Posts Tagged‘defying gravity’

The Perils of Obedience Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Love, Honor, Obey” Written by Susan Nirah Jaffee Directed by Fred Gerber Enough reviewers have taken potshots at this show — and rightly so — that perhaps it’s fair to take a look at what actually works. The leads work: Ron Livingston, Malik Yoba and Christine Cox turn in solid, professional performances no matter what nonsense they’re given to say. There is nothing wrong with the production values, which we tend to take for granted these days until we see old re-runs of, say, the original episodes of Star Trek (that…

Bingo Point Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Rubicon” Written by Meredith Lavender & Marcie Ulin Directed by Fred Gerber It’s a good thing everyone in this show wears name patches on their jumpsuits, because otherwise I’d have a hard time telling them apart. Accents don’t make a character, but that’s really all I have to distinguish some of the female characters. Apart from the leads, everyone’s role is so generic and indistinguishable, they may as well just walk around with character labels on their heads: Jock, Doc, Vulnerable Female, and so forth. Matters are not helped by the…