It's a new TV season! My DVR is humming with activity these days. There are just so many shows to record! And Tim and I have discovered yet another show that adds to my recording schedule. Here's a quick summary of what's on this season.
We all know that I love to watch trash, so, of course, one of my weekly obsessions is The Bachelor. I have watched the last 3 seasons, and this is the first time the Bachelor is a decent guy. He's a single dad, who's wife ditched him and his toddler. He was on The Bachelorette, and either he's really good at faking sincerity, or he's a really genuine guy. He got the boot on the final episode, after a very lovely proposal, and all trash-watching girls of America were in an outrage. So now he gets to be the boss. I am hooked.
It is also another season of The Biggest Loser, which I've already raved about in previous posts, so I won't say much here. Let me just say that there are 2 pairs of LDS guys on there, Dane and Blaine, and Felipe and Sionne. It's refreshing to have a few contestants that aren't being bleeped every other word during the last chance workouts. I'm cheering for Felipe, a big Polynesian guy that seems really nice. This season is better than last season, because almost everyone is really nice. Joelle is completely bonkers, and super annoying, but everyone else has been quite pleasant up to this point. Go losers!
After like 4 years, it's time for another season of Lost. Yay! The break between seasons is so long, it's hard to keep caring what happens to those people on the island. Then you watch the first episode and you get sucked back in for another 18 episodes. Let's just avoid a writers' strike this season, PLEASE! This season there is time travel involved, which has made the first two episodes even more confusing and complicated than the previous 4 seasons. Awesome! Just keep Desmond in there, and stop letting Sayid kill people, and I'll be happy.
Tim and I are huge fans of The Office, which, if you aren't watching it yet, is a special brand of humor that is realistic to the point of being uncomfortable. If you've ever had an office job, you most likely know a Dwight (I worked in an engineering firm for a few years, and they were all Dwights), a Kevin, a Michael, and maybe an Andy (who is exactly like all those guys my freshman year that spent hours playing the piano in the Wilk and trying to sing harmony at girls' dorm windows). You feel embarrassed for Michael during most episodes, sorry for Pam most of the time, and hope you are more like Jim than anyone else, because he seems to be aware of the ridiculousness surrounding him, and has a good sense of humor about the situation. My brother and his wife, as well as some other friends, know what we like in a TV show, and recommended 30 Rock. We Netflixed the first 2 seasons and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It, too, has a humor that is so relatable that you sympathize with Liz Lemon as you laugh at her. Alec Baldwin is genius in his role as an ultra conservative executive at the studio. Kenneth the Page (I don't know the actor's name) is a Southern boy with hometown values (I don't drink coffee. Hot drinks are the devil's temperature!) and steals the show. Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is a harried, work-obsessed producer at a variety show, who has to deal with The Talent on a daily basis, and has a disaster of a personal life. It's painful, yet funny, just like the Office. There are political jokes that I actually get! We are impatient for Season 3 to come out on DVD, or at least go into reruns so we can start watching! If you're a fan of the Office, I'm guessing you'll like this show as well.
There are my other shows, of course, like Ugly Betty (what's going on these days? There are new episodes every 3 weeks or so!), and House. Still enjoyable. And Chuck is back on now, too. I'm just waiting for the next cycle of America's Next Top Model and Pushing Daisies! I'm enjoying Psych and Monk again, too, now that we've got USA again. For anyone aged 28-35, you'll enjoy all the pop culture references in Psych. Even if you're not, it's a good laugh.
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I hate to share the bad news, but I think Pushing Daisies has been cancelled. A pox on their houses!
Love love love 30 Rock. Pure genius, but I'm an Office fan, so that explains it.
My garbage that I love? How I Met Your Mother. Doogie Howser kills me, Rachel. Kills me.
Have you watched True Beauty at all? It is on after the Bachelor. Stephen and I are thoroughly enjoying it. It is a train wreck that you just can't look away from (much like the other trash on TV).
And you've Netflixed Arrested Development right? We are just finishing out the last season right now.
I'm so sad that Pushing Daisies has been cancelled. I love that show!
My favorite thing about the show is that the narrator is the same guy that reads the Harry Potter books (Jim Dale). And it was really getting intriguing. The stuffy suits that decide what stays and what goes never appreciate the good stuff that has some quality! Boo!
30 Rock is awesome! My friend's husband worked on the show for a while and over the holidays we were all at a party and he was telling a group of people next to me all about the show but I was stuck having a conversation with someone else and I kept hearing him say things like, "And then Tina Fey said..." and then everyone would laugh hysterically and I was dying inside. I cornered him later on and made him repeat all the good stories.
I have heard something is up with Ugly Betty but I have not taken the time to investigate it on the internet. (Maybe that is why there are only a few new episodes every few weeks. I want to start watching 30 Rock, it won lots of awards at the Golden Globes and I thought it was worth giving a shot. I of course love Biggest Loser and I am so glad that Joelle is gone. The people do seem a lot nicer this season as well!
This post was awesome! I was just thinking to myself today that there were no good shows on, and now I have a whole list of new shows to DVR!
I love love love LOST!!! I haven't found anyone out here who is hooked yet!!! Its hard to not have anyone to talk to about it!! The Office rocks too!!
Lisa, if you need to discuss Lost, you always have Tim and me. I think Desmond is my favorite these days. It used to be Sayid, but he's returned to his dark ways.
I have to be careful reading anything that involves Lost these days because we don't get the new episodes until the Sunday night following the original showing. What night is that, anyway? I agree - I'm so, so sad that Sayid has made a pact with the devil. I'm hoping that when this all wraps up he'll be redeemed somehow.
I'm off TV right now, even my beloved Lost had to go until I can watch it sans plastic bucket, but I wanted to tell you that I read Beauty and Princess Bride from your book stash and loved both of them. The rest were too hard for my mush brain. Thanks for the loans!
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