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.”
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Shows: Aliens In America, Californication, Weeds
In Series: Aliens In America Season 1, Californication Season 1, Weeds Season 3
Yep, busy week end it was. I’m disappointed to see that there were no negotiation and that studio don’t even seem willing to go back and talk, every day it looks a little more like this strike is going to last, and that cannot be good. But at least we can support the writers and strike too, if we all do it things could go faster.
