In the immortal words of my nephew Connor:

"I hate the sun!  It burns your eyes when you look at it!"  It should not be morning already!  I am so tired, you guys, and for no obvious reason!  We went to bed at the normal time.  I got up at the normal time.  But, still, yaaaaawwwn.

Nothing much has been going on with me this week, but my DVR is starting to quickly become filled to the brim with Season Premier goodness.  After what seems like an eternity of re-runs and crappy reality/game shows, the 2008 TV season has finally begun and I am peeing my pants with excitement.  For your convenience, I will now make a list of shows you should be watching and shows that you can watch if you want to, but I'm not going to watch them anymore because I'm sick and fucking tired of Meredith and Derek breaking up and getting back together.  Also, I hate Katherine Heigl.

NEW for 2008!

Fringe  This show comes from JJ Abrams, who brought us Lost, Alias, and, last but not least, Felicity.  This show is pretty much Lost, except without the plane crash and it's set in Boston and there are no anachronistic polar bears.  It's about an FBI agent that is teamed up with a crazy scientist and his genius son, and they are investigating odd phenomena that always end up involving Global Dynamic, a shadowy corporation that could be evil-- we just don't know.  It's a good show and it has PACEY, who is otherwise known as Joshua Jackson.   If you don't know who Pacey is, shame on you.  You really need to brush up on your Dawson's Creek.  Bottom line: I love Pacey so I watch this show.  And, it's not a bad show.

90210  Did you know that they have made a new 90210?  I had heard nothing about it!  How did they keep that a secret?  Kidding, of course.  The producers of this show must have taken self-promotion pointers from Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.  But they've changed things up this time around: This time there is a family who moves from the Midwest to Beverly Hills with a son and a daughter-- but the son is black.  Completely different.  I have watched the first few episodes and I think the novelty has worn off.  It's trying to be like The OC, but it's not as well written or acted (which is really saying something) and there is a notable lack of giant-caterpillar eyebrows.  It does have Lucille Bluth, but her 30 seconds in each episode is not enough to make me stick around when they make the girls denim jumpsuits and shorts that look like knickers, but instead of going to the knee they go to about mid-thigh and looked as though they were made of satin and then my eyes caught on fire and now I can't watch anything on TV because I'm BLIND.  So, as I said last week: meh.  BUT, in case you were wondering, Kelly's baby daddy is Dylan McKay.  Awwwww yeah.

2008 Presidential Election: Beyond Thunderdome  This is one of the best reality shows I've ever seen.  It's got intrigue, back-stabbing, teen pregnancy, political maneuvering, cosmetically enhanced pigs, Tina Fey, AND, to change things up a la 90210, one of the main characters is black. It's not like a normal reality show, though, because none of the characters have gotten drunk and made out with Brett Michaels.  Wait...  This just in: I was wrong.  This is actually the presidential election?  That isn't Tina Fey?  Ooooookay then.

There are some new shows that I haven't watched yet: The Mentalist, which I think is about some guy who solves crimes by bending spoons into letters that spell out the name of the guilty party.  Also, My Own Worst Enemy, which stars Christian Slater and is about a guy living a double life and it's kept a secret from everyone-- even himself.  Yeah, I have no idea how that's going to work but hopefully it will not require him to do any kind of accent except "Jack Nicholson" because that's the only one he does well.

Next Up: Old Shows You Should Be Watching.  Stay Tuned!

Comments

[sarah at soulmoxie]

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[Carrie]

I think that guy does love TV more than I do. I haven't even come close to making any kind of schedule or spreadsheet, but this is due more to my laziness than my lack of love for television.