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Monk Running on ABC on Tuesdays. Tony Shalhoub plays a obsesive neat freak private detective. If you are familiar with Tony's work you know he can play some very quirky characters! This one looks like it has a lot of potential Besides it is set in San Francisco. If you like mysteries where all the seemingly disperate jigsaw pieces come together at the end in suprising ways then this is the show for you. This is stand alone series in that each episode contains a new mystery. No massive arc's here. If you want that see the next musing.
Odyssey 5 Part of Showtime's Sci Fridays. This is where Peter Weller has resurfaced. I know I know another actor who do does quirky roles. Well the pretty boy from Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension is a tough astronaut named Taggert. Honestly in the light of day the set up for this series seems a bit absurd but with a bit of suspension of belief (a necessary skill in today's TV world) it works ok in the background. Ok here ya go: Whilst orbiting the earth the crew of the Odyseey five shuttle witness the destruction of the Earth. Yes the world explodes and and they are in low orbit and don't blow up with it. And this gets better. They are resuced at the very last minuite of air by a mysterious alien called the seeker who sends them back 5 years, depositing their souls in their own 5 year younger bodies, so that they can figure out who blew up the Earth. As I said the set up is a bit weak. The reason I recommend this show is that it gets past this amazingly weak premise with some of the strongest writing and acting from a bunch of relative unknowns since the beginning of the X files. Each episode is gripping and does follow an arc.. so you better catch up now!!
Monday Night Football Ok Ok don't freak here. I just want to comment AGAIN on the complete stupidity of getting rid of sucn an intelligent wit such as Dennis Miller and replacing him with such an unbelieveable dullard as John Madden. 'nuf said.
Stargate SG-1 No this is not new. Yes it is pretty silly Sci Fi. But I just love Richard Dean Anderson's style. He plays the dry wit. The hero who seems stupid (on not stupid, just non intellectual) but is getting it anyway. There is this underlying sexual tension btw his character and the character of Samantha Carter. Chris Guest as T'ealc is very funny again in a very dry understated way. This has just gone over to the Science Fiction Channel from Showtime and even with commercials this show is great.
Tell me you were not expecting the sort of stuff I wrote yesterday every day. No one is that pedantic. Not even me.
Monk Running on ABC on Tuesdays. Tony Shalhoub plays a obsesive neat freak private detective. If you are familiar with Tony's work you know he can play some very quirky characters! This one looks like it has a lot of potential Besides it is set in San Francisco. If you like mysteries where all the seemingly disperate jigsaw pieces come together at the end in suprising ways then this is the show for you. This is stand alone series in that each episode contains a new mystery. No massive arc's here. If you want that see the next musing.
Odyssey 5 Part of Showtime's Sci Fridays. This is where Peter Weller has resurfaced. I know I know another actor who do does quirky roles. Well the pretty boy from Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension is a tough astronaut named Taggert. Honestly in the light of day the set up for this series seems a bit absurd but with a bit of suspension of belief (a necessary skill in today's TV world) it works ok in the background. Ok here ya go: Whilst orbiting the earth the crew of the Odyseey five shuttle witness the destruction of the Earth. Yes the world explodes and and they are in low orbit and don't blow up with it. And this gets better. They are resuced at the very last minuite of air by a mysterious alien called the seeker who sends them back 5 years, depositing their souls in their own 5 year younger bodies, so that they can figure out who blew up the Earth. As I said the set up is a bit weak. The reason I recommend this show is that it gets past this amazingly weak premise with some of the strongest writing and acting from a bunch of relative unknowns since the beginning of the X files. Each episode is gripping and does follow an arc.. so you better catch up now!!
Monday Night Football Ok Ok don't freak here. I just want to comment AGAIN on the complete stupidity of getting rid of sucn an intelligent wit such as Dennis Miller and replacing him with such an unbelieveable dullard as John Madden. 'nuf said.
Stargate SG-1 No this is not new. Yes it is pretty silly Sci Fi. But I just love Richard Dean Anderson's style. He plays the dry wit. The hero who seems stupid (on not stupid, just non intellectual) but is getting it anyway. There is this underlying sexual tension btw his character and the character of Samantha Carter. Chris Guest as T'ealc is very funny again in a very dry understated way. This has just gone over to the Science Fiction Channel from Showtime and even with commercials this show is great.
Tell me you were not expecting the sort of stuff I wrote yesterday every day. No one is that pedantic. Not even me.
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