NBC doesn’t impinge on my eyeballs very often. In fact, I think I’m telling the truth when I say that the only NBC shows I watch are Law & Order (the mothership) and Law & Order: SVU. Well, it looks like that number is getting cut in half, because NBC just canceled the mothership after two decades. It’s hard to fathom that SVU has better ratings, because it’s such a trainwreck most of the time.
Also not renewed for the fall is FlashForward. I sure hope they come up with a whiz-bang ending to the season, because that’s all she wrote for the series. This was a series I almost gave up on at one point, but I hung in there. I still don’t know most of the characters’ names, which is never a good sign, but it’s held my interest. Much more than V did–I gave up on that one when it went on hiatus. Apparently it’s been renewed, though.
I have a question for anyone who watched The Mentalist last night: what did the seance at the end prove? It seemed to me that Patrick already had the case figured out. The culprit’s reaction was pure showmanship, and it hardly confirmed anything of substance. I liked the way Lisbon apologized to the cop for Patrick’s “mother” revelation.
JT’s miscalculation concerning Russell was the beginning of the end for the Heroes on Survivor. Colby is pretty much a non-starter (what did he last in the challenge? 15 seconds?) and Rupert was given the heave-ho, thanks to Sandra’s immunity idol. She managed to keep it hidden from everyone all the way to the end. I’m glad she didn’t delude herself into thinking she didn’t need to use it. That would have been monumentally stupid. Give Rupert his kudos for hanging in as long as he did with broken bones and other injuries. I wonder if his late-night noise making was strategy or oblivion. For me, the biggest surprise of last night’s episode was Russell’s wife–I was expecting Cruella de Ville and she most decidedly was not. I wonder, though, if someone will decide that Colby should go to the end because no one in their right mind–even his former allies–would award him the prize. The only life he’s shown in weeks was to bitch at his brother during the reward challenge.
