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Entry tags:
- 4400,
- burn notice,
- kyle xy,
- mad men,
- tv
recent TV
So I finally caught up on all the TV I missed when I was away.
Kyle XY
Wow, they are really starting to ramp up the tension with the conspiracy subplot, aren't they? I am interested in that, for sure (especially the fact that Nicole is starting to make connections between Kyle and Jessi), though I'm actually more interested in the teen dramas (Andy's cancer, especially) and in the suddenly very slashy trio of Kyle, Declan and Foss. Hee! I thought for a minute Foss and Declan were going to throw down for the love of Kyle, in that scene in the warehouse. Even though I still think Kyle and Amanda are too cute for words, I could definitely read Kyle/Declan, if anyone can point me in that direction. Or even better, Foss/Declan with both of them pining after a clueless Kyle.
4400
I'm really enjoying how they are amping up the family drama aspect of the show this season, especially by putting Tom and Kyle on opposite sides of the war, and giving each of them multiple opportunities to betray the other (e.g. Kyle's temptation to inject Tom with promycin, Tom's temptation to take Kyle into custody for his own good, etc.) and having them resist the temptation. And while of course the Diana-Maya conflict can't be quite as dramatic because of Maya's age, we still saw it a bit in the last couple episodes, with Maya breaking into Promise City to warn Collier, and then last week when the two sides had to work together to escape from NTAC, and we saw Diana's unwillingness to trust Maya with the other 4400s. I didn't write about last week's ep (I don't think?) because I was pretty busy, but I totally loved how the two sides got to bond, and especially how the tragedy of Shawn's (temporary) death brought them together. And wow, Tom and Collier giving their lives together? Yeah, that was not slashy IN THE LEAST. And wow, there's a pairing I never thought I'd want to see, but they were practically having phone sex at the end.
Anyway, I was thinking about the importance of family bonds and letting people make their own choices as an overarching theme of this season, which made Richard's decision in last night's episode just completely unconscionable to me. I mean, I get that he was robbed of his daughter's childhood, and that the future turned her into something of a monster--but to just hit the giant reset button so he could reclaim his nostalgic moment of perfect happiness? Was creepy and wrong on SO many levels I can't even begin to say. And it really doesn't matter to me that child Isabelle consented, because by that point she'd de-aged so much I don't think she was capable of giving consent. To just rob someone of their identity that way? *Shudder* To me that actually seems worse than murder. I used to like Richard, but now I think he's more creepy than Jordan Collier, and that's saying a lot for me.
Psych
I don't usually write about this show, because it's very very fluffy, but I always enjoy it. It used to hit my embarrassment squick a little too hard, but now it's almost as if Shawn is a friend of mine so I'm used to him doing stupid embarrassing things, and it doesn't bother me any more--I actually can laugh at him instead. I can't help but notice all the summer shows I love so much this year have a common theme, though: family bonds. Shawn and Gus have been friends for so long they practically *are* family--that's one of the highlights of the show for me, the way they play off each other--and I also love the interactions between Shawn and his dad. I LOVE that his dad made him wear the shirt of hideousity to the track, that completely cracked me up. And I really love how often the plot twists relate to Shawn and Gus's shared past.
This week was especially fun on that level, I thought, because Shawn found out that Gus can be devious and successfully vengeful--something he hadn't suspected, before. I actually adore episodes where Gus gets to shine (I'm really looking forward to next week) because he is *such* a geek's geek: he knows everything there is to know about spelling bees, stamp collecting, dinosaurs (OMG that ep where he still had the dinosaur head he made in 4th grade!!!!!), and whatever else is necessary to the episode. Sigh. I totally have a crush on him which is entirely SEPARATE from my crush on Dule Hill that I've had ever since West Wing.
Burn Notice
asdjdghlkl;'!!! So now Michael has his burn notice! I know it can't be that easy, but I'm dying to know what he finds out about it.
And god, I couldn't love Fiona any more if I tried. Apparently I have a thing for women who can make bombs in under 20 minutes. Who knew?
Also, Bruce Campbell continues to be entirely made of awesome. Seriously, if you're not watching this show, why not? It's the most fun thing on TV.
Mad Men
With this show, I keep saying "one more week, one more week" because it is sucking me in, in terms of the interesting character dramas, but it's just SO damn depressing. Like this week it actually made me sympathetic to Vincent Kartheiser's character, Pete Campbell, even though I thought he was a slimy little troll in earlier episodes. And he *is* a slimy little troll; they just did such a fantastic job of showing how he, like every single other person on this show, is thoroughly and completely trapped by other's people's expectations of him and his assigned role. I continue to adore the period details in this show, but the sense of claustrophobia is almost completely suffocating. And every week as I watch someone plummet out of the window in the credits, I wonder if this is going to be suicide week. (You don't put something like that in the credits unintentionally, I suspect.)
Damages
I haven't talked about this show before, because I only started watching it a couple weeks ago when I'm bored. It's a lawyer drama, starring Glenn Close as a very high-powered attorney who destroys people's lives: her adversaries, her employees, and her own. I wasn't going to keep watching, but it has a very effective hook: the show opened with a woman covered in blood, wearing nothing but a trenchcoat, running down the street and getting arrested, and then they flashed back to a number of months before when that same woman, Ellen Parsons (played by Rose Byrne, who apparently has been in lots of stuff but to me looked like a young Dana Scully, at least in this role) was being hired by Glenn Close's law firm. And of course the mystery is, did she commit the murder, and if so how did she go from innocent to murderer, and how big a role did Glenn Close's firm play in all that.
