To start off, I realize I watch way too much TV.\u00a0 2 HD DVRs and no social life help this out considerably.<\/p>\n
7:00<\/strong><\/p>\n How I Met Your Mother – It looks like we (and Ted)\u00a0are finally going to meet the long-teased titular mother this season, which could be just what the show needs.\u00a0 It started to drag a bit last season, but the premiere seemed like they were back to form.\u00a0 At its worst, it is worth watching for Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris, who always bring their A-game.<\/p>\n Chuck – The spy comedy enters its fourth season with a new season, a new Buy More, and, finally, Chuck and Sarah together for reals.\u00a0 One of the better shows on TV at bringing out nerd-culture without talking down to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n House – At this point, the case of the week is nowhere near as important as the characters, and this year House and Cuddy are together and 13 disappears for awhile.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how long they can keep House and Cuddy together without toning down their workplace dynamic.\u00a0 On the plus side, Amber Tamblyn joins the cast while 13 is off shooting\u00a0a movie.<\/p>\n 8:00<\/strong><\/p>\n The Event – Ooh, there’s a mystery afoot.\u00a0 NBC tries to succeed where FlashForward and many others failed in duplicating the success of Lost, but without really understanding what it was that made Lost tick.\u00a0 The first episode had flashbacks within flashbacks, and doesn’t really give you a reason to care about what is happening to any of the characters.\u00a0 Their big mystery coming out of the pilot (in addition to what is the event) will bring me back for another week, but it is on a short leash.<\/p>\n Lone Star – One of the best reviewed pilots of the season and more people will read this post than will watch this show.\u00a0 There’s an interesting story there, but I doubt it sees November sweeps.<\/p>\n 8:30<\/strong><\/p>\n Mike & Molly – The only reason I gave this a shot was leftover goodwill towards Sookie from Gilmore Girls.\u00a0\u00a0That goodwill has now been spent.<\/p>\n 9:00<\/strong><\/p>\n Hawaii\u00a0Five-O – Aside from the theme song, I knew nothing of the original.\u00a0 The appeal here for me is Daniel Dae-Kim, coming off of Lost,\u00a0and\u00a0Grace Park in a bikini.\u00a0 The pilot was good fun, so I’ll stick around for a few weeks and see where it goes.<\/p>\n Chase – Nothing special here.\u00a0 It neither impressed, nor offended.<\/p>\n Castle – Castle comes back without missing a beat.\u00a0 The entire heart of this show is the relationship between the two leads,\u00a0and between Castle and his daughter.\u00a0 It will never make you think, but I’ve never been disappointed that I watched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To start off, I realize I watch way too much TV.\u00a0 2 HD DVRs and no social life help this out considerably. 7:00 How I Met Your Mother – It looks like we (and Ted)\u00a0are finally going to meet the long-teased titular mother this season, which could be just what the show needs.\u00a0 It started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[67,214,208,213,207,209,212,211,210],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-castle","tag-chase","tag-chuck","tag-hawaii-five-o","tag-himym","tag-house","tag-lone-star","tag-mike-molly","tag-the-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}