I’ve recently come to appreciate the ABC comedy Happy Endings. The show takes place in Chicago, but clearly is not filmed here. I saw a comment on Get Glue last night that described the show as “Friends with ADHD.” After last night’s episode, I have to agree. They’re all over the place, but in a fun way. I find myself liking this show way more than I had expected I ever would. Damon Wayans Jr. is a genius, everything he does/says is funny. Elisha Cuthbert is getting better with her comedy, last season she was so stiff and just, unfunny. I would find myself questioning why I was watching the show at all whenever she was on screen. If you’re not watching, give it a try. It’s on Thursday nights after Modern Family. If you want some episode recaps or reviews I always recommend TV critic Alan Sepinwall. He’s got good taste in television and does very thorough recaps of shows. You can read his recap/review of this week’s show here.
Another show I’m intrigued with is Awake on NBC. LA cop Mike Britten (played by Jason Isaacs) is in a car accident and is torn between two realities, one in which his wife survived the crash and his son died, the other in which the opposite is true. As Britten says, “I’m awake with my wife, I close my eyes, and I’m awake with my son.” In order to keep things straight, he wears a red rubber band on his wrist when he’s with his wife and a green one when he’s with his son. He is investigating completely different cases with different partners in each reality and he’s also seeing two different therapists. Both therapists insist that they are the real one. Only one episode has aired so far, but I like it. I like the “what’s real?” type of story. They’re doing this very well, they have planted some things along the way making you think one reality is clearly a dream and then they pop in something to make you guess again. BD Wong is the therapist he is seeing in the wife reality, it’s good to see him back on TV. I’ve got some theories about what’s going on, but I’ll wait to see what they throw our way as this season unfolds. All I can do is hope I don’t get sucked in just to learn they’ve canceled the show. I’m rather skittish with getting my hopes up for this one since they delayed the premiere for so long and made the first episode widely available online before they aired it. That worries me, making me think they don’t have faith that it will get the viewers it needs to keep going.
The last show that I’ve been seeking out is Lost Girl on Syfy. It’s in its third season up in Canada. It’s a supernatural crime drama in which the lead character, Bo, is a succubus. She learns in the first episode what she is and is forced to choose a side. Naturally, there are light Fae and dark Fae, but Bo wont choose a side, she wants to stay neutral. Who wouldn’t want to stay neutral when entering a world creatures with super powers you can’t even begin to understand? Last thing you want is to find out you’ve picked the wrong side. Bo has an awesome side-kick named Kenzi who has been getting by in life as a scam-artist. The chemistry between the two main characters is a lot of fun to watch and I love how Kenzi changes her hair in practically every scene. I’m still trying to figure out what her real hair looks like, since every hairstyle she has looks like a wig. This is such a fun show and I’m really enjoying it. I’m just glad that Syfy is airing the original Canadian show, rather than a remake. It just seems like so many networks want to redo the original for the American audience. When they do that they lose something and the show just falls flat and that is always disappointing. Knowing it’s got three seasons already makes me happy. I just hope Syfy airs them all.
What shows are you watching? Have you seen any of these? What do you think? Tell me in the comments, I’d love to hear your opinion!
