FOX’s ‘Reunion’ Is Actually A Good Show

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Catching up on this week’s TV last night during a date with the DVR (no TiVo baggage here – just a straight forward, simple cable DVR) we realized a few things. Aside from the usual hits everyone watches such as Survivor, Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and ER (well, it used to be a hit), there’s a few shows that are getting some attention but deserve more. While racing, blissfully, through a few commercial-free hours of saved programming, we realized there’s a few lesser known shows worth mentioning:

  • UPN’s Veronica Mars is a brilliant show. Each episode is a mini-mystery that Veronica, who’s Dad is a private eye, solves all while wondering what she’s doing in this really strange world they call highschool. In addition, each season contains an arching mystery that drops clues each episode. Smart strategy. Each episode can stand on its own while the viewer is rewarded with an in depth story if they stick with the series.
  • FOX’s Reunion, while not brilliant, has an amazingly intertwined plot which spans the live’s of six people over 20 year from 1985 to 2005. Each episode represents a year. Because each episode jumps back and forth between present day and the episode’s year, it can get a bit confusion following the plot. Perhaps that’s one reason why its rating are in the toilet. This show’s really a perfect candidate for DVD when you can sit down and watch big chunks of it at a time. Though FOX has done a good job with episode recaps for those who want to catch up.
  • ABC’s Invasion finally moved the plot along a bit this week with an episode that revealed a bit more behind the alien assimilation thing and the lead characters long involvement with it. It’s the better of the several alien shows airing right now. The show has a blog which is nice but they do a terrible job of referring to it on the show misusing the terms blogs when they mean posts on a blog. Does anyone else think the actress playing the Sherrif’s daughter, Alexis Dziena, is oddly attractive?

While UPN’s Veronica Mars and ABC’s Invasion will see future seasons it’s likely, but unfortunate, Reunion will be cancelled after this year.

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