bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes

I officially write Castle reviews for The Disney Blog now! My first one has been posted. I would tell you to go check it out, but if there is ANYONE reading this right now, I'm gonna assume you came here from there. Sooo... Here's a link anyway... you know, just in case. Maybe you want to read it again. 'Cause it was that good. I hope it was that good. It's probably not.

The Playboy Club (NBC) was also on last night, although I didn't watch it until today. I'd read all the criticisms (the dude playing Nick Dalton is like Don Draper minus the charm and, you know, personality and that the show talks about how this is a form of independence for the Bunnies who are making more money than their Dads, but that every time one of them gets in trouble, they go running to a man for help, etc.) and I have to admit, I hoped rather than believed it would be good. Maybe that's why I liked it, because my expectations weren't too high? Who knows. But I did. It's pretty good.

Nick Dalton (which sounds remarkably like Nick Halden, Neal Caffrey's alias on White Collar) is tough to comment on. I can see why reviewers would call him dull, but I don't think I'd say that about him. His personality isn't screaming SWAGGAH, but I think that's part of what attracts the ladies. Laura Benanti's character (whose name I've forgotten and don't really feel like looking up) says something about him towards the end of the episode that I didn't get from the character at all... that she knew why he came to The Playboy Club every night: because he needed to be adored, he needed men to want to be him and the bunnies to want to be with him, and he fed off that. Classic case of telling rather than showing. It would take maybe 10 seconds of film to do a cut away montage of the adoration and him enjoying it. If she needs to say it as part of her argument, great, but I don't know what to do with it if I've never actually seen what she's talking about.

Bunny Maureen is already on my last nerve. Oh, she's so sweet and innocent and naive... sorry, I don't buy that at all. Not after the way she smooth talks her way past that mob dude with the knife in his pocket and how she calls Laura Benanti (WHAT IS HER NAME) out on her shit during their frank discussion about her training at the end. Suck it up, girl. When you put your heel through a mobsters neck, you've only got two options: run away or MAN UP.

Which I guess brings us to the second reviewer complaint. Nick showed up to help Maureen, but she's the one who did the killing. He helped her toss the body, but she was a quivering mess of stupid at the time. I don't think that alone is enough to indite the show of sexism. Then there's when Laura Benanti's character, in a brilliant bit of business maneuvering, went to Hef about being fired and not only got herself rehired, but promoted AND her manager chastised all in one go. I don't know guys, the lady seems like she helped herself to me.

I've seen Laura Benanti on Broadway in The Wedding Singer (where I didn't care for her) and in Gypsy (where she was FABULOUS) and I have to say, she's never been as good as she is on this show. Her character is one of my favorites and I'm loving how she kicked Nick to the curb after his perceived mistake and refuses to relent.

Chocolate Bunny is my favorite forever. The end.

read less, more tv

I just updated my TV Schedule section with a daily and hourly breakdown of what I'll be watching this Fall so y'all know what to expect. I'll be posting about a lot more than tv, but yes, there will definitely be a whole lot of tv talk. In fact, I'm going to do my best to talk, at least briefly, about every show that's on the list.

For convenience, here's the list of shows I'll be watching, sans breakdown. Shows that are on "fall hiatus" are noted at the bottom.

A Gifted Man (CBS)

American Horror Story (FX)

Body of Proof (ABC)

Castle (ABC)

Dexter (Showtime)

Doctor Who (BBC1)

Glee (Fox)

Grimm (NBC)

Hart of Dixie (CW)

House (Fox)

Once Upon a Time (ABC)

Pan Am (ABC)

Psych (USA)

Terra Nova (Fox)

The New Girl (Fox)

The Playboy Club (NBC)

The Secret Circle (CW), Bones (Fox)

The X-Factor (Fox)

The X-Factor Results (Fox)

Up All Night (NBC)

ON HIATUS
Franklin & Bash (TNT)
Leverage (TNT)
Necessary Roughness (USA)
Rizzoli & Isles (TNT)
Suits (USA)
White Collar (USA)

three things you should know about me

1. I am extremely lazy.
This has been a chronic problem my whole life and I've learned to live with it. Take it on walks. Buy it drinks. We're old pals now, me and lazy. As much as I want this blog to look nicer, I just can't muster the wherewithal to screw around with the blogger template html. So sorry about that. If you'd like to sue me for retina burn, I understand. You'll probably win because lazy and I will be too busy watching episodes of Castle and Doctor Who to shlub into court.

2. I watch a lot of tv. No, like, A LOT of tv.
If I were to go through all the things I watch and have watched, I don't want to know how long I'd be writing this post. Just take my word for it, it's a lot. I'll post my fall tv schedule whenever I figure it out so we'll at least be on the same page until Christmas when a metric fuckton of new shows enter the picture. Sometimes I think networks like USA and TNT configure their schedules so oddly just to screw with me. Then I put down my fourth cinnamon dolce iced coffee of the day and rejoin the real world.

3. I work for Walt.
Some people say they work for a mouse, and that's great and everything, but I definitely work for Walt. If you get this, you get it, and if you don't, you don't. I love that guy, he's my personal hero, and I will never stop being sad that I'll never get to meet him and give him a big, smooshy hug.

ALSO: Everything I say here is my own and does not reflect the ideas/opinions/&c. of the Walt Disney Company or any of its subsidiaries yadda yadda blah
in perpetuity and throughout the universe, &c. &c., amen.