My Opinion On: Up All Night, New Girl, Free Agents

Let's start with the best and work our way down, shall we?

Up All Night 
If there was a show about a guy who just sat there and drank glasses of water and didn't really do anything other than drink water and blink occasionally BUT the part of the guy was played by Will Arnett, I would watch that show.  Up All Night not only has Will Arnett but also Maya Rudolph AND a premise to which I can relate.  Also, I was happy to see that Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.

There were two scenes that I found particularly funny:

1. Reagan and Chris each accusing the other of being asleep while they were awake with the baby.  I have had that conversation many times.  "I could see that you were asleep because my eyes were completely open because I was wide awake"

2. After getting very little sleep, Chris offers Reagan one million dollars to go take care of the baby when she starts crying.  I have had this conversation many times as well.

I give this show 2 thumbs up and will indeed be watching again next week.



New Girl
If you aren't aware, itunes has the pilot episode of this show available as a free download right now.  I have mixed feelings about this one.  Don't get me wrong, Zooey Deschanel  is great.  She plays her same old quirky, lovable character but has added a little extra geeky-ness that I really like.  I like the character of Nick and the actor they chose to play him.  I like the Damon Wayans Jr. character (even though he has been replaced with a different actor since he is shooting Happy Endings) but I do not like that his name is Coach.  My biggest, and maybe only, problem with this show is the actor that plays the part of Schmidt.  I don't like him, he bothers me.

Overall though I enjoyed the premiere.  The positives of Zooey Deschanel greatly outweigh the negatives of other cast members.  I have the same habit of making up songs for every aspect of my life (cooking dinner, tying my shoes, shopping for cheese etc.) and it was nice to see this awesome personality trait displayed on the show.

I give it 1.5 thumbs up and will watch again next week.

Free Agents
This one hasn't been publicized as much as some other new shows.  I didn't have very high expectations going into the premiere and unfortunately my low expectations may not have been low enough.  I like Hank Azaria and some of the other supporting cast.  This is the perfect example of a show that may take a few weeks to get into its groove.  You know that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry is dating the girl who sometimes is beautiful and sometimes is weird looking?  I felt like that's how it was for Kathryn Hahn in this show.

Free agents gets 1 thumb at a 45 degree angle but I will give it at least one more episode.

Fall TV Schedule Reveal

In my defense, let me just say that I am relatively certain I will drop several of these shows by about mid-October.  I always start with a bunch of the new shows at the beginning knowing that only about 10% - 25% of them will make the official cut.  I will give pretty much any show at least 2 episodes to entertain me, if after 2 episodes it is still dumb and/or boring I stop watching.

That being said, here is the less complicated version of my spreadsheet.  I did not feel it was necessary to display start date, time and channel on here...just day of the week and title of show.  Which old shows are you looking forward to seeing again?  Which new shows most interest you?  Hmmmmm???

Fall 2011 TV Schedule

Monday

How I Met Your Mother

2 Broke Girls

Castle

Terra Nova

House

Real Housewives

Tuesday

Biggest Loser

Man Up

New Girl

Tosh.O

Wednesday

Suburgatory

Modern Family

Happy Endings

Up All Night

Criminal Minds

The X Factor

Free Agents

CSI

American Horror Story 

Thursday

How to Be a Gentleman

Person of Interest

The Office

Community

Project Runway

Friday

Grimm

The Soup

Say Yes to the Dress

Saturday

SNL

The Nerdist

Sunday

Once Upon a Time

Boardwalk Empire

Hell on Wheels 

The Walking Dead 

Pan Am