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Aren't you sick and tired of Political Posts? Time for the Snarky TV Slut Report!!
Read most of my flist - or as far back as I could manage. Saw quite a few political posts, so clearly I'm not the only one who is struggling with politics at the moment, but methinks it is time I drifted away from it and focused on well, more, fun things like the upcoming fall TV season.
I swiped this idea from one of the people on my flist. So it's not original.
[As an aside, this summer I watched and/or DVR'd the following shows: Dexter 2, Weeds 3 (both via DVD), In Plain Sight, Burn Notice (still waiting for the season finale, dang-it), Closer (ditto), Eureka(ditto), Doctor Who, Mad Men, Project Runway and General Hospital ( a total guilty pleasure that I don't expect anyone to understand, but I can share with my mom and Wales. We mostly rail at it, make fun of it, and vent about the characters - oddly cathartic. My mother and grandmother got me hooked on soap operas as a child...and serials as an art form. There are worse addictions. Plus, I will state that GH is a heck of a lot better written than 90210 and Melrose Place. Okay, GH has a lot more episodes. When you create over a thousand a year, you have to strike gold every once and a while, granted it's usually just five out of 1000, but what the hey - when in contrast you only have 22 - it's a bit harder to strike gold, the odds just are not in your favor. Right now they have a rather ridiculous court trial going on - where pretty much everyone involved except the judge and the defendent should be recused or thrown off the case. Two of the jurors not only know the defendant, they know both lawyers, the defendant's girl friend, and all the witnesses. And the defendant is being accused of killing the prosecutor's son. Only in a soap opera, also proof that bad writers do get jobs, well paying jobs - although if you watched 90210 you sort of knew that.) Haven't gotten around to MAD MEN yet. I'm just saving them up for a time when I'm in the mood for a marathon. Which is going to have to be soon, considering how full the DVR is going to get after the fall season actually starts.
Here's my tentative DVR list, I'm going to wait for True Blood, Dexter, and Weeds to come out in DVD via Netflix, because I really can't afford Showtime and HBO at the moment. Nor do I have the time to watch them. As you'll see, I'm watching enough bloody tv as it is. Show's that I'm either looking forward to the most or consider can't miss are in bold. Others are fun/guilty pleasures that I don't mind missing that much. Note, while I have incredibly ecletic taste, I tend to drift more towards serial drama or dramedy's and am really not into situation comedies, reality shows or procedurals with minor exceptions. I miss the situation comedies of my youth - Bewitched, MASH, Cheers, Frazier, Night Court, News Radio, Caroline in the City, Murphy Brown, Mary Tyler Moore...even if I saw a good portion of them in reruns.
Monday
8pm :*Gossip Girl (fun)
*Chuck
*Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles
[This poses a bit of a problem since I can only watch and/or tape two at a time. Luckily for me, Chuck has an encore on Saturdays - because the networks have given up trying to get people to watch tv on that night.)
9pm Heroes
10pm My Own Worste Enemy - this could either be amazing or really bad. Stars Christian Slater and Alfre Woodward. About a spy who has a chip in his brain that makes him two people.
Sort of like Total Recall meets Alias.[starts 10/13/08]
Tuesday
(I tried 90210 and don't see myself wasting another hour on it. Gossip Girl has more charm, snark, and is sort of fun. 90210 is pathetically bland. Brenda and Kelly are in it, but barely, and their acting is stilted. Also they look really odd. Neither is as photogenic as they used to be, even with the botox.)
8pm : House
9pm: *The Mentalist ( a show about a guy who used to be a psychic con artist who is trying to redeem himself)
*Fringe (JJ Abrahms attempt to recreate Koljack the Night Stalker and the X-Files on TV, yes, another procedural horror series. Stars Jonathan Jackson and Ana Torv and John Noble.)
