My new best friend

 

My Own Worst Enemy

Mondays – 10pm ET – NBC

 

“Breakdown”

I saw the ads.  I heard the hype.  They have fooled us before so I was not expecting great things.  But I do like Christian Slater and wanted to check it out.  I finally got the chance to sit down and take it in on Sunday.  This would let me know if I needed to set the DVR for Monday night’s airing.

 

I was intrigued from the beginning – literally the first five minutes – hooked!  It really appeared as though I was watching a movie… the set, the scene, the actors.  If I had a better tv set it would have really looked like a movie.  The thing that set it apart from regular tv for me was the post sex smoking and drinking.  This is something that is usually kept off the small screen.  It was a welcome departure from the normal crap we see on tv and it worked with the storyline, not like they just decided to throw in some smoking.  I know many people want smoking off tv, but I have no problem with it when it fits within the character.  And it did.

 

Edward has a great gig as a super spy.  Suave, sexy, gets the job done.  Henry is a pencil pusher with a wife and kids.  The premise is beginning to sound like “True Lies” but there is a catch: Edward and Henry are the same guy.  We have a spy whose agency is able to ‘switch’ his mind into operating as the alter ego.  But something is going wrong and he is switching personalities out of the blue. Edward wakes up next to Henry’s wife.  Henry appears during Edward’s mission.  The agency is aware there might be a problem, but Edward is sent out on another mission, only to have Henry appear.  AND this is all in the first fifteen minutes.

 

I am normally not a fan of premiere shows.  There is a long set up, the character development takes forever, and overall is boring.  Plain boring.  So boring, I never know if I want to come back again.  In this case, I need to set the DVR to tape all episodes because I am hooked!