Summer TV sucks, there's no denying it or getting around it. When once-great, now merely mediocre fare like Entourage and Rescue Me are weekly viewing highlights, there's a dearth of quality TV to be had. Imagine our surprise, then, when last night we tuned into FX's latest summer series, the Glenn Close legal drama Damages.
It's pretty great. Nowhere near The Wire, Friday Night Lights or Lost, of course, but good enough to stand next to The Shield as one of the FX network's shining lights. Glenn Close is tremendous as a cement-hard attorney bent on destroying all who oppose her, even her subordinates. Rose Byrne, she of the huge talent but underwhelming CV, is perfectly cast as the show's moral compass. And Ted Danson? Well, who knew he could be so menacing with his white hair and suspiciously smooth forehead.
Damages plays a little too loosely with time and thinks said timeline bending is a little more clever than it really is, but who cares? It's late-July and there's a decent TV show to be watched.
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