Tuesday Night TV Roundup
Gilmore Girls — We got us a Pippi Virgin
Uncharacteristically boring. Pippi Longstocking. And Luke doesn't like Dean. Blah, blah, blah. And the panic room. Kyle comes back from the Navy (and presumably Iraq?) minus an arm — now he has a (really fake-looking) hook. This development was remarked upon only in its capacity as a chick magnet, which was subtle, I suppose, but the non sequiter was rather disconcerting (I wondered, briefly, did he always have a fake-looking hook?).
The episode was slightly redeemed by:
"Pippi is NOT a kid's movie. It's an artistic cinematic achievement in surrealism and tonal singing."
One Tree Hill — I Will Dare
Hmm. This purpose of this episode was, clearly, to signal the impending gayness of one of the characters. My guess is it's gotta be Tim. They'll have a hard time getting over the leopard thong incident from last season, but if they could turn Jack McPhee gay then this should be a piece of cake.
This episode will probably cause more teenage felonies than Beavis and Butthead and Jackass combined.
Note to producers: If you introduce two new brown-skinned hotties on a show an American audience is gonna assume they're related. This makes a reveal, for example, in the last seconds of an episode less than effective.
Veronica Mars — The Wrath of Con
Bonus points for the Trek reference in the title. Double bonus points for Veronica in Japanime. Everyone says this show is the new Buffy, and I guess it might be. This is the first episode where none of the principals seemed like a complete jerk. That's a good sign for a show, I think. But where's Sydney Tamiia Poitier? We've seen her for about thirty seconds this whole season. I like that we're slowly, and sometimes subtly, getting a little bit more backstory in each episode. Also, no Paris Hilton this time around.
I think Kristin Bell is much more beatiful in the flashback scenes, with long hair (especially when they use a wig rather than those ridiculous extensions), than she is in present-day scenes. But her hair looks better now than it did the pilot (I never got the whole wings thing, anyway).
The show apparently attracts a smaller share than Jake 2.0 did. This does not bode well, especially since the critics seem to like it.