The first season made me laugh a few times, but ultimately it left me feeling like I had quite literally missed the joke. Was I supposed to laugh at Jen’s attempts to try on a pair of shoes three sizes too small? Or how about when Roy gets trapped underneath a desk (that’s right, I said trapped underneath a desk)? According to the laugh track, yes, I was supposed to be laughing. I took a leap of comedic faith by giving the second season a go (all four seasons currently avaialbe on DVD are just six episodes long), but I’m glad I did. The writing got much better and the actors clearly became more comfortable with their characters. By the end of the fourth season (a fifth season and final season is reportedly being filmed this year), I was a full-fledged I.T. Crowd fan.
The I.T. Crowd = Standard Nerds
Karly Baird Tackles WWE Raw – April 9, 2012
This week was great as far as feuds were concerned, but it seemed a little repetitive. The Brock Lesnar and John Cena feud has a bright future as does CM Punk and Chris Jericho. I’m sure the WWE Universe is looking forward to next week’s episode airing from London, England.
Karly Baird Tackles WWE Raw
Overall Raw-stlemania was outstanding. The audience was still very pumped from the night before. Nothing felt out of place and the end of the show left everyone hot. The crowd added a lot of energy with their continuous Daniel Bryan “Yes!” chants. The night was filled with returns and debuts and allowed for intense feuds to grow more interesting. WWE should keep this intensity up because it was definitely an A+ night.
Musings on Mad Men
It’s 1966. The civil rights movement is taking national prominence. Thousands of young men are drafted into the Vietnam War. Pete Campbell now owns a red checkered suit. Welcome to a new season of Mad Men!
Drama is Undead and Kicking on the CW
Let’s not get carried away. I’m not recommending that you track down episodes of the thankfully departed H8r or get into America’s Next Top Model. If Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill were your type of thing, you’d already be watching them. While some of the other programming on the network might be instantly forgettable, one genre the CW (and its predecessors, the WB and UPN) consistently does well is supernatural drama — especially the teenage variety.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I remember I was trying to describe the show to my sister after I had watched the first season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on dvd. I said, “Well, it’s about these people who work at a bar and they do terrible things and then terrible things happen to them. In fact, you almost kind of want terrible things to happen to these people because of what they do.” That’s the essence of the show, really.
