i am mentally divergent

Because the pilot for Fringe is being reworked, I'm going to save my review until the new one is out. I'm hoping they will fix a lot of the issues I had with it. So until then, I present Raising The Bar.

I should start this review out not by singing the praises of Stephen Bochco because to be honest, enough people do that for him to begin with. No, this review begins with a confession of sorts. I’ve always been very loyal to actors, producers, and writers that I think do a good job. And while I think Bochco’s work speaks for itself (NYPD Blue, Doogie Howser, M.D., Hill Street Blues), there are two reasons I tuned into Raising The Bar. They very obvious one of J. August Richards, a man that I fell in love with during his run on Angel, despite what a horrible stereotype his character was.

And the second one might surprise you. If you are anyone but Nikki.

( Raising The Bar...not so much )

Review of Soul Stealer : Review of Leverage : Review of Pretty Handsome : Review of True Blood : Review of The Middleman : Review of Book of Daniel

I know that the last couple of reviews have been lukewarm at best but today, today I bring to you a double scoop of awesome covered in awesomesauce. That is the new show Leverage.

I will say from the get go that if you aren’t a fan of Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, or Thirteen, if you felt the plots were too confusing, then this is not the show for you. I will also say that I felt Christian Kane was okay in Angel but nothing extraordinary. So you don’t have to worry about this being biased Angel-fangirl squeeing.

( Watch this now! Spoilers ahead )

And because I can't put it off any longer, Fringe.

Review of Pretty Handsome : Review of True Blood : Review of The Middleman : Review of Book of Daniel

So, I was going to review Fringe today instead of Pretty Handsome because nikkiwawa79 asked me too. I spliced up Fringe for YouTube, zipped it up for Megaupload, set things to go and went to bed. I woke up this morning to find SIX emails from YouTube saying Fox was blocking my video for copyright infringement.

While okay, yes, I was being a naughty girl, what amazes me is that they yanked the videos SECONDS after going live, if the email timestamps are any indication. I didn't even name it Fringe or anything close. Even the file names were altered. I don't know how a robot could catch it then. Could it really be some person Fox pays to monitor every new video that comes out every minute? Crazy.

I thought okay, well, still got my MegaUpload going and went to do some work. During sometime between 6am and 9am, my computer reset itself and I lost hours and hours of uploading. Super fun.

Fringe, for the moment, is jinxed. I still have everything ready to go for Pretty Handsome, so sorry Nikki. If anyone has any other sites where I could upload Fringe to watch without putting an imbed player on my website and eating up brandwith, that would be fabu. I am just going to toss it up for uploading in a zip on my webspace tonight.

With more time on my hands and a whole bunch of screeners for new shows on my computer, I thought I would start watching and reviewing them. Up first though, is a new show, already on a network and available for free to watch online. The Middleman.

( The Middleman: Comedy/Action with GOOD writing )

Tomorrow, True Blood, the new series by Alan Ball.