August 2007
One of the reasons I took to My Boys was that it never devolved into outright farce in its quest for comedy. In many ways, the humor was like its Chicago setting: modest and self-deprecating with heart.
"It's good to embrace change, right?" So claimed Nancy Botwin during Monday (Aug. 27) night's Weeds. She might as well have reached out through the TV to give viewers a helpful nudge. Change? Embrace change? Do we get it yet?
This week on Greek, we learn valuable lessons about love, virtue, strip clubs, and IMing one's roommates. Ah, college.
It's not a good time to be a genetic experiment on tonight's Kyle XY. There's much self-doubt and the clutching of heads whilst the show gears up for next week's season finale.
The official announcement won't come until Wednesday's Good Morning America, but as has been the case in past seasons, a purported Dancing with the Stars cast list has made its way onto the Internet.
This week's Dead Zone starts off like a particularly bad country song -- I can just see some dude in a cowboy hat warbling "My girl done left me for the vice-president/ the house is empty and the money's all spent/ my psychic friend Alex got locked in a car/ can't no one see just how lonesome I are?" OK, I need to work on the lyrics, but you get the idea.
This week's lesson from The 4400: Microsoft is evil. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean "Ubient" is evil. It's run by one of the Marked, it's bankrolling their activities, the economy depends on it, and the fact that most of the computers in the world run on its software meant that everyone was in big trouble when a virus took down its "Enzyme" operating system.
In this episode of State of Mind, Taj shows that he's a horrible husband and father, and gets shown up by a rival shrink. Other stuff happens -- Ann finds out her sister's having an affair; Ann falls into bed with Phil; James helps a boy move on from his brother's death -- but the Taj storyline was the only bit that kept me awake through this episode, and that just because I was so freaking angry at Taj. I don't think that's quite what the writers were going for.
I defy you watch this episode of Side Order of Life and not end up on Google. Either you'll be typing the name of your long-lost first love, or you'll be trying to find out if a patriotic personal pleasure device actually exists -- possibly both. Ain't technology grand?
Scott Baio, we hardly knew ye. Tonight's episode marks the season finale of Scott Baio is 45...and Single and it starts off with him talking about good and bad decisions he has made over the course of his life.
