Bridget:
Bridget McManus is really cool. She’s funny, smart, sexy, etc., etc. Brunch with Bridget is cool, she does amazing stand-up shows. She even has a funny blog.
She’s got this new ’show’ - it’s really a sort of infomercial for this site called ‘PeopleJam’. It’s sort of a cross between a social network and a self-help site. It’s really dumb. I can’t even figure out what the real point of the site is – it seems to mostly be reviews of boring self-help books.
I sure hope that Bridget is just doing this ’show’ for money/recognition, and that she’s not actually working on the site itself.
Her segment is pretty funny. She’s got another stuffed animal, and the whole thing seems quite tongue-in-cheek. So, it’s worth watching – because it’s Bridget, after all – but can’t she find something else?
Fringe:
Fringe is a new show on FOX. it’s made by JJ Abrams, who did Lost. This might or might not be a good thing. I personally don’t care for Lost, but hey…
Fringe show is kind of like the X-Files, but with a female lead, and a mad scientist.
It’s really pretty cool. The basic premise is: Weird things happen. Olivia tries to figure out why. The scientist guy helps. His son get mad at him. There may be odd plot twists in the future.
It does seem strange that the mad scientist is personally responsible for almost all of the problems – but they may have fixed that with the latest episode. The angry son is annoying, so I don’t really like him. The mad scientist is pretty cool/funny. They need to give the sidekick/agent-in-training more lines.
I like that Olivia never has any backup (the son is only really there to take care of Dad) – it’s the individualist in me, I suppose. I like that every episode ends with a big chase scene, and that those scenes never seem difficult or problematic for Olivia – they just don’t make a big deal out of it. If they keep doing chase scenes every ep., though, it might get a bit boring.
I also like the 3D screen text – I’ve never seen anything like that before.
So, Fringe is fun, but not completely amazing, not yet. It does have potential.