Wed
8pm: Pushing Daisies
Bones (jury is still out)
10 pm:Dirty Sexy Money
*Lipstick Jungle - what? I find Brooke Sheilds comforting, because she's the only TV actress who is 6 foot tall, over 40, with a big frame and looks like me (if I lost thirty pounds and well, working on it). And I adore Paul Blackthorne...and Andrew McCarthy. And it fits my fantasies - being a top movie producer, with a cool singer hubby with a great Irish brogue, living in a great loft, wearing designer clothes and with kids that are taken care of mainly by said hubby and boarding schools. Plus too cool friends who will die for me. Basically it's Sex in the City but with hotter men and less sex jokes.
Thursday
[I call this my guilty pleasure night...no thinking aloud, because it will only spoil the fun. Sigh, who am I kidding they are all guilty pleasures.]
8pmUgly Betty
*Smallville (last season surprised me, it was really good in places - admittedly I have a weakness for superhero tv shows. Not all superhero tv shows - I couldn't watch Manimal. That said, I'm not sure how good this show is going to be without Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover chewing the scenery. Not going to miss Kristen Kreurk that much, even though Lana was oddly growing on me - she got nicely dark last season. The reintroduction of Oliver Green, Black Canary and the Flash should be interesting though, plus the beginnings of the Justice League. Apparently the couldn't get the rights to Batman and Wonder Woman, so had to improvise - hence Green Arrow (rich dude with a vigilante complex) and Black Canery (super-powered woman with a self-righteous streak).)
9pm
Grey's Anatomy
Supernatural - two hot guys, who happen to be brothers, with guns, killing scarey demons and making sarcastic jokes - if you don't analyze it and/or think about it too much, it's fun. Actually I think that applies to most of these shows.
10pm
This is hard, I want to see the last season of ER, but I'm curious about Eleventh Hour and Life on Mars. (I've seen the British version of Life on Mars, missed the British version of Eleventh Hour though, dang-it.)
Life on Mars - has a fascinating cast, completely new. Harvey Keitel now plays the bigoted boss - it used to be the guy who played MR. O'BRien on STNG and DS9, but I guess when Keitel became available they leaped. Michael Imperoli plays one of the cops. And Gretchen Mol plays the gal that the protagonist gets involved with. Yes, it has a movie star cast. Also now takes place in NYC in the 1970s as opposed to LA, which is also very interesting. In some ways more interesting than the Brit version from my perspective - since I live in NYC and I know something about what it was like in the 70s.
[10/9/08]
Eleventh Hour - stars hunky Rufus Sewell and is yet another attempt to do the X-Files but this round with realistically horrible biological crisises. [10/9/08]
[Apparently doing recreations of Brit shows and horror series that sound a lot like the X-Files are the new trend.]
Friday
[dead night]
Everbody Hates Chris - 8pm (Chris Rock's comedy about his childhood growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s. Reminds me a bit of Spike Lee's Crooklyn.)
9pm - Crusoe - (an adventure series loosely based on Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, complete with cannibals and pirates...could be fun. Also stars Sam Neil and Scean Bean - which are two actors that I've been known to follow around a bit.) 10/17/08
9pm - The Ex-List ( a remake of an Aussie series with Elizabeth Reaser of Grey's Anatomy fame playing a woman who has been told by a psychic that she has already met her intended spouse and if she doesn't marry within a year, she never will - so she goes crazy and hunts for a spouse amongst her ex-boyfriends. Have to admit a certain curiousity.]10/3/08
10 pm - Life - which is an odd show, has an interesting cast and I rather like the lead, but it gets slow and sort of confused at times in its story arcs. In short, it's sort of unevenly written.
Saturday:
Chuck at 9pm, encore.
Sunday:
9pm Desperate Housewives
10pm Brothers & Sisters
As you can see, I apparently have no life. Actually not completely true. 80% of this is getting taped by the DVR to either be watched at a later date, such as on a Sat morning, during dinner, etc or to be deleted when I eventually realize I never going to watch them and they are just taking up space on my DVR. DVR's are wonderful devices. You can forget tv entirely until you *really* want to watch it. Also, a lot of these are new shows that I'm giving a test run - five episodes tops, assuming of course the networks don't get itchy and cancel them after two. No writer's strike this year - so it is possible.
