Drive – Cancelled After 3 Episodes

According to TV guide Drive has been canceled.

I want to say I’m surprised, but I’m not. I just hoped for better.

One question: Why does Fox even bother to buy a show created by someone when they’ve canceled or given up on every other show he’s done for them within a few weeks? Heck… save yourself some money and only buy 4 episodes. (Tim Minear shows canceled prematurely by Fox: Firefly, Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive)

 

Pre-DVD Comentary

I just discovered today that you can now watch episodes of Heros with video commentary. The video portion is kind of overkill… we don’t need to see the exec producer assistants… and the picture size is the usual small stream, BUT it is freaking awesome to get this kind of content without having to buy the DVD.

To me, Heroes has been this year’s big TV success, and NBC has handled “growing the brand” surprisingly well.

In addition, if you survived the 3rd season Lost exodus (or even if you didn’t,) you really should be listening to the Official Lost Podcast. It’s not the synchronized commentary you get from Heros or Battlestar Galactica, but a rather irreverent conversation and question/answer session from the show runners (executive producer/writers) and short interviews with the actors. Although they rarely answer big questions, they do add some clarity, make promises, and keep me from taking the “mysteries” so seriously. It’s clear that they do have a clue where it is all going and are having far too much fun keeping it a secret.

 

Drive – “The Starting Line”, “Partners” & “Let the Games Begin” (1.1-1.3)

Drive has cars going fast. In the first three episodes, they are supposedly to be going fast from the Florida Keys to Georgia. It’s pretty obvious it’s Southern California since the flora and fauna is of the “dirt with a few scrubby bushy things” rather than “crazed kudzu swampland with a baby alligator in the puddles” variety. The landscape isn’t important. Does anyone worry about the reality of the location filming in Cannonball Run? No, and you don’t mind here. I just wanted to get that point out of the way.

Even while it does lack Dom DeLuise, there are many element in Drive that are sadly missing in Cannonball Run like; good dialog, complex character development, the extensive use of Google Earth, an engrossing storyline which although enigmatic is logical, and sober actors acting.

 

American Idol — Don’t Blame Me

If we were a Neilson Family this week… we would be contributing to the popularity of American Idol.

Thor says that it was Anya’s choice, but as spoiled as she is… I rarely let her choose her tv programs.

So, we are watching American Idol. There are so many good shows I have taped (from 6 episodes of the Office to the Masterpiece Theater Dracula) and we are watching American Idol.

It’s all Anya’s fault.

 

The OC is canceled

I meant to write something about this the day it happened, but then I told myself I had to go back and write reviews of all the episodes this season. That didn’t happen, so I waited this long to say anything.

For the most part I only write about shows I really love or are noteworthy. (Especially because I have this procrastination problem.) On one of the first episodes of House, House said, “I don’t have to watch the OC, but it makes me happy.” I have to agree. It just makes me happy.

I’ll miss the music, the clothes, the location (not really what I think of when I think of Orange County),but most of all, I’ll miss the writing. The OC is great, because it’s funny. I’ll miss that.

Now I can only hope that Josh Schwartz’s next show, which is supposed to be about priveledged people from the eyes of an unknown blogger, is as good as I’m imagining.