Grid Effect

Much like Tony Soprano in the least liked episode of the final season, we will be playing catch up for the foreseeable future. In terms of writing a television blog, it was a bad 12 days to be out of pocket. We missed the premieres and season episodes of multiple series, and just as a cherry on top we managed to be in a Greyhound on our way to St. Louis while the Emmy’s were taking place. If that isn’t a good indicator of our disinterest in the event, then I don’t know what is.

The only thing we were really concerned with is whether or not The Wire would actually win the only award it was nominated for and it didn’t, but it at least lost to Mad Men. We are constantly conflicted about this. On the one hand, it is better for the series’ legacy if it is constantly overlooked for awards (particularly Emmys). On the other, and this is with all due respect to Mad Men which is the best series on television by a mile, this is still a crock of shit. Here’s a list of winners if you care, though it is oddly agreeable for the most part.

Either way it doesn’t sound like we missed much except a Colbert acceptance speech and maybe a David Simon appearance at an award show. Other than that, we were happy to save the money on the plane ticket. At least sort of, riding a Greyhound across the country is kind of like getting on one of those Halloween cart rides at a carnival, only the thrills aren’t vicarious.

If you absolutely must travel via Greyhound, do try to avoid the Tulsa layover.

Still, here is a quick rundown of what to expect from us over the course of the next eight work days (sans links or previews or anything else that is never planned). We did manage to catch a break in that Mad Men randomly decided to take a night off:

-Recap/review of the most recent Mad Men episode “A Night to Remember”.

-Recap/review of Weeds season four finale.

-Recap/review of Entourage season five, episode three.

-Recaps of Survivor: Gabon and Office season five premieres.

-It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia review, which we’ve already sort of mentioned completing.

We hope to burn through all of this by Friday but any promise would be admittedly hollow. Though we will try to get to one of these later tonight.