Mad Men (AMC, Sunday) – On this week’s episode, Sally Draper burns hundreds of ants to death with a magnifying glass while laughing maniacally, then goes inside and drowns a cat in the bathtub. Probably.
Game of Thrones/Veep/Girls (HBO, Sunday) – I don’t watch any of these shows live, but I’ve got to believe — for those who do — the transition in style from “Game of Thrones” to “Veep” to “Girls” is jarring as hell. Like trying to drink coffee right after brushing your teeth.
Neal Brennan: The Half Hour (Comedy Central, Friday) – Neal Brennan, co-creator of “Chappelle’s Show” and all-around funny guy, has his first stand-up special airing tonight at 11:30 p.m. I strongly recommend you watch.
Fairly Legal/Common Law (USA, Friday) – I said this on Twitter (shameless plug), but at some point in the past few months, I became a person who DVRs “Fairly Legal” every Friday night and watches it Saturday morning, even though I am still not caught up on “Breaking Bad.” I’m not exactly sure how I feel about that.
Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday) – Season finale, hosted by Mick Jagger. This could be the last episode for Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, and Jason Sudeikis, so I imagine we’re looking at a glorified Best Of episode for the three. BRING BACK BLIZZARD MAN.
The Simpsons/Bob’s Burgers/Family Guy (FOX, Sunday) – Season finales, all around. Lady Gaga appears on “The Simpsons,” as discussed here.
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (CBS, Sunday) – The latest in the series of CBS’s made-for-TV movies. These actually aren’t bad, for the record. But on a night where it’s up against so much other quality television, not even Tom Selleck’s luxurious mustache can get me to watch.
Sherlock (PBS, Sunday) – I have been furious with my parents ever since I found out that Benedict Cumberbatch was a thing you could name a baby. It makes my name look so boring by comparison. That’s why I’m naming my first son Stegosaurus Jones. No regrets, you know?
The Client List (Lifetime, Sunday) – This is probably the best show about handjobs currently on television.
Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious/Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace (Comedy Central, Sunday) – In addition to Neal Brennan’s special on Friday, Comedy Central is also airing these two specials back-to-back on Sunday night. Ansari’s is the one he released online a few months ago, and Buress’s is brand spanking new. Both dudes are hilarious, so these also come with a very strong recommendation. DVR them. You’ll thank me.
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The transition in styles on HBO’s Sunday night isn’t so bad, it’s the jarring drop in quality an hour and a half in that’ll get ya.
Jesse Stone is related to Keith Stone, right?
ALWAYS
It’s hard to say
OK here’s my take on crap summer shows.
Royal Pains > Burn Notice > Fairly Legal > Necessary Roughness
NEVER underestimate the importance of eye candy. If I had new episodes of all four of those shows I would cue up Fairly Legal in a heartbeat.
Let’s start a support group for people who got saddled with boring and/or common names. I’m tired of answering my work phone and having to explain to people that there’s another person with my name in the office, dammit.
“Hannibal Burress: Animal Furnace” is probably the best thing you could ever name something.
Other than Benedict Cumberbatch, of course.
Didn’t understand the massive female following of the Cumberbatch (guy looks like an alien) until I actually started watching Sherlock. Aside from being a great actor, the dude has an Alan Rickman-esque voice.
Didn’t someone (you?) leave this exact same comment last week?
Maybe you should just change your name legally to Danger Guerrero.
The AV club is reporting that Dan Harmon is out as showrunner at Community
What gawdamm channel do I need to see Ariel Tweto now that Ferguson in Scotland has wrapped? He’d be smart to keep that hayseed savant full time.
Well Sony just ruined Community
Harmon, McKenna, and the Russos are all out. My guess they’re gonna try to semi-reboot the show to make it appeal to a larger audience using those 13 episodes. It will of course fail because no new mass audience starts watching a show in its 4th season and is going to watch it on a friday night.
The core audience will be alienated, the critics and loyal fans will non-stop crucify Sony and NBC, with the drop in ratings and the audience backlash, it’ll be gone after 13.
They could have just killed it. Instead they ripped out the heart, organs, and guts, and are going to try to replace it with some new crap and call it the same thing. I really really have to stop giving a damn about tv shows, I really do. goddamnit.
My guess, everyone will end up pretending the 4th season didnt happen and let the 3rd season finale serve as the de facto series finale.
Beyond that the only chance we have is cancellation and rebirth on TBS with Harmon, and everyone acknowledging that the first season on TBS is the real continuation after season 3.
Harmon’s thoughts: [danharmon.tumblr.com]
it will be awesome to see the epic internet backlash next season, im predicting critics shredding the show, twitter exploding every week on Sony, the show’s actors and creative apologizing, a total PR disaster for NBC which in most cases for such a small following of a show, wouldn’t be a big deal, but considering how little traction the network can get for shows, and the power of the Internet in this day and age, this will end up being a big headache for all parties involved. The last thing NBC needs is more bad press and that’s exactly what Sony just accomplished. Whoopsy.
No Borgias mention??