We start with The Simpsons' new intro for the episode To Surveil With Love, a show so dull it's sole joke was a picture of 17 Hulks and a Spiderman on a baseball diamond.
We began, however, with a lip synched opening featuring the whole of Springfield relating to a song, which I was informed later was named Tik Tok, no c's in this stuff anymore, by someone who calls themself Ke$ha, no s's either, yoof of today.
Anyway, it's some autotuned shit that is just awful, and in addition to being a bad song, is irrelevant to the show, and as such the 2 minute opening, similar to the show's standard opening, only different enough to prove it's all new, but, I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
Horrible in every way, it has no point, no use, nothing. This is the worst thing The Simpsons has done, yes, worse than retconning the kids in That 90's Show.
Just look at it:
The Simpsons has tarnished itself again. So be it, Al Jean, this is one of those straws that the camel's back will just about suffice pre-Buckaroo.
And yet. Breaking Bad's 7th episode in the season.
At the beginning of episode 6 we saw the cousins, those bad ass dudes who blew up the truck in episode 1, axe-d down poor Gomez, who took the Marshall job after Hank turned it down.
And then, when they couldn't go after Walter, they were allowed to turn to Hank.
And fuck me, the opening gave us a bit of history with the cousins and their uncle, humanising, and then the end of the aptly titled "One Minute".
Well.
After Hank beat Jesse to a pulp for the pranking of his wife's injury last week, and a wonderful performance from Aaron Paul, the show churned out lots of great performances, and then, the final 'minute', in a parking lot, violent, ridiculously tense, and the best stuff TV has given us since The Sopranos.
Start watching this show, and then get all the way to this fantastic episode. Perfection. Beautiful.
AMC, Walking Dead, That will rule, official.
Monday, 3 May 2010
Monday, 19 April 2010
Round up time
Sorry, been doing other things
So, we saw The PAcific fall on it's arse in episode 5, to the point that a beach landing scene shamelessly using the cliched stuff war movies have been doing since Private Ryan made me turn it off and never look back again.
The Simpsons had another solid episode when Smithers took charge of the Power Plant, but fell down when Homer and Wiggum became friends in one act, then needy dull shit for a further 3 acts, this tying in with the Simpsons in Jerusalum episode, the worst this season.
We've seen Walt get more and more domesticated once more, Saul being brilliant and find what's up with the two badass brothers in Breaking Bad, a show which many claim is getting worse, I just see we're in the second act of a really dark book, each episode part of a chapter, a tapestry of bleak drama getting darker before it gets to the season 5 finale, where shit will get fucked up.
Justified has balanced out the crime of the week and the interpersonal relationships, including Olyphant's father NOT uttering "Wrong kid died", a shame cos when I saw him, all I could think about was Cox, Dewey Cox.
I've realised why people like Chuck, and bought the first two seasons, enjoying them to all get out.
Treme has proven that interesting characters, an interesting setting and lots of swearing when drugs aren't the key factor make a better show than The Wire ever was. I've laughed, I've been enthralled, and I'm loving it.
The Ricky Gervais Show goes from strength to strength, brilliantly animated silliness from three very funny people.
TV gets better as cinema gets worse, and I'm glad I don't have to pay anywhere near as much as I would in the cinema.
So, we saw The PAcific fall on it's arse in episode 5, to the point that a beach landing scene shamelessly using the cliched stuff war movies have been doing since Private Ryan made me turn it off and never look back again.
The Simpsons had another solid episode when Smithers took charge of the Power Plant, but fell down when Homer and Wiggum became friends in one act, then needy dull shit for a further 3 acts, this tying in with the Simpsons in Jerusalum episode, the worst this season.
We've seen Walt get more and more domesticated once more, Saul being brilliant and find what's up with the two badass brothers in Breaking Bad, a show which many claim is getting worse, I just see we're in the second act of a really dark book, each episode part of a chapter, a tapestry of bleak drama getting darker before it gets to the season 5 finale, where shit will get fucked up.
Justified has balanced out the crime of the week and the interpersonal relationships, including Olyphant's father NOT uttering "Wrong kid died", a shame cos when I saw him, all I could think about was Cox, Dewey Cox.
I've realised why people like Chuck, and bought the first two seasons, enjoying them to all get out.
Treme has proven that interesting characters, an interesting setting and lots of swearing when drugs aren't the key factor make a better show than The Wire ever was. I've laughed, I've been enthralled, and I'm loving it.
The Ricky Gervais Show goes from strength to strength, brilliantly animated silliness from three very funny people.
