Fall Season Previews…it’s my favorite time of year! September 11, 2008

Better than mint chocolate chip and fresh crisp apples off the tree, it’s the return of the FALL TV SEASON! Horah! Hoorey! YIPPEE!

So here are some recaps, since this is only the opening week of new shows (many, including Gossip Girl, are still on my TiVo…what? It’s been a long week!)

FRINGE (Tuesday, 8pm, FOX)

Oh, to be in the head of J. J. Abrams…perhaps not a good thing. Before he brings us “Star Trek:2009″ without William Shatner, he whipped up an hour-long serial that I am calling creepy, yet intriguing…short attention spans need not apply.  There is no other way to describe it except to say it is: “X-files meets The Twilight Zone, topped with a little 24 action and CSI forensics and sprinkled with a bit of Twin Peaks on top.”  It’s one messed-up, intriguing, could only be classified as “that show that the guy who co-created Lost and Alias could cook up…..
WATCH IT, if only to feel like you’ve watched something of substance…even if you don’t understand it…

ANTM (Wednesday, 8pm, The CW)

Mix a trans-gender with a racist from Alaska (enter political joke here) mixed with an Asian girl with a gangsta’ complex, and you have season 11 of America’s Next Top Model.  Reality show formatting at its very best.
DVR IT so you can fast-forward through the hair-pulling, sobbing-because-”like, modeling’s so much harder than I thought” montages.

BONES (Wednesday, 7pm, FOX)

Oh Brennan and Booth. The longer you two don’t sleep with each other, the better for all of us. Mix a little England (oh, how I love thee) with a little Brennan/Booth tension…add a little Angela’s ex-husband return with a little trust issue plot twist, and sprinkle a little English accents in there, and you get a fun-loving (if not quite long) 2- hour season premiere of love, loss and lust (p.s.–does everyone sleep with a co-worker on this show?! Seriously…)
WATCH IT if only for the Brennan/Booth verbal spars…and no, you won’t miss Zak…I promise…

That’s all for now folks. Lots of new shows next week so I must clear my DVR from last week. I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been anti-social (which, apparently, meant I was anti-blog too…) I know you’ve missed me, so I’m back. Ready to spew more poetics and life contemplations (let’s call them observations, shall we?) for you.

TV Watchers Unite! May 5, 2008

Ugh. It is freezing where I am right now, and its not because of the weather outside…why is it that when it is warm outside, it is a popsicle inside, and when it is freezing outside, it’s a sauna?! Ah, But I digress…

I haven’t been around lately, and just (kinda) caught up with my TV viewing of post-writer’s strike episodes. So far, not impressed. If I have survived this far with not caring about characters, does that mean the networks are going to lose me as a viewer? I can say that Thursday night’s ABC line-up is pretty much the only thing I look forward to nowadays, but whatever, I’m going to tell you what I watch and why in 30 seconds or less…why 30 seconds? Because if you are like me, I have a short-attention span (which is why I love TV!) J

Mondays:

BONES: Great chemistry still exists between Brennan and Booth, but what ever happened to Angela and Hodgin’s impending nuptials?

GOSSIP GIRL: Sad to say that I think this is losing its “cool” factor…although I hear they are intro-ing a new character who is going to out Serena’s brother…like we didn’t see that one coming…(only on episode 1 of 4)

ONE TREE HILL: Ah, my guilty if-it-is-set-in-North-Carolina-does-that-make-it-

Dawson’s-Creek weekly pleasure. Yes this show needs to end, but I love Peyton….my child’s name (or my next dog, whichever comes first) is going to be named Peyton…

SAMANTHA WHO: Just became a fan during the strike (it was practically the only show in its entirety online). Christina Applegate is hilarious, but really, ABC, how long can a show about an amnesiac last?

Tuesday:

NCIS: Last week’s episode was kinda lame…like I care about the germ-o-phobs life outside of NCIS….like I care about her at all. Sure, it looked like Iraq, but I had no sympathy for the girl…please bring back Agent Wong or whatever her name is and the autopsy gremlin…I miss those two..and can we NOT have Ziva fall in love with Tony? Please?!

DWTS: Yeah, I’ve tuned out. It’s not fun anymore.

WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB: Yay! Women with great haircuts and kick ass attitudes doing Law and Order type thingys….Finally! How did Angie Harmon not have a boy toy already!?!? (The Kiss-Me-Not killer does NOT count!)

REAPER: I have yet to catch up on this one…Yes, I do miss it. But I was getting sick of the Andi will-they-wont-they storyline. At least they introduced some new characters…even if they are demons.

Wednesday:

CSI: NY: With my Tivo going skizo on my CSI: NY scheduling, it becomes confusing when Spike is running season two episodes, and I am watching new episodes…but at least it is better than CSI: Las Vegas (or the original CSI, if you will). Grissom is boring without Sarah. And now Warrick is in rehab (in real life). Time to end the original series, folks.

ANTM: Yeah, fine. They are in Italy. I hate them. I totally thought the Russian girl was going to win. But now she’s not even on anymore…although Whitney is…and when did being a size 10 make you a plus-size model!? Ugh…but you can’t beat the photo shoots. I’m thinking the blond that talks weird is gonna take it all. Too bad, cause me likey the Whitney.

TOP CHEF: My new favorite enjoyment. I love it. I think Dale and Richard should open up a restaurant named “Pretentious”. But one of them will probably walk away with it. I’m sick of the judges being overdramatic though. Oh well. Quickfire’s ROCK!

Thursday:

Please, like you watch anything besides UGLY BETTY, GRAY’S ANATOMY and LOST…ok, fine THE OFFICE and 30 ROCK too..

UGLY BETTY: Ok, Henry, realize that Charlie is a whore and just let her go!

GRAY’S: Oh, Meredith. Thank god Addison came back and talked some sense into you…oh wait…and Rose, please, get a life, and not Derek’s…could a surgeon be gay!? No way! Alex, oh, Alex….Jane Doe’s a whore. But we love that she comes back anyway, cause she’s the only girl that can make you weep.

LOST: Oh, how I love thee. Flash forwards, stolen babies, secret missions for Sawyer…The best thing they ever did was to say they were going to sum it all up by 20010…just in time for 24 to come back. J

So, as you can see, I watch a lot of TV. But I love it.

BTW, I finally finished all of PBS’ Carrier…fantastic series. It was intriguing, if not gut-wrenching…some episodes were monotonous, but wasn’t that the point? I liked how they questioned why they hadn’t dropped any bombs, but then the tour after them did. Great aerials, great stories, all in all, PBS did a phenomenal job.