Saturday, October 2, 2010

the one with princess beyonce and watermelon face

Funniest scene on tv this week belongs to the extremely underrated Community, in which Annie chloroformed a janitor while Troy and Abed breaks into a lawyer's office...Glee has gotten worse and worse. As the first season wore on, I realize this show is increasingly uneven. The second season is just continuing the same trend. Sure, the last episode introduced the always charming Uncle Jesse/John Stamos, but then it also forced in a bunch of reproduction of Britney videos that made no sense at all in the context of the plot. And characters that were promising and endearing in the beginning have become cloying and frustrating. Yeah, I am talking about you, Will Schuester, Rachel, and Kurt. My bet is that this show is not going to last four seasons...I think my fave of the new shows is Raising Hope. An aimless young man impregnates a murderer, she gets the death sentence, and bam, ninth months later, he is left raising a baby named Princess Beyonce. He and his white trash family renames her Hope and hilarity ensues. It's the new My Name Is Earl...I am kinda disappointed with Nikita and No Ordinary Family - I thought those shows would be more fun than they are turning out to be. Nikita is way too serious for what it is (a show about a female killer who wants to topple a government secret op needs a Buffy sense of humor), and No Ordinary Family is too ordinary and paint-by-the-numbers (a show about superhero family needs to fly like The Incredibles). I guess I'll watch these for a few more episodes to see if they are worth keeping on my Tivo...While I am ashamed to say that I watch a show that features the David Hasselhoff, Michael Bolton AND Sarah Palin's daughter, I will say I am rooting for Jennifer Grey on DWTS. I am impressed so far with her dancing, and Derek Hough her partner is my favorite pro on the show...A competition reality show does not work if there is nobody to root for. That's how I am feeling about this current season of Project Runway (is this the least talented and unlikable group ever? Even the ones who've been winning - Mondo and Gretchen - are putting some pretty ugly stuff on the runway, and even by designer standards, they are annoyingly weird) and Survivor (old vs young is a bad idea). Maybe someone will emerge from Survivor as a good guy/gal (cuz all we got so far is the crazy like that ghetto (or is it hood?) girl NaOnka) - it's early yet...No problem there on Amazing Race, my favorite tv show for the last decade. This season is off to a promising start. I am rooting for KevJumba (youtube star) and his dad. I am proud of how cool he is to his dad in the premiere episode, but they actually didn't get much airtime. The stars of the first episode were the Home Shopping Network ladies and the watermelon sling challenge. Surely you've seen the video of Claire getting hit in the face with a watermelon by now. They showed it in slo-mo no less. Once you get over the horror of it, you will laugh your head off. And then once you see her get up and continue the challenge, you will think, "Hey this is a cool chick." I still remember that blonde from a couple of seasons back who wouldn't go down a water slide and got her team eliminated because of that. Claire rocks.

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