SFist: SFist Watches: Even More Tuesday Fall TV Premieres

Brock Keeling

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:41:47 -0800

The star of Caveman was on The View the other day. (I know, I know) They had him in his caveman costume and in caveman character. It was really sad to watch.

sangfroid826

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:06:00 -0800

Yeah, count me in for the Cavemen premiere. But I hear a lot of comments like Rain's. My girlfriend is similarly unimpressed. It could be a function of the gender gap. Maybe the idea of men as primitive cave-dwellers is a bit too on-the-nose to be funny to the ladies. But I gotta say, the gimmick of treating Cro Magnons as an aggrieved minority is pretty fucking clever. If you substitute "caveman" for "black" you can see how subversive a series this could end up being. It may turn out to be a very shrewd way to to way to talk about race in primetime. But hey, how about that Journeyman? Quantum Leap rip-off for sure, but man, are they Bayareaing the shit out of every freaking scene or what?! No Charmed or Dharma & Greg bullshit here (where they film a few victorians and then do 99% of the filming elsewhere). Journeyman has trolleys! Fog! Earthquakes! SFO! Fog! iPhones! Fog! Palace of Fine Arts! Fog! Fog!

brokenlogin

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:22:42 -0800

I..I don't hate it! *faint*

eightslosh

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:04:29 -0800

Don't hate on Cavemen. Those Geico commercials are funnier and more creative than most of the sitcoms that the networks can come up with on their own (e.g. Carpoolers). It shouldn't be surprising that ad agencies have better talent -- they pay better.