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September 2009 Archives
Fall is usually a time of excitement for TV junkies like us, with so many new shows, returning favorites resolving last season's cliffhangers and the promise of a fresh start for stale plotlines. However, this year we're dreading some potential developments, which has put a damper on our enthusiasm. Some of these may not happen, while some are already in the works, but all of them make us more than a little bit wary.
Greg the Bunny Redux. Sookie-Mon: The Game. "When bloodshot eyes are smizing." Dane Cook FTW. But first: Casting, casting, casting!
Parks and Recreation returns tonight for its promised-by-the-networks-to-be-much-funnier second season, so Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari participated in a media call recently, in which they were funnier, more awesome and far more obsessed with NCIS: Los Angeles than anyone else this fall promo season. Enjoy! This is a good one.
It's back-to-school time, and we're actually looking forward to it. Not because we wish our children would get out of the house, but because one of the new fall shows we're looking forward to starts tonight, and it's a school-based comedy called Community. Following a slightly evil lawyer who has to re-earn his law degree at a local community college, we meet a half-dozen of his fellow students of varying ages, as well some of the school's bizarre teaching staff. Joel McHale plays the main character, Jeff, and we got to talk to him and series creator Dan Harmon on a conference call as they discussed their experiences on the set. There will be a quiz later.
Amy Poehler is going to be featured on Inside the Actors Studio on Monday, September 21, and yeah, sure, maybe she's not exactly an actor in the strictest sense of the word, but the comedian Actors Studios are often the most interesting. I could watch the Eddie Murphy and Mike Meyers episodes over and over again and be thoroughly entertained, and I hate those jackasses. At least Amy Poehler is awesome.
There's going to be a new Three's Company on ABC, and it's all Arianna Huffington's fault. I am in no mood.
Everybody's favorite new show, Glee, is now in full swing, with new episodes and everything. To promote tonight's brand new episode, Jane Lynch gave a conference call with the worldwide blogosphere to talk about what it's like working on the show, and to give some spoilers about her character, evil Cheerios coach Sue Silvestri. Here are the highlights of the call!
While I still have mixed feelings about last week's announcement that Ellen DeGeneres was going to be the fourth judge on American Idol, I have no such qualms about Adam Shankman being given a permanent seat next to Mary Murphy on So You Think You Can Dance. None whatsoever. Though I do fear for his eardrums. Maybe I should send him some earplugs as a congratulatory gift? Just to be safe?
I'm undecided. More to Love was a moderately entertaining summer show despite a poorly cast, unappealing bachelor and a handful of crazy girls who just kind of made me sad (Kristian... really, just Kristian, actually), which leads me to a "Sure, why not?" stance on its renewal, for the most part. But on the other hand, it really was the exact same show as The Bachelor, with the sole deviation being that the contestants constantly referred to their size while in their Fantasy Suites and group dates, and that is some egregious format redundancy. But then again it's not like The Bachelor original flavor has any right or reason to exist either, so that argument doesn't really hold up. We can have two of these, or we can have zero of these -- either way the world will remain unchanged, is what I'm saying. See why this is so hard?
So Jordan won. Which was really no surprise to anyone, except maybe Jordan herself. But then again, everything surprised Jordan. You probably could have told her that Julie was a robot and she would have believed it. She won the show purely by dumb luck, which sounds mean, but is true. She claimed that her best strategic move in the game was winning the final HoH, but she won both stages of the competition by chance. She rolled the balls into the right holes better than Natalie, but everyone is a better competitor than Natalie, and then she basically wrote a random number on a chalkboard and won her spot in the final two. I can't even pretend to think that she actually calculated how many votes to evict were cast during the course of the season. She is not a math genius, or any kind of genius.