Drama

One of my favourite shows of the last few years is finally back for it’s fall season. Bones has returned for a forth season, and thankfully the premiere didn’t leave a bad taste in my mouth like the season 3 finale did (long story, maybe later).

For those that missed the premiere (and live in the US…sorry…’dem da breaks’, so to speak), check it out here on hulu.

And I have to apologize for the short posts lately, I’m gearing up for some serious posting in the very near future, but for now I thought I’d just spead a little anthropoligist, crime drama, comedy love. I Assure you, you don’t want to miss next week on TV Gawker, it’s gonna be an posting frenzy of epic porportion…and their will be ranting…oh yes…plenty of ranting. I look forward to the enevitable hate mail. But until then, enjoy the premiere of Bones!

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Well, it’s official. Laurence Fishburne is joining CSI next season when William Petersen (Gil Grissom on the show) leaves.

I really don’t know about this. I was a fan of CSI in it’s first few seasons, but it started getting so repetitive and unoriginal that I lost interest. Recently I’ve been getting back into it a bit, especially during season 7 with the season-long story arc of the miniture killer, as it brought back a lot of what I liked about the first few seasons. Having every episode be indipendent is great, but there’s something about longer story arcs that tend to keep my interest more.

As for Fishburne’s character, he’s playing a college lecturer that joins the Crime Lab as a level-1 CSI, specializing in criminal psychology, who is fighting with some inner demons as he notices aspects of his own personality fitting with the profile of a killer. It sounds interesting, and I’m sure he’s up for the task, acting-wise (I mean…he’s MORPHEUS, he can do anything…right?), I’m just not sure how well he’ll fit in with the rest of the cast, and the feel of the show.

I guess only time will tell. I’ll be looking out of the premiere of season 9, that’s for sure.

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When I first heard about CBS’s upcoming Investigative Drama, surrounding a man who uses his “razor sharp observation skills” to solve crimes and generally just annoy people around him by knowing things they don’t think he should, I thought to myself, ‘Oh, they’re ripping of USA Networks “Psych”‘.

And while it certainly seems to pull a lot of themes from “Psych”, it’s by no means a ripoff. It leans far more to the drama/investigation than the humour, though there still is a fair bit of humour injected into the show by way of the character interactions. This is especially apparent in the main character’s smart ass attitude towards…just about everything.

Patrick Jane’s last job…fake psychic.

I enjoyed the premiere episode, which should be hitting CBS on September 23rd. And if you want to avoid spoilers, I’ll just tell you that you should definitely check it out. The story and dialogue are interesting, the acting is well done, and the whole thing is just generally fun to watch. If on the other hand you want some details about the premiere, keep reading…
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I hadn’t heard much about Sci-fi channel’s “Eureka” over the last couple years, and hadn’t seen an episode until this weekend when I caught the premiere of season 3. I was pleasantly surprised with some fun (and at times downright silly) sci-fi shenanigans.

Essentially the show is about a town populated by insanely smart people who constantly come up with crazy high-tech inventions. It’s a “drama”, but a serious leaning to the comedic, and is just plain entertaining if you don’t mind a fair amount of separation from reality (and most sci-fi fans don’t).

I highly suggest you check it out if you haven’t already. Hulu.com is getting better and better at carrying new episodes of things these days, and I’m happy to report that “Eureka” is there, and I’ll include the premiere of season 3 below for anyone that doesn’t want to make that extra click…I know it can be hard

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Fans of NBC’s ‘Heroes’, today is the launch of the first of a 3-part webisode series that will appear on the Heroes website. The webisodes will surround a new hero, a postman with the ability to make sounds loud enough to kill (again pulling a power from old comic books it seems). This online only mini-series has at least one or 2 members of the regular cast involved, but seems mainly aimed at the new character. The first part should be showing up any minute now, but in the meantime, here’s the trailer for the webisode series that’s meant to tide fans over under the start of season 3 in Sept.

***UPDATE***

The webisode is up. It’s about 3 minutes long, and obviously pretty damn low budget, but it will be interesting to see where they go with it anyway.

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