Best of the 00s: Odds and Ends

Some things I loved but was ultimately unable to build an entire list around them. Here's one of my favorite character introduction scenes, from the 2007 pilot of Dirty Sexy Money:

The show was never really able to sustain the right degree of soapiness (and wasn't done any favors by the writers' strike) but perfectly pitched moments like this one, where the show's central family is introduced like a rogues gallery, made me stick with it to the bitter, episodes-burned-off-in-the-summer end.