TV - It's a Good Thing

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I saw an ad for Lysol’s No-Touch Hand Soap System the other day and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Isn’t it kind of super germ-phobic to want a germ-free soap dispenser? I mean, you’re touching the soap dispenser in order TO WASH YOUR HANDS. Who cares if there are germs on the dispenser? YOU’RE WASHING YOUR HANDS. Am I missing something here?

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

After last night’s episode of 24, the verdict is in. I’m done. There’s more that I loathe about this season than I like. This means I will no longer watch. It gets deleted from the schedule on the DVR. Makes me sad - the early seasons were awesome.

In good news, though, LOST starts tonight and I’m muy excited.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Pretty funny.  The line that made me LOL wasn’t even related to LOST at all and came at the end of the clip.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

My new new favorite show is Human Target. Action and eye candy. You can’t beat that.

Friday, October 16, 2009

If you want to see what the agency does best, then check out US Marshals: Operation FALCON.

Monday, Oct 19 at 9pm and 10pm on Discovery Channel and Discovery HD.

Featured cities: Miami, New Orleans, and Washington, DC

I’ll be setting my DVR to record it.

[Added Later]: I’m still waiting for the new season of Manhunters on A&E, too.

Monday, September 28, 2009

I thought of a few other shows that I’m “watching.” By watching I mean recording and viewing at some much later date.

I Survived - A guy survived a bear attack by playing dead while his wife beat on the bear with a branch. A couple survived a raging wildfire while their house burned around them - they took refuge in their pool. A family survived a home invasion. I defy anyone to watch this show without their jaw hanging open in horror at the tales these people recount.

Surviving Disaster - A former Navy SEAL teaches us how to survive various and sundry disasters. I’ve seen two episodes - surviving a fire in a high-rise office building and surviving a home invasion. Beau pointed out that we have a distinct advantage in our poverty and current home location - we are very unlikely to be invaded because we don’t have anything worth invading for. But I still want the tips for survival. I’m a worst case scenario nut - I constantly think about worst case scenarios and how to get out of them. I’m slightly obsessed with this, actually. So this show is perfect for me.

The Good Wife - I started to watch this yesterday and got distracted away after about 15-20 minutes. I liked what I saw, though, so I will get back to it.

In the meantime, I cancelled the season pass on DwtS - It’s too hard to keep up with it all and the only one I cared about was Donny Osmond. Except for Tom Delay - I had this deadly curiosity and weird hope that he’d be a better dancer than Tucker Carlson was. Someone needs to represent well on the dance floor for conservatives!

For the record, I don’t watch So You Think You Can Dance for two reasons: Mary Murphy and I’m not that into dance.

Watched Flash Forward on Saturday - me likey a lot. I find it hilarious that so many Brits are in it and working hard on their American accents. We can’t find good Americans for our TV shows anymore?

Finally, TAR - I believe you are back in fighting form (although to be fair I heard great things about last season, but I just couldn’t watch because of Molly Ann’s arrival). I only managed to see the first 20 minutes of the show, but I liked what I saw. I loved the first challenge and the twist. I’m going to try to finish it tonight.

One last thing, is it me or is the cast of Survivor: Samoa the least likeable ever?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

We’re not watching much TV these days - evenings are chaotivc after I get home from work. I either immediately go to feed Molly Ann and then have my own dinner or vice versa. And then there’s getting the kids to bed. By the time the dust settles it’s usually close to or just past 8pm. And both Beau and I are pretty much done at that point, so we might watch 30-60 minutes of something and then we hit the hay. Fortunately, summer TV wasn’t too interesting, so it wasn’t a problem.

However, with the start of the regular fall TV season I’m in a quandry. Yes, we have the DVR and we do record all of my TV shows, but we also record (and save) several kiddie shows for Jesse. This means that about half of the memory on the DVR is tied up with his stuff. And there aren’t enough hours available to get all of the week’s viewing watched before the next week starts to record. As a result, I have greatly pared down the nightly TV schedules.

So far I’m recording/watching the following:

House
Dancing with the Stars - I have a feeling this will get dropped since it’s a 2-nighter
CSI: NY
Survivor
CSI
The Amazing Race

New this season: Flash Forward

Then later will come LOST and 24, although I’m up in the air over 24 since last season was ridiculous. And American Idol. What else am I missing?

I dropped recording this season of The Office because I still need to see last season. It’s on the Netflix queue, but again with no extra viewing time I haven’t moved it to the top of the queue. I also wanted to see Castle last season but didn’t, so that’s on the Netflix queue, too.

About House, we watched Monday’s episode last night. I liked it a lot, but the whole time I kept thinking that Something Major was missing. In all of the psychobabble, God was not present at all. Where God is not present, there is no real Hope. Those folks needed to hear about Jesus. I realize it’s a TV show, but I believe that’s true of everyone anyway.

Monday, September 14, 2009

They covered the rally live w/out comnmentary. You can watch here.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Anyone else addicted to those Food Network Challenge shows? In particular, the cake decorating competitions are my weakness. The talent it takes to do those enormous cakes is amazing.

