI, so my Fall TV watching schedule is pretty full.
Ellis, get caught up on Nip/Tuck at FX here.
Whoopi Goldberg’s show and Peacemakers. Please, please, please check out Peacemakers on cable USA - first showing Wednesday night at 10:00 and repeating Saturday at 10:00 pm. Not your typical western - very authentic (I’m a civil war re-enactor, do living history, and am a horsey person and I know realistic 19th century). Tom Berenger (US Marshall) and his assistant are just discovering crime scene investigation techniques and new-fangled gadgets like the telephone. I like Woopi in anything – her smark-alecky attitude and sarcasm. New show references current events and racial comments and attitudes – had me laughing out loud. Also eager for the last season of Frasier – the funniest, sharpest, wittiest show on tv and I will miss it. If you don’t like “reality” shows and are tired of the same ol’ same ol’ sit coms, check out Peacemakers and Whoopi.
I mentioned Peacemakers in my other post. I love it. I hope USA renews it for another season mid-winter.
Luis and Survivor. And a new season of 60 Minutes.
When I think of Joan of Arcadia, I think of a cross between Hallmark Cards and Amy Grant. If I was going to watch, I would be curious to see how realistic the stories are. I can’t stand shows like this because the protagonists in these popular, neo-Christian shows are always high school students who jaywalk or sneak a cigarette or something lame, never streetwalkers with AIDS, or junkies, or diabetic, minority mothers confined to wheelchairs. The reason is, obviously, because the producers wish to broaden the show’s appeal to those within a certain cross-section of the TV-watching public, and so, they dumb down the stories. If you can watch without rolling your eyes, or even if you enjoy them, more power to you, but personally, I feel foolish watching and letting myself be emotionally manipulated by trite, hackneyed plot devices designed to make your eyes tear and stomach knot up.
One last remark about Joan of Arcadia: in the preview, Joan says something like, “what? are you going to turn me into a big ball of fire?” “God” responds, wincing his eyes and snickering, “Where do you guys get this stuff?”
To me, God would never speak in such a derisive manner, no matter how mild. That just seems very contrived and overdone.
Books.
nisobar- never have read the Book of Job, have ya? G
Must check TV for me-
TRU CALLING
JOAN OF ARCADIA
CARNIVALE
MISS MATCH
HaveToSeeBecauseI’mAppalledTheyAreEvenAttemptingThis TV-
the PBS remake of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Peacemakers is great. Love it!
“Whoopi”:rolleyes: :dubious: OhLord, This sounds so terrible, that even the thought makes me queasy. You know, one time, once, years ago, this woamn said something funny, and for the next decade they hade tried to get her to repeat it… with no luck at all. Crass- AND unfunny.