That’s one of the many spots that Adult Swim has run on the upcoming animated version of The Boondocks.
This Toonzone review pretty much gives you the idea about the show.
I’m thinking I’m gonna like this show.
Serenity beckons, but I have a thought I can’t shake.
If you’re not watching Weeds, you’re Petarded.
Is truth.
There is still hope for you yet. Get Showtime. Have a friend record it. Or find it through other means. Watch it and report back.
Weeds isn’t bad for you. It’s “of the earth”.
Just lay back and enjoy the ride.
Three “they came from the water” network shows are on your TV. I’ve watched all three for 2 weeks. Like all things, they vary in goodness and watchability.
Threshold
The aliens are possibly inter-dimensional. Their first strike was a military cargo freighter at sea. Their first contact vehicle: A multidimensional knife-sharpening light show that attacks DNA. They want to make us into them. Bio-forming. Humanity would become the willing creatures of an extra-terrestrial parent.
So far this one is the smartest of the alien attack trifecta. Though it does smack heavily of the Global Frequency. There’s even a GF story that’s pretty much Threshold‘s plot. If they keep making smart thriller stories and I’ll easily overlook that.
Tom Cruise’s cousin made the jump from being the creepy one-of-the-others guy on Lost to being the creepy first-to-be bio-formed guy on Threshold. I think he has a niche. And hey, there’s a a pot-smoking-free-speech-microbiologist Data.
CBS now has three shows I watch weekly. That’s freaking my shit.
Surface
There are critters in the water. Their mere presence can stun and disorient. They grow to be at least 200ft long. They reproduce like rabbits on crack. They can walk on land and breath water. They only eat live food.
This show is going for the epic angle. I like epic. So far they have three main characters from across the USA. Add that to the one crazy scientist who knew about the iguana-foots (they look like bigfoot and an iguana mated) and you got yourself a show that’s a trifle melodramatic at times. NBC, come on, it’s only TV. If it were on the big screen sure. But it’s not on a big screen is it?
It’s cool so far so it’ll continue to kill space on my DVR.
Invasion
Invasion of the Body Snatchers via water. That’s all it is so far. Oh, there was a hurricane that nearly destroyed a city. Bad timing on that huh, ABC?
It’s not smart. It’s not overacting. It’s not blowing anything up or vile slimey critters wanting your brains. It’s a total guilt watch…
…for now.
Crap and bother. More movies and TV show distraction.
First, the movies:
Serenity
The Serenity(Firefly to the rest of us) trailer is active and by god it’s freaking cool as hell. Again I wonder why it was ever cancelled. Again I realize it had the misfortune of being aired on Fox.
The movie looks to focus on the building mystery of the genius known as River. Ms. “Two by two, hands of blue” herself.
September won’t come fast enough.
Living ’til the End
A man becomes an incurable agoraphobic for a year after being told by a psychic that he will die on his next birthday. See? Damn psychics are good for nothing. Nothing, I say!
Batman Begins
The full trailer on the heart-warming story of a guy who dresses up like a bat to steal all of the Joker’s press is up and running. I’m still having trouble finding any faults with it. Neat.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
It’s War of the Roses meets Spy Kids meets True Lies meets Undercover Blues. After you’re done looking up and viewing all that noise I dare you to tell me I’m wrong. MMS has a hope to be as entertaining as Undercover Blues. I can’t explain my fascination with UB. It just is.
And on TV:
Enterprise
On a lark I watched Enterprise.
They went to the mirror universe. You know, the one where Spock wore a goatee(proving ever so slightly that he was a man ahead of his time). The twist on Enterprise’s trip to the dark universe was that the entire show was shown from the POV of the “dark side”. Neat concept. I would have been more impressed if the same thing wasn’t done roughly 6 years ago by the infinitely better Babylon 5.
I swear, the Enterprise producers could make any trip to a dark universe bland as a saltine.
I do have one question. Why does evil always have a sharp fashion sense? Those mid-riff baring uniforms the girls wore on Evil Enterprise left nothing to the imagination. Just as all glorified stwardess uniforms should be.
One big plus, that horrid pop tune the producers have constantly defended from day 1, is gone on this episode.
Thank the Maker.
Medium
Family life never looked so pleasant as when I watch it play out on Medium. And, this week, it managed to surprise me plot wise. Bonus.
Meteors: Fire in the Sky
The History Channel gets a little sensational by offering up the chances of the movies Armageddon or Deep Impact ever occurring. It seems the good old days noted far more occurrances of the “sky falling” than we do.
If a huge meteor ever does fall from the sky, I hope the scenario follows Deep Impact. I’d have major problems dealing with the idea of David Addison saving the world.
