Some of the new tv shows this season are quite entertaining. However I should note that I tape action shows to watch while I ride the stationary bike, so the shows I end up watching may all have something in common.
For example, Smith , a new show on CBS, is an exiting knockoff of Thief which had a one season run on FX. And they were both knockoffs of the gangsters-with-real-families theme that started with the Sopranos.
Anyway, "Smith" has Ray Liota playing a master thief who is the brains behind some some pretty fantastic heists. But, the show got caught in the ratings battle, and CBS has tossed the show in the lockup. Too bad. Now we probably won't find out how they pull off their next score unless CBS flips it over to another channel.
But, all is not lost. We still have Heroes. It's a knockoff of USA Network's The 4400 in which some of the characters have unique super natural abilities. Adding to the magic of "Heroes" is that one of the heroes is a high school cheerleader in Odessa, Texas. They got the high school wrong and the newspaper wrong. But there she is in full living color, the invincible Claire Bennet of Odessa Texas.
Apparently it's going to be one of those "soap opera" style shows with a "to be continued" caption implied at the end of each show. Don't you just hate that?
Heroes has gotten off to a somewhat slow start, though. One great thing about "The 4400" was that each episode told its own story within the larger story -- characters, a conflict and a resolution. Not so with Heroes in which the first two episodes have simply introduced us to the characters and tried to get us to share their angst over their super powers. Oh yeah, there's a villain in there stalking them, too. He may even be Claire's adopted daddy. To be continued.
But it has some potential, that is, if NBC doesn't cancel it before it gets good. Hang in there Claire Bennet.
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