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PILOT WATCH 2009so I have decided that I am going to not only list, but write a little review on all of the pilots I am fortunate enough to get to have this year

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Empire State. ✭✭✭✭

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I really had absolutely no clue what this one was about. All I heard about it was "Michael Trucco is in it for like five minutes before he dies." I was like WHOT. But he's in it much longer than that. I actually liked this pilot, but I really don't have much of a clue what they were going for. I don't know where they are trying to go with it, or really what kind of a story they were trying to tell. Something about family, definitely, but it just didn't seem to have an inward drive that I wanted it to. And TRUCCO. You and your sexy face ... please don't sully it with such an awful goatee. Thank you. Mike Vogel plays his little brother, and UNF hottest family ever. It really actually made me miss LOF, because they were an Irish family and had a family pub they had all their events in and stuff. It made me really nostalgic for the way things used to be, when it was really active and pre-shiny new game epidemic. Anyway, enough about that. Overall, I liked it, it just really lacked that draw that I felt in so many other pilots.

The Good Wife. ✭✭✭✭✭

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I have been slacking on my duties, but I was just reminded how much I effing LOVED this pilot. This pilot is so amazingly well written, and acted, and has a GREAT story behind it. I really did not like Canterbury's Law (Julianna's last pilot), and seeing her playing a lawyer again I was like "uh oh". But oh gosh I was so wrong. She brings so much passion to this character, and the opening scene BUHROKE my heart. She plays a senator's wife, and from the trailer's you'll be able to see what happens - her husband is caught in a scandal, she's devastated. The plot picks up months later when she is trying to get back into the working world to provide for her family while her husband is in jail. GAH I cannot even explain how good it is, but trust me. IT IS.

Eastwick. ✭✭✭✭

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So I really wasn't sure about Eastwick, though my friend Wendy is writing over there (yay!) - I didn't want to compare it too much to Charmed, and I'd never seen the movie, so I really wasn't sure what I was getting into here. The show itself is incredibly charming. It's very sweet in that "girly" way that will totally appeal to women. I kind of love that they film in Stars Hollow. Jus'sayin. The one big beef I had with the show is that, as darling as Rebecca Romjin is, she doesn't have enough skill to really carry a show. She comes off as over-acting a lot of the time, which was really driving me nuts. HOWEVER. Lindsay Price and Jaime Ray Newman completely make up for that. The trio of them are so much fun, and you can just tell they've all got great chemistry together. It's nothing like charmed, despite the 3 witches thing, and I really am excited to see more of this show. I'm only slightly wary because it seems not one of those shows that will go for years and years, because networks really don't like to take a chance these days.

Limelight. ✭✭✭

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I could really just say "a poor man's Glee/Step Up" and leave it at that, but there was some charm to it. Veronica!Lite was in it, if you remember the tiny waif of a girl that Logan dated and her dad was like "OMGZ DONT HAVE SEX" - yeah she was in it, and she was a super slutty bitch. Did not compute. Shannon Woodward was really cute in it, and OH YES, KYLE RIABKO WAS IN IT. Unf, he's gorgeous, and it made me happy to see him on my TV, not just a stage across a sea of audience chairs from the balcony, lol. The whole thing really did just seem like a clusterfuck, that they didn't really know what they wanted to do, so they were like "HERE, LET'S THROW A BUNCH OF KIDS INTO AN ART SCHOOL." idk, it was kind of weird. But enjoyable, sorta.