Bad Crime Show Roundup

[rsadelle]

CSI
I'm not home when CSI is on, so I've been taping it. After several weeks of this, I decided that the show was well over the shark and I wasn't going to do that anymore. But then there was a Lady Heather episode, and I love Melinda Clarke, so I continued taping. And the episode after that was the femslashiest episode ever. Ever. But last week was the reality show episode. And it was horrible. Horrible. So that's it for me. I might catch reruns and such, but no more taping.

The Unit
I've been watching The Unit. Or, more accurately, I've been taping The Unit and watching it later. Its bad points outnumber the good, so let's start with what's good. I like the action bits. I like that kind of super-secret unit carrying out missions thing.

And now the bad:

• Scott Foley just looks dumb. I think that's his role on the show.
  
• There are no women in The Unit. I have issues with this.
  
• The men sound okay, but the women don't. They're completely unreal! Molly Blane is the Magical Negro of the show. Serena Brown is way too high-strung to be married to a soldier. And Tiffy Gerhardt is very boring.
  
• In addition to sounding unreal, these women's sole role in life is to support their men. Blech!
  
• The women's story of this week's episode was that the husband of one of the other women on base was killed in Iraq. As all the women of the neighborhood were going into her house to comfort her (apparently none of the women on the base have jobs, except for the secretary who garbles Serena's phone message), I thought, "I wonder when they'll have the soldier's wife dealing with domestic violence episode." Then, the trailers for next week show Mack hitting/shoving around/otherwise being violent to Tiffy.
  
• Dennis Haysbert will now always be the Allstate Guy to me. It does lend him an air of authority, but it's distracting during the show.

Close to Home
This show is bad. Bad, bad, bad. And yet I keep watching it. Christian Kane wasn't even in this week's episode.

Conviction
Conviction is not very good either. It seems to want to hinge around Nick Potter as the newest DA, but he's boring. Although Jordan Bridges looks good in a dress. And yet I keep watching despite the badness. There are three reasons why:

Stephanie March as Alexandra Cabot. They don't give her much to do, but she sure is pretty. It would be nice to know how she got out of witness protection, though. And whether or not Olivia knows.

J. August Richards is on it. He doesn't get much to do either, but he's also pretty.

The romance. I sure hope what they're doing with Brian (played by Eric Balfour, who looks like a Hollywoodized version of max243732) and Christina is leading up to a romance.I forget what, if anything, happens between them in the first episode.

In the second one, she goes on a blind date with some friend of one of the other prosecutors, and there's this adorable moment where Brian helps her fasten all her jewelry. Then she goes on the date and the guy never calls. Billy explains that the guy likes women with really large breasts, which, of course, makes Christina feel worse. Christina, Brian, Billy, and Nick are all at a table at a bar when Billy tells her this. Brian leans across the table and gives her a whole speech about how amazing and beautiful she is.

In the third episode, Christina does her best to keep her visiting wild child ex-roommate away from Brian, and then clearly feels bad when she finds out that they went out anyway. And then he lies to her and doesn't tell her he slept with the ex-roommate.

If I keep watching and this goes nowhere, I will not be happy. On the other hand, if anyone knows where I can find some Brian/Christina fic worth reading, I'd give it a try.