What Looks Actually Good This Season

Alright. So. There are a whooooooooooole lotta shows premiering this season. Too many that I don't even care about, and thus just about the same amount of horrible shows out there.

(I gotta say, I just started writing this and decided to pop on an episode of Six Feet Under {a show you have to watch if you want to be considered legitimate, oh! look at that, Carlos from Desperate Housewives is on [much better than it has been recently]}) ... yeah that many sidetracks just happened.
 
Anyway. So, shows to actually watch. Let's start with FOX, who might have finally done something right with a comedy in years, and totally making up for the awful awful awful (and disappointingly so) show Running Wilde starring Will Arnett, ruined by Keri Russell and the pitiful excuse for a cute girl that plays her daughter.

So, FOX, they're trying this show out Raising Hope. The general premise: Real dumb redneckish guy has sex with a girl he thinks he saves. 'Parently she killed people. So she goes to jail, but 8 months later has a baby. He now has to take care of it and his family is clearly quite dysfunkshinal. A mom who can't pronounce things correctly, a cousin or something that never wears pants, some form of father, and a grandma with dimension who randomly gets batches of lucidity about what's going on around her and the family has to deal with it until she goes back into her semi-permanent crazy state. Well, there's a longer rundown than I planned.  Anyway, it is pretty pretty funny. None of them either know how to take a baby or don't want to. It is a pretty straight forward type of humor. I mean, think of the dumbest people you know, like common sense wise, and imagine them trying to raise a baby. Also, watch the first episode, but also watch the second, it is much better with the characters having a more solid form rather than establishing the scenario like the first episode does.

An even better show to watch is The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. Now, I may be partial to this show because it matches up Will Arnett and David Cross again (Running Wilde tries to be funny by doing the same, but the rest of the show is too painful). The shows got its American humor goin on and throws in some Brit chuckles with the show being set in England and half the cast are natives (in the show at least.. haven't done my homework on the actors' origins.... yet!).

The Whole Truth -  Alright, so, anyone watch ER? Me either. But any episode I did watch I was instantly attracted to Maura Tierney. (Her hair is shorter now too). She's pretty bad ass in this show. A power house commanding a law firm and always works opposite the defense attorney played by Rob Morrow.  They used to be old law school buddies and now are pitted against each other every week, but still manage to be friends. (Totally bet there won't be a story line where one trial pushes one of them over the edge and they're no longer friends.... that'd sure be surprising.. I need to figure out a better way to *roll my eyes* other than using asterisks.)He's been on Entourage a few times or whatever. But damn he's sexy. He's got like, two small piercings in his ears right next to each so that the small flat studs or whatever in them look to almost make one earring. It. Is. Awesome. Anyway, it's worth watching if you get bored and want a good detective(?) law(?) type show or whatever. It's good.

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