I was actu­ally enjoy­ing last night’s episode of Heroes — until the very end when it was revealed that yet another city (Wash­ing­ton, D.C. this time) is on the brink of explo­sive destruction.

So this makes what – three? four? – times that a city/the world at large has either been threat­ened with destruc­tion or actu­ally blown up since the show started. Any writer will tell you that you can’t keep doing the same things over and over again. There has to be some vari­a­tion (or advanc­ing of the over­all story) or read­ers will get bored. Which brings me to this:

Dear Heroes writer dudes,

Get a new plot device.

Sin­cerely,

Jen­nifer

In other TV news, I also watched the first episode of Doll­house. Now, I love me some Joss Whe­don. Spike from Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer is one of my favorite char­ac­ters of all time, and I loved Buffy. Over­all, Angel was good too — until they killed off Cordy and turned Fred into that weird god­dess chick. 

But Doll­house? I thought it was just a big hot mess. And this ver­sion was sup­posed to be eas­ier to under­stand than Whedon’s orig­i­nal? Okaaay. Basi­cally, Doll­house strikes me as a cross between The Matrix and La Femme Nikita — and not in a good way. I think I would have liked it bet­ter if Eliza (Echo) knew that she was being repro­grammed all the time. But the blank look she walks around with and that child­like inno­cence she projects was grat­ing, rather than endearing.

I might give Doll­house a few more episodes, but unless it gets a lot better, I’ll be watch­ing Fri­day Night Lights instead.

What about you guys? What TV shows are you lov­ing right now? Share in the comments.