Bad Will Acting

Let's catch up on some reviews...

Read another one of The Dresden Files books, can't remember the name of it. Another solid effort, though.

In the middle of reading Filth, by Irvine Welsh (who also wrote Trainspotting).

This is, without a doubt, the most appropriately titled novel ever. It's a good read, but i don't know if i can finish it. if i do, you'll get a full review.

But let's talk television today.

Grey's Anatomy

Yeah, I watch Grey's Anatomy. Shut up.

Of late, the show has been slipping from the quality entertainment it provided in the first two seasons. But last night's episode was much better than the the last several installments.

I don't think it's a coincidence that since the episode centered largely on the interns being interns (having to take a test to stay in the program) it was a good show. I'm not a big fan of the soap opera stuff that has crept into the show and has dominanted it for most of this season.

Since next week's season finale will pretty much have to wrap up the soap opera stuff (except for the necessary cliff-hanger to bring you back for next season), i'd be willing to bet that last night's episode will prove to be the best of the post-merideth-drowning episodes (the shows before that are a little fuzzy at this point).

I give last night a 7 out of 10, but due to the relative lackluster performances of other episodes, i would probably bump it up to an 8 or 8.5 after the curve.

Traveler

I was pretty excited to see this show, it looked like it would be pretty good.

I made it about halfway through it before i had to change the channel.

The plot idea appears to be solid, but the acting is CHEEEEEEEEZY. Particularly the rich guy's son. Oh yeah, i should back up a bit.

Three friends from Yale grad school. Cross country trip. start in new york. friend one(Will Traveler) disappears. calls other friends. says "i'm sorry." museum they were in blew up. cops think other two friends did it.

needless to say, when friend number two (law school grad) calls the FBI, there's no record Traveler even exists. friend three (rich guy's son) wants to run.

i don't know what happened after that. I changed it after friend two evades authorities and ends up at girlfriend's apartment. (He lives at Yale, she lives in New York, conveniently located where he happens to be. the girlfriend also has no complaints that he had come to New York with absolutely no intention to visit her.)

he looks through her pictures and every one with Traveler in it, his face is covered. So instead of going to the police and saying "see that weird guy you say doesn't exist, we have all these pictures of him with his face covered, that's fishy," he just throws the pictures across the room.

Exit me.

I give it a 4 out of 10.