some thoughts about television
So I was gone this weekend, and I'm catching up on LJ but if there's anything I need to see please let me know. I don't generally say "hey I'll be gone" because it's pretty rare on any given five-day period that anyone is looking for me that urgently, but I did find myself to be too tired and overstimulated to be good about keeping up and commenting.
I was just looking through the fall TV preview in Entertainment Weekly, and man, it's totally taken over what TV Guide used to do, hasn't it? I remember when I was a kid I couldn't wait for that shiny Fall Preview special TV Guide to come in the mail--it was just about the only place you found out about the new shows. Sure, some of them would be on Entertainment Tonight, which started airing when I was in junior high, but only some of them. TV Guide had a grid, and those iconic pictures of the new casts. Oh how things have changed.
Speaking of which, is anyone still watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? I found last night's episode to be pretty awful in about 37 ways: that tacky-tacky-tacky and tacked-on opening thing where they all sat around convincing themselves they weren't to blame (and the other housewives really aren't, if anyone is); the way the event hung over the rest of the show; how Taylor's neediness just looks like an open wound anymore, which draws Kyle in like a moth to a flame because she knows what it means to take care of someone fragile; how Lisa can't be bothered which, fine, but I wouldn't want to be her friend; how Kim has become a nonentity; how Adrienne and Paul's bickering seems shrill only because of the context and the sudden need of the show to have a storyline other than the dissolution of Taylor's marriage. I was on the fence before, but now, I don't know if this is staying on the DVR.
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I was just looking through the fall TV preview in Entertainment Weekly, and man, it's totally taken over what TV Guide used to do, hasn't it? I remember when I was a kid I couldn't wait for that shiny Fall Preview special TV Guide to come in the mail--it was just about the only place you found out about the new shows. Sure, some of them would be on Entertainment Tonight, which started airing when I was in junior high, but only some of them. TV Guide had a grid, and those iconic pictures of the new casts. Oh how things have changed.
- Shows I'm adding: Pan Am, Happy Endings (which I rather liked as a midseason), Up All Night, and of course The X Factor. The more I read about Pan Am the more interested I am in it. (And the reverse, re The Playboy Club.) The show was developed and is exec produced by a former Pan Am stewardess ('68-75) who used her own and her friends' experiences including working for the CIA (!). Apparently stewardesses were all made 2nd Lt. in the USAF so that if they were in an hostile environment they'd be protected under the Geneva Convention.
- Shows I'm still watching: Community, HIMYM, Castle, maybe The Sing Off on Hulu or something.
- Shows I'm watching through my fingers: Glee, Hawaii Five-O, Dancing with the Stars. Well, I always watch DwtS through my fingers.
- Shows I'm watching when they return this winter/spring: Justified, White Collar, Top Chef, The Voice
- Shows I might not watch when they return: American Idol
Speaking of which, is anyone still watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? I found last night's episode to be pretty awful in about 37 ways: that tacky-tacky-tacky and tacked-on opening thing where they all sat around convincing themselves they weren't to blame (and the other housewives really aren't, if anyone is); the way the event hung over the rest of the show; how Taylor's neediness just looks like an open wound anymore, which draws Kyle in like a moth to a flame because she knows what it means to take care of someone fragile; how Lisa can't be bothered which, fine, but I wouldn't want to be her friend; how Kim has become a nonentity; how Adrienne and Paul's bickering seems shrill only because of the context and the sudden need of the show to have a storyline other than the dissolution of Taylor's marriage. I was on the fence before, but now, I don't know if this is staying on the DVR.
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