it's always sunny in the bigoted south...and heroes. OH! and skinamax!

the second it's always sunny double-header of the season featured two episodes that helped ease the fear of shark-jumping, but brought forth a fear of formulaic writing. nonetheless, two episodes that started off slowly and finished amazingly does bode well--it's the antithesis of what south park's been doing lately, and that's a good thing.

true blood kind of reinvented itself this week. kind of. it's still hard to fully judge where it's going, but i know that it's treading dangerous waters: it's going to be hard to keep up an interesting supernatural allegory without feeling hammy (it already kind of does).

heroes: i can't believe it's taken me this long to realize that i don't like these characters or actors. writing in the two hour premiere was HORRIBLE, but the plot lines are somewhat interesting. as dan points out, though, adding time travel elements to a show like this just makes it too unnecessarily complicated. it adds in a diagetic rule that nullifies all other diagetic rules. tough.

and finally, co-ed confidential. those of you who are fans of brian belot's work (see: claremonttelevision.com) will love this currently on-demand softcore semi-porn show about four college freshmen and they're craaaaazy overseers. highly recommended. in depth analysis of each episode coming soon.

ps. congrats to the marlins for pooping on the mets' parade this afternoon. HUZZAH!

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fantastic heroes this week, featuring pomona college's acting for tv and film professor alan blumenfeld as a man who can hypnotize you into believing you're in a david lynch film.

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there's a hirooooo when you look inside your heart...

episode one was one of the worst returns to tv in recent memory. and NO ONE will ever be that excited by a nissan rogue (or--as eje pointed out--any nissan ever). episode two, though, picked up right where we wanted it to. peter, whose power-discovery was one of the more fun threads in season one, finds himself with a two-to-three episode arch of doing it all over again; hiro--while finding out that idol is a bit too goofy in that francis from malcolm in the middle sort of way--is getting his chance to really turn into a hero, claire's finding herself in that peter parker dealing with being a noone in high school while secretly having powers sort of position, and partman's actually looking somewhat cool. now we just have to get them to never EVER again try to say "the company" with a straight face.

and maybe it's just me (or my memories of her as the nerd on malcolm [who references malcolm twice in one heroes post?]), but hayden panettiere really isn't all that hot. at all. seriously. not at all.