Domestic Psychology

quickie tv comments

// October 11th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // television

House: Last week, one character went too far and we see how the person leaving the show will be exiting. I am now seriously eager for the series to have character development and closure.

Heroes: A transitional episode to kick start action and repair the wrong done last season. Could everyone hear me screaming “YES” during the final scene?

Stargate Universe: I don’t know the characters well enough for all this skipping around and stop with the Battlestar parallels please.

Sanctuary: Except for the 3-way split screens, the series is even better than last season.

Psych: I can’t believe there’s only one episode left this season.

Monk: Last week, the series shifted gears, but it felt like a one-episode change. This week’s episode was funny, sweet and clearly the beginning of the end.

House vs Heroes

// September 28th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // television

Monday nights at 8 pm, I am still tucking children into bed and getting things ready for the next morning. Sometime between 9 and 10 pm, I settle in for an hour of recorded television. Every Monday, it comes down to a choice between House and Heroes.

Heroes is fluffy fun and I should be able to turn off my brain and escape while watching it. Instead, an irritating plot choice they made last season is going to be one of the main driving forces of this season and it keeps distracting me. There is no way to move beyond this point without something as ridiculous as ‘Pam dreamed it’. Heroes is capable of making common comic book themes look clever and making villains likable. They don’t seem capable of consistency.

House started off this season with a beautiful episode that secretly revealed that old sitcom sidekicks end up in psychiatric hospitals. It also sets the stage for the bi-annual House goes off and back on his meds season. Everyone ignores the lack of personal growth in the characters because they are so interesting to watch. No matter how darkly comic House is, eventually real life tragedies that prove there are no all-knowing medical detectives coming to the rescue will send viewers elsewhere.

I like both House and Heroes, but I secretly wish that SyFy would take ownership of Heroes and Dr. House would experience enough happiness to end the show.

24 hours from serious to silly

// April 27th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Doug, health, kid quotes, people, television

Doug: “There’s an ambulance at the retirement home.”
Me: “Seniors do like to visit Mexico.”
Doug: “Must be swine flu.”

K: cough-cough
T: “Got some swine flu K?”

Doug: “My head is splitting.”
Me: “Swine flu. Shouldn’t have gone to Market Square Friday night.”

Amy: “What’s swine?”
Me: “Pigs.”
Amy: “Why are the pigs sick?”

Dear Heroes,

// March 10th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // television

You owe royalties to Pixar and everyone who worked on The Incredibles after yesterday’s episode and the babysitter scene. Seriously dudes.

Thanks,
Cathy

Wednesdays good/bad

// March 4th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // me, parenting, school, television, travel

Bad Wednesdays:
Drive to preschool.
Drive home.
Drive to high school.
Drive home.
Drive to middle school.
Drive home.

Good Wednesdays:
LOST

Great Wednesdays:
Everyone is FINALLY back on the island!

random Heroes thoughts

// February 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // television

• Raise your hand if you think “Rebel” is Queen of Mean Mama Petrelli.
• Similarly, is anyone else sick to death of Nathan the self-centered jerk?
• Why do the writers hate good guy Matt?
• Hiro and Ando’s chemistry is absent this season.
• Am I the only person who thinks the show’s “bad guy” is the best character on the show?

snakes <3 comic books

// February 2nd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // pets, television

Heroes returns tonight and although this pleases me, I think that our snake, Bahamut is thrilled. Snakes like comic book television. Well, I think they do anyway. Maybe he just likes Heroes because I get him out of his aquarium and let him watch Heroes with me. Either way, it’s a good night.

quickie LOST questions

// January 28th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // television

Is Daniel Faraday Charlotte’s father?

Is Sawyer the inspiration for the 4-toed statue?

Are Daniel and Richard related? Is one of them the evil twin? Or is Richard Daniel’s father and the teeny soldier with braids Daniel’s mother?

Are Adam & Eve, Penny & Desmond?

Why is Juliette so calm?

Where is Walt?

just one LOST question

// January 21st, 2009 // 5 Comments » // television

Who is Desmond?

tv jingles jangling around my brain

// November 27th, 2004 // 9 Comments » // life, music, television

Remember when the only cartoons were on Saturday mornings and they were the best shows in the world? Do you remember Captain Kangaroo? Bozo? Electric Company?