Sorry guys. I should have posted about it sooner, but I just didn't think of it.

It was okay. I wanted it to be better, but it's just a pilot. I'll give it a little while. I just didn't feel the subtext that exists on Whedon's shows, but, again, it's just a pilot.

The basic idea is that there's this girl from a rich family in Niagara Falls, NY who realizes that her whole family works themselves to death and are unhappy, so she decided to take a menial job at a Niagara Falls gift shop so she can exert much less effort and remain unhappy. Then the knickknacks in the store (and elsewhere) with animals on them start talking to her and telling her to do bizarre stuff and she doesn't know why. Hilarity ensues. Having not seen Joan of Arcadia, it sounds fairly similar.

For those of you that missed it, there seems to be quite a bit of activity on the torrents. Try a search at suprnova.org.

On the other hand, last night's premiere of Touching Evil, which I expected to be just okay, turned out to be quite good. The ads said that it was co-executive produced by the Hughes Brothers, but they failed to mention that it was directed by a Hughes Brother (Allen). I don't know if they/he plan to direct more episodes of it, but the directing and cinematography was, I thought, orders above almost everything else I've seen on TV, and having the direction come back down to normal TV drama levels would be weird. Given the fact that they go after slightly odd projects (the documentary American Pimp comes to mind), I wouldn't be surprised if they swapped off direction of each episode or something. But we'll have to wait and see.

Oh, and for our British friends, yes, it is a remake of the ITV/Granada series of the same name, which appeared previously in the US on PBS as a set of episodes for the anthology series Mystery!. I never saw it, though.