The story of a former Police Detective obsessed with just about everything, but especially haunted by the murder of his beloved wife. Monk was on for 8 seasons and was a great show. It was fun to watch Monk solve mysteries, and it was fun to watch him obsessively touch all kinds of odd items. I just watched the 2009 series finality of Monk, in which the show’s ever arching mystery is solved. It was a kind of feel good show where Adrian finally comes to terms with the death of his wife. I wasn’t all that happy with the…
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True Blood-They Are All Monsters
Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good. Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought. His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing causing a rift in his relationship with Sookie. Our good old boy bartender Sam turns out to be more of a cold blooded killer and less of a poor misunderstood shapeshifter. Sookie takes the time to torture an evil vampire and takes great pleasure in…
The Humans Are Dead
Flight of the Conchords is a wonderfully stupid show about a couple of wanna be digi-folk stars from New Zealand and their really bad Manager. They are a luckless pair who lack such things as a fan base, a budget, or much talent to speak of. Like most HBO shows this one is a little on the quirky side, but I like it. Part of the shows charm is that we get to hear the Conchords sing their latest terrible song. My favorite Conchord song is The Humans Are Dead. It’s a short little ditty about how robots took over…
The Colony on The Discovery Channel
A sort of reality show where the volunteers don’t have to compete in challenges, don’t have to put up with Jeff Probst, and don’t get a chance to win a million dollars. They do have to live without clean water, eat a lot of rice, and compete against the elements. The idea is that the world as we know it has ended, as in The Road or I Am Legend minus the vampires and cannibals. The world is an abandoned neighborhood in which the Volunteers have to look around for useful items and fight off bands of Marauders who want…
American Pickers
There are two things you need to be a successful antique dealer-knowledge and money. The heroes of The History Channel’s American Pickers seem to have an endless supply of both. They also have a lot of time on their hands, as the point of American Pickers is that they are roaming near and far to sort through piles of junk for items they can resell for profit. I like American Pickers and I have to admire the chutzpah of these two saps as they bang on doors and hand out their want list. I have yet to see them hit…
Dexter-Where do we go from here?
The last scene of last season’s Dexter was such a shocker that I thought maybe Showtime was going to have that be the end. But here we are talking about Dexter again. The new season starts in late September and appears to pick right where they left off. Will Dexter finally get what’s coming to him? Or will he continue to deal out vigilante justice while being a single Dad? The normal formula is that Dexter runs across another serial killer and somehow becomes involved with him, as brother, mentor, or student. I think Harrison is a little young to…
Eureka-The Statue is Made of Bronze!
The Syfy Channel has a handful of first run series, the best of which at the moment is Eureka. This is the story of a small town of super geniuses who didn’t want to live in Area 51 and the poor sap who ends up being the town’s Sheriff. The punchline of almost every episode of Eureka is that the idiot Sheriff is the only one to see the obvious solution to whatever earth ending problem the super geniuses have created that week. The new season opens up with a collection of Previously on Eureka clips, the most interesting…
Hamlet with Dr Who and Captain Picard
First Clown: A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! ‘a pour’d a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was, sir, Yorick’s skull, the King’s jester. Hamlet: This? [Takes the skull] First Clown: E’en that. Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. PBS recently aired the BBC’s Hamlet-another one of those wonderfully anachronistic versions where everyone lives in an alternate reality…
The Travel Channel
I seldom feel jealous of the hosts of Cooking Shows, as cooking seems to require some level of skill. The shows on the Travel Channel however, always make me say-Hey, I could do that! Of course, I am not cool and famous like Anthony Bourdain or cute and perky like Samantha Brown-so I would have to have some gimmick like Man vs Food’s Adam Richman or Bizarre Foods’ Andrew Zimmern. But even these two everyman looking fellows have long resumes that show they have been at this would entertainment thing for a while-even though I never heard of them until…
The Proper Amount of Suction
I like The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. I follow him on Twitter, which makes me a member of his Robot Skeleton Army and means that I live with him in a hollowed out volcano. (not really-as Craig would say.) There’s something very interesting about the whole idea of the proper amount of suction as well-very British and slightly naughty. The big news on the whole RSA front is that Craig is getting a Robot Skeleton sidekick-which should come little surprise to anyone who saw the anniversary episode that featured an all puppet cast. Gonna love Craig and the…