This is my first experiment in cross-posting to other journals; we'll see if it works.
Kyle XY
Wow, they are really starting to ramp up the tension with the conspiracy subplot, aren't they? I am interested in that, for sure (especially the fact that Nicole is starting to make connections between Kyle and Jessi), though I'm actually more interested in the teen dramas (Andy's cancer, especially) and in the suddenly very slashy trio of Kyle, Declan and Foss. Hee! I thought for a minute Foss and Declan were going to throw down for the love of Kyle, in that scene in the warehouse. Even though I still think Kyle and Amanda are too cute for words, I could definitely read Kyle/Declan, if anyone can point me in that direction. Or even better, Foss/Declan with both of them pining after a clueless Kyle.
4400
I'm really enjoying how they are amping up the family drama aspect of the show this season, especially by putting Tom and Kyle on opposite sides of the war, and giving each of them multiple opportunities to betray the other (e.g. Kyle's temptation to inject Tom with promycin, Tom's temptation to take Kyle into custody for his own good, etc.) and having them resist the temptation. And while of course the Diana-Maya conflict can't be quite as dramatic because of Maya's age, we still saw it a bit in the last couple episodes, with Maya breaking into Promise City to warn Collier, and then last week when the two sides had to work together to escape from NTAC, and we saw Diana's unwillingness to trust Maya with the other 4400s. I didn't write about last week's ep (I don't think?) because I was pretty busy, but I totally loved how the two sides got to bond, and especially how the tragedy of Shawn's (temporary) death brought them together. And wow, Tom and Collier giving their lives together? Yeah, that was not slashy IN THE LEAST. And wow, there's a pairing I never thought I'd want to see, but they were practically having phone sex at the end.
Anyway, I was thinking about the importance of family bonds and letting people make their own choices as an overarching theme of this season, which made Richard's decision in last night's episode just completely unconscionable to me. I mean, I get that he was robbed of his daughter's childhood, and that the future turned her into something of a monster--but to just hit the giant reset button so he could reclaim his nostalgic moment of perfect happiness? Was creepy and wrong on SO many levels I can't even begin to say. And it really doesn't matter to me that child Isabelle consented, because by that point she'd de-aged so much I don't think she was capable of giving consent. To just rob someone of their identity that way? *Shudder* To me that actually seems worse than murder. I used to like Richard, but now I think he's more creepy than Jordan Collier, and that's saying a lot for me.
Psych
I don't usually write about this show, because it's very very fluffy, but I always enjoy it. It used to hit my embarrassment squick a little too hard, but now it's almost as if Shawn is a friend of mine so I'm used to him doing stupid embarrassing things, and it doesn't bother me any more--I actually can laugh at him instead. I can't help but notice all the summer shows I love so much this year have a common theme, though: family bonds. Shawn and Gus have been friends for so long they practically *are* family--that's one of the highlights of the show for me, the way they play off each other--and I also love the interactions between Shawn and his dad. I LOVE that his dad made him wear the shirt of hideousity to the track, that completely cracked me up. And I really love how often the plot twists relate to Shawn and Gus's shared past.
This week was especially fun on that level, I thought, because Shawn found out that Gus can be devious and successfully vengeful--something he hadn't suspected, before. I actually adore episodes where Gus gets to shine (I'm really looking forward to next week) because he is *such* a geek's geek: he knows everything there is to know about spelling bees, stamp collecting, dinosaurs (OMG that ep where he still had the dinosaur head he made in 4th grade!!!!!), and whatever else is necessary to the episode. Sigh. I totally have a crush on him which is entirely SEPARATE from my crush on Dule Hill that I've had ever since West Wing.
Burn Notice
asdjdghlkl;'!!! So now Michael has his burn notice! I know it can't be that easy, but I'm dying to know what he finds out about it.
And god, I couldn't love Fiona any more if I tried. Apparently I have a thing for women who can make bombs in under 20 minutes. Who knew?
Also, Bruce Campbell continues to be entirely made of awesome. Seriously, if you're not watching this show, why not? It's the most fun thing on TV.
Mad Men
With this show, I keep saying "one more week, one more week" because it is sucking me in, in terms of the interesting character dramas, but it's just SO damn depressing. Like this week it actually made me sympathetic to Vincent Kartheiser's character, Pete Campbell, even though I thought he was a slimy little troll in earlier episodes. And he *is* a slimy little troll; they just did such a fantastic job of showing how he, like every single other person on this show, is thoroughly and completely trapped by other's people's expectations of him and his assigned role. I continue to adore the period details in this show, but the sense of claustrophobia is almost completely suffocating. And every week as I watch someone plummet out of the window in the credits, I wonder if this is going to be suicide week. (You don't put something like that in the credits unintentionally, I suspect.)
Damages
I haven't talked about this show before, because I only started watching it a couple weeks ago when I'm bored. It's a lawyer drama, starring Glenn Close as a very high-powered attorney who destroys people's lives: her adversaries, her employees, and her own. I wasn't going to keep watching, but it has a very effective hook: the show opened with a woman covered in blood, wearing nothing but a trenchcoat, running down the street and getting arrested, and then they flashed back to a number of months before when that same woman, Ellen Parsons (played by Rose Byrne, who apparently has been in lots of stuff but to me looked like a young Dana Scully, at least in this role) was being hired by Glenn Close's law firm. And of course the mystery is, did she commit the murder, and if so how did she go from innocent to murderer, and how big a role did Glenn Close's firm play in all that.
This is my first experiment in cross-posting to other journals; we'll see if it works.