Sun Blogs: The TV Yogi
Monday TV Madness
September 21, 2009 - 11:00pm
Procrastinators, Don’t Fear – Fall TV is Here
(Sorry, I know the rhyme was lame, but I’m just that excited.)
Swarley! Robin! Ted’s weird Indiana Jones getup! (cue the awesome bah bah bahs) … Hello Cornell students, staff and other random blog patrollers. Welcome to The TV Yogi, where we, your hosts, will enlighten you with our many recaps, reviews and random thoughts about TV. Redundant? You say, given the blurb needed by The Sun web gods … Perhaps. But How I Met Your Mother’s series premiere is just happening right now, and I can’t entirely be bothered.
Whaaaaaaaaat? (Sorry, I’m currently quoting NPH. In case you didn’t read our hot mess of a live blogged Emmys last night, well, I kind of love him. A lot.)
Anyway, this is my favorite time of year – screw the first realm of prelims and papers, all the fall shows are finally starting. Consider this intro blog both an introduction to us, your Yogis, and also a preview of all the shows to look out for — and avoid — this fall.
PS: Some of these have already started and I trust that not all of you live under rocks, or are those professed “TV-haters” I keep hearing so much about. But just in case you missed the first, very blah week of Gossip Girl, haven’t heard about how stupid Vampire Diaries is (and not even in a stupid funny way), or didn’t know that there’s an awesome House two hour season premiere going on right now (thank you for DVR) … well, that’s what I’m here for. Not to mention for those of you who don’t have “time” in your Cornell careers to watch TV — I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, but don’t miss out on the goodness, please.
(We’ll also go deep later on in the year, but I tend to think of that as more of a third or fourth blog date thing.)
So, without further ado:
(PS: If you’re behind on TV, be careful – while I’m not giving anything away, their may be some spoilers contained within.)
What you’ve missed in the past few weeks:
True Blood’s awesome second season ended last week … with a really silly, over the top, exposition-y whimper instead of the bang it seemed like it was leading up to. Luckily, for those of you who missed the season and the show, it’s all on HBO On Demand … or less legal ways I can’t promote via the web.
Mad Men is moving along, elegantly and vaguely. It’s one of the few shows on TV nowadays that takes a second viewing to really parse, and if it feels like nothing’s been happening … well, need I remind you that it takes place in 1963, which means that the season will actually go out with a literal bang. (Apologies for the tacky pun.)
Gossip Girl (which I’m about to switch over to)’s season premiere was even more disappointing than True Blood’s finale. For those of you who missed it, you didn’t miss much: Chuck and Blair are still dating, but acting like 40 year old swingers who lost the lust in their relationship, the Humphries are now rich, Vanessa is still an annoying bitch (and kind of hooking up with Lily’s and Rufus’s long lost son who dum, dum dum ... actually isn’t dead! Whowouddathunk?). Also, Vanessa’s hair looks crazier than usual — how they make such a beautiful actress look like such a train wreck, I fail to grasp.
Speaking of bad hair days: Jenny’s hair is more ratty and platinum looking than ever, even though she’s really living up the new rich life. And Serena, whose hair always looks awesome — even though never, ever washed — has been running around Europe, with and without Carter Beizen (aka “The Sexy Hobbit”), being as much of an attention whore as possible in order to get Daddy Dearest’s attention. Oh, and Nate’s being prostituted by his family again … except this time he doesn’t realize it, and is instead dating that weird redhead from The CW’s awful fail Privileged, though now she’s playing like, Juliani’s granddaughter, or something. Really, nothing happened, and then nothing more happened at a Derby party. CW, I get that you think you have to catch us up, but really — why not start with everyone’s first day at college?
Speaking of which – it’s 8:59, which means it’s finally safe to change over to CW6 without accidentally seeing Chad Michael Murray’s face. Gossip Girl is starting. Woohoo, headbands! I’ll be back on after it’s over to talk a little bit about it, House and what’s coming up this week.
Procrastinators, fear not!