With the start of the new tv season, I have not been able to watch my shows fast enough. Catching up with Tivo is like a second full time job for me. The last couple of weekends have been spent sitting in front of my tv and turning my brain into mush. Actually it really already is mush, but I guess it can always get mushier.
So far, the first few episodes of the new season of Glee have not reached the heights of the original premiere that aired back in May. It's still an enjoyable show, but it's also somewhat uneven (like, what's up with Will forming Acafellas?). Hopefully it'll pick up momentum again. The original premiere has earned enough goodwill in me to last a while.
I really like the reboot of Melrose Place. I like these soapy dramas, with good looking people (uh, Ashlee Simpson not amongst good looking people I am referring to) and over-the-top plotlines (rich kid who makes money stealing art, medical student who prostitutes herself to pay tuition...). But the ratings have been horrible, so I shouldn't get too attached. At least Heather Locklear has signed on to help save the show.
The Vampire Diaries is just okay. It's like Twilight on tv. The thing is, I am not too crazy about the actor who plays the good vampire Stefan. He doesn't have that ethereal Edward Cullen quality.
I figured out why I'm falling out of like with Gossip Girl. I realized I like none of the characters. They are all kinda self-absorbed and bratty and in the end one-noted. Unlike, say, the characters from The O.C. I mean, you cannot help but root for Ryan Atwood to succeed and do good. Ah, The O.C. - I loved that show...
Holy crap. Is that guy Russell on Survivor Samoa for reals? He is the nastiest guy ever (sabotaging his team by emptying their water canteens and burning their socks while they are sleeping). But that figures, since he owes an oil company and is from Texas. All of Russell's evil-doings are taking the attention away from Ben, who is as big of a misogynist a-hole as you can encounter - in any other season, he would be the focus of collective ire. Man, watching these reality shows really chaps my hide sometimes.
Lifetime's Project Runway is pretty much the same as Bravo's Project Runway. I am rooting for Christopher and Logan, Logan in particular just because he is cool and I like his name. I would name my son that. The sister show Models On The Runway is lame - those models have no control over their own destiny, which makes a stupid reality show. I am rooting for Michael the younger brother chef and Kevin and Jennifer on Top Chef, but we all know the real reason to watch Top Chef is Padma.
Nobody jumps out at me yet on the new season of So You Think You Can Dance. I am waiting for the return of that seventeen year old kid Nathan from last season's audition. He was so good that they gave him a ticket straight to Vegas for this season (because he was too young for last year). (But then again we all know the reason to really watch SYTYCD is Cat Deeley.)
Aside from Samantha Who? (still a travesty that it got canceled - WTF?), I haven't watched any sitcoms in a while. The new Modern Family and Cougar Town (from Bill Lawrence, who created Scrubs) are actually rather good. But my favorite new show so far is probably Community, the NBC sitcom set in a community college starring Joe McHale from Talk Soup. The comedy is actually funny (like really funny - go figure), and the first episode is an homage to The Breakfast Club. How chic.
I still have to catch up on Fast Forward and am anxiously waiting for the premiere of V. And of course, this Sunday, we have the return of my favorite show - The Amazing Race, which just won its seventh straight Emmy for best reality show. It's even a two-hour premiere!
Yeah, so this is my brain. And this is my brain on tv.
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