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sisterjuneSup y'all. It's been a while hasnt it? School kept me away from all of you wonderful people. But not anymore! anyway Let's talk about Tv. I have alot to say about it this evening.
Glee: I am feeling very frustrated with this show lately. When I first started watching this show, there was four things that stuck out to me and made me want to watch it. 1. awesome musical numbers. 2. Diverse and multicultural ensemble cast. 3. funny quirky humor. 4. classic underdogs story with a focus on highschool social hierchy and cast of peculiar misfits. Somewhere along the line 2 and 4 got lost by the way side.
In fact, as much as I do enjoy the musical numbers most of the time, they are not always very good every week and the digitized voices and lip syncing is sometimes a little TOO obvious. I also happen to hate showtunes, i've always hated showtunes and classical/typical musicals never did it for me. The reason I was able to enjoy the musical numbers in glee was because if the variety of pieces chosen, many of them were even favorites of mine like Dont stop believin, Push it, Gold Digger, and This is my life. Basically not your typical "musical" fair, which made me enjoy the musical numbers more. I did love chenoweth's episode even if it was full of showtunes, she just sang them with such gusto and personality it was hard not to enjoy it. However, more often than not, I am just "ok" with the music rather than ecstatic about it.
But this is not the problem I am having with Glee right now.
The real problem I am having with glee is the repeated focus on Will's stupid pointless love life drama, and the minority students constantly being shoved aside so the story (and the musical numbers!) can be ALL about rachel and finn. Um WTF? I mean on the one hand I can see maybe why Lea Michelle the actress who plays rachel gets the most solos, she has a very strong voice and more importantly she has the most experience in singing/dancing on stage among the student cast. But why does that mean she should also have the primary story focus on her more than others as well? Rachel is not more interesting or complex than any of the other students, in fact I would say she is alot less interesting than most of them.
And why the hell does Finn get so much attention? He is a shitty dancer (something the actor himself admits) and he is merely a decent/ok singer. I dont dislike Finn's voice, but there is no reason why Finn should get as many solos as he does. If anything Artie has a far better voice, I get that since he is in a wheel chair it will be harder for him to get big parts in the musical numbers, but that does not mean the solos should all go to finn! and hell what about Puck? He sounded good too! I just feel very bothered and I feel like the only reason Finn is getting so much time on the stage is to further the stupid pointless love triangle going on between him, rachel and quinn. I could not CARE LESS who ends up with whom! It's so frustrating because Glee has alot of witty humor, and a great talented cast and they are not using them to their full potential. Why do the writers think the audience is interested in Will and Emma's doomed romance more than the kids the show is supposed to be about? I mean the WHOLE REASON Glee is so interesting is cause of the unique and fresh aspects of the show, and these are with the exception of the musical numbers, all being traded over in favor of more screentime for lame tv tropes and cliches such as love triangles and will they/wont they sexual tension that is already plaguing EVERY FUCKING SHOW on American tv. WHY? I feel so let down because it just looked like such a promising show, and I kept hoping each episode we'd get to focus on a different student each time, I mean kurt got a whole ep devoted to him at least (though he STILL didnt get to sing) and Mercedes has gotten two solos, but what about the rest of the cast? and Why has quinn gotten two solos so far but Tina who has a better voice than hers hasnt gotten any? and In fact we dont know shit about Tina beyond her being goth and asian because every week it's about quinn's issues, finn's issues, rachel's issues, and will's issues, maybe emma's issues but never the rest of the cast who is you know, not white. I mean like I said, Kurt did get one ep (though he is also white technically but he still counts as a minority) and Mercedes did get some focus on her in the last episode and the one where she had a thing for her Kurt. But even then it was minor, we know very little about her in comparison to the other white cast members, and we know NOTHING about all the other minority students save Kurt, and I cant help but feel like the only reason Kurt got airtime at all is because the showrunner is also gay and Kurt's story mirrored some of his own (his words not mine).
For crying out loud, the last episode was almost entirely about Sue taking all of Will's minority students and putting them in a group because they felt ignored by Will. You would THINK, that this is a great episode to showcase the minority students and maybe show Will he's been casting Finn and Rachel in too many numbers. YET at the end what happens? FINN AND RACHEL GET THE SOLOS. AGAIN. WTF? Yes Mercedes did get to sing in the beginning, and there was that awesome impromptu group jam session of Nelly's Ride with Me (possibly my favorite part of the whole episode) but at the end it was just business as usual.
