(Spring) Boob Tube Escapades

In September, I posted about the new tv shows that had come out and what I thought of them. I wrote a brief review for each of them.

Being that we're now in March (Sweeps!) I figured it was time for an update.

I'll start with the shows I had previously blogged about:

Mike And Molly:
It is a really cute show. However, they really lean on the overweight jokes. Which, being the premise of the show, I understand. Halfway through the season when they're still resting on these jokes as their guaranteed laugh factor, I got bored. I did enjoy the jokes regarding the stoner sister, and there were some great one liners. The show is doing well in ratings, and will probably be picked up for another season. However, sadly, Off My DVR.

Detroit 1-8-7:
I have continued to enjoy this show from the first episode. I've watched every episode, and still enjoy the format of the show. They continue to track cases as originally as they had in the beginning (which had impressed me right off), and the acting is strong. However, it is on the chopping block at the end of the season. It has not been picked up as of yet.

Blue Bloods:
At my last review I had only watched the pilot episode. I have since caught up with the show, and have kept up with the show. It's strong acting, keeps you on the edge of your seat. This show is doing reasonable in the ratings and will more than likely be picked up for another season. I hope it does. I think once it finds its audience (right now its back and forth between Wednesday and Friday night airings) it'll be a CBS staple. It is currently a staple in my house.

Hawaii Five-Oh:
This show is doing really well. To be honest, I don't watch it anymore. It's not that I got bored with it, but it seemed like every time I sat down to watch it I'd fall asleep. So.. I guess you can say I did get bored with it. Whatever.

Raising Hope:
Another show that's doing really well in ratings. It's already been picked up for a new season. I've stopped watching it. Again, I didn't get bored by it. It just wasn't my type of show. Off My DVR.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret:
The season ended. I don't really know if it's going to be picked up again. I don't see how it could be, how the plot line goes. But I am keeping an eye out for it!

More New Shows that weren't around when I originally blogged about "New Shows":

The Walking Dead:
Now, if you remember, last summer I had a blog about zombies and vampires where I mentioned I hoped they'd do a show about Zombies. Well, THEY DID! It was a short season, only like 8 episodes. It was really fantastic. Kept you on the edge of your seat, it was new and completely different from anything out there. It will be returning this October! Check out the first season if you missed it the first time around. You'll want to. I promise.

Traffic Light:
It's a show about dudes, mostly driving around in their cars, talking on their cars' blue tooth systems. It's really funny and quirky. It has something for everyone. There's the married with child guy, there's the guy that just moved in with his girlfriend and is working out being in a committed relationship, and then there's the perpetually single guy. It's really great, I think. And of course, it's not doing great in ratings. I love it, just the same.

Mad Love:
Mad Love is a very similar show to How I Met Your Mother. It's narrated, it's following a group of friends in New York. Where it's different from HIMYM, no one's married. It's following a relationship from the first meeting of the main couple of the show. It's funny, the entire cast is very snide and snarky. The cast is fantastic. It has Jason Biggs, Sarah Chalke and Judy Greer, all of whom I've followed in their careers. I love them all. Plus there's a fairly new (or at least to me) cast member, Tyler Labine, who is the narrator and probably the best part of the show. Mad Love is the kind of show that's perfect when you're a single twenty-something. Or even if you're just a sarcastic person. Again, I love it, so it's not doing well in ratings. Hopefully with everything going on with Two And A Half Men it'll continue on for another season to fill the "What the Fuck Is Charlie Sheen Doing" gap.

Being Human (US):
Being Human is a show I've watched the original UK version of on BBC America for the past three seasons. And honestly, I got very annoyed that SyFy made an American version. But the more that I watch the US version, the more I love it. It's very funny, and it stays true to the UK version. I've been continuing to watch the UK Being Human, which is currently airing its 3rd season on BBC America, and the one complaint I have is that the US version is doing story lines in the first season that the UK version didn't get to till the third season. What is that! I love them both, however.

Shameless (US):
Showtime started Shameless this winter, and I didn't realize it was a remake until I got halfway through the season. I was hooked from the very first episode. It's funny and shocking and sometimes sad. It's one of those shows that has something for everyone, as long as everyone is okay with swearing and sex. And drugs. The US version has its season's end this month. I know that it is on OnDemand, so if you have the chance get caught up! It's great. I have no idea if it will continue on and go into a second season as the original show only had 7 episodes. But I would definitely be a very, very happy girl if it continued.
(Side note: The original version is an UK production. It is available via Netflix in DVD form. And it is currently in my queue to check it out.)

Mr. Sunshine:
I will not lie to you. I started this show a few episodes into the season for one reason and one reason only. Jorge Garcia. Who doesn't even have a starring role, or even weekly role. I think he's been in like 2 episodes? Whatever. I started it for my tv boyfriend only, and have ended up really enjoying it. Matthew Perry is very funny, and the entire cast is eclectic and great. It reminds me of a show like Better Off Ted or vaguely 30 Rock. There's not an episode where I haven't laughed right out loud. They tend to have surprisingly delightful cameos (Whattup, that diabetic Jonas brother!) and the jokes are well written. Right now it is riding the line for renewal.

Off The Map:
This show is basically Grey's Anatomy if it took place on the island in Lost. So you'd think I'd love it. I do not. I liked the first two episodes. I feel like when a show is based off of two other really great semi-long running shows, it doesn't have a lot of room to grow. Because it basically is just that: A copy of other shows. It's not doing well in ratings. I think it had some really great potential, but, it shot itself in its own foot. How many landslides and emergency c-sections can you really give on a remote island?
(I realize that Lost is: How many things can happen on a remote island? And that Grey's Anatomy is: How many surgeries can you really do? But my point is, I'd rather watch Grey's Anatomy or Lost than this show.)


