Review Tuesday: What I've been watching - Fall 2013

I know your biggest burning question is, What does t3h Bax0jayz watch on TV? Well, not much, so here you go! 

Back for it's third season is 2 BROKE GIRLS. A show about two Brooklyn waitresses trying to make it big in the baking business continues to roll forward with episodes packed with raunchy humor. They have their cupcake window now, but never seem to be working at it. Odd. They've added a gay waiter to the mix, and he's always hilarious. The rest of the cast is still present and doing a good job. Still funny and well worth watching. I don't know why CBS decided to put it on in the crappy 8:30 PM slot on Mondays. If the show has troubles, it's on CBS. 

In it's FOURTH season, CBS pushed MIKE & MOLLY up to the 9 PM Monday slot. To me, the show has lost some magic. Knowing that Melissa McCarthy is America's sweetheart, they decided to let her character loose on crazy with both barrels. What was once a charming and funny love story between two obese adults has degraded to a crude mess of insanity. I can't watch this show any more in this form.

A new addition to the CBS Monday comedy line-up is MOM starring Anna Farris. I like Anna and find her work to be minimally entertaining and frequently hilarious. This show started off with a great idea. A woman is working her ass off, while raising a family, while battling her personal demons. The concept of a hard-luck comedy is rough, but can have yield some funny situations. However, it starts to drone on and on. It never seems to ever let up. It's become repetitious to the point that I gave up on the show. I'm done.

ALMOST HUMAN is one of two new offerings from FOX that I'm watching. From J.J. Abrams, this one stars Karl Urban (Dredd) as a cop in the not-so-distant future who is forced to work with a "synthetic" partner. It's sci-fi. It's Dredd (well not really, but he still has that feel at times!) and it's KARL URBAN in a weekly TV show. At the time I'm writing this I only saw the pilot, but it was a great episode and a perfect start to get me hooked.

Do you think you know the story of SLEEPY HOLLOW? You may, but this show has little to nothing to do with Washington Irving's classic short story. Set in modern day Sleepy Hollow, NY, Ichabod Crane awakes from a 250 year slumber to team up with Police Lt Abbie Mills to stop the Headless Horseman who is actually one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Mix in secret societies, witches, demons, and all sorts of other mysticism and paranormal activity and you have quite a fun show on FOX!

TWO AND A HALF MEN continues to chug along without Charlie Sheen and now, seemingly, without Angus Jones. After the kid went on Youtube with his rant against the show last year it seems that his departure has finally come. Last season the kid was away in the Army and would Skype for a bit in each episode. Now they barely even mention Jake in passing. So the new "half a man" is Charlie's long lost daughter Jenny. She's a booze swigging womanizer just like her dad. The show is still funny with Ashton Kutcher at the helm, but I feel that the characters are becoming more like caricatures of their former selves.

THE WALKING DEAD continues to terrify in it's fourth season. It's so good that even though I don't have cable I bend over backwards to make arrangements so I can keep up to date. So far in this season they have been dealing with something that I've always wondered about in a post-apocalyptic scenario, DISEASE. The swine flu has swept in across the prison and it's killing people off. People have to struggle with their humanity to SAVE humanity. Some crazy twists and turns have happened already and the Governor was just re-introduced so you know something will come to a head soon. Dark. Depressing. Gritty. Creating anxiety and dread in the souls of those who watch it. Well, the fans at least. You either love it or hate it. My but question remains, how come no one has called the undead ZOMBIES yet?