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One of my favourite new series this fall was Red Band Society. It might be because I used to be obsessed with Children's Ward long time ago or just because I did like the characters - especially Octavia Spencer's nurse Jackson. I also liked that the kid with cystic fibrosis was black - it's easy to forget that even if diseases are not common in certain populations doesn't mean they don't happen. So I'm sad now because it has been cancelled (can't link it - it's deadline thing again). The last episodes are going to be shown in next couple of weeks on Saturdays and that's it. I will miss it.
The series that replace it on Wednesdays - Empire - has already been picked up for second season. It's much more flashy in a kind of over the top Scandal style. The problem is I hate everyone on that show except for the middle son (he's most like actual human being and a pretty decent person too) and Cookie (which is good because I started watching it for Taraji anyway). Almost everyone else is so far either forgettable (I feel bad for actress playing Lucious wife as it seems so far she's just there too look pretty in very little clothes) or awful (especially Lucious but that might be just Terrence Howard) although I'm kind of warming up to Andre and Rhonda's scheming ways. But I still want Cookie to get her way in everything.
I also watched the pilot for Backstrom and I don't really cars for the titular character. I don't think the advantages of having him solve crimes outweigh having to listen to him. But I adore Nidermayer and Nadia (although ewww! no) and it's always nice to see Dennis Haysbert but I'm not sure if the series is interesting enough to make me watch another procedural. Also that rain was so fake (it was so sunny in the background) that it's almost hard to believe it was actually filmed in Seattle.
Also the current arc on Elementary is basically [Spoiler (click to open)]Johnny Lee Miller's season on Dexter. The guy who rape and torture women and uses another guy to be the keeper of his victims and the one who got away and is on the revenge path and recognises him by the voice. I even knew Stuart Thompson was the one who did it to Kitty because they made him speak American. It's not identical - mostly because Elementary is much better with female characters - but the similarities are obvious.
The series that replace it on Wednesdays - Empire - has already been picked up for second season. It's much more flashy in a kind of over the top Scandal style. The problem is I hate everyone on that show except for the middle son (he's most like actual human being and a pretty decent person too) and Cookie (which is good because I started watching it for Taraji anyway). Almost everyone else is so far either forgettable (I feel bad for actress playing Lucious wife as it seems so far she's just there too look pretty in very little clothes) or awful (especially Lucious but that might be just Terrence Howard) although I'm kind of warming up to Andre and Rhonda's scheming ways. But I still want Cookie to get her way in everything.
I also watched the pilot for Backstrom and I don't really cars for the titular character. I don't think the advantages of having him solve crimes outweigh having to listen to him. But I adore Nidermayer and Nadia (although ewww! no) and it's always nice to see Dennis Haysbert but I'm not sure if the series is interesting enough to make me watch another procedural. Also that rain was so fake (it was so sunny in the background) that it's almost hard to believe it was actually filmed in Seattle.
Also the current arc on Elementary is basically [Spoiler (click to open)]Johnny Lee Miller's season on Dexter. The guy who rape and torture women and uses another guy to be the keeper of his victims and the one who got away and is on the revenge path and recognises him by the voice. I even knew Stuart Thompson was the one who did it to Kitty because they made him speak American. It's not identical - mostly because Elementary is much better with female characters - but the similarities are obvious.