Fall 2005 TV
I did finally get a copy of Entertainment Weekly’s Fall TV issue, thanks to the Har Mar Barnes & Noble, and no thanks to my local Target, which I’d been haunting just about daily for over a week.
I’m beginning to suspect a depressing truth, and that is that no show is as good after the first season. Prove me wrong, discuss, but I can’t think of an example. So it is with some trepidation that I look forward to the premier of last year’s favorite Veronica Mars on Wednesday September 28th. (My bet for who was at the door? Wallace. Though I really wish it were Logan.)
EW hyped Prison Break, which started a couple weeks ago. I fretted that I’d missed it, but the folks at TeeVee say that it’s “Fox dumb.” So I think I’m OK with giving it a miss.
I watched the premier of Bones along with the season premier of House on Tuesday, and both were good, not great. I agree with TeeVee’s assessment of Bones:
But underneath the surface, there’s at least the skeleton of a good TV show here. If Bones, inspired by the books of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, doesn’t get everything right – and it definitely doesn’t – at least it absolutely nails the things it needs to get right.
Tonight is the premier of Threshold, one of several Lost-ish supernatural shows. According to EW it’s one of the best, and it also stars Carla Gugino, one of G. Grod’s crushes, so we’ll be adding it to our sci-fi Friday lineup, which now has to be lowercase, since Threshold is on CBS. So the order of operations is: Firefly, Threshold, and Battlestar Galactica. Three hours of TV in one night? Thank goodness for Tivo.
September 18th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Wallace - in the middle of the night? That seems a little unlikely. Maybe it IS Logan! (Can you tell I can’t wait for the Veronica Mars season premiere?)
September 19th, 2005 at 7:48 am
“I’m beginning to suspect a depressing truth, and that is that no show is as good after the first season. Prove me wrong, discuss, but I can’t think of an example.”
just off the top of my head i can think of several that i considered had their best season after the first season:
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
Frasier
Star Trek: the Next Generation
Farscape
The X-Files
September 20th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Jane, Wallace’s mom was at the hospital with V’s dad, so he would have been awakened and know about what had happened.
Erik, touche. The series I was thinking of include ones I’ve dropped, like The O.C., Scrubs, even way back to Friends and E.R., which I thought were really good shows to start out. Also some of the fancy cable shows like Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, and MI-5 all struck me as being very strong out of the gate, but never quite gathering back their beginner’s mojo.