I’m still trying to decide if I’m a fan of the new Bionic Woman show or not. I’ve watched every episode so far, but that may just be because I’m pathetic and have no life (well, I have a hint of a life that’s been creeping up over the horizon since the AIDS Walk, but more on that later) or that nothing else is on TV Wednesday nights or it may be that I want to like the show but am a pussy about committing to it. I grew up watching the actual Bionic Woman (and my one gift to myself from this past July’s Comic Con was to buy the complete series on DVD (very pirated!)) and love its message that being a Cold War agent doesn’t mean you can’t hug and kiss on your superiors or let them dote on you like a favored daughter.
But tonight’s episode, Trust Issues was different. Not that the writing was better or that the insanely pithy prologue was absent, but it actually jettisoned a HUGE piece of deadwood from the cast, namely Isaiah Washington. I can hear the uproar now: “You don’t like him just because he used the f-word!” Nah. I don’t like this guy because he’s a terrible actor. Of the three talented actors on Grey’s Anatomy, he was not one (the again, neither is the lead actress, Ellen Pompeo). There, his cold-fish attitude, ironic laughter (noticeably non-ironic in scenes with George, but oh-so-profound-and-meaningful when with his girlfriend, Christine) and brusque pronouncements like God was pooping out of his mouth made him a bad doctor, but somehow these same acting techniques make him a terrible spy as well. Anyway, he’s gone. For now. We assume. We see him flatline in an ambulance, then cut to Jaime looking at his picture in his jacket (spy talk for “permanent record”) with her boss intoning “You never get over your first one.” Is that “your first partner’s death”? “Your first partner’s being a vegetable”? “Your first partner’s near-fatal wounding”? “Your first partner’s coma and eventual return as a bad guy”? We didn’t see the body, nor did we see the funeral, so I’m guessing he’s not dead, but in the wings somewhere. Hopefully in a Method class.
I do, however, like Tom, the new CIA love interest. So cute and spaniel-like for a spy!
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