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The Runners Up: More of 2010's Very Good, Pretty Good and Decent TV Shows (AOL TV)

Dec 9th 2010 7:49PM Oh sorry just wanted to comment on a few others I forgot earlier:

The Pacific: I really loved this one, but I didn't see Band of Brothers so I didn't have that to compare it to. But as someone who watched The Pacific just for what it was with zero comparisons to anything else, I thought it was great.

It's Always Sunny: I just recently caught up on this show through DVDs and now we're watching S6. This show can be absolutely BRILLIANT pretty often, but it is kind of similiar to Community in the sense that it is uneven. Some episodes are just "meh" and some are like AMAZING. But I watch every ep hoping that it will be one of the great ones.

Sons of Anarchy: I got into this in S2 and really liked it, then went back and watched S1 on DVD afterward, and really liked S1 as well. S3 for me was NOT very good ... It started off o.k. for me and then slid downhill for the rest of the season, until it made me literally want to STAB it in the 2nd to last episode!! I started hating characters that I previously quite liked, and that is NOT good. But I am a loyal fan and I will see what season 4 has to bring. Fingers crossed that they recover.

True Blood: I tried watching this a couple times in earlier seasons and I just never got it even from the beginning. Just couldn't quite get the appeal. Or I guess I kinda saw the appeal for others but it didn't appeal to me personally.

The Runners Up: More of 2010's Very Good, Pretty Good and Decent TV Shows (AOL TV)

Dec 9th 2010 6:40PM LOL, love your description of Glee. Nothing irritates me more than every award this show gets nominated for over and over and over again.

Glad to see that Chuck still makes it somewhere on a list even if it's not in the top 10 anymore ... and I do agree with you that there have been a good number of frustrating/sloppy things about it since the highs of season 2. I am enjoying season 4 pretty well though; I actually kind of like the fact that they seem to just be having fun with it at this point and not taking it all too seriously (like in season 3). I still love Chuck even with its flaws.

One show that I am always surprised about the reactions to is Community. It is definitely an uneven show; I find myself going from LOVING it one week to finding the next week's episode to just be "meh". But even though in many senses it lacks the depth of a show like Modern Family, at a gut level I find myself looking forward to Community every week way more than Modern Family. I can't really say why. But then my cousin watched the first few eps of season 1 recently and she was totally NOT into it ... which I was shocked about because we have extremely similar taste in comedy!! So strange. I can't explain it. I also can't compare it to Parks and Rec though (which I am sure I would like) because I missed the first season of that and I don't want to start watching it in the middle, I want to start from the beginning (even though with comedies this isn't really necessary, I guess I'm just anal about it). ;-)

Oh and Dexter ... S3 was pretty crappy, but S4 pulled me right back in. But the funny thing is that I started following it more for Deb than Dexter, because I started liking her character and her stories way more than I ever did before.

'Sons of Anarchy' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap (VIDEO) (AOL TV)

Nov 24th 2010 3:03PM Mo, I normally agree with most of the points in pretty much every review I read of yours (not just on SOA but on Chuck as well), but I gotta say, you are much more forgiving of the issues in last night's episode than I am. For me this season started off as "pretty o.k." for the first few episodes, then moved to "increasingly frustrating" territory for most of the middle part of the season until now, and then last night's episode moved me into just being angry. I already rambled on about it on Alan's page but here's a couple of the points I brought up:

- Jax seemed like he could barely be bothered to even give half a crap about what was going on with Tara in this episode (the kidnapping story was totally ridiculous to begin with, but Jax as a character should have been pretty d*mn freaked out by it, rather than being so ho-hum nonchalant). But really, should we be surprised?? He screwed a porn star a few eps back, then he was ready to screw his own d*mn SISTER a few days ago, he's got his kid back FINALLY so he's accomplished his big goal, so now ... wait who is Tara again?? Clearly he's shown that he barely remembers who the woman is at this point. So why the hell should we care about their relationship anymore when Jax clearly doesn't??
- All Tara needs in order to immediately jump RIGHT back into Jax's arms is to simply be rescued by him as the little damsel in distress, and BOOM she forgets all about that porn star he screwed a few episodes ago?? Wow, I could not possibly have any LESS respect for her at this point. She has always seemed a little on the wimpy side to me in some respects (though there were some things I liked and respected about her), but this is by FAR a new low for her. I agree with your point that they have given her barely anything her to do this season, but in the second half of the season I would go so far as to say that they kind of ruined this character completely for me with her damsel in distress routine, and now jumping right back to Jax with no questions asked. The way the female characters on this show behave REALLY gets to me sometimes, but this one went over the line of what I can handle without just screaming at my t.v.
- The place they took Stahl in this episode was PREPOSTEROUS IMO. She has now been turned into a complete caricature; she is no longer even a real HUMAN, let alone a character that I would find interesting in the least. Characters need to at least have SOME human qualities in order for the audience to give a crap about them at all. Also how the hell can Stahl so easily claim that Tyler was even involved AT ALL in the Gemma and Edmond situation to begin with?? Wouldn't Tyler have some alibi for what she was doing that day? And why was she so overly trusting about everything that was happening there?? How could this cover-up even work for Stahl??
- WHAT the hell could Kozik do to this dog that would make Tig STILL refuse to let him into the charter!!?? I am a major animal lover and a dog owner but this doesn't even make sense!! Did he run her over with a car or something?? And if he loves her so much then I'm assuming whatever he did was an accident right?? So it shouldn't be THAT hard to forgive after all this time??