Smallville
Clark meets a freak like him. Clark angsts over why he’s a freak. Lois says something quick and snarky. Lex is evil. Lex is not evil. Lex is evil. Lana smiles and melts my heart. Clark and Lana get angsty together. Clark saves the day. Chloe, who now knows Clarks super secret, makes a double entendre in front of doubly dense Clark.
I think I watch that show just to see Lana smile and hear what smart remark Chloe will say next.
That’s just sad.
Eyes
Still clever. You could knock me over with a feather. I wonder if JRM has a spot open for an Associate Investigator. I can be a smart-ass like Harlan Judd. Throw some money my way and I’d have a snazzy wardrobe of suits, too.
ER
Tonight, Thandie Newton returns! That’s all you ever need know.
Enough time wastin’. Time to get to work.
Zounds, I watched Showtime’s musical re-make of (cue dramatic echo) REEFER MADNESS and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I wouldn’t exactly recommend seeking it out. I can’t explain my logic on that. But if you flip across it in a fit of boredom, give it a go.
And if you happen to be treating your glaucoma at the time, you’ll enjoy it even more.
Eyes continues to impress with its clever characters and slick execution. Eric Mabius plays yet another psychologically screwed-up character to the hilt. I?m almost over expecting A J Langer to spin around full of ?free spirit? and begging Angela Chase to go to some cool party that a senior is throwing. Tim Daly plays cool and somewhat amoral Harlan Judd to a ?T?. Who knew Superman could be more than a boy scout?
I?d like to thank Alias? Arvin Clone for making the show worth watching again. The Alias crew had an uninterrupted season and all they did was waste it on sibling relationship building, Vaughan?s dead daddy and only one very cool episode focusing on Marshall(finally). Marshall explaining the mechanics of the ?spork? to Jack Bristow makes me chuckle every time.
Tune in next week for a new ?review? episode of Lost. In other words a fucking clip show. Does anyone remember when clip shows were something to be despised and ridiculed? Advertising re-tread footage as new goodness is just left of stupid.
The world stops when Deadwood airs at 8 P.M. on Sunday. The door is not answered. The phone rings unheeded. Pausing the show is right out. Though rewinding is permitted and used often. Between Miss Isringhausen’s newly cuntish behaviour, Al Swearengen’s gleets(remind me to never time travel and get sick in the 1800s), a whorehouse massacre, and trading math lessons for fucks, the “real world” can be ignored for an hour.
Dr House continues to be a joy to watch. Too bad the rest of the characters aren?t.
Fullmetal Alchemist went from being a happy, sugar high pre-teen to an angsty existential 16 year old in 2 episodes flat. Awesome.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?s Laughing Man has hacked my eyes and fully controls everything I see and hear. And what I see is fucking good shit.
Zatch Bell? the jury is still in recess.
Scrubs regularly injects me with the healing power of laughter. And Carla wearing a hat, any hat, is abso-fucking hot as snot.
More time wasting musings next week.
I don’t know if these petitions ever do anything, but I have to try something.
If you’re a friend of Groonk, please fill out this petition to save the HBO show Carnivale.
Read Cinescape’s article on the show.
Watch the special encore marathon of Carniv?le’s season two – beginning at 8 pm Wednesday – Friday on HBO 2.
Sign the petition to save it and take the survey.
Thanks goes to Teknesia for the petition heads up.
That is all.
Bill Nye the Science Guy has moved on. The Eyes of Nye has taken over!
The Eyes of Nye takes on hard-hitting adult topics like addiction, cloning, and climate change. The show airs on local public television stations (www.eyesofnye.org). But Nye’s more serious avocation hasn’t compromised his zany edge.
Oddly enough, I scanned the PBS listing on the Eyes site and couldn’t find one listing for Alabama. I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
Question: In the “Evolution of Sex” episode, you say the main function of sex is to keep germs and parasites at bay. What’s the deal with that?
Bill Nye: That’s the best theory going right now. If you were talking to the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, you’d have to run constantly to keep up, because the whole world moves whenever she takes a step. That’s what life is like. You have to keep running on the treadmill of evolution or you fall off. The germs are mutating like a son of a gun, but with sex you can derive these crazy new gene combos that lock them out. Beat that!
Beat that, indeed.
Alabama public television better get on the fucking ball. I want to watch the Eyes of Nye.
My name is Groonk.
“Hi Groonk!”
And I’m addicted to Foster’s Home for Imaginary Children.
“Oh my!”
“…did he say.. a children’s program?”
“The poor pathetic bastard!!”
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