TV Review : Alias & Night Stalker

Today is 2 for 1 on reviews. They should both be short.

ALIAS

To my great shame I missed the premiere episode due to real-life circumstances. I only caught the last 15 minutes of ALIAS. What I saw was just horrible. It was freaky. It was just too much for this reviewer to handle. Jennifer Garner got her lips done and it is just disgusting. Big ugly ass collagen-injected lips. It’s so goddamn distracting that it’s enough to get me not to watch anymore. And that’s all I’m going to say. But I’ll wait for next week to see more. So I won’t grade it. But Garner’s lip job gets a 1 outta 5

NIGHT STALKER

Kolchak is back, well sorta. This was probably the worst cut & paste job of a TV show I’ve ever seen for something with such a cult history. The actor playing Kolchak is simply horrible. Stuart Townsend was horrible in Queen of the Damned and he was equally horrible in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and he sucks just as bad on this show. Gabrielle Union, other than having my favourite first name for a woman, has nothing but a cute smile. She would fare better playing in beer commercials acting cute for the camera. The girl can’t act… she can’t.

The concept is as simple as it gets for the genre. Weird, quirky stick-it-to-the-man about to lose it all journalists gets a new job at the Beacon. He’s assigned to the criminal journalism team, headed by she-with-the-nice-smile. Of course she plays Scully to Kolchak’s Mulder but no chemistry whatsoever can be detected here. Of course our man Kolchak has a dark and mysterious past and he’s all uppity about it. Some strange killings start popping up and of course someone has to be saved. It’s Kolchak to the rescue. Anyone who’s familiar with this genre knows the rest.

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  • 1 - Mike

    Sep 30, 2005 at 8:24 pm

    Uh. Jennifer Garner's lips have always been big - or perhaps you missed the entire third, fourth, second and first seasons?

  • 2 - JELIEL

    Sep 30, 2005 at 11:01 pm

    Sorry Mike but those lips are "enhanced"

  • 3 - Will

    Sep 30, 2005 at 11:29 pm

    I thought she looked different, and even if she did get a lip injection, I still like the way she looks.

  • 4 - alyssa

    Oct 03, 2005 at 6:53 pm

    That is no way to judge a show by what jennifer garner looks like and besides she's gorgeous!

  • 5 - Bob

    Oct 05, 2005 at 9:16 pm

    What an embarrassment! And such chutzpah to call this piece of tripe Night Stalker. The next, (and hopefully the last episode), should be the unexplained dismemberment of the show's cast and writers.

  • 6 - JELIEL

    Oct 09, 2005 at 11:46 am

    OK I was wrong I take it back. After seeing ep. 2 I'm thinking maybe it was the lighting and/or the make-up job plus the fact that she's preggers that made the lips stick out. In ep. 2 she looks like regular Jen but prego and showing.

    My bad

    And Bob? I agree =)

  • 7 - Cyn

    Nov 25, 2005 at 9:34 pm

    Her lips are definitely done! She is the most unattractive woman in the USA. Her ears stick out when her hair weave is not covering it. (See 13 going on 30.) She is flat chested and looks like a cadaver in the face, so hollow and vacuous. Yuck! Who made her famous?

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