If you love fall weather, than you couldn't get any more perfect than here in the Chicagoland area today: 54 degrees, cloudy but not the kind that usually brings rain with it and winds between 5-10 mph N NE. Now I don't know about you, but that is easily one of my top three weather conditions. It just makes me feel alive. So, I feel good right now. Good enough to, I don't know...announce my picks for some of the week's bests. Here they are now.
TV Series Premiere of the Week: "Boardwalk Empire"
HBO might have just gotten their groove back after getting it stolen from AMC with "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad." For the past summer, the big hype going around TV land was the upcoming debut of this new show about Atlantic City, New Jersey set during the Prohibition era in the 1920s created by Emmy winning Sopranos writer Terrence Winter that stars Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Michael K. Williams from "The Wire" and had a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese. It even gained more hype over the last few weeks when almost every TV critic who watched it before Sunday thought that it was awesome. So, the 9 p.m. hour on September 19th finally arrived, I watched it all, and like I said on my Random Thoughts column the day after, I loved it too. It's certainly one of the best pilots that I have ever seen, and the show looks promising enough to finally give "Mad Men" its first competition in the Best Drama category for this year. But then again, I wasn't really that surprised, what with the description of the show. Other thoughts about all of the series premieres that occured this week...
-Runner-Up Pilot This Week: "The Event." Sure it did not give us a single clue about what this freakin' event is, but I still found it entertaining.
- Best New Comedy Pilot of the Week: "Running Wilde." Maybe it's because I had low expectations for it because of the disappointing reviews by critics or maybe it's because it was much better than the awful "Raising Hope" pilot, but there were a lot of funny moments in it for me that will make me stick around. But then again, I probably would have watched the next episode no matter how good it was what with my love of "Arrested Development" and the fact that the show was created by Mitch Hurwitz and stars Will Arnett, two people that were part of the show.
- Worst Pilot: "Shit My Dad Says" I actually missed the "30 Rock" season premiere to watch it. One of the worst decisions I made this week. I wish I had those thirty minutes back to do it all over again.
Stories of the Week:
- The Actual Story of the Week: NBER declares 'Great Recession' of 2008-2010 Over
So...are economy is back to being good again?
- The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week: Stephen Colbert Appears in Congressional Hearing in Character, Talks About Migrant Workers
It was so big, the ratings for C-SPAN 3 jumped 200x. And by 200x, I mean from 12 people to 24 people. Seriously, though, I didn't mind the hearing as much as other people. So he said a few jokes, big deal. In my opinion, satire is one of the truest forms of expression in this country. Heck, there were even times in his hearing where he sounded more reasonable and honest than some Congressman on this topic.
Reunion of the Week: Joaquin Phoenix on "The Late Show with David Letterman"
I'm too lazy to make a joke on this one, so I'm just going to re-write what Dan Hopper on BestWeekEver.tv wrote about it:
"Waaaaaiitttttt aaaaa minnnuttteee… In this Letterman clip, Joaquin Phoenix doesn’t have a beard and sunglasses anymore and he seems lucid and polite and is responding to simple questions. If I didn’t know better,
and daggummit I thinks I do, I’d almost think that when Joaquin Phoenix had a beard and sunglasses and kept appearing everywhere doing nonsensical raps and falling down and ending up on the internet on a
daily basis with every website claiming that he’s faking, that it was some sort of JOKE.
and daggummit I thinks I do, I’d almost think that when Joaquin Phoenix had a beard and sunglasses and kept appearing everywhere doing nonsensical raps and falling down and ending up on the internet on a
daily basis with every website claiming that he’s faking, that it was some sort of JOKE.
Boom – cracked the case. Right here, right now, for the first time ever. I am now an official sleuth! Someone just handed me a detective cap, a giant magnifying glass, and a bloodhound"
My favorite parts were the times Letterman was just plain mean to Phoenix. Looks like he was still pretty made about the last time they met.
Video of the Week: "Divorce Lawyer Tells It Like It Is"
Great divorce attorney advertisement...or greatest divorce attorney advertisement?
Lame Controversy of the Week: Katy Perry's Sketch on "Sesame Street" is Cut From Show
Great, a second week in a row in which we had Katy Perry part of some lame moment. Can't they just re-do this segment with a dress that doesn't show off her boobs? Did they really need to cut it at all? Sometimes I just think that those parents are doing it out of pure boredom.
Person of the Week: Michigan State University's Head Football Coach Mark Dantonio
for the huge balls that he had in the end of last Saturday's game against Notre Dame. The quick recap: down by three in overtime against Notre Dame, the Spartans faced 4th down and brought their field goal team out on the field to attempt a 46 yard field goal to tie things up at 27 and send the game to a second overtime, at least that's what most of us had thinking. Instead, here's what really happened:
Good Lord, Coach Dantonio's balls must have been on the ground when he made that call! First of all, everything on that play had to be perfect, from the snap being well done to the receiver getting open to the kicker making a perfect pass in the endzone to even the refs not calling what most likely should have been a delay of game penalty. Second, if it hadn't worked Dantonio would have probably faced big scrutiny all across Michigan and around the world for doing what seemed like an idiotic thing. But it did, the Spartans won without having to play another overtime period, and Mike Dantonio came out of it a genius. What's even more interesting after it all occurred, coach Dantonio had to go to the hospital for a clogged blood vessel! Going for the irrationally balsy move to win a game when you could have gone for the tie...and going to the hospital right after?!?! Now that, my friend, is someone I can get behind!
And that's the way it is! Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everybody!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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