Mid-Season Report Card: Wednesday - Saturday
I should be ashamed.... i didn't even finish my "mid-season" report card, and already the season has ended and the summer shows have already started.... anyways... i'm gonna post what i had written back then, and hopefully i can continue with this blog of mine soon, with various different topics other than tv shows. So here goes it:
Here's my continuation of my tv season mid-season review, sorry it took too long but had been busy... First i have to start off with a Tuesday show that i forgot to mention, basically because I only caugh up with it at the beginning of this year:
TUESDAY
HOUSE, M.D. - FOX - 9 p.m.
This medical drama is quite interesting, focusing on diagnostic cases instead of procedures and surgical interventions, the interventions here are more personal, with Dr. House going to the patient's homes without authorization and so. This second season has been on par with the first, focusing on one case each episode and developing the relationships between Dr. House and his crew while prolonging his care for his ex-wife (which means that Dr. Cameron gets put aside, driving her into the arms of Dr. Chase of course). One of the most incredible plots that is still ongoing is how Dr. Cameron got 'squirted' with blood from an HIV+ patient and she could very well have gotten infected, the results for those tests are still pending (of course they're gonna be negative, but it's still nervewrecking), and well, we just want her to 'get it on' with House!... Between this show and Grey's Anatomy, we've got two cool medical shows on the air right now.
My Grade: B+
WEDNESDAY
THE APPRENTICE: MARTHA STEWART - NBC - 9 p.m.
Yes, yes, this was a complete and utter rip-off of the original, nothing new but the host. But in this past season in which the "Donald" version completely SUCKED, this group of people vying for a job at MSLO (that's Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for you non-watchers) were really memorable, though I have to agree that I could be a little biassed because of Tijuana girl Marcela being one of the contestants and that she was actually one of the few reasons to tune in week after week for her complementary comentary on her dislikes of the other contestants. At the end nobody really cared who won, and by the looks of it neither did Martha, she didn't look interested at all in her soon-to-be employees and just wanted to get it over with. Over all it was a good thing that it was only a one-season ordeal but it was fun while it lasted.
My Grade: B
LOST - ABC - 9 p.m. (review counts for episodes that aired in 2005)
Man, oh man! What a show, what an opener, what a downer. Wait... did I just say "downer"??? I say because I love. I love how this show has evolved, I love how the original characters have grown, I love that there was a Desmond in the hatch and I love that we finally know "what Kate did". But I may be one of the few that is not in love with the "tailies", this first half of the season has been devoted very much to the newbies that our beloved characters from season one have been left behind, we haven't seen the military side of Sayid, the mystery of Locke, the quirkyness of Hurley, the ordeals of Claire and her baby, the chemistry between Sawyer and Kate, Charlie's expected relapse into heroin is not coming up until this next episode, and Shanon is dead! Yeah, this all means that we now know where that calling from Boone's illfated radio transmission came from, that Rose's husband is alive, that whisky girl from the airport, Ana Lucia, has been the tailie's leader, a weird psycologist named Libby, and Mr. EKO are the only ones left from the back end of the plane, but to what end!, we'll probably find out how these two groups work together and continue on their new course as one, but it has been a long road to get here, and knowing this show, it was worth the wait, I just feel that I had to express my feelings about these new people and how getting to know them made us miss the old crew, the old times, the old season, good thing is that it's picking up and our original Losties are coming in to the front row recently and taking over. Can't wait for more, really, this is the true best and truly original drama there is out there.
My Grade: A-
VERONICA MARS - UPN - 9 p.m.
Wow, what a crowded hour this has been this season, but without a doubt, Veronica Mars would not be left behind. I caught up with this little series in the summer, and I was hooked from episode one. That whole Lilly Kane murder mystery was engaging and made you come back for more (I saw all 24 episodes in 3 sittings). But with the resolution to that mystery at the end of last season, what could have come to make it even more intriguing and enjoying? A bus crash, a bush crash intended to kill Veronica Mars, to kill Veronica Mars for getting Mr. Echolls into prison for murdering Lilly Kane? could be, could be, because as last year, this is the season-long mystery that this little highschool detective has to resolve, and in between doing some stuff here and there for her schoolmates and her relationship troubles with Duncan (am I the only one that loathes Logan?), has kept us glued in for more. Finally the show returns from a new year hiatus this week to answer the question "Where has Wallace been and why did he come back?" Truly, truly the best teen show out there right now!
My Grade: A-
INVASION - ABC - 10 p.m.
On the wake of LOST, this is one of the scifi mystery shows that debuted this year, and the one with the smallest hopes at first. I have to admit, I watched the first episode and enjoyed most of it, that is until the typical little girl comes in and RUINS EVERYTHING! Why does there have to be little kids that ruin every movie or tv show that hints at an engaging plot? I continued watching this drama that is set around the aftermath of a huge hurricane that hit the Florida coast and brought with it some unknown species in the water, and found it boring and not getting to its point, so I stopped watching, but because it's on after LOST sometimes I tuned in and felt the same way, until the last episode before in went into a break at the beginning of December, that's when it started to get interesting. Although it was fairly obvious, they started explaining everything that was going on with the "aliens" and how they've been cloning the people in the water an how all these new people are bonding together and joining and making a supposed "army", but for what? what is their goal? It is getting interesting.... Let's hope it doesn't dull down again and picks up to get at least a good ending out of it, because it looks not promising to be renewed for another season.
