The show is called Damages and now we’re both HUGE fans.

The reviews I’ve seen since it premiered Tuesday had been stellar, so it got me excited. We sat down with dinner tonight and watched the first episode and it was fantastic.

Starring Glenn Close, Tate Donovan, Rose Byrne and Ted Danson, it seems like an unlikely cast, but the writing and acting was superb. Danson doesn’t even seem like any Ted Danson I’ve ever seen before. Even George Costanza would be correct now when he said “It’s not as much as Ted Danson makes!” He was great. Close is also good and tough to figure out.

The show begins with Ellen (Byrne) coming out of an elevator all bloody and half-naked. And it goes from there. It’s a legal-type show as it’s about lawyers and a huge case, but it’s not anything like Law and Order, or Ally McBeal or any of those.

It’s a thriller, a mystery and a drama. It’s got that hook where you will be trying to figure out a season-long mystery. You are watching the show from 6-months in the past, while getting clues about the mystery in “flash-forwards”.

It’s on FX, the same station with great shows like The Shield and Rescue Me. Check it out, I’m sure it will replay sometime this week before next Tuesday.