° David Archuleta is everyone's favourite American Idol contestant, right? How could he not be? As much as I hate supporting this year's Sweet Little Kid so vociferously, we're two weeks into the big shows and he's the only one who seems any good at all. How everyone else is so bad I have no idea. Did someone knock my American Idol rose-tinted glasses off or something? At least Jason Yeager went though. That guy had a Dementor-esque ability to suck the fun from the show. Even Ryan and Simon had nothing to say to him and it's their job. I feel slightly dead inside just writing about him.
° Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, they're free at last! For all my constant ragging on Prison Break this season, I'm glad to say that I did enjoy the season finale this week. Finally out of the creative shackling that was Sona, the show felt fun again, even if it was for just one episode. Michael was back to his old genius self - outsmarting and outmanoeuvring his opponents every step of the way - and it reminded me of what the show could be. Whether it can maintain that when it returns for its fourth season, though, I'm not so sure. The show just seems to be carrying too much dead weight. Prison Break wasn't a show designed with long-term narratives in mind and a lot of its characters feel tapped out. T-Bag, Sucre and Bellick may be likeable, but would anyone really mind if they stay in Sona forever? And Lincoln, even. Now he's a free man and has his son back, what's left for him to fight for? Surely the guy should just trudge off and make a life for himself somewhere (he won't, of course). Honestly the only thing I'd be genuinely excited to see is Michael hunting Gretchen in a 70's revenge flick kind of way, with Schofield's genius and reluctance to kill as the added twist. Sadly I'm not sure either Schofield or the show's creators have the ruthlessness needed to make any of those things a reality. Fingers crossed I'll be proven wrong.
° Mad Men starts tomorrow night on BBC4 (10pm) and I think there's fair reason to be excited. I do have some slight reservations, but its always my instinct to trust the writer ahead of anything else and Matthew Weiner wrote some really great episodes of The Sopranos. Plus, Firefly nerds! Christina Hendricks in a show that's supposed to be good! You don't have to watch reruns of Kevin Hill anymore! A reason to celebrate Mad Men in advance of seeing it if ever there was one. I'm looking forward to it.
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