I swiped this idea from one of the people on my flist. So it's not original.
[As an aside, this summer I watched and/or DVR'd the following shows: Dexter 2, Weeds 3 (both via DVD), In Plain Sight, Burn Notice (still waiting for the season finale, dang-it), Closer (ditto), Eureka(ditto), Doctor Who, Mad Men, Project Runway and General Hospital ( a total guilty pleasure that I don't expect anyone to understand, but I can share with my mom and Wales. We mostly rail at it, make fun of it, and vent about the characters - oddly cathartic. My mother and grandmother got me hooked on soap operas as a child...and serials as an art form. There are worse addictions. Plus, I will state that GH is a heck of a lot better written than 90210 and Melrose Place. Okay, GH has a lot more episodes. When you create over a thousand a year, you have to strike gold every once and a while, granted it's usually just five out of 1000, but what the hey - when in contrast you only have 22 - it's a bit harder to strike gold, the odds just are not in your favor. Right now they have a rather ridiculous court trial going on - where pretty much everyone involved except the judge and the defendent should be recused or thrown off the case. Two of the jurors not only know the defendant, they know both lawyers, the defendant's girl friend, and all the witnesses. And the defendant is being accused of killing the prosecutor's son. Only in a soap opera, also proof that bad writers do get jobs, well paying jobs - although if you watched 90210 you sort of knew that.) Haven't gotten around to MAD MEN yet. I'm just saving them up for a time when I'm in the mood for a marathon. Which is going to have to be soon, considering how full the DVR is going to get after the fall season actually starts.
Here's my tentative DVR list, I'm going to wait for True Blood, Dexter, and Weeds to come out in DVD via Netflix, because I really can't afford Showtime and HBO at the moment. Nor do I have the time to watch them. As you'll see, I'm watching enough bloody tv as it is. Show's that I'm either looking forward to the most or consider can't miss are in bold. Others are fun/guilty pleasures that I don't mind missing that much. Note, while I have incredibly ecletic taste, I tend to drift more towards serial drama or dramedy's and am really not into situation comedies, reality shows or procedurals with minor exceptions. I miss the situation comedies of my youth - Bewitched, MASH, Cheers, Frazier, Night Court, News Radio, Caroline in the City, Murphy Brown, Mary Tyler Moore...even if I saw a good portion of them in reruns.
Monday
8pm :*Gossip Girl (fun)
*Chuck
*Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles
[This poses a bit of a problem since I can only watch and/or tape two at a time. Luckily for me, Chuck has an encore on Saturdays - because the networks have given up trying to get people to watch tv on that night.)
9pm Heroes
10pm My Own Worste Enemy - this could either be amazing or really bad. Stars Christian Slater and Alfre Woodward. About a spy who has a chip in his brain that makes him two people.
Sort of like Total Recall meets Alias.[starts 10/13/08]
Tuesday
(I tried 90210 and don't see myself wasting another hour on it. Gossip Girl has more charm, snark, and is sort of fun. 90210 is pathetically bland. Brenda and Kelly are in it, but barely, and their acting is stilted. Also they look really odd. Neither is as photogenic as they used to be, even with the botox.)
8pm : House
9pm: *The Mentalist ( a show about a guy who used to be a psychic con artist who is trying to redeem himself)
*Fringe (JJ Abrahms attempt to recreate Koljack the Night Stalker and the X-Files on TV, yes, another procedural horror series. Stars Jonathan Jackson and Ana Torv and John Noble.)
