Fall TV

[DrummerDeanna]

Ok - so anyone else catch the premier of Desperate Housewives?

I thought it was ok - but there was one part that irked me. When Bree tells the girls she's engaged, she also reveals she and Orson (Kyle whatever/TreyMacDougal) haven't had sex - that made me chuckle - because that was something right out of Sex and the City - BUT the exchange that took place afterward with Gabrielle et al - tried to hard, IMO, to capture a Sex and the City vibe/feel - and someone needs to inform Mark Cherry that he is not Darren Star. So that really bugged me - otherwise I was generally pleased with the season starter.

Then I stuck around for the new show Brothers and Sisters. I stuck with it for the first half hour, then switched to Without a Trace (which I'd never seen before) at the commercial break - and it grabbed my attention much better.

Brothers and Sister. Good cast, but I found it very flat. Calista Flockhart could not have had less personality, her character was so boring, and Sally Field, though not in what I saw a whole lot was not at the top of her game. As a die-hard Steel Magnolias fan though I love the show's pairing of Sally Field and Tom Skerrit - thougH I think they're killing him off in the next episode.

I think the show was too cliche'd in the family dynamic - too forced....I'm not sure I'll tune in again.