There are several new shows coming up this spring. So you'll probably get a Summer edition of what I think about these tv shows. And hopefully an update on these shows I've blogged about here. If you have any new shows to suggest, please do!

The website I use to check ratings/renewals: TV By The Numbers

Side note: I've been watching Ally McBeal on Netflix. I'm currently halfway through season one. To be honest, if this show came out today, it wouldn't even get a pilot episode on the air. In the 90's though, it definitely got away with a lot. I've really enjoyed watching it again. I also really love Netflix.

Impending Doom

You awesome readers (all, what, 2 of you?) are in for a treat. Because this is my third post in a month, UNHEARD OF!, and also I feel chatty.

There are a few points I'd like to touch on, and I may separate this into two different posts, just because I've been told before that my blogs tend to run on. I've been trying to be conscious of this, for you. However, I really like reading blogs/watching movies/anything that are slightly ADD and are all over the place. And this is my blog, so, if you don't like it!

(But lets be real. If you could tell your friends about my blog that'd be great. I could use some mild awesome followers of ze blog. End: Sad Self Plug)

I'm getting my tonsils out. On Tuesday, actually. March 22nd.

I'm really nervous about it. For more than one reason.

I've never had any sort of surgery. At 25, this is a pretty awesome feat, I think. No surgeries? What up! And I only had one broken bone, and that was at 18. And technically it wasn't a "broken" bone. I had just fractured my tenth (see: Last) rib on my left side.

My mom is currently out of town visiting family in Michigan. Meaning, I am all alone. Getting surgery without my mom. I'm really okay with admitting that I am a total Mama's girl. Cuz I am.

What if they mess up and I never talk again! Or, what if I wake up during my surgery and can't move or talk and FEEL EVERYTHING! What if I have an out of body experience and wake up being all about Jesus!

In reality, it'll be a really horrible week for me. But at the end of it, I'll be in a much better situation health wise, and wont be miserable like I've been. I'll pull right through it, and it'll be great. (Still, maybe send a prayer upwards for me for a safe surgery/easy recovery? kthx)

I am going to make a serious effort to quit smoking and kick soda while I'm recovering. I shouldn't smoke anyway, so that'll be easy. And I'll be in intense pain and won't notice the difference between caffeine headaches and post-surgery/intense pain headaches, so kicking soda will be easy.

I'm trying to be really optimistic here.

I don't think a tonsillectomy will be too terrible. If I can handle having a broken rib, I can handle a really sore throat, right?

I've been trying to make an effort not to talk about being sick/tonsils/ear aches or complain in any way. I don't want to be that person, that just talks about the same thing all the time. Plus, with the fact that I tend to be an anxious person, I'm trying to counteract that by not thinking about it. Especially with my mom gone, which is another thing making my anxiety skyrocket.

But, just to put it out there. I feel like I got hit by a truck. And my face feels puffy non stop and I just want to sleep for like 2 weeks. And this is all pre-surgery. Yikes.

I've been thinking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lately. I don't really know why. And not really anything in particular. Just, you know. About them. How they only had three fingers. And I think Shredder and Splinter have really similar names that makes them confusing. And April had really bad hair, and dressed like a street thug, yet they let her on the nightly news? What?

I miss the 80's.

Further proof, my antibiotics are making me nuts. People think I'm being an asshole because I don't want to drive anywhere and think I'm being weird when I say "My head isn't right, I don't feel comfortable doing that". When really, my head isn't right. So why would you want me driving around? I'm just being safe ya'll.

Now my head is really heavy. Maybe I'll blog again tomorrow? We'll see.

The blog that ended up being about Star Wars, somehow.

For people who vaguely know me, I probably seem like I really love Star Wars.

And in a way, I really do love Star Wars. They're classic films, influential on a lot of my favorite things in the world, including my favorite director, Kevin Smith. I love the feeling I got in my chest when I saw Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith in theaters (The only Star Wars film I saw in theaters) and the opening music started and the words started to scroll the screen. I will never forget the way the hair on my arms stood up and tears hit my eyes the first time Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader on screen.

But for people who REALLY know me, I've seen each film once. Whoops. But one of my favorite things to bellow is "HAN SHOT FIRST!". I'm not really a Star Wars geek as I can sometimes portray. However, I do love anything if it merely makes a Star Wars reference (Fanboys, any Kevin Smith movie, How I Met Your Mother, etc.)

And honestly, I am very excited for 2012 for when they start to show the Star Wars films in order (1-6 rather than 4-6 then 1-3) in theaters in 3-D. It'll probably bring my Star Wars adoration up a big notch, along with my nerd points.

I really feel like one of the most American things you can do is go and see Star Wars in theaters. I can't explain why. I just feel like its such a big part of our generation, and our parent's generation, that how can you NOT go see just one of the films in theaters. And feel that magic you feel when you hear the opening music and see the words on the screen.

I try to support everyone's taste in music. I don't like to be pushy about making people watch certain television shows or movies. But sometimes there are shows and movies I'm passionate about (hello, LOST) that I may ever-not-so subtly will talk your ear off about it until you go to see it.

However, I really think you should take the time to go see a Star Wars movie in theaters given the chance. And if you are not a fan (or even a fake pop culture reference only fan like me) at least go see the fucking Return. Everyone likes Return of the Jedi.

The Star Wars movies are the reason they made huge screens, IMAX and 3-D. Because even before they had those big fantastically expensive impressive screens, Star Wars made you forget the cost of a movie ticket. It made you forget that you were dropping a week's worth of gas on popcorn. In a world where more often then not, you got something horribly life-sucking going on, we could all use something to save us for a little while.

Fuck drugs. Watch Star Wars.