Thursday, November 16, 2006
Short TV Post
I quit watching ER years ago. I don't watch Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs or House, but I decided to give 3 Pounds (European title is 1.36 Kilograms) a try. The title apparently refers to the weight of the brain, because the show is about neurosurgery. Here is the good stuff--it's about neurosurgery; it has Stanley Tucci as a good doctor with no bedside skills; and, it has Indira Varma (who was the adulterous wife in Rome--and who really must be dead in that series) as a barefoot neurologist; and, it has now and again Griffin Dunne (good to see he has work outside dinner theater in Joisey). Here is the bad stuff--it is apparently a complete House rip off but Tucci is not as endearing as Hugh Laurie; it has actor Mark Feuerstein as the West Coast touchy feely doctor; it has other TV cliches such as the wise beyond her age daughter of Tucci and worse of all, Tucci the brain surgeon has a brain problem (involving visual hallucinations and seeing water drip up). What are the odds? Anyway, it follows The Unit (and thus replaces early casualty Smith) so I might as well stay for the second course.
UPDATE: CBS has the unshown last four episodes on Smith on its website for free (but still with a single, unstoppable commercial every 15 minutes or so). Might as well show them somewhere--they're already paid for.
UPDATE: CBS has the unshown last four episodes on Smith on its website for free (but still with a single, unstoppable commercial every 15 minutes or so). Might as well show them somewhere--they're already paid for.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:57 AM 
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We watched it on DVR last night (also?). At the end, my wife said, "I'll try it one more time; if it doesn't get any better, we'll stop recording it."
We had pretty well exactly the same impressions you did: a mediocre House pastiche with less-engaging characters. Plus, it didn't really bother about the puzzle aspect, which (at least for me) provides much of the interest of medical shows.
We had pretty well exactly the same impressions you did: a mediocre House pastiche with less-engaging characters. Plus, it didn't really bother about the puzzle aspect, which (at least for me) provides much of the interest of medical shows.
Well said, but I'm such a Tucci and Varma fan I'll watch it until it's cancelled (which could be before Christmas).
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