Death to Meredith--please!
Kiwifruit has been discussing the state of TV, which led me to thinking about it. After months and months of bemoaning the state of French cable (what was that you said, Helen, about me not being much of a complainer?!), I worked out torrents, and there's been no looking back. Now I get to complain about TV shows in English, and so away I go.
Grey's Anatomy. I would like to kill Meredith. Luckily, I won't have to get off my ass and do it because she's doing it herself. I don't think I've seen such a pile of shite as the last 2 episodes. They get sent out to a major emergency with the bosses saying they didn't know what the problem was, just to build up tension for us the viewer? As if you'd do that. Your staff should be prepared for what they might face. There's no payoff in something like that. You want suspense? Watch the E.R. episode when Carter and Lucy are stabbed and we're waiting and waiting for someone to find them. That's suspense. Then we have Alex sloping around like an idiot, Izzy gazing pathetically at the person whose life she's supposed to be saving, and the interns have to give lists of the injured (to bit part actors who couldn't even convince themselves they were devastated)? Surely there's actually an admin person who handles that, thus freeing interns to, you know, save lives. And then Meredith gets knocked into the water and drowns for no apparent reason? Doesn't bump her head and even resurfaces and looks pathetically at the camera with the voice over saying "I'm disappearing." What the hell? Was that some existentialist reference to how she's "ordinary" because of her mother's illness? And what was the shot of her sneakers for--is that some kind of nod to Jeff Buckley? I believe we can count this as the moment GA jumped the shark. Too bad it didn't eat her. Only good thing? Seeing Denny and that cute bomb guy who got blown up last season. Oh, and Mark. Love him. I want to like this show, I so desperately do, and I love the Seattle shots, but really...
ER. Having just said watch this show for suspense done the right way, I have a question for the writers: do you seriously, seriously, seriously expect me to believe that big, strong, able-bodied sober Luka could not get away from a drunken, one-good-arm Curtis? At least 10 times over? Because that truly was pathetic. The Luka I love would call Abby--or better yet, the cops--on his cell phone and leave it on so they could hear what was happening and know where they were. The Luka I love would have taken this guy down himself. Yes, ok, so he's got a gun but he'd also been drinking and was slow off the mark. Really bad. And how come Ben suddenly disappeared?
24. I know I had a complaint about it. Can't remember. Oh, yeah! Peter MacNicol. Drives me nuts. Did the same in Ally McBeal, though his schtick worked in Numb3rs. And what is it about 24 that I go along with the things they do for suspense that I know can't happen, such as just happening to have a satellite positioned above a random intersection, a satellite so powerful that you could probably tell the time on someone's watch? I guess it's because 1. they use Apple computers for a lot of the stuff so hey, you know it's possible ;-) and 2. they actually kill their characters. No sentimentality (or nian nian, as my French prof taught me the other day) there--if it's good for the plot, they'll do it.
American Idol. Um, actually? Nothing to complain about! I continue to love, love, love this show. Love Simon and the other judges, love the spirit of the contestants, loved that guy who--to save face--yells at Randy "Don't make me come back there and kick your ass!", hate it when one bad note signals the end to all their hard work. I just love that they get up there and sing their hearts out and put themselves on the line--even some of the stinkers. So happy, though, that Antonella's best friend didn't make it through. What a preachy piece of work she was. That whole finger-raised "You know why? Because God likes good people." After she'd so blatantly lied! But hey, how come that blonde bluesy chick from Denver didn't make it through? She rocked!
Anyway, in preparation for the future hours I intend to spend in front of the iMac, I just got another pattern off eBay and I think I'll start her before the other one, just because I love the green. And then I'll have something to look at when Meredith (who will, sigh, no doubt be resuscitated) does her annoying fish mouth thing. Hey, just because I complained about it doesn't mean I'm going to stop watching! (At least until Rescue Me and Dexter and Weeds are back.)
