Ouch. TV Guide didn't so much love The Inside.

I watched the first two episodes over the weekend, and given its pedigree — it was created by Angel's Tim Minear and 24's Howard Gordon — I was massively disappointed. Basically, if Medium and Profiler were to have sex, get pregnant and give birth to a really boring baby, its name would be The Inside. And nothing against leading lady Rachel Nichols; I'm sure she's a very nice person, but she's woefully miscast here. Paris Hilton would have made a more convincing FBI agent. As far as summer recommendations go, Beauty and the Geek is a hoot, Lisa Kudrow's HBO Comeback improves in its second episode and TNT's big-budget Western Into the West features my girl Keri in pure period splendor.

Then again, the guy has been jerking himself off about the possibilities of a Spike TV Movie, and I think standing in line at the DMV is more entertaining than James Marsters.

So, there's that whole tomato tomahto thing.

Still. Ouch.

I think that it was the same music as on the Serenity trailer!

Anyone know what it is? It sounds familiar, but I can't tell if it's a remake (ala the "Doors" teaser they did) or just something I don't know the name of.

Is there a character who just didn't show up anymore? Someone who might have been brutally done away with?

The Invisible Girl?

Hey, for all we know, the Invisible Girl was in all 7 seasons.

Just very, very quietly.

Hey, for all we know, the Invisible Girl was in all 7 seasons.

Maybe she moved over to Angel and had a thing going with Phantom Dennis.

Maybe she moved over to Angel and had a thing going with Phantom Dennis.

Come to think of it, I'm amazed I haven't seen (?) this pairing in fic.

Then again, the guy has been jerking himself off about the possibilities of a Spike TV Movie

I think if someone talked like this about Fury or Minear, you'd strangle them in their sleep.

But since I can't find the review online, I can't say for sure whether or not I know the person who wrote it. So I'm trying real hard to restrain my knee-jerk emotional reaction.

I think if someone talked like this about Fury or Minear, you'd strangle them in their sleep.

Not if I agreed with them. I'm a jerk like that.

Michael Ausiello (sp?) wrote it.

ETA: Here's the link, Jess. There are spoilers for shows I don't watch, I think.

Beauty and the Geek is a hoot,

this right here makes me discount the entire review.

I think Ausiello is a little high on himself, which is a big part of his shtick, but you can't take his reviews too seriously. And he's entitled to his opinion, no matter how wrong-headed it might be.

I actually appreciate his regular pimping of a Spike movie because I'd love to see it happen.

Not if I agreed with them. I'm a jerk like that.

Fair enough.

I wonder what Matt Roush thought of it. His tastes overlap mine more often than Mike's do. (And damnit, if DH still worked there full-time, I'd have seen 2 eps already, and could have an opinion of my own.)

[But I do have to respond to:

I think Ausiello is a little high on himself, which is a big part of his shtick

That shtick is what gets you a column with your name at the top of it in the entertainment writing world -- nobody gets paid to be humble. It's really not a reliable measure of someone's personality.]