I feel cheated. I feel like i was lured in on false pretenses. and What's doubly infuriating is I really do love those kids, (even stupid pointless finn, sort of) and I just want the show to be about THEM and THEIR stories, not stupid Will and his stupid wife (though she's far more entertaining to watch than he is) or friggin Emma who lost all favor with me when she decided to use coach tanaka as her replacement prop for Will cause he wouldnt leave his PREGNANT WIFE for her after a few weeks of mild flirtation. Or the gross coach who has no sense of dignity. Or Will again who seems to have no problem using the kids to fulfill his own goals, ignoring the minority students, or being emotionally unfaithful to his wife and then getting annoyed when she shows up at his work place because he cant flirt with Emma anymore. *gag* So far the only adult who I like at all is Sue, and she's techinically pure evil, so that goes to show you how much the others are irritating me right now. It helps that Sue is not protrayed as being a good guy and the actress playing her is BRILLIANT. But Will is supposed to be a character we root for and like and yet he is a tremendous DOUCHEBAG.
The only aspect I found interesting about Quinn's baby was the fact that it was Puck's kid and that storyline seems to have been dropped entirely. I mean wtf was up with Quinn singing this week about being dangled around? SERIOUSLY? She is LYING to Finn that her child is his child, and causes him immense anxiety and possibly fucking up his future because she doesnt want to admit to her own mistakes. I mean I get it, she's a kid, I dont blame her entirely but at the same time should I really feel sorry for her that Finn has eyes on another girl? I mean it's obvious that Finn is nothing more than a symbol of status for Quinn. I get why she blew off Puck before if she wasnt crazy about being a teen mom and marrying a deadbeat but she's not planning on keeping the child so isnt it about time to come clean to Finn? (she doesnt even seem BOTHERED that she's lying and actually Puck seems to have gotten over the fact that he will never know his child whom he orignally showed an interest in raising. Uh???).
Ok for those who found that too tl;dr, here's the short version: Finn and Rachel need to stop gettin all the musical numbers, minority students should get more storylines and development, show needs to STOP focusing on the stupid adults and their stupid love triangles, I love all the kids (even stupid finn), mercedes has an awesome voice that needs to be used more, sue is awesome, will is a douchebag, puck is hot, baby storyline is stupid, quin has a big booty, (ok that wasnt in the original rant but it's worth noting all the same). and I really hate showtunes unless Kristen Chenoweth is singing them.
Yes I know this is alot of anger for a show that's supposed to be fun and playful. and For me it was pure happiness at first, but I hate the way things are devloping. and sad thing is I dont see anything changing anytime soon. I am not gonna stop watching just yet. But if this shit does not improve by the end of the season. I'm out.
Gossip Girl: I feel very dispassionate about this show, it's possible I always felt this way and now that feeling has jsut become amplified. It was always what I call a "Cotton candy" show, sweet, fluffy, fun but ultimately EMPTY. With other far better tv out there now, I really dont know if I want to continue bothering with this show.
Lie to Me - hear me dear flist! and Know! I have found a new love! Thy name is really freaking awesome. Yes I started watching this show on a whim a week or so ago, because Tim Roth was in it and he's an awesome guy. So far I am enjoying the hell out of it, it is not by any means groundbreaking television or the best show ever but it is probably the only procedural I can think of in which I am ACTUALLY invested in the crime investigations of the week. Mostly because it's alot less about crime and alot more about analyzing human behavior and making deductions based on that. It's basically a show immersed in behavior sciences. The show has a psychologist Gillian Foster and a guy who researchers human and animal behaviors, Eli Loker and then there is Cal Lightman who is played by Roth and he is basically a guy who can always tell if someone is lying.
But thats not all, he can read people's expressions and often know exactly what they are feeling/thinking. It's fascinating because it shows you exactly how and why Lightman knows what he knows and there's alot of photos/vidoes of real life people (criminals, victims, corrupt politicians, madmen, regular people etc) interspersed throughout the show to basically show you that the stuff Lightman talks about is very real and connected to our world. Which makes Lie to Me immediately ten times more interesting than most procedurals out there, since I couldnt give less of a shit about forensics or medical procedures. It's just not my thing, however psychology? behavioral and social sciences? Hell Yes! It helps that Lightman as played by Roth is possibly the most gangsta scientist ever.
