douchebag, gumbo, and twins

Me being me, even though I've been buried by work in the last few months, I still manage to keep up with my tv watching. Of the Fall 2011 new shows, here are the five I am watching:


New Girl - Zooey being all Zooey - it's adorkable, and I like one of the three male roommates - not the douchebag, or the black guy who became another black guy, but the one who pines after his old girlfriend. B+


Hart of Dixie - It's Summer aka Rachel Bilson, in the South instead of The O.C. Summer is an ambitious NYC doctor who is stuck practicing medicine in Hicksville. You got your alligators, your Steel Magnolias, your shirtless good ol' boy, your gumbo cookoffs, and your gossiping black ladies at the beauty parlour. It's sort of like a cousin of Northern Exposure and Everwood. It's charming, like it's supposed to be. B


Revenge - Speaking of Everwood, Emily Vancamp is now plotting revenge against Madeline Stowe for something she did against her father. It's something about some plane crash and framing her father (who in flashbacks is James Tupper, who was in Men In Trees with Anne Heche which is just like Northern Exposure and Everwood...). I don't know - I get kinda confused. But this is all very sudsy and addictive. I love watching rich people in the Hamptons plot against each other. A-


Ringer - This is not as fun as Revenge, but it should be. I mean, it's about SMG playing twins, one a rich bitch and the other a druggie stripper. The druggie stripper is running away from the mobs and the FBI agent who wants her to testify against the said mob. She runs to her sister who then suddenly disappears. So druggie stripper sister takes over sister's identify and it's just a rabbit hole from there. Meanwhile, rich bitch sister reappears in Paris doing something I don't understand. Ah, nevermind - it's Buffy! What more do you want? B-

X-Factor - LA Reid is better than Randy Jackson, but Nicole Pussycat Doll is extremely annoying and unlikable. Of course, Simon and Paula are just Simon and Paula. Nonetheless, I keep watching this stuff as I watch American Idol and Dancing With The Stars. I am not proud. C

Did you know that the 7-billionth human being was born somewhere on October 31? Let's hope that human being grows up to have more worthwhile habits than mine.