My TV is back and it's quite welcome!
So it was the first night of the new television season with the premieres of the Monday night shows for NBC, CBS & FOX!.... Lets start off with the best comedy on television right now and its new companion on FOX:
Arrested Development.
Right of the bat, this episode really showed that the Emmys got it completely wrong this year, it showed how great this show has become, with punch lines here and there, in-jokes gallore, I was just rolling on my back laughing so hard i couldn't stand it. The season premiere starts a few months where the season finale left off, George Bluth Sr. is still on the run after his twin brother Oscar got imprisoned by mistake, Tobias ran away to Reno with George Sr.'s old assistant Kitty. Michael finds out about Oscar and goes to Reno to find his father, who now hides as a member of the "Blue Man Group" instead of Tobias. George Michael and Maybe are still feeling awkward after kissing (they still don't say that they're not really cousins), and Lindsay wants Tobias back just because he can't have him anymore. Meanwhile Gob thinks his father is looking for him, but instead it's his own son "STEVE HOLT!" who's looking for him, and he actually finds out that it's his son and runs away like the coward he is. All of this while trying to go to a cabin in the woods that got towed by the one and only George Bluth Sr. Now tell me, is this show not awkwardly funny! Welcome back and please.... GET ARRESTED!
Season Premiere Grade: A
Kitchen Confidential.
From executive producer Darren Starr (Sex and the City & my personal favorite Grosse Point) comes this awkwardly funny restaurant show that is actually what "The Restaurant" should have been, something entertaining to watch and a show where the head chef of a restaurant is someone you can like and enjoy. This show, shot in single camera, as it's Arrested lead in, is about a new New York restaurant that hires Jack Bourdain (played by Alias & Jack & Bobby's Bradley Cooper), who's a has-been recovering adict chef, he gathers his clan of chefs and kitchen aids, and needs to handle his personal life together with his professional life now that he's the boss. The opening is a success, if only because a reviewer liked the food, because the chaos of a severed finger made the night a living hell, and now it's time to see what the characters in the kitchen have to offer, and to see if Jack will be good or go back to his bad ways.
My Grade: B+
Medium.
After the surprise win from Patricia Arquette this Sunday at the Emmys, I really wanted to see this premiere to remember why she could've won, and yea, there aren't that many good actresses in Drama these days (or even lead female characters for that matter), so I guess she could very easily squeeze in there as the winner. But she still doesn't seem like an Emmy-worthy actress, don't get me wrong, i like the character, the every-mom, the way mothers and wives really are at home (without the talking to the dead thing) and the show is a good portrayer of a normal family life. In this particular episode we get to see the second part of the story that started in the season finale with the sperm-donar killer of several girls. For my liking this wasn't really the best episode in the first season, so it was just a so-so episode to begin the second one, because the family thing and an actual case to start to follow started here, it's not a normal 'Medium' episode. But i'll try to keep watching to see what lies ahead for this relatively new and good show.
Season Premiere Grade: B-
Other Highlights of Monday September 19, 2005:
Prison Break: The story evolves as the warden is pressured by the feds to transfer Michael to another prison, after they found out he's Lincoln's brother. Michael found a way to get out and test the reaction of the guards to the 'escape', while having an aliby by being in the Warden's office with permission. And the mystery thickens with Lincoln's girlfriend, Veronica, getting to bigger dead ends in regards to the tape that supposedly proves Lincoln's guilt.
How I Met Your Mother: This new show is good, it feels like an exageration actingwise, but the characters look interesting and fun. It's about this guy, Ted, who is telling his kids about how he met their mother back in 2005, the first episode shows how he meets this girl and does many things to get to kiss her, but ends up not doing it because he missed "the signal". But the last scene is the one that got me more interested, when he tells his future kids that's how he met their aunt!, what!?!?!?, i guess we'll see how all of this works out throughout the series. My Grade B+
Two and a Half Men: This show returns and shows that the traditional sitcom isn't dead, yet. Jake (the kid) gets more and more hillarious as the years pass, and there is only more funny stuff to come from him now that he's in his pre-teen years! Great beginning to a season that promises to make this show a standout hit that "Raymond" was. Season Premiere Grade: A-
Arrested Development.