I mean this guy gets right up in dangerous people's faces, seems to enjoy confrontation, rarely displays any fear even in tenouous situations, talks like a south london street tough, and his a this funny bowlegged slightly hunched walk that I have dubbed "the sloppy pimp walk". It is awesome. All this adds up to making Lightman strangely attractive to me despite him being well up into his forties and only 5'7 in height. The fact that Roth got to keep hishot awesome accent helps too. If all this doesnt sound very interesting you'd be wrong! Alot of stuff happens on the show, and Cal also has a protege a lovely hispanic woman Ria Torres who happens to be that rare ting in this world, a Natural, who can thusly read people's expressions without any prior training or research on the subject. There is also the addition of Cal's daughter to this show, this is relevant because Cal is basically just a worried dad around his daughter not the confident fearless brilliant Cal Lightman which is who he is on the job. The contrast is fascinating to watch for me, and it seems Emily is one of the few people who can tell when Cal is lying.
Honestly I love this show, and I'm glad as hell that the rating seem to be doing ok because I'd be super sad if this got cancelled. I love that the characters of Cal and Gillian are based on real people, and the show's foundation is based off real discoveries and facts about people and their behaviors. Ultimately people interesting me alot more than procedures, and concepts and blood/gore. and that's why this show is so appealing to me. Even more so, there are no actual cops part of the main cast, it's not a crime drama even though the Lightman Group gets immeresed in crimes at times because they are often recruited to use their expertise to prove or disprove someone's honesty/dishonesty. The cases of the week are not the most original or brilliant ideas but there's alot of potential to be explored in this show. and So far S2 has proven to be much more well written than S1 was, which was decent but beyond the intriguing premise, not anything very special.
Community - I really love this show, I have enjoyed every ep. I'm glad I decided to watch it despite my general dislike of sitcoms. It is set in a community college and it does FEEL like a community college. I go to a community college atm, and I have met people just like the characters of troy, abed and shirley. I love that they address how community colleges are looked down on, even my family has teased me for going because my sis was able to get into university right out highschool. Though it was not my first choice to go through comm college before uni I dont regret it cause they really do have some great professors and quality of education, and I do appreciate the classes are not huge like alot of uni classes are. I suspect when i finally transfer out of here that I will miss it alot.
I love that Abed (even if he is played by an indian dude) is an arab, because that is so rare to see and he also clearly has some form of autism or asperger's and yet he clearly comes off as likable, sympathetic and highly intelligent, while still being shown as a very peculiar individual. I love his little friendship with troy, someone who is completely different from abed and yet the two have a very funny and convincing dynamic. I love that the show doesnt just center entirely on Jeff. I love that all the female characters on the show are very flawed, have their own issues, arent always very nice but yet are portrayed a sympathetic and not dismissed as crazy or written in a bland cliche ridden way. Joel Mchale totally brings it as Jeff in the show, and his crush on Britta which could have been really annoying is actually kind of cute, mostly because he is aware he can get any girl he wants but sticks around britta cause he genuinely likes her and when she asks him to back off he does so and just decides to be a good friend to her. and sure enough in the last episode she cheats because she has insecurity about succeeding in college (because has undergone alot of failures up to this point) and he goes out of his way to help her. If this sounds sappy it's not cause all of this is done in a really funny entertaining way. It's nice to see all the characters transcend the initial stereotypes they were introduced as in the pilot. The humor and writing to me is great and and I would definitely be sad if this show got cancelled, so here's to hoping that NBC is done vaporizing shows for the mean time. (Also it's so nice to see Chevy Chase on tv again, after reading about his tumultous career on tv and film, I'm happy to hear that he's getting it back together in recent years and showing the world he's still a funny guy. it seems he's mellowed out and become more down to earth with the years too.)
The Mentalist - love it so far, one of the only dramas not to dissappoint me in some way this season. I love how the show drops little tidbits of info about the character's each week. It's very nice, and watching the team and jane work is so fun and enjoyable that even if they dont solve the red john murder for a while, I dont think I will mind. I was originally concerned abotu this but the fact is the show doesnt hinge entirely on the red john thing, therefore when you put it out for your head, it's a really fun entertaining show. Even when it's being dark and angsty. I'm glad that Cho and Rigsby are getting more focus cause I love those guys, especially Cho, I do hope Van Pelt gets more screentime in the coming weeks. Her going all fast and the furious on biker chick last night was awesome though. As was Cho and Rigbsy staring down an entire motorcycle gang in the middle of the street, with nothing but a pair of guns at their sides. I may or may not have had a moment. Also Rigsby's dad was a big time criminal? THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH. Here's to hoping we found out more about van pelt and cho next. (how does one go from being a juvenile delinquent to a cop?)
