Desi and Super Meg watched Vampire Diaries last season, and although they said it was awesome, I was a bit skeptical. I've read the Twilight series twice, and Robert Pattinson is officially on my bucket list (although I'll always be more of a Cedric Diggory fan than an Edward Cullen one). I just thought that vampires were taking over the entertainment industry, and this show was just jumping on the band wagon. Yesterday afternoon, however, I got sucked into a "what you missed last year on Vampire Diaries" slide show on ew.com... conveniently just in time for the season 2 premiere. So Desi and I sat down with some tomato, basil, mozzarella on toasted baguettes last night and watched the premiere. I have to say, I was very impressed. It's extremely fast-paced, juicy, shocking, and dramatic with a few comedic lines delivered perfectly by Damon (the "is he a hero or a villain?" character). Nina Dobrev was also impressive, playing both Elena and Katherine. In a scene as Katherine, she runs into Elena's ex-boyfriend Matt (right?) and has to be pretend she is Elena. Her seamless transition showed her acting chops, as well as how creepy Katherine truly is. There's still a lot to learn about this show, but ew.com's slide show certainly prepared me for season 2. Here's the link: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20302134_20419815,00.html.
I'm also generally impressed with The CW's line-up. 90210 got significantly better in season 2 than it was in season 1, and Gossip Girl continues to suck me in, even though I find myself yelling at Serena every week. Don't worry: these shows will never make me forgive The CW for canceling Everwood and renewing freaking 7th Heaven during the WB/UPN 38 merger. I don't think anything will.
Since Ausiello is my guide to new TV shows (http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/), I also decided I needed to watch some Cougar Town. What a terrible name... it honestly kept me from watching this hilarious show starring 3 amazing leading ladies. I thought Courteney Cox was one of the strongest points on Friends (Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc reallly didn't do it for me), Christa Miller was one of my favorite characters on Scrubs, and Busy Philips is amazing in anything... anyone who stars in Freaks and Geeks, Dawson's Creek, and How I Met Your Mother is okay by me. So I watched the five available episodes on hulu.com yesterday, the first being when Jules (CCox) crashes through a fence and into the pool of a potential client because she was distracted by talking on her cell. In an attempt to prove she can change, she decides to give up drinking wine for a month. Even though I missed the first 17 episodes of the first season, I knew this would be an unlikely accomplishment... girlfriend fills her wine glasses up to the BRIM. I learned that in the first 2 minutes of the ep. "They say you can get 4 glasses out of one bottle of wine, but I'm only getting about one and a half." A week into her resolution, Jules is super chipper, getting up really early to paint her friend's mailbox, learning Mandarin, calling her friends at ungodly times in the morning since she doesn't have to sleep off a wine hangover anymore. Naturally, her friends stage an intervention, telling her she needs to start drinking again. The intervention of course reminded me of HIMYM, but in a fond way... not a "Jim and Pam get secretly married first by themselves and then get married in front of their families ripping off Marshall and Lily's wedding from THREE SEASONS earlier in himym" way. Anyway, I'll be sure to checking in on Jules and the gang for season 2.
Side note: I noticed this year during the Emmy's that I really only watch comedies. Apart from Grey's Anatomy and Friday Night Lights, I don't watch any dramas. Any suggestions?
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