October 15, 2009

TV Thoughts

- "South Park" For the second week in a row, started lame but got good around the halfway point. I saw the ACORN joke coming but still enjoyed it. This season's been enjoyable so far, but not transcendent yet.

- "How I Met Your Mother" I'm underwhelmed so far this year, to be honest. I feel like they're sort of checking boxes of the various stories they can do with Barney and Robin together, and don't have a whole season's worth of good ideas. And what's up with the "couples nights," when it's really the five of them who are together all the time anyway, minus Ted?

- "New Adventures of Old Christine." This is a very funny show with a very huge hole at the center of it: even though Julia Louis-Dreyfus is universally acknowledged as hotter than ever, half the jokes about how her character is old, ugly, and disgusting. Why? Is it supposed to be ironic? At any rate, this old "L.A. Law" fan loved the stunt-casting of Corbin Bernsen as a divorce lawyer, even though the older he gets the more he looks like Sean Salisbury.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 15, 2009 04:04 PM
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