Anyway sorry this is mostly the same as what I said on Alan's page, but I am so mad about this episode that I had to say it here too. ;-) I could go on forever and probably list 20 other things, but those were the biggest things rattling around my brain after watching it. As I said on Alan's page, I am a VERY loyal viewer once I get hooked on a tv show; it normally takes a LOT and a pretty long time for me to give up on it. Chuck season 3 was a bit frustrating and people were freaking out about that one all over the place, but I trusted the showrunners and stuck with it and now I'm really enjoying season 4. But this episode of SOA last night after such a frustrating season ... man ... this is REALLY testing my loyalty.

'Sons of Anarchy' Season 3, Episode 10 Recap (AOL TV)

Nov 10th 2010 5:43PM Mo said: "Thank God the show didn't go to the incest place, though it sure had fun freaking us all out with that possibility."

Uhh Mo I have to disagree with you on this one ... making out with and feeling up your sister (along with her doing the same to Jax) sounds a LOT like incest to me!! I don't do that with MY brother!! :shudder: Yes I know they didn't have intercourse and that may be required for it to "officially" be labeled incest, but in my mind they went far enough for me to be screaming in horror and considering it as incest hahaha. I was actually surprised that their reactions to finding out their family tie were so understated. If someone gave me that news, I may have run to the bathroom and hurled a bit.

On another topic, something about the Tara storyline in the past several episodes has been rubbing me the wrong way. I must be expecting too much of her character to hope that she'll grow into anything more than just the usual damsel in distress, causing stress and trouble for both the club and her own boss (Margaret). I still don't see any sign of that changing anytime soon. I guess I'll have to just resign myself to knowing that this show is so much of a male-driven show (which I mean, what do I expect, it's about a motorcycle club), that the female characters are never going to get that much glory. Their WHOLE lives revolve around supporting their men and it continually irks me hahaha. But again what do I expect, given the premise of the show?

And if Tara has that baby ... uggh I just don't really want to see that storyline. I know they already have Abel now, so theoretically maybe I shouldn't expect it to drag down the more exciting storylines more than it does now ... but then again this entire season has been devoted to Abel's kidnapping and that has been fairly annoying. And TWO kids will only double the responsibility there. I just keep thinking about how annoying certain elements of Dexter got once they had Harrison. I'm NOT really looking forward to a season 4 that revolves around the juggling of poopie diapers and the thug life.

'Sons of Anarchy' Season 3, Episode 9 Recap (AOL TV)

Nov 3rd 2010 4:17AM "But I hope we see a situation in which Tara and Margaret rescue themselves, or have some kind of meaningful agency. This is not a fairy tale, so I'm not particularly keen on knights riding in and rescuing the prince's beloved."

Hahah totally agree on this one. Girl needs to grow some balls by now; she has been the damsel in distress at least a couple times in this series already, and hasn't yet learned to kick any serious a$$ on her own. If she doesn't find a way to go a little Sarah Walker on her kidnappers this time, I am going to lose any respect I previously had for her character.

"... and it seemed a little convenient that Tara's onetime administrative antagonist just happened to be covered in ink."

Yeah it was overly convenient, but it made me laugh. And at least it explained why Margaret has suddenly been so nice to Tara this season, when she was such a raging b*tch to her last season. That was really irking me, but at least now there's some explanation for it.

'Sons of Anarchy' Season 3, Episode 6 Recap (AOL TV)

Oct 13th 2010 12:15PM You're not the only one, I was totally confused too. I didn't make an assumption one way or the other, but I couldn't figure out which one was right (on script or off script). Stahl's reaction looked so real ...

Review: Chuck - Chuck Versus the Pink Slip (season premiere)/Chuck Versus the Three Words (AOL TV)

Jan 11th 2010 2:57AM "As for Chuck, his decision not to join Sarah didn't make sense." I disagree with you on this. Chuck has spent the last 7 or 8 years going nowhere with this life since getting kicked out of Stanford. And even once the intersect and his job with the government came into the picture a couple years ago, he still felt like a loser, because he depended on Sarah and Casey to defend him all the time on every mission.

Now that he has Intersect 2.0, he FINALLY has his chance to feel like he can do something great with his life, and be a "real man", so to speak. So I absolutely buy that he would not want to just throw away that opportunity as soon as it came his way. I would have made the same decision if I were him.

Now of course, what I DIDN'T buy so much, was his lousy explanation of this to Sarah at the train station as to why he was not going with her. ;-) There's no way he would have left her like that without fully explaining the entire thing up one side and down the other, right then and there. Definitely not the way Chuck rolls. But, I'll forgive that for the sake of the way the writers wanted to play out the storyline.

Oh and yes, that Emmett shooting WAS very disturbing ... I'm still weirded out by that!! Darker than they normally get on this show.

Is It Rude to Talk on Your Cell Phone in a Public Restroom? (Switched)

Apr 29th 2009 8:46PM I totally agree with Bunky: "Rude,extremely nasty,and very self absorbed."

I have on NUMEROUS occasions encountered women PURPOSELY standing inside our restrooms at work, near the sinks, to take a call. WHY!!?? Can't you take the call outside or something if you want privacy?? Why in the name of all that is holy would you choose the BATHROOM?? Whenever I encounter this, I try to be as loud as possible with my door slamming, toilet flushing, hand-washing, etc.