TV Right Now: The good, the bad and the totally sucky

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Oh, I was gonna say that I think Smash has some of the same problems, or
might have, that Aaron Sorkin's Studio 30 on the Sunset Strip did.  It's the
fact that you'd rather just be watching the show they working on than the
behind the scenes stuff, so that something always feels missing.

[doodler]

I was wondering who they thought might be interested in a show like this as
you are not alone in your assessment.

As I said before, adult Glee.

[doodler]

The 2 hour pilot of The River is available at your leisure on ABC.com
You're welcome.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I was watching tv and saw commercials for Survivor.  They show this
really attractive guy named Jay, but when he speaks he sounds like
Brick from The Ritz!  LOL!

[doodler]

Ok, so I'm watching The Mentalist for the first time since Red John did /not get killed at the end of last season which was the first time I had watched in I don't know how long. Here's my take... on going story line to be: Cho has a prescription drug problem.
I just do not get what is new/different/involving/charming/you name it about this show. And I like Simon Baker.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Not sure, but I believe it was his second episode.  You missed a good CSI last night!
I've been sticking with that and watch L&O when CSI is a rerun.  Looks like they
are adding Elisabeth Shue to the cast next week.  Elisabeth Shue?

(If Elisabeth Shue married Thomas Horn she'd be Elisabeth Shue Horn.)

You know, I cannot for the life of me tell the difference between Kelli Giddish, one of the new kids at L&O: SVU, and the woman with the hat from Prime Suspect. Are they really the same person?  

I was wondering who they thought might be interested in a show like this as
you are not alone in your assessment.

Theatre Queens and fans of Catherine McPhee from American Idol, maybe? And Marilyn Monroe junkies?

Ok, so I'm watching The Mentalist for the first time since Red John did /not get killed at the end of last season which was the first time I had watched in I don't know how long. Here's my take... on going story line to be: Cho has a prescription drug problem.
I just do not get what is new/different/involving/charming/you name it about this show. And I like Simon Baker.

I'm glad to see Cho getting the focus of a subplot. We had Rigsby and Van Pelt, together and separately (plus Rigsby's rebound from Van Pelt is pregnant), so it's time for Cho. Only thing is, after last night's episode, I thought Cho had a steady girlfriend; we saw her in the episode that focused on his gang past, but maybe they wrote her out of it at the end of that episode and I've just forgotten. And I need to look up the actress who plays Summer; I like her.  

ETA: Summer is played by Samaire Armstrong; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1027847/

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I enjoyed the episode and I liked all the stuff with Cho and Summer.

[Tony_]

Grimm.   They are keeping up the quality of the plots and critters.  But, some botherings:

* Where was Wu? I don't remember seeing him in a single scene, this evening. What's wrong with them?

* It's getting like the outpouring of critter names derives from some writer who has had one martini too many.  But at least, tonight, the over-all menagerie are in the general phylum (to use Monroe's words) of Vessen. I've been trying to keep a notebook, but it is very hard to keep up.

* I suspect the Bieber monster was wagging Justin Bieber.  Have said it before but, once again, some of these shows tweak each other and outsiders.

* Someone in Homeland Defense needs to order DNA testing of every resident in Portland, Oregon. Now.

[morrobay]

Richard Schiff is a genius

[doodler]

I'll drink to that, Tony and Nancy.

Re: Grimm - a problem
The spider family is alive. So how do we protect ourselves? Why no ending?

[morrobay]

sorry - back to the past...the women in west wing are written as idiots...Donna Moss has the worst lines, followed by all the minor "staff", they're written as "secretaries", and all that title conjurs up, and treated not much better than the office girls in Mad Men (which i love and which was true to the time/era)...

can you imagine frowning, pouting, lowering your eyes and, in a whiny voice, saying to your (opposite sex) boss "don't yell at me."  


i'm going to follow up on Grimm this weekend....

[doodler]

If you were inclined to pout and lower your eyes, you wouldn't say anything!
You'd just bitch a lot at your mama and beat your kids.

[morrobay]

just to get it out of my system so i don't get an ulcer thinking about it:

season 1 ends with an assasination attempt, it's chaos, cops everywhere, people are shot/wounded.  

Donna, Josh's "secretary", comes to the hospital and Toby says "Josh was hit".

and what does she say?  "Hit with what?"

Hit. With. What.
  
Toby: "He was shot.  In the chest."

And then, and i quote: "I don't understand.  Is it serious?"

Mostly, I think this show is fabulous...but I really do not like the way they write these women.

And if a man said those lines, then I wouldn't like the way they wrote the men...but the men seemed to understand that a gunshot wound to the chest was serious.

[doodler]

It's been a while, but wasn't Donna a little... out there... initially? Not the brightest or most clued in?
Isn't she the one who finds out she was actually born in Canada, not the US when she is denied admitance to a White House affair?

[donna]

It's always like that with 'Donna.'

Damn Ritchie Valens and the horse he rode in on...