My second favorite [fictional] Nick G. is back.

I had to specify fictional as I do have a pretty rockin cool friend who is also a Nicky G.

But other than one Nick George JD, Nick Garrett and company have returned to Knights Ridge, Mass for yet another season of love trials and tribulations.

And while I am happy to see things going spectacularly well between Eddie and Janet (besides, you know, when she tried to buy him a WOLF for Christmas), I wish I could say the same of the wonderful Owen and his floozy wife Alison. For one, how can you not love a big guy by the name of Owen Rowan? That's a name that sounds like it could be directly out of Pushing Daisies.

After Ms. R. broke his poor heart through the revelation about the affair with Ikey, we have seen Owen put himself through hell and beyond to try to work past it. Most heartbreaking was certainly when he forced his friends to get ALL of the details for him and relay every one to him. Though that was followed closely by the utterly crestfallen look on his face as he arrived to the house (dressed as SANTA, no less!) on Christmas Eve only to see Al getting out of Ikey's truck.

Sure, it was purely innocent... but when you do what she did, you don't exactly deserve the benefit of the doubt.

With the Writers Strike intensely affecting the programming we will be seeing in the months to come, I have to at least revel in my excitement over the fact that the Knights Ridge crew started late and they still have new stories to bring us for a while now... at least that will hold me over until Lost.