Weeds (Showtime, Sunday) — The 8th and final season premiere will apparently tell us who got shot. SPOILER: It’s not Nancy Botwin. The season will take the Botwins back to their roots: The suburbs. I don’t have high expectations for the final season, but I’m hoping for two things: That Nancy wears short skirts all season long, and that they bring back the “Little Boxes” theme song.
Episodes (Showtime, Sunday) — “Episodes” kicks off its second season, and I’m going to watch, but I have to say, for a show that features the comedic potential of Matt LeBlanc playing himself, I thought the first season was a real drag. I hope they find a way to make the second season a lot funnier.
Newsroom (HBO, Sunday) — Aaron Sorkin took a lot of crap from the critics this week, which a lot of us who haven’t seen more than a fairly satisfying pilot don’t understand. Critics say that the show begins to tank in the second episode. We’ll see if the critics have blown this way out of proportion or if the second episode actually does run completely off the rails.
Falling Skies (TNT, Sunday) — I made it halfway through the first season of this show before I bailed due to apathy. Did it ever become more than an average post-apocalyptic series?
Common Law (USA, Friday) — I haven’t seen this show yet, but man, Michael Ealy has the sleepiest most soulful eyes on television. No offense to the USA Network, but I don’t know why that guy isn’t a huge movie star yet.
Longmire (A&E, Sunday) — I wouldn’t watch this during the regular season, but it’s pretty decent summer fare, a comfortable, slow-moving procedural set in Wyoming. It’s also good to see Katee Sackhoff in something that won’t be canceled after three episodes. Give it a shot if you have an hour to slow burn.
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I can’t believe anyone actually LIKES the old theme song from Weeds. That was the worst part.
Dustin took his hipster irony pills. He had irony-poor blood.
Little Boxes was awesome and is definitely missed.
As long as it’s not another boobless season I’ll be happy.
The original “Little Boxes” song brings us back to the days when the Weeds storyline was actually plausible, and the characters made us laugh and got naked. A far cry from the last two seasons.
Two comments:
1) I don’t think that there enough post-apocalyptic series to really label one “average,” but I know what caused me to stop watching Falling Skies was all the corny “we are family and will overcome!” moments that happened at least twice an episode.
2) Newsroom’s premier was decent, but I think that Aaron Sorkin is seriously in danger of becoming the M. Night Shyamalan of showrunners.
Second on the Falling Skies note. I still haven’t watched the episodes I have from this season.
Is Episodes the one with the people from Green Wing?
Yup. And the season is nearly over in the UK, if you don’t feel like waiting for Showtime to air it in the States.
HATED Green Wing. Episodes I like.
I can’t believe it took me several viewings of The Newsroom pilot to recognize Jesse Eisenberg’s voice cameo as Eric Neal. Unless IMDB is lying to me to make me feel better. Damn IMDB. I didn’t ask for it, I don’t need it, but if they miss one actor listing I’ll raise hell.
Best legs on TV?
Are you heterosexual?
Michael Ealy once looked into Ryan Gosling’s eyes. 29 women in their 2-mile radius became pregnant.
SPOILER:
It’s totally Nancy Botwin. And yeah, they bring the old song back.