Best of the Week: 2nd-8th May 2010
A weekly post with the purpose of highlighting the shows I watched during the week and how I ranked them. It’s not intended as a list of all shows on the air, only those that I actually watched during the week. Watching something on Monday that aired on Friday won’t make the cut.
Like everything on this site it’s for my own enjoyment but feel free to comment.
Oh man, it’s been a long time since I’ve written up my Best of the Week. What with work, a hectic study schedule and a lot of shows being on break I haven’t had the time or desire to do one of these. That all changed this week though because I watched a decent amount of shows and my exams are over. It feels good. Hell, I even found time to go see Iron Man 2.
1. Parks and Recreation “Telethon” (2×22) – Detlef Schrempf. That’s gotta be one of the best and most random casting/cameos I’ve ever seen. Add in some truly fantastic highjinks from everyone at the telethon, Ron’s sleep fighting, and Leslie passing out at Anne’s in the tag and it amounts to one of the best episodes this season on a show which to me is clearly the #1 comedy on TV. 9.5/10
2. Lost “The Candidate” (6×14) – It’s hard to judge individual episodes of Lost because each season is really constructed as one large story which is broken up in 14-16 parts. Not to say that the show isn’t consistently fantastic because it is. I feel like I should have had some emotional response to the deaths which occurred during the episode but it just left me stunned that they actually killed off main characters this far from the finale. I wasn’t expecting the people who died to actually die. Not now and not in the series as a whole. And I certainly wasn’t expecting four of them to go in one episode. Looks like Jack’s the man now though. I just wish they’d reconcile the two realities already, but something tells me we’ll learn what the whole sideways thing means in the finale and not a minute sooner. 8/10
3. Community “Modern Warfare” (1×23) – It was like Terminator, Die Hard and a John Woo flick all rolled into one. Fantastic stuff. Community is really ending its first season on a roll. This and the great Goodfellas inspired episode were some of the best stuff this season. What’s even better is that Jeff and Britta hooking up wasn’t the focal point of the episode so we finally got that over with (I’m not a fan of those two getting together, I’d prefer Jeff and Annie) without it turning into a must see episode. Oh, and Ken Jeong rocks. 8/10
4. 30 Rock “The Moms” (4×20) – All those returning moms. Brilliant. Tina Fey’s boobs. Brilliant. Alec Baldwin being a fucking comedic legend. Brilliant. I really run out of ways to say how much I love 30 Rock. This is how a sitcom should be done, not like that piece of shit Big Bang Theory. 8/10
5. Survivor “A Sinking Ship” (20×13) – Russell continues to amaze me week after week. I wouldn’t of thought that was possible after almost two seasons with him but the guy’s a damn God. He almost certainly won’t win it this season either (he might not even make it to the final 3) but just like last season he deserves to. His hand has been in every move over the last two seasons. That’s unheard of. 8/10
6. Fringe “Northwest Passage” (2×21) – Only two good things occurred in this very lacklustre episode. Martha Plimpton guest starred (The Goonies is one of my all-time favourite films) and the identity of the “Secretary General” was revealed. And to no-one’s surprise it turned out to be alternate Walter. I can see it now, Walternate will tempt Peter to join him, Peter will consider but ultimately side with Walter (yay Peter really does love him, isn’t everything grand) and defeat Walternate in some mediocre fashion. I hope I’m wrong and the plot develops better than that but I don’t think I will be. 5/10
7. How I Met Your Mother “Twin Beds” (5×21) – I didn’t even make it through the whole episode. I think that’s the first time I haven’t watched an episode of HIMYM all the way through during its entire run. What the hell happened to this show? 4/10
Didn’t Find Time To Watch: The Office, Treme, Justified, Party Down or The Ricky Gervais Show.
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