Premier Week: Monday, September 20, 2010

For four months now, we all(me especially) have been waiting for this day to come. The beginning.....of premier week 2010. :)) Monday, September 20th marks the official start of premier week for the networks. Many shows are returning and many shows are brand spanking new. This is your Monday night coverage of most shows that I could fit into my schedule. 


How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, and Two and a Half Men were three of CBS's returning comedy shows...and as usually...they were hilarious. Some more than others. Rules of Engagement and How I Met Your Mother had one thing in common: babies. Lily and Marshall of How I Met Your Mother were wanting to have a baby, but Marshall's overly envolved dad was getting a little too annoying for Lily's liking and Jeff and Audrey of Rules of Engagement were trying to have a baby with that help of a surrogate, until the overly appalling, Russell, sleeps with her. Of the three comedies on Monday, Two and a Half Men is still my ultimate favorite. It is just hilarious. The show seems to have no boundaries what so ever, which makes it more fun. 


Mike & Molly is CBS's new comedy show that they picked up. It was much more enjoyable than veteran shows How I Met Your Mother and Rules of Engagement. The show is set in Chicago where Mike, portrayed by Billy Gardell, and Molly, portrayed by Melissa McCarthy, meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. The two definitely aren't the perfect match, but their sense of humor each of them share keep the chemistry between them burning. And I see Mike & Molly doing much better than Accidentally on Purpose last year and Worst Week the year before that, both of which were cancelled after one season, since Mike & Molly beat How I Met Your Mother and Rules of Engagement in ratings by almost 4 million people. 

The Event. OH MY GOD. The Event, what the efffffff??? This show...I'm just speechless...truly speechless. At first I wasn't sure if I was gonna like it or not...but how can you not like a show about an attempted terrorist attack on the white house ruined by the airplane that was about to crash down getting sucked into a vortex?? So, this dude Sean Walker(played by Jason Ritter) is going on a cruise with his girlfriend. Girlfriend gets sick, stays in room while Sean goes scuba diving with this girl he ends up saving from drowning. Gets back to room, girlfriend gone, other people in room, no record of him or her ever boarding the ship. In the mean time, some people show up at Sean's girlfriend's house, kills someone, kidnaps little girl, and they apparently tell her dad that they have her or something cause he ends up being the one to pilot the airplane that's heading toward the white house. I'd say find this episode online, watch it, then continue to watch it. Cause this show is downright awesome. It airs at 8 on NBC.

Castle kicked off it's third season at 9 on ABC really well. Castle returns to town after being away to write a book, but the team gets upset that he didn't keep his word and call them as soon as he got back in town. It takes figuring out that a chemistry teacher, a vending machine owner,  a sculptor, and a couple that owns a club/tattoo shop were all making counterfeit money until it went bad and the couple killed off the rest for Castle to be welcomed back to the team, after at first being a suspect in the case himself. I love that Castle is not your typical crime show like all the CSIs and Law and Orders. Some of the stuff that happens on it seems as if it was actually taken straight from the mind of a mystery writer. 

And rounding out Monday night was Hawaii Five-0. It is a remake of the 1968 version, which lasted 12 seasons so the new one is going to have to leave an impressive mark if it wants to go that long. This airs at 9 on CBS and it was pretty good. It stars Alex O'Loughlin as Detective Steve McGarrett. Now, this is Alex O'Loughlin's third television show that he has starred on...and the last two, being Moonlight and Three Rivers, only lasted one season each...so Alex had better hope this one does good or some mighty powerful people may start to think he's the one killing the shows. This show reminds me a lot of NCIS in the way it's filmed and how the show goes about. But in ways it's more fresh and alive than what has become of NCIS. I despise the fact that there are no odd characters in the show. NCIS has Abby, Criminal Minds has Penelope, ect. This show has none, they are all rugged men and women who I would never be friends with in real life, and it annoys me. I did, however, get the opinion of someone who was around when the original Hawaii Five-0 was on...my father. He said the show was "really good, [but] you can't judge it against the original because the new one is modernized, the two shows are both good in their own respect." And then he went on to complain about commercials, but I'm not getting into that. So all-in-all, Hawaii Five-0 2010 edition was good, but not great.

This was definitely one of the best Monday night premier nights I have seen. Now, just gotta wait until September 19, 2011, to do this again. :-)