Kate (and anyone else out there), you can probably save yourself some time and skip "The Ex List."

 

I've loved Elizabeth Reaser, who stars as a lady looking for true love, back in the short-lived "Saved" and during her stint in "Grey's Anatomy."

 

So I was hoping the show would be pretty good. Not so much, judging from the pilot.

 

The basic idea is that Reaser's Bella stumbles on a fortune teller who says that Bella has already dated her soulmate and must find him within a year or he'll be out of her life forever. Since the psychic established her credibility, Bella is now going to go through her romantic history. The first person she chooses: a guy who was a sappy romantic that she broke up with in public. On his birthday. That she forgot.

 

Maybe it's just me, but that makes Bella someone I don't particularly want to root for.  

 

As the plot develops, it turns out that the super emotional guy has become a hardcore punk rocker. And Bella gets wooed a little by that. Only his signature song is about Bella breaking his heart and being a bitch. But they go out anyway, and it turns out he's really a hard-exterior, soft-core rocker. And then as she begins plotting to break up with him again, he beats her to the punch.

 

Add in a supporting cast that includes a couple feuding about her wax job down there, and no sale for me.

 

- posted by Raoul