The Unfiltered Ramblings of a DVR Addict

It’s Award Season Time- Golden Globe Nominations Announced Today

Well it’s getting to be time of year again.  The time when we start looking to the Hollywood Foreign Press to tell us what is worth of receiving a trophy and what isn’t.  I never put much stock into the Golden Globes, but it is a good indication of who will be nominated for an [...]

Top 15 of the Past Decade

Last week The Hollywood Reporter posted their ten best shows of the past decade.  This week Entertainment Weekly came out with their best of the decade list.  I want to make it clear that I still think we have another year left in this decade.  After all decades start with a 1 and end with [...]

JoeOnTheTube Will Be Right Back Folks

JoeOnTheTube has spent the last 24 hours with his wife who just gave birth to JoeOnTheTubeJr. last night. 
So that means no reviews of Community or 30 Rock today since I didn’t get to see either one.  My goal is to have them up by Monday.  Of course we will still have RealityRawks’s review of the [...]

The Office 609: Double Date plus "Male Primadonna" web video

Another solid episode of The Office. Lots of good things happening here, with some terrific lines.
Functionally, it got rid of Pam’s mom as Michael’s girlfriend (good thing), it maintained Pam’s crazy spats and Jim’s fear of said crazy spats (good thing, although I hope the spats don’t disappear once she delivers the baby), and [...]

The Office 607: "The Lover" Frank and Beans!

Another great episode for the second week in a row, slowly making up for the wedding aisle dance-or-rama spectacular.
Okay, I’ll stop busting on the wedding aisle dance. The awful one.
Jim and Pam return from their honeymoon and are greeted by none other than Blind Guy McSqueezy…
…Michael’s new character that the women in his improv [...]

The Office 605: "Mafia" in which Michael Scott orders gabagool

Nice rebound from last week’s wedding aisle dance spectacular with an episode that revolved around an absurd situation that had just enough credibility to hook us and the dolt triumvirate, aka Michael-Dwight-Andy aka the best thing about the show at this point. I’m thankful the writers didn’t worry about advancing story arcs and just focused [...]

The Office 603: "Niagara"

My greatest fear right now is that we may have just witnessed the exact moment The Office jumped the shark.
The wedding aisle dance.
I’m not saying this is definitely IT, because of course I can’t predict the future quality of the show. But it’s a benchmark. It’s definitely…something.
(sidenote: Can you believe the “JK wedding dance” video [...]

The Office 6.3: "The Promotion"

This season has been all about strengthening the two essential truths of the show:

Steve Carell IS the show; he’s the tent pole, the most hilarious and talented actor in the cast and they’re incredibly lucky that he decided to stay on the show even after his movie career took off. Only he can sell a [...]

The Office 6.2: "The Meeting" Michael betrays Jim, Dwight and Toby team up and I get discriminated against for not having a wide-screen TV

This was a solid episode of The Office.  Not as many big laughs as the season premiere last week, but some really funny set pieces, great dialogue moments and big plot points formed what looks to be a pivotal chapter in Dunder Mifflin history.
A central conflict built around Michael’s betrayal of Jim leads to a [...]

The Office 601: "Gossip"

Here’s the greatest thing about the opening of the sixth season of The Office: no one has EVER yelled “parkour!” while doing parkour.
That is, until the three worst practitioners of parkour came along, five years too late, no less: Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute and Andy “the nard-dog” Bernard.  We know this will not end well, [...]