Sons of Anarchy (F/X) — Even with its mediocre Season Three, Kurt Sutter managed to pull off a spectacular finale. Given how good this season has been so far, I expect nothing less than mindhole blowing. The only question that remains is: Who will still be alive next season? SAMCRO don’t run itself, you know?
New Girl (Fox) — Justin “The Mac Guy” Long returns tonight, and Zooey Deschanel’s Jess solicits sex advice from the roommates as she seeks to take it to the next level, and by next level, I don’t mean a MacBook Air ifyouknowwhatImean.
Glee: Since this is my first crack at What’s On Tonight, I mention “Glee” only to tell you that I won’t mention “Glee” again unless Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs perform a duet. In lingerie.
Michael Buble Christmas (NBC) — Look, I’m not actually suggesting you watch this; in fact, I’m discouraging it. It’s notable to me only because I believe it’s Tracy Jordan’s first appearance on network television since his homophobic rant last summer. I guess this is NBC’s misguided attempt to rehabilitate his image: By putting him on stage with Kellie Pickler and Justin Bieber. This is why you’re in last place, NBC.
Moonshiners (Discovery) — Series Premiere: I had no interest in this new docuseries until I found a review from Common Sense Media, the website devoted to judging whether a TV show or movie is suitable for children. It says, “Parents need to know that this docuseries features people illegal distilling and selling corn whiskey (a.k.a. moonshine), and police offices trying to stop them. Not surprisingly, drinking an drunken behavior is often visible, along with occasional cigarette smoking.” Looks like I just found family hour in the Rowles household.
Teen Mom 2 (MTV) — Second Season Premiere. I don’t recommend “Teen Mom” as a form of entertainment, but as birth control, it can’t be beaten.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Matt Damon is on Letterman plugging We Bought a Zoo; Armie Hammer shows up on Kimmel to talk J. Edgar; Valerie Bertenelli is on Craig Ferguson to discuss, er, her latest informercial(?); Katherine “Rainbow Killer” Heigl will undoubtedly yap about herself on Leno; Jonah Hill is on “The Daily Show,” The Black Keys will rock Colbert, and Patton Oswalt shows up on Fallon simply to be awesome.
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The live finale (9pm) of the douche-off between Jessie James and the Teutels doesn’t even get a mention?
New Girl is like a chocolate Easter bunny. Shiny wrapper, shitty candy.
And after the SoA season finale, Kurt Sutter is giving his postmortem on S4 to that hack Michael Ausiello and not Alan Sepinwall. All because Sutter is still hurt that Sepinwall didn’t like S3 and Ausiello is more likely to get on his knees for Sutter. I like SoA, but Kurt Sutter makes me want to pirate SoA rather than watch it and help its ratings.
Something something Heigl Leno appropriate something something suck *FAAAAAAAAAAAAART*
I like how it’s actually become impossible to tell Tracy Jordon from Tracy Morgan.
The New Girl has been running ads for this new episode and I have to say it just makes me want to murder everyone involved with that show.
While i agree that S4 was a step back in the right direction from S3, I just dont understand the praise. I’ve found this to be a very disappointing season. Its one contrived stet up after another with little payoff. I trust the finale will be good (as you mentioned, past Sons finales have been) but unless Clay is dead in a pool of blood this will then be my last Sons episode. Even if he is, my time with this show appears to be winding down.
Im sure you’ve all enjoyed this window into my soul.
Heigl on Leno = Hell on Earth.
Were they trying to come up with the most awful combination possible?
“The good guys need a win.”
Ugh, after 3 season finales that absolutely rocked my shit, tonight’s SoA season 4 finale couldn’t have rang more hollow. *SPOILER ALERT* The Galindo/CIA thing and Tara’s decision were straight out of the Entourage “everything always works out for our boys” playbook. *END SPOILER ALERT*. On the bright side, Justified is back in six weeks! I’ll always remember tonight as the night that Sons of Anarchy was surpassed by Justified for the top spot in the all-important miamidiesel TV rankings.
/still sorting out if SoA falls behind Game of Thrones
//GoT is great TV, but I read the books so I know where’s it’s going for the next 4-5 seasons
///Boardwalk Empire has also stumbled mightily for me this season
////end of imparting useless information to fellow GloMos
Yeah… Kurt Sutter is a fan of Deux Ex Machina apparently.
Warming Glow: For the discerning pedophile.
THE CIA DID IT GUYS EVERYONES IN THE CLEAR!
and people were mad about the ending to Lost (which I still love… the magical glowing cave was the heart of the island, but the real heart of everything were the characters duh!)
@Miami- Humbly i’d say GOT and about 10+ other shows (so long as we’re including comedies) are ahead of SOA in the TV rankings. Anytime a show’s creative direction is being compared to ‘Entourage’ you know its sliding down a very slippery slope.
Regardless, I’m sticking with my above statement that last night’s episode would be the my last and will now join in the 6-week countdown till Justified returns.
SOA was awful. Bad drama falls in love with it’s characters and keeps them around when they no longer have a right. Also, that fucking butchered version of “House of the Rising Sun” ended the perfectly bad hour.
Given how good this season has been so far, I expect nothing less than mindhole blowing.
I’m not sure about the mindhole, but that finale certainly blew a lot.
My favorite part of the finale was when Poochie was killed on the way back to his home planet.
You get two good seasons with a Kurt Stutter show, thats all you get.
My three word review: Deus ex Machette
Yeah, like others, I’m not sure where all the love is coming from for Season 4 of SOA. 1 and 2 were transcendent. 3 was slow, but at least didn’t completely warp reality to the degree this season has. Maybe it’s just me, but 4 has been the worst so far: completely nonsensical Rambo-style action scenes (we’re to believe there’s a cartel base complete with a minefield somewhere near Charming, and a full on battle involving rocket launchers and multiple exploding mines goes completely unnoticed by the world around it?); pointless interludes about random crimes that don’t factor into the plot (the whole “IRA baby factory” thing); huge plot holes (they’re under investigation, but there are no repercussions at all when the lead character shoots someone in the face on a crowded highway while wearing his cut; Clay is shot in the clubhouse, as is Opie, but neither the cops who investigate Clay’s shooting nor any of the members think twice about believing “he was shot in the garage by the 9′ers”); and then the deus ex machina from last night seals it. (Nice work Stinky Pete).
Used to be mind blowing, now just kinda blows. But hey, Justified’s back!
@Forte Knox:
I think that sums it up perfectly. If I was to add one thing, though, it would be the glaringly horrible CGI this season has had. Every blood spatter looked like a video game.
I WANTED TO TELL YOU BUT I COULDN’T. I couldn’t say, “It will be massively disappointing” without spoiling the disappoint for you. I’m sorry.
@Matt:
You were just doing your (former) job Matt. Kurt Sutter is the one who should be apologizing.