[ADDED LATER]: From Cake Wrecks ... it pretty much speaks for itself, although Jen’s commentary is great.

Speaking of cake decorating, did anyone see the episode of Cake Boss where that crazy bride screwed up her cake the day before her wedding? She is nutso. And incredibly selfish and rude. And her mother clearly never disciplined her daughter.

Back to the Food Network, I am watching this season of The Next Food Network Star. I see a couple of front runners early on - both have the cooking chops and have good TV potential. ***SPOILERS FOLLOW*** I was ticked that Brett was so willing to sell out the homemaker cook (I can’t remember her name) because she accepted his offer to help plate her food on a challenge. He offered the help, she accepted. There was no help in the actual cooking, just in the plating up of the dishes. If you ask me, she could have plated on her own in the time she had left - I think it took more time for her to show them how she wanted things than if she had just done it herself. But that Brett was such a jerk made me happy that he got the boot.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Count me in!

[via Llama Robbo]

Friday, May 15, 2009

Coach is ridiculous. The End. Period. Paragraph. Note: the recap at that link is heavily spoilerish and contains profanity. But it is hilarious.

I was wondering when they’d get to some churrascaria. Mmmmm ... meat!

The finale is on Sunday, which is the day we drive down to the beach. I’m thinking my parents won’t sit through 3 hours of Survivor, so I’ll either have to wait until we get home to watch it or I’ll have to sequester myself in another room (the house we’ve rented has 6(!) TVs).

Thursday, May 14, 2009

LOST: In a word? Awesome.

I’m so curious about what’s going to happen next season to wrap up the show.

For more commentary from the masses, check out this thread at The Thinklings. Be aware that it is very spoilerish.

24: This one comes next week and while I think I’ll be able to watch it while at the beach, I may have to wait to see it when we get home. I’m OK either way. I’ll watch it to get closure, but this season has not been very good, if you ask me. And I’m doubtful about watching the next season, although I do realize that with time and distance I can get sucked back into the hoopla for another “day.”

Monday, May 04, 2009

We watched Lost in Austen yesterday.

Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London with her boyfriend Michael, until she finds she’s swapped places with Austen’s fictional creation Elizabeth Bennett.

I loved it. Beau was less enthused, muttering when it was over, “Ridiculous, silly chick movie.” I warned him prior to starting it that it was total chick fare, but he insisted on watching it with me.

There is one scene towards the end that had me laughing hard. I had to pause the DVD because I was laughing so hard and Beau was confused about what was so funny. I explained, but he still looked confused, but that’s to be expected since he doesn’t have the same love of Pride and Prejudice or pop culture knowledge of it either.

LiA gets 4 stars out of 5.

Friday, May 01, 2009

1. My new favorite show is Pitchmen. Have you seen it? I have a whole new appreciation for Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan. Sully is awesome and I think I’d buy anything he pitches. Mays is hilarious.

2. We head to the beach in about two weeks. I’m getting excited for the vacation, not so much because of all the fun things we’ll do, but for the time away with my family. And I’m looking forward to my cousin’s wedding at the end of our week away. Figuring out what to take for Molly Ann is a bit daunting, though. At least the feeding part is easy since she’s still on The Food Source™. Jesse is easier now that he’s in a regular bed and pretty much eating regular food.

3. The remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still is awful. Thanks, Uncle Bill, for the warning. We watched it the other night while the President did his presser. Of the two options, the bad movie was probably better and less angry-making. That said, the plot change for modern times retelling that I expected was present. Annoying and amusing all at once. 1.5 stars out of 5. The effects were cool enough to garner the star.

4. New Molly Ann and Jesse pictures:

I love this picture of my family.

I was impressed with how the camera caught the action of the water in this shot.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

In a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I also discovered that Verizon’s On Demand offers free viewing of some movies running on the premium movie channels. That’s awesome. Of course, they’re a bit older than the pay per view movies On Demand, but there are still some that I haven’t seen yet and it’ll be a nice way to fill in when I’m waiting for new DVDs from Netflix.

[UPDATE for Stupid Alert]: Not so fast with the premium movies. When you actually click to watch the movie, although it says FREE on the screen, what they want you to do is sign up for subscription to that channel. Sneaky.

Also, on some current TV:

1. I can’t believe that Coach is still on Survivor. He is so full of it and himself. I did love last week’s blindside vote though. The power has shifted.

2. I’m still watching 24, but I fear that the bloom is nearly completely off this rose.

3. Kris Allen is my new favorite to win American Idol. I don’t think he’ll actually win, but he’s the guy that I’d pick to win. Unfortunately, I think that Lambert (pronounced like Colbert in my head) is going to win. Ack.

4. I’m liking CSI with Laurence Fishburne. I was skeptical about William Peterson being gone, and I do miss him, but I think the show has revived itself with the cast changes.

In non-TV news, Molly Ann slept for nearly 8 hours last night. She rulz.