Life as We Know It
I gave this show a miss when it premiered because several reviewers who wanted to like it just didn’t: Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and TeeVee.org. I wanted to like it too, since the creators spoke homage to My So-Called Life and had worked on the excellent Freaks and Geeks.
Weeks passed, and I wondered if I’d made a mistake in skipping it. Then my friend The Big Brain said that it had only been OK, but then got really good. I tuned in to a few reruns on MTV, where teen shows go to garner support, and was unimpressed. Unimpressed, that is, till I saw one of the more recent episodes, and was dragged right in. It took a few weeks, but they’ve got the character development simmering nicely along with plot complexity. So if you, like me, gave it a miss because of early bad reviews, check it out this week
December 15th, 2004 at 8:00 am
i’m diggin it.