Good Luck on That

Last week were the annual network television upfronts, where new shows are introduced to advertisers with a bunch of superlatives and flowery language.  The upfronts remind me of spring training: every team is optimistic about its squad and thinks it can play for first place...until the real games begin.  Same thing here.

My classes started by looking at NBC's new shows.  Some look better than others.  Many of my students remarked that the show featured above looks more like a movie than a TV show.  I'm going to guess that a comment like that is a good sign.