Glee

Another one of my favorite shows is Glee. The show about a Spanish teacher in Lima, Ohio who decides to take over the Glee club after the instructor gets fired. (due to reasons I won’t go into) Though the club of misfits is small in numbers, they make up for it with their impeccable voices and brilliant portrayals of 16 year olds. (some of the cast is as old as 29!!) The first season started off strong.  The story lines were well thought out and the music was fantastic. The show really hit its stride in the middle of season one, with Jonathon Groff and Idina Menzel playing the antagonists for most of the half,they  left us off with a sweet closing to the first school year of the teenagers we have grown to love .  It wasn’t until the start of season two, where it got a little hard to watch.

 I see it happen time and time again where the characters lose their true selves and become unlikable and that’s exactly what happened here as well. You could see every twist and turn coming a mile away and the writers let a love triangle go on for way too long. The season finale ended in the lovely New York where the characters shined and they finally did make that seemingly forever love triangle come to a circle fit for two. With the many potential story lines lingering at the end of the season and it being the last year for many seniors ( Lea Michele, Cory Monteith,  Chris Colfer etc. ) I’m hoping for a Gleeked out season three! SEASON ONE RATING: A-      SEASON TWO RATING: B

Many of the cast has preformed on broadway in Haispray, Spring Awakening, Fiddler on the Roof and Ragtime. This is Lea Michele who plays Rachael Berry singing On My Own from the Broadway musical Les Miserables at the Hollywood Bowl. She is stunning.
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Bachelor Pad... One word: Gross

This is the first time I have watched Bachelor Pad and will probably be my last. Everything down to the name of this "game show" was pointless and once I finished watching, I felt like I needed to take a shower because the show was quite gross. The annual Kissing Game challenge took place this episode and it looked like one person was literally trying to eat the blindfolded contestants face off, which was the only thing amusing about this show. I guess you can say the contenders are “trying to find love” as they vie for 250,000 dollars as well.  All of the contenders lacked chemistry (which made it awkward to watch the dates the winners of the kissing challenge won) and charisma, as several players kept falling over themselves throughout the episode. I fast forward through most of the 2 hour show which could probably be summed up in 30 seconds, as I am doing now. The girls seemed over dramatic while the guys seemed to be asleep with their eyes open which was very tiresome to watch. Overall , the show was dull with boring dates and too many “he said, she said’’ moments. I think next season they should change the title from Bachelor Pad, to Bachelor Sad.  RATING: D+

Desperate Housewives.. Suprisingly Ironic

 

Desperate Housewives is one of those shows where the title might throw you off a bit and make you think something it is not. The show is set on Wisteria Lane,(the entire street is completely a set they built just for the show) and follows 4 housewives who live there and the trials they go through with each other. Desperation consumes the houeswives. They may be desperate for love, a cure, and in some cases, a way out. The show is delightfully dramatic and it combines some of the best acting and writing I have seen in years. The combonaion of comedy and drama is hard to capture and I feel the writers do a phenominal job. Since this is their last season of their soon to be 8 year show, I have decided to review this show (along with a few others I will reveal later on in the next few weeks) weekly.
 The pilot opens with Mary-Alice Young who evidentilly kills herself within the first 30 seconds of the first show and her best friends, Susan Mayer, Bree Vand de Kamp, Gabrielle Solis, and Lynette Scovo spend the first season figuring out why she did it, in a twist that will make your jaw drop. The season final drew over 30 MILLION people and was the number one tv show in the world by that time. Each season is filled with exciting and heartfilled stories that will leave you wanting more. Though dead, Mary-Alice narrarates each show and appears every so often in a "flash back" someone might have of her. In this past season though (season 7), the characters lost their true selfs which ended up being a pretty disspointing season with pretty dissapointing ratings as well. My favorite seasons in order are: season 1, season 2, season 4, season 5, season 6, season 7, season 3. Hopefully this season will be different, as created Marc Cherry says the final season will go back to their true roots, rediscovering the death of Mary-Alice.

Its interesting though, because my least favorite season (3) has my all-time favorite episode in it (episode 7. "Bang") and my lease favorite episode ever (season 6, epsiode 11 "If...") has my all-time favorite scene in it. The following clip is from "Bang". Lynette continues to have a reoccuring dream. She was the last one to ever speak to Mary-Alice before she commits suicide and Lynette has a feeling of guilt because she noticed something was wrong and didnt do anything about it. This scene shows meaningful words of wisdom and the acting is superb.

SEASON 1: A+    SEASON 2: A+    SEASON 3: C+    SEASON 4: A   SEASON 5: A-   SEASON 6: B   SEASON 7:C+

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Getting Started!

I am so excited to finally start up my new blog (or commentary) about what to watch on the small screen. The season starts in about a month for most shows so before that happens, I will catch you up on past seasons on some of my favorite series and give you a heads up on the shows I will be blogging about.

Along with the tv shows, I might throw in my thoughts on the Emmy Awards (which are just around the corner) and some good commercials along the way!