Grid Effect

Since the Survivor season doesn’t begin until the 25th of this month (start the countdown…only twenty-three days!), we figured we would space it out a little bit. Let the snark breathe a little, you know? And in keeping with the tradition here, lets doll out some links! Weeee!

The Shield started its final season last night, and with The Wire off the air they are now the unequivocal best crime drama on television. And it sounds well deserved. We never watched more than a few twenty minute intervals of the show because it seemed like 90% of it was Vick Mackey beating the shit out of some hapless thug in an interrogation room. But this final season sounds absolutely incredible. We are going to go ahead and recommend this even though we have no plans to watch it.

The new 90210 is being held from critics and we can understand why. For the most part, it is probably the most anticipated series ever to come from the CW or whatever the hell it is called now. Also, everything the CW produces usually turns out to be worst than the last thing they produced, and considering the first thing they produced was fucking trash, we’d hold it from critics as well. Also, this is escapism gossip television for people feeling nostalgic for the 90’s, they don’t need a bunch of uptight online writers tearing it to shreds before it even airs.

Did they actually sell peaches or at least peach flavored items at the Peach Pit?

We regret to inform you that Flight of The Conchords could possibly come to an end after season two. We regret it not for our own sake, but for everyone else’s. I mean, we liked the show, a lot, but we liked it for its choice moments and the good-natured quirkiness of it. We didn’t love it like every hipster and wannabe hipster seemed to. Since these two groups dictate the tone of all internet buzz towards any pop-culture item, we are sad to bring this news to you. Truly a potentially dark day in television.

Alec Baldwin is surprised by the success of 30 Rock, and because he is Alec Baldwin, he has to piss off as many people as possible in expressing this sentiment. Of the offended parties this time include the network heads at NBC, everyone who works on My Name Is Earl and Scrubs, and everyone who is a fan of those two series’ as well. At this point in his career, for all the great work in film and television he has done, Alec Baldwin’s legacy is going to be remembered as what could best be summarized as a reality television star with talent. Generally you have to have cameras following you around endlessly to even rival Alec Baldwin in gaffes, much less exceed him.

Speaking of NBC heads, Ben Silverman’s lifestyle (well documented on this website) has finally began to upset his superiors who aren’t in the PR position to can his ass. His indiscretions include alleged hard drug and alcohol abuse, and frequent tardiness and absence from work. Someone should tell Mr. Silverman there was a reason Jim Morrison went into music and not television production.

We’ve probably done this in passing about a hundred times, an the New York Post has finally decided to join the party with a comparison of Tony Soprano and Don Draper. We shouldn’t even link to this considering how likely we are to officially do our own version some day, and especially because you can probably sift through the rest of our Mad Men posts and you will see something that equivocates this, we should take it as a personal affront. Fuck it, we need material.

James Gandolfini caught the yellow fever and married her in Hawaii. Post-Sopranos life seems to be treating Mr. Gandolfini well, it’s going to be a shame when she divorces him, takes half his money, and he is still unable to find regular work. It really is. Still, for someone who turned in the greatest acting performance in American television history and seemed to do it all with humility, we are always looking for new roles from him.

Barack Obama is a Mad Men fan, and this is important because it proves that his Wire fandom isn’t a fluke, he actually isn’t an idiot. This is rare for a presidential candidate. Or rather, it is rare that he doesn’t go out of his way to pretend he is an idiot. ZOMG he’s so amazing.

Probably it for today. We’re billing! It’s as fulfilling as it sounds.