Monday May 15th 2006, 1:41 am
Filed under: Rent my condo

This week, TV is in a rush for the ends. Most shows on the Big 3 networks are giving the big send off to their top shows. Their hope, I suspect, is for these last episodes to pull us in for the next season premier five months from now. It is predictable.

And it’s working.

“Grey’s Anatomy” played a several suspenseful story arcs in its part 1 of the finale. Watching, the term “desperate surgeons” came up over and over. Izzie’s love for a heart-transplant patient drove her to artificially inducing the disaster so that the patient could arrive higher on the list. Callie desperately wanted to fit in George’s world made her be nice with Meredith.
Addison deeply believed her husband still in for the mistress, hopelessly announced that “I can’t compete.”

The thing is, season finales are designed to put viewers on the edge. By putting out the most insane scenarios at the very end, the show would stay on the discussion list until the next season.

One show that seemed highly unlikely to return is ABC’s “Commander in Chief.” Its novelty wore out, I bet, when the show became just another family show that involved the White House and a pretty-looking president. It tried to be the “West Wing” but fell incredibly short–both on humor as well as insights. It was politic-lite in primetime, hoping to pull in family and education values.

If it wants to suceed, it should try to do something desperate.

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