What a waste of blonde, blue eyed hotness

I have a real penchant for blonde haired, blue eyed, non-Nazi men. That’s why I made sure I was turned into JOURNEYMAN’s premiere on NBC. It sported not one but two such delicious speci-men: Kevin McKidd and Reed Diamond. Yum. They played brothers and the casting folks should pat themselves on the back for finding two actors who not only look like they’re related, but also share a presence that makes you believe they’re brothers. So it was double the pleasure.

I discovered the McKidd when he was playing the Roman soldier Vorenus on HBO’s ROME. Diamond is a favorite from his days on HOMICIDE. Both shows were as good as these guy’s looks.

But JOURNEYMAN confused me. Not just confused…REALLY confused. Watching McKidd play a newspaper reporter who just keeps bouncing around in time reminded me of the time I put the SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM DVD into the player and accidentally hit the Shuffle button. I kept watching hoping it would all fall together like it did for PULP FICTION. It didn’t happen for the Enron documentary and it didn’t happen for JOURNEYMAN.

Set in San Francisco, the show held promise. But as the moments ticked on, I kept wondering about what was going on. Just who were the women in the show? Someone named Katie, who has a great haircut, was either a wife, a girlfriend, or an intervention specialist. How did this all fit together? There’s this guy who decides to kill himself by standing in front of one of famous trolley cars. Yeah, that’s frightening. Of course, my McKidd saved this guy and then, zap, another scene and nobody knows nothing. And even suicide guy’s girl was a puzzle, which was wrapped up at the end of the hour, but even that wrapping was not happening. I have absolutely no idea what happened or why – and I have a relatively impressive IQ.

Ever read or write a script for TV? Each scene is identified on paper as to Interior or Exterior, Time of Day, and Location. Perhaps reading the script would have straightened out the confusion. Unfortunately, the whole idea of putting the script on the screen is to make sure one DOESN’T have to read the script to make the story happen. Sigh.

How confusing was the show? There was even a moment when the thought of the show being a “Sixth Sense” surprise crossed my mind, but that didn’t happen, either.

After spending the entire hour hoping to get involved with my boys and the cutest kid actor on TV today, one Charles Henry Wyson, I found myself checking my e-mail, straightening out my desk and looking at my watch. Sorry guys. No matter how blonde, how blue-eyed and how non-Nazi you are, I’ll wait until you both get cast in a show that doesn’t break all the rules of Time Travel TV as established by SCOTT BAKULA in another NBC show, QUANTUM LEAP. Now THAT show made sense.

Tags: Journeyman, Kevin McKidd, NBC, Quantum Leap, Reed Diamond, Scott Bakula