SUMMER UPDATE: Solving 'Entourage'

I am breaking from my summer hiatus to post some great news. I finally figured out how 'Entourage' works as a show. I used to get so annoyed at how nothing ever happens and before you know it, 22 minutes is over, and you got nowhere. Well....DUH! Watch a whole season at once, and then its just like watching 3 episodes of a real show.

Lauren and I started all of season 5 the other night since we now have HBO back ($5/month for the next six months, hell yes).

So we got through about 4 episodes and I realized I was enjoying it -- because I didn't have to wait seven days for the next set of nothing to happen. But it turns out if you put a whole lot of nothing together, you get a little something.

So there you go. I am recommending 'Entourage' in large doses -- in the end, you will get a little something.

Back to Hiatus.

SUMMER VACATION

See you all for the Fall TV preview around Labor Day. Until then, be well...be safe..and enjoy your summer.

Sumertime? Feels like April.

The weather has been chilly since Saturday so the only think I know how to do when its cold is watch TV. So I tried to catch up some episodes of 'Earl', but the novelty has worn off that show.

I tried to watch some 'Dollhouse' -- but that seems like July television.
I have been knocking out old 'Rules of Engagement' episodes, and if you've been reading this blog, then you know how much I love Patrick Warburton. He could read the dictionary and I would crack up. Strangely I recently suggested that Megan Fox could read the dictionary too -- but that would elicit a totally different response.

We're also finishing up this season of 'My Boys'. I like the show and I like Jordana Sprio, but something about this show makes it feel like it was made for like $12 in a high-school theater. Maybe its the massive TBS budget, or the writing, but its a quick 22 minutes to fall asleep to.

I still think this summer will be the one where I rent season 1 and 2 of 'Friday Night Lights' -- we'll see what happens.

Summertime...

I think I will keep on posting for a few weeks until the summer really kicks in, and then as always, I will rejoin you all in the Fall ahead of the new season.

I watched the finale of 'SVU' the other night and it sucked. They teased a major death and of course it was a bit character. And admittedly the plot was a little predictable -- but that might be because I watch a lot of TV, originality is hard to find. That's why I love 'Lost' and 'Fringe' so much. You can only do so much on the 'Gossip Girls' of the world that hasn't been done before. Same for the B+S and the Housewives and pretty much everything else.

God Bless good and creative and clever TV writers. The JJ's and the Joss's and the BJ + Mindy's...and the Damon's and Carlton's and Tina's and Eddie and Adam....

I am going to try out 'Royal Pains' on USA and provide you a list of anything else that might be interesting this summer...then I am checking out. TTYL.

Conan Night 2: Didn't See It

Nope. Stuck in the ER until 12:15 AM, and not for pleasure. Cousin.TwinsGameBuddy decided to reach up for a T-shirt coming out of a canon launcher. He lost the T-shirt and his pinky knuckle in a larger man's hands.

3 hours later and the knuckle was casted and I got back to my car. Twins Win!

I will watch the third night tonight and catch up on what I guess was a great Conan bit about Twitter. More to come, but let me say this -- no one is more happy that Conan and Andy Richter are back together than I am. They play off each other so well, and its a great comedy team. The real winner here is us, the late-night viewer.

More to Come....


Get it?

The Debut of Conan

The critics are unanimous, Conan's new Tonight Show is a 'work-in-progress'. Wow, they really stepped out on a limb with this one. I was surprised they didn't call it polished and television perfection. I assume most of them turned in their column before the show aired.

I know, I know, there really is no other review -- but its just funny because they have to do it, and the obligatory default thesis is 'work-in-progress' -- what else could it be?

I liked it. It's a work-in-progress.

The first full week+ of no new TV has been an interesting one filled with reading, parenting, baseball and more baseball. And now that 'Baseball Tonight' on ESPN pretty much runs live all night, every night on the MLB Network in the form of three different shows with three different names that are all on the same set with the same talking heads -- my plate is full.

This summer I will look forward to the burn-off episodes of 'Dirty/Sexy/Money' and one or two new shows on TNT. We still have a full season of L+O: Criminal Intent, the season finale of the other to Law and Orders, the remaining episodes of 'Greek' and I believe Lauren and I are going to try the first two seasons of 'Friday Night Lights'.

B+S, Finally...

It only took four weeks, but the Mrs. and I finished the last three episodes of 'Brothers and Sisters'. Honestly? Eh. Not good, not bad. We were able to move them very quickly because we fast forwarded any conversations between Kitty and Robert since its very clear their marriage is over. And we both agree that in this case, Kitty is to blame -- so chalk one up for the men. Calista Flockhart is tiring. So is this show. No one else left to kill, murder, jail, make sick, or give a drug problem too -- so now we'll get a year of boring romances and a wedding between the hated Harper's and our beloved Walkers. Yeah. Blah.

Some other finale thoughts:
-So did Caleigh accidentally kill Eric her boyfriend on CSI: Miami? Who cares.
-Booth has amnesia on 'Bones'. Really? Please don't do this storyline. Please.
-Is Red Jane, the serial killer responsible for taking Patrick Jane's family from him, really going to be Alicia Witt? Why not. She's hot. Or at least she was during her two episode stint on the Sopranos in season 3.
-Peter Griffen made a great point on a recent 'Family Guy' episode. Why is the voice of adult Ted on 'HIMYM' Bob Saget? Ted is going to sound like Ted in 15 years, not Bob Saget.
-'Fringe' is awesome, I think I mentioned that.

Were also still enjoying 'Greek', have three episodes to catch up on and I think about four more to go this season. And the next season premieres on August 31...how great is that.

I think I am going to watch this show on TNT about the Hamptons doctor who makes house calls. That seems semi-entertaining.

FINAL THOUGHT ON 'BONES' FINALE:
Why do TV shows do episodes that are in the dreams of characters where we get to see our favorite characters act out as other characters like were watching a bad play? Booth and Bones finally get busy but its in a dream sequence where they own a night club? Way to ruin the build-up. Dumb, the whole creative concept is dumb. If I wanted to watch these people play other characters on a show that doesn't advance the plot one iota I would write my own fan fiction, thank you very much. Also this, fan fiction is ridiculous. If someone wanted you to write a episode of 'Lost', they would have asked.