This season in Television

So this season of TV actually has some promise. It's got some old favourites coming back and a surprising new batch of possible regulars for my schedule. So I'm going to tell you all about what I'm watching.

Monday
8pm How I Met Your Mother

If you're not already watching this show then you're missing out. It's amazing. Legendary, even. It's honestly one of the funniest sit-coms since Scrubs and I don't usually follow sitcoms except reruns when they happen to be on. This is the third season. 1 and 2 are out on DVD. Netflix them and jump on board. Ted is a bit whiney for season 1 but everyone else more than makes up for it. Barney (Niel Patrick Harris) is at his finest.

9pm Heroes

You're all watching this already. I know because I can see into your houses.

10pm Journeyman

I pulled the first episode off of Amazon Unboxed (terrible service. don't do it unless you're prepared to FairUse4WM everything). It was ok. I liked the filming style much more than the plot but I'm willing to give it a chance. Other than the conspiracy/story arch with his dead ex-fiancee from the future it seemed like a Quantum Leap rip-off. Here's hoping it finds better footing in the writing.

Tuesday
9pm Scrubs

Last season. It went from Ally McDoctor to something far more surreal with a lot more heart. How often can a sitcom manage heart without being sappy pap? Once every 6 years or so with HIMYM picking up the torch. How's it going to end? Probably with everyone slapping JD for being an ass. Elliot is an (engaged) emotional mess and you've got a baby coming. Don't make out with her.

9pm Reaper

Actually, the premier was a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be. It has Smith's penchant for word play without his penchant for poop play. The devil is good, but not as good as John Glover in Brimstone. It's fun. I'll take it for a ride this season

9pm Eureka

It's fun. I like the sheriff. The plots are fun sci-fi with enough geek characters to talk Star Trek style for a bit. The daughter is suprisingly not obnoxious. The High School satire is surprisingly effective when they bring it in. Sure it's a little too cute sometimes. And how it manages to be cute while dealing with dimensional-autistic interface as well as having a regular shuffled back and forth from being tortured by GD staff to being tortured by the Department of Defence is a little baffling. But it's casual torture, I guess.

Wednesday
8pm Pushing Daisies

This is my big investment this season. I have declared my undying love for this show since I first watched the premier in early August. The visual style is fantastic. The cast has chemistry. The dialogue almost sounds like poetry. It's expressionist television (closer to the French Amile than anything German). Also, I'm a sucker for death comedies. Seriously though. This is from Bryan Fuller. Creator of Dead Like Me. Writer for a good portion of Heroes. He's the heavy hitter that most people don't know is there. Good episode of Star Trek Voyager? Check the credits, it might be him. Like Wonderfalls? Him. Seen the Amazing Screw On Head? Then you're one of 5 people, but it's still him!

9pm Bionic Woman

The premier was ok. Not great. I'll give it a shot for a few episodes. If it takes a good turn and deals more into the character development that it needs rather than straight into the other bionic woman than it might have some staying power. We'll see.

Thursday
8pm Smallville

Guilty pleasure time! Do I find it painful that they're still sticking to the "no flying rule" like dogma? Yes! Supergirl can fly. His clone can fly. His body, when possessed by red kryptonite, can fly. But Clark? No flying. Get him off the fucking ground already. Supergirl? Not that cute little bouncy cousin I'm expecting from... every visual interpretation ever. With the robes and sharp cheekbones she's more like a young, blonde Wonder Woman. But it's the very fact that I was driven to write about this show with exlimation and question marks that means I'm hooked. So I'll just mark it down to guilty pleasure and try to enjoy it.

P.S. IMDB, please take Pete Ross off the short lit of cast members. It's been 3 years. I don't think he's coming back.

I'm also thinking about checking out Aliens in America. We'll see.
If anyone out there thinks I'm missing something grand, please let me know. I time shift everything so the actual schedule matters not to me. Hence my 9pm fest on Tuesdays.

EDIT - Avoid Cavemen. Watching it is like when you go to a friend's house and thier parents are having a fight but trying to be civil/passive aggressive. It just feels really awkward. You want to say "Please. Stop trying. It's ok." But you can't. Because they can't hear you through the TV.

