Grid Effect

Rescue Me returned last night from a two week hiatus and returned strong. From Tommy and Kenny’s impassioned defense of Chief, to the therapy session to all of the firehouse banter and everything that came out of John Scurti’s mouth, that was like season one Rescue Me, not the forced nonsense we’ve become accustomed to with the first half of season three and up until this point in season four. Also, when Tommy said, “the rape” in therapy, was he referring to the controversial “rape” in season three’s “Sparks”? I cannot recall any other instances of rape that would bear mentioning in that shrinks office, but it was delivered oddly. Of course, not everyone agrees with my laudatory point of view.

But as you can tell from the title, we’re not here to rehash the only series I watch during the work week, we’re here to provide op-ed on varying news headlines. Is it a negative indicator for what you are writing if you are fending off sleep while writing it? And yes, I am at work.

Wow, no one wants to fill that void left by Rosie O’Donnell at The View. They might as well just bite the bullet and ask Dan Patrick.

Kevin Reilly, the wrongfully ousted entertainment president at NBC, is moving to FOX, where he will most likely be responsible for the next wave of C-list celebrity reality shows.

I don’t know what the hell tickles this clowns fancy (he is kind of all over the place), but it surely isn’t the same thing that is tickles mine. Considering we watch are watching three series this summer (soon to be four when Mad Men premieres on July 19th), I would hardly call this TV season overloaded.

Why would black people want a Laguna Beach equivalent? That show represents everything that’s ugly about white America, why mimic it?

The L Word is allowing one of their fans to script a scene for them. Umm, I don’t watch this show, but if Sarah Shahi is still on it, then they better hope someone that has my sensibilities doesn’t win, because I would be taking full advantage of the disregard for FCC regulations that Showtime affords for its original programming. My apologies.

Chris Noth, most widely recognized as Mr. Big, has yet to sign on to the new (it’s official) Sex and The City movie, mostly as a result of them neglecting a decent offer, and partly due to scheduling conflicts. So if they fail to work around his schedule, the women in the movie will sit around bad mouthing him for something that is entirely out of his hands. Wow, that show is like real life.

And finally, Springfield, Vermont has won The Simpsons movie contest, and will play host to their premiere. They won with a shade over 15,000 votes, I know Springfield is a small city and Vermont a small state, but doesn’t this seem astonishingly low to anyone else? Especially for the city that won the fucking thing. Springfield, Ohio is about thirty minutes outside of Columbus, about the equidistant point between us and Dayton. Had anyone known this contest was going on, we could have won it in a landslide.