Has ABC finally sent out the ...
Question: Has ABC finally sent out the
Brothers & Sisters pilot yet? If so, what do you think? I really want it to be good, and I have been hearing some more positive things in recent weeks, but I still can't shake my nervousness. Also, I can't help but think that whatever the merits of the show are, it doesn't look like a good match with
Desperate Housewives. In that sense, do you think it will be a good replacement for
Grey's Anatomy in the 10 pm/ET hour?
Answer: I did see it, and
my review is on the site this week (and in this week's jam-packed Returning Favorites issue of TV Guide, which you really ought to pick up). The hardest sort of review to write is one conveying ambivalence (it's much easier to write a rave or a pan), and that's what I feel right now about
Brothers & Sisters. With that much talent in front of and behind the camera, it's not a disaster or a stinker. But it also struck me as something less than a winner. It's awfully solemn, and the characters are a hard-to-warm-up-to clan of malcontents. As for the show's suitability as a companion piece to
Housewives, the first impression isn't good. Then again, with the exception of a couple of saucy scenes involving Bree in the season opener (which I just screened this week),
Housewives is getting off to a rather sluggish start this season, as well. Too early to write off either show, but there's nothing to get jazzed about yet, either.
