TUESDAY

Gilmore Girls:

There was a joke in this episode that Miss Patty thought that there was something different about the newly opened Luke’s restaurant and Luke over and over yelled (because that’s all he knows how to do) that nothing was different. It was a self-aware joke on the writers’ part, but one wonders how true it really is. After Amy Sherman-Palladino left the show this season something has seemed just a little…off. Yeah, it looks and feels just like the old Gilmore Girls, but is it? Am I to believe that Lorelai would fall for Christopher so easily after breaking up with Luke? One night stand mistake of a lifetime, sure, but going out on a date? And Rory? Give that girl something to do. When the biggest stress in her life is texting dirty messages to her newly adopted Brit boyfriend, something’s wrong. That said, whenever you have an episode with the elder Gilmores (specifically Emily), it tends to be one of the best episodes of the season.

Veronica Mars:

Veronica, the sorority girl? Sign me up! Oh, I love this show. I only wish that Wallace’s and Logan’s subplot involving the timely topic of prisoner torture had something to do with Veronica. I love Wallace and everything, but come on. You all know why I watch this show.

WEDNESDAY

America’s Next Top Model:

Yep, still love this show. My favorite right now? Caridee. She’s funny, hot, and knows how to take a fierce photo. Also, even though I thought it extremely stupid that the awkward, basketball-playing twins should even be in this competition, I’m quickly growing on the fact that somehow, week after week, their photos look fantastic. In person they are even starting to look better. I just wish the judges would now give them a picture assignment that allowed them to do something different from the other one. Come on, Siamese twins? I know we were all thinking it, but why not give the girls something different to do so that we can actually figure out which is which.

What’s nice is that after crazy Mo’ left last week it left room for half of the remaining girls to pull out their own crazy! You’ve got to love that. I also love that the cool “Rock n’ Roll!” girl stayed and the lame “Rock n’ ROLL!” girl left. I was so tired of her.

Lost:

Not as good as the season premiere, but still damn good. Hell, if it was better than the premiere we would be looking at the greatest show to ever grace television at this point (and we all know that that couldn’t be, as that show is called Battlestar Galatica). We learned a little more about Sun (I personally thought her part of the story was dreadfully dull, although Jun’s part…) and learned even less about who the Others are and what they want with the Castaways. Ben mentioned he’s lived there all of his life. Are they from another dimension, or has time slowed down on the island? That could be the only way to explain how Trixie from Deadwood got on the island…

The Nine:

I officially don’t give a shit about this show anymore. I want to know what happened in the bank. It appears the show isn’t going to tell me. That combined with the fact that everything after the robbery is far this side of boring means that I give up. I only like one character, that of Audry from 24, and honestly, I only like her because she was on 24. If only Jack could run in, hold a gun to everyone’s head, and yell at them to stop being pussies. That would make me tune in again next week. As it is, I just can’t do three straight hours of TV with commercials.

THURSDAY

Survivor:

I’m pretty sure that I will always love this show. This is also the only reality show that I want to be on THIS BAD. I could so win it, that is if I could physically survive the first day. Anyway, this week the men start working on the weak tribe, only to win a lame reward challenge and then suck it up again when it came time for Immunity. I liked the Immunity challenge. Anyone could have won it, and that’s what made it a nail biter.

If anything this show teaches you to watch what you say. When the week before you say that you should go home, but don’t really mean it, and then this week you mention that you’d really like to eat some mashed potatoes and gravy TONIGHT when your tribemate is talking about voting someone else out, you can’t really be surprised when everyone wants you out, even if you, again, didn’t mean it. People get rid of others for the stupidest reasons in this game. You’ve got to be on every second if you want to win, dammit!

Grey’s Anatomy:

Good episode. I liked all the stuff with McDreamy, McSteamy, McVet (who knew he could talk!) and McMorphine (my new name for Meredith). I kind of wonder what is up with George lately. He seems about as into his new girlfriend as he was with that nurse he dated last season. Can’t the guy have a love interest that he’s in love with, and is in love him back? It’s either one or the other with this guy.

My Name is Earl:

I still like this show, and it was fun to have a little “Time after Time” time with Randy. But it still nowhere near compares to our next show:

The Office:

Every show it seems that I say that this one was funnier than the last. And although it almost is never actually true, the genius of the show is that at least it feels that way. I laugh SO hard. Every week. As long as I have the Office I’ll never be sick, through the powers of positive thinking laughter healing. This week Michael gets all upset when his old boss died, mainly because he has his old boss’ job now and no one cares that he died, ie no one cares if Michael died. You’ve got to love a guy that gives a Viking funeral to a dead bird just so that he knows that he’s loved.

Meanwhile Jim flirts it up with Karen, AKA New-Pam. And she really likes him. And I somehow really like her. I hope this works out, at least for the near future or until Pam realizes that she really does love Jim. Which doesn’t look likely to happen, as her ex-fiancee is about twenty times more sweet and interesting post- being dumped than he ever was before. That’s OK. That gives us more Karen time. If only I could find a girl that smiled at me like she did Jim after shooting him in the face last week. This week it was a chip crusade. Karen had to get a project done, ASAP, and Jim was chosen as her project manager, which meant that the two of them had to track down the most impossible chip to find in the universe before they could start doing real work. (Seriously, not even in Montreal?) And lucky for the two of them, there seems to be a new Dwight, too.

(Dwight’s best moment had to be when he argued the merits of building a robot statue with Michael while Jan was still on the phone with them. He even drew a picture of a robot with a six-foot extension cord power supply attached so that the robot couldn’t kill us all. That Dwight, man. He is so thoughtful.)