House: so far it's not bad but I am starting to remember why I never quite liked this show very much to begin with. I really dont see myself hanging on until the end of the season, but we will see I guess.
Glee: I am feeling very frustrated with this show lately. When I first started watching this show, there was four things that stuck out to me and made me want to watch it. 1. awesome musical numbers. 2. Diverse and multicultural ensemble cast. 3. funny quirky humor. 4. classic underdogs story with a focus on highschool social hierchy and cast of peculiar misfits. Somewhere along the line 2 and 4 got lost by the way side.
In fact, as much as I do enjoy the musical numbers most of the time, they are not always very good every week and the digitized voices and lip syncing is sometimes a little TOO obvious. I also happen to hate showtunes, i've always hated showtunes and classical/typical musicals never did it for me. The reason I was able to enjoy the musical numbers in glee was because if the variety of pieces chosen, many of them were even favorites of mine like Dont stop believin, Push it, Gold Digger, and This is my life. Basically not your typical "musical" fair, which made me enjoy the musical numbers more. I did love chenoweth's episode even if it was full of showtunes, she just sang them with such gusto and personality it was hard not to enjoy it. However, more often than not, I am just "ok" with the music rather than ecstatic about it.
But this is not the problem I am having with Glee right now.
The real problem I am having with glee is the repeated focus on Will's stupid pointless love life drama, and the minority students constantly being shoved aside so the story (and the musical numbers!) can be ALL about rachel and finn. Um WTF? I mean on the one hand I can see maybe why Lea Michelle the actress who plays rachel gets the most solos, she has a very strong voice and more importantly she has the most experience in singing/dancing on stage among the student cast. But why does that mean she should also have the primary story focus on her more than others as well? Rachel is not more interesting or complex than any of the other students, in fact I would say she is alot less interesting than most of them.
And why the hell does Finn get so much attention? He is a shitty dancer (something the actor himself admits) and he is merely a decent/ok singer. I dont dislike Finn's voice, but there is no reason why Finn should get as many solos as he does. If anything Artie has a far better voice, I get that since he is in a wheel chair it will be harder for him to get big parts in the musical numbers, but that does not mean the solos should all go to finn! and hell what about Puck? He sounded good too! I just feel very bothered and I feel like the only reason Finn is getting so much time on the stage is to further the stupid pointless love triangle going on between him, rachel and quinn. I could not CARE LESS who ends up with whom! It's so frustrating because Glee has alot of witty humor, and a great talented cast and they are not using them to their full potential. Why do the writers think the audience is interested in Will and Emma's doomed romance more than the kids the show is supposed to be about? I mean the WHOLE REASON Glee is so interesting is cause of the unique and fresh aspects of the show, and these are with the exception of the musical numbers, all being traded over in favor of more screentime for lame tv tropes and cliches such as love triangles and will they/wont they sexual tension that is already plaguing EVERY FUCKING SHOW on American tv. WHY? I feel so let down because it just looked like such a promising show, and I kept hoping each episode we'd get to focus on a different student each time, I mean kurt got a whole ep devoted to him at least (though he STILL didnt get to sing) and Mercedes has gotten two solos, but what about the rest of the cast? and Why has quinn gotten two solos so far but Tina who has a better voice than hers hasnt gotten any? and In fact we dont know shit about Tina beyond her being goth and asian because every week it's about quinn's issues, finn's issues, rachel's issues, and will's issues, maybe emma's issues but never the rest of the cast who is you know, not white. I mean like I said, Kurt did get one ep (though he is also white technically but he still counts as a minority) and Mercedes did get some focus on her in the last episode and the one where she had a thing for her Kurt. But even then it was minor, we know very little about her in comparison to the other white cast members, and we know NOTHING about all the other minority students save Kurt, and I cant help but feel like the only reason Kurt got airtime at all is because the showrunner is also gay and Kurt's story mirrored some of his own (his words not mine).
For crying out loud, the last episode was almost entirely about Sue taking all of Will's minority students and putting them in a group because they felt ignored by Will. You would THINK, that this is a great episode to showcase the minority students and maybe show Will he's been casting Finn and Rachel in too many numbers. YET at the end what happens? FINN AND RACHEL GET THE SOLOS. AGAIN. WTF? Yes Mercedes did get to sing in the beginning, and there was that awesome impromptu group jam session of Nelly's Ride with Me (possibly my favorite part of the whole episode) but at the end it was just business as usual.
