It's true, I, Scanner Emily, love "Men in Trees," the ABC dramedy about New York relationship coach/author Marin Frist (Anne Heche) who moves to Elmo, Alaska to find love and finish her book in peace. Sure, it's completely cliched and the characters may be more than a little archetypal and hokey, but they wouldn't be characters if they weren't, right?
But it's not the cheesy writing or beautiful scenery that gets me. It's not the fact that that when I come home drunk at 3 a.m. on Thursday night, it's there waiting for me at abc.com. It's not even the fact that before "Men in Trees," I really only knew Heche as Ellen DeGeneres' bat-shit crazy ex.
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