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Numb3rs: Review
Friday 10.13.2006
alice ttlg || 10:25 AM
I give up. I just can't stand Megan, just can't. The actress was great in Rescue Me but here, that weird accent just doesn't work and I just can't stand the know-it-all character either. Not watching this anymore ever again.
Numb3rs: Review
Sunday 10.16.2005
alice ttlg || 11:11 AM
Another Boomtown. Take a really brilliant show and ruin it by adding unnecessary new characters, changing the slant of the show and dividing the characters who made the show great. Stupid network execs. The show was killing everything else in the ratings, doing great things for them on a Friday night of all places. Common wisdom would say, it ain't broke, don't fix it. But apparently network execs think if something is working, they should change it all up so that it's broken. This ticks me off more than a dozen bad new shows.
Numb3rs: Calculated Risk, 10/14/05
Sunday 10.16.2005
MattM || 07:33 AM
When this show started it had a freshness to it that no other show in this genre had in a long long while. I liked the brothers interaction the math angle and the overall solid cast. Now suddenly the math is deemphasized (likely because we are all too stupid for it as network execs believe) and they have added two new cast members. They have turned this show into just another bland procedural drama. Diane Farr and Dylan Bruno have added zero to this show. I really hope they get it back to where it was last year but I am rapidly losing hope and the fact that they started this episode without the little numbers thing in the beginning makes me worry even more although I hope it is just for this Enron Episode.
2005-2006 Season, Ghost Whisperer, Hot Properties, Inconceivable, Killer Instinct, Numb3rs, Threshold, Twins: Friday
Friday 08.12.2005
MattM || 03:04 PM
Friday is clearly the getaway day before TV's off day of Saturday. The only returning show worth watching is Numb3rs. It was a bit uneven but showed some potential. It was nice to have an unconvential procedural drama. The firing of the talented but miscast Sabrina Lloyd was probably a positive move but we shall we how that unfolds. Overall it is a good show and I hope to see it move to a light green this year with more time and less casting changes.
The new shows however are not as promising. We start with the two new sitcoms of the night. One shows great potential in Twins with sitcom veteran Sarah Gilbert finally returning to her roots. Admittedly the plot might be a bit thin but I am interested and hopeful that it will be at least a solid sitcom. I only wish the same could be said for Hot Properties. With wretched ethinc stereo typing and a girl from Mad TV that really can't act this show has all the potential to compete for worst new show crown.
The drama's are a mixed bag. I start it with the rant of why on earth did CBS cancel Joan of Arcadia, one of the best shows on TV, for show that is so clearly a rip off of Medium with a little Tru Calling thrown in and led by an actress that can't carry a paper bag much less a show. Ghost Whisperer is clearly the worst show of this bunch with an unorginal concept, terrible lead, and cliche lost solider pilot. Red does not even begin to describe just how bad this show will be. Even Party of Five fans who I have spoken too concede she wasn't any good on that show so why do they keep giving her shows?? She clearly does not have anything more then minor bit role acting ability and that is being nice. She needs to go back to her singing career....oh wait she can't do that either. Moving on before I get ill at the thought of a tremendous cross-generational show like Joan being traded in for a cheap knock off of Medium. Inconcievable looks just bland to me. I can't see this show being much more then average at best. I doubt it will be bad but good to great not that either. Just average boring plain average. Killer Instinct despite all my best efforts I just can't get a feel for. The concept sounds ordinary and the actors are ok but not great but I have the distinct feeling it will be Foxized and probably wind up on the 21 Jump Street side of reality. Still I just can't get the feel if its good or bad but I lean toward bad because even if it is the greatest show ever FOX will cancel it quickly. The last new show is the one that actually looks promising. Another of the reborn sci-fi/horror genre shows (thank you Lost) with a very solid cast (although it is hard to hear Brent Spiner and not wonder when Captain Picard will show up) with an alien invasion via bio-forming. I know it sounds a little laughable but the preview looks interesting and I have hope that this might be the surprise show of the year.
Numb3rs: Casting News
Sunday 05.22.2005
alice ttlg || 02:51 PM
I knew there was something not quite as good about the last few eps but I put it down to the eps being ordered at the last minute. Now, having read the news about Sabrina Lloyd leaving the show, I realize it was Terry not being there. Terry added an extra something, she had a good rapport with Don, a good partnership. Sinclair's okay but he's fairly flat, he's just there, doesn't add anything to the mix. Charlie's budding relationship with Amita and Don's now-platonic relationship with Terry with their father in the middle made the show interesting, it was a good bunch of characters.
That's a real loss to the show, I'll be waiting to see if they replace her with someone who can fill that hole.
[ACXFile adds] Yes...I had a similar feeling but could not place it. Speaking of missing Sabrina, I really miss "Sports Night." (November 20, 2005 02:59 AM)
Numb3rs: I hate March Madness!
Friday 03.18.2005
alice ttlg || 07:42 PM
I want my favorite show back! NCAA finals, GO AWAY! At least the NBA finals are in the summer and don't interfere with my shows.
Numb3rs: Review
Sunday 02.06.2005
alice ttlg || 08:17 PM
Silly title spelling aside, this is turning out to be much better than I had expected. Usually when TV or the movies try to turn something esoteric into a visual medium, they resort to silly things like having letters three inches tall on the monitor or computer security easily bypassed by typing "override". But while there is a focus on the idea of human actions defined and predicted through equations, it's also about the two brothers, one down to earth, pragrammatic, physical and the other intellectual, living in his head and within the safe confines of the university. Each excels in their separate worlds but bringing them together forces conflicts, present and past, in each one and between them.
Rob Morrow does an excellent job here as the FBI agent brother, Don Eppes, I never cared for Northern Exposure but he's quite good here, he's old enough, got some lines on his face and he gives a sense of solidness and dependability to his role.
David Krumholtz is the intellectual math whiz brother, Charlie Eppes - what a change too from playing Paul Sobriki in ER, the psycho patient who stabbed Dr. Carter and killed Lucy! Here he's lost in his head, gentle, naive and inexperienced with the kind of rough world that his brother works in. They've done a good job exploring his ventures into his brother's world, tying it back his past as well.
Sabrina Lloyd from Sliders shines here too, playing Don's FBI partner. She's stronger, not the little girl character she played in Sliders, she holds her own in a bullet-proof vest toting a gun.
The only character I'm not crazy about is the Eppes brothers' father, played by Judd Hirsch. Something about him just nags me, he's a bit too New York for the mountain cabin place he lives in and for being the father of these two boys, he just doesn't fit.
Overall, it's a great show - tune in and watch!
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