Nothing Conducive = Links
As in, if you were sitting in front of your television last night, you were most likely appropriately entertained, just not by anything we’d banter about on this site. Yes, between the Iowa caucus (’? We have no idea if that’s plural since both parties are involved) and the numerous sporting events, if television was your thing last night you were either watching what I was between poker hands, or reruns of series’ or NBC, which as we’ve already discovered wasn’t putting out anything original, but it was all new!
At least FNL makes a return tonight, and while we’ll be well on our way to New Orleans by then, it’s at least refreshing to know that a series that was once great but has been relegated to the stigma of mediocrity will have a brand new episode waiting for us when we return. Other than that: The Wire. We have done all we could to refrain from mentioning it until the recap of the season five premiere and we’re not going to spoil anything, but if you’ve never watched the series and are looking for something to occupy your time over the strike, season five’s premiere is just the 51st reason why it’s worth getting the season one DVD’s.
Speaking of which, if you people think I’m obsessed with this series, here’s a bit of over-analysis on the promotional page. I never really understood fretting of this nature, why not just wait until all the episodes air (or at least the first one), then attempt to deconstruct the series? It’s not going anywhere, and I suppose part of the motivation is ego: “See how intelligent I am? I knew how the story would play out just by looking at the promotional ads!” Ruining the series for me isn’t going to prove your foresight to me, I’m just going to assume you’re a total asshole.
Yet another classic series to watch in lieu of the strike, except Cupid isn’t yet on DVD but has apparently been posted all over youtube. We remember the series when it was on: it stars Piven (who was distinct enough that we remember him quite vividly) and Paula Marshall (the chick who shit in the hot tub on Nip Tuck and wanted Sean to watch her sleep with a black guy). Really, we can only remember one specific bit about the series: remember when Larry David had the run in with the paraplegic in “The Bowtie”? Well, they lifted that bit from this series.
The returning Survivor members making up the “favorites” team for next season has been unveiled. And while there is no Tom, Yul, Yau-Man or Earl (probably the four favorite castaways from recent memory), they did bring back Jonathan Penner, the guy from the Yul season who was pigeonholed into jumping from one alliance to the next, but was still somehow held accountable from the team he was forced to abandon despite the fact that he explained the situation to them before he cast the, for all intensive purposes, deciding vote. Also from that season: Parvati. Which is good, because we’re pretty certain she’s working the corner if not for this show.
Two of these five people will be returning.
Law and Order is crossing the pond to London. If it’s anything like Match Point or Clockwork Orange, then we’re expecting a lot of ineptitude.
Trump is promising to cutback the rampant product placement on Celebrity Apprentice that previous seasons where noted for. And really, that has nothing to do with why we’ve stopped watching the series, he could walk around in a Ronald McDonald suit with a dozen I-Phones all day and we couldn’t care less. It’s the unlikable casts, the nonsensical dismissals and the apparent lack of humanity in it all. But yeah, reduce that profit you get from unabated corporate sponsors who double as personal friends, that will keep them tuning in.
And finally, there is so much noise about the return to late night television that we will just leave it at this: nothing has changed. Leno still trounced Letterman in the ratings drawing a 5.8 to Letterman’s paltry 4.7. We’re still partial to the underdog and are certain that the only rationale for this continuous ratings discrepancy is a deeper bevy of audience draws Leno has, being in SoCal and whatnot.
This is it until Wednesday, sorry we couldn’t be any more eventful before a five day hiatus but there is really no reason to be reading this blog, or watching any series’ for that matter.
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