A New Season Begins

Well, Cavemen wasn't the absolute worst sit-com ever to pollute the airwaves. That distinction still belongs to According to Jim. Cavemen had its funny concepts and moments. Having one of the cavemen working in a pseudo-IKEA and playing squash was funny. There definitely was room for improvement. I guess it remains to be seen how many Flintstones references we're going to be subjected to. One the whole, I would say it gets 2 stars but has some potential. Given the dearth of interesting new shows on the slate, it may be given some slack to find itself and an audience.

House was at his misanthropic best this week in episode 2. Undoubtedly, Kal Penn will land a spot on the show. He doesn't seem to have a long life-span on t.v. shows, though (see Angel, 24). It will be interesting to see how they have the old team co-exist with the new. I predict an all-out catfight at some point between the newly blonde Cameron and Machiavellian bad-girl, Amber.

Now to see what 24 is going to do. Maybe an episode where Jack gets pulled over for DUI, looks in the rearview mirror at the flashing police lights and mutters, "Dammit!"

Losing Lost

Well, the two hour season finale of Lost was last night. I stayed up for a whole 35 minutes of it. Not that it was bad. I was just beat after getting up too dang early yesterday morning. Plus chasing around court all day and doing depositions took quite a bit out of me.

So, I just kicked online and "googled" a Lost synopsis site and caught up just fine. I don't know what it says when I can feel just as satisfied reading a synposis as I can having actually watched a show. Maybe it means that I still care enough about the show and characters to want to know what's happening but not so much that I feel empty inside when I miss seeing it. That never would have happened with Buffy. She was truly "must see T.V."

I think while I like Lost (and 24 for that matter), appointment T.V. was better when the appointment could be made with the wifey who has been on the road doing the consulting thing. Hopefully, reading this won't get her all verklempt since it's just a temporary state of affairs.