Thumbs Down for Two New Shows

Tonite we watched two new shows opening this season: Five Days and Pushing Daisies. They're both a little too self-aware, in my not so humble opinion. My short review for Pushing Daisies (it just popped out when Mark asked me what I thought): "It's suck."

I mean really, a voice over nosing in every minute and a half, a baloney story line about a guy who bakes pies at a place called The Pie Hole, who brings people back to life by touching them, then kills them by touching them again, and who uses this weird skill to become a private detective who solves murders by bringing the victims back to life for one minute to ask them who did it -- and who falls in love with a cute beekeeper oh-too-charmingly named Chuck? Oh pu-leeze. I mean, as Seth Meyer and Amy Pohler would say -- Really.

And Five Days: Day one. Lady abducted while buying flowers, snapshots into the lives of all the people who don't know each other yet but will become more and more intertwined over the next four days as we figure out what happened to her, and to her daughter who was separately abducted on the same day by a different guy. Dum Dum DUM! Lordy.

I'm dialed out on both of these. Pretty pictures, trying too hard. Next.

So ... tell us what cool new shows you like so we can TIVO them an try them out.