Meet the Parents. Every Week. For a half hour.
You decide.
Yawn.
Showing posts with label TV Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV Reviews. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Death by Television: Worst Week (CBS)
Meet the Parents. Every Week. For a half hour.
You decide.
Yawn.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Death by Television: Boston Legal (ABC)
I am a Boston Legal addict.
It happened over the summer.
With a dearth of television and movies disappointing me at every turn I turned to the first season of BL and never looked back.
I watched the first three seasons at breakneck speed, check my Netflix history.
I have yet to see Season 4 but last night saw the return for 5 and I, of course, tuned it.
Meh.
The show was decidedly uninteresting. Spader's closing was extremely well written as usual. This time he defeats Big Tobacco.
I think what has finally gotten to me is: Shatner's character, Denny Crane almost NEVER does or says anything remotely humane. Why does Spader, the most lefty crusading bleeding heart lawyer this side the tv world has seen since The Defenders, keep calling him his best friend?
Doesn't make sense.
That said.
Still crackled enough for me to keep watching.
Death by Television: How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
How I Met Your Mother - CBS
Wither the sitcom. Really. The home to the great 4 camera shows of the golden age of TV is really the only place to see (semi) quality situation comedies anymore. And one of those is Two & a Half Men.
I have been watching and loving HIMYM for two years now. Took us a while to get into it. I loved the semi-meta aspect of the show. The episode where they all ate sandwiches as a euphemism for pot was hilarious. I even like the conceit that the lead is telling the story of the courtship to his kids. This conceit is a problem, however, since we all know that Sarah Chalke is NOT the titular mother. So, Ted's relationship with her is doomed as we know it.
Okay, blah blah. This show was never about that. It was about these meta-characters as voices for the detached gen-yers. And that's where the season premiere falls apart. Ted is desperate for his new girlfriend to love his favorite movie of all time. Otherwise, how could they spend the rest of their lives together?
Trouble is: Said movie is Star Wars. That's the favorite movie of, say, my generation. (Yeah, I know this is a flimsy argument, but it's my blog). I would then portend that the movie is either the fave of the creators or that they couldn't think of a more geeked out, universally loved flick.
I agree with those points, after all, I made them. But understanding that didn't make the episode any better.
It all seems to be going the Friends route of "split all the characters up and divide up the A,B & C stories.
It's hard to care at this point.
Introduce the mother and get Barney and Sparkles together or you are looking at your last season.
Wither the sitcom. Really. The home to the great 4 camera shows of the golden age of TV is really the only place to see (semi) quality situation comedies anymore. And one of those is Two & a Half Men.
I have been watching and loving HIMYM for two years now. Took us a while to get into it. I loved the semi-meta aspect of the show. The episode where they all ate sandwiches as a euphemism for pot was hilarious. I even like the conceit that the lead is telling the story of the courtship to his kids. This conceit is a problem, however, since we all know that Sarah Chalke is NOT the titular mother. So, Ted's relationship with her is doomed as we know it.
Okay, blah blah. This show was never about that. It was about these meta-characters as voices for the detached gen-yers. And that's where the season premiere falls apart. Ted is desperate for his new girlfriend to love his favorite movie of all time. Otherwise, how could they spend the rest of their lives together?
Trouble is: Said movie is Star Wars. That's the favorite movie of, say, my generation. (Yeah, I know this is a flimsy argument, but it's my blog). I would then portend that the movie is either the fave of the creators or that they couldn't think of a more geeked out, universally loved flick.
I agree with those points, after all, I made them. But understanding that didn't make the episode any better.
It all seems to be going the Friends route of "split all the characters up and divide up the A,B & C stories.
It's hard to care at this point.
Introduce the mother and get Barney and Sparkles together or you are looking at your last season.
Death by Television: Heroes (ABC)
Death by Television is a new feature based on a couple things: 1. I love television. I have two tivos, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen and a dual recording HDDVR in the living room. I can rip anything off the Tivo in the bedroom to my macbook and burn it to my ipod for later viewing. There is nothing I want to see that I can not see.
That said. I find myself disappointed more than ever lately in the state of visual storytelling. For, isn't that why we love TV? To be told stories about people we care about, hate, are jealous of, are scared for, etc?
2. I also enjoy Twitter. Call me names, I don't care, I love the pithy, quick blurbage that our society has descended to.
With that we start Death by Television. Quick reviews of the returning and debuting television shows for the new season.The longest thing in this segment "should" be this introduction. Stop reading if the reviews are more than a couple hundred words. The shows won't be worth it.
Heroes - Season 3 - ABC Mondays
This might have been the most boring, lugubrious, casting off of audience goodwill and currency in the history of TV. Or, maybe, it's just that, after a terrific first season (with a terrible ending) there was no place to go.
Doesn't matter. I couldn't get through this two hour snoozefest and I found myself wishing that these "Heroes" would just band together and solve crimes ala Misfits of Science or Legion of Superheroes.
That said. I find myself disappointed more than ever lately in the state of visual storytelling. For, isn't that why we love TV? To be told stories about people we care about, hate, are jealous of, are scared for, etc?
2. I also enjoy Twitter. Call me names, I don't care, I love the pithy, quick blurbage that our society has descended to.
With that we start Death by Television. Quick reviews of the returning and debuting television shows for the new season.The longest thing in this segment "should" be this introduction. Stop reading if the reviews are more than a couple hundred words. The shows won't be worth it.
Heroes - Season 3 - ABC Mondays
This might have been the most boring, lugubrious, casting off of audience goodwill and currency in the history of TV. Or, maybe, it's just that, after a terrific first season (with a terrible ending) there was no place to go.
Doesn't matter. I couldn't get through this two hour snoozefest and I found myself wishing that these "Heroes" would just band together and solve crimes ala Misfits of Science or Legion of Superheroes.
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