Dude, you think that's bad, check out the New York Times review, which spends the entire time talking about the fact that people drive cars and cars are evil and Tim Minear is a jingoistic bastard who wants people to only buy American.

Didn't see that until later yesterday, and, yeah, I kinda boggled at how TV's Hit DRIVE is apparently a series-length commercial or something.

Can we get NF to say "take the F-150" like they did on ALIAS? That still sets the bar for blatant car-centric product placement in my experience.

Oh, I liked the conversation Jack and Nadia had on Alias about how quiet the hybrid car was. Still surreally amusing, but in a different way.

As long as Wendy isn't drinking coke every 4 minutes I'm cool.

Can we get NF to say "take the F-150" like they did on ALIAS? That still sets the bar for blatant car-centric product placement in my experience.

I have a hard time choosing between that one and Jack's "OMG the electric motor on this new FORD HYBRID SUV is so quiet! Which is, um, good for spying and stuff. Yeah." [heh - xpost]

24 is pretty blatant about their product placement too, but it's normally restricted to gratuitous shots of their SPRINT TREO SMARTPHONES every time someone has to send a text message back to CTU.

The NYTimes TV reviewers are both pretty crack-addled as a rule, but this review was craxy even by their usual standards. I'm still trying to figure out how she gleaned a "buy American!" message from an hour of television with no shopping in it. Honestly, even if I'd hated the show I'd have no idea what she was talking about.

There was a review of Drive in yesterday's Washington Post. Tom Shales didn't like it much, which probably means I'll like it a lot.(and honestly? Some of the things he was complaining about sounded like he was looking for things to complain about)

bounce bounce bounce bounce. bounce. bounce bounce.

Hockey game today! Oh, no wait, there's something on after the hockey, what was it, I can't remember...Oh, yeah, Amazing Race today!

Hee! Nathan's back on FOX News after the premiere, I spied on the interwebs. I presume it's a prerecorded thing.

Somebody sent me a scan one a full page feature in People Magazine, and the cover of TV Week for AZ (which is Drive).

This thing must have a sweet, sweet marketing budget.

Can we get NF to say "take the F-150" like they did on ALIAS? That still sets the bar for blatant car-centric product placement in my experience.

"Take the FORD F-150" It was like the let Ford have the final pass on the script. At least the hybrid bit was funny.

I've noticed several shows doing the gratuitous logo shots. Those don't bother me so much. I still have the cordless phone that Scully had.

One of my offices has the CTU phones from 24. It disturbs me every time it rings.

The Chicago Sun Times: [link]

If the show isn't canceled while it's in the middle of being aired, well, then, hopefully in a future episode everyone in the race will die.

Dammit, how'd he sneak a peek at the script for the first show of season two?