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New TV on ABC!
Sep. 24th, 2013 11:17 pmI hadn't heard or seen a single thing about Lucky 7 until I turned on the TV to check out Agents of SHIELD tonight, and I decided to play along with ABC's programming decision for a night.
So, SHIELD. Which you probably all watched, if you watched anything live tonight. Pilot-y. Unsurprisingly for me: Liked the scientists, did not so much like the non-scientists, indifferent to the comedy, curious to see what they tell us about the things that they made really obvious references to, and how quickly, and what becomes Big Bad and what becomes Antagonist of the Week.
(ETA: Also! I would be interested in someone (who's watched Avengers more recently than I have) talking about Coulson's body language in this episode! That's the only thing about the episode that I really wanted to interrogate, as opposed to sitting and waiting for the show to feed me the plot.)
I can't imagine sticking with The Goldbergs - the first episode was funny enough, and I thought the 80s references were amusing, but the voice-over was too much straight up Wonder Years for me.
I don't watch Modern Family, but it seems like Trophy Wife might be aiming for a similar niche. (Suffers from the Cougar Town stupid name effect: 'Trophy Wife' Is More Than Just A Pretty Face On ABC). It was good! Again, can't imagine I'll stick with it because I don't really do comedies unless I have someone to watch them with, but it seems like its equal opportunity for character ridiculousness, which I appreciate.
Lucky 7, though!
Does anyone else remember The Nine, that show about the group of people who survived the bank robbery from a few years ago? Lucky 7 really reminds me of that, in the sort of ensemble and the people who seem okay and the secrets.
The bank show lasted like 5 episodes and then they dumped off the rest of the season in like January. I hope this one gets to play out its season at least. Great diverse cast, and I'm sure someone on the internet can inform me of the various and sundry ways that it was or will eventually be racist or classist or something else-ist, but there wasn't anything in the first episode that blared the fail radar for me. I'm interested to learn more about the characters, and how they react to everything.
Also, ABC showed that ESPN commercial that cracked my shit up, at least twice, which is a much better use of their conglomerate's advertising minutes.
So, SHIELD. Which you probably all watched, if you watched anything live tonight. Pilot-y. Unsurprisingly for me: Liked the scientists, did not so much like the non-scientists, indifferent to the comedy, curious to see what they tell us about the things that they made really obvious references to, and how quickly, and what becomes Big Bad and what becomes Antagonist of the Week.
(ETA: Also! I would be interested in someone (who's watched Avengers more recently than I have) talking about Coulson's body language in this episode! That's the only thing about the episode that I really wanted to interrogate, as opposed to sitting and waiting for the show to feed me the plot.)
I can't imagine sticking with The Goldbergs - the first episode was funny enough, and I thought the 80s references were amusing, but the voice-over was too much straight up Wonder Years for me.
I don't watch Modern Family, but it seems like Trophy Wife might be aiming for a similar niche. (Suffers from the Cougar Town stupid name effect: 'Trophy Wife' Is More Than Just A Pretty Face On ABC). It was good! Again, can't imagine I'll stick with it because I don't really do comedies unless I have someone to watch them with, but it seems like its equal opportunity for character ridiculousness, which I appreciate.
Lucky 7, though!
Does anyone else remember The Nine, that show about the group of people who survived the bank robbery from a few years ago? Lucky 7 really reminds me of that, in the sort of ensemble and the people who seem okay and the secrets.
The bank show lasted like 5 episodes and then they dumped off the rest of the season in like January. I hope this one gets to play out its season at least. Great diverse cast, and I'm sure someone on the internet can inform me of the various and sundry ways that it was or will eventually be racist or classist or something else-ist, but there wasn't anything in the first episode that blared the fail radar for me. I'm interested to learn more about the characters, and how they react to everything.
Also, ABC showed that ESPN commercial that cracked my shit up, at least twice, which is a much better use of their conglomerate's advertising minutes.
