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The Morning After: A Full Dance Card

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | September 21, 2010 | +
Bristol Palin debuted on last night's DWTS. / ABC
DANCING WITH THE STARS - "Episode 1101" - The Season 11 star-studded cast and their professional partners get ready to break in their dancing shoes on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" for the long awaited two-hour season premiere, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ADAM LARKEY) MARK BALLAS, BRISTOL PALIN, BROOKE BURKE

Last night was the biggest night of television so far in the 2010-11 season. It was also the first night of television of the 2010-11 season. But still, it was pretty big.

Monday saw the debuts of The Event, Chase, Hawaii Five-0, Mike and Molly and my favorite new broadcast show of the season, Lone Star. It also saw the return of, among others, House, The Big Bang Theory [wrong night, wrong year!] Chuck and Dancing with the Stars (now with more Bristol Palin!).

I couldn’t possibly hit on each show (some of which I’ve already reviewed) if I wanted to—and haven’t yet decided if Lone Star merits weekly Watch treatment—so use this big fat Morning After post to give us your thoughts on any of Monday’s shows, new or returning. Judging by last night, what will you be doing next Monday night?

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  • jeia56

    Definitely regretting my decision to watch The Event.

  • chriskw

    Yeah, There was too much on TV last night. I wanted to watch and write a few mini-reviews here. Instead, I wrote why I think reviewing TV shows after one episode is somewhat pointless.

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    Sorry. I meant here

  • Chaddogg

    Chuck was light, breezy, and fun, although it continued a somewhat bad Chuck tradition — flying through too many jokes/too much story in too short a time. I mean, the ground they covered in that episode — Chuck and Morgan’s globe-trotting adventures, Chuck trying unsuccessfully to find a new job, Chuck and Sarah dealing with being apart/on different career paths, General Beckman re-opening the Buy More as a CIA/NSA station, the introduction of Chuck’s mother — could have been 3 or more episodes full of humor. Instead, it was somewhat over-stuffed into one episode. Still, I give the episode a B….although I’m now thinking the show ends this season.
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    HIMYM was a return to being solid — like the fact we’re moving forward with the mother storyline, like the hint that Barney’s search for his dad will return, love the fact that Ted was not a douche, and loved all of the Lilly-Marshall stuff (which last year was weak).
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    Castle, though, was the most entertaining hour of TV I watched live last night (DVR’d The Event, Hawaii 5-0 and Lone Star, so I’ll have thoughts on those when I get around to them). Fillion and Stanic have great chemistry, the writing is clever, and the supporting cast shines. THAT is how you make an entertaining procedural, people. (In fact, I wish Chuck would take some cues from Castle….both in marketing/timeslot and in writing/plot/storyline)

  • chicagogirl1

    Not watching Lone Star. This one really didn’t click at all with me. I didn’t care about any of the characters. I’m not sure what it is about “con man” stories. It most cases, I think they will be something I like, but usually end up turning them off before the end. And it seems like I’m not the only one who feels this way about Lone Star, given the poor ratings for the premiere.

  • Tom Shaw

    “what will you be doing next Monday night?”

    Not necessarily expecting to see Lonestar aired, whose ratings were in immediate cancellation territory. A rather ugly proof of the “Clear division between shows you would want to watch… and what’s new on broadcast” statement.

    But in the interest of fairness… The Event shows all the signs of being a slow motion disaster like Heroes and Flashforward, and Hawaii 5-0 was a competently put together, expensive show.. that I can’t imagine watching without being addled by the flu.

  • maleborn1957

    Hawaii 5-0 just made me miss The Unit.

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