Well.
It has certainly been a while. I blame the summer and starting teh law skoolz for my lack of updating my clearly tens of thousands of readers out there. Please stop sending the fan/hate mail. Mostly because I don't care.
First thing about TV. If you go back and read my predictions for the Emmys I was 100 percent correct on my predictions.
In some categories...
Highlights about the Emmys? Definitely not the host. However if you haven't watched Ty Burrell's speech (Phil from Modern Family) you should. It is so good.
Enough about actors presenting awards to actors.
New shows that you must watch:
1) New Girl
2) 2 Broke Girls
3) Homeland (I have it on very good authority this is a great show, I still need to watch it myself)
New Girl is cute, simple, and has a few attractive men in it. However these men really need to figure out what their characters are doing and how they actually interact with other characters. Zooey (first name basis, I pretty much lived with her doppelganger) steals the show, as she should. She plays a nerdy, awkward, yet completely gorgeous girl perfectly. She is never not making you laugh with her ignorance of how to interact with others, but not in the same way these male actors characters are not supposed to be as socially awkward, or if they are, we haven't exactly been shown how or why they're also socially awkward. Regardless, baseball is ruining this show right now by pushing it off for the next three weeks. Screw you baseball. Screw. You.
2 Broke Girls is the biggest surprise of this season. I went into it thinking I would hate it because its on CBS and I generally hate laugh tracks. THEN I saw that Whitney Cummings has something to do with the show and I REALLY wanted to hate it, but Kat Dennings is bad ass, ridiculously funny, and a show that makes fun of hipsters on the reg is always nice. I'd write more, but I want to save it for a later post comparing Whitney Cummings horrendous show and why it doesn't work as opposed to this one and why it does. It'll be your classic college Freshman essay of the similarities and differences between two sort of related topics. I'll give it like a B+ even before I read it. At least, I'll shoot for a B+ until I realize I'd rather do anything else besides write an essay.
Shows you should watch, but could potentially be cancelled mid-season
1) Up All Night
Honestly. Its good, but it isn't THAT good. It focuses too much on the least funny character, obviously Christina Applegate, and completely ignores the real star power it has in Maya Rudolph and Will Arnett. I think its lucky that the show is on Wednesday nights so it has more of a chance to stay on because I'm pretty sure NBC is only doing Comedy on Wednesday because it has no idea what to do with it otherwise.
Shows you DEFINITELY should not watch
1) Whitney
2) Terra Nova
3) Ringer
I'm not even going to give Whitney the time of day right now. This show is the female equivalent to Outsourced. Offensive, crude, and just wrong.
The only way Terra Nova could achieve being any more like a combination of LOST, Battlestar Galactica, and Jurassic Park, is if it were actually a great show to watch. I watched the first two episodes hoping it would give me something to be oddly obsessed with, and I was greatly disappointed/slightly relieved because I don't need a ton of new shows to watch at this point. With characters that fall extremely flat and a plot line that doesn't exist AND stack on that CGI dinosaurs in every episode, this show is going to flop so quickly.
I don't even know where to start with Ringer except uncontrollable sobbing. SMG, why would you do this to yourself? Now I totally get that the CW is just soap operas for teens, but even for that genre this is really REALLY bad. The plot line - SMG plays twin sisters. One is a recovery addict/stripper the other a rich bitch who kills herself and has a... wait for it... MYSTERIOUS past. Well, after the bitch kills herself the other sister takes her life to get away from her old one. She eventually confides in her twin sister's best friend that she's pretending to be her twin sister and this woman tells her "You have to sleep with my husband or I'll tell everyone your secret." *moment of silence/reflection* Seriously, SMG, you went from a show that was all about female empowerment and independence to one where in order to keep your fake life afloat you have to essentially prostitute yourself out. Why did you do this show again?
Anyway, I could go on, but I'll save you from a 100 page rant about this show.
<3 Fennopian
