Happy 2009!

With a new year, TV Rules the Nation is looking to return and be better than ever. We know we've been slacking, but now that we've reached our final semester of college, we're a little less swamped with work and a little more willing to slack off by watching TV and using the interweb. So for those who have been frustrated with our lack of posting, have no fear, we're coming back!

Reviews will resume as shows come back, but until then, we'll have some recaps of seasons so far and, for right now, some previews!

1. How I Met Your Mother: First off, isn't that picture from Entertainment Weekly awesome? There's a bunch that are all hilarious. When TV Guide's best show of 2008 returns on Jan. 12, they'll return with an episode called "Benefits" that, without spoiling anything, will feature several reality TV stars haunting Marshall. Some interesting things are on the horizon for roommates Ted and Robin, but I won't spoil them here. If you just can't wait, then check out this blog. Lastly, HIMYM will begin syndication on Lifetime, starting today, so you'll have another place to get your fix of awesomeness.

2. Scrubs: It's always sad when a show reaches its end, but according to show creator Bill Lawrence, it might not be. In an interview with Michael Ausiello, Lawrence revealed that ABC might keep the show on, despite the fact that both he and star Zach Braff will be leaving at the conclusion of its 8th season. From the sound of things, the show has gone back to a format similar to what it was in its first two seasons, where it wasn't quite so goofy, but still incredibly funny. Also, apparently every character will have their story wrapped up by the end, including a conclusion to the J.D.-Elliot relationship. Also, the Janitor gets fired by Courtney Cox in the second episode (WHAT?!) Be sure to read the interview and catch Scrubs' return on ABC TOMORROW NIGHT!

3. The Office: Tomorrow, I'll post a review of the first half of season 5 of the Office, but for tonight, there's some awesome news. First off, the show revealed that their post-Super Bowl episode will feature cameos from none other than Jack Black and Jessica Alba. Apparently, the crew at Dunder-Mifflin will be attempting to watch a bootleged film that features the two stars. In other Office news, Amy Ryan (Holly) reportedly said that she'd be interested in returning to the show, but there are no imminent plans for her return.

4. Heroes: As has been expected, Bryan Fuller is returning as a consultant to Heroes following the end of Pushing Daisies. Also interviewed on EW.com, Fuller said that the show is finally realizing that they suck. According to Fuller, the show will drop a lot of the mythology crap and return the idea of ordinary people with extraordinary abilities. Fuller revealed that everyone returns to their normal lives and then deals with saving the world from there instead of living in an alternate world where responsibilities don't matter. Hopefully the show will return to it's old awesomeness. In other Heroes news, Sylar's dad is going to appear on the show. Hooray?

5. Lost: OMG IT'S COMING BACK IN TWO AND A HALF WEEKS AND I CAN'T WAIT AT ALL!!! (Sorry for not really having news, I just can't wait!)

Like I mentioned, I'll check back in tomorrow with a review of the first half of the season for the Office, and hopefully I'll get 30 Rock finished by the time it comes back on Thursday to recap that too. I know they're both good, I just need to refresh my memory. Anyways, more to come soon!

Heroes - A Letter To Tim Kring

In lieu of a Heroes recap, here is a letter to the show's creator, Tim Kring.

Dear Tim Kring,

Two years ago, your show was the most compelling drama on TV. Lost was in its season long funk, 24 had started getting too far fetched, and everything else was crap. But here was your smart, fast paced show that kept me hooked, dying to know how to stop an exploding man or find out who Linderman was. Even the more annoying characters that didn't tie into the show's main plot were fun to see each week. Here, you had the perfect synthesis of comic books, Lost-like mystery, and family drama.

Then came Season 2. It was not good, but with the writer's strike impeding the show from hitting its stride, I looked the other way, deciding to wait for another full season and hope there'd be a return to form.

Unfortunately for me an scores of other fans, this was not to be. Instead, we've been treated to a season that is inconsistent within episodes, that has too many, often far fetched, threads to follow, and that has taken even the most lovable characters and made them hard to swallow, if they're even seen at all.

What's going on? Did the strike mess up your creative juice? Did you not have enough time to come up with a better plot? Or was Heroes a one-season wonder?

