Once Upon a Geeked

I don't watch much television. In fact I don't watch ANY on TV—you know... while it's on. I write in the evenings and so am naked in my bathtub through prime time.

That said, this season is the first one I've been excited about some new TV in AGES.

So far the winners have been:

Ringer (CW): I confess to tuning in because I've been a Sarah Michelle Gellar fan since she originated the role of Kendall on All My Children (for which she won a Daytime Emmy at 16)--but I also loved her as Buffy, so I wanted to see... She plays estranged TWINS, one of whom (an addict who has been prostituting herself) witnesses a murder. She is set to testify (it will clear up her legal trouble) but she gets wind the guy she's testifying against is trying to kill her. She goes to her sister for help, the two go out in a boat, and when 'Bridget' (the addict) wakes up, her sister is GONE (assumed drowned)...

She can emote like nobody else

Bridget decides it's a chance to hide in the open... assume her sister's life... her sister is rich, married... and, it turns out A FREAKING MESS... having an affair with her best friend's husband, pregnant... a whole host of trouble... she is ALSO not really dead... she faked her own death for some, as yet, unrevealed reason.

Revenge (ABC): This is a reworking of the Count of Monte Cristo story—a father framed for a terrorist plan crash, then murdered, the daughter locked up in a mental institution... but there was a young man loyal to the father... a young computer geek the father believed in and invested in... who has been watching the inheritance and the girl, when she gets out of juvy has been SLOWLY plotting her revenge... establishing herself with a new name as a socialite, building a life... for THIS summer. Each episode she quietly takes revenge on a different person.


But the one I'm most excited about? Starts Sunday

Once Upon a Time: abc.com has some previews--(I recommend watching the 10 minute one) and MAN this looks good. The premise? In the middle of Snow White's wedding to Prince Charming the evil queen comes in and curses them... so no one will ever be happy again... they wake up in modern day Story Brook Maine with no memory of who they are. But, as with all evil curses, there is an out... Snow White has a daughter, who, on her 28th birthday, will be able to rescue them and send them back. The DAUGHTER doesn't know EITHER... her OWN son, who she seems not to know about, arrives on her birthday with the key—a BOOK of the stories. It looks to me like each week will be a fairy tale, running in parallel, modern and fairy tale time. And... catch this... it is the writers from LOST. Heck, I think I will even watch THIS one while it's ON.


You geeked about any TV this season?