It's mid-august and I'm starting to get really excited in anticipation of new seasons of my favorite shows coming back on the air. HBO's "Entourage" and FX's "Louie" are pretty much all I've had to get me through this summer. The Daily Show/Colbert Report are good but in the summer months they take a vacation every other goddamn week it seems. And when topical joke news is your bread and butter re-runs don't really have much sizzle. Anyways, without further ado, here's the first installment of Ryan Brown's "Must Watch" list for TV in Fall of 2010. Let's go chronologically by premiere date.
Show: "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Network: FX
Premieres: September 16th
Season: 6th
IASIP is a show that has aged incredibly well in my opinion. When promoting the series premiere, FX billed it as "Seinfeld on crack" and that's a pretty good summation of what this show is. It's really hard for me to pin down a favorite season. Every time the show comes back on the air I'm impressed with the writer's ability to keep it fresh. The show's premise (5 sociopaths run a bar in Philly and hilarity ensues) is pretty wide open and leaves room for pretty much anything to happen. In seasons past the writers have explored some pretty outlandish plot lines (Hunting a man for sport, selling gasoline door-to-door out of trash cans, raising a "dumpster baby" to become a child star) but never stopped bringing the laughs. Season 5 was full of some instant classics and I have no doubt that season 6 will bring more of the same.
Show: "Bored to Death"
Network: HBO
Premieres: September 26th
Season: 2nd
It took a few episodes for this show to get me hooked but now that I've seen the first season two times over, I'm a huge fan. BTD spent the bulk of it's first season slowly establishing it's characters. Jason Schwartzman is very likable in the lead role of Jonathan Ames, a newly-dumped journalist who channels his heartbreak into an amateur private detective career (and numbs the pain with alcohol and pot). Zach Galifianakis plays Ray, Jonathan's best friend who, over the course of the season, becomes his reluctant (and equally inept) accomplice in his P.I. misadventures. Ted Danson fills the role of George Christopher and has never made me laugh this hard. He's a wealthy magazine editor, Jonathan's boss and a member of Manhattan's social elite. By the season finale the three have evolved into a sort of unlikely, comical "A-team" that I can't get enough of. I'm very anxious to see where this show goes in it's second season.
That's all for now. I'll hit you with my other picks later this week!
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