The following contains comments on the latest episodes of: The Office, 30 Rock, FlashForward, The Vampire Diaries, Project Runway, How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory. I have not watched Mad Men so don’t tell me anything.
The Office
Continuing to enjoy this season. Loved having dick Michael back. Breaking up with a coworker’s mom on her birthday in front of said coworker and then having to drive everyone back was classic dick Michael. I thought they handled the punch really well. I was concerned that they’d shy away from it but Michael had that coming and it was still very realistic that Pam didn’t feel good about it after. How does Steve Carell not have an Emmy yet? And I very much enjoyed the Dwight/Andy favor-off and that Dwight is still trying to bring Jim down. Very true to his character.
30 Rock
Best episode of the season and that’s including the Will Arnett episode (so you know I really liked this one). Jack on the subway was hysterical as was the whole audition story, including the much talked about Susan Boyle gag. I’ve heard from some that this season has a different feel or tone to it and maybe that’s why it is keeping my interest. It’s still the show on after The Office for me but it is an enjoyable one and since nothing conflicts with it…
Project Runway
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. The two people who got kicked off were the two people I liked the most throughout the entire season. I don’t want any of the remaining three to win and I’m not even sure I’m going to watch.
FlashForward
Finally the stakes are raised on this show! Despite having little to non of Charlie Simon, this was an excellent episode that took everything we thought was true about the concept of the flashforwards and threw it off the side of a building. Literally. The dude sacrificed himself so that others could have a different flashforward than the sucky ones they were first dealt. Is this really going to change the future? And what’s with that daughter showing up? And why haven’t we seen Joseph Fiennes shirtless more? I may need a bigger post about this one.
The Vampire Diaries
I finally have caught up with this show after being 5 episodes behind and I gotta say that I absolutely love it! It’s a better vampire story than Twilight, a better constructed story than True Blood and darker than Buffy. No I’m not saying it’s better than Buffy but it certainly is as entertaining, made even more so by the truly gorgeous Stefan and Damon. The two brothers have great chemistry and Damon pretty much steals every scene he’s in. What I love is that he is a bad-ass vampire. Spike was badass but if you think about it, you never really saw him going around and killing a whole lot. Damon is just ruthless and does it with a smirk. It makes me want to read the original books though I know the show is wildly different. Hey Twilight movies, you know you can change the crap parts of the books right?
How I Met Your Mother
Well, that didn’t last long. I know I had said that I wasn’t digging Barney and Robin and I will admit that I was a teeny bit spoiled as I had read that the couple would break up this season but I absolutely was not expecting it to happen so soon. The blame on this one goes to the writers. They screwed this relationship and didn’t do anything to explore the awesomeness that could have been Barney and Robin. That said, at least we get the old Barney back. I loved the scene in the station wagon with Marshall complaining about the van, Ted complaining about money and both getting on Lily’s case for substituting a robot for a storm trooper (even I know they aren’t the same). I feel like this season, while enjoyable, doesn’t have much aim or a visible goal to it. The end with Barney wanting to find tape of Robin’s variety show is intriguing and man I’m hoping they continue with that.
The Big Bang Theory
Just when I had started to think that this hilarious show was lacking a bit in Season 3 we get one of the funniest episodes of the whole series. You all know I’m a Leonard fan and while I think he can do better than Penny, I don’t want to see them break up, especially on the same night that Barney and Robin break up. You dodged a bullet here CBS. But the fighting was hilarious on all sides. I was impressed that the fighting was very loud and very passionate with both Leonard and Penny having good points and shallow points. Love that Sheldon was the little kid caught in the middle of his parents’ fighting and his weak attempts to try and reunite Leonard and Penny were great, especially the scene at Penny’s restaurant. Raj and Howard fighting was really cute (they are SO a couple) and I always enjoy Howard’s mother. Stuart from the comic book store is growing on me and I hope we get to see more of him this season. Above all, I’m so glad that Penny and Leonard made up and the end scene with them in bed made the whole thing end on a high note. More episodes with the whole gang together please!
ETA: I’m so sick and tired of every Big Bang thing I read being all about how Sheldon is great and how Leonard is an ass. I love Sheldon, Jim Parsons is hilarious, but I don’t think you have to hate one to love the other. The show isn’t called Sheldon… It’s nice to have small problems like these. 
I think the answer is to just stop reading about shows I like, especially when I know my opinion differs so much with others. Or I could just get a life.
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So I have three Mad Men’s to watch plus all the new shows on this week, including the return of Glee!!! Time to watch it all, especially with my return to exercising? No way.
Man, really you liked Christopher? I couldn’t stand him and his crying and actually never liked any of his outfits. I was SO GLAD he got aufed. I did like Gordonna though. She was sassy.
I did. While some of his stuff was butt ugly some of his was drop dead gorgeous. It was more that I didn’t like the other three though. I thought Gordonna’s stuff was very classic and very pretty almost every week (except that one when she had immunity, that one was bad).