Tim Roth stars a man who has spent twenty years learning about the human face and how it’s subtle and almost hidden ticks reveal the hidden emotions of the people he interviews. Lie to Me is a pretty good show, but like all who-done-its with a super smart detective, the tricks of the face reader’s trade have to be exaggerated for the screen. Just as the hero of Numbers has to solve all his crimes with math and the Ghost Whisperer has to see dead people, the star of Lie to Me sees liars all around him. One of the…
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New Amsterdam-Another One Bites The Dust
Fox’s New Amsterdam is the story of an immortal looking for his one true love to he can be mortal once more. Along the way he solves crimes, spouts off obscure facts about the city of New York, and occasionally meets up with people from his former lives. To help make ends meet, the hero of New Amsterdam occasionally whips out a piece of period furniture-seeing as he was a great carpenter in one of his many cover stories. This is a good show. The writing is crisp and funny. The actors are great. The silliness of whether or not…
Fringe-JJ Abrams Does The X-Files
In the good old days, if you made a TV Show like Fox’s Fringe and wanted to get some buzz about it, you would arrange for people from TV Guide to see the show. Maybe JJ Abrams and Fox would invite someone from Parade Magazine and a few of the larger daily newspapers. The Media would watch a show like Fringe and write up a review to be printed the day that Fringe was going to air for the first time. Then came the Review Copy-Video Tapes and then DVDs of Fringe sent out to respected media. There were rules…
House, MD Still The Best Show on FOX
I know, some people like American Idol, but that has never been me. House is mean, sarcastic, and brilliant-my kind of guy. House is mostly a formula show, he sees a patient, nearly kills said patient before each commercial break, and then saves the patient by an act of Sherlockian reasoning inspired by someone’s casual comment. If you were paying attention, you might have figured it out yourself. But the show really reaches its high of glory when it goes beyond its normal limits. Three Stories, in which House ‘teaches’ a class for a sick Doctor was a great episode…
Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse
In what seems a bit of a shocker to me, Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse will air on the much hated Fox Network. Much hated because they butchered the airing of Joss Whedon’s Firefly by showing it out of order, only airing a handful of episodes, and generally sabotaging Firefly before it had a chance to build any kind of following. Sci fi shows have a history of not being strong right out of the gate. Star Trek didn’t really take off until it had been canceled for several years. Ok, what about Dollhouse? From what I have seen so…
Hell’s Kitchen with Gordon Ramsay
Hell’s Kitchen is one of the better reality shows, if a bunch chefs trying to get a job with Gordon Ramsay counts as reality. The first Hell’s Kitchen was a British ITV show in 2004. A couple of the contestants walked off that show because Ramsay was too abusive. I wonder what they think of the new show? The new season of Hell’s Kitchen has the usual odd mixture of chefs completing against each other and against Gordon Ramsay for a job as an Executive Chef in one of Gordon’s restaurants. I don’t see any clear favorites this time, they…
Prison Break-1 Season Too Many
Prison Break was a show that was, I feel sure, meant to be a One Season Wonder. Get some ratings, if possible, but wrap up the story in one season and get it over with. But then the unforeseen happened, Prison Break was a hit. So getting out of Fox River was not enough, we had to stretch out this ever more ridiculous Presidential Conspiracy story until it was as thin as a super model on Jenny Craig.Then there was Mexico, Prison Break style. This is not the real Mexico, this is some comic book version of Mexico where there…
Anchorwoman Lauren Jones So What?
I was in Tyler, TX a few months ago when this show was about to be filmed. There were giant billboards all over the city that showed the blond bombshell’s face and read She’s Coming. Now that was a subtle Fox Network promo. The story soon broke that there was going to be a sort of reality show filmed in town using this ditzy woman as an anchorwoman.Now I was one of those people that was not overly upset that perky little Katie Couric got the nod to host the Evening News. So what? It’s a job that calls for…