Not great.
I'll tell you, Freaks, it's hard to be a blogger when everything is just so.... blah.
I've watched fifteen new shows in the last two weeks, and everything is just kinda fine.
I mean, it's not terrible.
Even the shows that are terrible aren't terrible.
Animal Practice is bad, but it's not How To Be a Gentleman bad.
666 Park Ave is silly, campy crap, but it's not Charlie's Angels crap. (Oh, hey! Totally just realized that was the same girl!)
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| I want to punch her in the face less this year. |
The second episode of Guys With Kids managed to be kinda funny in places, even if it still feels like a throwback to older sitcoms. Honestly, I think it's on the wrong network. Give it to CBS, put it where the also-not-good-enough Partners is shoved into the Monday night comedy block, and give the Will and Grace creators a chance to give that show some claws on the younger, more interesting network.
And while I'm bitching about scheduling errors, ABC should have put the very good Last Resort on Tuesdays where the dying Private Practice got fairly weak competition from the unwatched Parenthood and new show Vegas. There it might have stood a fighting chance of being watched. Last Resort isn't perfect, it's not blowing my mind or anything, but it is better than most of the other new stuff, and if given the time to blossom, could turn into a truly spectacular show.
If ABC can get it together.
Maybe they're just waiting for the devil to get cancelled.
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| This one. I mean this one. |
I haven't been blown away by any of the new sitcoms, either, although I do like several of them. I'm hoping that Mindy is going to find her footing (obviously the network is too, as they just picked up a back nine order), and while I've genuinely enjoyed Go On so far, I'm hoping for more from it as well. I mean, it's John Cho and Matthew Perry. You think about how awesome that should be and tell me you're not a little disappointed Also, more Julie White, please! She's awesome.
You can keep Ellen Barkin and the rest of The New Normal, however. Despite how adorable I find Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells, the show is badly written and full of hateful cliches - for everyone involved.
Hey, Ryan Murphy? We agree with you. Stop yelling at us.
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| Ok, well we didn't agree with this. |
I'm also not loving NBC's big hit Revolution (I think the girl is lacking), or the terrible writing over on FOX's The Mob Doctor, and even the Jonny Miller Led Elementary is feeling a little....
What's the word I'm looking for?
Oh, right.
Blah.
I'm hoping that the remaining new shows set to premiere this week and next are going to take care of my premiere melancholy.
So what should you watch this week?
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog has its television premiere tonight on the CW (9/8), and if you haven't seen this Joss Whedon gem online, then please, please, please watch it. It is beyond awesome. Hopefully the network will score a hit with it, as well as new shows Arrow (Wednesday, 8/7) and Beauty and the Beast (Thursday, 9/8). Hint: watch him, skip her.
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| Hey, CW? Are you confused about the word "Beast"? |
The much anticipated Nashville drops on Wednesday (ABC, 10/9) and is sure to kill the competition, new NBC drama Chicago Fire, the latest Dick Wolf creation. I'll be watching both so you don't have to, but my early predictions are that Nashville won't be quite the awesome everyone expects and I'll be reporting a Fire-y cancellation in a month or two.
Oh, and The League is back on Thursday.
Shiva with delight.
