*Hart of Dixie* offers some easy feel good watching!

I should say ways to watch if it lays of the cheese! Since it is Josh Swartez i have  A LOT of faith in this show, you could say the pilot of The OC and Gossip Girl, even Chuck, were riddled with cheesefesty moments b ut with the pilot you have got to set the scene and the basic big story lines of the season and Hart of Dixie defiantly did so.

First off lets talk about the fact that Rachel Bilson is now back on my TV.  I was a mahooosive fan of The OC back in the day so I get happy when any of the cast are in anything else (well apart from Mischa Barton just because well shes only good as Marissa Cooper), so a  show where Bilson is the leading lady already had me watching for the first couple of episodes.  I gotta say though I might stick this one out it defiantly had an old WB style to it, which again makes me happy, and its guna be nice and easy but probably addictive to watch.  I just dont know how well I am going to buy into this whole Bilson is a doctor thing.

The rest of the cast seem ok for now, I think Wade is going to get quite a bit more interesting, especially more so than George who seems to be a little bit dopey.  Lemon is going to annoy the frick out of me, I mean her name is Lemon for starters!  The Mayor hmmm not sure how I feel about him to be honest.

For now i am going to keep watching up, try and catch fully up this week, I am hoping the narration from Bilson's character Zoe stops though, cannot be dealing with that every episode!

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*ABC's Revenge - Defiantly Served*

Ok 1 episode in and I am a little bit addicted.  Gotta say I wasn't expecting to be, especially as I usually dislike the main actress Emily Van Camp, however it has proven to be a nice guilty pleasure, and better yet its like ABC crossed with the CW.

First off I guess I didn't know much about the show before going into it because I had no idea that the revenge  was from something that happened to her family when she was little, which makes it so much more interesting.  I am uber excited to see how Jack/Amanda develops, I'm really hoping he discovers her a couple of episodes in.  I am a little confused as to where the finances (Daniel) murder is going to happen, midseason or season finale.  Since its a first season, and the didn't have a full season order when they went into making the show, I'm guessing they had it prepared for midseason.

The Grayson family, first off Conrad is a douche can he be killed off, we know Daniel dies before him because he is at the engagement party in the pilot, wait one sec all the big players were which means its going to take a lot of episodes for anyone to truly be revenged on, hmmm.  I cant wait to learn all of Victoria's little dirty secrets like the one we learned at the end of the episode.  The daughter seems irrelevant for now so I will make more of a decision on her later on as the show progresses.

Emily/Amanda what shall we call her Amily? Emanda? I gunna go with Amily tis prettier.  So we have the childhood crush with Jack, the potential romance (which we know becomes an engagement) with Daniel, some weird flirting with Nolan.  Personally after the pilot I am rooting for Jack, although Daniel is a hottie, and her reaction to his death leads me to think she does develop actual feelings for him.  Maybe Amily and Nolan conspire to kill Daniel and she backs out but he continues with the plan, no its gotta be the girl Daniel killed  in the car crash's family coming back for their revenge.

The Porter family, you can tell we will be rooting for them all the way through to come out of financial struggles, to get the girl, they are defiantly the family who deserve happiness, the opposite of the Grayson's, maybe Daddy Porter was good friends with Amily's father and ends up helping her out?

See one episode in and I already have about a gazillion questions, guess I better get catching up so I can answer myself!

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Will I stick with *The Playboy Club* NBC's new period drama?

I can save the article and write here YES! It may not be as stylish and probably not as historically correct as Mad Men but for me its a lot more enjoyable. 

I don't know if this show will work as a full 22 episode season or if it should be more of a mini series because the story line of the mob murder doesn't feel like it can play out for long, nor can the presence of a young Mr Hugh Heffner, but I gotta feeling I will be gripped for however long its on for.  This is the 2nd of two network shows this season to be focusing on a workplace in the 60's, ABC are looking at the air hostesses of Pan Am and I am looking forward to trying out that but this was the one i was expecting to dislike and I am pleasantly surprised.

The bunnies all have their own story lines we only got to really delve into Maureen's (Amber Heard) in the pilot, who I presume to be the main character along with Nick Dalton (Eddie Cibrian).  Maureen is the new bunny and whilst dancing a man gets a little bit too handsy with her, he then later follows her into the back and after a struggle which Nick walks into and tried to help him off her she end up stabbing him in the neck with her shoe, by accident.  Nick informs her that this is no ordinary business man and that he is in fact a big mob boss so they must cover it up.  We later find out that Nick is in fact one of his protégées who has built himself up into well the future state attorney.  Anywyas nick helps Maureen dispose of the body and the rest of the episode is then denying they know what has happened to this guy and making out they went home together, which i can see is probably going to happen with these two.  

Other bunnies stories we really got to start looking at, and I have a feeling will probably end up being more interesting than the main two, are  Carol-Lynne (Laura Benanti) who is the oldest bunny working in the club but by the end of the episode goes above the club managers head to The Heff himself to become the 'Bunny Mother', another name for the manager of the ladies.  And then there is Alice (Leah Renee) who throughout the whole episode we know is married and her husband, who comes and gets her after work but they are in trouble with the law and kind of in hiding.  We find out at the end of the episode that she is in fact a lesbian and he is gay and they are part of a secret society.  Still not sure what they are raising their money for though.

