Premiering Tonight: Private Dirty Bionic Life
Bionic Woman (9 PT/ET, NBC): Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan) is a normal woman, except for her relationship with supergenius scientist Will Anthros (Chris Bowers). But when she gets in a horrible car accident, Will can’t let her die, so he saves her life by injecting her with nanotech robots and replacing her lost limbs with high-tech models. Now Jaime’s a bionic woman, but not by choice… and she’s not the first such experiment either, as the menacing Sarah Corvus (Katee Sackhoff) makes abundantly clear.
Worth your time? Sure, if you’re a fan of the sci-fi.
Dirty Sexy Money (10 PT/ET, ABC): Nick George (Peter Krause) hates the super-rich Darling family. His father was their lawyer and those duties ruined Nick’s childhood and drove his mother to suicide. (Bit dark, eh?) But now Nick’s dad is dead, and the Darlings want Nick to replace his dad. Nick doesn’t want to ruin his own family’s life, but he can’t turn down the $10 million a year. And so he must try to bring sanity and civility to the very same messed-up, super-rich family he grew up hating. Think Arrested Development, but without the warm family ties.
Worth your time? Give it a try — you might like it.
Life (10 PT/ET, NBC): What would happen if you re-made House as a cop show? You’d have Life, featuring a British star doing an American accent (check) starring as a police detective with extremely odd and off-putting behavior (check) who has serious issues with his co-workers (check), but despite his bizarre methodology (check) he gets the job done (check). In this case, the guy in question is not actually named Life (wouldn’t that be something?), but rather Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis). Charlie spent 12 years in prison for — wait for it — a crime he didn’t commit. After new evidence proves he didn’t do it, he’s released — and the LAPD settles his lawsuit, giving him millions of dollars and forcing them to hire him back on the force. A decade in solitary with only a copy of “The Way of Zen” to keep him company has turned Charlie into a bit of a weirdo, which is why he’s saddled with partner Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) — or is it the other way around? Meanwhile, Ted Earley (Adam Arkin), a convicted ex-millionaire financier who was Charlie’s only friend in prison, now lives in Charlie’s garage and works as his financial planner. Now Charlie’s trying to solve crimes in his own inimitable way while simultaneously trying to figure out who framed him and ruined his life.
Worth your time? I liked it, but it’s definitely not for everyone. Nathan Alderman didn’t like it.
Private Practice (9 PT/ET, ABC): If you watch Grey’s Anatomy, you’ve seen the pilot episode of this spin-off — it was an actual episode of the show last season. Following Kate Walsh’s Addison to California, Private Practice will follow the Grey’s formula of showing a variety of attractive medical practitioners in various disciplines working cases while having sex with one another. Except this time, it’s not in a hospital. It’s in a… private practice. See what they did there?
Worth your time? Only if you watch Grey’s Anatomy.
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