Monday, November 14, 2005

A few ups and downs

On their way up: The Knicks. Back to back road wins, including a defensive record performance against Utah tonight. Again, it's way too early to make an assessment on them, but the last two games show they may be turning a corner. They're making less stupid errors and playing solid D. Sure, they have no legitimate scoring threat, but they're starting to build a base for the future for the first time since the Ewing era ended. So they have that going for them.

On their way down: The Jets. Ugh. Just dreadful play this weekend. Bollinger had less than a hundred passing yards, 4 interceptions and was sacked 3 times. Hey, if you guys are quitting, let us know and we'll stop following you

On its way up: Family Guy and American Dad. Next to My Name is Earl/The Office, the best hour of tv each week. FG is just in the zone with great spoofs (The A Team) and awesome gags. The American Dad Saudi two parter really paid off well and the show is now the second best animated show on Sundays.

Down and almost out: The Simpsons. It's getting depressing. Tea houses? Bikes built for two? i mean, why don't they just make a cartoon like the sanitized Itchy and Scratchy they spoofed early in the show's run? It's running on fumes.

Not sure whether it's heading up, down or in Limbo: SNL. Well, this week's episodes had a few decent sketches (Good Morning Meth, The Falconer) plus the always welcome return of Will Forte's Zell Miller. But overall, something felt missing. And was it me or did Jason Lee seem a bit out of place?

1 Comments:

Blogger gutterkizmet said...

I have to disagree about this weeks Simpsons. It wasn't that bad an episode.

The beginning did seem to be a rip off, as the creaters must know that they are losing to Family Guy. The attacking couches were pretty funny though.

4:54 PM  

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