NBC is adding only three new shows this fall.
A sign of strength or a sign of simply not sucking as much as usual?
and admirable risk taking, like a renewed commitment to comedy on Thursday nights in the 8 p.m. hour.
Credit: NBC
Im intrigued by all of them.
Seriously, I spend hours each week freaking myself out by thinking about eternity.
But this is why we have TV: so we can distract ourselves from these things.
Any-hoo,The Good Placeappears to be right in my existential wheelhouse and sitcom sweet spot.
Bell is Eleanor, recently deceased.
Danson is Michael, her orientation counselor.
give a shot to swear and your harsh words turn absurd.
Eleanor a big, bad, self-absorbed materialist during her flesh and blood days (Eat my farts!
Per Eleanors sanitized words: Someone royally forked up.
Ah, but what does it mean to be worthy of heaven, anyway?
Still, its Must Try for me.
Sterling K. Brown, fresh off the triumph ofThe People v. O.J.
Simpson, is a husband and a father reconnecting with and struggling to forgive the dad who abandoned him.
Unless the trailer is underplaying it, even the shared-birthday gag doesnt seem to be much of a thing.
Well be sweating sappy sentimentality with this one.
Maybe some pretentiousness, too ugh, the title but I dont get that from the trailer.
It looks like nothing else on broadcast TV right now, actually.
Good luck with that.
Hopefully,Timelesswill be better than the sci-fi Fox has been giving us lately.
(See ya,Minority ReportandSecond Chance.)
The trailer dazzles with Big!
spectacle, plus the prospect of twists, complications, and paradox conundrums galore.
Lanters character, Wyatt, grappling with dead wife grief, imbues the enterprise with tragic romance.
(But not Martin Luther King or Barack Obama?
Or maybe Hollywood has just run out of ideas.
Theres certainly opportunity for someone to do itbetterLegends of Tomorrowhas been a disappointment or at least, different.
But dont be seduced by the special effects in the trailer.
Sci-fi/fantasy shows rarely sustain the quality of spectacle of their pilots.
(A recent case-in-point:Supergirl.
)Timelesswill have to win on the qualities of its ideas and characters.
A timeless message, for sure.
Still, Id love to see Kripke and Ryan take us somewhere new.
