Geeks, Heroes, and Alcohol
Every Monday night some friends and I get together - hanging out, watching tv, talking, etc. We were excited about a new season and new shows, so we kicked it off at 8 with the season premier of “How I met your mother” (aka HIMYM) which is a terrible title for a sitcom, but the show is great. HIMYM is a show about 5 friends in their late 20’s/early thirties living in NY. While the basic premise sounds an awful lot like “Friends” but it is very good and surprisingly fresh.
Also starting at 8 was “Chuck” a new show (highly touted by my friend Anthony). Chuck is a nerd who is paired up with a beautiful CIA operative and thrown into the life of national security espionage. During commercial breaks of HIMYM we’d flip over to Chuck - it had its moments, but I wasn’t overly impressed. Seemed a bit like “Alias” meets “40 year old virgin”.
Interestingly enough, the other “nerd meets attractive blonde” new comedy “Big Bang Theory” on at the same time was just fun. The nerdiness in this is so over-the-top that it is hysterical (the nerds appear to be young CalTech professors, and the blonde is a waitress at the cheesecake factory). I’m pretty sure I’ll be seeing that one again.
And Heroes - not as great as I was hoping - but I’ll keep watching. I’m not sure how I feel about Hiro being in the 1600’s, but I guess he becomes the real “Kenesi” (I thought his father was the real one). We met a couple new characters, Maya (somehow managed to kill everyone making them bleed from their eyes), Alejandro (Maya’s protective brother), the guy recruiting Mohinder (who turns the spoon to gold), and Claire’s new male friend (another flier).
I’m a disappointed that they are already repeating powers (Nathan already flies) but I assume they are going somewhere with it (Sylar and Peter’s powers while very similar were in fact very different - making them great foils). Creative new powers like Issac being able to paint the future made season 1 not just seem like a retelling of the X-Men comics. Hopefully we will see other new powers, and not just pairing existing powers with a new personality.
10pm on Mondays, the best show that no one has ever seen comes on - “Three Sheets” on MOJO. This fantastic show chronicles Zane Lamprey as he does a pub crawl across the world. If you get MOJO, do yourself a favor and check out this show (and if you don’t, you can watch a full episode on their website). Very high production value (the high quality HD is lost online) and you learn something every show - it is just entertaining…
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