Thursday Nights Are Alright!

So I'm so happy to have my Thursday (Friday, Aussie time) night tv back! Grey's Anatomy's 2 hour season premiere was awesome. So Meredith went crazy...and hid the very very super adorable baby Zola when the social worker was onto the fact that Meredith and Derek were separated. Alex helped...and seems to have sorta smoothed things over with the gang. Oh and there was a giant hole in the ground! That was cool.

Community is still weird, but likeable. There's always something that's entertaining about it. -And so far there is plenty of Annie, which I like! Last week's ep with Britta in the cage was HI-larious! I couldn't stop laughing!

Having been watching seasons 1 and 2 of Parks and Recreation on dvd over the break, I was a little unsure how how things ended last season...but I quickly got back up to speed. The scenes with Ben and Leslie were toooo cute....I really like them as a couple! I hope they don't keep them apart!

Private Practice was back last week. FINALLY! I was going crazy...luckily I had season 4 to keep me sane. I finished the last ep before watching the first ep of season 5 -which I LOVED by the way! Charlotte was being very cute...she found the funny again! Amelia cracks me up, even when she's drunk and bleeding! Awesome! I liked the refs to the last 2 season finales with death and tragedy for the gang...and it was refreshing for Addison to not be responsible for saving any lives for once! She just got to hang with the cutest little boy on tv Lucas. -I totally have a baby crush on him! Poor Cooper...bad doctoring Sam...look around before yelling CLEAR! Oh yeah and Pete is okay...but we knew that'd work out.
-So overall I didn't miss Naomi at all....which is a little sad. Benjamin Bratt's character turned up right at the end....and I gotta say, I'm not on board with him yet. Especially since he's jumping into the middle of the credits, between Tim and Paul, in my book that's not so cool, to get higher billing than characters that have been there 4 seasons already! But maybe Shonda will make me love him! Who knows, but so far season 5 is off to a great start!


In other non-Thursday night tv news - I gotta talk about the Weeds finale....cause ooooo that was an awesome way to end it. It works as a series finale, or as a season finale....its about time someone tried to blow away Nancy. She's getting to big for her boots!
Oh and also....The Big C finale! I sorta saw the end coming, but when it clicked right at the end...I burst into tears! It was so sad. Enough with the ultra sad season finales!!!!

Ep 2 of The New Girl wasn't much better...I hate to admit that I don't think I'll be able to love that show. I do love Free Agents - which means it'll get the axe...but its not THAT good, that I would be overly upset. Up All Night was better last week too! But way too many SNL people for 1 ep!
Modern Family is a bit bleh these days. Its lost something....
I watched the first ep of Suburgatory - its not terrible, and could be good. We'll see.
I also thought the season premiere of SNL with Alec Baldwin wasn't THAT great, and wasn't that funny overall.
Idina Menzel was back in Glee last week - that was awesome, but I'm still not sure about Glee as a whole. It could go either way at this point.
And lastly, I got a major kick out of all the short jokes in last week's ep of Raising Hope! I do love that show to pieces!

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Carlie

Summer TV is Almost Over!

I'm starting to get a little sick of my summer TV! It's all on 1 day, then nothing for the rest of the week! I mean yes, I am LOVING Rizzoli and Isles - last week's ep was awesome especially the ye olde costumes, that was TOO funny! This week's ep about witches was pretty good too, if not just for the cute little bit when Jane answered her phone 'Rizzoli' and Maura added "and Isles". But what is with Korsak and the animals? Last week birds, this week cats!

I like Weeds, but sometimes I could take it or leave it. The same goes for The Big C. I've been watching some quality SNL, but even that gets boring after a while. Otherwise I'm only watching Hot in Cleveland...which really sucks, and if I had better stuff to watch I wouldn't even bother!


I'm dying for my regular season shows back. Where there is more variety and they are more spread out over the week! Less than a month till Parenthood comes back. YAY! I'm most looking forward to Parenthood, Parks and Recreation and Private Practice coming back...and Grey's Anatomy too, to a slightly lesser degree. And I LOVED last season of Raising Hope, but I hope the 2nd season can keep up the quality standard of the first season. -The girls that play Hope are growing up and might not be as cute. Hah, but at least that's not what is holding up the whole show.
Speaking of TV babies it looks like plenty more Lucas this year on the PPP - but its all with Kate....is Addison kidnapping him?! hah. I've also been trying to be good and not reading about spoilers and storylines for all the shows. But I did make the mistake of reading 1 PPP storyline and now wishing I hadn't...cause while it didn't really give away much, its not at all specific and that leaves many potential ways things could turn out...and its gonna bug me now! -Still a month till that comes back too! Cause Grey's is getting a 2 hour premiere...which I'm sure will be awesome!

