Greetings InZayliens. You know like insane aliens…help me please. I need some kind of name for all of you. Anyway, last night was a pretty solid night of TV. The NBC comedies were back in full force with the noted exception of Community. Had Community been in the place of SNL, I feel like we would have had one of the strongest two hour blocks of comedy in a very long time. Hopefully NBC will come to its senses for the winter. We shall see. Let’s move on to the rundown.
Wipeout: I don’t know what it is, the obstacles, the jokes, the contestants. Something hasn’t been clicking for me this year. I got through about 20 minutes of last night’s episode before I just deleted it and moved on since I knew I had so much other stuff to get to.
SNL: Weekend Update Thursday: The only parts of this I found funny were the quick news story segments. The interview bits went on way too long. I’m not really looking forward to the rest of the these leading up to the election. It also doesn’t help that I care nothing about the election this year.
The X-Factor: Yes, I’m still recording and watching it. No, I can’t explain why. You win Andrew.
Up All Night: A decent introduction to the new season. They’re clearing changing things up.
The Office: After a season of not watching, I forgot how entertaining this show can be.
Glee: Britney 2.0 ended up really not sucking. Could this possible end up being a good season?
Parks and Rec: The title of this post says it all.
Really all I needed or wanted to say about the first two items are in their summaries so let’s move on to The X-Factor. I don’t know why I keep watching it. It’s not getting significantly better. The new car smell of Britney was gone in about 15 minutes. The only improvement I can mention is that they’re showing more good performers than bad, which is unfortunately a ratio that American Idol has a hard time maintaining sometimes. The word I would use to describe this show is…over-produced. If they just let the talent stand on its own, I could really get behind that, but they have to give us their backstories and sobs stories and everything else to build these people up, so when they’re mediocre and get sent through, I just roll my eyes. Then, Wednesday night, we had another mean girl that went around trying to mess with other contestants’ heads before they went on stage. When she got on stage, her voice was the definition of “meh” but the judges fawned over her and put her through. She had cat paw prints painted on her face like she’d just walked in from a county fair. What the deuce?
Up All Night appears to be changing up its dynamic. Normally, I would say great, change is good but some of these things, like The Ava Show really provided structure for the episodes so I hope that we don’t lose that now that the show within the show was cancelled. Also, is Will Arnett anorexic now? He lost a ton of weight over the summer and it was distracting. I was trying to figure out what could have happened to him the whole episode. Anyway, regarding the actual content of the show, I thought Reagan’s brother was alright, even if he did come from out of nowhere. Like I said in the summary, decent start but we’ll have to see where the season takes us.
The Office, on the other hand, was really entertaining. As mentioned before, I stopped watching last year not because of disinterest but because my DVR inexplicably didn’t record a stretch of 3-4 episodes and I didn’t have time then to go back and catch up because I needed the DVR space of the ones that had recorded that were building up. However, the good things I heard about last year coupled with the cast additions of Catherine Tate (Donna from Doctor Who) and Clark Duke (Greek, Hot Tub Time Machine) and the fact that this is its final season, made me really interested to come back to Scranton. I thought this premiere was really solid and I loved the exchange between, Jim, Pam, and the camera crew. The question was asked, “don’t you have enough footage by now? It’s just a paper company”. The New Dwight and Jim were surprisingly good. I’m looking forward to seeing how everything plays out.
Glee had another fairly solid episode. It showed me something I thought could never be good, an Aerosmith/Britney Mashup. I like that they’re attempting to mix up the songs they’re singing more this year like the aforementioned mashup along with an acoustic version of 3, and a mashup of Britney and Bieber that wasn’t as successful but still fun. The New York storyline is still trucking along at a good pace and Kate Hudson is really elevating the quality. I kind of wish we had more than just 4 more episodes with her. It was really nice to see Noah again and hopefully he helped Jake snap out of being a tool because his awesome singing voice can only take him so far. If his character is a douche, it’s going to limit my enjoyment of his voice…probably.
Ah Parks and Recreation, I’ve missed you. Your consistent quality and humor are a treasure in today’s television world. This show added absolutely nothing in terms of cast members or new storylines. It’s just continuing to work with the great cast it has and I think that’s one of its biggest strengths. When you’ve got a group that works so well, don’t mess with it. Granted, they added Adam Scott and Rob Lowe last year but I think we can all agree that those additions did nothing but add to the show. I may be slightly biased since Ben is hands down my favorite character. I liked that we’ve got random antics back in Pawnee but we still get the continuing storyline of Ben in Washington and his relationship with Leslie. One of the biggest reasons I have a hard time getting into a comedy show, especially sitcoms is that things are wrapped up too neatly. Is Parks and Rec ideal for syndication like Big Bang Theory, no but I’ll take P&R over BBT any day. Don’t get me wrong, I like the Big Bang Theory, especially last season but it’s still rage-inducing when they attempt to do something serious and growth related in an episode and then don’t give it even a little closure at the end of the episode and then forget it ever happened by the next one. I can invest in the Parks and Rec characters because they will change and evolve based on the circumstances around them. Well, except Tom, but that’s just him. In summary, this episode was more of the same awesome we get from this show and I can only hope that it makes it to 9 seasons or more like The Office. Unless it starts to go down in quality, then try and rally to go out on a high note.
Alright, that’s all for this week folks. We’ve got second to last episode with The Ponds as companions on Doctor Who on Saturday but I’m 95% sure absolutely none of you watch that too so….moving on. The Emmy’s will delay our Sunday premieres for one more week and that takes us to Monday. We’ve got the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother, voted most likely to give me a stroke from rage, the season premiere of Castle, who put their couple together which will hopefully turn out more like Chuck and not like Moonlighting, and the series premiere of Partners, which I’m noticeably less excited about after the disaster The New Normal turned out to be. We’ve also got second episodes of Bones, The Mob Doctor, and Revolution.
Unfortunately, these post will probably end up coming out on the following mornings most of the time now. It’s really hard to watch all of that and then write one of these posts and still get to bed at a decent time. Once THE REAPING occurs, I may be able to post again the night of, but until then, it will most likely be the next day.
Until next time everyone! Have a great weekend and Happy TV Watching!
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