Secret Secret Stash
Gilmore Girls: Last year, we had to suffer through half a season of Lorelai and Rory not talking (which, let’s face it, is what the show is about). This year, Luke and Lorelai hardly have any scenes together, and Logan is pretty much a bit player. What’s left? Why do I still watch the show? Right now, it’s to see what happens between Rory and Marty. Now there’s a relationship with some quirky nuances, the kind the show used to have in spades.
Friday Night Lights: If this show were only about football, it would still be pretty good. There was no game in tonight’s show, and it allowed the characters to come through with a little more depth. The Riggins boys have a close relationship, tempered by the different ways they see their father’s abandonment. Billy really wants to be the father figure in the household, but he’s not sure how to do it. Tim’s life is way too complicated, but even so, it’s probably better for the two of them to work things out than for a disconnected father to be in the picture.
The really interesting dynamic tonight was between Matt and Smash. Matt really doesn’t need the kind of advice Smash is trying to give him about girls, but I think he’s doing it to make up for the fact that he’s betraying him in other ways. In the end, it’s really himself that Smash is deceiving, but it’s going to take some time for him to realize that.
House: Who won the Emmy for best actor in a drama series? It wasn’t Hugh Laurie, was it? In fact, he wasn’t even nominated, was he? The deterioration of House (the man, not the series) this season, in the face of the relentless Detective Tritter, is even more intricately developed than one of his cases (House’s, not Tritter’s, although he has shown some remarkable ingenuity in his pursuit of House). The show is taking a look at addiction and withdrawal through the eyes of House himself, and everyone around him, and each character sees it a little differently. That’s what makes great drama, but it takes great acting to sell it. Come on, Emmy voters.
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