Saturday, November 17, 2007

WE WON STATE! Um. Now, what?


So we're not happy with the Friday Night Lights. And we're so over the Grey's.

Now you think about what we just said. Appreciate what we just said.

Seriously? Seriously.

We'll ignore the Grey's for now, mainly because we haven't seen an episode all year and Meredith died but came back and Shondaland sucks and Burke is gaaaaayyyyy and Addie has her own show now on Wednesdays that no one watches but daggum she sure is hawt.

Plus, in the real world, we're too busy hooping on Thursday nights, pretending our knees don't hurt and we can still drain threes after eight minutes -- eight tiring, flat-shot minutes -- on the floor.

But we digress.

Since Season 3 of The Wire took more than two days to get to us from the Netflix, we've been watching Season 1, again, of Friday Night Lights. It's a season of true emotion and power, all wrapped around a small town and its unhealthy obsession with winning State.

But the characters are what do it in Season 1. Tyra is a hell-on-wheels bitch who feels empathy for the people who really need it. Street is the All-American quarterback who loses his legs and deals with the aftermath. Matt Saracen is one of the best underdog characters of all time. Anytime he touches the ball, we're -- yes, we'll admit this -- on the verge of tears. And Lance Landry is, in a word, us. But skinnier and more with the Christian Rock.

And oh with the pretty Layla.

But this year?

Oy. First, Lance Landry, geekbox hero, murders Tyra's rapist from Season 1. In the first episode. And the plot remains. Every. Friday. Night. Tyra looks like a freaking 24-year-old porn star (which we're so OK with) in every episode, yet she's a senior (?) in high school. Saracen is now banging a cheerleader and hooking up with his gram's caregiver, who happens to be Latina and sort of a maid, and Julie is, well, awful-lede aside, hot for teacher.

Ugh with this show, now. Last night, there wasn't even a game.

We realize many of you don't watch the show, and that's OK. But we're telling you: one season of it, the first, was from start to finish some of the more gripping TV you'll see from the networks.

But this year? The phrase JUMP THE SHARK has already jumped the shark, but this show, well, it's freaking Fonzie putting on his *sexy* short shorts.

Sad, are we, about this show.


Happy, are we, about the short shorts. *Who* wears this ridiculousness? *Fonzie* does.

1 comment:

ACG said...

i netflix'ed curb your enthusiasm. wasn't sure at first, but now i am addicted!