Given how many new pilots look to be failing, and how weak everybody else's Friday night looks (with the exception, maybe, of Supernatural), I'd like to think that Fringe has a small sliver of hope. Especially now that Eureka's been cancelled.

Not true, and in the case of "The Good Wife," happy.

I mean, I guess it depends on what you consider a "serial" or "mythological" element. Bones had a recurring villain, as did The Mentalist, but I'd hardly say that they were ever anything other than what they are. Castle doesn't really have an overarching point, neither does House. Does Hawaii Five-O? (I didn't think…

Eh, Homeland's only fucking GOOD — I like the premise, but after seeing the first three episodes, there's a lot of fluff going on, and I don't like how throwaway some of the scenes are (or how obvious the writing/characterizations is getting). I've been shocked that Prime Suspect's pilot hasn't been impressing people…

Why are people expecting this to be all science-fiction-y? Because of Felicity and Undercovers?

Agreed.

Nothing would go wrong with a show called that. Putting the word "Interest" in your show, however, and then revealing that it's got nothing to do with banking nor interesting people . . . well, there's your problem.

You deserve "The Prisoner."

Is the joke here that you think there's going to be a whole new generation of Lost fans? Now that the show's over and done with, I can't imagine anyone purposefully subjecting themselves to six *full* seasons of this. Although, I will say that if the AV Club "retro" recaps it in a few years, I'll delightedly tune in.

Apologies if this double posts, but shows almost always get worse over time — it's got nothing to do with Abrams so much as with physics and attrition and the exhaustibility of the subject/character. Last show I saw to avoid that fate was "The Shield." For me, I'm just glad "Fringe" is still getting better.

I mean, considering that "Fringe" has been getting *better* every season, it's almost assuredly going to eventually get worse by comparison. The last time I saw a show avoid that fate, it was "The Shield."

(By *corrupt* police.)

I don't know if you can call this a twist. The show admits that the "Person of Interest" is merely someone *involved* in the plot — either because they're the perpetrator, or because they're the victim. Take a guess which of the two the pilot's "person" is. (I'll give you a hint: she appears to be an attorney targeted…

Not as gloomy as the cinematography. And the writer didn't even bother nitpicking the horribly staged sequences in which Ben lays out the premise of the show. (They go from sitting under a bridge to walking through Times Square or something, and it never seems to take any time to get anywhere; it's annoying.)

I mean . . . what would the myth be? That the federal government doesn't give a shit about day-to-day crime? There's no real mystery here, nothing beyond the whole Charlie's Angels voice-in-box trick, nothing for which the show to actually build itself into, and rather than focusing on an interesting set of main…

After Cock Ring said that line about not using the machete unsupervised, I was so hoping that he'd injure himself and have to be sent home crying to Mommy (with a short trip to Redemption Island first). Am I alone in this?

I think these people honestly just don't realize *how* they come across half of the time. (And others just refuse to suck it up for a million dollars: they're the ones who came on the show just to be seen, not to win.)

Right. He's the observer who is changing the results of the experiment by commenting on them.

Your point would probably be valid, Gary, if you weren't still posting here; I think Jake's larger point is that you're obviously spending *more* than 15 seconds here, ranting about a show you don't know much about. Then again, like Brandon, I find this sort of thing entertaining to read and respond to in my own way,…

By the way, what are people's thoughts on the ever-more aggressive Probst, who seems to be playing people's games *for* them at Tribal Council, prodding them to ask questions and stirring up the suspicion pot. I get it, from his end, but it does feel a little unfair to the players, especially the ones who are in the…