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The first season seemed promising. I was invested in the characters, and LOVED James Van Der Beek's slightly arrogant Dr. Joe Briggs, and Michelle Tratchenberg's Newbie Nurse Chloe.
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Before Jesse's Tyer Ferguson's role on Modern Family, before Jason Ritter starred on Parenthood or The Event, before Lizzy Caplan's starred in True Blood or Cloverfield, they starred on this little comedy for one short, beautiful, hilarious season.
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What's not to love about a show featuring Claire Danes? Especially when it is rife with teen angst and first love? Plus Jared Leto's not hard to look at.
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It was like "The Sopranos" for network television, except the characters were Irish instead of Italian. It was gritty. It was honest. It had a spectacular cast. And for some reason NBC canned it after only a handful of episodes.
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Quirky, fun, honest, and well-cast. seriously, look at the cast list! Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Kristin Chenowith, and Swoozie Kurtz. But apparently it was too left of center for ABC execs. And that's a crying shame.
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I can't say enough good things about this show. It was intelligent, quirky, engaging. But on a network like the CW where everything must get girls' panties in a tizzy, it was too serialized and not sexualized enough for the execs to keep it. Shame on them. And it's a poor consolation knowing Kristen Bell is the voice of Gossip Girl. But KB really wants to make a Veronica movie. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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\It is, I believe, Judd Apatow's finest work. Forget his lewd movies, this 1-season wonder is absolutely brilliant. And the cast are a bunch of up-and-comers: James Franco (Spiderman Trilogy, 127 Hours, Pineapple Express...just to name a few), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, The Green Hornet), Linda Cardellini (Scooby Doo movies, ER), John Francis Daley (Bones), Busy Phillips (Dawson's Creek, Cougar Town), Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, How I Met Your Mother).
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I've already blogged about the spin-off (or should I say pay-off) movie Serenity, so there's no surprise that my Number One show is Firefly. The writing is witty and hilarious (they cuss in Chinese), the direction is superb, cast is brilliant, the stories are engaging. And seriously, what beats a TV show about cowboys in space? Not a blasted thing. Fox should be ashamed. But I have the DVD box set, so everything is shiny.
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