TV gets better as cinema gets worse, and I'm glad I don't have to pay anywhere near as much as I would in the cinema.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Glee Season 1 "Hell-o"
Oh Dear.
Well, they gave it their best I suppose.
Yes, The world's new favourite show returns with the next 9 episodes, after 4 months for filming and the likes, we see where we're going, and we're going down the drain. Already Finn and Rachel are broken up, Terri is somehow back, and Sue wormed her way in, in a completely ridiculous, broad, stupid manner. Oh yeah, and Will and Emma are already broken up too. So all of the build up to Sectionals was for nothing.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the sour taste only increases with a hatchjob attempt at boring songs made worse, more auto-tune than you can shake a stick at, the unbelievably stupid amount of drama piled on, once again they must win the next challenge of the club is done, sigh, and nothing seems to be close to the hysterical, dark attitudes the show began with, now we're solidly in up it's own arse High School Musical style, and I for on hope that next week's is a return to form, or I won't be returning to McKinley high, ever.
1/5
Well, they gave it their best I suppose.
Yes, The world's new favourite show returns with the next 9 episodes, after 4 months for filming and the likes, we see where we're going, and we're going down the drain. Already Finn and Rachel are broken up, Terri is somehow back, and Sue wormed her way in, in a completely ridiculous, broad, stupid manner. Oh yeah, and Will and Emma are already broken up too. So all of the build up to Sectionals was for nothing.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the sour taste only increases with a hatchjob attempt at boring songs made worse, more auto-tune than you can shake a stick at, the unbelievably stupid amount of drama piled on, once again they must win the next challenge of the club is done, sigh, and nothing seems to be close to the hysterical, dark attitudes the show began with, now we're solidly in up it's own arse High School Musical style, and I for on hope that next week's is a return to form, or I won't be returning to McKinley high, ever.
1/5
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The Simpsons Season 21 "Greatest Story Ever Do'hed"
Welcome to the usual season 21 fare.
The Simpsons go to Jerusalem, Sacha Baron Cohen plays an unfunny tour guide, Homer thinks he's the messiah in the last 2 minutes of the episode, and nothing happens, besides Bart getting beaten up by a girl in a 3 minute padding sequence.
It's neither smart nor funny, nor well characterised, it's simple, easy and ineffective, a complete waste of time, and not worth talking about.
1/5
The Simpsons go to Jerusalem, Sacha Baron Cohen plays an unfunny tour guide, Homer thinks he's the messiah in the last 2 minutes of the episode, and nothing happens, besides Bart getting beaten up by a girl in a 3 minute padding sequence.
It's neither smart nor funny, nor well characterised, it's simple, easy and ineffective, a complete waste of time, and not worth talking about.
1/5
30 Rock Season 4 "Floyd"
Yes, I'm still, for some reason, watching this broad, smug, self-referential yet obvious sitcom, even after 2 solid crap years, not meh years, between the Season 2 finale and the Season 3 premiere the show went from 5/5 to 1/5.
And in this episode, where Liz Lemon's old boyfriend Floyd (Jason Sudekis) returns from Cleveland, whilst Tracy and Jenna spend a day having their faces covered with plastic for masks, with Kenneth forcing them his stories, leading to the single, if really bad, funny moment of the episode, Kenneth stripping and dancing 'seductively'.
For all it's wants of being an insider snicker fest, 30 Rock is a show too broad and too obvious, the easy jokes are all it reaches for, the characters dull and the stories uninteresting, it's tired and needs to be put to rest, and all the awards love for the shoddy few seasons need to be sorted out, look at Community for your new single camera sitcom love, it deserves it more than this old horse.
1/5
And in this episode, where Liz Lemon's old boyfriend Floyd (Jason Sudekis) returns from Cleveland, whilst Tracy and Jenna spend a day having their faces covered with plastic for masks, with Kenneth forcing them his stories, leading to the single, if really bad, funny moment of the episode, Kenneth stripping and dancing 'seductively'.
For all it's wants of being an insider snicker fest, 30 Rock is a show too broad and too obvious, the easy jokes are all it reaches for, the characters dull and the stories uninteresting, it's tired and needs to be put to rest, and all the awards love for the shoddy few seasons need to be sorted out, look at Community for your new single camera sitcom love, it deserves it more than this old horse.
1/5
The Office Season 6 "Happy Hour"
And here we fall down.
