NBC Has Low Standards

NBC recently gave all of its new fall series additional script orders. As you all know, I didn't like any of their slate. The only show I've watched past the pilot is Journeyman, and that's only because there's nothing on at that time and I enjoy making fun of its insane time travel solutions to simple problems. The numbers on these shows are also pretty unimpressive.
The only conclusion we can draw from this, and this has been obvious for quite a while, is that NBC is desperate for anything that isn't a complete failure. When your numbers are in the toilet anyway, you start to see the light at the end of the sewer tunnel.
On the other side of the spectrum, the season premiere of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was amazing. Something I've come to expect from this program. Also as expected, the numbers sucked again. I'm constantly amazed that people will sit through inane, badly-produced crap like Heroes while good TV dies a slow, painful death.
Good luck to NBC's slate-o-schlock. May it pollute our collective TV screens for years to come.

P.S.: CBS gave script orders on the new show that we don't about here in blog land. If they order a full season, they're going to have to shell out so much money on guyliner.

Life Review

This guy's main adorable quirk is that he really likes fruit. How adorable and quirky is that?

Life is a show about a police officer who’s wrongly imprisoned for 12 years, exonerated, and returns to the force as a detective. Ever since House became a huge hit and Hugh Laurie won every award known to man we’ve had a steady stream of quirky anti-heroes invade our television sets. This guy is not so much quirky as he is just annoying as fuck. Phallic had to keep reminding me that he was “Zen,” not just raised by wolves. Maybe I’m not familiar with that school of thought, as I couldn’t pick out a single Zen quality about him. This show was annoying, depressing, and sometimes confusing. The only scene I enjoyed was when they raid a drug den. The main character’s partner, a recovering drug addict, shoots a bag of coke. It blows up in her face and she’s just covered in the stuff. She immediately- and melodramatically- runs to the crack house’s shower and washes the coke off as she freaks out. It was HI-larious, as Phallic would say. Adam Arkin plays the cop’s only friend and he’s also the only thing this show has going for it.

Verdict: I give it a couple of weeks. It will be one of the first casualties of the TV season.

Would I Watch It? No.