I feel cheated. I feel like i was lured in on false pretenses. and What's doubly infuriating is I really do love those kids, (even stupid pointless finn, sort of) and I just want the show to be about THEM and THEIR stories, not stupid Will and his stupid wife (though she's far more entertaining to watch than he is) or friggin Emma who lost all favor with me when she decided to use coach tanaka as her replacement prop for Will cause he wouldnt leave his PREGNANT WIFE for her after a few weeks of mild flirtation. Or the gross coach who has no sense of dignity. Or Will again who seems to have no problem using the kids to fulfill his own goals, ignoring the minority students, or being emotionally unfaithful to his wife and then getting annoyed when she shows up at his work place because he cant flirt with Emma anymore. *gag* So far the only adult who I like at all is Sue, and she's techinically pure evil, so that goes to show you how much the others are irritating me right now. It helps that Sue is not protrayed as being a good guy and the actress playing her is BRILLIANT. But Will is supposed to be a character we root for and like and yet he is a tremendous DOUCHEBAG.
The only aspect I found interesting about Quinn's baby was the fact that it was Puck's kid and that storyline seems to have been dropped entirely. I mean wtf was up with Quinn singing this week about being dangled around? SERIOUSLY? She is LYING to Finn that her child is his child, and causes him immense anxiety and possibly fucking up his future because she doesnt want to admit to her own mistakes. I mean I get it, she's a kid, I dont blame her entirely but at the same time should I really feel sorry for her that Finn has eyes on another girl? I mean it's obvious that Finn is nothing more than a symbol of status for Quinn. I get why she blew off Puck before if she wasnt crazy about being a teen mom and marrying a deadbeat but she's not planning on keeping the child so isnt it about time to come clean to Finn? (she doesnt even seem BOTHERED that she's lying and actually Puck seems to have gotten over the fact that he will never know his child whom he orignally showed an interest in raising. Uh???).
Ok for those who found that too tl;dr, here's the short version: Finn and Rachel need to stop gettin all the musical numbers, minority students should get more storylines and development, show needs to STOP focusing on the stupid adults and their stupid love triangles, I love all the kids (even stupid finn), mercedes has an awesome voice that needs to be used more, sue is awesome, will is a douchebag, puck is hot, baby storyline is stupid, quin has a big booty, (ok that wasnt in the original rant but it's worth noting all the same). and I really hate showtunes unless Kristen Chenoweth is singing them.
Yes I know this is alot of anger for a show that's supposed to be fun and playful. and For me it was pure happiness at first, but I hate the way things are devloping. and sad thing is I dont see anything changing anytime soon. I am not gonna stop watching just yet. But if this shit does not improve by the end of the season. I'm out.
Gossip Girl: I feel very dispassionate about this show, it's possible I always felt this way and now that feeling has jsut become amplified. It was always what I call a "Cotton candy" show, sweet, fluffy, fun but ultimately EMPTY. With other far better tv out there now, I really dont know if I want to continue bothering with this show.
Lie to Me - hear me dear flist! and Know! I have found a new love! Thy name is really freaking awesome. Yes I started watching this show on a whim a week or so ago, because Tim Roth was in it and he's an awesome guy. So far I am enjoying the hell out of it, it is not by any means groundbreaking television or the best show ever but it is probably the only procedural I can think of in which I am ACTUALLY invested in the crime investigations of the week. Mostly because it's alot less about crime and alot more about analyzing human behavior and making deductions based on that. It's basically a show immersed in behavior sciences. The show has a psychologist Gillian Foster and a guy who researchers human and animal behaviors, Eli Loker and then there is Cal Lightman who is played by Roth and he is basically a guy who can always tell if someone is lying.
But thats not all, he can read people's expressions and often know exactly what they are feeling/thinking. It's fascinating because it shows you exactly how and why Lightman knows what he knows and there's alot of photos/vidoes of real life people (criminals, victims, corrupt politicians, madmen, regular people etc) interspersed throughout the show to basically show you that the stuff Lightman talks about is very real and connected to our world. Which makes Lie to Me immediately ten times more interesting than most procedurals out there, since I couldnt give less of a shit about forensics or medical procedures. It's just not my thing, however psychology? behavioral and social sciences? Hell Yes! It helps that Lightman as played by Roth is possibly the most gangsta scientist ever.
