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Fall 2007 TV Season Premieres

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Reviews

Like most Amer­i­cans I’ve been a bit more glued to my TV this week than usual due to the return of fresh pro­gram­ming for the fall. Here are a few quick impres­sions of the shows I watched this week.

Mon­day

• Chuck: The producers/advertisers of this show are obvi­ously tar­get­ing some­thing very close to my demo­graphic with this show. The first episode was noth­ing spe­cial, butit did amuse me. I sup­pose if this show is play­ing while I want to watch TV, I’ll watch it but it is noth­ing I would go out of my way to see.
• Heroes: What a dis­ap­point­ment. I really enjoyed last sea­son, but bring­ing back both of the Petrelli broth­ers in the sea­son pre­mier when last season’s finale showed them get­ting nuked cheap­ened the show immensely. I had been look­ing for­ward to this, but now I doubt I’ll be watch­ing it.
• Jour­ney­man: Meh, this looks like a weak remake of Quan­tum Leap only sig­nif­i­cantly less inter­est­ing. Maybe I was just in the wrong mood, but I gave up watch­ing it 10 min­utes in. It was just putting me to sleep.

Tues­day

• NCIS: Yup, I’ll be watch­ing this one all sea­son long again. The sea­son pre­mier didn’t pull off any astound­ing changes to the show but did show off the writ­ers’ abil­ity to keep giv­ing us what we want. Explo­sions, mur­der, mys­tery and action.
• The Unit: First off who­ever came up with the new intro clip to this show should be fired. It’s utterly hor­ri­ble. That being said, like NCIS this show deliv­ered. While the show is going a lot darker than before and looks like it will be spend­ing this sea­son mostly inside US bor­ders; it looks good and was a solid hour of enter­tain­ment this event.

Wednes­day

• Bionic Woman: Sur­pris­ingly, I was impressed. I expected it to be con­sid­er­ably cheesier and crap­pier than it turned out to be. I didn’t much care for the main char­ac­ter but it was nice to see some actors from other shows I’ve liked.
• Life: Heh, this was quite a bit of fun to watch this evening. Though the main char­ac­ter was exces­sively flakey for my taste and I’m not sure I’ll keep watch­ing it given that it’s got the same times­lot as CSI: NY.

Thurs­day

• Ugly Betty: This show is really more one I watch because my wife likes it and I fid­dled around on my com­puter while it was on. What I caught of it was funny, but not enough to draw me back to the couch to watch it.
• CSI: I had been look­ing for­ward to see­ing this right up until it was on TV. I don’t know if I was just in a bad mood, but I just didn’t care if the CSI mem­ber was going to live through the episode or not. Per­haps I’m get­ting a bit burned out on all these CSI shows.

Fri­day

• Moon­light: Cheesy, vam­pire, detec­tive show. A bit funny, a bit dark and worth watch­ing if you hap­pen to be home on a Fri­day night.

So there’s my quick thoughts on the pre­mieres I’ve seen so far. Did I miss any­thing good?

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