Pop Culture Curmudgeon » gilmore girls http://popculturecurmudgeon.com Pop culture news and analysis Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Some of Our Favorites Return http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/10/some-of-our-favorites-return/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/10/some-of-our-favorites-return/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:42 +0000 Jennifer Roland http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/?p=1337
By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Lauren Graham is joining the cast of NBC’s Parenthood. You may also have heard that Matthew Perry is coming back to network television with a show for ABC and Amy Sherman-Palladino is writing a series for HBO. I was happy to see Jenna Elfman, Courteney Cox, and Dan Byrd [...]]]> By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Lauren Graham is joining the cast of NBC’s Parenthood.

You may also have heard that Matthew Perry is coming back to network television with a show for ABC and Amy Sherman-Palladino is writing a series for HBO.

I was happy to see Jenna Elfman, Courteney Cox, and Dan Byrd back on TV this fall, even though I’m not watching Accidentally on Purpose and Cougar Town is a DVR-only show.

What actors do you want to see back on TV?

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]]> http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/10/some-of-our-favorites-return/feed/ 0 Visions of Winchesters: The Supernatural Variety, March 25 Edition http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/03/visions-of-winchesters-the-supernatural-variety-march-25-edition/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/03/visions-of-winchesters-the-supernatural-variety-march-25-edition/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:35:57 +0000 Jennifer C. Rodland http://popculturecurmudgeon.wordpress.com/?p=565 Welcome to the March 25 edition of Visions of Winchesters: The Supernatural Variety. This blog carnival is brought to you by Pop Culture Curmudgeon.

Past Episode

M.R. Reed ruminates on the past two episodes at Eclipse Magazine.

Sci Fi Chick Suzanne recaps On the Head of a Pin.

And, Alice Jester closes this section with her review of the episode.

Tomorrow’s Episode

Seriously? OMG! WTF? has clips from tomorrow’s episode.

Daemon’s TV previews It’s a Terrible Life.

A.J. Buckley talks about his return to Supernatural as one of the polarizing Ghostfacers.

News

Fangoria presents a contest in which you can win Jensen’s bag from My Bloody Valentine.

An innocent question in the North Island Midweek from a former Gilmore Girls fan may bring more viewers into Supernatural. (I hope so. Gilmore Girls is the reason I started watching. It was the lead-in, and I was interested to see where Dean went after he finally broke up with Rory for good. Supernatural quickly filled the hole left in my heart when the X-Files got bad.)

Spoilers

No new spoilers this week.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of
Visions of Winchesters: The Supernatural Variety using carnival submission form. The submission deadline is next Tuesday at noon Pacific. The carnival will post next Wednesday.

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]]> http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/03/visions-of-winchesters-the-supernatural-variety-march-25-edition/feed/ 3 A Little Love for Friday Night Lights http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2008/01/a-little-love-for-friday-night-lights/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2008/01/a-little-love-for-friday-night-lights/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:45:00 +0000 Jennifer C. Rodland http://popculturecurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/a-little-love-for-friday-night-lights/ I’m kind of a serial monogamist with television–but I’m the really annoying kind who plays the field looking for the replacement lover while still with the other lover. I started watching Supernatural when it first came on because it came on right after Gilmore Girls, starred Rory’s best boyfriend ever (Jared Padalecki), and could possibly help me fill the hole left by the long decline and eventual end of the X-Files. Plus I thought my then-boyfriend (now hubby) would enjoy watching it with me while we talked on the phone in our long-distance-relationship days. He liked it so much that he started recording it for us to watch together on the weekends when we were at his place. So, when it made the move to the timeslot of death (9pm Thursday against the ratings juggernaut that is CSI), it didn’t matter to me because we watched it every other weekend anyway.

When in season 2, every good show was moved to 9pm Thursday (and when I say good show, I don’t mean CSI, which I would rather die than watch, but The O.C. and Grey’s Anatomy), I will admit that I forgot about my Winchester boys. DH still recorded Supernatural on the downstairs DVR, but I almost always forgot to make time to watch it. (I spent most of my time upstairs watching tv with the dog.) So I missed at least half of the season.

I watched the first episode of Season 3, as it premiered one week before The Office began, but no other eps–until the writer’s strike took The Office off the air. With my Thursday nights free once again, I went on a binge of SPN DVDs and reruns sure to make me completely obsessed with everything Winchester. Now that I’ve watched all of Seasons 1 and 2 and gotten caught up on Season 3, I’m floundering a little. I’m looking for the next great thing as I long for the new episode of Supernatural that they will play this Thursday.

Which is a really long way of saying that I had a mini-Friday Night Lights marathon last night when I couldn’t sleep. The joy of seeing the episode that guest starred Logan from Gilmore Girls (Matt Czuchry) AND Weevil from Veronica Mars (Francis Capra) was almost more than a little insomniac tv fan could stand. I know that the overly dramatic storylines that are being interspersed this season are not fan favorites, but I am willing to overlook them for the joy that is the rest of the show. I don’t know how the writers and actors manage it, but everything is so real. The way that the teens interact with one another is achingly realistic, and the way that the Coach and Tami interact as husband and wife is so understated and human.

So, if you haven’t seen this wonderful show before, do us all a favor and pick up the DVD os S1, find a way to get caught up on S2, and start watching this show regularly. Then convert all of your friends and family members. (Yes, I am relying on Sprint’s marketing tactics from the late 80s and early 90s. Or was it MCI?)

If FNL is not to your taste, then perhaps you will enjoy my other potential new love: Chuck. Geeky electronics store employee becomes clandestine CIA/NSA supercomputer. What’s not to love?

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