American Horror Story (FX, 10 p.m.) – Season finale. On tonight’s episode, “Johnny sets out to complete his father’s work,” which, if you are like me and decided a long time ago to never watch this show because it looked scary, means absolutely nothing. Good luck, Johnny, I guess?
Workaholics/Kroll Show (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.) – How did everyone feel about the first episode of Kroll Show? I thought it was okay, kind of. I have such high hopes for it, because Nick Kroll has made me laugh as hard as any comedian in the last few years (see his appearance with Chelsea Peretti on last week’s Comedy Bang Bang podcast), so I really hope the rest of the season builds from last week.
American Idol (Fox, 8 p.m.) – Eh.
Modern Family (ABC, 9 p.m.) – Look, I love Modern Family. I do. But I could basically just copy and paste “Phil does something that upsets Claire, Cam and Mitch deal with a calamity, and Gloria and Jay’s age and cultural differences lead to confusion” in this space every week, and I’d almost never be wrong.
Necessary Roughness (USA, 10 p.m.) – Midseason premiere. I totally forgot thing was a thing.
Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal (Telemundo, 9 p.m.) – The title of this show translates to Pablo Escobar: The Boss of Evil. We should be using it to teach Spanish to high school students. Everyone would be fluent in three weeks.
Top Chef (Bravo 10 p.m.) – Tonight’s episode features sushi and fried chicken. I will probably watch it in bed at 2 a.m. and try to gnaw off my hand.
Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (E!, 8 p.m.) – E! is replaying the first two episodes of this travesty tonight, which I am only mentioning because Alex Pappedemas’ recaps at Grantland are a genuine joy to read. Don’t watch the show, just read them.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Naomi Watts and Allison Williams are on Kimmel; Michael Strahan and Jessica Chastain are on a repeat of Letterman; Bradley Cooper and Wolfgang Puck are on Ferguson; Heidi Klum and Seann William Scott are on Leno; Fred Armisen is on a repeat of Fallon; and Kathy Griffin and Blake Anderson on Conan.
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Suburgatory needs some <3 <3 <3 too.
Love Suburgatory. It does seem a little under-paid-attention-to; great show.
Modern Family has succumbed to the “format becomes formula” idea that David Gerrold wrote about in his book on writing sci-fi TV and movies. In other words, the setup of the show (3 related families, hijinks ensue) has led to the show being the same thing every single week. Short of introducing a wise-cracking teen or new baby, there’s not much to be done. Oh, wait…
Yep.
First season: consistently funny.
Second season: just about unwatchable, especially when the little adopted girl started talking.
This season: a couple good jokes per week, way formulaic, but the first Driving While Asian joke I can remember on a network.
Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.
Agreed. I finally took “Modern Family” off my DVR schedule a couple of months ago. Just too formulaic with way too few laughs.
Cucurricu! Cucurricu!
And Johnny is the son of a serial killer whose MO was skinning ladies, FYI.
And he loves breastmilk.
Well, I can’t fault him for that.
Cucurricu! Cucurricu!
Who knew that a guy whose father killed and skinned women would grow up with mommy issues?
Almost?
100 episodes does not bring me the joy of one episode of Happy Endings.
episodes of Modern Family that is. Dammit.
I thought it was encouraging that Kroll Show didn’t rely on Kroll’s established characters (Bobby Bottleservice, Chupacabra, etc.) in the pilot. It wasn’t great, but it had it’s moments. That Canadian high school drama was much funnier than it should have been.
100 episodes of what?
My brother-in-law’s wife only watches American Horror Story during the day with the lights on. I avoid it like Chelsea Handler. I’m just gonna watch Top Chef and eat the chocolate chip cookie cake I made.
Kroll show was a exceptional in the way that it wasn’t funny…
I thought Kroll Show was… okay. I didn’t hate it like most folks, but I know that if a DVR conflict comes up involving it, it can’t win.
Ever since Peretti showed off her surprisingly dynamite rack, I’ve been wanting’ to knock dem boots.
I could not stop staring at Natasha Leggero’s legs on The Burn last week.
Leggero looks like Eliza Dushku’s older sister and I need her in my bedroom, like yesterday.
Chelsea’s ass looked pretty great, too, though I’m not entirely sure it was legit… might’ve had some sort of padding back there.
OF COURSE Kroll Show’s theme music is dub step. OF COURSE.
I got through about 8 minutes of the Kroll Show before I just deleted from my DVR forever. Talk about unfunny. Jesus Christ it was terrible. How does one work for a site that reviews and discusses TV shows and is unable or unwilling to watch a TV show because it looks too scary? What are you 5? Does your mommy still look under your bed for monsters too?
If I had known last night’s Justified would have been one long example of why I am deathly afraid of snakes, I would have burn my DVR to the ground. And then cried.
I am quite sure that “El Patrón del Mal” means drink tequila until you puke.
And also, “subes mi paqueto” means “climb on my package”.
That is all I remember from 3 years of high school Spanish. And I only learned the second one because the girl who sat behind me was super cute and I would say it to her all the time. Didn’t work. She was dating a senior. Bitch.
Best film about Pablo Escobar is easily ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary about the two Escobars in ’94. Phenomenal.
Agreed.
i liked the Sex In The CIty For Dudes bits and the obnoxious ref one, but that was about it for me with Kroll Show
I disagree about the sitcom. If you’re expecting something beyond storyline – setup- joke-punchline, you shouldn’t be watching them. They all work that way. It’s a formulaic premise and it’s fun to see how they get there. Three’s Company was the same show almost weekly, and yet, it’s a classic.
Jokes and presentation make up for the formula. You want in-depth, cerebral shit? Get a book.
And this is why we can’t have nice things.
I wasn’t big on the Kroll Show. I had high hopes for it. The only part I liked was the part with the Canadian kid going to a school full of people in wheel chairs and being picked on because he could walk.
If not for Ty Burrell I might have abandoned Modern Family, but I love that guy. I hope he turns into a big time movie star.
Kroll show is shittier than my dick after sodomizing Danger Guerrero’s mom
And they call “The Middle” low-brow comedy.
You guys didn’t love Kroll Show? But he used various accents!
That degrassi spoof on Kroll show was comic fucking gold..
That was amazing.
Unfortunately, nothing in the next episode was remotely good.
Modern Family was about 20 minutes of another ‘meh’ episode, but the Godfather/Baptism scene may have been the greatest thing I have seen on the show since the early seasons. Outstanding.
Yep, they almost redeemed themselves with that bit, almost.
I WANT to like the Kroll show because he’s hilarious and I always pull for “celebrities” I know (vaguely knew him in college). But two episodes in, I can safely say that it will be making a cameo on Tosh.0 when Tosh goes to break with the “We’ll be back with more [insert canceled Comedy Central show]…”