This week's TV, slightly delayed
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healingmirthOn the one hand, I enjoy the slow start to the NHL season rather than last years post-lockout GAMES FOR EVERYONE launch, but we're about done with day two and I haven't cared at all about any of the games. And then tomorrow, when I've got plans for the evening, there's New Jersey/Pittsburgh *and* LA/Minnesota *and* Rangers/Phoenix. Argh
If you're not yet watching Brooklyn 99 and you enjoyed The Unusuals, I think that's my best reference for what I like about it - they hit a lot of the same notes. On its own merits, it's got a cast that's more or less representative of actual New York, allowing for the part where they're all really clearly defined characters in a sitcom. Highly quotable, well-shot. Love the credits. I really do love the credits. I never know what to say about comedies without attempting to write an actual essay that's beyond my abilities for media analysis, but it's just really funny, solid television and I hope it does well.
SHIELD seems to have made the transition from Pilot to SyFy original movie.
My headcanon could have done without the Angloness of Coulson's spanish accent. The rest of me could have done without the wobbly camera in Coulson and Camilla's walk-and-talk. And the qualification spew.
I like that the flying drone things are maybe/definitely named after the seven dwarfs?
In a vacuum, I quite liked Skye and Agent White Dude's exchange about being part of the solution on a team versus being the savior. They might actually have been listening to each other!
That "Tahiti is a magical place" thing is starting to give me the creeps, presumably intentionally.
Actually, everything to do with Camilla can go. The whatever the hell the rebellion in Peru plot line was. The mid-life crisis monologue. Did she die? I sort of stopped paying attention in the fighting. Oh. Not dead then. Good?
It was just too much for me to take in, launching off into international politics while still establishing SO MANY THINGS about the central identity of the show.
Ugh. I WANT TO LOVE YOU, AGENTS OF SHIELD. WHY WON'T YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?
Lucky 7 on the other hand. I absolutely liked the first episode more than the second, but that's a predictable effect of how much I liked the first episode.
I love that Denise hid the ticket in a safe place and lost it. Story of my life. But then they also went straight into panicking together and never got to the threatening and finger pointing stage. A little pat, yes. But still, a tone I liked to kick it off.
I enjoy that Lucky 7 is using WABC like I enjoy that Michael J. Fox's show uses real NBC stuff. Synergy and whatnot. I can't say if its admirable or advisable, but still. Fun for me. Like the thing with hiding the ticket.
Uh... that's about it. I'm not sure I'm feeling any of the tension they seem to be trying to build. Samira and Nicky... nope. If she were a little younger than I think she's supposed to be... or actually, maybe she's sheltered is the point? I'd buy rebellion and impetuousness, but I don't quite, yet. I'm worried that Leanne and Matt are going to... I don't know. Some unholy storm of infidelity and moderately well-intentioned lawbreaking.
Anyone else want Denise's husband to literally be hooking up with the cable guy? I feel like her story line is going to be that he's cheating with some young hot chick and Denise has to decide between staying married and somehow losing everything in the divorce. I'd like him to have a semi-legitimate reason for their marriage to have failed, because otherwise I'm worried that she gets stuck in perpetual victimhood.
And then there's Ironside.
I realized about halfway through the opening sequence that what I want in the midst of the Edge of the Law detective schtick is a conscious exploration of how that would intersect with the media cliche of the inspiring person with disabilities. Which... maybe happened.
The characters felt reasonably unique to me, so. We'll see.
Fun to see hockey be the random sport that he's into, which I say as a person who cares not at all about what sports characters care about. Although now I'm wondering if there were network fingers in that, since NBC is all hockey all the time now, but that's probably a stretch.
I'm just now remembering that there was some hullabaloo about casting an able-bodied actor and the response was about the Highly Necessary flashbacks showing Ironside walking around. I didn't hate them, but no, they didn't feel important, except maybe for establishing his...girlfriend? who is no longer in the picture. The booty call, she was the trainer, right? I found that whole scene a little confusing.
I missed his partner's whole speech because Leave was playing behind it. Love that song. Motion picture version, I think, or someone else's cover? Cause I have Steve Kazee's voice memorised, and this sounded different.
