Mid-Season Meh

So the mid-season TV shows have started to come out, and I tuned in to the good ol' CW to watch Life Unexpected, having watched the previews with all the fantastic review quotes (because those are always accurate) and thinking it wouldn't be completely unoriginal crappy schlock. Boy, was I in for a surprise.

This is why I'm afraid to write - well, that and the utter fear of failure. Or is it fear of success? No matter. Bigger than those is the fear that I'll write something this awful. I'm not a tv snob - far from it, in fact. I see nothing wrong with a good gooey slice of teen angst, if it's done well - as shown on Felicity back in the days the CW was known as the WB. (Let's just take one second here to remember the geeky wonderfulness of baby Scott Foley as Noel. And hey, wait a second...Felicity was a story about a completely annoying girl who went after the supposedly "dangerous" guy who was about as interesting as a dishrag, as opposed to the amazing other guy who she only saw as a friend. Hmm.... perhaps Stephenie Meyer watched a little Felicity herself).

But I digress.

Back to the artist known as the CW and their current crappy show. I'm not even going to give a plot summary, it's not worth caring. But for any producers looking for feedback - just an FYI, a girl raised in foster homes would not have perfectly tousled Kardashian-esque hair and a bunch of supposedly "street" friends that are only slightly more threatening than the Saved by the Bell gang. Honestly.  When the newly-reunited-with-her-birth-daughter mom said (and I'm paraphrasing here) "We can give her the one thing the other place can't.... LOVE!"  I wished I had an 80's style TV brick to throw at the screen.  Godawful.

The other two new shows I've tried, Human Target (sorry, even I can't suspend disbelief far enough to buy that flying a passenger jet upside down wouldn't cause it to plummet to the ground - too bad Mark Valley can't find a decent show that he doesn't get killed out of in the first episode), and The Deep End (meh) are underwhelming as well.

Only 6 days until the new season of Lost!