Standoff: taken hostage by their sexiness!
Did anyone catch Standoff last night on FOX? It’s been receiving generally horrible reviews. This isn’t going to be one of them. Look, I can’t say that once the fall really gets rolling I’ll ever take time to watch this show regularly, but for this week, I happened to find it entertaining. It doesn’t hurt that Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt are almost impossible to not like (though Ron’s character in Sex and the City did break up with Carie Bradshaw via post-it).
It’s odd. I can’t really point to any one thing about the show that was particularly interesting aside from the fact that the hour seemed to fly by. In a way, I guess that makes it the perfect network show: low octane, generally likable, and efficient enough to not make you second-guess your hour-long investment. Though as I said earlier, that might not be enough to make it into my permanent Tuesday line-up. Here’s what else is playing on Tuesdays that I’m interested in: Friday Night Lights; The Knights of Prosperity; The Unit; Veronica Mars; Help Me Help You; Smith. Not to mention whatever FX is showing.
We’ll see how things play out, but I’ll at least give it another week.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
I disagree with the notion that “Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt are almost impossible to not like”. The show just happened to be on in the background at a friends house and while I was not intently watching the show . . . from what i could gather from it, DeWitt is a pretty horrible actress and Livingston is pretty unconvincing as a FBI agent.
September 7th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
That is all true, but they’re still likeable. Likeability has nothing to do with acting or drama. Surely any network executive can testify to that. Many shows (and careers) have survived for years on a person’s likeability alone (I’m looking in your general direction Andie MacDowell).