get it? it’s a play on words… misguided.. tv guide… i think it’s clever! maybe it would be more clever if it was spelled misstvguided? then it would be like “miss tv”.. misguided.. tv guide. maybe it would be a good domain name for me to rant about tv shows like i’m about to do..
ok so we are what? 4-5-6 weeks into the fall season? something like that, all i know is several shows this week were in re-runs. RE-RUNS!?! are ya kiddin’ me? oh wait, is this because of the world series? grrr, i really dislike baseball. ok, not the game itself, it’s fine, but what MLB has become with their over-paid primadonna players, the constant sterroid scandals (the sterroid use is really just pathetic, btw, and if you’re a pro using performance enhancing drugs your stats REALLY shouldn’t count at all, but don’t get me started!) etc., etc.. ugh, it’s worse than the NHL with the drama, and it only took one lock-out season to put me off hockey entirely and i LOOOOVED hockey. did you know that ticket prices for NHL games have gone up across the board? so who benefited from those payroll caps?? hmmm.. not the players and not the fans, so who?? this just all reinforces my theory that organized sports are like organized religion - they’re all bad! and i mean from little league on up! it may be a great game but once you add the human element, and everybody’s agenda, forget it, it’s ruined. and in a utopian society there would be no sports. and if i seem bitter it’s because i fuckin’ am, and i’m glad the team formerly known as the Avalanche had their first ever non-sold out game! damn gary bettman and your minions, and the NHLPA, damn you all to hell!
whoa! where did that come from? sorry! while i do think it’s ridiculous that the baseball season is so long that they are playing the world series in below freezing temperatures, i was supposed to be bitching about tv, not about sports. so anyway, where was i?…
oh yeah, five weeks or so into the television season and things are not so hot! you can look back to see what season passes i started out with on my tivo, and see below what has changed.
things that have been removed from my tivo schedule:
Survivor: Cook Islands - i only watched one episode. and i could go on and on as to why but the sad fact is, i’m just over it. i’m not saying i could never get invested in a survivor season again, i’m just sayin’ i can’t imagine wanting to.
Justice - i didn’t delete this one it just apparently disappeared. which shouldn’t be a surprise because i had already said it wasn’t good, but come on, it’s FOX.. consider the standards. what are they going to replace it with? re-runs of buffy? oh wait, isn’t the world series on FOX? maybe that’s why it’s gone (don’t worry i’m not going to get into the whole baseball issue again).
Six Degrees - six degrees of boring that is… no thanks, JJ.
Smith - ok, now this really pisses me off, because again, i did not delete this one from my season pass, it got cancelled!! after 3 episodes!! which just happened to be the best 3 episodes of television i had watched thus far this season (obviously, that is just my opinion and obviously i am in the minority). as i indicated, i didn’t have high hopes for the show, but that’s because i thought it was about an undercover government agent leading the secret, double life, ala alias if you will, which has been done, and done, repeatedly. but it wasn’t! agent smith in this case, was a bad guy! apparently a really bad guy! so while he did have a secret, double life, it was way more interesting! with pretty good writing and pretty good acting, so wtf?? we can keep the ghost whisperer but not smith?! i guess it’s ok if we sympathize with the bad guy on the big screen (i.e. “Heat” or “Ocean’s 23″), but on network, primetime, american, family-values television we are only allowed to see the side of the good guys, aka cops, lawyers, and doctors, because that’s all that’s on!! whatever! it was a good show. i guess they should’ve pitched it to hbo - it could’ve taken the sopranos
things soon to be removed from my tivo schedule:
[i just realized this is going to be a very long post so bear with me]
Boston Legal - omg, this is why i didn’t wach allie mcbeal! it is so…. bad. the legal issues aren’t even interesting anymore, it’s just so tacky, and low-brow while pretending to be hi-brow just because they’re playing hi-powered attorneys. they’re just trying soooo hard to be shocking, that it is.. shocking - just not in the way they’re trying to be. the only thing entertaining is the dialog between spader & shatner, but that’s only like 5 minutes of the show on a good night and now that they brought back lake bell (ick), who is dating colin farrell btw (double-ick) it’s not worth the trade-off so i think i’m out.
Studio 60 - this one will piss me off too but it sounds inevitable that it is going to be cancelled, or at best, not renewed for a second season. i really like this show and i really did not expect to. it is different from anything else on tv right now (including 30 Rock), perhaps because its not about cops, lawyers or doctors, and it has the right combination of drama & comedy - i think they call that “dramedy.” good writing, good acting, but it’s not doing well. people don’t like it, they say it’s too full of itself, which while i can see what they’re saying, and i can see a problem in that they talk too fast - not for me or anybody north-east of nashville, but they do talk fast - it’s a good show. but i guess i just better enjoy it while it lasts and try not to get too attached.
things that had been removed and have now been re-added to my tivo schedule:
Heroes - This is why the name of this post is “mis-tv-guided”.. I tivo’d the pilot of Heroes because the pre-views that they showed ALL summer were intriguing. and while the pilot too seemed intriguing, it seemed like it moved a little too slow and was opening way too many cans of worms than i felt one show could handle. it was giving you all this back story information at the same time it was showing you all this unexplainable, paranormal type shit. sound familiar?… what other show follows way too many characters’ back stories, throws in some paranormal type shit, and moves really, really, really fuck slow?? LOST, that’s what show! and i hate that show like i hate MLB, but i’ll get back to that later. so i was like, uh-uh, no way, i’m not getting sucked in and screwed over again. so really, based purely on being burned by LOST i decided i was not going to watch this show. however, i was hearing really excellent things about it, and i don’t mean around the water cooler (whatever that means), so when i heard they were doing a mini-marathon last weekend which picked up after the pilot i set the tivo. then on monday or tuesday i watched all four episodes i had missed. it was great! compelling! interesting! and allowing for the possibility it could go very badly by the end of the season, i can’t wait to see what happens next! glad i gave it another chance, but lemmetellya - this gives me yet another reason to haaaate LOST! but as i said, i’ll have to come back to LOST. in fact i think LOST will require a whole post all to itself because it falls under the category of “things that never should have been added to my tivo programming but were due to a lapse of judgement, that now i can’t seem to stop myself from watching just because its like a frickin’ train wreck and apparently i need something to channel my anger:”
But in my final category - things i apparently should have added to my tivo programming but didn’t:
The Nine - haven’t watched a minute of it for the exact same reason i decided not to watch Heroes originally.. because of fucking LOST. i didn’t want to get caught up in some convoluted, intermingled, series of backstories, with a plot line that had nowhere to go, just like LOST. but now i hear really good things about The Nine. so unless they schedule a mini-marathon that includes the pilot, i guess i’m missing out. oh well, maybe i’ll have something to watch next summer.
Stay tuned for my bitch-fest about LOST, coming soon!
