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Written by sdettorre

With the Sweeps in full effect, or so it seems, nearly every show is running new episodes in hope of pulling in viewers to get them the all-important Nielsen ratings. Since I really only watch a handful of shows on a religious basis, the observation about all shows being new episodes really only relates to the ones I’ve been watching. But just like the saying if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise, I ask you if Courting Alex airs a new episode and no one watches it, did it really happen? Here are some observations and re-caps of the shows I’ve been tuning in to.

The OC
This show has gotten worse and worse this entire season. To quote my brother “nothing happens on this show”, and he’s right. The biggest cliffhanger from week to week is will Marissa hook up with the dirty surfer Volcheck or Sandy’s slimy business partner Matt. Ryan is pursuing the cousin of a guy who died because he couldn’t have Marissa. Seth just isn’t the same witty person he was before he was getting regular action with Summer. When high schools kids aren’t getting laid they need to turn their energies elsewhere, like making the home audience laugh. For shame Seth, for shame. Summer’s dad and Marissa’ mom appear to be getting familiar with one another in an adult kind of way. How anyone can shack up with Julie Cooper is beyond me. I know the show needs to give her a love interest but this woman has been with more men than Paris Hilton and seems to use her daughter Marissa’s connections to meet them. She slept with Marissa’s ex-boyfriend Luke, Marissa’s boyfriend’s guardian’s dad and now Marissa’s best friend’s father. In the old days people had children to help them work the field. It seems Julie had Marissa to help her work a different kind of field.

24
In the span of two weeks the show killed off three key characters. Edgar’s death was shocking and left a lot of viewers upset. Add in the unspoken affection between Edgar and Chloe and it gave his death all the more impact. But Tony’s death should have happened in the season’s first episode. His role was non-existent for the 10 or so episodes between his injury and death. Sean Astin’s death was heroic in a manner of speaking. He gave his own life in order to seal off the toxic nerve gas flowing through CTU. Granted it was his fault the gas was there in first place but giving his own life for others allowed him to atone for that error. It’s too bad the CTU agents trapped in the sealed rooms weren’t chanting Rudy, Rudy, Rudy as he saved the day, but I bet his old Notre Dame coach would have been proud. After CTU was saved and Jack caught a connection to the terrorists, it seems the most useless character on the show, Audrey Gaines, is a mole working against CTU for the terrorists. CTU has seen more moles than a dermatologist. Only time will tell if this is true about Audrey. I hope it is because it would give her some quality other than a weeping ex-girlfriend who wants to know if Jack still loves her. Good to see our national security is in such good hands.

The War at Home
Sandwiched between two cartoons on FOX Sunday night, this show features Michael Rapaport who is in his own right a cartoon character. Think of the characters this guy has played in the past and almost everyone is almost so annoying and ear-piercing that the only explanation is he was created by someone else. The list of such characters includes Denny in Small Time Crooks, Superboy in Cop Land and Paul in Beautiful Girls. All great movies, all impacted by the genius that is Rapaport. In The War at Home he is the father of the house and often has amusing sidebars with his family. For example when he thought his high school daughter wanted to get a bikini wax he said “you don’t prune the hedges unless you’re expecting company in the front yard.” He also encourages his sons to fight each other and always has a beer in his hand when he’s home. When is Inside The Actors Studio going to feature Michael Rapaport? This honor is more overdue than Jerry Seinfeld’s copy of Tropic of Cancer.

The Gauntlet
I can’t get enough of this show. I am amazed at how serious the contestants take themselves as opposed to how serious they take the opportunity to win $150,000+. If I had a race the next day and it helped me reach the goal of $150,000 there is no way I’d be out drinking, smoking and doing who knows what in front of a TV camera. I’d be doing it where the cameras weren’t. This show has the type of people I can’t stand to be around such as drama queens, chauch-bag meatheads, and drunks who want to fight all the time, both male and female. However, as much as I would probably hate being in a room with every single one of the contestants, as a group I can’t help but watch. Plus I like the theme song.

The Sopranos
Speaking of great theme songs, the 6th season of The Sopranos kicked off with Johnny Sack in jail, Phil Leotardo burying the hatchet between him and Tony, Christopher was made a captain, AJ is in college and some guy named Gene is looking for a way out of the family business. By the end of the 1st episode Gene took his own life, Bobby was playing with a train set and Uncle Junior shot Tony thinking he was a nemesis from the old days. Tony is now in a coma and his family and friends are hoping he pulls through but at the same time making plans for life without him. It is early on in the season but the power struggle in place of Tony has all the makings of great television. Not to mention AJ failing out of school and vowing to avenge his father’s shooting, the FBI looking for a new informer since the last three they had died or “disappeared”, and Uncle Junior either going in a nursing home or going to prison. But if there’s one thing that this show needs that will keep its ratings high and viewers tuned in, it’s more dialogue between Paulie Walnuts and Christopher Moltisanti. They should be chasing Russians through the New Jersey woods and eating frozen ketchup packets in every episode.

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