I'm excited to see where all these stories go but at the same time I am loving the 60's references and in the pilot episode we had Tina Turner (not the real one) making an appearance in the club as the the band that night, which of course make it even more awesome.  I also kinda wish I had been around to go party at the playboy club it looks like fun.

Check out next weeks promo below, which seems to give away even more of the other bunnies stories, oh i am excited:

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CBS adds another comedy show to its Monday block with *2 Broke Girls*

2 Broke Girls (CBS) is a comedy about two very different girls, and when I say different I am not just talking about their looks, I mean language upbringing everything very much the opposite of each other.  This idea has been kinda done to death as well a show about two opposites but of course its been done to death because it always seems to work.

I was sceptical about this show before it started, from all the promos I thought it would be obvious jokes and humour and be easy watching but nothing else but I can honestly say that I am excited to see next week and I think the countdown or count up of money right at the end makes it more exciting too.  

The pilot starts off showing the basic life of Max, and well introducing us the audience to her humour and the characters she interacts with.  It doesnt take long for the audience to realise shes hard (hard as in you wouldn't wanna get on the wrong side of her because she will put you down so badly with her words) and that she works hard as well, doesn't take any of the shiz thrown at her but also knows when to roll with the punches (grabbing sauce from behind co-workers having sex).  

Then we meet the other half of the 2 broke girls with Caroline Channing, I've put in her surname because well we learn it almost instantaneously when Max discovers who she really is.  Caroline comes in with this amazing resume that said she has been a waitress at many a prestigious restaurant which of course makes Max curious about her but after minutes of talking to her discovers she has had waitress experience and that she is in fact the daughter of an Upper East Side  fraudster and so has basically been shunned from money and society.  I didn't think Caroline would have a sarcastic side but she holds her won against Max and almost puts her in her place which leads Max to tell Caroline more about herself than she usually does to new people.  

Both girls have their own smarts as well, Max makes delicious cupcakes for the diner but because of her lack of confidence doesn't know she can charge more for them, which of course is when Caroline comes in with the genius plan of saving up money to build a cupcake business together since she has had the fancy business school education.  This idea works itself into the closing credits when we have the counting of money to show at the end of each episode how much money they have now saved, Caroline says it will take a year to get the $250,000 so that's the aim.

The supporting cast are really kept in the sidelines but the good thing is we don't need more focus on them because both leads are enjoyable to watch, but the supporting team do bring the laughs we have the chef Oleg, the 'recently or not so recently immigrant from China who wishes to be more like the neighbourhood' boss of the diner Bryce (formally Han) Lee,  the I don't actually know what he does but he site at the front of the diner maybe he is the music man but his name is Earl and he seem to be rather cool, and to finish it off the other boss who is a society housewife in Manhattan Peach who is the worst stereotype of bimbo housewife which makes it tragically funny.

I will be sticking with the comedy, its a good companion piece for How I Met Your Mother plus its another show abased in one of my favourite cities in the world NYC! So here is a promo below check it out and see if you would like to enjoy it too:

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One of the most anticipated shows of the season *Ringer* has finally aired!

Before you read on this might be spoilery for you, it depends on how much you have seen from the promos etc.

I have been most excited about this show to air, not just because of the fact the Sarah Michelle Gellar was coming back to a TV leading role but also because i could not work out what the hell it was actually about.  Thankfully the pilot episode did give me answers, and also gave me a lot more questions, mind you what can you expect out of TV these days.

Ringer isn't really like any TV show i have experienced before, when they said its very noir inspired they were not kidding.  I guess the best way to describe it from me is that it has the feel of a TV movie thriller.  Not that its bad because its far from there but because it feels like I am watching a movie yet of course there are too many characters and production is not movie standard so its like a TV movie.  

The Mains

The characters that SMG plays, Bridget & Siobhan, are both very interesting in their own ways.  Bridget seems to have all her issues open and well easy to see.  Siobhan on the other hand I can not understand yet anything about her.  I have enjoying though watching Bridget be Siobhan and getting very confused by her sisters life.

The Men

The men seem very interesting but are very much the support at the minute, I am looking forward to finding out more about Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd), who plays Siobhan's husband, mainly because I dont quite understand their relationship yet it seems more like a business deal.  I am also excited about more interactions between Victor (Nestor Carbonell) and Bridget/Bridget as Siobhan, I might be premature on this but i kinda ship them already, however I'm not too sure if i should be shipping any characters together on this show.  Not too fussed about Henry (Kristoffer Polaha) he just seems to be there to be Siobhan's lover or Gemma's husband. Last but not least Malcom (Mike Colter) needs to get himself to NYC to become more of the story, maybe he can work together with Victor to help Bridget, I see that as a potential friendship.

The Supporting

Which brings me to the other females on this show Siobhan's best friend and lovers husband Gemma (Tara Summers), and the bratty drug fiend step daughter Juliet (Zoey Duetch).  I am not a fan of Juliet already she seems out of place on this show, I mean she belongs on the CW but shes the only thing CW about this show.  Gemma seems interesting, I think she will be more of a friend to Bridget then Siobhan, my theory is Bridget will tell her who she really is and what happened and Gemma will help her, she seems like that kinda woman.

Well thats my thoughts on this pilot episode, to check out whats in store next week on Ringer the promo is just below:

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