I don't even have any dvds to watch...I'm watching Alias commentaries, but thats not time consuming and I just watch them here and there.

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Carlie

TV Catch-Up

It's been a while since I've written about my TV. Its still summer tv season, so there isn't as much to watch and so not as much to write about. -The Emmy noms came out, and at least 1 of my 3 got nominated. Yay for Martha Plimpton for Raising Hope. But I still think KaDee Strickland was robbed for PPP! I mean if that didn't get her a nomination, what does it take?! I feel bad that everyone was talking her up, as being a potential nominatee. And Parenthood seems to be in the same group with PPP, not getting any big awards attention - but at least they both get some special awards for stuff that really matters.

Last Monday night I watched the Helpman Awards - Australia's version of the Tony's. It had plenty of good parts, but overall was boring as I only cared about the musical awards and spent most of the the time sitting on YouTube. It also went for ages so I ran out of time to watch In Plain Sight. So then that ate into my tv time Tuesday night. I ended up not watching Weeds and The Big C till Wednesday, but that actually worked out nicely. Other than those shows (and Rizzoli & Isles on Tuesdays), that is all the new TV I have. I have been watching some old SNL. I watched the Queen Latifah one from season 30 Sunday night. Its fun watching ones with Tina, Maya, Amy and Rachel in them.
And then when I'm REALLY bored or only have a little time, I've been watching Hot In Cleveland. It sucks, but not enough to stop me watching ...YET.

I've been watching the 1st season of Parks and Recreation on DVD. Luckily I finished it before I got this job -The same goes for Alias actually! I just finished the commentaries for P-Rex this past weekend. Overall the dvds are great especially for 8 bucks! The commentaries are great and with cast members. There are also music vids for Mouse Rat/Andy's songs. The Ann one is all cute Amy and Rashida bloopers/alternate takes. I really want season 2, but I'll wait for it to get cheap...I have principles. Not that 25 bucks is expensive, but it seems more than necessary.
Other than that there are no TV dvds I'm watching. I finished Alias -and while I remembered the last episode...I found myself not remembering a good deal of the last 2 seasons....also I could not for the life of me remember what happened to Sark!
Come September all the last seasons will come out on DVD. So I'll have lots to watch, and will have to find the time!

This week was the In Plain Sight finale. It was really good! I really thought they were going to kill Rachel Boston's character or Delia in that big hostage situation. But Brandi running out on her wedding and then Mary going into labor or having complications or whatever really works too! -I'm gonna guess that maybe we won't be seeing anymore Joshua Malina.

Well I guess that is more than enough for one blog post...I'll try to blog more frequently, so it doesn't get smushed together.

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Carlie

New Internet = TV Galore!

So my new internet was activated Monday, meaning I was able to start downloading my shows straight away this week –which is awesome as the family internet has been slowed! It means I don't have to pick and choose my shows anymore too!

So this week we started with a rather so so ep of In Plain Sight. Overall it wasn’t the greatest ep, it was just lacking something...I’m not sure what exactly. Maybe it was that Josh Malina wasn’t in it this week. Who knows.

Then there was the season 2 premiere of Rizzoli and Isles yesterday, I gotta admit I got hooked on that show. Sasha Alexander is so entertaining in it! They have some crazy dialogue on that show. 

I finally watched new Weeds and The Big C tonight. Firstly, I’m not loving Weeds...but its slowly getting better, as it does every season. Hunter Parish in a giant clear inflatable ball in his underwear was interesting....I’m also liking grown up Shane. But how does Nancy still manage to make those coffee drinks to carry around, like she has since the beginning?! Crazy.

The Big C is a fun show. But I’m not used to Cynthia Nixon as a blonde...I know that’s her natural hair color and all, but she just looks weird without the red...but at least she doesn’t have the old Miranda haircut. Haha.

That’s pretty much the tv for the week...I hate that its all at the start of the week over summer. I’ve been watching the last few eps of Cougar Town in the meantime. Still got a few left, the last few haven’t been as funny as the older ones were.

In other tv news, the nominations for this years Emmys come out Thursday night, so that’ll be interesting to see who gets one. I hope Martha Plimpton, Lauren Graham and KaDee Strickland get nods, but they are long shots, well at least Lauren and KaDee are. But they both had stellar seasons.

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Carlie

No time to miss the old shows...

....It's straight into the new ones! Weeds and The Big C were back this week. Big YAY!

Weeds is still not as good as it was in the early days, but it was entertaining enough.  The time jump was good...Nancy was out of jail 3 years later, and the boys are coming back from Denmark. Not a lot else happened in the first ep, but it should get better when they all get back together!

