Pilot review: Privileged

Eh.

I was really only watching this for Michael Cassidy. And he was a little disappointing. He was pretty much just the typical morally superior childhood friend. A regular Joey Potter, minus all the whining and self-pitying. Damned Hidden Palms had quite an effect on me. I really got into Michael Cassidy as the bad boy, or at least the creepy morally ambiguous guy. It was campy and fun.

The show isn't unenjoyable. But mainly because the lead actress,...(looking up her name)...Joanna Garcia, is carrying the whole thing on charming quirkiness. Maybe if Gossip Girl gets to be too much for me, or not enough, I suppose, I'll switch over to this show. Otherwise, I don't think I care enough to spend the time.

And what was the deal with the all girl-fronted indie rock soundtrack? It was more than a little distracting. Mainly because it seemed to stop and start at random intervals with no regard for the tone of the scene, the uncompleted dialog, the general volume of the rest of the show. Maybe every CW show gets sent to the same post production outfit for "finishing" and it all comes out looking and sounding about the same.