Geez, and I've still got The Blacklist and Sleepy Hollow from this week. Argh, fall. That'll teach me to leave the house during prime time.
If you're not yet watching Brooklyn 99 and you enjoyed The Unusuals, I think that's my best reference for what I like about it - they hit a lot of the same notes. On its own merits, it's got a cast that's more or less representative of actual New York, allowing for the part where they're all really clearly defined characters in a sitcom. Highly quotable, well-shot. Love the credits. I really do love the credits. I never know what to say about comedies without attempting to write an actual essay that's beyond my abilities for media analysis, but it's just really funny, solid television and I hope it does well.
SHIELD seems to have made the transition from Pilot to SyFy original movie.
My headcanon could have done without the Angloness of Coulson's spanish accent. The rest of me could have done without the wobbly camera in Coulson and Camilla's walk-and-talk. And the qualification spew.
I like that the flying drone things are maybe/definitely named after the seven dwarfs?
In a vacuum, I quite liked Skye and Agent White Dude's exchange about being part of the solution on a team versus being the savior. They might actually have been listening to each other!
That "Tahiti is a magical place" thing is starting to give me the creeps, presumably intentionally.
Actually, everything to do with Camilla can go. The whatever the hell the rebellion in Peru plot line was. The mid-life crisis monologue. Did she die? I sort of stopped paying attention in the fighting. Oh. Not dead then. Good?
It was just too much for me to take in, launching off into international politics while still establishing SO MANY THINGS about the central identity of the show.
Ugh. I WANT TO LOVE YOU, AGENTS OF SHIELD. WHY WON'T YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?
Lucky 7 on the other hand. I absolutely liked the first episode more than the second, but that's a predictable effect of how much I liked the first episode.
I love that Denise hid the ticket in a safe place and lost it. Story of my life. But then they also went straight into panicking together and never got to the threatening and finger pointing stage. A little pat, yes. But still, a tone I liked to kick it off.
I enjoy that Lucky 7 is using WABC like I enjoy that Michael J. Fox's show uses real NBC stuff. Synergy and whatnot. I can't say if its admirable or advisable, but still. Fun for me. Like the thing with hiding the ticket.
Uh... that's about it. I'm not sure I'm feeling any of the tension they seem to be trying to build. Samira and Nicky... nope. If she were a little younger than I think she's supposed to be... or actually, maybe she's sheltered is the point? I'd buy rebellion and impetuousness, but I don't quite, yet. I'm worried that Leanne and Matt are going to... I don't know. Some unholy storm of infidelity and moderately well-intentioned lawbreaking.
Anyone else want Denise's husband to literally be hooking up with the cable guy? I feel like her story line is going to be that he's cheating with some young hot chick and Denise has to decide between staying married and somehow losing everything in the divorce. I'd like him to have a semi-legitimate reason for their marriage to have failed, because otherwise I'm worried that she gets stuck in perpetual victimhood.
And then there's Ironside.
I realized about halfway through the opening sequence that what I want in the midst of the Edge of the Law detective schtick is a conscious exploration of how that would intersect with the media cliche of the inspiring person with disabilities. Which... maybe happened.
The characters felt reasonably unique to me, so. We'll see.
Fun to see hockey be the random sport that he's into, which I say as a person who cares not at all about what sports characters care about. Although now I'm wondering if there were network fingers in that, since NBC is all hockey all the time now, but that's probably a stretch.
I'm just now remembering that there was some hullabaloo about casting an able-bodied actor and the response was about the Highly Necessary flashbacks showing Ironside walking around. I didn't hate them, but no, they didn't feel important, except maybe for establishing his...girlfriend? who is no longer in the picture. The booty call, she was the trainer, right? I found that whole scene a little confusing.
I missed his partner's whole speech because Leave was playing behind it. Love that song. Motion picture version, I think, or someone else's cover? Cause I have Steve Kazee's voice memorised, and this sounded different.
Geez, and I've still got The Blacklist and Sleepy Hollow from this week. Argh, fall. That'll teach me to leave the house during prime time.
