Helium!

Tuesday's The Daily Show had a segment about helium being an endangered gas, which was totally the plot of one of my Yuletide stories. Sadly, they didn't choose to interview any parade balloon operators.

And now, caught up on weeks-old Daily Show and legally-obtained Top Gear (Jeremy's Reliant Robin bit = awesome. Why do they always cut the funny bits?) I shall collapse. Zzzzz.

Things I did not know about TV! The criminal justice edition.

In very old Sports Night alumni news: Why did the internet not tell me that Peter Krause is on Parenthood? I couldn't care less about watching Lorelai Gilmore be a parent some more, but Casey! Also, why did the internet not tell me that Josh Charles is on The Good Wife? I saw a clip, and he seems smart! I don't actually know what that show is about. They're lawyers?

I didn't know that there was a Law & Order: Los Angeles until I stumbled upon it on Hulu just now. I feel like I should have known this with all the talk about the original shutting down. It's good to see Skeet Ulrich still working? The problem is, I'm not even vaguely interested in a crime show set in LA, and making the first episode Hollywood isn't a good move to sell me on it. Not even with Alfred Molina. (of course, minutes after I finished watching the first episode, this review showed up on my reading page.)

I don't make an effort to watch any of the L&Os, though I've seen my share of episodes by accident or in syndication, so I sort of know what to expect from the various flavors. ( I suppose these are spoilers )

And then the second episode of Undercovers (And thanks to the closed captioning on Hulu, I have now caught the dialogue I missed in the pilot!)

This week, Gerald McRaney's character grumbles some more, and for me it totally sounded like hanging a lamp on the show's plausibility problems: ( Read more... )

Finally: Why does Hulu think Detroit 1-8-7 is a comedy? That is not at all the impression I got from the commercials. Is it?