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TV Round Up – Some Thoughts on What I’ve Watched this Week (9/23-9/27/12)

What a week of returns and debuts! Here's a brief rundown of my thoughts, when certain shows air and how I feel they faired:

SUNDAY

 8 PM Sun. MTV – Rehab with Dr. Drew – For ANYONE that has had a family member or a friend or a child or themselves that has flirted with the idea that “drugs or alcohol aren’t that bad and I’ll be able to control it” – YOU need to watch this show. It is with real people from varying backgrounds (upper-middle class, wealthy, poor, black, white, Hispanic). It is gritty and raw and not glamorous at all. Drugs and drinking are not cool and do not make you look or act cool. If you think they do, check out this show. It is a wake call I WISH I could have shown someone near to me, but now it is too late. Heart and gut wrenching and shows what words are too hollow to demonstrate.

Top 10 List for the Primetime Emmy Awards 2012 (Plus, a brief look at the Fall Lineup)

This year the Primetime Emmy Awards were hosted by late night funny man Jimmy Kimmel. Overall, I think he did an OK job, but on the red carpet, last year’s host Jimmy Fallon seemed to have a lot more topical material & I think he would have been a bit more funny while still having an edge than Jimmy K. Jimmy K., at times, seemed a bit bored to be there & also just doesn’t have the spontaneity of his predecessors to really reve up the crowd. Here are a few of my thoughts, pro & con, of the ceremony.

Glee: The First Time

Songs of the Night:

"Tonight" (from West Side Story) - Rachel & Blaine

"Uptown Girl" (Billy Joel) - The Warblers

"A Boy Like That" (from West Side Story) - Rachel & Santana

"America" (from West Side Story) - New Directions

"One Hand One Heart" (from West Side Story) - Rachel & Blaine

 

 Lines of the Night:

Sebastian: "I don't know who this Blaine guy is, but apparently he's sex on a stick and sings like a dream."

Kurt: "Sure beats the last time you got drunk and made out with Rachel."

Blaine: "Roxy Music makes me want to build a time machine just so I can give Brian Ferry a high five."

Santana: "Speaking from experience, Finn is terrible in bed.... If Rachel wants to have my sloppy seconds, she should know what she's getting into. It was like being smothered by a sweaty out-of-breath sack of potatoes that someone soaked in body spray."

Glee: Episode 4

 

(Cameo from Blaine and Artie in this music video)

 

Songs of the Night:

1.) Bein' Green - Kermit the Frog

2.) Friday Night - Katy Perry

3.)Waiting for a Girl like You - Foreigner

4.) Candyman - Christina Aguilara

5.) Take Care of Yourself - Teddy Thompson

 

Lines of the Night:

"Yeah, she's kinda like Rain man with boobs" - Finn 

"I really want Mr. Tubbington to poop candy bars" - Britney

"I love everything about America; nascar, your 1/2 black president, and Victoria's Secret Catalog's" - Rori Flanagan

"In America, dudes don't ask dudes to be their friends; except on facebook, but even then it can take years" - Finn

Ok, Ok... I know I haven't been fully fulfilling my blogging duties this season.  I missed the last two episodes, and quite frankly I'm annoyed with myself.  I honestly wish I could say that I had a legit reason, but no.  I was distracted with life and other goings on.  HOWEVER.  I have vowed to take a leave of absence from Facebook for the month of November.  Crazy right?!  How could a girl who is obsessed with pop culture and GLEE miss out on juicy tidbits and never before seen videos?  I'm not sure, but I'll figure it out.  In the meantime I'm not giving myself any more excuses for not blogging.  For the rest of the season I'm yours (and I still plan on doing a recap of the 2nd and 3rd episodes when there is a break in the season).    Moving on to the good stuff...

Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part Three (Saturday, Sunday, and Nightly Shows)

In this final installment of “What you should be watching in prime-time,” I have included shows that air on Saturday and Sunday, in addition to shows that air nightly. This is but a microcosm of what is on, but these happened to grab my attention and my loyalty as a viewer. Enjoy!

Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part Two (Thursday & Friday)

 On my last post, I suggested a few shows that I feel make for “Must See TV” on Monday through Wednesday. Here are my suggestions for Thursday and Friday. (It was going to be through the weekend, but it ended up being more than I had bargained for. I didn’t realize I had so many shows that I follow! I will share those, along with nightly shows in part three of this series.) Hope you enjoy!

Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part One-A (AKA, The One’s I Forgot…)

On my last post, I suggested a few shows that I feel make for “Must See TV” on Monday through Wednesday nights. However, I left off three of my FAVS: The new hit comedy, New Girl, Glee and Psych. Like I said, there is just a lot of great TV on this fall! Consider this an addendum to my last post…

Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part One (Monday-Wednesday).

This fall, there are so many great shows on TV that my DVR is working overtime just to keep up. There are a few shows that I miss from last season (Lie to Me, being one…) but plenty of others have entered the TV landscape and have made for great TV watching. Here are a few of my favorites, by day, time, and channel.

Glee: Season 3 Premier

 

Welcome back Gleeks!   I first wanted to start by apologizing about not totally fulfilling my season 2 duties towards the end of last season.  I had picked up a 2^nd job and between the frenzy of that and working on photography, my free time went out the window. I’ve since dropped the 2^nd job!  I must admit I tried to watch the entire 2^nd season in 4 days.  I wanted to get caught up with all the characters and place together where I thought season 3 may begin, unfortunately Season 2 had 22 episodes and I made it through about half of those before it was time for the premier.  Have no fear… I will be here 100% for this new and 3^rd Season of Glee! 

Songs of the night:

1.)    We got the beat  - GoGo’s

2.)    Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead

3.)    Unusual – Tom Jones

4.)    Anything Goes – Anything Goes

5.)    You can’t stop the beat – Hairspray

One Liners of the night:

“Her ears should park in my handicapped spot” – Artie.

“I have pepperoni in my bra… those are your nipples” – Brittany & Santana.

“Brittany, what are your plans for the future?” “Wait, you’re working on a time machine too?!” – Jacob & Brittany.

“You make me want to be your boyfriend.” – Rachel to Kurt.

TNT's 'Franklin & Bash': Lawyers in love (with themselves)

 

“Franklin & Bash” is a new TNT series about two immature, smug brats who practice the law (or their version of it) when they are not busy partying, riffing on the pop culture and congratulating themselves for being so much smarter and cooler than everyone else they encounter.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (of “Saved by the Bell” and “NYPD Blue”) plays Peter Bash as an older version of Zack Morris. Imagine that Zack has aged 20 years without actually growing up; the courtroom has taken the place of The Max, and he addresses judges and opposing attorneys the same way he addressed Screech. The confident swagger and sassy manner worked fine for a boy in his early teens, but it is far less effective now that the actor is 37 years old (yes, you read that right) and playing a lawyer.