and, so it begins, with a week's worth...

this week included the following television:

• born without a face (interesting but inconclusive as it covered recent events)
• grey's anatomy - "bring the pain" (getting better by the episode)
• two and a half men - "hi, mr. horned one" (surprisingly funny despite itself)
• prison break - "the old head" (fun and convoluted and embracing of its unreality)
• the daily show (x 4) (damn funny of late)
• the colbert report (x 4) (a fantastic partner to the daily show, great interview segemtns, and gotta love "the word")
• boston legal - "men to boys" (new cast and all the resulting edits are a bit bothersome, but i'm still hopeful it will work out once its all put together, or the excess baggage will be trimmed once again. this show still has a great center in spader and shatner)
• nip/tuck - "frankenlaura" (more bad things happen, reality is ignored, but it works, damn it)
• veronica mars (could actually be more complex this season than last, and that's only a plus)
• invasion - "the hunt" (getting better and better, while still maintaining a very deliberate pace)
• over there - "follow the money" (good finale, though i almost hoped it would end mid firefight)
• jeopardy (only saw this once this week, and found myself knowing way too much about tennis)
• the simpsons (saw one rerun this week, and it was a good one, though there are so many, i can't figure out what the title was)
• alias - "out of the box" (back to basics, but if this is the last season, they really should tie those new basics into the old ones directly, throw in some rambaldi (hell, it should have been him in the box) and end it all in a big blowout)
• night stalker - "malum" (stylistically, this show is fantastic, but the plots are a bit obvious, and kolchak would've know what malum meant without consulting a dictionary, damn it. still, not as bad as supernatural (which has the potentially better premise) as far as x-files offspring go)
• real time (not the best episode of late, but still fairly good)
• masters of horror - "incident on and off a mountain road" (nice and graphic, and though i had guessed the twist about the trunk of the car early on, i'd already forgotten my guess by the end cause of all the nifty gore and chase going on. i've always contended that phantasm is a piece of crap, but that director's direction here was good. i will defintely watch this anthology some more)

• child's play (had seen it more than once, but rented it for the kids. surprisingly (as in, more than i remembered) simple film, with quite a straightforward plot, got in got out and that was all, pretty good as far as horror films go in that regard)
• mysterious skin (an odd little film in that the revelation is obvious before you even watch the film, and the opening sequence makes it pretty obvious, so it ends up a serious character study along a plot we know all along)
• kingdom of heaven (saw it in the theater but had to rent the dvd cause battle movies always have great extras. still haven't gotten to those extras--the pilgrim's guide subtitles looks to be interesting, but enjoyed the movie the second time and wonder why so many people didn't like it back when it was in theaters)

• cages (dave mckean coming at a huge story from many angles and nary a flaw to be found. it inspired me, though there might not be any direct thematic connection, to draw this)
• strangers in paradise (the beginning of the end as it's all coming back to old relationships about to be stuck facing each other again. good drama)
• tv guide (i like the new format, though they could use some episode titles in those grids)

• hindsight (a science fiction story set in my fantasy world of gardea, about a blind girl who gets a lesson in alternate realities from a talking cat and gets herself some new eyes (figuratively and literally))

check out today's, the latest, entry in my regular blog, "against the world"