I can has TV?
The writer's strike sucks so hard. I read today that the last three pre-strike Bones episodes aren't slated to air until MAY SWEEPS. (Not that I watch Bones, but I still feel the pain!) And I haven't heard anything about the last two episodes of Chuck. And the last Gossip Girl airs Wednesday. It is all so depressing!
But Cashmere Mafia finally aired, and I watched that. Not good, sry2say. It kind of reminds me of Private Practice in that it *should* be really good -- the talent and the money is definitely there. But instead it is a fustercluck of mediocrity.
So if you are going to do a show about the tight-knit friendship of four women, the most important thing of all is to sell us on the friendship. You can always develop the lives of the four leads later on, but if we don't feel that the friendship is genuine out the door, it's really hard to recover from that. AFAIAC, the fearsome foursome thing they supposedly have going on was the weakest link in the episode. The slo-mo thing down the red carpet was embarrassingly terrible.
The show was not much stronger on the individual story lines. Of the four women, Miranda Otto has the strongest story line; I thought her speech to her friends after she admitted that she's known her husband cheats on her for years was the strongest scene in the pilot, and I'm vaguely interested to see what happens with her (terrible) idea to "take a lover" to get back at her husband. I wanted to be more invested in Lucy Liu's story line than I was; it was incredibly ill-advised of them to go up against each other for the promotion, and SHE CHEATED. But Tom Everett Scott was a gigantic dick at the end, so whatever. Easy come, easy go.
BUT WAIT, COME BACK TOM EVERETT SCOTT! How much do the men on this show suck? They are a.) too pretty and b.) very boring.
Bonnie Sommerville's lesbian story line is hilariously awful. Sure, it's great to see untraditional romances on television, but if it had been a guy in that scene, it would have been TERRIBLE. If it had been a guy, you would have been rolling your eyes at the clumsy head bump and the instant attraction. Just because it's girl-on-girl doesn't mean it's okay to write lame ass stuff like that! It's like the Piper Perabo movie where she falls in love with her florist. If her florist had been a dude, it would never have been made because it was WAY TOO CHEESY.
So, yeah. It was lame. That said, the first season of SatC mostly sucked pretty hard, so I'll be giving this show a couple more episodes to impress me. I mean, why not? It's not like there's anything else to watch on TV.
Although! NEW JON STEWART TONIGHT, YAY. Only, should I watch it? (I am boycotting Young and the Restless because they're using scabs.) But it's not like I have a Nielsen Box, so it doesn't matter anyway. At least, that's what I'm telling myself.
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