but i agree, the reviews make this sound shit. It's particularly lame to ref a Chilli Peppers song in the title of your show and then not use it.

Anyway, I enjoyed it enough to keep watching. I won't run out and buy the DVD, but I will definitely watch again.

In short, it wasn't written, directed, produced, or dedicated to Joss Whedon, so it sucks, right?

That also means I might actually like it. So far, there's very little that Herc loves that I don't hate, and vice-versa. It's like fighting over TV shows with my kid sister... And I don't even have a kid sister.

Oh... And New Orleans when it's not under water.

In other words, if you naturally find yourself agreeing with Herc, and like the shows Herc always goes crazy for, then avoid this like the plague, but otherwise give it a shot, it's fun...

The face-punching-during-sex scene was pretty hot and funny as was Madeline Zima. Pretty cute.

But hey, naked chicks on TV is aweosome. We need more shows like that.

So if Herc hated this, does that mean I'll love it? Maybe I'll rent the DVDs when it comes out. I enjoy Duchovney and bare breats, but not played-out cliches such as dead-pan, witty, womanizing writers . Everything I've read about this show leaves me conflicted.

Showtime has been doing me good lately. Of course Weeds, Dexter and Bullshit are good, but I've also been getting into the Tudors and Brotherhood as well. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard Brotherhood mentioned here and I'd say it's on par with the Wire in terms of tone and quality (big time Wire fans may disagree). And Annabeth Gish nakedness is always good.

Dream On was the original HBO show for me. I still remember losing my shit over the time Eddie found out he just slept with his sister. One of the top five funniest moments on TV for me (at the time). That show started HBO's success with original shows and I feel like this is the year when Showtime truly took that torch away. Good for them. Here's hoping they can keep it up.

I'm just not seeing the Dream On comparison, but since when is Herc right about anything? Talk about cherry picked reviews from other sources too. I've read plenty of reviews elsewhere that were positive. And why pan McElhone? She deserves more work than she gets.

darth girlfriend, most (if not all) jokes are heard by someone for the first time at some point. Perhaps I'm rawng (and you'll doubtless correct me) but in comedy, timing is everything as Henny Youngman once said. Perhaps it was not the content, but the delivery that humored me. And again, humor, like opinions, is a subjective beast. After all, you certainly must be a bastion of knowing good humor, given that you instead viewed the "Flavor Flav" roast where this tired line was repeated not once, but as many as four times. How overusing a tired joke qualifies as higher comedy I'll never know, back that brings me full circle to subjectivity again...