The first big issue to me seems to be that too much is going on. The Patrelli family war is clearly the main story, but why then are Claire and HRG (who's barely been there) bickering? Why do Sylar and Elle jump all over the board as far as if they're good or bad? Why has Daphne's story been so rushed, with Parkman falling for her too fast? Why is Mohinder still relevant? And most importantly, why the hell is Hiro 10 years old?!

I understand that the theme of this season is villains and that the idea is to make each character morally ambiguous so that we don't know who the true heroes and villains are, but maybe it's time to make one explicit or to kill someone off. There's too much going on, and much of it isn't worth caring about. Take a page from Lost or Season One and make one episode about one thread and move on. "Company Man" is the best episode you've done, but we haven't yet seen a comparable episode.

Furthermore, the likable characters are either annoying or non-existent. Peter started off as being super optimistic and bright, and now he's angsty. He can see the harsh realities of the world without being all emo. Also, pick a side for Sylar. He's fantastic as a villain or a good guy, but having him bounce back and forth takes the depth away from his character. HRG too has been gone for the whole season and when he as appeared, it's been sparingly. Fix that.

Lastly, there are too many threads that have been snapped off. What happened to Monica? Is Peter's Irish Lass still stuck in the future? Adam just got killed off before he could do anything. Even a character I despised, Maya, was simply sent home.

I think if these things get fixed, the show is salvageable. It's no longer the cultural phenomenon it was in its first season, but keep in mind, the same thing happened to Lost, albeit to a lesser degree. If you take a page out of there play book and start writing for the fans instead of NBC, maybe you'll get a little bit better response. I hope that helps.

I want to close by saying, I do love the show. It's just frustrating me.

Sincerly,

Michael of Television Rules the Nation

P.S.
I'm currently looking for a job in TV after I graduate in May, so if you liked my ideas and want me to come help the show, I'm available!

News ranging from awesome to depressing

Lots of interesting TV tidbits this week, ranging from stories that induce expletives of joy, to ones that induce expletives of severe anger.

Let's start with the mind-blowingly good news: DON DRAPER MAY BE COMING TO 30 ROCK. Yes, according to Ausiello at EW, Jon Hamm may be joining the show for a multi-episode arc as a love interest for Liz Lemon. What have we done right to deserve this?

Also exciting is the announcement that Reiko Aylesworth, who played Michelle on 24 for a while, is coming to Lost, which, while we're on the topic, is coming back with a two hour premiere on Wednesday, January 21. Mark your calenders/DVRs.

But alas, all is not well in TV land. One of the finest shows on TV perches on the edge of cancellation and things look bleaker for it by the day. The silver lining? PD overseer Bryan Fuller said in an interview that if the show is canceled, he'd come back to work for Heroes. Fuller wrote for Heroes in season one (the good season) and was responsible for Company Man, which is pretty easily the best hour that show has ever produced. Of course, I'd rather have more Pushing Daisies (and I'm beginning to think that Heroes may be beyond fixing), but its good to know that Fuller will have something to do should the worst happen.

But the worst news of all may be about a show that hasn't even debuted yet. Fox announced their January schedule and among the news was the fact that Dollhouse will be moving to Fridays along with ratings challenged Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Dollhouse is the new Joss Whedon TV show and, after seeing Fox mistreat Firefly, its not very reassuring to see them give Dollhouse the exact same timeslot, a time which is normally death for TV shows. Add to that the fact that Dollhouse scraped its pilot and shot a new one (just like Firefly) and I'm beginning to get the feeling that this show may not last more than six episodes.

Heroes - "Dying of the Light"

After last week's stupid stupid episode, this week's was much better. Sure there were weak points and it wasn't held together too tightly, but for the most part, it was well rounded and set up a great cliff hanger for next week.

Let's start with the Bennetts plus Meredith. Meredith was trapped in the clutches of the uber-creepy Eric Doyle in his magic land of muscle control. Momma Bennett felt the completely irrational need to come with her daughter on a rescue mission and it ended up being a stupid idea, as was easily guessed. A drawn out game of roulette was what happened next, with the again predictable ending of Claire getting shot and surviving so that she could take down the bad guy. A cold conversation with Noah and we were done with one of the weaker parts of the episode.

While we're on plotlines stuck on the a train to nowhere, let's talk about Nathan, Tracy and Mohinder. There was almost nothing to this at all. Nathan and Tracy showed up hoping to get a cure, Mohinder poisoned them, and then Tracy got out and then Mohinder threw a table and said something lame. I'm finding it hard to care about this thread. Please Heroes writers, do this better.

