Retro UPN Moment of the Week

In 2003, UPN launched Veronica Mars, one of the best shows ever to grace the small screen, but unfortunately, despite its brilliance, is still relatively unknown even after its three season run on UPN and the CW.

I aim to change that, this will not be the last time I attempt to convince the world that Veronica Mars is the best thing since sliced bread. Just eeking ahead of Battlestar Galactica and Buffy, Veronica Mars has managed to land at the top of my all time favorite TV list. With it's amazing funny, witty, and intelligent dialogue, incredibly complex story lines, and realistic portrayal of teen angst and our class society, I'm a total sucker for this teen show slash detective drama thats been called "a little bit Buffy and a little bit Bogart" by USA Today. Number one fan, Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) called it "the funniest and most romantic show on TV" in his review of the season one dvd box set which can be read at EW.com

I ask for a measly 3 minutes of your time to check out the following preview, though taped off the screen at Comicon, it is the best trailer I've ever seen for the show and if this doesn't make you the slightest bit intrigued then I'm not sure what's wrong with you:



Alright, alright, I'm done, but I implore you to check out the pilot and see what you think for yourself, I promise you won't regret it.

90210 News: Dylan and Brandon's Infamous Return

I fear my 90210 love is dwindling...I found Tuesday night's episode disappointing, predictable and cliche (Did anyone really think Annie was going to sleep with him?) and where did all the adult story lines go? Not to mention my anger over the deceiving preview!! Perhaps the excitement/intrigue I felt after watching the preview is why I felt let down by the actual events in this week's ep. To be fair, it wasn't all bad, the episode definitely had some nice twists, but nothing that totally shocked me, unlike this week's Gossip Girl, I hate to compare, but Chuck's puppet-master reveal at the end and OMFG "Queen S" as she walked by Dan, were absolutely amazing moments. I'm starting to feel that 90210 is reusing everything I've seen before without the necessary fresh new take on it, and while I do concede that being a remake complicates this, all the "Who is going to actually Guest Star?" drama is only making it worse. I mean how long are Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth going to stay? Luke Perry and Tori Spelling are pretty much dead set against coming back, and I don't know but at this point is it really looking that good for seeing Jason Priestly? So to compensate for all this drama what do the producers do? Resort to having them (and not even their voices) call on the phone!?! Umm yeah, lame! Replace the actors or something because I can see this getting really ridiculous really fast...you can read the whole story (*warning spoilers*) via E! Online's "Watch with Kristin"

Does anyone else fear that this show is going to run out of drama by the end of the first season, and we will suddenly be seeing an O.C. collapse happening all over again? Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling it quits--I've never been one to stop watching addictive Teen Drama, but unfortunately I won't look forward to it nearly as much.

What I'm Watching: Thursday, September 28

Smallville Thursdays, 8pm (CW) *SPOILERS AHEAD*

I really hate it when people give up on television shows...

...and I am a hypocrite.

I really do love Smallville, I even own the first five seasons! But my excuse is that I've been a season behind for the past couple seasons and I kept putting off properly catching up. However, I have decided that I have given up on getting caught up and I am going to just jump right back in, especially since this could potentially be their last year. Wikipedia's Smallville Season 7 Entry was amazingly helpful and I youtubed most of the important moments from the 7th Season Finale, including this heartbreaking clip...I wasn't even rooting for them and this still broke me:

Speaking of couples, I think I may have also given up on the show around the same time I gave up my hope for Chloe and Clark to be together. Even though I saw in my youtube spree that Jimmy proposed to Chloe in the Season Finale, I've heard that their will be some Chlark moments in the upcoming season and I'm not gonna lie, that's a huge reason why I am going to start watching again.

Check out the Season 8 Promo:

I have to admit that trailer didn't do much for me, but I am curious about seeing Supergirl and the Justice League (I was already loving the Green Arrow from the episodes I did manage to catch over the past two years) I guess I'll just have to wait and see how the episode turns out, and I'll let you know my thoughts...

You can check it out too, Smallville airs Tonight at 8pm on the CW!

Is all the Gossip Girl marketing working?

If you live in New York City there is no way you haven't seen the new advertising campaign for the CW's Gossip Girl. Similar in concept to last year's "OMFG" campaign, the CW has taken the sex sells mentality and run with it. But the best part of these ads are the quotes they've used from some of the shows harshest critics, (Ex: "Mind blowingly inappropriate" - Parents Television Council) turning them into a brilliant reverse marketing scheme. Give teenagers something to watch that they think their parent's won't approve of and they'll eat it right up.These ads have been up for weeks, so why am I suddenly talking about them? I was curious about the success of this campaign now that the show has been back on the air for several weeks. Ironically, I was in a sociology recitation yesterday where Gossip Girl came up as a topic of discussion. I'd say less than half of the group had actually seen they show, but everybody had heard of it and they all had something to say about it. A few students even said that they were so impressed by the ads in particular that they were either tempted to start watching or actually tuned in to see what all the hype was about. But if that's enough, Monday night's episode had a series high of 3.7 million viewers and helped the CW win No.1 for the night with adults 18 to 34. Maybe it's just me, but I'd say somethings working.
Speaking of Monday's episode, personally I thought it was quite excellent and wonderfully scandalous, not to mention HOT!! (in several ways) I'm not huge into recapping myself but if you're interested you should check out Tim Stack's Recap on EW.com. I found it hilarious, plus I too noticed the large Vitamin Water refrigerator, product placement much!

Gossip Girl airs Mondays at 8pm on the CW.