my money's on Dangermouse
After last week's Batman fiasco you can now bet on which superhero will be next. This is progress, baby. (click on the title link, and go to specials to place your bet.)
Here is what I know about poker. After 2+ years and probably over 5000 hands, I have boiled the entire game down to one skill, and if you can perfect that one thing you can walk away profitable every time. Avoid the bad beats. The bad beat will wipe out all of your hard work, it will kill your confidence, it's basically guaranteed to make you go home poorer. Now if I can figure out how to avoid them, I'll be rich like Croesus.
Thanks to the PVR, I'm seeing everything being offered on TV this year that might be halfway interesting. Here's the verdict so far:
King of the Pride: started out a total train wreck. Predictably, it has improved to the point where I can confidently call it "pretty okay." In a year when there have been no new or returning live action sitcoms I would rate above middling, pretty okay makes this show "THE BEST NEW COMEDY OF THE YEAR" (feel free to quote me, NBC)
Joey: middling. They don't know who to give the chandler lines to. They're hinting at an on again off again romance with the superintendant. Ugh. Just make with the funny, we already care about the guy without putting him through the kind of romantic shenanigans that are antithetical to his character anyways.
The Watchmacallit new Jason Alexander show: Holy fucking Dog Crap, Batman! I got through half an episode. Listen to me: Malcolm Jamal Warner is the best thing about this show. If that ain't a death sentence, I don't know what is.
Rescue Me: Sharp, sharp, sharp. This is the only weekly show dealing with 9/11, plus it's the only credible 9/11 influenced thing I'm aware of in any medium. Denis Leary rocks hard and the script just zings. Start watching this immediately.
Lost: Appointment television, maybe the reason Hi-Def was invented. If you have access to the beauty picture and sound you can catch this thing mixed in 5.1 and just marvel at the sheer scale of it. Otherwise, you'll have to content yourself with the brilliant pacing, score, and most of all the acting which just pulls you right into this story and won't let you go. The show already contains the best single TV moment I've seen in a long while, a grown man being sucked into a jet engine. The DVD's would already be on my wish list, but the show is so good I'm waiting for Blu-ray.
Clubhouse: A guilty pleasure. Dean Cain=good (you completely buy this guy as the only class act in baseball. it grounds the show firmly in fantasy every time he acts unselfishly). Jeremy Sumpter=really good (you can see how he got Peter Pan, it's impossible to dislike him) and the kid playing his b/f is the new Max Casella. How hard is it to love seeing Christopher Lloyd do his crusty older man routine. Plus the baseball stuff is so lovingly photographed it's like sports pornography. The team plays in a league where all games are scheduled during magic hour.
Still to come: House, Desperate Housewives, season two of Arrested Development and Corner Gas.
Here is what I know about poker. After 2+ years and probably over 5000 hands, I have boiled the entire game down to one skill, and if you can perfect that one thing you can walk away profitable every time. Avoid the bad beats. The bad beat will wipe out all of your hard work, it will kill your confidence, it's basically guaranteed to make you go home poorer. Now if I can figure out how to avoid them, I'll be rich like Croesus.
Thanks to the PVR, I'm seeing everything being offered on TV this year that might be halfway interesting. Here's the verdict so far:
King of the Pride: started out a total train wreck. Predictably, it has improved to the point where I can confidently call it "pretty okay." In a year when there have been no new or returning live action sitcoms I would rate above middling, pretty okay makes this show "THE BEST NEW COMEDY OF THE YEAR" (feel free to quote me, NBC)
Joey: middling. They don't know who to give the chandler lines to. They're hinting at an on again off again romance with the superintendant. Ugh. Just make with the funny, we already care about the guy without putting him through the kind of romantic shenanigans that are antithetical to his character anyways.
The Watchmacallit new Jason Alexander show: Holy fucking Dog Crap, Batman! I got through half an episode. Listen to me: Malcolm Jamal Warner is the best thing about this show. If that ain't a death sentence, I don't know what is.
Rescue Me: Sharp, sharp, sharp. This is the only weekly show dealing with 9/11, plus it's the only credible 9/11 influenced thing I'm aware of in any medium. Denis Leary rocks hard and the script just zings. Start watching this immediately.
Lost: Appointment television, maybe the reason Hi-Def was invented. If you have access to the beauty picture and sound you can catch this thing mixed in 5.1 and just marvel at the sheer scale of it. Otherwise, you'll have to content yourself with the brilliant pacing, score, and most of all the acting which just pulls you right into this story and won't let you go. The show already contains the best single TV moment I've seen in a long while, a grown man being sucked into a jet engine. The DVD's would already be on my wish list, but the show is so good I'm waiting for Blu-ray.
Clubhouse: A guilty pleasure. Dean Cain=good (you completely buy this guy as the only class act in baseball. it grounds the show firmly in fantasy every time he acts unselfishly). Jeremy Sumpter=really good (you can see how he got Peter Pan, it's impossible to dislike him) and the kid playing his b/f is the new Max Casella. How hard is it to love seeing Christopher Lloyd do his crusty older man routine. Plus the baseball stuff is so lovingly photographed it's like sports pornography. The team plays in a league where all games are scheduled during magic hour.
Still to come: House, Desperate Housewives, season two of Arrested Development and Corner Gas.
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