Save Thyself
Worthwhile Show Attempted: Not actually sure how "worthwhile" it is, but whatever, it's summer: Save Me.
Logline: "Anne Heche stars as a Midwestern housewife whose near-death experience has opened her up to communication with God."
How Far I Expected To Get: Despite her many well-documented deficits as a person, I actually like Anne Heche; I think I will probably always give her the benefit of the doubt for Walking And Talking and may be the one of only seventeen people to have watched every episode of Men In Trees. So even though this premise unfortunately invites the viewer to revisit the part of her biography where she believed herself to be a heavenly emissary named Celestia, I thought I would at least be able to watch one of last night's two new episodes.
How Far I Did Get
What Did It: When Tom (Michael Landes), husband to Heche's Beth, discovers the wreckage in their kitchen that very well could contain her dead body, and it's accompanied by "fun," "goofy" cues in the score, I was put off, but I rolled with it. And I lasted, reluctantly, through Tom taking marriage advice from his underling/mistress Carly (Alexandra Breckenridge). But then Beth tries to make amends with her friend Jenna (Heather Burns) after making a drunken spectacle of herself at a neighbourhood party, in the middle of which "God" sends Beth the message that Jenna's husband wants Jenna to give him more "joe blobs," which I guess is as close as you can get on a network sitcom to "blowjobs."
Worth Taking Another Run At It? No thank you. Not for you either, I'm pretty sure.