A wedding, good TV, working in the yard, walking by the lake and a Packers loss -- a nice to spend the first weekend of fall, I guess ...
Let's start with the TV. We watched the FOX's hyped-up 'Reunion' on Thursday night. Over-hyped that is. ... This is the show that revolves around a group of six friends, starting with their high school reunion and fast-forwarding 20 years to where one of them was killed by someone else in the group. The catch is: through the course of the season the audience is presented with clues and we're supposed to figure out the identity of the murderer. The acting was decent, the writing was not. But it will be interesting to see how this show progresses with 'the big conclusion' at the end of the season, during which we apparently find out who killed who. My lingering question though is how they can possibly fit the events of one year into each episode. Judging by the first episode, I don't see how it will work.
On the other hand ... we watched 'The War at Home' tonight, also on FOX. HA-larious. Strong cast. Good concept. It stars Michael Rappaport as Dave, a father who's having issues with his teenage daughter dating a black guy (only to find out later she's actually doing his homework and using the kid to drive Dad crazy), a son who Dave thinks is gay (he's not) and the youngest son who is begging for a new Playstation. ... But one of the things that sets this show apart is that scenes are interrupted with brief testimonials (picture Seinfeld doing standup in front of a white background) from each of the characters to let the audience in on what the character is really thinking, just before taking us back into the scene where the character expresses the complete opposite ...
ah, but the weekend wasn't all spent inside ... On Saturday night Kates and I were down on the harbor for Woofstock, a two-day festival of music and food to benefit the local humane society, and celebrate the end of a summer-long art exhibit, comprised of dogs displayed in downtown store windows ...We had gone to watch a Beatles-tribute band, 'British Export' but decided to walk the harbor when we could no longer stand the drummer's poor Ringo Star impression ...
... the walk was nice.
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