;-)
Grey's Anatomy. I would like to kill Meredith. Luckily, I won't have to get off my ass and do it because she's doing it herself. I don't think I've seen such a pile of shite as the last 2 episodes. They get sent out to a major emergency with the bosses saying they didn't know what the problem was, just to build up tension for us the viewer? As if you'd do that. Your staff should be prepared for what they might face. There's no payoff in something like that. You want suspense? Watch the E.R. episode when Carter and Lucy are stabbed and we're waiting and waiting for someone to find them. That's suspense. Then we have Alex sloping around like an idiot, Izzy gazing pathetically at the person whose life she's supposed to be saving, and the interns have to give lists of the injured (to bit part actors who couldn't even convince themselves they were devastated)? Surely there's actually an admin person who handles that, thus freeing interns to, you know, save lives. And then Meredith gets knocked into the water and drowns for no apparent reason? Doesn't bump her head and even resurfaces and looks pathetically at the camera with the voice over saying "I'm disappearing." What the hell? Was that some existentialist reference to how she's "ordinary" because of her mother's illness? And what was the shot of her sneakers for--is that some kind of nod to Jeff Buckley? I believe we can count this as the moment GA jumped the shark. Too bad it didn't eat her. Only good thing? Seeing Denny and that cute bomb guy who got blown up last season. Oh, and Mark. Love him. I want to like this show, I so desperately do, and I love the Seattle shots, but really...
ER. Having just said watch this show for suspense done the right way, I have a question for the writers: do you seriously, seriously, seriously expect me to believe that big, strong, able-bodied sober Luka could not get away from a drunken, one-good-arm Curtis? At least 10 times over? Because that truly was pathetic. The Luka I love would call Abby--or better yet, the cops--on his cell phone and leave it on so they could hear what was happening and know where they were. The Luka I love would have taken this guy down himself. Yes, ok, so he's got a gun but he'd also been drinking and was slow off the mark. Really bad. And how come Ben suddenly disappeared?
24. I know I had a complaint about it. Can't remember. Oh, yeah! Peter MacNicol. Drives me nuts. Did the same in Ally McBeal, though his schtick worked in Numb3rs. And what is it about 24 that I go along with the things they do for suspense that I know can't happen, such as just happening to have a satellite positioned above a random intersection, a satellite so powerful that you could probably tell the time on someone's watch? I guess it's because 1. they use Apple computers for a lot of the stuff so hey, you know it's possible ;-) and 2. they actually kill their characters. No sentimentality (or nian nian, as my French prof taught me the other day) there--if it's good for the plot, they'll do it.
American Idol. Um, actually? Nothing to complain about! I continue to love, love, love this show. Love Simon and the other judges, love the spirit of the contestants, loved that guy who--to save face--yells at Randy "Don't make me come back there and kick your ass!", hate it when one bad note signals the end to all their hard work. I just love that they get up there and sing their hearts out and put themselves on the line--even some of the stinkers. So happy, though, that Antonella's best friend didn't make it through. What a preachy piece of work she was. That whole finger-raised "You know why? Because God likes good people." After she'd so blatantly lied! But hey, how come that blonde bluesy chick from Denver didn't make it through? She rocked!
Anyway, in preparation for the future hours I intend to spend in front of the iMac, I just got another pattern off eBay and I think I'll start her before the other one, just because I love the green. And then I'll have something to look at when Meredith (who will, sigh, no doubt be resuscitated) does her annoying fish mouth thing. Hey, just because I complained about it doesn't mean I'm going to stop watching! (At least until Rescue Me and Dexter and Weeds are back.);-)
Labels: 24, American Idol, cross-stitching, ER, Grey's Anatomy
I am so pleased that I can have a whine about 24 on your blog and not on mine. Only because I don't want people to think that all I do is watch tv all day. Which is what I do all day.
Anyway, I watched the first episode of the new 24 last night and within 10 minutes I was snorting with disbelief. Awful, dreadful, atrocious stuff. All of it. From the overacting to the cliched characters to the ridiculous storylines. But I will watch it as a special favour to Mr Mac.
I wanted to like Grey's Anatomy too but from the beginning couldn't.
And as for ER, I thought Ben was supposed to turn out to be a junkie- remember the key for the narcotics cupboard went missing and he was in custody of it. Hmmmmm....
You and I should be writing this stuff Gabrielle!