Fall Season Report Card: Heroes Hot, Grey's Not So Much
Now that we’re a few weeks into the fall TV season, it’s high time to take a step back and see whether a few popular shows are living up to expectations. Here’s a healthy dose of honest criticism for four favorite series.
Heroes. This show surprised everyone. Yes, it’s a cheesy, unoriginal concept -- regular people get superpowers through crazy modern science. Still, Heroes nails its tone perfectly. It doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s a comic book. No logic, no physics -- just one fun, escapist hour every week. Good vs. evil. Luke vs. Vader. Michael J. Fox vs. Rush Limbaugh. It’s a guilty pleasure you don’t have to feel guilty about. Grade: A
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GMMR: How I Met Your Mother Recap -- “Crazy Eyes”
This is without a doubt the best episode of How I Met Your Mother this year. Things are starting to feel totally right with everyone in the show. It started out somewhat slow, and I was not too impressed with the first two or three minutes, but, then, it happened.
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Totally Frakked: Heroes - "YouTube is Free, You Idiot!"
Niki's superkid Micah can control technology with his mind, and that means things are looking up on Heroes. At least, things would be looking up, if the entire show were as exciting as its opening sequence, in which Micah and DL meet Hiro and his pal Ando at a traffic accident outside Vegas. Using their powers of phasing and time-stopping, respectively, DL and Hiro rescue a couple from a burning car. This is awesome! Right off the bat, we've got some serious action that displays the show's greatest strength: cool characters working together and playing off each other.
Sadly, it's all downhill from there. Family squabbling and psychic coppitude drag the show back into a boring quagmire.
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Nov. 7: Britney Spears Stuns, Jerry Seinfeld Bugs, Paris Hilton Wants
*Britney Spears stuns Letterman audience with old, hot self [Hollywood Tuna]
*Jerry Seinfeld bugs Chris Rock [ TMZ]
*Miss Seventeen star shoots out on her own [Dlisted]
*Jennifer Garner doesn't need an entourage [The Hollywood Gossip]
*Making crazy eyes at Mother [GMMR]
*Paris Hilton wants a Hollywood Star [Hollywood Rag]
Casting Call: Aussiebaum Auditions with Janice Dickinson
Self-proclaimed “World’s First Supermodel” and former America’s Next Top Model judge, Janice Dickinson is back for a second season of her hit show. She's seeking all models, male and female 18+, currently without representation to help to maintain a full service modeling agency in Los Angeles.
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Tonight's Picks: Tuesday, Nov. 6
Gilmore Girls - Go, Bulldogs!
Lorelai and Christopher attend Parents' Weekend at Yale and find Emily and Richard are also there; and Christopher treats Rory's Daily News staff to an expensive lunch where the liquor flows too freely.
Nip/Tuck - Merrill Bobolit
Sean and Christian receive an unexpected visit from Dr. Merrill Bobolit (Joey Slotnick), who's out of jail and in need of their professional services. Meanwhile, Escobar Gallardo (Robert LaSardo) blackmails the surgeons.
House - Que Sera Sera
A 600-pound man (Pruitt Taylor Vince) is brought into the hospital in a coma. He wakes up soon enough, appears to have recovered and demands to be released. But the reason for the coma remains unclear.
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