Alphas S01E02

Okay. The sheen of the new from the pilot has worn off now and it's
down to the brass tacks of pushing story, not leaving anyone behind, and
getting them to tune in next week.

I'm enjoying this show. The dialogue-for-dummies is a little hard on
the ear but the plotting and the characters are tune-in-next-week good.

And if you're wondering - I know you're not but I forgive you - about
the drop-off in posts, the New Zealand International Film Festival is on
right now, and even though I was tempted to get some of its good stuff
beforehand and not pay to play, the film fest needs our support, hoo-rah.

This is Not My Life (TV3, 2010)

A New Zillund sci fi drama.

With an unimaginative title.

Said title setting the tone for the kind of story telling you will get:
Exposition, exposition, fucking exposition.

Like my tortured and twisted dalliance with "The Cult" in 2009, I'm
watching this fucker to the bitter end because it's Good to Watch and Learn.

Breaking Bad S04

They're back.

YUSSS.

Engrenages S01E01

Wow. I'm hooked.

The procedural may be a bit slapdash but it's the relationships and the
chraracters that I'm hooked on.

Why do the boys in the police investigative team hate each other? Hint:
one of them's quite the incompetent.

What's with the prosecutor? Okay, he's separated from his wife, he's a
new law in town, and he knows a very rich friend. He's too pretty to be
taken seriously but I get the feeling - or hope, at least - that there's
more to him than meets the eye.

Let's see where this goes (even if I have read the Wiki entries on this
show).

The Closer - S07

I also know - hey, my memory ain't that bad (yet) - that I swore off
this tired and bedraggled puppy after the frankly terrible and tired
fifth and sixth seasons but... am I a bad person for wanting to know how
things end?

Or just a sucka?

Alphas - S01E01

David Strathairn is THE MAN.

And this show ain't half bad, either.

Sign me up.

Law & Order: UK - S05

I know I swore of this tawdry spin-off after the tedious S04 cliffhanger
but... former vet and Doctor, Peter Davison, is gonna be in it! No idea
who Dominic Rowan is.

How bad could it be?

Memphis Beat S01

Speaking of Lazarus-like second acts (qv Luther), THIS SHOW gets a second season?

W.

T.

F?

Hey, I have much love for Jason Lee, and much, MUCH love for Alfre Woodard (I've loved you since Passion Fish, Alfre), but a singing, geetar-playin' cop?  Hey, I know he was taking his axe with him on his beat but... this just didn't work for me.  At all.

And yet... S02.  I suppose I only gave it the pilot back in the day.  I could give the second, maybe even the third ep a go, too.  Suppose.  Could.  Maybe.

Persons Unknown (NBC, 2010)

I'm pretty sure when I watched this last year, it was getting pimped as the beginning of the new Lost.

Checking the Wikipedia entry tells me that it was a miniseries all along.

Is that as consistent as some of my posts which are post- and pre-dated because I, y'know, have a life?