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A Tale Of Two Teevee Shows

All day yesterday I felt like I was forgetting something…and have only now realized the date’s significance. It was my first husband’s birthday (best wishes Mr. Wrisky), but also marked the two year anniversary of this weblog…in its current incarnation. I’ve had this domain a while longer than that, and back in 2000 made a half-hearted attempt at keeping a weblog elsewhere. Those archives are blessedly absent. In other news, I’ve recently done a little television watching. Out of morbid curiousity I turned on the box yesterday afternoon. Mutant X, a blatant and badly executed X-Men ripoff, is even worse than I could have imagined. The show has it all. Almost. Soap operatic Ed Wood-caliber acting (I can just imagine the director shouting “smolder dammit! you’re not smoldering enough!”), trashy fashion victims who run like girls, and dreadful special effects…but it’s not quite campy enough to make it enjoyable. Just painful. I couldn’t take more than ten minutes of it. Wonderfalls, on the other hand, held my interest the full hour and left me wanting more. I’d been looking forward to seeing it, as Tim Minear is executive producing (he’s worked on the X-Files and BtVS). The only disconcerting thing…hearing Buffyspeak uttered by non-Buffyverse characters. So which show do you suppose is being trash-canned? I’m having flashbacks to the Freaks and Geeks cancellation. Heaven forbid there be any interesting, intelligently written, well-acted programs on television.