Catching up on TV

[marydell]

Being home on the couch for a few days has given me time to watch lots of stuff on TV. A few thoughts:

1. Criminal Minds, thus far, really IS as good as Bear & Bull say it is. I picked up the S1 DVD and am really enjoying it. So is Mike, who normally doesn't like cop shows. His take: "wow, they're catching the criminals by being smart, rather than by lying to them and bullying them!"

2. Project Runway: Not only does Kenley come off like a bitch throughout the season, which might be partly the editors' fault, but she apparently has no friends! Tim Gunn goes and meets everybody's family and friends every season, and Kenley doesn't introduce him to a soul. I get that living in NYC means maybe not having your family nearby, but you don't know anybody who wants to meet Tim Gunn? WTF.

3. Project Runway, continued: Do these people not watch the show? They ALWAYS give you an extra challenge when you arrive in NYC for fashion week. Just budget the freaking extra time, people.

4. Cutting the reruns of sitcoms to make them shorter makes them LESS FUNNY. Stop it. (Fortunately I have Scrubs on DVD, so don't have to watch the chopped-up versions on Comedy Central, but it would be nicer if they would knock it off.)

5. Jaws never gets old.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, we're starting Criminal Minds for the first time together, then! I'm through the first three episodes myself and am likely to watch four more this week (I watch one per workout -- the stationary bike we have is safe for me to use while vertiginous, but it gets boring since I have to hang on for dear life and thus cannot read).

I've been watching the first two seasons of Numb3rs, so it's not really a contrast with that set of crime-solving techniques as much. But it's still good fun so far.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

My stationary bike is one of those overly complex fan things with the moving handles, so I also cannot read while I'm on it. However I'm never on it lately, so not a problem :)

There's an episode with a sniper coming up, that takes place in Des Plaines, IL. See if you can spot the mountains in the background! Heh. At least it's not full of pine trees like every planet on Stargate:SG1.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'll watch for the mountains. As a prairie girl, that's the sort of thing that makes me wince.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

They also seem to have decided that Des Plaines is a small town in the middle of nowhere, rather than a Chicago suburb, so they do their tricky trauma surgeries in the teensy local hospital, and have a teensy local news channel, etc. I was busy complaining about that when Mike casually pointed out the mountains.

[whl.livejournal.com]

The stations don't care.

Once, when showing Star Trek : TOS reruns, a station in Chicago cut the part where McCoy ran through the time gate in "City on the Edge of Forever". Before the commercial break, searching for McCoy on the planet. After the commercial break, trying to decide how to fix the universe.

And a late night rerun of a Columbo episode cut out a second murder.

They already "Made you look, Ha-ha."

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I grew up watching Star Trek on one of the Chicago channels (32, maybe?) and it was really interesting to finally watch the uncut versions when I grew up.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

1. Yay for CM. Puppy wants to be a profiler now because of that show, and he plays Bear's drinking game.

2. I noticed that same thing about the apparent Kenley real-life isolation, too. Maybe she doesn't have any friends because she's so petulant. (It's not her snark that gets me; it's the defensive petulance).

3. I know, right! I was like, come ON. Make the dress and shut up. Did you really think *your* season would be different???

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I have to go look up Bear's drinking game. I would want to be a profiler too, if I got to get drunk watching the show with my Mom! (kidding. I'm sorta guessing Puppy isn't drinking whiskey shots. OTOH, I was actually allowed to drink wine when I was 13, but fortunately didn't like it. God bless the Irish!)

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Oh, he drinks, like gatoraid or some facsimile. Or water. Or he just notes the drinkable item (Morgan kicking in a door or tackling a guy?), and says "Drink!"