Posted October 16, 2010 Comments Off
- Entourage (HBO) Just when we thought the show was about lose some of its luster, a lot like Vinny Chase post Medellin, writers amped it up a notch and returned the show to glory. Delving into more substance, even substance abuse, the show once again managed to capture waning viewer interested even among longtime followers. After all, you can only spend so much money and sleep with so many babes, right?
- Californication (Showtime) From the first scene of the first episode we were hooked, though truth be told it may have been the most sacrilegiously irreverent 5 minutes in TV history. Now in its 4th season Californication has done little to disappoint. Follow Hank Moody on his life as a writer, not the pent up English teacher with arthritis in his typing fingers you might expect from unmistakably drab connotations regarding the writing discipline, but a womanizing wannabe family man, caught between his writer’s block, misguided self-identity and his own commercial success.
- East Bound & Down (HBO) After a brief 6 episode season 1, Kenny Powers jerseys have already been flying off the figurative shelves. Eerily reminiscent in tolerance for minorities, women and others to former Atlanta Braves closing pitcher John Rocker, Powers a fellow former MLB closer (also starting with the Braves) struggles get back into the majors without changing his hard partying attitude or reputation. After a stint spent teaching P.E. in his hometown of Shelby, North Carolina, season 2 opens with Powers cock-fighting in Mexico before finally making his way to the field for the local Mexican league team. The fictional powers has also already branded a line of training shoes, K-Swiss Tubes, and can seen working out alongside fellow athletes in clever commercials than augment the series.