Tonight at 8p J.J. Abrams latest show Alcatraz hits the airwaves with a two hour premiere and it is rock solid.
San Francisco Police Department Det. Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is called into investigate a murder, but it is quickly pulled from her by government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill). Since she is someone who doesn’t back down, she decides to investigate the case on her own. In doing her research she finds out the killer has ties to Alcatraz, so she seeks out an expert who writes about the long dissolved prison that no one escaped from…or did they. Dr. Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia) tells her that the man she is looking in to served time at Alcatraz and after it was closed down he served time somewhere else until he died. Yeah, that’s right her suspect has been dead for decades and there is no way he could’ve killed that guy…or is there? Seems we don’t know everything that happened to all of the people who were doing hard time there because as we learn the inescapable prison didn’t close down, it was shut when everyone inside suddenly disappeared one night. Now all those missing are starting to come back in our time and it will be up to Hauser, Madsen and Soto to get them back to where they belong and find out where they have been.
There are a lot of twist and turns and ohhs and ahhs and Alcatraz already has me locked into finding out what happens next. It is such an arresting show, you will not be able to escape this thrilling mystery every Monday no matter how hard you try.
The independent movie hit Napoleon Dynamite is getting something from Fox tonight at 8:30p and 9:30p it never got in theaters, animated reactions. The deadpan movie is becoming an animated series and they are all getting to do things they never did in the film. But don’t worry they still have blank emotions. So if you loved the movie, you are going to love the latest addition to Fox’s Animation Domination lineup.
Fringe won’t be back with a new episode on Fox until next Friday at 9p, but they released a teaser for what’s coming up and I can’t wait. Whoever cuts the promos for this show really knows how to make you want to watch. Granted I was already for excited to watch now that Peter is finally back on the show.
Zoeey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sang What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? together and who else is hoping that they are doing each other? And there might be something there because here is what the New Girl wrote on her site, “I have known Joe Gordon-Levitt for going on 12 years. We first met in the summer of 2000 while doing a tiny movie called Manic, where we bonded over a mutual appreciation for Harry Nilsson and Nina Simone and I have been lucky enough to call him one of my dearest friends ever since. When we did 500 Days of Summer 8 years later, we spent every lunch hour dancing to Marvin Gaye in the hair and make up trailer; we had loads of fun. I hope to do a thousand more movies with him because he’s simply the best.” Sounds like there might be something more there? They would be adorkable together, so let’s hope they kiss at midnight on NYE…and every day after that!!!
Fox has a new comedy debuting at 9:30p tonight and it’s called I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Jamie Pressly and Katie Finneran play long-time friends and recently divorced moms who are raising their teenage daughters together in one house. And having a been a teenage girl, I get the premise of the title and the show. There will be a lot of conflicts between the moms and the girls and the elders will get the revenge as only they can on their offspring in this funny show. And next week is a lot of fun when they have family night with their exes and they will learn why those nights stop once the divorce papers are signed. So tune in for a show that any mother and her teenage daughter can understand.
