What I'm Watching: Damages

Damages: Season 1, Episode 3 "And My Paralizing Fear of Death" (C+)

As much as she is supposed to be intimidating and heartless, Patty's determination to help Ellen sort out her priorities seems forcibly controlling and too deliberately evil. Patty's composure in all of her family matters is too starkly different from her cocksure demeanor in all the rest of her life. I feel like Michael Nouri is the perfect person to play Patty's husband, and I am not certain how I feel about the whole dream with the limos that Patty has. It is intruiging, especially in line with the grenades popping up everywhere. I am glad to see Nestor Serrano in a new role as Patty's bodyguard, following his turn on "24" in the show's fourth season, especially after his 2005 fall drama "Murder Book" did not get picked up or even air. On a final note, I do not care how good a job my fiancee has, but if she misses our engagement party, I would be just a little more ticked off than Lame Boyfriend.

A lot of promos for FX's comedy "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" have aired during this episode, spoofing the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" commercials. I watched one episode of the show last year and thought that it was a bit too raunchy for my tastes, but these ads are hilarious. My favorite is the one where the guy who is not Mac (Dennis?) says that P.C. stands for "post-coital" and tells Mac to go get a bucket and wash his balls. It is just so irreverent and unlike the nature of the real computer ads, and that is why it is so funny. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" premieres its third season Thursday, September 13 at 10pm on FX.