Monday Night TV

Been looking forward to Heroes a lot since last week, so right to it:

• Prison Break: So... we don't get to hear the tape? Bastards. And they leave us with the cliffhanger with C-Note hanging himself. The show would let him die, but I think they might also let the rope break. That it's not predictable is one of the only things it has going for it.
  
  I don't get why they take the tape to a judge or blackmail rather than to the media. No matter how powerful the super secret people are, a massive swell of public opinion would lead to an impeachment, and the next prez would pretty much have to pardon Lincoln.


• Heroes: So Eric Roberts, in an office that really kinda resembles Arvin Sloane's from the old SD6, recruits Bennett to join his... whatever it is. And Sulu is one of them, as is Dr. InvisiWho, who was Bennett's original partner. And he's ordered to kill him, which obviously doesn't go quite right, given that he's still alive in the present. But given how his group seems to handle things, it's definitely now apparent that they're evil. Bennett seems to want to put his family first, though, so he's not entirely evil.
  
  In the present, all the action is in the hostage crisis. I might've missed something last week, but I have no idea where the Wireless chick is in all this. Though I guess her powers might not be all that useful. Anyway, Nuclear Ted goes nuts, so Parkman has to conspire with Bennett to
  keep him calm, but Eric Roberts shows up and screws it all up. Ted goes Nuclear, and in a scene reminiscent of the end of X3, Claire gives him a tranquilizer, comes out looking like Linda Blair from The Exorcist, thereby exposing her powers to Eric Roberts. So Bennett blames the Haitian and sends Claire and the Haitian off to hide, gets himself shot and his memory wiped to they won't blame him. Good times. This leaves Parkman with "the company," so he's kinda screwed. And Nuclear Ted will apparently be under constant sedation.
  
  Was that Missy Peregrym (sfw) as Bennett's next partner? She's amazingly hot, that'll be a great addition to the cast.


• The Black Donnellys: So, as I mentioned when I watched the first 2/3 of the pilot online, I thought that was ok. But the last 20 minutes lost me. Occasionally in a Roger Ebert review, he'll remark how way, way, way too many movies spend the whole movie building up tension, and then when things could get interesting, they just have a shootout and end it. I felt like Tommy is the smart one, but he's in a corner so he's going to compromise his morals, make some kind of deal with the devil to save his brothers. But bang, bang, bang, the end. Yawn. I'm 50/50 on trying out the second episode.

On the Tivo: Everybody Hates Chris.