The Week That Was.....A Viewer's Diary: 4/10-4/16

Welcome to the latest edition of The Week That Was. Do you ever wonder if you watch too much television? I do, I have found that it cuts into valuable DVD watching time. But in some ways it's worth it, it is fun to keep track of the worthwhile shows (read= not reality shows). Look below to see how this past week turned out.

Sunday 4/10.

• King of the Hill. I actually liked this episode. John Redcorn's metal band searches for an outlet, so he builds a casino, which backfires disastrously. Also Hank tries to keep them from playing his company party. Every once in awhile this is actually decent. ***
• Malcolm in the Middle. Malcolm finds a guy living in the store and tries to help him and Reese becomes attached to some caterpillars. Mediocre at best, this has become a shadow of it's former self. **
• Arrested Development. As funny as ever, Michael gets his mother into rehab to only have to get her out, Maybe has to research the spring breakers and there is blackmail from a former secretary. Absurd and hilarious. ***.5
• Desperate Housewives. This was a fun episode featuring an appearance by Bob Newhart as Teri Hatcher's father. Meanwhile, the kids get a spanking. Big time guilty pleasure. **.5

Monday 4/11.

• WWE: Raw. Batista makes his first speech as champ, it was OK. There is a confrontation between HBK and Mohammad Hussan. ***
• 24. The President's fate is discovered, and the plot thickens. This season just keeps chugging along. Arguably the best yet! ***

Tuesday 4/12

• Scrubs. Janitor's new outfit creates some great reactions and Turk and Carla get back together. Together with Arrested Development represents the upper echelon of sitcoms. ***.5
• The Office. This series is gaining steam. Alliances are formed to combat the cutbacks. This place reminds me of my day job. ***
• House. Joe Morton does a wonderful job as a politician who may have AIDS. House helps him, while also convincing a woman that she really is having sex. I am so glad this is coming back next season. ***
• Blind Justice. Another episode of "I heard something different." I like the characters, but the episodes are falling into a formula. **.5

Wednesday 4/13.

• Smallville. Finally back on the air. Lex gets himself split in two and Clark tries to get them back together putting his own identity on the line. ***
• Alias. Now this is a good episode,Vaughan out on the loose, Dixon on a secret mission which crosses his path, and another Arvin Sloane? Plus the return of Katya, Irina's sister and aunt to our star. ***.5
• Eyes. Another guilty pleasure type show. Combines the serious and the goofy. Here we have a kidnap victim and a large bag of money, somehow Harlan (Tim Daly) always comes out on top. ***
• Stacked. Pamela Anderson returns to television in this goofy number. Not sure if I like it, it is rather mind numbing. Plus there is a BIG problem in the overuse of the laugh track. **
• Law & Order. Episode is about a murder (what else?) and is relatively by the numbers until Green gets shot. The story concludes in Friday's Trial by Jury. **.5
• South Park. The kids finally decide to ignore Cartman, who now believes he is dead and only Butters cab see him. This leads to Cartman trying to make things right in his life. ***

Thursday 4/14.

• WWE: Smackdown. Best part of this show was probably the debut of the new tag team MNM featuring Johnny Nitro (from TE3) and Joey Mercury (aka Joey Matthews from ECW). There was also the unveiling of Cena's new WWE Championship belt, which is very ugly. **.5
• Tru Calling. This season keeps chugging along, it's a shame we won't get season 3. THis time Jack is asked for help, and Tru must find out why. ***
• CSI. Finally returning to new episodes. Decent episode, features a guy whose car is run over and a boy who goes through a spin cycle. ***

Friday 4/15.

• Joan of Arcadia. Nearing the end of it's second season, we find someone else talking to God, plus Joan's kid brother does some experimenting. This show has really took a header into melodrama, such a shame. **
• Revelations. Aired first on Wednesday, but I missed it, so I caught it during a replay on USA late Friday night. Looks like it could be interesting, but I have never liked how these type of things portray religion and science as being mutually exclusive. **.5
• Enterprise. Beginning it's final turn for home, this has been it's best season by far. It is revealed that Orion women are the ones in charge, and the affect they have on humans. This was fun. ***
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Continues the story from Law & Order. The investigation of Green's shooting turns into a look at a potential snuff film. As cross over go, this one did not feature as much interaction as I expected. I still liked it. ***

That does it for this week. The end of the season looms near, so it can be expected that many of these shows will be putting out there best episodes gearing up towards their finale.

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