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I've mostly got the bathroom back together from the disaster I had a few weeks ago. It still needs to be painted. I've got a color chosen, but I haven't bought the paint yet. I've found I don't have a lot of stamina for hard work any more, but hopefully doing the work slowly over time will help how it looks in the end.
Thumbs down for My Own Worst Enemy
I'm just not sure about a number of things about this show. What does the spy agency hope to accomplish with their split personality program? Why would anyone volunteer for such a program? If the bad guys can trace one of the good guys to his home, can't they trace one of them to their place of business and wipe out the whole nest at once? Why would the TV network buy such a feeble show outline? Why would they put it on the same night with Chuck and Heroes which don't seem to have the same target audiences at all? I can't answer those questions
I can answer one question. Would I want to waste the time watching a second episode? No.
Basically My Own Worst Enemy is the movie Total Recall reset in time with a little of Nikki from Heroes thrown in purely for the sadism of it. The movie didn't have to make a lot of sense because fantasy and ambiguity was part of the whole package. "MOWE" as I'll call it is set in it's own world of spy fantasy which may or may not have a logic to it depending on how you look at it. But as I said above, so far it makes no sense, and I don't have any interest in watching to see if it ever will. Total Recall was fun. MOWE is creepy. In the first half of the episode the not-so-nice Edward executes one woman he's slept with and pretty much seduces another under false pretenses for the hell of it. The "nice" Henry puts on the clothes of someone he knows he's never met for no particular reason, and then decides to go for a joy ride in the other guy's car. As the audience, you can't tell when the good guys are amoral spies or emotionally dead business people who don't seem to have the sense to know how crappy their jobs are. So much wrong with the show; so little right.
Thumbs down for My Own Worst Enemy
I'm just not sure about a number of things about this show. What does the spy agency hope to accomplish with their split personality program? Why would anyone volunteer for such a program? If the bad guys can trace one of the good guys to his home, can't they trace one of them to their place of business and wipe out the whole nest at once? Why would the TV network buy such a feeble show outline? Why would they put it on the same night with Chuck and Heroes which don't seem to have the same target audiences at all? I can't answer those questions
I can answer one question. Would I want to waste the time watching a second episode? No.
Basically My Own Worst Enemy is the movie Total Recall reset in time with a little of Nikki from Heroes thrown in purely for the sadism of it. The movie didn't have to make a lot of sense because fantasy and ambiguity was part of the whole package. "MOWE" as I'll call it is set in it's own world of spy fantasy which may or may not have a logic to it depending on how you look at it. But as I said above, so far it makes no sense, and I don't have any interest in watching to see if it ever will. Total Recall was fun. MOWE is creepy. In the first half of the episode the not-so-nice Edward executes one woman he's slept with and pretty much seduces another under false pretenses for the hell of it. The "nice" Henry puts on the clothes of someone he knows he's never met for no particular reason, and then decides to go for a joy ride in the other guy's car. As the audience, you can't tell when the good guys are amoral spies or emotionally dead business people who don't seem to have the sense to know how crappy their jobs are. So much wrong with the show; so little right.