Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together (NBC/HBO, Friday 8 p.m.)– Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Jimmy Fallon, Sting, and Brian Williams are raising money for the hurricane victims, which is great. But with that many people, they should be able to muster more than a 60-minute event. Honestly, Grimm can wait a week.
Goon (Showtime, Friday 8 p.m.) — We usually don’t highlight premium cable movies, but I really must recommend this hockey flick to everyone, hockey fan or not. It stars Sean William Scott, and is written by Jay Baruchel Evan Goldberg (Seth Rogen’s usual writing partner), and it will surprise you in how funny, how violent, how rousing, and how sweet it is. It’s kind of the perfect Friday night movie if you’re staying in. It sure beats the hell out of Flight. (FYI: If you don’t have Showtime, Goon is also on Netflix.)
Last Man Standing/Malibu Country (ABC, Friday 8 p.m.) Tim Allen’s show returns for a second season, and Reba McEntire’s new series premieres tonight. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Don’t watch these.
Fringe (Fox, Friday 9 p.m.) — I am still pissed about last week’s episode, but I am curious about whether this episode will relieve some of my anger or piss me off even more.
Eleventh Victim (Lifetime, Saturday 8 p.m.) — This is that Lifetime movie based on a Nancy Grace movie starring Metta World Peace that Danger talked about. Don’t watch this, either, unless you’re three tits to the sheet.
Boardwalk Empire (HBO, Sunday 9 p.m.) — Can they top the most twisted storyline of 2012? God, I hope not.
The Walking Dead (AMC, Sunday 9 p.m.) — Obligatory. BUT WATCH IT. I’m hoping like hell that the Uproxx overlords come up with a cool Uproxx/Walking Dead T-shirt to give away to you guys, like the Sons t-shirt.
Homeland (Showtime, Sunday 10 p.m.) — As my podcast partners Josh Kurp and Joanna Robinson astutely pointed out this week, Brody’s daughter has officially been saddled with the Friday Night Lights season two Landry plot. Don’t go there, Homeland. Don’t go there.
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Considering everything I’d seen him in previously, I was shocked by how endearing Seann William Scott is in Goon. I second the recommendation.
I’m glad you mentioned Goon (and specifically Liev Schreiber’s gnarliness) in this post. Much of the movie was filmed in my city & I enjoyed the shit out of it, but worried that it might not’ve been as enjoyed by people who didn’t grow up in small Canadian cities watching hockey every weekend, too.
For whatever it’s worth (coming from a random dude yelling into a bananphone on the internet) you owe it to yourselves to check this movie out in some capacity
I live on the other side of the world, in buenos aires, and I really liked this movie. So yeah, you can say that people who don´t know what hockey really is and aren´t from a small freezing town can dig it.
I haven´t seen friday night lights, since I think it´s about american football, and I like football original taste. Do I watch it or the football part is too crutial to the plot?
Eh, I wouldn’t bother watching it at all. Just listen to a few Explosions in the Sky albums and you’ll get the same effect.
‘football original taste’ is one of the greatest things I’ve read today. Let’s make ‘original taste’ a thing.
I’m really glad to see they re-tooled Goon and got rid of Matthew Perry
That show is go od.
I liked Goon a lot but I’m still not sure if the main character was some kind of retarded.
There was one stupid son and one gay son. Stupid. Gay. STUPID. GAY.
“Goon” is easily one of the funniest movies about hockey ever made. Never has two men beating each other into colostomy bag use been so heartwarming.
it was surprisingly sweet wasn’t it? It made my fiancee cry, but then again she’ll cry when a kitten is in a commercial.
It was sweet, and actually a great argument for Sean William Scott as an actor and comedian. The “GAY…STUPID!” scene is hilarious.
I’d like to throw my hat into the “Goon” ring as well. Just watched it a couple of weeks ago and it’s immensely enjoyable. Funny and sweet with a solid amount of brutal violence. I’d definitely recommend it, especially to hockey fans (but to non-hockey fans as well).
Goon is great, mostly for throwaway jokes like the Divorced guys speech and “Stop blowing my hat, wind!”
It’s times like these that I rue not having Showtime. I’ve heard nothing but good things about Goon and I’m sure it would be an excellent way to calm my hockey withdrawals.
Fuck you, Gary Bettman.
As mentioned, it’s also on Netflix. You can watch it for free with Amazon Prime, too. You can also rent it on Amazon for 99 cents. At least that’s what it says right now. 99 cents is a bargain.
Liev’s scene in the diner is one of my favorite scenes in any movie this year and I see a metric f***ton of movies.
This won’t make me popular with my beer-league buddies, but I like Goon better than Slap Shot. Slap Shot has not aged well.
Plus it shows my hometown of St. John’s Newfoundland, and does its best to only make it look semi-depressing.
Louis as Abraham Lincoln is fucking brilliant.
I spel poorlie.
One more for Goon – watched it a few weeks ago on Netflix Streaming. Great fun movie and the ladies will enjoy it too. You just might get a handy!