Sorry about the lack of posts. I've been picking up as many shifts as I can before Karl Marx is elected on Tuesday. One can only hope his inevitable retroactive 75% tax rate on me only extends to 1/1/09. Anyway, here goes:
30 Rock – Do Over
Season 3, Episode 1 See it here.
Liz Lemon wants to adopt a child and Jack Donaghy wants to run GE. Liz must trick an adoption agency interviewer and Jack may have to go all the way with the cerebral deficient GE president. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are perfect in their roles, quickly becoming classic TV characters. The writing of this episode was very strong. Baldwin’s rants, the one with Dora the Explorer panties and obese children in particular, were hilarious. Making fun of soap operas was also great especially since . . .
The Office is quickly becoming one. In the last 2 episodes (Crime Aid and Employee Transfer), Michael’s relationship with Holly went from interesting to tiresome in less than one hour. Jim and Pam’s long distance relationship and his unfunny brothers were all grating. The love triangle between Dwight-Andy-Angela had some potential with the role reversal Cornell-beet farmer thing, but Dwight and Jim acted like each other just last year. I guess you could say this has always been a “relationship” show, but it’s never felt like one until the past 2 weeks – and it hasn’t involved nearly every character. Darryl was great trying to get in touch with someone – anyone – on the phone, though - so he wouldn't have to deal with Michael and Holly. I felt exactly the same way. Both episodes: B-
Saturday, November 1, 2008
NBC Thursday 10/30/08
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30 Rock was great, better than ever. Watched part of Meet the Parents afterward...watch out for Judah Friedlander as the clerk in town.
I thought The Office was good. Hard to believe Jim would have brothers like that.
I've been watching daily reruns of Arrested Development on HDNet. It's become difficult to give any A's or A-'s out to mere TV shows when something as hilarious and dense as AD is a daily reminder of how great TV can be. 30 Rock's season premiere was close, but didn't hold up well enough on repeat viewings.
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