Just saw the pilot, ita. It just didn't do it for me, and I'm not sure why(although part of it is the hooker wig and the cutaway to the mark's...I don't know, blow-job face. But if I already liked the show, I doubt that would shake me to my foundations or anything.)

That wasn't just a blow job face. That was also a losing-my-butt-cherry face.

I'm curious to see if they can portray sympathetic anti-US spies without showing them drink the Constitutional Kool Aid. If they manage that, I might stay around. Also depends on Felicity's attitude towards sex. If she suddenly starts associating it with intimacy and it in any way prevents her from using it as a tool, I'm out. I hate the whole Sabine I've-been-trading-sex-for-money-for-years-but-now-that-I-love-never-again bullshit. I don't believe there's either a switch or a one-way door. They're moderately able to let men sleep around to get things that aren't financial security or love, so please to let women do so also.

To be honest, half of my appreciation of the show is tied up in its attitude to sex (FX--finger up the butt, revenge anal, M/M handjob--hello Skinemax lite) and its attitude to patriotism. Those can change on a dime, and so goes my nation.

Among all of the other things to love about White Collar, I love how/how much they've used Diahann Carroll. I feel like that kind of character either disappears forever, or somehow has to become "part of the gang," when in real life, you do know people that you see sometimes, sometimes spend more time with, sometimes see in passing, etc.

She was used to great effect in this one! I'm a little disappointed in El's lie to Peter to keep him safe stance, but I think it will probably resolve more to my liking eventually.

I am 14 minutes through this episode of Suits, and I need to take a break and get a screencap of Jessica flipping the bird.

I know that shows tend to give lawyers superpowers, especially our heroes and their nemeses, but I especially love the way they've given one of these lawyers an actual "power" and he's still not the best (although remarkable) in the room--in fact, pretty white dick doesn't have the biggest balls in any given room (to use Zane's epithet). It's an interesting way to have a barrage of competence porn, but we're talking 1 profession, 2 jobs, max.

And also so little court. That's also nice.

Makes me wonder though--which law shows have the least. I'd imagine L&O has a pretty decent guarantee of courtroom every week, but each show has their typical formulaic amount per 42 minutes. I'm curious about that breakdown.

Okay, off to find the unexpected competitor for best screencap of the week (a week which includes sassy golems and M/M tango). And also finish watching the episode.

If anyone has exceeded the bar for suspension of legal disbelief that Drop Dead Diva set, I've yet to run across it.

you know, I have yet to watch one episode of that show.

CSI:NY was terrible this week.

Do you watch original flavour still, LeN? It was boring too. I could not care less about any of their lives, much less Sinise's tragic love life. Tragic and NOBLE, because their only flaws are that they care too much.

I don't think there's a more successful franchise on air with worse characterisation. For all L&O avoided those details, they weren't awful like CSI. Well, not the mothership, anyway. They avoided it well. And teased it well.

Yes, the only one I do not watch is CSI:Miami. After (whitefonted for gross) the episode that featured a tech examining penis skin in a girl's retainer I was OUT.

Has anyone seen TNT's "Monday Morning?" (Spoilers below)

I am watching it now. It is well acted, but the pilot episode is melodramatic as anything. MELODRAMA!!!

I did not realize that the show is all about doctors going through questioning when their patients died. It is such high-minded bullshit, I can't even. I generally like medical dramas, so I will watch the 2nd episode, but this was so unrealistic that I was wondering if this was on SyFy.

One key segment of the program featured a doctor being called on to the carpet because he gave a woman complaining of hip pain tylenol. Well she actually had bone cancer. (He's a surgeon or an ER doctor, I don't know which and the patient was a runner). So, what happened to her primary care doctor? You aren't going to tell me that she died of metastatic cancer 4 months later (she was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg and that's when they discovered the bone cancer) and a surgeon is responsible?

If you are in agonizing pain enough to go to the doctor and you are taking tylenol for it for a few days and it doesn't get better, I think I would see another physician. Not sure I would just let it go for months and then boom.

So it is unrealistic (it seems to me) for the doctor to be called on the carpet for that. Maybe he should have told her to come back in a week if she isn't better, but she is a grown ass woman with 3 children, I think she might have been able to figure that out.

The second case was a more realistic one in that it seemed the physician was more clearly at fault, but it seemed kind of an easy way out since the end result for the patient would have been the same, but the patient died sooner as opposed to a week or month(2) later.

I'm interested enough to see ep 2, but this show is on notice.