Oh how this show used to reign supreme, a painfully funny show with amazing characters, all lovable enough and yet realistic too, now just a shell of itself, Jim is too smug, Pam too dull, Dwight too mean, Mike too stupid, they're all caricatures now, and with Happy Hour, seeing Darryl move up to his fancy new office, and the Warehouse guys moving up to hang out with him, Oscar's crush on the homosexual warehouse employee takes a step up, and to attempt to subtly go on a date with him, Oscar gets the whole office to go out for drinks.
It attempts to be one of the character based episodes, as opposed to the more situational episodes of late, but it felt dull, I can barely remember much of what happened, but all I know is that I think I might have laughed once, maybe, but it was another dull, uninventive episode in the weakest season of The Office yet, and I fear it'll go down rapidly even more next year.
1/5
Oh how this show used to reign supreme, a painfully funny show with amazing characters, all lovable enough and yet realistic too, now just a shell of itself, Jim is too smug, Pam too dull, Dwight too mean, Mike too stupid, they're all caricatures now, and with Happy Hour, seeing Darryl move up to his fancy new office, and the Warehouse guys moving up to hang out with him, Oscar's crush on the homosexual warehouse employee takes a step up, and to attempt to subtly go on a date with him, Oscar gets the whole office to go out for drinks.
It attempts to be one of the character based episodes, as opposed to the more situational episodes of late, but it felt dull, I can barely remember much of what happened, but all I know is that I think I might have laughed once, maybe, but it was another dull, uninventive episode in the weakest season of The Office yet, and I fear it'll go down rapidly even more next year.
1/5
Parks & Recreation Season 2 "Summer Catalogue"
As The Office started to fall, Parks & Recreation came in and Greg Daniels once again offered us a show full of real heart, and real funny people. Starting off as an Amy Poehler show, it's now become a showcase for Aziz Ansari, who rocks it as Tom, Aubrey Plaza who is as hysterical as she is ridiculously beautiful, Nick Offerman, who has levels of legend in him portraying Ron Swanson, and Chris Pratt, playing former boyfriend of Rashida Jones' Ann, who managed to make it through a tough time to now be employed in Pawnee's government building, shining shoes.
This season has shown real legs, lovable characters and painfully funny moments of genius, and once more this week we're offered some select skits that are brilliant. Opening with Tom taking Ron's squirrel hat and shouting as many hat related chat up lines to girls as he can, failing at each one, before we get to the premise, the Pawnee summer catalogue is coming up and Leslie has organised for Ron and the three former Parks Department heads to meet up for a picnic. Only problem, their old, cantankerous and hate each other, one a dope smoking hippie, one a racist, sexist old old man, and one an aggressive man who hated his days at the department, all got the position, including Ron, by backstabbing the former head, all at the table, yelling at each other before photo time.
The April/Andy friendship that's blossoming heavily into something wonderful is here in full force as the two are stuck at the picnic to help out with Leslie's idea, and it's clear there's a spark there, even if an I.D. issue at a local bar reminds Andy that April is just too young for him.
Ron was back as hysterical as ever, acting like a child in between moments of being mean to his former boss, and once more at the end we get to see Leslie excited that one day she'll go up in the political world. The characters are so strong now it's wonderful, and I'm happy the show retains it's heart when it goes for some brilliant jokes, including Tom making Ann and Mark do a photo shoot for the cover, and having problems because Ann just looks depressed.
Keep watching, it's one of the best shows on TV.
5/5
This season has shown real legs, lovable characters and painfully funny moments of genius, and once more this week we're offered some select skits that are brilliant. Opening with Tom taking Ron's squirrel hat and shouting as many hat related chat up lines to girls as he can, failing at each one, before we get to the premise, the Pawnee summer catalogue is coming up and Leslie has organised for Ron and the three former Parks Department heads to meet up for a picnic. Only problem, their old, cantankerous and hate each other, one a dope smoking hippie, one a racist, sexist old old man, and one an aggressive man who hated his days at the department, all got the position, including Ron, by backstabbing the former head, all at the table, yelling at each other before photo time.
The April/Andy friendship that's blossoming heavily into something wonderful is here in full force as the two are stuck at the picnic to help out with Leslie's idea, and it's clear there's a spark there, even if an I.D. issue at a local bar reminds Andy that April is just too young for him.
Ron was back as hysterical as ever, acting like a child in between moments of being mean to his former boss, and once more at the end we get to see Leslie excited that one day she'll go up in the political world. The characters are so strong now it's wonderful, and I'm happy the show retains it's heart when it goes for some brilliant jokes, including Tom making Ann and Mark do a photo shoot for the cover, and having problems because Ann just looks depressed.
Keep watching, it's one of the best shows on TV.
5/5
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