The Big C was good, I didn’t expect Marlene to be appearing this season...having died in the season finale, but for the first episode at least, she was haunting Cathy! Not sure where they will go this season, but I had forgotten that Cynthia Nixon was in it...glad I finished Sex and the City a while ago.

In Plain Sight was hilarious this week! Well...Joshua Malina was...that line about “lose the shades 00-asshat!” cracked me up, and that whole scene had to be re-watched a few times! Mary’s pregnancy is also now out in the open...we’re over halfway through the season now, I get sad when there are less eps left than we’ve seen with this short season shows...they just never seem long enough!

I also watched a few more episodes of Cougar Town this week...hopefully I'll be caught up with that soon...although its nice to have something waiting...there isn't a lot else that I haven't already got!

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Carlie

Bye Bye Tara!

So this week was the finale if United States of Tara (and Nurse Jackie) and since Showtime decided not to renew it for next season, the episode served as the series finale as well. I’m very sad it’s gone; it was a great show, that was very different. While it took me a few eps to get used to all the Alters, I grew to love Alice, T and even Buck! Over the course of this 3^rd season, the abuser alter Bryce killed off Chicken, Gimmy and Shoshanna. By the finale he was killing off the original 3 too. It was really sad.

Overall I think it ended quite well, yet could have gone on with another season maybe as well. Charmaine and Neil were going to Texas, Kate was moving on with her own life – and decided to stay and take care of Marshall, and Tara was going to Boston to get the help she needed with Max. It did feel quite finished. I liked that the 3 original Alters were in the back of the truck when they left at the end, that was cool/nice.  

I’m sure the cast will all move onto new things, looking forward to seeing where Brie Larson (Kate) heads next.

Guess I should also comment on the Nurse Jackie season finale while I’m here....

I spent the whole first 20 minutes of the ep going...something better happen, it’s not feeling very season finale-ish. Dr Cooper’s not wedding was boring, and the whole thing was nuts anyways. Finally things started to heat up when Kevin showed up at the hospital with the girls, and just when you thought Jackie’s affair was gonna come out, Kevin dropped his own affair bombshell! Crazy. While I have always liked this show, and it makes me laugh, it was not as good this season, and in some ways I feel that it was not as deserving of a 4^th season as United States of Tara.

My early week Showtime fix will not suffer, with Weeds and The Big C coming back this week. YAY! 

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Carlie

Updates....Again

So...not a whole lot going on in my TV world at the moment. I've been busy with uni.

I'm halfway through season 4 of Weeds. Starting to get scary now. But still good.

I'm loving Cougar Town...it's silly, but just gets better every week. Especially Christa and Busy!
I'm totally addicted to Glee. And I'm bummed about waiting till the 11th (or 12th in my case I guess) for the next ep!

Since I had a break in my roster of TV, I finally watched the pilot of The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies. I like it. The cast is too good! I'll give the 2nd ep a shot, see how things go from there.
I plan to also finally get around to Modern Family at some point.

Other than that, I'm still watching Studio 60 for about the billionth time....I've just got past The Harriet Dinner eps.  I've also just started season 4 of Gilmore Girls....for about the trillionth time. But I do love it!



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Carlie

TV Viewing Update

So...as of today, I have finished season 2 of Mad Men, and have watched the first 4 eps of season 3.
If you ask me, season 3 is a little more interesting than season 2. I found season 2 a little boring, or dragged out or something.

I'm 5 episodes into season 3 of Weeds. Really enjoying the show. Its nice to finally be getting to the rest of it, having only see the first season and a couple of eps from the 2nd season back when channel 9 was airing it.

I'm really enjoying the new shows Glee and Cougar Town. Glee is full of musical fun and has me downloading the songs and playing them when I drive anywhere now!
Cougar Town with Courteney is fun, a little crazy and kooky, but quite amusing.

I've got a few other new shows I might try and get to when there's a break in the episodes of other stuff.

-I dunno how I feel about new Private Practice...its very depressing...good, but depressing. All the ABC dramas seem to be very depressing this season. Brothers and Sisters is just gonna keep getting more and more depressing I imagine with all the Kitty stuff. -At least it hopefully means Robert will be around more, and be less annoying. Dunno about the rest of them, but I am still enjoying the show, they seem to be getting back on track...whatever the track is exactly I don't know.
Grey's Anatomy is good, but really needs to start wrapping up. Its gonna be losing people all over the place this season with everyone having babies and stuff in real life. I feel bad that I don't miss George that much...He was seriously under-used in the last few seasons. I miss the good old days of the first 3 seasons. But for now I'll keep watching.

Really looking forward to Lost coming back in 2010. Although I am dreading getting to the end. Its gonna be sad. But I also can't wait to see what they do with it next year!