I mean this guy gets right up in dangerous people's faces, seems to enjoy confrontation, rarely displays any fear even in tenouous situations, talks like a south london street tough, and his a this funny bowlegged slightly hunched walk that I have dubbed "the sloppy pimp walk". It is awesome. All this adds up to making Lightman strangely attractive to me despite him being well up into his forties and only 5'7 in height. The fact that Roth got to keep his
Honestly I love this show, and I'm glad as hell that the rating seem to be doing ok because I'd be super sad if this got cancelled. I love that the characters of Cal and Gillian are based on real people, and the show's foundation is based off real discoveries and facts about people and their behaviors. Ultimately people interesting me alot more than procedures, and concepts and blood/gore. and that's why this show is so appealing to me. Even more so, there are no actual cops part of the main cast, it's not a crime drama even though the Lightman Group gets immeresed in crimes at times because they are often recruited to use their expertise to prove or disprove someone's honesty/dishonesty. The cases of the week are not the most original or brilliant ideas but there's alot of potential to be explored in this show. and So far S2 has proven to be much more well written than S1 was, which was decent but beyond the intriguing premise, not anything very special.
Community - I really love this show, I have enjoyed every ep. I'm glad I decided to watch it despite my general dislike of sitcoms. It is set in a community college and it does FEEL like a community college. I go to a community college atm, and I have met people just like the characters of troy, abed and shirley. I love that they address how community colleges are looked down on, even my family has teased me for going because my sis was able to get into university right out highschool. Though it was not my first choice to go through comm college before uni I dont regret it cause they really do have some great professors and quality of education, and I do appreciate the classes are not huge like alot of uni classes are. I suspect when i finally transfer out of here that I will miss it alot.
I love that Abed (even if he is played by an indian dude) is an arab, because that is so rare to see and he also clearly has some form of autism or asperger's and yet he clearly comes off as likable, sympathetic and highly intelligent, while still being shown as a very peculiar individual. I love his little friendship with troy, someone who is completely different from abed and yet the two have a very funny and convincing dynamic. I love that the show doesnt just center entirely on Jeff. I love that all the female characters on the show are very flawed, have their own issues, arent always very nice but yet are portrayed a sympathetic and not dismissed as crazy or written in a bland cliche ridden way. Joel Mchale totally brings it as Jeff in the show, and his crush on Britta which could have been really annoying is actually kind of cute, mostly because he is aware he can get any girl he wants but sticks around britta cause he genuinely likes her and when she asks him to back off he does so and just decides to be a good friend to her. and sure enough in the last episode she cheats because she has insecurity about succeeding in college (because has undergone alot of failures up to this point) and he goes out of his way to help her. If this sounds sappy it's not cause all of this is done in a really funny entertaining way. It's nice to see all the characters transcend the initial stereotypes they were introduced as in the pilot. The humor and writing to me is great and and I would definitely be sad if this show got cancelled, so here's to hoping that NBC is done vaporizing shows for the mean time. (Also it's so nice to see Chevy Chase on tv again, after reading about his tumultous career on tv and film, I'm happy to hear that he's getting it back together in recent years and showing the world he's still a funny guy. it seems he's mellowed out and become more down to earth with the years too.)
The Mentalist - love it so far, one of the only dramas not to dissappoint me in some way this season. I love how the show drops little tidbits of info about the character's each week. It's very nice, and watching the team and jane work is so fun and enjoyable that even if they dont solve the red john murder for a while, I dont think I will mind. I was originally concerned abotu this but the fact is the show doesnt hinge entirely on the red john thing, therefore when you put it out for your head, it's a really fun entertaining show. Even when it's being dark and angsty. I'm glad that Cho and Rigsby are getting more focus cause I love those guys, especially Cho, I do hope Van Pelt gets more screentime in the coming weeks. Her going all fast and the furious on biker chick last night was awesome though. As was Cho and Rigbsy staring down an entire motorcycle gang in the middle of the street, with nothing but a pair of guns at their sides. I may or may not have had a moment. Also Rigsby's dad was a big time criminal? THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH. Here's to hoping we found out more about van pelt and cho next. (how does one go from being a juvenile delinquent to a cop?)
House: so far it's not bad but I am starting to remember why I never quite liked this show very much to begin with. I really dont see myself hanging on until the end of the season, but we will see I guess.