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Comments (19)

	Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon: 10/01/2007 7:40 AM Actually, you can't see into my house, as my superpower interrupts yours. Jerk :P
	and she was: 10/01/2007 7:42 AM I refuse to watch Heroes. It only infuriates me with it's silliness and d-r-a-m-a. And I did like Wonderfalls and was pissed when they canceled it.
	bulletproofheeb: 10/01/2007 7:51 AM funksteena said: I refuse to watch Heroes. It only infuriates me with it's silliness and d-r-a-m-a. And I did like Wonderfalls and was pissed when they canceled it. It does take a much more Marvel (soap opera) approach the characters than DC (archetypes). And even I get frustrated with some of it. I can see your point. Careful, though. newageamazon will eat your brains.
	Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon: 10/01/2007 7:56 AM bulletproofheeb said: It does take a much more Marvel (soap opera) approach the characters than DC (archetypes). And even I get frustrated with some of it. I can see your point. Careful, though. newageamazon will eat your brains. Actually, I don't think brains are South Beach approved. She's safe for the moment.
	and she was: 10/01/2007 8:09 AM Uh oh. Don't eat mah brains, they're made of potatoes. I'm definitely more of a DC girl. Archetypes FTW. I liked Heroes until I felt like I was just being jerked around for the sake of being jerked around. And that's when I say I don't care what happens to you, you silly manboy with the mouth like Sylvester Stallone, or you either, cheerleader girl. I thought that once they saved the cheerleader... Yeah. The drama of revealing Alex de Large making chicken pot pies in the kitchen. Meh. Okay. Let me reiterate: MADE OF POTATOES.
	Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon: 10/01/2007 8:12 AM funksteena said: Uh oh. Don't eat mah brains, they're made of potatoes. I'm definitely more of a DC girl. Archetypes FTW. I liked Heroes until I felt like I was just being jerked around for the sake of being jerked around. And that's when I say I don't care what happens to you, you silly manboy with the mouth like Sylvester Stallone, or you either, cheerleader girl. I thought that once they saved the cheerleader... Yeah. The drama of revealing Alex de Large making chicken pot pies in the kitchen. Meh. Okay. Let me reiterate: MADE OF POTATOES. Heh, I understand. A lot of hardcore fans got really frustrated with certain parts of the show (split personality storyline WOT?). It's not for everyone and that's cool. In other words: your brains are safe. Until my next cheat day.
	bulletproofheeb: 10/01/2007 8:12 AM I'm still hoping she comes back. Her father (Shaft) was a mutant. Sorry, hero. I also don't have high hopes for the first half of this season because they're trying to throw more at the audience to keep them preoccupied. With what? With the fact that nothing was actually resolved last season.
	breesays: 10/01/2007 11:56 AM Im totallllly gonna check out Pushing Daisies.
	JargonTalk ©: 10/01/2007 12:12 PM Interesting, but I've been virtually boycotting television for the last few weeks with the most notable exception of "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and which is being shown on most PBS stations. It's such a well-done and compelling series that I've become addicted to watching them back to back now. Highly recommended, but can be addictive for some. Check it out. Enough said.
	bulletproofheeb: 10/01/2007 12:16 PM I will be sure to check that out.
	and she was: 10/01/2007 1:11 PM I just saw a whatchamacallit for Pushing Daisies. It does indeed look interesting.
	rockinponda: 10/01/2007 1:22 PM No Chuck? No Sunday night? Eh?
	bulletproofheeb: 10/01/2007 1:29 PM I didn't really dig Chuck. It was too cute for my tastes. I know some of my friends like it so maybe I'll give it another try.
	rockinponda: 10/01/2007 1:42 PM I think having that agent working at the Buy More seems promising for some laughs. Have you watched Moonlight? I recorded it but haven't watched it yet. I only watched one episode of Angel, so I don't know how I feel about vampire shows....
	Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon: 10/01/2007 1:43 PM rockinponda said: I think having that agent working at the Buy More seems promising for some laughs. Have you watched Moonlight? I recorded it but haven't watched it yet. I only watched one episode of Angel, so I don't know how I feel about vampire shows.... I'm a former Best Buy employee. Chuck is far more humorous to me than it really should be. And Angel wasn't a fantastic vampire show. I say this as a Buffy fan.
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