Leftovers

So the family was in for a whole week for Thanksgiving. That means I saw absolutely zero TV - for a week. A whole week. Do you know how hard it is to avoid being spoilt on your favorite shows for a week? Makes me tired just thinking about it.

I'm giving my effusive praise for Women's Murder Club a rest this post. Not because I didn't think it was good. You have the local ABC affiliate's freaking "Circle of Lights" special to thank for screwing up my DVR on that one. Bastards.

Catching up has been a slow process. I have checked out the latest episodes of Law & Order SVU, CSI: NY, Grey's Anatomy, Bionic Woman and Life. Apparently most of the networks were saving their best episodes of sweeps until last.

Starting with SVU. My DVR always cuts off the promos for this show so I had no idea Olivia and Kathy were going to be in a car accident. You could kind of feel it coming but it was still jarring. I'm a shipper when it comes to Liv and Elliott so I'm not thrilled with the whole baby story, but I was glad it didn't end tragically. That would have been too over the top. And the hug at the end... about time. I was about to yell at my TV when Elliott started past Liv. I mean she saved his wife and child for crying out loud. At least give her a hug! Glad he did. ;-) SVU logged in a much improved episode over last week's episode with virtually no Stabler and absolutely no Olivia. I know the actors need a break, but I'm just not digging the new guy. I want Fin and Munch back.

Grey's was back to the soapy episodes of old... and that's a good thing. The paramedics were just gut wrenching. I remember a similar storyline on China Beach where they knew the soldier was going to bleed out. The main difference was that the soldier knew it was going to happen. And Meredith realizing the impact she'd had on the paramedic's wife was some nice writing. And God love Bailey. I hear she's going to take over the voice over narration for an up coming episode. You know the reason behind it won't be good, but you can bet Chandra Wilson's acting will be. One last note... can Izzie and George just be over already?

Life continues to surprise me. When I first started writing this blog I didn't give it much of a chance. I thought it was quirky and had appealing characters but I really didn't think it would last. Shows what I know. It just got a full season pickup along with Chuck. The moment when the suspect swallowed the evidence was the best. The look on Danni's face was priceless. Also a nice touch having Danni give Crues back his knife. These two are very layered characters and the actors are playing those layers beautifully. I'm also really digging their captain. I hope she doesn't turn out to be one of the bad guys, but I'm loving the ambiguity they're writing for the character.

CSI: NY was probably the best episode of the series I've seen. Starting the show with the majority of the cast being sealed in a runaway subway is certainly a way to get my attention. They tied up a bunch of threads that had been spooling out over the entire season. It was nicely done and everyone had something to do. I'm wondering if we're going to see more of Detective Brennan (?), however. I've just got a feeling we haven't seen the last of Erin Daniels in that role.

As for Bionic Woman... I really don't know what to say. The episode was not awful. Not at all. It's just that I keep waiting for it to rise up to something resembling the level of Battlestar. That's probably not fair. Truthfully, I hope the show does get picked up and has a chance to find it's legs. Michelle Ryan deserves a chance to get some decent dialogue for her character. They've really started playing up the bionics, even giving us a neat little noise in a recent episode. That sound made the whole episode for me and I missed it this week. Yeah, I'm a child of the 70s... had both bionic dolls. The bionic "sound" is a must in my book.

So now I need to catch up on Bones, Stargate Atlantis, CSI, Samantha Who, and Chuck among others. And Heroes if I can find the energy to care about watching it.

Later.