Alight, bad stuff out of the way, let's talk about what was good. The Patrelli Family Reunion went a little haywire tonight. Mamma is still in a coma and Peter was lashing out at his new brother for even thinking that he was really part of the family, despite Sylar's best intentions. Peter's reunion with his dad wasn't good either, as Papa stole all of Peter's powers. I liked where the plot is going, but I must say that having Peter and Sylar trade roles has been weird. I like Gabriel (AKA Good Sylar) but Hungry Peter is annoying. He was the only optimistic character of Season 1, and his turnaround is frustrating.

Hiro and Ando were pretty good tonight. Hiro's manipulation of time at the beginning was predictable (I think I see a trend), but turned out was just a set-up for a great gag. When he was looking for African Isaac (or AI as he will hence be known thanks to Hiro), Hiro though he could use his powers to grab him, but just got whacked with a shovel. This was only mildly funny until he hatched a plan to again use his powers and was once again knocked out. It looks like he's going to help AI get the bad guys, so he'll be a double agent for the villains, after being recruited by an increasingly disillusioned Daphne.

As for our favorite speedster, she met a turtle toting Parkman who was trying, very creepily, that to convince her they were soul mates. She left him briefly to recruit more people for Papa Patrelli which led her to try and convince Sylar, let out the guy from the Wire, and scold Mohinder for putting Maya in a cocoon. I like that while they have some Heroes turning into Villains, she seems like a Villain going Hero, which is great because she's an awesome character. I think this show has underplayed all of it's love lines from the very beginning, so I'd like to see this played up. Who knows, maybe Parkman and Daphne are the next Jim and Pam....probably not.

While I poked a lot of holes in this episode, I still feel like overall, it was very entertaining and did a good job of continuing to put the dominoes in place. Next week, we'll be picking sides in the Patrelli family squabble, so we'll see how that goes.

B

Heroes - "Angels and Monsters"

Ah "Heroes," I knew sooner or later you'd let me down. Two good episodes in a row and we couldn't make it to three. Tonight's episode was just kind of bland and really didn't have anything more than the return of Papa Parkman and the appearance of Papa Patrelli. As always, let's break it down:

First off there's the brief appearance of a murderous Peter who showed up to kill Sylar and try to cut off the head of Mama Patrelli. He was unsuccessful at both, and when we left him, he was in a medical coma. Mama Patrelli was then visited in a dream by her previously assumed dead husband, who literally froze her in her chair. Meanwhile, the other Patrelli boy (at least with the name Patrelli), Nathan, found out that his mother was responsible for giving him his abilities. Tracy was along for the ride, but really didn't provide anything we didn't already know. Papa Patrelli showed up briefly at the end as well, as we found out he's been pulling the strings behind the Linderman sightings by having Papa Parkman create the illusion of him to control Nathan and Daphne.

As for Daphne, she was on some sort of mission to lure Hiro towards the dark side with Fear Man. Hiro got duped by Adam Monroe in the most unsurprising, but still funny, part of the episode (really Hiro? The Cantina?). He then had to kill Ando to prove to Fear Man that he was truly a bad ass and could join up with the villains. I personally don't think Ando is dead and that it's really Hiro just doing some fancy time stop trickery. We'll find out next week though I guess.

Mohinder showed up to continue his quest to being the least likable character of them all by killing a drug dealer and bringing him back to his secret lair. There, it appears, he plasters his victims to the wall a la Spiderman and studies them to find a cure for his deteriorating back. It appears he finally did what I'd been hoping for since the start of last year and killed off Maya, but for some reason, I don't think it's the last we'll see of her.

That brings us to the bulk of tonight's episode, where Noah, Sylar, and Claire were fighting over teh right was to deal with Stephen Canfield, an apparently misunderstood Hero that could create black hole like vortexes. Claire went to kill him, but instead became sympathetic of him, which didn't sit well with Noah. After Sylar saved Claire from Stephen's vortex, Noah tried to repay the favor by having Stephen suck up Sylar, a plot he just couldn't take, forcing him to plunge himself into his own vortex, once again killing off a promising character before we get the slightest chance to develop them. Sylar and Claire took each other's side against Noah, who gets more and more irrational with each episode. While all of this was going on, Meredith was taken captive by a new villain, Eric Doyle, who appears to be able to control people's movement.

