Friday night TV
So, my plan to hook up both of my Tivos to my one working TV -- and thus be able to record two shows at once --totally backfired when it turned out that both remote controls operate both Tivos. I did not foresee this problem because the two Tivos are so different -- one of them is an old Series 1 I've had for six years and made by a totally different company. So when I change channels on one, it changes channels on the other. This blows. But, in a last-second stroke of genius before FNL started, I realized that the older Tivo has an easily-identifiable eye, so I was at least able to blind it and keep it paused on FNL while I watched Moonlight. Yay!
I'm glad this worked out, because ML was a huge improve over last week, and flashbacks of Jason in the '80s are the absolute best thing I have ever seen in my entire life. His scenes were great, and the other actors didn't suck like they did last week. And I even liked the story. Wow, who knew?
And how nice of it was Friday Night Lights to jump the shark this week so that I don't have to worry about this scheduling conflict in the future? I mean, that Tyra storyline? Dump the body? Seriously? I saw the online version a couple weeks ago when Landry hit him all self-defense-like, and I get they re-did it to make it look worse for Landry and thus make them look less like complete morons for going all Nip/Tuck at the end, but it didn't work for me. Why not? Because it's TEXAS. A rural town in Texas! Because, apparently, unlike any of the people who write this show, I've actually lived in Texas. Anywhere else, and I can buy that Landy might have a legal problem. But in Texas, a guy's hasslin' your girl like that, you take him out and nobody asks any questions. In fact, the cops will buy the first round of drinks. Especially if it's some scrawny white kid who finally sacked up and made a man out of himself. Like, I can think of three Kenny Rogers songs off the top of my head that have that very plot.
And then there was the part where everything else in the episode was as boring as everlasting okra. And Julie sucks and needs to die.
I'm glad this worked out, because ML was a huge improve over last week, and flashbacks of Jason in the '80s are the absolute best thing I have ever seen in my entire life. His scenes were great, and the other actors didn't suck like they did last week. And I even liked the story. Wow, who knew?
And how nice of it was Friday Night Lights to jump the shark this week so that I don't have to worry about this scheduling conflict in the future? I mean, that Tyra storyline? Dump the body? Seriously? I saw the online version a couple weeks ago when Landry hit him all self-defense-like, and I get they re-did it to make it look worse for Landry and thus make them look less like complete morons for going all Nip/Tuck at the end, but it didn't work for me. Why not? Because it's TEXAS. A rural town in Texas! Because, apparently, unlike any of the people who write this show, I've actually lived in Texas. Anywhere else, and I can buy that Landy might have a legal problem. But in Texas, a guy's hasslin' your girl like that, you take him out and nobody asks any questions. In fact, the cops will buy the first round of drinks. Especially if it's some scrawny white kid who finally sacked up and made a man out of himself. Like, I can think of three Kenny Rogers songs off the top of my head that have that very plot.
And then there was the part where everything else in the episode was as boring as everlasting okra. And Julie sucks and needs to die.