TV Roundup this week
Oct. 2nd, 2003 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiMonster House -- Good episode, and a nice rule change to make up for Steve screwing the crew over (both by doing no background check on the "electrician" and by adding a new addition on Thursday). Not my favorite house from the show, but still fun. Now, next week's Las Vegas House, though, looks great.
Smallville -- They're not even pretending to be anything but trash anymore. Crappy plotting, no attempt to hit comic continuity properly (I mean, Morgan Edge hiring Clark Kent, even under an assumed name, will figure out who this Superman dude is some years later), bad Fight Club/Castaway rip-offs, soap-opera character shifts (Lex's wife), etc. On the other hand, no show is more fun to make fun of. Once Lex and Clark get back to Smallville, we can even have the gay sex storylines again (how the hell did they avoid that with the island plotline?), and the show will be complete.
Angel -- Wow. Fucking wow. Just a great, funny episode. Sets up all sorts of nifty stuff. Give us the return of one of my favorite characters (Harmony), does more with Gunn in a day than has been done in the last year, and more quotable lines than all of last year's Buffy. The secret ingredient is otters.
Gilmore Girls -- Um. Lots of good stuff, but lots of crap. Rory's big "I miss you" speech was fucking horrible. One of the worst speeches she's ever been given. And too many plot points were nonsense. Once again, the writers prove that they know shit about the college admissions process. But once you ignore all of that, the episode was still fun. And more Paris is a good thing (even if her Life Coach needs to die a horrible and miserable death). Now, anyone seen Lane?
Still haven't watched Karen Sisco.
Tonight, the season premiere of the only good sitcom on NBC, which has been neglected in favor of promoting a crappy sitcom in its final year and a rip-off of a Britcom that in turn is ripping off that crappy sitcom (Scrubs, Friends, the American Coupling, and the British Coupling, respectively).
Anyone else remember when NBC Thursdays meant five genuinely great shows?
Smallville -- They're not even pretending to be anything but trash anymore. Crappy plotting, no attempt to hit comic continuity properly (I mean, Morgan Edge hiring Clark Kent, even under an assumed name, will figure out who this Superman dude is some years later), bad Fight Club/Castaway rip-offs, soap-opera character shifts (Lex's wife), etc. On the other hand, no show is more fun to make fun of. Once Lex and Clark get back to Smallville, we can even have the gay sex storylines again (how the hell did they avoid that with the island plotline?), and the show will be complete.
Angel -- Wow. Fucking wow. Just a great, funny episode. Sets up all sorts of nifty stuff. Give us the return of one of my favorite characters (Harmony), does more with Gunn in a day than has been done in the last year, and more quotable lines than all of last year's Buffy. The secret ingredient is otters.
Gilmore Girls -- Um. Lots of good stuff, but lots of crap. Rory's big "I miss you" speech was fucking horrible. One of the worst speeches she's ever been given. And too many plot points were nonsense. Once again, the writers prove that they know shit about the college admissions process. But once you ignore all of that, the episode was still fun. And more Paris is a good thing (even if her Life Coach needs to die a horrible and miserable death). Now, anyone seen Lane?
Still haven't watched Karen Sisco.
Tonight, the season premiere of the only good sitcom on NBC, which has been neglected in favor of promoting a crappy sitcom in its final year and a rip-off of a Britcom that in turn is ripping off that crappy sitcom (Scrubs, Friends, the American Coupling, and the British Coupling, respectively).
Anyone else remember when NBC Thursdays meant five genuinely great shows?
