Since I've been gone, there has been a lot of stuff on TV, some good, some bad, some horrible, so let's dive right into with some reviews, there will be a lot of spoilers and stuff here, so if you haven't watched some of these shows and are planning on it, then I suggest that maybe you skip this post, or pick and choose what you read or do whatever you damn well please, it's your life, what do I care, but just be warned.
Entourage, it ended and it sucked a lot, like what the hell was that? The last season was absolute garbage. Now, granted, the show was never exactly what I would call a great show, it was someone interesting, but never great, a good excuse to waste an half hour every Sunday when it was on, but seriously? The last season was so bad, I can't even tell you what happened, Vincent took a drug test, that was a show, of course he passed somehow, he ends up for some reason falling for a reported and decides to get married out of nowhere, really?. Turtle became a millionaire somehow, What? E and Sloan break up, but she's pregnant and then somehow they end up back together cause Vincent told her too, or I think that is what happened, who the hell knows. Johnny Drama got a cartoon show with Andrew Dice Clay, and got a raise for doing nothing, yup, that happened, why? what? Finally, after spending the whole season almost getting divorced, Ari and his wife decide to move to some Island or something and Ari decides to quit, I'm pretty sure leaving Lloyd in charge of the agency, I'm not really even sure at this point. BUT, of course it all ends after the credits with Ari getting a call the CEO of Time Warner, who wants to retire and wants Ari to take over.... which is the cliffhanger for what eventually will lead to the feature film, which I'm sure will be spectacular.
Another show came to an end just a few days before that, and which it didn't end quite as badly as Entourage, it still wasn't great. Rescue Me came to an end just a couple days prior to the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, which was fitting, but maybe a bit too easy. The last season focused on the 10th anniversary and all that had happened in the 10 years since then coming to a head. But the show really had fallen into a bit of a repeatitive cycle over the years, Tommy's drunk, then he's sober, then he's drunk, then he's sober. He's with his wife, he hates his wife, he's with his wife, he hates his wife. Well, it all came to an end with him being sober and having a baby with his wife, which is all well and good, but the whole scene with her giving birth to the baby in the apartment was a bit over the top. Now, Rescue me has never backed away from killing off main characters, so it wasn't a surprise that they would go and kill off Lou, you figured someone wasn't making it through the season, sure they could have gone crazy with it and killed off Tommy, but I feel like that would have been a bit much and a bit too harsh of an ending. It wasn't a great ending to the series, but it was ready for the show to end.
Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louie had a nice little battle for funniest show of the summer, I think Curb won out, had some great episodes this season, specifically the one with Bill Buckner was hilarious. Louie was good this year, however the funniest parts were probably his standup, almost went in a more of a different direction this year, seemed a bit more dramatic then the first season. Wilfred also made a nice splash this year, funny show, didn't realize until around the end of the season that it was actually already a show in Australia and had the same guy doing the Wilfred character, it was interesting to see Elijah Wood coming out of his element a bit doing a goofy comedy show, but a nice change of pace for him I guess, wasn't sure how I was gonna be able to handle him in a role like that, but he's not bad.
This leads us to what is probably the best show on TV right now, Breaking Bad, and season 4 did not disappoint, it all came to a head. It started off a bit slow, but it picked up big time as the season went along. I can't state this enough, if you are not watching this show, you should be, anyway you can get a hold of it, get it, and watch. Stop reading this right now if you haven't seen it, go out, buy, rent, download, whatever you got to do and start watching. The whole chess game between Gus and Walt was awesome, Gus trying to turn Jesse against Walt, trying to make Jesse into what Walt was in order to get rid of Walt, and then Walt turning it around on him, but making Jesse believe that Gus had poisoned the little kid, brilliant. The whole back story with Gus in Mexico was very interesting and it all coming together with Walt getting Hector to agree to blow himself up in order to kill Gus, that scene was probably one of the most intense scenes that I've seen on TV in a long, long time. Then when Gus walks out of the room adjusts his tie to make you think he someone is gonna survive the blast, only to reveal that the other side of his face is missing, simply amazing, that's all I really have to say. It will interesting to see where they go in the 5th and final season, especially with Gus out of the picture, my guess is that Jesse will discover that it was in fact Walt that poisoned the little kid and that it will eventually come down to a showdown between them too, which we got a bit of a preview of this season, but I feel like that it was just the tip of the iceberg. It's a bit disappointing that next season is gonna be the last, but at least it will be 16 episodes instead of the usual 13.
Now, unfortunately because of contract issues, there was no Mad Men this summer, it will be back next year some time, but that doesn't stop Joan Holloway from being in my life, yup, had a request from her at work today, now granted, clearly not the same Joan Holloway, but still, I can imagine it is, right?
Ok, that's all for today, be back next time with my thoughts on the Fall shows so far, including my thoughts on The Office without Michael Scott, the return of Beavis and Butt-Head. Plus what new shows have I been watching, and how are the rest of the shows living up to their names so far. So get ready for that, but for now, I will leave you as I always do, with a little treat:
Oh yeah, if you haven't heard, Arrested Development is coming back, yup, that's gonna be awesome.
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