You know, I think this is exactly the kind of thing they were shooting for when they started making this series. This is the target they were hoping to hit from the outset, but have managed to miss every week prior to now. This is actually a genuinely good episode, well-told, if a bit padded out during the “Meanwhile back at the ranch” stuff. The only thing more frustrating than a doomed, ham-fisted, boring show is when said show actually manages to hit all the right notes more-or-less by accident, and you see what it *could* have been. Read on…

PLAY BY PLAY

Our entirely sporadic coverage of this series continues…sporadically!

Now, I’m still a couple episodes behind in catching up with this thing, and I briefly toyed with the idea of not reviewing tonight’s ep until I was caught up, but ultimately I rejected that since the show is already dead, will not resolve its storyline, and isn’t very good to begin with. It was just too much effort for too little payoff, all things considered. So our coverage continues, but, I apologize, the eps are gonna’ be somewhat out of sequence.

LAST TIME AS YOU RECALL…

Whups! Totally forgot about this show, and missed reviewing it “Live” last night. Sorry. My bad. Watched it on a friends’ DVR today, however, so I’m loaded for bear and ready to go.

You know what would be nice? Notice how this episode was entitled “Episode 2” and it is, in fact, the second episode? They did this with “Survivors” as well. Dull. Wouldn’t it be nice if “Episode 2” was in fact the third episode, or “Episode 5” was actually the eighth? Yeah, I know that’s stupid, but I got to thinking about that while I wasn’t being engaged by the story.