Why My Life Sucks

I don’t watch a lot of TV, but the shows I do watch, all, repeat, all, of the scripted shows I watch this season has sucked or ended very fucking badly. Yes, I know there was a writers strike in the middle. Doesn’t matter, most of the suckage was in over all story arcs, not the gap in the middle and the shortened season.

Of course the biggest amount of suck was that there wasn’t a 4th season of Veronica Mars.

Oh, this is post is spoiler-rifick, but given that all the shows have been broadcast, I’m not going to spoiler tag any thing. If you haven’t seen these shows, well, too fucking bad.

In order of least suck to most suck:

House: OK, the “House’s Head/Wilson’s Heart” dual show was, quite possibly, some of the best TV since “A trip to the Dentist / Leave it to Beaver” (last two shows of Veronica Mars, season one, and the best scripted TV, ever). I’ll even give that it was better than “Not Pictured” (end of Veronica Mars season 2). Not better than “Spit & Eggs” (the end of the rape arc of Season 3 Veronica Mars), but better than “Hush” (Season 4, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and “”Once More, with Feeling”", the musical episode in season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

A note:

If you add in “Aftershock”, (episode 134 of Law and Order), “Smile Time”,”"Hero” and “Not Fade Away” from “Angel”, the “Bete Noire/Twilight/Kill Ari” arc of NCIS and the “Lady Heather” episodes of CSI you have my list of best scripted TV shows in the last 15 some odd years.

OK, back to why “House” sucked this year. Well, they started the season with the whole game show thing to choose the new team. “Cut Throat Bitch/Amber” was the last one not to make the team, but comes back as Wilson’s girlfriend, then is killed. Then they toss in “13″ having the gene for ‘Huntington’s chorea’, well, just a big bummer of an ending.

NCIS:
The good: They killed off Director Shepard.
The bad: They broke up the team.
Hopefully they will stop with the bizarre idea of the director of NCIS being active in field ops, much less going off solo and getting into gun fights with Russian spies. Pretty much any NCIS episode where Jenny Shepard was important in either sucked or was off the wall, or, normally both.

Shark:
Just should have ended at “Bar Fight”. The last 3 shows didn’t seem like they fit in with the rest of the season. “Wayne’s World 3: Killer Shark” didn’t feel like a series finale, it felt like a normal mid season show. Odd pacing, to say the least. Plus, given my own personal life the whole “Julie and her boyfriend” arc was off putting, to say the least.

CSI:Las Vegas (yes, I know not really the name, but just want to be sure you know which one I mean.) Of the “young turks” (tm TWOP), they got rid of my two favorites, Sara and Warwick.

Bones:
It’s a toss up between the existence of Dr. Sweets, the 24-year old psychologist who TPTB have Booth and Brennan see or them having Dr. Zack Addy ending up being the apprentice of “The Gormogon” serial killer. I literally screamed at the TV when I saw Dr. Sweets as a regular in the credits for one show. Of course me screaming at the TV isn’t all that odd.

This season has sucked, and sucked hard.

On the reality shows I watch, well, Top Chef isn’t over, so I don’t know about it, but their is a 75% chance that I’ll be happy with who ever wins. My personal favorite is Stephanie, followed by Antonia, and has been from the first show this season, but I could live with Richard winning. Lisa, well, not so much, however better her than Spike, who lasted way to freaking long.

On “Project Runway”, what the hell happened to Chris March? I suspect that if he didn’t use human freaking hair as a major part of his final collection he would have done better. The look on Michael Kors face when he heard Chris say the fringe was human hair was second only to Michael’s general reaction to the whole WWE Divas challenge. Both high giggle factors TV moments.

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