My Grade: B-
THURSDAY
This is where i finished. Hopefully i can finish off the week later on... LONG LIVE THE OFFICE, MY NAME IS EARL, SURVIVOR, ALIAS, SMALLVILLE & BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!!!
Here's my continuation of my tv season mid-season review, sorry it took too long but had been busy... First i have to start off with a Tuesday show that i forgot to mention, basically because I only caugh up with it at the beginning of this year:
TUESDAY
HOUSE, M.D. - FOX - 9 p.m.
This medical drama is quite interesting, focusing on diagnostic cases instead of procedures and surgical interventions, the interventions here are more personal, with Dr. House going to the patient's homes without authorization and so. This second season has been on par with the first, focusing on one case each episode and developing the relationships between Dr. House and his crew while prolonging his care for his ex-wife (which means that Dr. Cameron gets put aside, driving her into the arms of Dr. Chase of course). One of the most incredible plots that is still ongoing is how Dr. Cameron got 'squirted' with blood from an HIV+ patient and she could very well have gotten infected, the results for those tests are still pending (of course they're gonna be negative, but it's still nervewrecking), and well, we just want her to 'get it on' with House!... Between this show and Grey's Anatomy, we've got two cool medical shows on the air right now.
My Grade: B+
WEDNESDAY
THE APPRENTICE: MARTHA STEWART - NBC - 9 p.m.
Yes, yes, this was a complete and utter rip-off of the original, nothing new but the host. But in this past season in which the "Donald" version completely SUCKED, this group of people vying for a job at MSLO (that's Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for you non-watchers) were really memorable, though I have to agree that I could be a little biassed because of Tijuana girl Marcela being one of the contestants and that she was actually one of the few reasons to tune in week after week for her complementary comentary on her dislikes of the other contestants. At the end nobody really cared who won, and by the looks of it neither did Martha, she didn't look interested at all in her soon-to-be employees and just wanted to get it over with. Over all it was a good thing that it was only a one-season ordeal but it was fun while it lasted.
My Grade: B
LOST - ABC - 9 p.m. (review counts for episodes that aired in 2005)
Man, oh man! What a show, what an opener, what a downer. Wait... did I just say "downer"??? I say because I love. I love how this show has evolved, I love how the original characters have grown, I love that there was a Desmond in the hatch and I love that we finally know "what Kate did". But I may be one of the few that is not in love with the "tailies", this first half of the season has been devoted very much to the newbies that our beloved characters from season one have been left behind, we haven't seen the military side of Sayid, the mystery of Locke, the quirkyness of Hurley, the ordeals of Claire and her baby, the chemistry between Sawyer and Kate, Charlie's expected relapse into heroin is not coming up until this next episode, and Shanon is dead! Yeah, this all means that we now know where that calling from Boone's illfated radio transmission came from, that Rose's husband is alive, that whisky girl from the airport, Ana Lucia, has been the tailie's leader, a weird psycologist named Libby, and Mr. EKO are the only ones left from the back end of the plane, but to what end!, we'll probably find out how these two groups work together and continue on their new course as one, but it has been a long road to get here, and knowing this show, it was worth the wait, I just feel that I had to express my feelings about these new people and how getting to know them made us miss the old crew, the old times, the old season, good thing is that it's picking up and our original Losties are coming in to the front row recently and taking over. Can't wait for more, really, this is the true best and truly original drama there is out there.
My Grade: A-
VERONICA MARS - UPN - 9 p.m.
Wow, what a crowded hour this has been this season, but without a doubt, Veronica Mars would not be left behind. I caught up with this little series in the summer, and I was hooked from episode one. That whole Lilly Kane murder mystery was engaging and made you come back for more (I saw all 24 episodes in 3 sittings). But with the resolution to that mystery at the end of last season, what could have come to make it even more intriguing and enjoying? A bus crash, a bush crash intended to kill Veronica Mars, to kill Veronica Mars for getting Mr. Echolls into prison for murdering Lilly Kane? could be, could be, because as last year, this is the season-long mystery that this little highschool detective has to resolve, and in between doing some stuff here and there for her schoolmates and her relationship troubles with Duncan (am I the only one that loathes Logan?), has kept us glued in for more. Finally the show returns from a new year hiatus this week to answer the question "Where has Wallace been and why did he come back?" Truly, truly the best teen show out there right now!
My Grade: A-
INVASION - ABC - 10 p.m.
On the wake of LOST, this is one of the scifi mystery shows that debuted this year, and the one with the smallest hopes at first. I have to admit, I watched the first episode and enjoyed most of it, that is until the typical little girl comes in and RUINS EVERYTHING! Why does there have to be little kids that ruin every movie or tv show that hints at an engaging plot? I continued watching this drama that is set around the aftermath of a huge hurricane that hit the Florida coast and brought with it some unknown species in the water, and found it boring and not getting to its point, so I stopped watching, but because it's on after LOST sometimes I tuned in and felt the same way, until the last episode before in went into a break at the beginning of December, that's when it started to get interesting. Although it was fairly obvious, they started explaining everything that was going on with the "aliens" and how they've been cloning the people in the water an how all these new people are bonding together and joining and making a supposed "army", but for what? what is their goal? It is getting interesting.... Let's hope it doesn't dull down again and picks up to get at least a good ending out of it, because it looks not promising to be renewed for another season.
My Grade: B-
THURSDAY
This is where i finished. Hopefully i can finish off the week later on... LONG LIVE THE OFFICE, MY NAME IS EARL, SURVIVOR, ALIAS, SMALLVILLE & BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!!!
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