![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Happy Father's Day
Jun. 20th, 2010 04:36 amMay you all get ties and power tools and probably video games and whatever it is dads get now...
Jun. 20th, 2010
Summer Filler Shows
Jun. 20th, 2010 10:19 pmCaught two of ABC's Summer roll-out shows, Scoundrels and The Gates. The first follows the Wests, a family of petty crooks and small-time scammers. The show seems to be going for the light comedy/drama thing. Unfortunately for it the only character with any depth seems to be the mom. And the family aren't good enough at being bad guys to be interesting without some decent character hooks...
The Gates is another supernatural drama. Vampire Diaries meets Desperate Housewives I guess. So far a bit overly melodramatic. And television hardly needs another vampire/werewolf/witch/etc show. But then again it hardly needs new shows about cops, doctors or lawyers and occasionally a good new one of those comes along. At the very least the characters and situation has just enough going on to make me interested in giving it another chance...
Which puts it up on ABC's Happytown. A show with some truly abysmal acting and scripting going on. There is enough talent on that one that I keep going back to see if it improves, but I swear each episode actually seems worse then the last...
Finally though is FOX's The Good Guys. Another light drama/comedy, this one about Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks as cops banished to investigating minor crimes. All three episodes so far have been genuinely funny and I truly like the leads and want to see more. Plus I'm loving the score for the big action scene finales...
The Gates is another supernatural drama. Vampire Diaries meets Desperate Housewives I guess. So far a bit overly melodramatic. And television hardly needs another vampire/werewolf/witch/etc show. But then again it hardly needs new shows about cops, doctors or lawyers and occasionally a good new one of those comes along. At the very least the characters and situation has just enough going on to make me interested in giving it another chance...
Which puts it up on ABC's Happytown. A show with some truly abysmal acting and scripting going on. There is enough talent on that one that I keep going back to see if it improves, but I swear each episode actually seems worse then the last...
Finally though is FOX's The Good Guys. Another light drama/comedy, this one about Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks as cops banished to investigating minor crimes. All three episodes so far have been genuinely funny and I truly like the leads and want to see more. Plus I'm loving the score for the big action scene finales...