NEW SHOWS
Outsourced – After an hour and a half of solid comedy, I was expecting A LOT from this show. I mean, NBC benched the brilliant Parks & Recreation in order to give this one a chance, and after viewing the Outsourced pilot, I don’t think it was the best move. It’s refreshing to get a less offensive take on the India, but I feel like this is going to be one culture-clash situation after another. Perfect Strangers already did this… and their theme song was much better. Come to think of it, theme songs of that era are head and shoulders about the droll they have now, but that’s a whole other blog entry. Actor Ben Rappaport plays yet another typical Average American trapped in a world he doesn’t understand, but it’ll really take the whole cast to make this something better. It worked for Cougar Town.RETURNING FAVORITES
Community – I feel like the Soup has lost its zing… and I think it’s because Joel McHale is putting everything into his gig on NBC. Hey, I wouldn’t blame him. The Soup’s on the same channel as the Kardashians, I’d try to upgrade networks as soon as humanly possible. Betty White was in the season premiere. Is it me, or is she totally over exposed now? I loves me some Rose Nylund, but I swear to Jeebus, if I see another commercial of Betty White saying “street slang” or outdated catchphrases for You Again, I’m gonna scream.
30 Rock – Oh, Liz Lemon, how I adore you. She still remains the top fictional character I’d want to be besties with. The first episode is full of self-aware-pop-culture references, which has been a strange pattern among the returning shows this week. On its fifth season, 30 Rock still makes me laugh out loud the most. I love this show so much, I took the effort to spell out “laugh out loud” – take note, lazy interwebs.
The Office – Being that it’s Steve Carell’s final season, I feel like the show’s gonna focus on building a really good storyline for him. It seems like they’re setting up great Michael-Toby stuff, and I hope they bring back Holly AND Jan. The opening sequence made me miss being part of regular cubicle jungle atmosphere, although I’m starting to get a bit of it during my two days in the office per week. Still, there’s something to be said about being with the same group of people day in and day out. I have fond memories of decorating cubies for birthdays or discussing the previous night’s TV in the morning. Oh well, I guess I have this blog now for that… although it is a bit one-sided.
Fringe – After last season’s switcheroo, I couldn’t wait to see how they’d pick up the plotlines this season. Olivia is still trapped in the alternate world with Walternate trying everything in his means to break her. As much as I enjoyed having this strong science fiction procedural back in action, I couldn’t help but be bothered by Olivia’s hair. I feel like bangs are a hair trend I can never jump onboard with. It makes every girl look bitch. I blame Brenda from 90210 for leaving that lasting mark. I’m just tired of seeing it everywhere. I doesn’t fit her (nor does it fit Rachel Berry on Glee).
Private Practice – Like I said before, this show fills my need for bad medical melodrama. Sure, the round-robin of who’s sleeping with who gets tiresome after a while, every now and then, the patients provide more entertainment than the overtly obvious metaphor they’re trying to bring to light to the dense doctors. And being an offspring of Grey’s, said drama is always set to the JR-approved wuss-rock that I love so much.
The Mentalist – Just one of a gaggle of cop procedurals I like to have play in the background whilst I toil away on the internet stalking candidates or pouring endlessly over Excel spreadsheets. There was nothing special to note about the season premier, which is exactly why it’s background television for me.
THE NIGHT’S WINNER
Liz Lemon!
I’ve always had a thing for a girl (and guy) in thick frame glasses. Tina Fey. Liza Loeb. Rivers Cuomo. Janeane Garofalo sometimes during the mid-90s. Little known MTV reporter Gideon Yago. The list goes on and on. But Liz Lemon ALWAYS leaves me with a line that lingers in my funny bone for a week. This time, it was “Don’t be cry”. I can’t wait to see what her quirky ass says next week.
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