Tonight on the TiFaux: Tuesday Wimps Out
Posted by Maggie
October 16th, 2007 at 02:00pm
In Great Feats of Strength Reaper
The only thing I’m interested in tonight is Reaper, which, by the way, is kicking Chuck’s butt in the Chuck vs. Reaper cagematch. Not that you’d have to do too much to beat Chuck, a study in wasted potential. To be honest, neither is reaching the levels of Dan’s top three new favorites.
I guess there’s also baseball. Get it together, Sox!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: A reliable source (hi, Mikey’s friend!) says we shouldn’t miss Tina Tequila’s show on MTV. It sounds like the television equivalent of nailing your own feet to the floor and trying to run, but if that’s your type of thing…
4 Comments Add your own
1. Carly | October 16th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Remember when Tuesday’s were exciting? Good times, good times.
2. Vance | October 16th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Again? Am I watching the same shows? Reaper better than Chuck? Are you on crack? (uh. hello. LOVE YA!)
Okay. tonights Reaper was actually quite good. but really. overall. REALLY???
It’s funny. I would describe Reaper the same way you described Chuck. A study in wasted potential. Like the main character Sam, the show feels a bit slackerish with no future or direction on their minds.
anyways. thats how I see it. I REALLY wanted to love Reaper (cuase I LOVE Bret, Tyler and Ray Wise) but it just feels like it’s lacking something for me.
3. John W | October 17th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Vance beat me to it.
When I saw the pilots, I thought Chuck was a muddle of half-ideas and taking itself far too seriously, while Reaper was non-stop funny with a really strong central premise. I thought Reaper was only going to come second to Pushing Daisies in the new show stakes.
I couldn’t even finish episode 3 of Reaper. Episode 2 was a painful reprisal of episode 1, with lots of contradictions thrown in for confusion. It was almost scene for scene the same episode, but this time the mother had had a personality transplant. By ep 3, even Sock’s gags were falling to the floor like particularly unfunny overcooked pancakes. It became painful, and I was certain I didn’t want to watch them dance around capturing the demon, and then have it enter the device with no problems or challenge at the end. So I gave up.
Chuck, however, despite having the stupidest premise of all time (surely his secrets are now massively out of date?), seems to be coasting on the performances, and the decent jokes. I’m more than happy to carry on watching, while it’s not really top of my list.
4. Mikey | October 17th, 2007 at 9:58 am
It’s “Tila” Tequila’s shot at love and it is AWESOME. Think, the best, most trashiest reality dating show you have ever seen, then multiply that by two by adding LESBIANS because the object of everyone’s attention is BISEXUAL. Oh it’s so great.
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