– Revelations (S1) - Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone lured me in, the plot and the dialogue lured me out after two episodes. To be avoided.
– Parenthood (S1) — with a cast comprised of Lauren Graham, Peter Krause, Craig T. Nelson, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen, the show was the star-studded hope-filled debut of the new season. Too bad the writing was hilariously awful. Ran out after three episodes. To be avoided.
– Life Unexpected (S1) – described as Gilmore Girls meets Everwood and featuring Shiri Appleby, the show was not be missed. While the dialogue has its decent moments, although it’s no E/GG, not even by far, the twist and turns were laughably obvious. Abandoned all hope after four episodes. To be avoided.
– Southland (S1) – the cop version of ER, or at least that’s what they were hoping for. Unfortunately, it’s nothing like ER, not by any standard. Bad acting, writing and direction send this mess straight into nowhere. I don’t know how I managed to finish the entire season cause this surely isn’t so bad that it’s good. Just bad enough. To be avoided.
– Human Target (S1) – a bad translation of a great comic-book series. Mark Valley finally got his opening, although, at 45, he is pushing it a bit close, and he sizzles every step of the way. Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley act as the lovable bickering sidekick couple America always falls in love with. The problem is the writing – the show tries to much to be a ’80′s series – combining Magnum, MacGyver and The A-Team into a modern Robin Hood meets 007. It ignores the essence of Human Target – there is no human target, he’s just an insane bodyguard in a extremely vanilla, thus boring, adamantly uninspired caper show with strictly stand-alone stories. Monster-of-the-week themes, as with almost everybody else, bore me to tears. The single redeeming quality of the show is the presence of Amy Acker in an episode, but that’s about it. To be avoided.
– Wow, now this weekend sucked big time. And with just seven days of freedom left. The 25th of May brings on the first exam, therefore the 25th of April is the day I begin the awesome task of reading, re-reading, analyzing, disecting, understanding and memorising of 2000+ pages of law annals. Good times all around. The only decent thing this week? I ran into some spare change (54ron) so I’m treating myself with used copies of: