Fringe (Fox, Friday 9 p.m.) — Hey! Fringe is back, although I barely remember what’s going on. Oh yeah: SPOILER: That guy is one of those things now. I knew I should’ve waited and binge-watched the final season. Fox scheduling is the worst.
Hunted (Cinemax, Friday 10 p.m.) — I’m a couple of episodes behind with Melissa George’s spy-series with nudity, but I plan to catch up over the weekend in time for the first season finale, and I hope Cinemax picks it up for another season. This is good rerun season watching, if it’s available to you.
Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday 11:30 p.m.) — You know what I wanna see? I wanna see host Jamie Foxx bring back his Living Color character, Wanda the Therapist.
Dexter (Showtime, Sunday 9 p.m.) — I already know how the last two episodes of this season are going to play out, as well as all of next season, but I’m still going to watch because Yvonne Strahovski wears revealing outfits.
Homeland (Showtime, Sunday 10 p.m.) — No Boardwalk Empire and no The Walking Dead this weekend, which leaves us with the increasingly silly Homeland to sustain on us Sunday night. What I’ll say about this season is this: The writers got greedy. They stopped trusting the audience to be patient.
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That Olivia D’Abo from Hunted is hawt. She reminds me of someone. Melissa Somethingorother.
Yeah, ’cause it IS Melissa George. I like the show, but the pacing is a draaaaaag.
Hunted has not been picked up for a second season (yet). That show was not bad at all, a little bit hokey now and then, but not bad at all.
What do you mean by “they stopped trusting the audience to be patient?” The pace of that show has always been cranked up like crazy, patience was never required for Homeland until well, last weeks cliffhanger. The family needs to get killed as soon as possible. Has there ever been a more punchable person than Brody’s son? When you’re beating Brody’s daughter in that department, there is something very wrong.
I don’t get the malcontent when it comes to Homeland. Other shows would have drawn Brody into the CIA over a whole season, they did it in three episodes. That’s the opposite of greed.
Plus, Pajiba’s article is off because Deb already had the opportunity to allow Hannah to die and she passed.
He got greedy. He stopped trusting his audience to be of discriminating tastes.
Uproxx said Boardwalk Empire was the best drama on tv right now, as in the best drama of the fall season, just to clarify. But, I have to agree with him when he says Homeland has become ridiculous. It really has.
Homeland hasn’t become THAT bad, but it has become a little bit ridiculous.
Its pulling a reverse Boardwalk Empire… Where Boardwalk started off slow and built up to a fantastic ending. Homelands started off fantastic and compelling and just been cranking up the ridiculousness.
It’s turned into “24″ in some ways. And I’m sick of hearing Carrie say, “but, but ABU NAZIIIIIIIR!!!” Jesus Christ, he’s one freaking terrorist doesn’t the CIA have more than one person to worry about?
Furthering the baffling trend of TV blogs that says that Dexter is the only drama on cable it’s perfectly appropriate to spoil in headlines that are totally unavoidable.
Thanks.