Whitney (Thursdays, 9:30/8:30, NBC)
Whitney Cummings made a name for herself doing "guy" jokes about sex and poop (Pro Tip: We ladies do that, guys, just not around you), and for some reason people thought she was hilarious. I was not one of them. Though the show she's producing for CBS (Two Broke Girls) is getting lots of buzz, the sitcom she's starring in is getting none of the hot press. Perhaps because Cummings just isn't very likable, and by extension watchable; perhaps because co-star Chris D'Elia is about as interesting as a colonoscopy; or perhaps it's just because the "We're a happy couple who doesn't want to get married, no matter what society says!" is a flimsy and tired premise. Personally, I won't be watching because I hate shows that name the character after the actor. Do I need to bring up Paul Rieser again, NBC?
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| He's actually getting a colonoscopy right now. |
Person of Interest (Thursdays, 9:00/8:00, CBS)
Oh, JJ, you know I love you and I hate to speak ill of your unspeakable genius, but this show is lame. What if there were cameras watching our every move?!? What if some eccentric billionaire figured out how to use them to prevent crimes?!? What if he hired a rogue former something agent to prevent them?!? It sounds like a fucking Colin Farrell movie, and I don't even care that you hired Ben Linus and Jesus to be in it. I expect better of you.
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| Even Jesus can't save you. (See what I did there?) |
Last Man Standing (Tuesdays, 8:00/7:00, ABC)
Hey, you know who's hilarious and groundbreaking humor I really missed? Tim "The Toolman" Taylor! Let's make the exact same show, except with girls instead of boys and guns instead of tools! That will be hilarious, and not at all like anything we've seen before.
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| This is so new and original my eyeballs are on fire. |
Man Up! (Tuesdays, 8:30/7:30, ABC)
The follow up to Tim Allen's new show, this is another "comedy" about how hard it is to be a man surrounded by hateful, hateful women. (Apparently ABC decided to do an hour devoted to the He-Man Woman Haters Club.) These poor men's wives want them to do ridiculous things like help with the kids instead of playing Call of Duty, how monstrous is that? (Yeah, that's an actual plot point.) I have a pet peeve about the women-and-men-are-so-different! brand of humor in general, and this show, just like all the ones where beautiful women have to put up with dolt husbands, makes me crazy. Seriously, TV, there are no interesting premises left?
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| It looks like a penis, right? |
Grimm (Fridays, 9:00/800, NBC)
Another show with impressive sci-fi pedigree (writer-producers David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf are from Buffy and Angel, respectively) and a premise I just don't think is going to work for a mass audience. NBC is trying to promote it with a genre night on Fridays, along with the final half-season of Chuck, but up against veteran genre offerings Supernatural and Fringe, I just don't think it stands a shot. Plus, it's also one of two fairy tale based shows (along with ABC's Once Upon a Time, which seems much more mass-relatable) and as we all know, in TV land, when you make the same show twice (and you always do) only one will survive.
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| Damn it. |
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tim allen is such a tool, man. but while he's grunting, at least we can watch nancy travis -- one of the more underrated and underappreciated comic actresses in america.
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