Because I really don't want to write my paper, some TV recs

[jlh]

Here's what's on my TIVO for the season. Other than CSI and Veronica Mars which you already know about, I'm watching three sitcoms and a reality show:

Arrested Development Yes, I am finally on the train. It just seems funnier and not quite as "let's humiliate the characters" as it did first season. Check it out when it returns in November, after the post-season baseball stops taking over Fox's prime time schedule.

How I Met Your Mother It's funny, it's smart, it does unexpected things, and it has a great cast including Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan. Plus, it's a good old fashioned sitcom complete with ridiculous situations and a character that exists solely to put everyone in those ridiculous situations. But it works, and it works well; nice to see people renovating the form. The other nice thing is that once baseball ends, you'll be able to watch Arrested Development and How I Met Your Mother back to back, without having to endure King of Queens.

Everybody Hates Chris C'mon, people, it's Chris Rock. It's fucking hilarious. It's like The Wonder Years but in 1982 BedStuy and with a lot less sentiment. Like How I Met Your Mother, it works within the standard sitcom form but it doesn't always go where you think it's going.

Breaking Bonaduce I admit it, I'm totally hooked; the man has an addictive personality and absolutely no impulse control. And even when he's drunk out of his mind stalking his wife in some kind of roid rage (I'm not kidding about that) he still basically looks like a Muppet.

Oh, and Best Week Ever. So what are you watching?

Comments

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Danny Bonaduce the MUPPET!!!! *ROTFLMAO*

Yet, I keep watching Breaking Bonaduce . . . I have concluded that Danny is quite likely a bonafide psychopath. Seriously.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Well, he had a total nightmare of a childhood—I mean, total—so I wouldn't be surprised. It's the way that he is just so absolutely selfish about his demands. "You no touch my woman" and all of that, and so quick to violence (though, steroids) and his obvious intelligence and his weird self-awareness and even sense of humor about it even though he is so clearly completely out of control. And in some ways he's like a kid, like when he was upset about the unfairness of the whole stripper thing.

What I found really bizarre was how his two idiot friends were reacting to that whole situation. I mean, they were trying to calm it down, they really were, but you could tell that they also know what he's like and that there's only so much they can do. I loved how that one guy kept saying, "don't ruin the night! I got a sitter!"