IT'S THE FALL SEASON LINE-UP!
I'm probably just as excited, if not more for this than football fans and all those games that dominate the tv on whatever night it's on. I can never remember.
I was happy to see my shows back in action, even though they pushed Parks and Recreation to mid season (we'll get into an angry rant about that later) but I wasn't so excited for any new shows. Nothing really grabbed my interest in that special way 30 Rock or Modern Family did for me. But I won't discriminate against anything (no, I will, who are we kidding?) just yet. Sometimes it takes a while for shows to really get into a good groove, so the first few episodes are a little rocky.
There is one show that I missed on Monday is called The Event (ominous, right?), and the more commercials they have trying to make you tune in, the less I want to see it. It's supposed to be something big and mysterious, very LOST like or Flash Forward (RIP ol' buddy) but I sense desperation in their promos. All last night I kept hearing "the world wants to know: what happened to the plane? THE EVENT, Mondays, on NBC." First of all, I was on the computer, so that's why I heard it, not saw it, but it didn't make me want to raise my eyes from
Anyways, Glee started off on a good note. Get it? Because there's singing. Thankfully, the writer's must have received my passive aggressive emails about the quality of last season's writing and tightened up their jokes so the dialogue was actually bearable. I didn't really write those emails, but I prayed someone did. The season looks promising, even though they did sing "Billionaire" and I hate that song. I want to punch the singer of the song, so frickin' bad. Sing that to the original melody. You'll get it. Jane Lynch was on fire, as usual, and I don't know if they actually work really hard to perfect her lines or she just looks at the script and improvise's whatever the hell she feels like as long as it makes sense with the plot. Who knows? My money's on Jane.
Modern Family was AMAZING. I did worry for it this summer. It had so much buzz, it won multiple Emmy's, and the first season was unbelievable, and I was afraid that it had exhausted all the characters and take a turn for the just plain silly, but thankfully, it did not. I usually measure my love for a show by how often I laugh out loud when I'm watching it alone (it's harder than it sounds). Modern Family? Manic laughter status. It's creepy. Just ask my family. I just love every character on there. It's hard to have a favorite.
30 Rock was a little eh last season, and my interest, though loyal, was dwindling. They were nearing the sitcom point of making every character turn into a caricature by using the same quirks to keep the jokes coming. Usually that spirals into a character no one can relate to and it's just not funny. Think about every character from the last few seasons of Will and Grace. But I enjoyed last night's opener, it earned a rewind-and-repeat for a few moments (you know when you're laughing so hard you missed the follow up from the funny line? Plus you want to hear the line again and truly appreciate it. Just me?). Kenneth better come back. Thas all I'm sayin'.
Now for the rant:
Last year a little show called Parks and Recreation started it's second season. It's first season started mid-mid season. That's never a good sign. But you know what else started mid-mid season? The Office. And you know what? I didn't like it at all. But I still watched. The same went with Parks. Another fact about both shows: They were created by the same people. Greg Daniels and Mike Schur. Little known fact: I made their coffee for them every day last year while they were writing season two. I'd like to think it helped with their inspiration. Anywho, just like The Office, Parks grew into something completely different then what it started out with. I don't know what happens, but it just becomes really good during the second season. Anyways, it's one of my favorite shows now, so you know what that means? NBC can sense my happiness, and decides to crush it. Like a bug. They moved it to mid season, and put on a lovely little show called Outsourced. Excuse me, it's hard to sense written sarcasm. It's not lovely at all. It's a terrible show. It's not so funny as it is racist, and it's obviously written by a douche bag American. How do I know? Because he doesn't realize that Americans don't like being told that they're stupid. No one does, really, but Americans in particular. It didn't help that the only American stereotype's were Southern. it's too easy. But while I do give props to a show that doesn't star a lot of whiteys, and it was a movie or something before, so that means it was successful enough for a tv show to spring from it, it's just not going to work. And I think the network knows that, because Parks needs a place to park (get it?) and it better not get bumped to Wednesday. My schedule is just too full right now. I have Modern Family and Ghosthunters. It's just not going to work.
I will be of service to you all and check out Undercovers (my future husband Ben Schwartz is on it and even though he's not the main part, we need something to support a family with so I'll help out in the easiest way possible) and let you know whether it's worthy of your attention. I'll see what I can do for the rest. I'm kind of boycotting CBS due to their continuous renewal of Two and a Half Men, but it might not be a very strict avoidance. We'll see.
Oh, and Raising Hope? Not worth your time. Peace.
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