In case most of you were busy studying last week and missed all of the season premieres of your favorite shows or new shows which you have being dying to see, I am going to review my choice of the best premiere of each night, some honorable mentions, and a few surprises which have made up the Fall 2009 TV season so far.
Monday night was the beginning and everyone was waiting to see what was going to happen on “Heroes,” for me I was sorely disappointed. I have followed this show from the beginning and I am a firm believer it is time to give Sylar the axe but of course NBC disagrees. Sylar is now Nathan, Claire started college, and Hiro went back in time again and that is all I have to say about a show that is starting to get stale. The Big winner for Monday night is a tie between “Castle” and “CSI Miami” with a nod going to “CSI Miami” for a better plot and having North Carolina native Emily Proctor in a starring role, do not forget Eric, who we all know still lives for the viewing pleasure of the female watchers.
Tuesday night hands down winner is Jethro Gibbs and the crew of “NCIS.” This show is so good that they already have a spin off called “NCIS: Los Angles” which for the time being follows the original in the ten o’clock spot. Gibbs and crew go to Africa to rescue Ziva so the crew is back together again and ready to kick some serious butt. An honorable mention to a new show from ABC called Forgotten, starring Christian Slater is about a group of volunteers who investigate John or Jane Doe cases that the police have given up on. I hope this show makes it because it has an original story, it does not have CSI anywhere in the title, and poor Christian Slater needs a break after the bomb off a show (“My Own Worst Enemy”) that only lasted nine episodes on NBC last season.
For Wednesday night we have another tie but both shows are on ABC. “Cougar Town” is about a divorced forty-something woman, who lives in Florida, has a teenage son, and she pays alimony to her bum of an ex-husband. The star is Courtney Cox and as the title infers she is the cougar who has decided to start dating younger men to put a charge in her life. After that there is “Eastwick” with Rebecca Romijn and it follows the plot of the many movies involving three witches and their Prince of Darkness. Both shows are worth watching and should do well this season.
The winner for Thursday night is “Grey’s Anatomy” of course. If you missed it Izzie lives and George is dead. Instead of continuing on about the winner, I prefer to talk about the big letdown. I was disappointed with “Flash Forward” even though the previews looked very promising. The plot is about everyone in the world passing out for two minutes, seventeen seconds and most of those people saw their lives six months in the future. Some were good, but most were troublesome. A prime example is the main character that is a FBI agent who has a family and is happily married although it changes in the future during his “vision.” I will give this show a few more chances because I was so anxious to see it. In second place for this night is “The Mentalist.” One has to wonder if they can go head to head with “Private Practice” which debuts this week, If not maybe CBS will move them back to Tuesday night where it dominated last season.
Superman still rules on Friday night. I am not a CW watcher, but I truly enjoy “Smallville.” In case you missed some new shows, ABC and NBC are rerunning some of them on Friday as well as Saturday night. The fall premieres are by no way through, but this was the big week where most of the shows kicked off for the fall. I would like to thank DVR technology for making it possible to for me to record and watch these shows at five in the morning while I am on my elliptical, because that would be the only way this college student could watch them all, and enjoy this great time of the year.
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