NBC claims a few more lives

I'm sad to report the cancellation of My Own Worst Enemy. 

I'll admit, I wasn't watching. Though I really liked the first 2 episodes, My Own Worst Enemy inexplicably became the show that I put off watching and never got around to. I still haven't seen the rest of the episodes. 

Despite my own failings, I'll be disappointed to see the show go. It had an interesting concept, excellent pacing and a standout cast. But Sadly, a couple weeks is not a long enough run to put any of the show's great team into the running for My TV Awards, they had been on my contention lists. The show is definitely a loss for television. 

NBC also cancelled Lipstick Jungle. To that, I say "who cares". 

Obsessions: Oct 9-15

Yes I love So You Think You Can Dance Canada and I am partial to NBC's new show My Own Worst Enemy and a big shout out to James Ehnes is required as his Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra last Saturday made my month, but there is one winner for this week's obsessions...

Little Mosque on the Prairie season 3. 

One of very few Canadian shows I actually watch, Little Mosque is absolutely adorable and consistently funny. I watched the first 3 episodes of the season on iTunes tonight and they were lovely. Centering around the Rayyan/Amaar dynamic, the episodes had a bittersweet melancholy to them that undercut the prairie sweetness perfectly. 

Quote of the season so far:

Rayyan: ... otherwise there'll be a 500 pound elephant in the room

Sarah: Wouldn't that be a pretty small elephant?

Rayyan: Well, it has to fit in the room. 

My Own Worst Enemy

I have not been this engaged in an action adventure show since Alias. It took Christian Slater 3 seconds to get my attention. I was busy doing something else when I turn on My Own Worst Enemy, out of mild curiosity and a sense of duty more than anything else. I was half paying attention, compiling a list for the post that will follow this one and WHAM there's Christian Slater, starring straight into the camera and speaking in that terrifying psychopath voice that will always and forever sound like Heath Ledger's Joker. And the show didn't let up from there. The plot zoomed, leaving the viewer running to keep up with the show's dense mythology. But that mythology did get explained, if you were able to hold on until the end, giving the viewer a solid base to understand the story but leaving enough mysteries to keep up the intrigue. I had zero intention of making room for another action-adventure show on my radar but I'm going to have to find space for My Own Worst Enemy because both Henry and Edward have me hooked.