Laura's TV Round Up, Week 9

1. House – I watched HIMYM live and meant to watch House online the next day only to find that Fox won’t let you watch House online till 8 days after the original broadcast. This is stupid on so many different levels, so I read the synopsis of the episode, which also sounded stupid on so many different levels. I don’t really care for Cameron, but she deserves a better exit than that. Why marry the two only to have them split a handful of episodes later? Why not have her get a job at another hospital? I might be done with this show.

2. HIMYM – Another solid episode. Loved the playbook, loved Barney’s winking, loved “you sonofabitch,” loved that even though the punch line of the scuba diver was obvious from the start, it still was funny. Cannot wait to celebrate another Slapsgiving. I really want Ranjit to be there.

3. Glee – No Sue? I’m filing a formal complaint. Rachel’s crush and the subsequent use of her for cleaning/making dinner were funny. I felt a twinge of sympathy for Quinn when her parents kicked her out, but that was only because I forgot she was a lying bitch for a second there. Finn’s mom is awesome and I want her to hook up with Kurt’s dad so Kurt and Finn can be awkward stepbrothers. Hate, hate, hate, hated Mercedes’ reaction to Puck’s confession. It seemed completely out of character for her to support Finn staying with Quinn just because “she chose him” and it was obvious it was done just to drag the storyline out a little bit longer (which I do not appreciate). I hate “Lean on Me” so I didn’t even watch the end of the episode. I really want Puck, Kurt and Sue to have their own show. When I have my own network, it can follow the Taye Diggs Shirtless Hour.

4. Modern Family – This show is normally so funny that it didn’t really need Edward Norton and Elizabeth Banks to guest star, but I’ll allow it.

5. Grey’s Anatomy – I don’t understand why this show feels the need to cram so much time into one episode. It feels really rushed, not to mention weird to go through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s in an episode that airs a week before Thanksgiving. Did anyone else find the Christmas music to be really distracting? Not just the fact that it was out of place so early in the year, but it seemed like the volume of it was too loud for the scenes it was playing over. Hated Bailey’s disapproving father and would like someone to have a normal parent who behaves appropriately. I would have liked the patient storylines if they had each been in their own episode, but together was sloppy and made it feel like the writers were convincing us that these were very important people with heart wrenching stories that we needed to love immediately. Would have been better to see them over several episodes and not just this one. Hate Sloane’s daughter, and am very confused why her mother would name her after the man who gave her a couple hundred bucks and was never seen again after learning she was pregnant. And why would Joe call Meredith to pick up drunk Chief and not, say, the Chief’s wife who might actually do a damn thing about the drinking? I’m glad this show isn’t on again till January. It needs to take a time out and think about what it’s done.