Veep/Girls (HBO, Sunday) – “Veep,” the new political comedy created by Armando Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is getting great reviews. I’m definitely looking forward to it. Also, I am pleased to announce that the prestigious Danger Guerrero’s Least Favorite Internet Person of the Week Award has been given to Angry Dude Who Hates Everything About Hipster Culture but Watched “Girls” Anyway for Some Reason and then Declared That It Sucked Because the Characters Were Unlikable Hipsters and Used the C-Word a Bunch While Doing It. Riveting analysis, dingus.
Mad Men/Game of Thrones (AMC/HBO, Sunday) – Great shows. Watch them. We’ll talk on Monday.
FOX 25th Anniversary Special (FOX, Sunday) – From TV Guide: “A retrospective marking FOX’s quarter century on the air.” You know what that means, right? FAUSTINO!
The Making of Planet Earth (BBC, Sunday) – A two-hour behind-the-scenes look at the making of the “Planet Earth” series? I hope all you potters and weedheads save a little of today’s stash for Sunday night and find a giant HD TV to park yourself in front of for this one.
The Ricky Gervais Show (HBO, Friday) – Season premiere. Karl Pilkington says funny stuff and then Ricky Gervais’ laugh makes blood gush from your ears and spill all over your clothes. I recommend wearing a smock.
Magic City (Starz, Friday) – This show had a really cool trailer, and the first episode was pretty good, but then I completely forgot about it last week. And I’m the one who writes the listings. That is not exactly a ringing recommendation for the show, or me as an employee.
The Good Wife/NYC 22 (CBS, Sunday) – I had no interest in “NYC 22″ until I saw Alan Sepinwall call it “an incredibly generic, cliché-ridden series about rookie beat cops in the NYPD that too often feels like its main inspiration was other cop shows.” Now I’m in. If one of the cops is a loose cannon who refuses to work his beat by the book no matter how many times the chief takes his badge and gun, I will pre-order the DVDs on Blu-Ray.
Patton Oswalt: Finest Hour/Paul F. Tompkins: Laboring Under Delusions (Comedy Central, Saturday) – Two of my favorite comedians have back-to-back specials airing Saturday night. I am unreasonably excited about this. (NOTE: This is the network premiere of Oswalt’s special, which aired on Showtime last year. Tompkins’ special is brand new. Clip after the jump.)
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i wonder if the fox anniversary show will highlight david faustino’s talk to the hand…
Fox kinda missed the boat – its 25th anniversary took place in fall of last year.
Damn. I never win these things.
I’ve wasted whole days watching Planet Earth marathons. And I’ve never even touched pot. EXPLAIN THAT, SCIENCE.
(I’m lazy.)
I’m still confused. So are we still in agreement that Girls didn’t really suck per se but also it wasn’t nearly as good as it was made out to be?
I know some people who really liked it, some people who hated it, and some in the middle. I’m just sick of the shitheads who knew they weren’t going to like the show going into it bitching and moaning about it at the top of their lungs whenever it gets brought up, especially when their critique has less to do with the quality of the show than it does a slice of society they dislike.
Aw son of a bitch, that means I’ve seen Oswalt’s special already. Womp womp.
The Fringe coverage around here is even worse than in Matt’s day. BRING BACK MATT!!!
/ srsly, tonight’s ep looks awesome
I had Fringe in my first draft of the post, but there was too damn much to get to (and I really wanted to make that joke about “NYC 22″). It’s on my radar, even though I don’t watch it.
Oh, I missed this. I just suck all over the place today. Still, Fringe coverage is terrible everywhere. It is cause for outrage, on behalf of crazy people who are going to be really devastated if it gets cancelled, like, uh, this friend of mine.
I just watched last night’s Fringe. I was hanging on so far this season out of nostalgia, but last night was effing amazing.
I have Showtime, which means I might have seen Oswalt’s special already. That’s OK; I’ll just watch PFT’s first. Have I mentioned my man-crush on Paul F. Tompkins? No? Is that cool? I just want him to come over to my house and do his Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber impression while we talk about musical theater.
Magic City is pretty enjoyable. The acting is subpar with the notable exception of Danny Huston as the frighteningly sadistic and awesomely named “The Butcher” but it’s got tons of female nudity, impressive 1950s set designs and costumes and lots of anti-Semitism. That’s the bare minimum I ask for to be entertained.
This Starz is starting to get on my balls. Magic City looks great and I’d rather watch Boss through my neighbors window with binoculars than a single minute of Veep.
No NYC22 for me. I get my generic cop AND my generic family drama AND my Tom Selleck 80′s nostalgia all from just one episode of Blue Bloods.
That must hit your mustache quota, too.
Is it cool to dislike Girls because the characters are entitled c-words with the white peoplest problems of all white people problems and there is a god damned pregnancy issue in the FIRST EPISODE? The “I’m a voice of a generation” backtrack line was pretty good though.
Knowing entitled white girls like I do, I’m betting we can look forward to an abortion episode.
You didn’t mention Fringe, and I hate you for not ever mentioning it ever, not ever. So now all the stupid people who don’t watch Fringe won’t know it’s on tonight and it’ll only be watched by it’s stupid fan base (hi!) and get cancelled entirely because you didn’t mention it here and I’ll cry, JUST LIKE ALWAYS.
great, and now my avatar isn’t showing up. now I look like a completely made up jerk.
You guys are already gone for the weekend aren’t you?
I SHOULD GO
Dapper Corgi preferred the avatarless version…
I knew this post would be a bunch of cunty bullshit.
That picture doesn’t do Julia Louis Dreyfus any justice. She is crazy hot for a 50-year-old.
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I really like the Ricky Gervais show, but you’re right, his laugh makes me want to beat him to death with his Emmies (I assume he has some? I dunno). I guess a Golden Globe would work too.
I fucking love the ricky gervais show
I loved every minute of last night’s “Fringe”. From the opening crawl “Blade Runner” homage, to the final reveal at the end of the episode. I hope that it gets renewed even if it’s for a shortened season.
It’s a shame that the viewing public greatly prefers cookie-cutter police procedurals (CSI, NCIS, etc. etc.) to shows that dare to be innovative and aren’t afraid to take some risks.
Shame on you warming glow for giving this show more love.
oops I meant, for NOT giving this show more love. It really takes the steam out of your chastisement when you make grammatical errors in your post. Still, shame on you warming glow…
For the record, I didn’t watch Girls, but if I had watched it, I’d hate it for its Jewyness, rather than its hipstery bullshit.
On second thought, perhaps the two go hand-in-hand? Hipsterdom is the new Bolshevism?
Yeah, give Girls a second shot, but I think I’m out. Not sure what precisely. I think maybe that everyone on the show is too precious for how crass it is. And Paul F Tompkins’ special was chuckle worthy, but not as good as one of his standard podcasts. I’m so disillusioned.
I’d shoot myself before to listening to that shrew on another shitecom.