TV Night Done Right

Wow,  wow, wow. It was TV overload for sure on all leading ("leading"-- you'll understand soon) networks on Tuesday. NBC, ABC, and FOX went guns-a-blazing with all your guilty pleasures. In a world of HULU and TiVo all networks are winners but there are some shows you want to watch first in that exact moment. I never experienced a tug-of-war with television in my life before.

After watching all contenders I do have to say, I picked the wrong one :(.


I picked...

Oh Glee. I should have known better. I have been having a love/hate relationship with you lately and although you do fulfill some aspects you're not completely satisfying anymore. I was going to go into my whole Edward Cullen reference with a vampire and tofu analogy but too lazy to research full wording. (If you're a dork like me, you knew what I was talking about.)

Anyway, who was I kidding? I knew I wasn't going to like this episode from the get-go. Please no more Gaga-inspired episodes. She is not Mother Teresa. She was exciting the beginning but now I'm so over her. She is not the answer to anything and there is no "Gaga" curriculum. And please don't encourage you're students to wear meat dresses...e coli, pink eye, I don't know what else you can get from that but it's a waste of time.

I could go on and on about the whole Gaga thing because I feel like there are other great songs and more things Glee should be doing. I think the show should be called Gleega. Everything Gaga and cliche= Glee.

So many wrong things about this episode. However there are some good. Let's go: (New Plus and Minus system)

+ Rachel's Marcia Brady moment. But seriously Finn didn't hit her that hard.

- What is McKinely's fine arts department budget? (Seriously?! In time when fine arts are being pulled out of this school these Glee kids have budget to boot! A full on orchestra ready at the command of Mr. Schue or Rachel Berry. It's crazy! I need to teach there. Ohio is where the money is, apparently).
+ Lauren and Puck. I'm really routing for these two! They are so cute. Puck: "My permanent record has three volumes."
- The Warblers. Dalton Academy bugs me. They are like the Stepford Wives of an all boys school. However, I'm sad to see them all go but now we're stuck with Blaine. Warblers! Come back! Leave Blaine at Dalton!
+ Quinn. I really do enjoy the character. She's not that bad after all. I didn't think that the whole Lucy Caboosey story line was necessary but it showed that Quinn wasn't one dimensional. Bravo Dianna Argon!
- Flash mob. Flash mob's are cool. Flash mob's that repeat the name Barbara Streisand over and over and
over again are pointless and horrific!
+ Sam. More Sam please. I love his horrible impersonations. I think Sam and Mercedes should get together. Both of them need love! Could you imagine their babies??

+++ I do have to commend the writers of Glee about Emma's story line this week. I think it was an informative approach the mental illness and it was done tastefully. ++++

- In all, I had really negative feelings about this episode. I'm not going to talk about some agenda but I think their approach of being "Born this way" was wrong and too much. For example, the t-shirts just ruined it.  Yes, I went to the shirts, I am that literal. Some things you're not "Born this way". Brittany wasn't born "Stoopid", Puck's man love wasn't Stupid either and Artie didn't appear out of his mother's womb with glasses. I know I didn't; I sat too close to the television (It's true kiddos). I just think this was a just campy way to sing a song that is already campy and pointless anyways. Gaga doesn't work all the time. And she didn't last night and it really didn't have to be 90 minutes long.

I think if Glee went this route, which they were trying to do, it would have been so much better.

What I should have watched:

The Voice!


I read on Vulture that so many people switched over from Glee to this show. I didn't get the memo. I am now kicking myself for it.

I was kinda skeptical because with the way American Idol is just kicking a dead horse when it's down, it's the last music reality show that I needed. I mean Carson Daly (CARSON DALY-TRL-MTV PIONEER- CARSON DALY) is the host. If you grew up in MTV golden years you would know what that means. The man is a great host. That should have just won it over for me but it felt like too much. It seems a little bit too much of X-Factor/American Idol/ America's Got Talent for me... but I was WRONG.

Yes there is that formula but there is one specific factor in it. The coaches (not judges), coaches are good. We have CeeLo, X-tina, and Adam Levine. They are KNOWN for their talent, not their gimmicks, although some may have failed them in the past (Christina) but their voice can stand alone and sets them apart from everyone else.

For those of you who missed. It's really good and I think you would like it. Here's the gist from the first night episode:

Concept:

For coaches (Xtina, Levine, CeeLo and Blake Shelton) first pick 8 contestants to be on their team from a blind audition. The coaches have their backs to the singers and if they like what they hear they hit a button, the bottom of their chair lights up "I Want You" and their Dr. Evil chair swivels around. If two or more coaches want to work with the contestant, the contestant themselves gets to choose. How amazing is that?! I mean you have to be amazing first of all to get the attention of those artist. But to PICK. Craziness.


And then they build their super team, have a dog fight (not literally PETA) and then someone wins money and contract. Blah. Blah. Blah. But good! I say check it out and hopefully Idol will go away.

Dunkleman

Snuffy

I mean America (yes, US) should take a few notes from the Brits. They stopped Pop Idol (Idol's mommy) years ago. I'm pretty sure those presenters went over to X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent or something. I mean, who are you going to have host US X-Factor? Brian Dunkleman? No one knows who that is! If you are looking for him, he's in Ryan Seacrest imagination, next to Snuffleupagus. (Meaning I have a bit of Brain Dunkleman in my imagination too because I know who Snuffy is).

Well give The Voice a chance.

A lot of people did. 15 million viewers you guys! Beating out Dancing with the Stars, Glee and Idol. Hooray! See NBC?! You can still do it. Just don't let Jay Leno do anything else because he already had a part in one of my favorite shows death: Heroes. Yes Leno killed Heroes. Stupid 10 o'clock show....


Ending the night:

It was guilty pleasure night on Dancing with the Stars. I don't know what that means but there was a mega boyband and Hanson.

I love the Backstreet Boys, I love New Kids on the Block, I don't know how I feel about a mega BOYBAND but my inner teeny bopper will take it. I saw NKOTB two summers ago and I still screamed my head off.

I think I will be hearing a lot of backlash from the other half of this blog, but don't you think that  the Backstreet Boys should have taken some real time off? Like the New Kids? Just a suggestion... (PAULA).

So anyways back to their performances. I don't care so much for the mega boyband song but hooray for the oldies. Did you see Marky Mark's brother get down? I guess he will be a front runner for next year's cast.

However, Hanson had the best performance of the night. They have always been fun. I was totally jamming out to "MmmBop".

Lastly, who is this Pia girl? She didn't win Idol right? So why is she all over the place like she did? I mean, she's no J-Hud, Clay Aiken, or that kid. I didn't know that you could just go on to another network like that. Isn't there a contract? I mean Dancing with the Stars and American Idol are competition. It's like the guy who owns Pepsi having his house stocked up on Coca-Cola. Does anyone else see this madness???

Anyways, it was long post. If you made it through the whole thing, you clearly have nothing else to do and we should be best friends :)