This episode was lackluster as it was largely stagnant. It, like much of "Heroes," was a promising episode that was just executed poorly. The show obviously needs to leave some things unanswered to keep viewers coming back, but there are too many unanswered questions and bad plot holes to keep it making sense. Why did this whole mess start in the first place when Future Peter could have just come back and tell Nathan not to say anything as opposed to shooting him? Are we going to figure out what Parkman is really doing in Africa? And where the hell is Monica? I thought "Heroes" was coming back, but this week was very weak. Hopefully it can bounce back and keep me hooked.

C-

Sidenote: Did anyone else find the different, explained intro strange? Same with the Nathan voiceover?

Heroes - "I Am Become Death"

I've gotta say, this season of Heroes is really intriguing me. The plot hasn't moved along too much, but has more than last season. This episode was so full of twists and turns that I'm very excited for next week. This episode of very reminiscent of the season one episode "Five Years Gone," but in my opinion a lot better. I have always like the way that Heroes has played with space and time in accordance to the abilities of the characters. All this being said, let's break it down, as best I can:

First off, we have this whole business with with the future. It's a crazy different dimension where everyone has powers, Claire and Peter hate each other, and Sylar is a lovable dad. Future Claire's anger towards Future Peter still is a little unclear, but seeing her teamed up with Daphne and Knox was a startling sight. Daphne apparently ends up with Parkman and the two have a baby together, which was sweet, but irrelevant. Really the most enjoyable part of the entire future scenario was seeing Gabriel (future Sylar). It was essentially confirmed in this episode that Sylar actually has his own power, it's the hunger to kill others for theirs, which is strangely interesting. Gabriel as a nice guy dad was an odd sight, but I liked it. The humanity of that character is always overlooked, and I've been enjoying that coming out more this season. At the episode's end, Peter killed Future Nathan and returned to the present, where he went after Sylar in Level 5. Not a cliffhanger per se, but it will be interesting to see how that pans out.

Next up is the Tracy/Nathan thread. Finally, we found out, at least in part, why Tracy and Nikki were the same person, and thankfully, it's not because there's another Nikki personality. Instead, we found out that Nikki, Tracy, and a third triplet were experimented on at birth and thus, there are three different heroes. We'll undoubtedly meet the third triplet and find out what her power is, so we have that to look forward to. As for Nathan, we still have no real reason as to why Nathan is having frequent conversations with a dead Linderman, but presumably we'll find out soon. It appears to me that this plot thread is a do-over for the writers for all three characters. It seems like they wanted to go back to the Nathan as president idea, killed off Linderman too early, and led Nikki's plot so astray that it was too boring. Now they have their chance with Nathan in office, Linderman as a ghost or something, and Nikki, but not Nikki.

As for the others, Mohinder continued his decent into being a giant tool and Maya remained useless. Apparently now all she does is where revealing clothing and take care of Mohinder, which is only slightly less significant than anything she did last season. Hiro and Ando were largely forgotten in this episode, only appearing to make up during a failed escape attempt from Level 5. When we left them, they had just opened up the coffin that held Adam, as ordered by Mama Patrelli.

Heroes finally gave us the basis for this season. Just as Season 1 was about saving the cheerleader and stopping the exploding man, this season seems to be about preventing the formula from getting into the wrong hands. That's two solid weeks for this show. It appears, at least for now, it's found its way again.

B+

Heroes - "One of Us, One of Them"

I will say it right now: Heroes is back. This was a season one caliber episode, and for the first time since the end of that season, I finished an episode of Heroes with the frustration that it wouldn't be on for another week. The plot for this show is so scattered, that I think I'm going to do what I did last week and just break it down, thread by thread.

First of all, we had the biggest thread, Bennett and Sylar staring in their own buddy cop film. Ok, so it wasn't exactly Lethal Weapon, but it was pretty solid. Mama Patrelli decided to give her recently revealed son a chance by teaming him up with the adoptive parent of her granddaughter, just to make it a family affair. It undoubtedly seemed like Sylar would just run rampant, stealing powers, or that Bennett would try to kill him before he could, but surprisingly, they worked together. I couldn't help but feel excited that the two of them were working together. Ever since the Season 1 episode when Sylar went to his apparently adopted mothers apartment, seeking redemption for his crimes, I've always seen Sylar as a good guy gone bad rather than a bad guy through and through, so it was great to see that he can also be someone we root for.