Wed
8pm: Pushing Daisies
Bones (jury is still out)
10 pm:Dirty Sexy Money
*Lipstick Jungle - what? I find Brooke Sheilds comforting, because she's the only TV actress who is 6 foot tall, over 40, with a big frame and looks like me (if I lost thirty pounds and well, working on it). And I adore Paul Blackthorne...and Andrew McCarthy. And it fits my fantasies - being a top movie producer, with a cool singer hubby with a great Irish brogue, living in a great loft, wearing designer clothes and with kids that are taken care of mainly by said hubby and boarding schools. Plus too cool friends who will die for me. Basically it's Sex in the City but with hotter men and less sex jokes.
Thursday
[I call this my guilty pleasure night...no thinking aloud, because it will only spoil the fun. Sigh, who am I kidding they are all guilty pleasures.]
8pmUgly Betty
*Smallville (last season surprised me, it was really good in places - admittedly I have a weakness for superhero tv shows. Not all superhero tv shows - I couldn't watch Manimal. That said, I'm not sure how good this show is going to be without Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover chewing the scenery. Not going to miss Kristen Kreurk that much, even though Lana was oddly growing on me - she got nicely dark last season. The reintroduction of Oliver Green, Black Canary and the Flash should be interesting though, plus the beginnings of the Justice League. Apparently the couldn't get the rights to Batman and Wonder Woman, so had to improvise - hence Green Arrow (rich dude with a vigilante complex) and Black Canery (super-powered woman with a self-righteous streak).)
9pm
Grey's Anatomy
Supernatural - two hot guys, who happen to be brothers, with guns, killing scarey demons and making sarcastic jokes - if you don't analyze it and/or think about it too much, it's fun. Actually I think that applies to most of these shows.
10pm
This is hard, I want to see the last season of ER, but I'm curious about Eleventh Hour and Life on Mars. (I've seen the British version of Life on Mars, missed the British version of Eleventh Hour though, dang-it.)
Life on Mars - has a fascinating cast, completely new. Harvey Keitel now plays the bigoted boss - it used to be the guy who played MR. O'BRien on STNG and DS9, but I guess when Keitel became available they leaped. Michael Imperoli plays one of the cops. And Gretchen Mol plays the gal that the protagonist gets involved with. Yes, it has a movie star cast. Also now takes place in NYC in the 1970s as opposed to LA, which is also very interesting. In some ways more interesting than the Brit version from my perspective - since I live in NYC and I know something about what it was like in the 70s.
[10/9/08]
Eleventh Hour - stars hunky Rufus Sewell and is yet another attempt to do the X-Files but this round with realistically horrible biological crisises. [10/9/08]
[Apparently doing recreations of Brit shows and horror series that sound a lot like the X-Files are the new trend.]
Friday
[dead night]
Everbody Hates Chris - 8pm (Chris Rock's comedy about his childhood growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s. Reminds me a bit of Spike Lee's Crooklyn.)
9pm - Crusoe - (an adventure series loosely based on Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, complete with cannibals and pirates...could be fun. Also stars Sam Neil and Scean Bean - which are two actors that I've been known to follow around a bit.) 10/17/08
9pm - The Ex-List ( a remake of an Aussie series with Elizabeth Reaser of Grey's Anatomy fame playing a woman who has been told by a psychic that she has already met her intended spouse and if she doesn't marry within a year, she never will - so she goes crazy and hunts for a spouse amongst her ex-boyfriends. Have to admit a certain curiousity.]10/3/08
10 pm - Life - which is an odd show, has an interesting cast and I rather like the lead, but it gets slow and sort of confused at times in its story arcs. In short, it's sort of unevenly written.
Saturday:
Chuck at 9pm, encore.
Sunday:
9pm Desperate Housewives
10pm Brothers & Sisters
As you can see, I apparently have no life. Actually not completely true. 80% of this is getting taped by the DVR to either be watched at a later date, such as on a Sat morning, during dinner, etc or to be deleted when I eventually realize I never going to watch them and they are just taking up space on my DVR. DVR's are wonderful devices. You can forget tv entirely until you *really* want to watch it. Also, a lot of these are new shows that I'm giving a test run - five episodes tops, assuming of course the networks don't get itchy and cancel them after two. No writer's strike this year - so it is possible.