Thursday, Sep 29, 2005
Hooray for the "Veronica Mars" season premiere! What a great episode! Also: Charisma Carpenter. I'm willing to jeopardize my reputation as a sensitive, enlightened feminist to let the truth be known: hooray for Kendall's bikini scene. I actually chanted "USA! USA! USA!" out loud, not just the first time, but also after I rewound it on the TiVo.
I'm not disturbed by Veronica dumping Logan to get back together with Duncan; I was a little irritated by the way they played the reveal deliberately for shock value. Ultimately whomever Veronica chooses Logan is the more interesting character, and he really gets the stuffing beat out of him in this one -- first Weevil's gang whales on him, then his car windows get shotgunned out, then Veronica shows him the door, then for good measure Keith slaps him around a little. And his mom offed herself, his dad's in jail, and his sister is Vampire Willow.
Extra bonus points for the super-funny Johnny Damon bit and Carpenter appearing in even less clothes in her second scene. Demerits for the new credits -- the first-season "power shot" with the show's title was far superior. I guess I like boyish bob Kristen better than this year's longer-tressed model. That's a fairly minor thing to complain about.
Meanwhile on "Gilmore Girls": love Paris's rant about sleeping naked, love Rory taking charge of the community service highway-sanitation gang, hate Logan. Hate Logan. HATE Logan. The ABC Family reruns are at the end of Season Three and as big of a self-serving jerk Jess was, at least he thought he stood for something. Logan doesn't seem as if he's considered the deeper meaning of his existence for even a fraction of a second. Also, either Jess or Dean could beat him into a bloody pulp. Maybe one of them will. That'll be a "Keep Until I Delete" episode for sure.
Moving on. "My Name is Earl" is fantastic. You should be watching it, if you're not. Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are both very funny but it's also surprisingly moving. I didn't think it would be a show I couldn't wait to recommend to my mother, but it totally is. The first "Arrested Development" was awesome (imoscar.com!) and the second one was very weak. I'm not worried about its ongoing quality. I am worried about its being canceled. How awful is it to have your favorite show in danger of being canceled practically from day one? I guess I know how all those "Firefly" fans felt now. "How I Met Your Mother" has been disappointing thus far, although the second episode did show improvement. The fact that Neil Patrick Harris as the shallow comic relief guy is the best-written character on the show doesn't bode well for its development. And although she's certainly not bad at making the best out of lukewarm material, wasting Alyson Hannigan should be a federal crime! She could be a regular on "Veronica Mars" right now! Imagine Trina as Logan's legal guardian! Oh, now I'm bumming myself out.
This will be the last season of "King of the Hill," a show I've always watched and have always underrated. The pilot was on FX the other day and other than a few tweaks in the voices and the animation, they've known exactly what they wanted to do from the beginning on that show and it's amazing how it's stayed basically fresh for ten years. Did you know "King of the Hill" has been on for ten seasons? No kidding. Every now and then they do an episode that's kind of disturbing -- there's one where Hank's coworker Enrique's marriage starts breaking up and he begins stalking the Hills, and there's another where Bill, refusing to accept the finality of his divorce, starts dressing up as his ex-wife. "King of the Hill": the animated "DeGrassi." It goes there. (Also, it should be noted, when they had Lindsay Lohan, Laura Prepon, and Aly all on as guests one week, they gave Hannigan the biggest part. Men of taste!)
I'm not disturbed by Veronica dumping Logan to get back together with Duncan; I was a little irritated by the way they played the reveal deliberately for shock value. Ultimately whomever Veronica chooses Logan is the more interesting character, and he really gets the stuffing beat out of him in this one -- first Weevil's gang whales on him, then his car windows get shotgunned out, then Veronica shows him the door, then for good measure Keith slaps him around a little. And his mom offed herself, his dad's in jail, and his sister is Vampire Willow.
Extra bonus points for the super-funny Johnny Damon bit and Carpenter appearing in even less clothes in her second scene. Demerits for the new credits -- the first-season "power shot" with the show's title was far superior. I guess I like boyish bob Kristen better than this year's longer-tressed model. That's a fairly minor thing to complain about.
Meanwhile on "Gilmore Girls": love Paris's rant about sleeping naked, love Rory taking charge of the community service highway-sanitation gang, hate Logan. Hate Logan. HATE Logan. The ABC Family reruns are at the end of Season Three and as big of a self-serving jerk Jess was, at least he thought he stood for something. Logan doesn't seem as if he's considered the deeper meaning of his existence for even a fraction of a second. Also, either Jess or Dean could beat him into a bloody pulp. Maybe one of them will. That'll be a "Keep Until I Delete" episode for sure.
Moving on. "My Name is Earl" is fantastic. You should be watching it, if you're not. Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are both very funny but it's also surprisingly moving. I didn't think it would be a show I couldn't wait to recommend to my mother, but it totally is. The first "Arrested Development" was awesome (imoscar.com!) and the second one was very weak. I'm not worried about its ongoing quality. I am worried about its being canceled. How awful is it to have your favorite show in danger of being canceled practically from day one? I guess I know how all those "Firefly" fans felt now. "How I Met Your Mother" has been disappointing thus far, although the second episode did show improvement. The fact that Neil Patrick Harris as the shallow comic relief guy is the best-written character on the show doesn't bode well for its development. And although she's certainly not bad at making the best out of lukewarm material, wasting Alyson Hannigan should be a federal crime! She could be a regular on "Veronica Mars" right now! Imagine Trina as Logan's legal guardian! Oh, now I'm bumming myself out.
This will be the last season of "King of the Hill," a show I've always watched and have always underrated. The pilot was on FX the other day and other than a few tweaks in the voices and the animation, they've known exactly what they wanted to do from the beginning on that show and it's amazing how it's stayed basically fresh for ten years. Did you know "King of the Hill" has been on for ten seasons? No kidding. Every now and then they do an episode that's kind of disturbing -- there's one where Hank's coworker Enrique's marriage starts breaking up and he begins stalking the Hills, and there's another where Bill, refusing to accept the finality of his divorce, starts dressing up as his ex-wife. "King of the Hill": the animated "DeGrassi." It goes there. (Also, it should be noted, when they had Lindsay Lohan, Laura Prepon, and Aly all on as guests one week, they gave Hannigan the biggest part. Men of taste!)
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