September 13, 2007
I'm strangely (for me) looking forward to the TV shows' annual return from Capistrano. I hear some people have cancelled their cable and are using subscription programs to seamlessly pull in exactly what they want, when they want it (and in high resolution). I wouldn't know anything about that except to say the media companies should quit their antediluvian grousing, curb their greed, and invent these things before somebody else does (and at a fair price for what is otherwise free). Enough rant...
Inside are premiere dates for some shows I know the AE community have been enjoying. Please ring in with your recommendations for this Boob Tube edition of "It's the Tits".
Weeds Mon 8/13 Showtime Monday, 10:00p It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Thu 9/13 FX Thursday, 10:00p Heroes Mon 9/24 NBC Monday, 9:00p My Name Is Earl Thu 9/27 NBC Thursday, 8:00p The Office Thu 9/27 NBC Thursday, 9:00p Everybody Hates Chris Mon 10/1 CW Monday, 8:00p The Sarah Silverman Program Wed 10/3 COM Wednesday, 10:30p South Park Wed 10/3 COM Wednesday, 10:00p 30 Rock Thu 10/4 NBC Thursday, 8:30p 30 Days Late Oct 2007 FX Battlestar Galactica 2 hr special in fall, series in spring Wire Jan 6 2008 HBO Entourage Summer HBO Mad Men Summer AMC
If you haven't checked them out, The Wire is the best show on television (if not ever); Mad Men and Sunny in Philadelphia (thx nanocindy) are fantastic. Also: Tom Wolfe reviews Entourage, by Blair Becker
Also, the summer season of Flight of the Conchords just wrapped and that was a pretty stellar and quirky show. I recommend it on DVD or whatever. (btw, I only half agree with the sullen guy who wrote the quirk article).
...I checked before hitting "Post" and found that the DVD set is due out November 6th. That has to be the fastest air-date-to-DVD for a TV series that I have ever seen.
Is The Wire the best show on television the way Entourage is, or in a different way? (I jest, I jest.)
I'm always excited when I catch a new episode of "Good Eats" but I'm never really sure when the new seasons start.
Also check out 'Chuck' before Heroes and 'Journeyman' after it. Mondays are nerd/scifi night. The Chuck pilot has good music, a quirky feel, and Zork references.
Thank you, mrflip, for leading me to that, and reminding me of the glory of the smirnoff russian reversal:
Here, you vandalize Wikipedia.
In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia vandalizes you
I watched some of "The Wire" tonight. It is not the best show (evar!). The characters are too weak, and the plot, while mildly compelling, is easy to walk away from. Those who doubt me... suck cock by choice.
The show starts off being not-too-different from the other police procedurals on the screen (rogue cop, reassigned to backwater, blah blah blah). It picks up *hugely* towards the end of the first season/start of the second.
This is, I know, a big investment -- but it's really hard to find someone who has made that investment and doesn't agree.
Similarly, if you follow Nate's advice and start watching the Venture Brothers, jump right in at the second season (or sample one or two from season one and then skip ahead). Season one I found grating; season two gets better and better, reaching its crescendo when criminal mastermind David Bowie and his henchmen Klaus Nomi and Iggy Pop engage in aerial battle alongside a Puddy-voiced killing machine, a tripping hardy boy, a legion of butterfly-suited red shirts and a basso-profundo bombshell named Dr. Girlfriend.
Damn. I wish my login was "Dr. Girlfriend".
Apparently Season 3 is somewhere in production. Next year, maybe?
I'm really enjoying the new season of Venture Bros -- and completely agree with ndogg viz. The Dr. Mrs. Monarch's costume.
I'm also psyched that the Onion's TVClub is covering both Venture Bros and Weeds. Incidentally: the AV Club's comments sections are uniformly terrible. Disastrous -- maybe not youtube bad -- but generally unreadable. The threads for Weeds, however, conceal a vicariously thrilling masterclass in drug smuggling, at least as far as this suburban son of Abraham can tell.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm started last weekend. It gets one of my few votes for greatest show of all time. A/V Club's new feature (aptly named TV Club) breaks down episode 1 (spoilers).
posted by natedogg at 03:23PM CST on September 13