Friday, March 19, 2010

Don Geiss is Dead and 30 Rock is on Life Support: Your Thursday Comedy Roundup

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Episode Synopsis: Jack struggles to find his new place in the business after hearing of the Kabletown buy out and Liz continues to wonder if Wesley is the "one."

I'm not one to LOL often when watching TV shows, but 30 Rock almost always earns an assortment of soft chuckles, muffled guffaws, or knowing smiles, but last night's episode was just bad, and this was true of even the almost always reliably funny Tracy Morgan and Alec Baldwin.

What happened? By killing off Geiss, taking the show away from GE, and dragging out the already played out Liz Lemon dental recovery room love interest, the show became a lot less subversive and a lot less interesting.

Hopefully they will kill this dynamic-tension robbing Kabletown story arc and finally get rid of the Brit wooing Liz. It's not working, Tina and Lorn! Hopefully this is just a bump in an otherwise smooth road for the show.

Also, your crummy lead-ins, Community and Parks and Recreation, are not helping. These two shows could disappear and I would forget they were ever on in a month's time.

The Office was just OK last night, but the obvious matte painting of the landfill was a bit distracting. Although the final scene was cute.

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