Californication (Showtime) — Season 3 premiere. Mmmmmm, Eva Amurri as a stripper. Approve.
Dexter (Showtime) — Season 4 premiere. Not only is Dexter now a dad, but this season also features John Lithgow as an serial killer foil to Dexter’s good serial killer.
Desperate Housewives (ABC) — Season premiere. Drea de Matteo gets added to the cast as — brace yourselves — a brassy Italian chick. Look at it this way: it’s not as bad as “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Brothers & Sisters (ABC) — Season premiere. Somehow this has been on for three years without me ever watching a single scene, even accidentally. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Rachel Griffiths and Rob Lowe often make things watchable.
The Simpsons (Fox) — Season 21 premiere. I don’t care if it’s not as brilliant as Seasons 4 through 9 or whatever you think the Golden Age of Funny was. This show gets a lifetime pass from me.
Mad Men (AMC) — I like “Mad Men” airing on Sundays during football season. I’ve already been drinking all day, I might as well have some whiskey neat while I watch this show.
The Cleveland Show (Fox) — Series premiere. Hate it.
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) — The brilliance of Jason Alexander on “Seinfeld” was that he made Costanza’s caricature of Larry David ultimately likable. Larry David as Larry David? Not so much. But you’re welcome to hate me for that opinion.
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my mom watches brothers and sisters… i watched it for five minutes… and surprise surprise it sucks and still nobody has given callista flockhart that hamburger
“Not as brilliant”? The Simpsons is “not as brilliant” as it used to be? The only thing brilliant about the show now is its ability to fill me with white-hot rage. There isn’t a single show in the history of television that has fallen off worse than The Simpsons, so to say that it’s not as brilliant as it used to be is likely the understatement of the century.
Matt, I know how you feel. I don’t want to admit that statistically “The Simpsons” now has more bad/mediocre episodes than good/great ones. S2-S9 of “The Simpsons” are among the most brilliant things ever shown on TV. But there’s no need to protect it anymore. It’s already earned it’s place in history. No amount of unnecessary, disappointing seasons will ever be able to take down the brilliance of S2-S9.
It’s not even the same “Simpsons” as it used to be. Most of the older writers, animators, and even producers have left it. Hell, series creator Matt Groening has basically abandoned it for Futurama. Same skin, different insides. So let it go man. Remember the good times, and move on.
Oh, and a paper bag fixes any problems anyone would have with Eva Ammuri.
I too have given the Simpsons a lifetime pass. I too am named Bort.
Larry David, whether played by himself or Duckman, is not funny to me. If you think he is then bully for you.
And finally, I hope this season of Dexter ends with him and Lithgow having an arm-wrestling match atop the LA Towers, which Lithgow wins when he cheats and slams Dexter’s arm through a spike and then Ice-T shows up.
So yeah, the Cleveland thing was better than I thought it would be. He is the worse character, but it was basically Family Guy. And I did enjoy the premiere of that. The new none Christian future with the NyQuil Cold, Cough, and AIDS pills was pretty good. Of course, I’ve been drinking since the Falcons game started, so what do I know.
Who writes for WithLeather now? They fuckin’ suck and it reads like a bunch of yearbook superlatives put together. Do they even know about the internet? I’m talking about the inter-netting that is found on the inside of mens swimming trunks, of course.
The Simpsons has enjoyed a revival of sorts I think. Things really fell off a few years ago but they have made the plots a lot less nonsensical. At least they make more sense than the plot of “Admiral Baby”. CANDY ISLAND?!?!?
The Cleveland Show sucked and Brenden’s a ruh-tard.
Larry David is possibly the most unlikeable person in existence.
Fact: Larry David’s grandfather caused the Holocaust.