Tonight on the TiFaux: Guilty Pleasure Wednesday?
Posted by Maggie September 26th, 2007 at 02:00pm In Gossip Girl Grey's Anatomy
So, Kid Nation: I caught the re-run on Saturday night (what? I was waiting to go out), and it was very well-done. It nails that icky feeling you get watching the best reality TV shows, where you hate what’s happening and don’t want to watch but end up invested and curious despite yourself.
Obviously I relate strongly to Sophia, the overachieving bossy 14-year-old. I’m hoping she’s going to develop a thing for Greg, the 15-year-old troublemaker. That’s what I would’ve done, thus deeply embarrassing myself on national television. Thank you, world, for letting me avoid that fate. Final thought: Alex, the one-toothed Asian 9-year-old, is the cutest kid ever.
The Bionic Woman premieres tonight on NBC. It’s got all that Battlestar Galactica writer credibility (and Katee Sackhoff, of course), but it seems like something’s not quite clicking in to place. The advance reviews haven’t been as glowing as they should be. Nonetheless, I’ll be watching, hoping for a Battlestar-like success.
Gossip Girl continues its shenanigans tonight. The pilot was full of some entertaining nonsense. The actor playing Dan Humphries misread a line, though, and I’ve hated him ever since. (Yes, I hold grudges like this. Learn to act, people!) I think that might be a problem going forward, as he’s set up to be the only sympathetic character in a sea of narcissistic snobs.
Gossip Girl and Bionic Woman share a time slot, which means that I have a legitimate, iron-clad excuse not to watch Private Practice, the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off. Thank you, TiFaux, for only being able to record two shows at a time and so thus making that decision for me!
After that, however, I will be taping Dirty Sexy Money. I’m hoping it can get past its terrible, terrible title, but I’m not expecting much. I’m happy to give Peter Krause a shot, though.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: I’m going to be lazy and suggest The War on PBS again. Ken Burns, you’ve really saved my ass this week.
In her review of Bionic Woman, Alessandra Stanley (the Times‘s notoriously error-prone TV critic) said Katee Sackhoff looked like Courtney Love on steroids. That bitch (Alessandra) is so dead to me, because she is a GODDAMN TV CRITIC who didn’t recognize a lead actor from the BEST DAMN SHOW ON TELEVISION. Goddamn I want her job.
Shouldn’t one of you take a look at Damages. I’ve been watching it for a number of weeks now and I’m enjoying it. It’s told in two time frames through the clever use of color and sound to distinguish between the main story line and interpolated scenes from the ‘present’. I like it better than the ‘Lost’ solution of chapter headings: ’9 days ago’, ’6 days ago’, ’3 days ago’ etc., which I often wonder if I missed. Most (but not all) of the actors are superb.