The first mission for Bennett and Sylar was to get back the prisoners from Level 5 that were holding up a bank with Peter in the body of Weevil. Sylar, in now the second time this season I've laughed at something he's said, took control of the crime scene and gave Bennett the credibility and protection to go into the bank. This proved important, because just as Peter was saving Bennett from the rest of the Merry Men, Future Peter stopped time and pulled him out of there. (Sidenote: Is it just me, or is it really weird that everyone addresses Future Peter as a seperate entity from Present Peter? I mean, they're the same person) This allowed Sylar to jump in and save the day. This seemed like a nice moment until Sylar decided to help himself to Weevil's brain, sending him once again to his cell in Level 5.

While Noah was out fighting villains, all was far from quiet at the Bennett house. Claire wanted to ditch school to fight bad guys (golly I miss high school!) and Meredith was clashing with Sandra over who was really the best woman to protect the unkillable girl. Meredith, in a performance that would surely win mother of the year, took Claire to an abandoned freight container to teach her how to fight, but only really suffocated her and got Claire to reveal the shocking admission that she just wanted revenge on Sylar. This caused Claire in the end to leave home with a Primatech paper box, presumably to become Jaded Black Haired Claire of the Future.

Hiro and Ando meanwhile did what they do and provided some nice comic relief, which, for the first time since Season 1, was really fun to watch. Traveling to Germany to stop Daphne from stealing the other part of the formula, they really did nothing productive but crack jokes ("What kind of over-confident nemesis are you?"), but like I said, they were fun this episode. I think the two of them and Daphne are great characters for the show because they break from the super-seriousness of the rest of the cast. We also got to see the Haitian again, as he was delivering part of the formula, a task messed up by Hiro and Ando. They got thrown in Level 5, where they'll undoubtedly have a humorous confrontation with Mamma Patrelli next week.

Last, we have Tracy, who went to New Orleans to find out who Nikki was. Turns out Nikki is dead and Micah can briefly put aside his grief to help the ghost of his mother find out more information. Unfortunately, all we got this week was the revelation that Nikki and Tracy were born on the same day with the help of a Dr. Zimmerman, who revealed that there's more of them out there. Parkman was similarly short-changed on the plot, as all we learned was that the African guy can paint the future and the future has changed, which we already have been bludgeoned to death with. At the end, Parkman went all Issac Mendez on us, so that should be interesting for next week.

So while I poked fun at a lot of elements of the episode, and there were a lot of issues with it, this episode was the most fun and entertaining an episode of Heroes has been since we still thought saving the cheerleader would save the world. Heroes needs another episode like this next week for me to truly believe in its second coming, but for now, I'll take it.

A-

P.S. Notice this was a good episode and there was no Maya or Mohinder? Also, where is Monica? She had such a cool power.

Heroes - "The Second Coming" and "The Butterfly Effect"

So Heroes is back and still boring. The brilliance of the show from its first season was that it had all of the characters in different places but working towards the same goal. In tonight's two episodes, the characters were all over the place and each dealing with their own issues. This would probably be fine if the show didn't bounce us around all over the place, making it hard to care about one issue for longer than that scene. Since this is the premiere, I think I need to address each plot thread and figure out what's going:

1. Peter/Future Peter: Obviously in the future, things all went wrong and the only way for Peter to stop it is to go back to the past and become a bad guy. This is kind of confusing. Is he good in the future or just as good as one could be? He was far too moody in the present tense, so that's going to have to change for me to care. Additionally, whatever happened to his Irish girlfriend? She got left behind in the future last season and was forgotten about. Not even a mention of her tonight.

2. Nathan/Linderman: When it seemed like Nathan found God, I was prepared to turn off the TV and never watch Heroes again. Luckily they seemed to have saved us from that by turning Nathan into Hurley. Why Linderman is there I'm not so sure, but it appears the writers had wanted to do something with Nathan as a Congressman and so they've gone back and found a way for him to do it again. What also needs to be addressed is why he survived. I'm sure that this will play out over the course of the season, but a simple explanation here would have helped me understand this thread a little bit better.

