What I'm Watching

[mik3cap]

In the tradition of "What Comics Mike Is Reading", I present - "What Shows Mike Is Watching". I won't use the word TV since I don't really rely on that medium for my media watching. Anyways, here's the list, alphabetically, with 5-star ratings:

24 *** (3)
Battlestar Galactica (almost over) *** (3)
Burn Notice *** (3)
Damages ***** (5)
Fringe **** (4)
House **** (4)
Lie To Me **** (4)
Lost **** (4)
Medium *** (3)
Sanctuary ** (2, may drop)
Testees *** (3)


BONUS: Will Start Watching:

Dollhouse
Kings (maybe)
The Unusuals


So far, 24, BSG, Burn Notice, Medium, and Testees are all the usual fare - good, relatively consistent, usually stimulating. Lost has recaptured my interest, House continues to be great, and Lie To Me is very intriguing; I love the concept, and I hope the show goes far, but it's pretty much another House-style-curmudgeon-Sherlock-Holmes-hero procedural. Which brings me to Damages: the coolest show I didn't watch at all last year but caught up with on Hulu just in time. Stellar talent on this show, and excellent writing, with a story told in a flashback/flashforward style that heightens the drama and keeps you guessing at what's really going on right up until the end. Highly, highly recommend it.

Heroes is garbage. Utter tripe. It had such a promising beginning to, but it clearly was a casualty of the writer's strike. Can't even talk about it any more, makes me so sad.

Comments

[brainiac69.livejournal.com]

what's Damages aboot? never heard of it.
we're gonna (or did already?) tivo Dollhouse. I heard it was bad though...

The last two episodes of Heroes were a little better than last season...I didn't watch the last half dozen episodes of last season cuz it sucked so bad. Dawn caught me up.

Lie To Me is so far okay but I think they've got to go deeper into _something_ for it to stay interesting. Did it not have Tim Roth I might have given up by now but I dig him from Rosencrantz so...

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Damages is about high stakes litigation - kind of like an episodic Grisham novel, except actually interesting and with multi-dimensional characters. Glenn Close plays a hardass, mind-game-playing lawyer who is respected and feared by all and has a reputation of stopping at nothing to win her cases. The first season was all about taking down an Enron style CEO in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit (Ted Danson as the defendant); the current season is about whistleblowing and class actions against an ExxonMobil style energy company (William Hurt as the plaintiff).

Heroes will fail this season. I do not trust their tiny bit of improvement. They eat balls.

[brainiac69.livejournal.com]

They may indeed eat balls. It will be more surprising if they do not.

[antryg-windrose.livejournal.com]

So what do you watch all these shows on? Pc sure, but what service?

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Hulu.