Give me my half-hours back!!
By fred | October 22, 2007
So I’ve been watching a few half-hour series this week-end. Nothing new, just part of my effort to clean my DVR. And I find myself quite disappointed by pretty much all the shows I’ve watched.
First it was Aliens in America, the latest sitcom from The CW. I was pretty optimistic about this one after the pilot, because despite a few flaws like any new series, I thought it had some potential. But the voice over thing never went away, and I’m not such a fan, but the humor based on Raja being a Muslim isn’t as provocative or funny as it used to be, but some situations are just plain dumb, and highly predictable, but the role of the father it still very odd, ever since the first pilot (before the recasting) I felt like this character was not fitting in, he wasn’t like a member of the family, and the situations or jokes associated to him were not funny, and not even in the tone of the show.
Nothing of that changed, and I simply don’t enjoy watching it at all. Although there was one pretty good/funny line, from Raja himself : “I have never lied before, and I lost all sense of scale, and then I kept on going and going, in the vain hope that I would stumble upon that one lie, that would make sense of all the others – but I never did.”
After that came the return of Fox Mulder David Duchovny on the little screen, on Californication. Oh it is true that not one second you confuse Hank with Mulder, not a chance, the problem is that Hank is also never confused with the great, funny and interesting character that we all hoped we’d get to follow week after week after the pilot.
The show clearly got way over his head, and I think it definitely jumped the shark. Now it’s stuck with Hank’s agent and his sex life, something I don’t think any of us ever cared for the least info about it, even less to witness some of it, and his ex and soon to be married to some rich guy who appeared at first to be one character whi at least had her head on her shoulders, now seems to go with whatever serves the plots regardless of any character development, she’s just an annoying bitch who keeps changing her mind and clearly don’t know what she wants and it’s simply draining Hank and the show down to places no one should be forced to witness.
After all that, I thought I’d finally get a decent half hour of television buy watching the last episode of Weeds. How wrong was I! Not only did I not actually laughed one time during the whole show, but it seems to me as if it’s not going anywhere, and many things don’t seem to make that much sense.
I wasn’t sure about having Mary-Kate Olsen on the show, whether it was just a publicity move or not, but at first I actually liked her character. So they did they very quickly turned her into nothing but another drug dealer working for Nancy, why don’t they make her an actual character?
And I might be alone on that one, but I think the beginning of the season was actually better than… this. I mean sure it wasn’t perfect, but you could see the irony of Nancy wanting to get deeper and deeper into the whole drug business only to get swallowed by it and loose total control over her life. At least it had that.
Now that U-Turn is dead that whole plot vanished, pretty much just like Heylia did – which is a shame BTW. Nancy keep making stupid decision one after the other, like hanging out and making friends with the ex-wife of DEA’s and ex-husband Peter, what the fuck? Now the bitch keeps yelling how she’s entitled to the money, how that’s her money, and Nancy cave in like she was supposed to.
The were divorced, if Peter wanted her or his kid to get anything he would have planned it. If he had secret funds from his controversial past to gave them access to he would have mention them. If he did none of that and led to a big check made to Nancy, there’s probably a reason. Shut the Hell up & die already!
Of all those half-hours I spent, if it wasn’t for that one funny line from Aliens in America there would have been absolutely nothing, nothing worth my time. What a disappointment! And I hear Californication got renewed for a second season, Jesus!
Posted in Reviews
Shows: Aliens In America, Californication, Weeds
