The best moment from the year's best tv show...
ABC ruled the roost this season. Desperate Housewives (the last few minutes? Aces!); Lost (i need a notebook everytime I watch it, but i can then pretend tv is challenging and intellectual); Grey's Anatomy (derek and meredith getting back together. Pick her. choose her. love her); Brothers & Sisters (slightly disturbing Sharon-Dennis Eastenders type incest but not ending but brillo as ever. Greg Berlanti rules); Pushing Daisies (whimsical and magical, it really was a fairytale bought to life - ooo see what i did there. Boo the short season though); and Ugly Betty (which was pretty dismal all year but had some good episodes here and there - almost as if by mistake - and does seem to be getting back on track. Hurrah)
The netlet CW may have angered me by renewing One Tree Hill over Veronica Mars (style over substance really does win out) but reeled me back in with the not-nearly-as-annoying-as-i-thought-it-would-be Reaper (Sock was ridiculously irritating to start with, then less so - or I just became more tolerant. Gay demons, questionable parentage and a doozy of an ending that changes everything for next year) and Josh "The OC" Shwartz Gossip Girl, which has to be the most deliriously gooey prime time soap I know of. Pity about the rehash of the Oliver storyline from year one OC with Georgina (Dawn! The Key! Unlocking Serena's secrets!) taking that role, but hey, it gave me Penn Badgely...The Hardy Boys (Supernatural) were as watchable as ever, btw...
Shorter shows ~ proof that everything doesn't have to be stretched out over the normal non-striking 22 episode season run. Dexter got bloody gory and successfully deviated from the books in year 2 (though that fucking annoying English bint got right up my jacksey) while Henry Cavill may have lured me to the tudors, but the sudsy take on politics and power has me hooked. Poor Anne Boleyn. I may even feel a little bit sorry for her... odd pacing though - it sometimes seems to be racing against the other boleyn girl movie to see who can behead first!! Dazpants is very sorry to see the 4400 depart again from this time period :(
We are family ~ is ABC Family the new CW (it might as well be cos I won't be watching the fucking gaudy looking 90210 regeneration)? Kyle XY was a bit confusing in the second year, but it knows how to pull off a cliffhanger and was a nice contrast to the Porkys for teens Greek, which is semi watchable though not particularly brilliant. Perhaps best to stick with the reruns of Gilmore Girls and pre-convulted history Smallville...
Downright disaster (yet i kept watching) ~ How long did bloody Hiro need to stay in feudal Japan? He seemed to be there forever and his bloody love story wasn't very bloody interesting. Veronica Mars shone in her anti Hayley Pantyshares role but by the time Story 2 was done, the writers were on strike and it could possibly be a death toll for the show unless year 3 is outstanding. Ditto Prison Break - everything I say about the loathsomely ludicrous 24 is true about Prison Break yet for some reason I seem to cut PB more slack. Smallville has gone pretty crap - you can almost hear the cast and creative crew counting down the days to when they can call it quits...
Best of brits:
- Shameless
- Benidorm
- The Office (US version - year four has been lovely. Great final few moments!)
- The Apprentice (Raef has gone. Woohoo! Viva Lee and Lucinda! Is it very wrong that I felt sorry for Michael this week?)
- Gail's gay long lost dad on Corrie. Brilliant
- Doctor Who
- M.I. High
New shows worthy of your time:
Not many next year due to the strike. As I said 90210 looks god-awful but new shows from the normally reliable Joss Whedon (dollhouse with eliza dushku! FAITH!) and JJ Abrams (Fringe with Pacey Dawsons Creek!) will be worth tuning into....Last years season finale wrap up...
2006 season finale wrap up...
The current series of Who is just fabulous. Heidi still doesn't like it as well as the first series (with Eccleston) but I just LOVE Donna. And I totally didn't expect to either.
ReplyDeleteWatching this last week's episode made me want to go out and read Agatha Christie books!
love dr. who ! but...get rid of c tate please. she's so much better on her own.
ReplyDeleteomigawd !!!
dollhouse ! with faith i mean eliza...
i hope that it gets picked up for a full run and not just for the 7 ordered episodes.
i thought the last gossip girl was a bit of a let down. And although Chuck was a bit of a part time gayer in the novels, i'd happily settle for your boy Penn to fall in love with a fella. I loved the twist at the end of Desperate Housewives - i would so trade skinny mike for beefy bloke from Queer as Folk...
ReplyDeletePaulie, you gotta see Ugly Betty's finale! Grab it from the torrents (if you haven't already!). It's a Madonna-fest! No spoilers here (this time!) but several Hard Candy and even a Confessions song are used!
ReplyDeleteDid you keep up with that "Moonlight" show or whatever it was that had the vampires? There was a roundup on Yahoo! yesterday about all the shows that were axed, including that one and "Las Vegas," which I never watched but was surprised about.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to see "Dexter" season two when it comes out on DVD this summer...and "Heroes"! I just don't have the time (or the patience) to sit and watch on my computer.
Fuck! This place is divine! The glorious Cathy Dennis post! So much love for the article and the C-D that is Dennis Cathy. I loved that album. It was amazing. The title track made me go weak at the knees. It totally messed up the genders and the stereotypes. "I'll be the groom and honey you'll be the bride in white.." gets me all the type. An album that was way before its time.
ReplyDeleteAlso..loved the DH finale! Quite amazing. I was grasping for my inhaler* when those last 5 minutes filtered through. I was thinking about Gabbys kids all day. Oh it made me smile so.
*slight exaggeration...
I really cannot wait for the return of Pushing Daisies! Seeing shows I like get canceled is though, though--it's so tempting for me to just avoid all new series until we find out if they're renewed or not, and then just catch up on them after that.
ReplyDelete(Not that I'll ever be able to do that, though ;) )
I'm very intrigued by Dollhouse--sad that we have to wait until midseason (if I'm remembering correctly?) for it, though.
PPG ~ I think that Dollhouse is a midseason replacement type show. Still hopefully it will be worth the wait. I'm of the same mind about new shows. The ones i'm intruiged by i'll watch regardless - the others I just wait to see if they are a hit or not before i invest...
ReplyDeleteBobs ~ Glad you liked the Cathy post. And yes, Desperate Housewives was pretty decent ending. It was no real surprise that Lynette's kids end up as they do!
D'Luv ~ I never watched Moonlight - or Las Vegas. Though both had semi beefy dudes in it, so obviously may appeal! Haha. Dexter is aces... I'm lucky that my mp3 player plays vids and can be hooked up to the tv.
Yuri ~ I just saw Ugly Betty! That was a lot of madonna. Is tv placement the new payolla? Good use of the Confessions track though even if the ending was totally season one finale Felicity...
Ed ~ Yeah i was disappointed by the last gossip girl. I was expecting some giant cliffhanger. Oh well, maybe they didn't know if it was coming back or not...
Glossy and DanUSA ~ A difference of opinion on Catherine T. I have to say i loved her in the first episode and have found her entertaining ever since. Who knew!