(S01E02) Last week's review was not a kind one. I would have called Cavemen a train wreck, except that at least after a train wreck the survivors can begin to pull their lives together and learn to live again. My feeling last week was there was no such recovery possible after an episode of Cavemen.

A lot of the commentators came to the show's defense. There were cries of "it's not that bad" and "it could have been worse!" Not exactly ringing endorsements, but not the universal condemnation that I had been expecting, either. It took the careful consideration of both those comments and tonight's episode for me to figure out what, exactly, was wrong with this show...

Well, you were warned that this was going to happen: yesterday, the newly-svelte Kirstie Alley came out on the stage of Oprah wearing a bikini. Like I mentioned yesterday, any 55-year-old woman is pretty brave to show her body like that on national television, much less one that dropped enough weight to garner an extra fee at UPS. The pictures of Kirstie that had been floating around lately showed a version of her that hadn't been that thin since she was a contestant on Match Game. But without Photoshop to help her out, what would she look like?

Actually, pretty good. First of all, she used what she called "stripper hose" to sinch her in a bit (she told Oprah she wishes she was able to find hose that went up to her neck). And, of course, Oprah's directors were generous enough to not get too close with the cameras. Oh, and she didn't show her ass, either. But what we did see was a woman who's in pretty good shape. She wasn't as rail-thin as the pictures showed, but it didn't matter; her goal wasn't to get rail-thin, it was to make her feel better about herself. I wouldn't kick her out of bed, that's for sure.

Anyway, judge for yourself; video of the appearance is after the jump.