Posted in 2 Broke Girls, 30 Rock, America's Next Top Model, Animal Practice, Archer, Ben and Kate, Bob's Burgers, Comic Book Men, Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23, Elementary, Face Off, Glee, Go On, Grimm, Hot Set, How I Met Your Mother, Key and Peele, Modern Family, Neighbors, New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Parenthood, Parks and Recreation, Project Runway, Reaper, The Big Bang Theory, The Inbetweeners, The Mindy Project, The New Normal, The Office, The Simpsons, thirtysomething, Tosh.0, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, TV 2012, Underemployed, Up All Night on November 18, 2012| 1 Comment »
This season signals the end of a lot of shows, shows that have been with us for a long time. This season also promised a slew of new comedies that were going to be amazing (I know they promise that every year, but some of them got really strong praise from objective sources). And yet, here we are, half way through the season (Grimm is taking a Mid-Winter break or some such thing) and I didn’t really like anything new.
Next season is shaping up to be rather a wasteland. (more…)
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[WATCHED: 2010] The Inbetweeners
I don’t often write about one TV show at a time, but I’m on vacation this week, so I’m taking it easy.
One of our favorite new shows is (big surprise) a British comedy (that is airing in the States on BBC America) called The Inbetweeners. There’s not much terribly original about the premise of the show: four unpopular blokes in secondary school grouse about being unpopular and hatch ways of scoring with the [insert staggering variety of vulgar words for women here] in their class. And I’m not exactly sure what it is about the show that is so [bleeping] funny. Perhaps it is the simply brutally vulgar humor, or the excessively horny attitudes, or maybe it is the self-awareness of the vulgarity (by the not exactly prudish but at the same time creeped-out-by-his-friends narrator (“That sounds a bit rape-y, Jay”)), but the show never stops being stomach-hurtingly funny. (more…)
Posted in 30 Rock, Better Off Ted, Chuck, Community, Craig Ferguson, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, John Dore Show, Jon Stewart, Jools Holland, Late Late Show, Later with Jools Holland, Life Unexpected, Modern Family, New Adventures of Old Christine, Parenthood, Project Runway, Robot Chicken, Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Inbetweeners, The Office, The Simpsons, The Whitest Kids U'Know, TV 2010 on February 7, 2010| 1 Comment »
In addition to reading, Sarah and I watch TV, too. In the past, I posted occasional updates to a Tab devoted to TV. But I’m going to put new information in individual posts instead. So I’m starting with this season’s TV.
Of course, in the last couple of years, TV has changed from working on an easy to summarize Spring/Fall schedule to having shows appear almost at random. This really undermines the very idea of a “season,” so I’m including a show or two from the end of 2009 as well.
One surprising thing about recent TV is how I watch almost nothing on the CW or Fox. These were my mainstays as recent as two years ago, but they’ve totally dropped the ball lately. And I can’t believe how much I’m enjoying shows on CBS (isn’t that the old people’s network?).
And so, for 2010: (more…)
