| Oct. 1st, 2007 @ 01:37 pm wiwt |
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What I'm watching tonight: How I Met Your Mother, Aliens in America, Heroes, No Reservations. The premiere of AiA on the CW fills in the gap I complained about last week. I haven't seen the new pilot, with Luke from Gilmore Girls replacing the nerdy father of the original pilot because the CW's contract with him requires them to cast him in one of their shows. The recasting concerns me a bit, but just because I've never seen him play a character like that doesn't mean he can't do it.
All in all, AiA isn't a show to go out of your way to see, but I was impressed with the pilot, given that the concept -- awkward kid's parents get exchange student in order to help him make friends at school, exchange student turns out to be Middle Eastern Muslim -- invites so much bad writing. None of that bad writing is yet in evidence.
Weekend:
Didn't see SNL after all. Was kind of vaguely bored by Desperate Housewives except for the angle with Dana Delany's kid, and Eva Longoria remains my least favorite thing about the show -- but the premiere was still more interesting than most of last season. It would be nice if they could stop casting Lynette as the plucky but wornout victim of everything, but I think it's too late for that. |
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