Pop Culture Podcast
Popspotting #137: “Tube Talk†(Sept. 27, 2011)
With the new fall TV season underway, and several of our favorite returning shows chugging along, we adopt the “what we’re watching” format for our Tuesday podcast. We share quick takes and premature judgments on “2 Broke Girls,” “Free Agents,” “New Girl,” and “Prime Suspect.” Then we finally catch up with programs we love: “Fringe,” “Sons of Anarchy” and “Breaking Bad.”
Our next TV Tuesday will cover another slate of new shows, and another batch of favorites, including NBC comedies. We know everyone has different tastes when it comes to TV, but we hopefully cover enough to keep things interesting.
And if not? Tell us what we should be watching!
So I have to say I tried 2 Broke Girls hoping it would be fun. I was all ready to disagree strongly with your review cause I kind of liked the first episode, and then I watched the 2nd episode. And it tanked… So much for “TV’s Number 1 New Comedy” — seriously?
As for “Free Agents”? It just keeps getting better and better. I think they are following Ryan’s advice… focus on the workplace and have the relationship-thingie in the background…
Now, what did y’all think of Modern Family and the Middle?
By the way, LOVE this format…
LEAVE ZOOEY ALONE!! *sob* Sorry, I just had to say that, after I heard your initial reaction to “New Girl.” Where’s my buddy Geoff to back me up here? I have been a fan of Zooey since I saw her in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” and I have both of her “She and Him” albums after randomly hearing about that part of her career in an NPR interview. Sure, she doesn’t go for emotional depth most of the time, but she’s fun to watch, and her character on “New Girl” is dorky and endearing. Hopefully all the characters on the show will develop beyond the formula of the first two episodes, which was “Someone has a personal crisis, we have to protect them from themselves, let’s all hug at the end.”
Thanks for all the TV talk. My DVR is going crazy these days!
Well Fred, I can’t say anything about “New Girl” because I have not seen it. I love her music and I enjoyed her in Tinman, Elf and 500 Days.  But She seems, out of the things I have seen her in, to play variations of a similar character (Tinman being an exception). She need needs to break out. But I enjoy her work.