Nora’s TV Diary: Volume 2, Upgrade/Downgrade
Last year was a lean year for TV in my household. No cable. Little reception. I watched a lot of “The Bachelor.” A lean year to say the least.
Now I’m sitting on a couch watching an episode of The Office that aired on Thursday. Do you know what this means? I am watching a show on SUNDAY as if it were THURSDAY. Now that DVR has entered my life, the rules of time and space no longer apply to me.
Below, a brief overview of how this fall is stacking up…
Upgrades:
Tyra: You haven’ SEEN investigative journalism until you’ve seen Tyra banks. She gets to the bottom of every issue, usually by going undercover. Once, she dressed up in a fat suit. Another time, she dressed like a stripper. THIS SEASON she takes it to the next level and goes undercover…AS A MAN. Rip the lid off the seedy underbelly of male culture, Tyra!
Dateline: Do you know how to catch a predator? THEY DO!
48 Hours: Have you SEEN a 48 hours mystery? Bone-chilling, earth-shattering. Truer journalism can only be found on Tyra and Dateline.
30 Rock: Who knew that a show loosely based on Saturday Night Live, a show that gets fewer laughs than 20/20, could be hilarious? Tracy Morgan shines as…himself. Tina Fey delivers her same pretty-but-frumpy girl routine, and a cast of other sort of funny characters do sort of funny things. It’s Alec Baldwin who will make you spit water through your nose. Kim Basinger should really rethink this whole messy divorce thing.
I don't know about anyone else but the Dateline deal creeps me out. Particularly the prominent oncologist they caught...gross!