Next season: Who killed the people behind The Killing?

Tags: diff'rent strokes, don't trust the b---- in apartment 23, drop dead diva, exteme guide to parenting, happy endings, private practice, teen mom 2, the good wife, the killing, the neighbors

Whatever will we do without Ellis?!

Tags: 90210, drop dead diva, fringe, smash, walking dead

This is obviously the face of someone's that been to Faerieland

Tags: Drop Dead Diva, Rookie Blue, True Blood

Jeez, The X Factor did some serious damage.

Tags: alias, american idol, awake, buffy the vampire slayer, drop dead diva, glee, grimm cougar town, the big bang theory, white collar

My love of Drop Dead Diva is well documented. I should be more ashamed of it than I am (and believe me, I'm pretty ashamed of it), but you know how it is: summertime, lowered expectations, Legally Blonde nostalgia, etc. -- I can't help it! And while last night's Season 3 premiere was just as mindlessly pleasing as this show has always been (minus the painfully lingering Grayson-as-Jane's-soulmate-arc that won't die even though it really should), while watching it I had a lot of, for lack of a better term, "that's so Raven!"-esque moments whenever the episode dipped into its most stereotypically Drop Dead Diva writing and directing wells. There were dozens of these moments last night, but the following are the eight most prominent.

Tags: Brooke Elliott, Drop Dead Diva, LeAnn Rimes, Margaret Cho, Mario Lopez, Paula Abdul, Wendy Williams

The new boss is in town, but he isn't off to a good start.

Tags: 40, adrian pasadar, billy zane, community, drop dead diva, how i met your mother, kiefer sutherland, parks and recreation, the big bang theory, the office, the playboy club, the x factor, whitney

Skins, we hardly knew ye.

Tags: Brandy, Colin Hanks, Dexter, Drop Dead Diva, Hawaii 5-O, House of Cards, Ice-T, Law & Order: SVU, Masi Oka, Molly Parker, Robin Wright, Skins

It's summer, and I have nothing else to talk about, which means it's time to pretend to be serious about Drop Dead Diva again. Don't get me wrong -- I actually adore the show, despite knowing how bad it is for me, it's just that... it seems silly to review a premiere like this. What am I going to say? The writing is still terrible? The acting is still bad? That it still has no right to be an hour long? That the courtroom scenes remain as ludicrous as Legally Blonde's? All those things were true last season, and they were true of last night's Season 2 premiere. You know, Drop Dead Diva just might be the most consistent show on television, when you think about it.

Tags: Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime, Paula Abdul