Another Premiere: Reaper (original) (raw)

Another Premiere: Reaper	[Sep. 26th, 2007\|10:59 am]All Things Television
Pop Quiz: You only have one hour to watch television on a Tuesday night. Do you just put on Beauty and the Geek or do you give your boyfriend the option to choose between BatG and a new show, Reaper?The answer should be BatG, but I'm a nice girlfriend, so we watched Reaper. Despite the fact that I've heard great things about this show, I'd not been able to make it through the long preview without yawning. But, Kevin Smith is directing! It's all the rage. It must be good.Well, no, not really. Sure, it did have some amusing one-liners and I do love Missy Peregrym (the shapeshifter from Heroes) and the main character is a rather charming dork, but I'm not sure if that is going to be enough to sustain me for an entire season. There's too much good TV out there to be wasting time on mediocre TV.That being said, I didn't hate the show and I'm going to give it another episode or two before I retract my season pass, but the writers better increase the snark and decrease the Dirt Devil references. I'm anxious to see if Sam (main character) enlists the help of his friends to capture the demons, ala the Scooby gang from Buffy. Now that would make it a show worth watching.
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Another Premiere: Reaper

[Sep. 26th, 2007|10:59 am]All Things Television

Pop Quiz: You only have one hour to watch television on a Tuesday night. Do you just put on Beauty and the Geek or do you give your boyfriend the option to choose between BatG and a new show, Reaper?The answer should be BatG, but I'm a nice girlfriend, so we watched Reaper. Despite the fact that I've heard great things about this show, I'd not been able to make it through the long preview without yawning. But, Kevin Smith is directing! It's all the rage. It must be good.Well, no, not really. Sure, it did have some amusing one-liners and I do love Missy Peregrym (the shapeshifter from Heroes) and the main character is a rather charming dork, but I'm not sure if that is going to be enough to sustain me for an entire season. There's too much good TV out there to be wasting time on mediocre TV.That being said, I didn't *hate* the show and I'm going to give it another episode or two before I retract my season pass, but the writers better increase the snark and decrease the Dirt Devil references. I'm anxious to see if Sam (main character) enlists the help of his friends to capture the demons, ala the Scooby gang from Buffy. Now that would make it a show worth watching.

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Kevin Smith was on Teri Gross yesterday and was really funny. It made me want to watch the show, except that, you know, I can't get the CW.Also, the guy that plays the Devil is Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks!! I made it about halfway through Reaper, and changed it to House. It was too....teenagerish for me. I assume you still recorded BatG? Even so, you are a nice gf. Of course. I hope to watch many hours of TV tonight! It's a fine and lofty goal. Reaper was pretty good. The devil was particularly well played. (But I loved Chuck much more.)(Deleted comment) Well, I can't expect everyone to enjoy my teen dramas like fattony99. At least he finds something else to do instead of complaining about what I'm watching. =)

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Kevin Smith was on Teri Gross yesterday and was really funny. It made me want to watch the show, except that, you know, I can't get the CW.Also, the guy that plays the Devil is Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks!! I made it about halfway through Reaper, and changed it to House. It was too....teenagerish for me. I assume you still recorded BatG? Even so, you are a nice gf. Of course. I hope to watch many hours of TV tonight! It's a fine and lofty goal. Reaper was pretty good. The devil was particularly well played. (But I loved Chuck much more.)(Deleted comment) Well, I can't expect everyone to enjoy my teen dramas like

fattony99. At least he finds something else to do instead of complaining about what I'm watching. =)