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[turnonmyheels]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been sampling this seasons crop of new shows pretty heavily. I've seen commercials somewhere about a crime show where one of the investigators is female and has an eidetic memory. Unfortunately, I can't remember the network, the show, or the star and have been unable to find it anywhere. Can someone help me with this?

Here's my sampling [so far] and the results

Network ABC
Show: Charlie's Angels
Result: I watched 1.75 episodes. JFC did anyone re-read the dialog after they wrote it? I realize the actors aren't exactly Oscar worthy but I think even Helen Mirren would have a difficult time delivering this dreck. Grade: F

Network Showtime:
Show: Homeland
Result: I'm really not at all interested in this type of show. The only post 9/11 tv I've ever really enjoyed was Rescue Me and I broke up with it season before last. Claire Danes does an excellent job, but I'm just not into it.

Network CW:
Show: Ringer
Result: I'm going to watch one more episode [I haven't caught this week yet] and if something doesn't jump out and grab me I'm done. I actually bitched about SMG's acting in this one the other day. When she was on Buffy she managed to create several entirely different characters: Pre-Angelus Buffy, Wish!Verse Buffy, Buffy!Bot, Faith-in-Buffy's body, post-Resurrection!Buffy, etc. I do not understand how she can't pull off twins. Not to mention the rest of it just isn't working for me either. I'm sad about this.

Show: The Secret Circle
Result: 4.25 episodes watched. I promised myself I would give it 6 episodes because that's what it took for Vampire Diaries to take over my life. I ... didn't make it. Gale Harold and young John Connor are not enough to make this interesting.

Show: Hart of Dixie
Result: I'm ... watching. Rachel Bilson is completely unbelievable as a surgeon. The poorly drawn Southern caricatures are annoying [though not True Blood level annoying] and the premise is completely ridiculous. And yet, I watch. I also thought [for about 12 seconds] about asking Stoney if I could re-cap it, but I'm just not ready for that kind of committment to anything. If I was, I'd have asked to recap SoA or TVD and that's just not happening

Show: Nikita
Result: 1.5 episodes. I'm just not interested. Again. And I wish I was.

Network NBC
Show: Prime Suspsect
Result: I'm watching. I *love* Maria Bello and have for years. Its got Kozik from SoA, Charlie from Fringe/Alvarez from Oz, Aidan Quinn among others. I wish it was less stereotypical but it's watchable.

Network CBS:
Show: Person of Interest
Result: It's too much of a post 9/11 show for me. I did like seeing Karen from DirtySexyMoney in the first episode and may have stayed with it if she'd been a regular.

Show: Two Broke Girls
Result: This is why, other than The Big Bang Theory I don't watch sitcoms.

Network FX
Show: American Horror
Result: I've only watched the Pilot so far. I'm not certain how long a show like that can last. Not to mention I have absolutely ZERO trust that anything Ryan Murphy is involved in is watchable after 2 seasons.

I'm looking forward to checking out Once Upon a Time on ABC when it comes out, it's being advertised heavily in my comic books.

What I'm watching though not necessarily the day it airs:
NFL Football
Strike Back -- it's a post 9/11 show, but it's British so it's different. and JFC the dudes are hot. They gave us the one American man performing oral sex on a woman until she was very *very* satisfied. No show ever gives us that. He left the sexual encounter without having reached his own orgasm and he was so happy he made her come, it didn't even matter. Plus, I think he'd rather shoot people with his blue-eyed, blond, built like a brick shit house boyfriend.
Lost Girl
The Good Wife -- A+ for the season already
Dancing With The Stars -- I always pull for Derek and Max. Looks like Derek has a much better chance of winning than Max this year
Hart of Dixie
Sons of Anarchy
America's Next Top Model
American Horror Story
The Vampire Dairies
Big Bang Theory
Fringe
and at least one more Ringer
Luther is currently airing on BBCA, but I've already watched it.

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I've been confused about SMG's acting in the Ringer, as well. One thing I have never, ever critiqued with SMG is her acting ability. Some of her choices, etc, sure, but the ability to create whole characters distinct from anyone else's regardless of the writing -- never had that problem.

Now? Big problem. I can't figure out either twin, they're far too similar without any of the little clues that I've been expecting with this sort of noir drama and an actress of, what I thought, was her calibre. Now... I have no idea. It's one of the reasons I think I'm struggling with the show. She's just blank. There's nothing warm or vaguely comfortable about Brigitte, and the iciness of Shioban isn't enough. Sad. I really want to like the show.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

It really makes *me* wonder if what I thought was SMG's stellar acting was a case of good writing and my own blindness at how awesome Buffy was.

One shouldn't become *worse* at their craft as they progress, ya know?

It takes me back to the last 2 seasons of Buffy and how I thought it was the writing or the subject matter or the shipwars. I never blamed my lack of enjoyment toward -- Buffy the character -- as having to do with the actress, but after watching Ringer I'm not so certain. She's got that post Grave sadness/blank eyed stare and not really anything else going on.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Hunh. That is really interesting. And it feels right -- there are too many similarities to SMG's current acting style and Buffy's withdrawal in s6-7. It could be more of the lingering burn out, as Sarah clearly was by the end of the show. I sometimes wonder if she really wanted to come back for season 6 at all. Maybe not a conscious thing, I have no idea, but I think you're right: the drastic shift in the character was less the writing and more Sarah wanting out of there.

If it is a case of burn out, then maybe her skills did get worse. Or hell, maybe she just wasn't that good of an actress. She was a soap opera diva before and without the melodrama or the tight writing to assist...

I feel dirty saying that. But she's a blond bit of nothing on my screen. Hell, even the crappy best-friend's-husband (who played Billy on Angel, btw) is doing a better job of creating a character and I would never qualify him as good at anything.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

The photo as you walk in the door to their apartment is a classic post!grave Buffy expression. Dead eyes. Pinched expression. It's painful to see.

I feel dirty thinking/saying it. Like I'm betraying the holy fangirl grail or something, but she's either lost the skills she once had or I was tricked into believing she had them in the first place.

She is an executive producer on the show, maybe she's trying to do too much? I'm actually more disappointed in Fringe than I was in Dollhouse and that's saying A LOT.

The guy playing the love interest was on Angel? I loved him on the CW show Life Unexpected but that show went downhill fast. I don't like him nearly as much on this one as I did that one.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I got the impression that the photo was meant to be painful, but yeah. She's washed out to the point of being nothing, and as an actress that's not a very good place to be.