Pushing Daisies easily won its time slot last night, garnering 9.12/14 ratings. Which is huge.
I am SO relieved. ABC’s ginormous promotional push as well as the nearly unanimous adoration from the critics really paid off.
I love Matt Roush. We see eye-to-eye on almost everything, and so I was glad I didn’t waste my time with second episodes of Private Practice or Bionic Woman this week.
Here’s what Matt had to say re: PP and poor, wasted Amy Brenneman:
Practice is still far from perfect, and at times can’t even achieve mediocre as its doctors act like giggling schoolkids (lookee, a stripper in the office!). If Amy Brenneman had any sense, she would have climbed aboard the bicycle Violet bought for her ex and pedaled away in search of a role with even a shred of dignity. Poor Amy. At this point, Audra McDonald is carrying the show with her presence and wry humor, even when forced to act jealous over her ex Taye Diggs being set up with said hooker by his sophomoric co-workers.
Meanwhile, Addison looked like she was dressed for a cocktail mixer (Gossip Girl, anyone? SUCH the most enjoyable show in this time period right now) rather than work, and watching Kate Walsh and Tim Daly spar over kisses and who’s mad at who is beyond tiresome. Private Practice still needs serious tone surgery, but it is getting more watchable. By baby steps.
Seriously? What the frak happened to Addison? She’s gone from awesome to awesomely annoying. Anyway, for Shonda’s sake, I’m glad that PP seems to be getting better, because she’s genius, but with all the other awesome shows out there, I’m not going to waste my time enduring the “baby steps,” and I agree with Matt — Gossip Girl is SO much more enjoyable. Sadly (for PP’s sake), it seems a group of privileged teenagers have more emotional depth than a bunch of 30-something (supposed) professionals.
Matt’s take on the second episode of BW? It was no better than the worst episode of Alias, and it’s going to take a miracle for Jaime Sommers to be mentioned in the same breath as Buffy Summers and Sydney Bristow.
So I’m glad that my early instincts paid off.
Meanwhile, he’s absolutely raving about tonight’s Grey’s.
Can’t wait.
