Television

The Best Shows that are Overrated

Naming shows that are overrated including the bad ones would be too
easy, calling out CSI, American Idol, and other mainstream garbage
could go on forever, which is why we’re sticking to shows that are
actually entertaining, well crafted, and aren’t junk food well, at
least not too much so. The three shows named below are good, but due to a
mixture of underserved awards, crazy fanfare, and perhaps a little bit
of the “emperor’s new clothes” syndrome going on, these entertaining shows have turned
highly overrated.

Fringe – Os

I can’t tell if Jorge Garcia is incredibly unfortunate to be
pigeon holed as the guy who played Hurley for the rest of his life or
incredibly fortunate to have that recognition despite not being a very good
actor. Either way, he popped up in the opening of Fringe last night as a guard
who watches the security cameras at Massive Dynamic, sharing a scene with
Walter.

Bob’s Burgers – Sheesh! Cab Bob

Tina’s thirteenth birthday is coming up and the family approaches Bob about making it really special for her. They all take turns listing this they’ve read from her diary that makes them feel that she really needs it. Linda of course only reads her diary to make sure she’s not on drugs, whereas Louise feels that Tina is better on paper. Bob can’t believe that the entire family reads her diary, but agrees to give her a greate birthday. They call her over and ask what she wants to do for her special day, to which she spouts off a coherent and detailed list. As she lists every detail, Bob can’t help to shake his head no to several of her requests. Mainly the one where she kisses Jim Jr. the son of Bob’s rival from across the street.

Smallville – Scion Review

Smallville jumps back into the task at hand with little Alexander being revealed to be Smallville’s version of Connor Kent. A very horny, psychotic, schizophrenic Connor Kent, but still Connor Kent.  It
was nice to have a little bit of a break from the overly dark story so
we could kick back for an episode or two. The downside to this is that
we forget just how dark this show can get. Not that I’m complaining, I
loved this episode, but even I was a little weirded out.

The
relationship between Clark and Connor was very much a throwback to the
season two and three days. Similar dialogue that was shared between
Jonathan and Clark (who we’ll see next week) is shared between him and
Connor. I always had a theory that if they ever brought Connor onto the
show, he would be a really crazy version of his comic book counterpart
with all the Luthor DNA inside him. Yes, in the comics there was a story
were Lex took him over and he nearly wiped out the Teen Titans, but
they haven’t done as much with that as they could. They should have
taken Connor and made him more of a Luthor in the beginning and then a
Kent and had him learn his lesson over the course of his story (which we
can assume will only be this episode unless he comes back in the end).
But I honestly loved what they did with Connor, and Lucas Grabeel did an
amazing job as crazy and not crazy Connor.

Young Justice – Downtime

This week’s episode of Young Justice focused on the new Aqualad, and turned the show’s spotlight on the comings and going of Atlantis, along with how the various members of the team spend their time when not fighting evil.  Fans of Aquaman, and his submarine kingdom will most likely take some extra enjoyment from this episode and the many Aqua-cameos.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Counter Attack

The Clone Wars reviews are back! Sorry for the delay, but I’m back in full force now (see what I did there?). Anyway, we’re jumping into the middle episode of a story arc with this week’s episode, “Counter Attack”. Picking up where last week left off, Anakin and Obi-wan have broken into their respective groups to guide the captured Jedi mater/representative of the lolly pop guild and their troopers. Meanwhile, R2 sneaks out of the citadel with the help of the droids he’s re-programmed.

Young Justice – Denial

The first six episodes of this season served to introduce the members of the team, their enemies, and mentors.  Every story performed some important function in terms of establishing the foundations of the series.  Eventually every superhero show will have to get down to the business of the team’s everyday war on evil and, unfortunately, this means that most shows will end up doing a few filler episodes where nothing tremendous happens.  Such was the case with this week’s episode of Young Justice: Denial.