3. Mohinder/Maya: This was a weirdly set up and hardly used thread. Maya again was just sort of useless and didn't really contribute anything more than a sudden epiphany in Mohinder that happened so quickly that it's almost a shock he didn't think of it two seasons ago. Mohinder did the stupid thing and got some weird combination of super strength and agility, but when he did, be became a total sleezeball. His weird peeling at the end should give me a little something to care about next week, but we'll see.

4. Claire: Her taped almost train jumping was one of the lamest things this show has ever done. It looked like it was going to go on her MySpace. Her encounter with Sylar was very creepy, but started and stopped so suddenly that it fit awkwardly into the episode. I understand her "not being human" thing, but really her plot sort of stalled out. It looks like she's on the brink of bad, but the writers need something compelling to keep their most compelling character interesting.

5. Hiro/Ando: The best part of the entire evening was watching Kaito tell Hiro he shouldn't have opened the safe. His new nemesis will be fun because she seems like the perfect foil for the usually whimsical Hiro. His new found power made him a little less full of bubbly optimism and his discovery that future Ando kills him sort of made Hiro a bit of a disappointment tonight. The best part about the character is that he's always been the fun one. Tonight he was just a bit too serious.

6. Sylar/Mamma Patrelli/Bennett/The Company: So Bob is dead, Elle is out, and Mamma Patrelli is in control all of the sudden. These poorly set up new bad guys have escaped with good Peter in the body of Weevil and Bennett is going to hunt them down. Seems like these are all really just facts, not really anything to ponder. On the other hand, we now know Sylar doesn't eat brains, but just sort of fiddles around with them. He was super creepy in his scene with Claire, and now he seems unstoppable. I'm actually excited to see what they do with him now, especially with the implication that he's a third Patrelli boy, so that is going to be what I'll focus on the most next week.

7. Nikki/Not Nikki/Parkman: Parkman was completely irrelevant in this episode except for that we've met some guy in the African desert who likes Brittany Spears and Sprint. The mysterious new Not Nikki character however was just a step above that. Sure she offered Nathan a job, but really all we found out is that maybe there's another personality a la Jessica running around that can freeze people to death. I'm interested in that too.

8. Loose Ends: Where were Micah and Monica? What happened to the real Nikki Sanders? Why was Bob so unceremoniously killed off? Why is Claire jaded in the future? Where did Future Peter get the power to put people in other people's bodies? What is Claire's mom's involvement in The Company? That group of bad guys in Mamma Patrelli's dream looked intense, when do see them in action? Will this show get really good again?

The Second Coming: C
The Butterfly Effect: C+

Heroes Season 3 Preview

The AP had the following story on the new season of Heroes (written by Frazier Moore):
Back for its third season, "Heroes" is confronting high expectations from its besotted fans. And also a bit of resistance from former and would-be fans who couldn't make heads or tails of the show last season.

"Message: We care," the producers have been saying as they promised to get "Heroes" heroic again.

But to judge from the season premiere (a second hour airing Monday wasn't offered for review), the series has met with only mixed success.

The look and style of "Heroes" is as grand as ever. Everything about the show's design, including the lettering for the captions and the eerie three-note musical signature, feels like part of a marvelously unified package.

If only that package could contain the series' plodding mishmash of a story. At the risk of sounding feeble-minded or, even worse, un-cool, I again ask the question I've asked about "Heroes" so many times before: What is going on?

The murky, brooding, free-range narrative seems to glory in its abstractions. The action hop-scotches around the world, and back and forth through time. The internal logic of the show seems always ready to defer to the situation at hand. And the characters have multiplied like roaches.

There's a grandiose goal at the bottom of it all (saving the world, y'know), in the face of fierce opposition. But is this existential tug of war really going anywhere? Couldn't everybody stop, relax their scowls and take a chill pill - just once?

I've always admired "Heroes" for its epic, sprawling vision - up to a point. But an occasional save-the-world pronouncement isn't sufficient to maintain coherence. Not with this scattered affair.

Previews: Lost, Heroes, and Fringe

With Grey's Anatomy (here on known as The Sad Doctor Show) having its finale this week, Lost returns next week for a two hour season finale. Here is a preview of what's to come.

Heroes has released a teaser for Season 3. Hopefully it will be better than Season 2. The preview looks pretty darn good:


Lastly, J.J. Abrhams has a new show coming to Fox next season called Fringe. Here is a trailer for the show.