Right of the bat, this episode really showed that the Emmys got it completely wrong this year, it showed how great this show has become, with punch lines here and there, in-jokes gallore, I was just rolling on my back laughing so hard i couldn't stand it. The season premiere starts a few months where the season finale left off, George Bluth Sr. is still on the run after his twin brother Oscar got imprisoned by mistake, Tobias ran away to Reno with George Sr.'s old assistant Kitty. Michael finds out about Oscar and goes to Reno to find his father, who now hides as a member of the "Blue Man Group" instead of Tobias. George Michael and Maybe are still feeling awkward after kissing (they still don't say that they're not really cousins), and Lindsay wants Tobias back just because he can't have him anymore. Meanwhile Gob thinks his father is looking for him, but instead it's his own son "STEVE HOLT!" who's looking for him, and he actually finds out that it's his son and runs away like the coward he is. All of this while trying to go to a cabin in the woods that got towed by the one and only George Bluth Sr. Now tell me, is this show not awkwardly funny! Welcome back and please.... GET ARRESTED!
Season Premiere Grade: A
Kitchen Confidential.
From executive producer Darren Starr (Sex and the City & my personal favorite Grosse Point) comes this awkwardly funny restaurant show that is actually what "The Restaurant" should have been, something entertaining to watch and a show where the head chef of a restaurant is someone you can like and enjoy. This show, shot in single camera, as it's Arrested lead in, is about a new New York restaurant that hires Jack Bourdain (played by Alias & Jack & Bobby's Bradley Cooper), who's a has-been recovering adict chef, he gathers his clan of chefs and kitchen aids, and needs to handle his personal life together with his professional life now that he's the boss. The opening is a success, if only because a reviewer liked the food, because the chaos of a severed finger made the night a living hell, and now it's time to see what the characters in the kitchen have to offer, and to see if Jack will be good or go back to his bad ways.
My Grade: B+
Medium.
After the surprise win from Patricia Arquette this Sunday at the Emmys, I really wanted to see this premiere to remember why she could've won, and yea, there aren't that many good actresses in Drama these days (or even lead female characters for that matter), so I guess she could very easily squeeze in there as the winner. But she still doesn't seem like an Emmy-worthy actress, don't get me wrong, i like the character, the every-mom, the way mothers and wives really are at home (without the talking to the dead thing) and the show is a good portrayer of a normal family life. In this particular episode we get to see the second part of the story that started in the season finale with the sperm-donar killer of several girls. For my liking this wasn't really the best episode in the first season, so it was just a so-so episode to begin the second one, because the family thing and an actual case to start to follow started here, it's not a normal 'Medium' episode. But i'll try to keep watching to see what lies ahead for this relatively new and good show.
Season Premiere Grade: B-
Other Highlights of Monday September 19, 2005:
Prison Break: The story evolves as the warden is pressured by the feds to transfer Michael to another prison, after they found out he's Lincoln's brother. Michael found a way to get out and test the reaction of the guards to the 'escape', while having an aliby by being in the Warden's office with permission. And the mystery thickens with Lincoln's girlfriend, Veronica, getting to bigger dead ends in regards to the tape that supposedly proves Lincoln's guilt.
How I Met Your Mother: This new show is good, it feels like an exageration actingwise, but the characters look interesting and fun. It's about this guy, Ted, who is telling his kids about how he met their mother back in 2005, the first episode shows how he meets this girl and does many things to get to kiss her, but ends up not doing it because he missed "the signal". But the last scene is the one that got me more interested, when he tells his future kids that's how he met their aunt!, what!?!?!?, i guess we'll see how all of this works out throughout the series. My Grade B+
Two and a Half Men: This show returns and shows that the traditional sitcom isn't dead, yet. Jake (the kid) gets more and more hillarious as the years pass, and there is only more funny stuff to come from him now that he's in his pre-teen years! Great beginning to a season that promises to make this show a standout hit that "Raymond" was. Season Premiere Grade: A-
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