the TV addict » You Be the Critic http://thetvaddict.com theTVaddict.com is your number one source on the net for TV news, scoop, reviews and commentary on all of your favourite TV shows. Check out theTVaddict.com daily for commentary, a WHAT TO WATCH TVguide, and a weekly podcast. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 You Be the Critic: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, SUPERNATURAL, COMMUNITY, PARKS AND RECREATION, THE OFFICE, 30 ROCK, FLASH FORWARD, GREY’S ANATOMY, PRIVATE PRACTICE, SURVIVOR, CSI and THE MENTALIST http://thetvaddict.com/2009/11/20/you-be-the-critic-the-vampire-diaries-supernatural-community-parks-and-recreation-the-office-30-rock-flash-forward-grey%e2%80%99s-anatomy-private-practice-survivor-csi-and-the-mentalist/ http://thetvaddict.com/2009/11/20/you-be-the-critic-the-vampire-diaries-supernatural-community-parks-and-recreation-the-office-30-rock-flash-forward-grey%e2%80%99s-anatomy-private-practice-survivor-csi-and-the-mentalist/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:57 +0000 theTVaddict http://thetvaddict.com/?p=9700 Having not had the chance to watch even a single-frame of Thursday TV — short of an early sneak peek of last night’s FRINGE — this TV Addict finds himself once again passing the buck to all of you — my far smarter and better looking readers — to post away with your thoughts on last night’s instalments of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, SUPERNATURAL, COMMUNITY, PARKS AND RECREATION, THE OFFICE, 30 ROCK, BONES, FRINGE, FLASH FORWARD, GREY’S ANATOMY, PRIVATE PRACTICE, SURVIVOR, CSI and THE MENTALIST.*

Full disclosure: We don’t actually watch SURVIVOR, CSI or THE MENTALIST, we’re just being polite!

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Matthew Morrison, the TV Addict, Kevin McHale, Amber Riley and Chris Colfer

If there was one downside to attending last night’s FOX Fall Eco-Casino Launch Party (see above photo of your very own TV Addict ‘gleeking’ out with a few familiar faces!) it was that I missed out on some fairly important premieres. Which is why yet again I’m turning it over to you — my far smarter and better looking readers — to put your critics hat on and post away with your thoughts on last night’s premieres of GOSSIP GIRL, ONE TREE HILL and THE JAY LENO SHOW.

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As advertised, 90210 did in fact offer up a “New Beginning,” cleverly repositioning the series around the trifecta of talent that is Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord), Silver (Jessica Stroup) and Adrianne (Jessica Lowndes, sporting some much needed lush new locks!). Leaving sullen Shenae Grimes’ Annie Mills flying solo towards a dangerous downward path of booze, sex and public humiliation (Which gets much worse next week, just wait!) Just how much fun was last night’s 90210? Put it this way, between the much-improved dialogue (That “woosh” you just heard was the Viki Kristina Barcelona reference flying completely over our head), and the hilariously-wicked-yet-still-likeable Naomi Clark, we barely cared that the new theme song is a massive dud, Navid (Michael Steger) and Dixon (Tristan Wilds) are so boring that we’re praying that their next to join Ethan in Montana, and, try as they may, newcomer tennis hottie Teddy (Trevor Donovan) still looks 35.


As for MELOSE PLACE… Murder! Prostitution! Blackmail! And the delicious Katie Cassidy (”I love love, I just hate monogamy”), what’s not to love? Okay, so Ashlee Simpson Wentz didn’t exactly light up the screen as wide-eyed newcomer Violet Foster, and David’s extra-curricular art-thievery is about as believable as well, Simpson Wentz’s nose. But nonetheless, MELROSE PLACE lived up to its status as the ultimate guilty pleasure. And like all good pilots, has us asking, what’s next?

Your turn.

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While HUNG wasn’t exactly the laugh-out-loud comedy one might have expected from a show revolving around Thomas Jane and his biggest err… asset, this TV Addict is glad that we well, we hung in there. After-all, now that the pilot out of the way — which let’s face it, was essentially a pro-longed set-up for what happens next — we find ourselves curiously intrigued as to whether or not Thomas Jane’s Ray will be able to keep things strictly professional with his new business partner, poet/pimp Tanya (the amazing Jane Adams who FRASIER fans will remember as Dr. Mel Karnofsky). And with apologies in advance for yet another tawdry pun, we guess you could say, HUNG has a lot of room to grow. Thoughts?

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