I wrote this last night but didn't post it. But now that Balgavy beat me to the punch today, I might as well post them now.
Some thoughts on some recent TV shows.
Lost
There is something "off" about this show in a very good way but there is also something "off" about this show in a not so good way. Every week, at about the halfway part of the episode, I'm ready to quit watching the series. But, by the end of the show, I'm super excited for the next episode. Even when a lot of things happen in an episode, it feels like nothing has really happened. But, I do love the fact that Charlie the junkie bass player is a dead ringer for a waiter at The Chip Shop.
Gilmore Girls
I was less than impressed with the first couple of episodes, but now I'm loving this show more than I ever have (granted, I didn't start watching it until the third season). I can't get enough of the Luke-Lorelai plot. It is well known that when a show is based on the flirting of the main characters and then they finally get together, the show goes down the tubes (Moonlighting and Northern Exposure are two that immediately come to mind) but the writers seem to know how to handle this scenario. Rory needs to drop Dean, but for the smarmy blond boy? I wish not, but I think we all know that is where it is heading. And could Lane be any cuter? Zach is a doofus but this new plot development of the roommates dating is wonderful.
Surreal Life
Was this season longer than the the two previous seasons? It felt like it. I loved it, but it might be my least favorite of the three. Ryan Starr is so obnoxious but in a boring way. However, nothing beats Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielson's hijinks. I anxiously await their spinoff series.
The Wire
Still the best show on television. That is all there is to it. The return of Barksdale is adding an unbelievable amount of intrigue to an already incredible show. The way that the writers flawlessly add new characters to the mix is astounding. This show easily has the most well-developed characters on television. Years from now, this show will be regarded as one of the best shows ever on television.
Desperate Housewives
You didn't think I watched this shit, did you? Or should I? Is it good? I'll watch it, just give me the word! I know that this is a Stone Groove fave.
The Apprentice
How is the Springbrook grad doing?
South Park
I've never watched this show in the past. I've watched the first two episodes of this season and they've been okay. The first episodes's moral of always having to choose between a turd and giant douche was pretty damn funny. And the second episode's lesson on how Wal-Mart destroys communities was also pretty good. But some of it crosses the line for me from pointed social criticism to beligerent nastiness. Obviously, that is the point, so I don't exactly know what I'm bitching about.
The Daily Show
America's loss is funny's gain.
The Simpsons
The first segment last night was hilarious. The last two were incredibly bad. Par for the course, I suppose. When will I finally jettison this show like I did R.E.M.?
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Raj gets fired on The Apprentice!!!! I was so dissapointed. But kicking it to the receptionist was classic. He went out in style.
Please don't watch desperate housewives...please for the love of all that's pure and good.
Right, the whole thing about British waiting staff in the US is a bit wierd. In the UK waiting staff are just, well, waiting staff. Just like their US counterparts but slower and much more likely to forget everything ever. In the US it seems that to pull off the British waiting staff thing you need to be just the good side of unkempt in order to fool the customer (or 'punter' as you would be referred to) into thinking that you are in fact a useless piece of crap who will bugger up and forget everything ever and be grumpy as well. In my experience of eating in the US the brits rank as highly as anyone else, but yes , they are all a bit scruffy and stoner-ish. I will also point you in the direction of 'Tea and Sympathy' in the West Village for further proof. And yes, that dude does look like the dude from the Chipshop.
Desperate Housewives is truly apalling yet I seem to find myself watching it most weeks. I can see where Stonegroove is at.
i love that luke and lorelei are finally getting it on and i understand that both lead very busy lives, but could their relationship be any more boring? four seasons of overt sexual tension leads to this? i'm disappointed so far in how their relationship is unfolding, but man do i love this show.
you should dump the simpsons like a moldy potato. i gave it up years ago and haven't looked back. it was taking up too much brain space.
i watched an episode of the apprentice mid-season just to see kevin allen and was instantly hooked. i don't know why, i hate business and i hate people vying for corporate power but it got me. maybe it's the way trump flips out at the end every time. kevin is still on the show and while a seeminlgy friendly and classy guy among whiny, obnoxious jerks, he has narrowly avoided getting fired several times. i was happy to see raj go because he is smarmy and dim and so desperately wants to be an alpha male it hurts to watch him. he gives bow tie wearers a bad name and that's saying something.
Bowles !!!!
What the heck!!!!?
i'm already bored with the Brigitte/Flav thing and i doubt i'll watch their show. the Surreal Life went off a cliff very early this season. as for South Park, they do sometimes grind a point home in ways that aren't necessarily humourous. the show has been a little more inconsistent in recent years, but sometimes it is flat out hilarious. the Jennifer Lopez episode from last season might be the funniest episode ever.
yeah, this surreal life has not been that great since the beginning. i gave it too much leeway. but i will NEVER get sick of flavor flav! ever, ever, ever!
not the best casting job this season on the surreal life, but flav, "bridget" and charo are 3 of the best stars to ever be the show. casting jordan knight and dumb american idol runner up were two big boo-boos. boy do they suck.
is smarmy the new hip word?
I strongly advocate for "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss" as the best shadenfraude show on TV. To watch a reality show pretend to be a fake reality show pretending to be a reality show; it's like watching a rattlesnake eat its own eggs-disturbing yet facinating.
Besides (and maybe this is just a rural thing) you get to see horrfically cocky MBAs self-immolate in the most awe-inspiringly inane ways.
Two thumbs up. Oh, and I agree with Alex; British waiters are crap. Its the service charge built into the food cost thing all the way.
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