Friday, September 14th, 2007
08:00 Kung Fu
09:00 Burn Notice
10:00 Friday Night Lights
11:00 Scrubs
Kung Fu. Episode 8. Kwai Chang Caine meets a group of Chinese miners who are fighting with a man who claims their mountain. Murder follows murder, with Caine becoming a sea of calm in the sea of retaliation. Richard Hatch plays the son of the landownder. there's a slo-mo fight at the end and lots of dialogue to make you ponder: "In a heart that is one with nature though the body contends, there is no violence. And in the heart that is not one with nature, though the body be at rest, there is always violence."
Burn Notice. Episode 10. Where I read that Lucy Lawless was doing a Burn Notice I assumed she's be playing some tough spy-gal going head-to-head with Michael Westin. Imagine my surprise when she turns up, playing the victim of the piece. Her son has been stolen and - all teary-eyed - she's turning to Michael to get him back. Of course, all is not what it seems, Lucy Lawless is still Lucy Lawless no matter what part she plays and - before too long - Michael is starting to fall under her considerable charms, much to the annoyance of Fiona.
This is an important episode for Burn Notice. In many ways, it deviates from the forumla we've come to know over the past few weeks, it shows us a completely different side to Michael Westin (the case parallels his own childhood and it gets under his skin) and it brings the show's first bone fide Big Name Guest Star into the fold. Nice.
Friday Night Lights. Episode 13. Does anyone else rewind and rewatch the scenes between the Coach and his wife? Or it is just me? I honestly have a second look at all those scenes. When Connie Britton was on 24 I was smitten. I kept hoping all that season that Jack would come to his senses and head back to her and her son. I really, really, really hoped that that was what was going to happen.
Then she showed up on Friday Night Lights, and some genius paired her with Kyle Chandler from Homefront and - in my world - TV was never the same again.
The best storyline in this episode, however, fell to Tyra and her mother. Their truck breaks down on the way to a job interview and they fall to pieces. After some heated debate, Tyre points out that if they can't "change this tyre, right here, right now, by ourselves.. we're both doomed." Excellent stuff.
Scrubs. Season 6, Episode 15. One of the regular characters passes away, and a baby is born. The best bit was JD being attacked by a family of robots.
Normally, Scrubs would be the highlight of my night's TV, but against Friday Night Lights? Not a hope, not a hope.
Kung Fu, Burn Notice, Friday Night Lights, Scrubs
