05.30 Pushing Daisies
06.30 Kyle XY
07.30 Supernatural
Pushing Daisies. Season 2, Episode 8. "Comfort Food" The best episode so far. Delightful from start to finish. The case-of-the-week (while certainly a lot of fun) is wisely relegated to b-story status, and the main thrust of this week's tale concerns Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles and various members of her family (living and dead). The Chuck storyline (and her pairing with Emerson Cod) is wonderful beyond belief.
Kristin Chenoweth has never looked more beautiful and Lee Pace is - once again - hilarious as an uncomfortable/unhappy Ned. Whenever they make Ned unhappy it pays huge comedic dividends.
Kyle XY. Season 2, Episode 16. "Great Expectations" For the second week in a row, the show delivers a flawless and wonderful episode. As much as I love the dark sci-fi conspiracy stuff, I feel that the show is at it's best when Kyle deals with real world stuff. Small stuff. Lots of shows have done the whole conspiracy bit, but few have managed the real world stuff quite so well. Case in point: Kyle thinks his girlfriend might be about to break up with him, and he can't even get to talk to her to find out what's on her mind.
I love the fact that Lori and Josh pitch in to help and it's really cool to see Kyle having to use his powers to do something as mundane as talk to the girl who lives next door.
Jessi is really well written in this episode. I feel for her: the outsider, trying to fit in and forever a victim of her past. She does the wrong thing at the end of this story, but I understand why she did it.
Supernatural. Season 3, Episode 4. "Sin City" Sasha Barrese is yet another beautiful-beyond-belief guest star, the story is more low key than usual and it's fascinating to see the reversal that's happened between the brothers (Dean mellowed, Sam bloodthirsty), but... this is one of the weakest episodes in a while.
Sasha Barrese is off-the-chart sexy as she taunts Dean in their prison, and the story being told this week is not the usual SN fare. This time out we have every reason to believe that the bad people in the town are just that: bad people, giving in to temptation that has (skillfully) been put in their path. It should be more fascinating and dark than it ultimately is.
Good bits, here and there, but it's all a bit 'Blah' overall.
Highlight? Pushing Daisies (best episode ever)
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Sun, Dec 7, 08 - Pushing Daisies, Kyle XY, Supernatural
