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Indirect Mood Lighting Makes for Poor Lab Work

By Genevieve Burgess | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (15)

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Lean night on TV tonight, which is totally fine with me since I tend not to be at home to watch TV on Thursdays anyway. Usually when I go out Thursdays I end up losing a couple hours on Friday watching the TV I missed on Hulu, but I won’t have to this week which is awesome since I have a whole bunch of other work I need to do. Not that I won’t manage to distract myself somehow, but at least I won’t be taking hour long “study breaks” to catch up with the soapy antics of the doctors on “Grey’s Anatomy” or the “Oh my god, when will Michael Scott stop acting like a socially maladjusted 12 year old?” shenanigans of “The Office”. Still, I’m assuming many of you will be disheartened by this turn of events, so I invite all of you to share suggestions of better things to watch this evening. Here’s Thursday night’s TV:

8:00 p.m.: “Bones” on Fox. 100th episode.

“Flash Forward” on ABC. I haven’t watched this since it’s been back from hiatus and I don’t really find myself missing it. Has it gotten any better?

“Survivor” on CBS.

“The Vampire Diaries” on The CW.

9:00 p.m.: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” on CBS. Have you ever noticed that no matter what area of law enforcement a particular show focuses on, they seem to do every step in the investigation process? I mean, I guess the various “CSI” shows would be pretty boring if all they ever did was comb the scene, work in the lab and then hand results over to actual detectives. I’ve worked in a lab, it’s not particularly compelling stuff and as long as I’m nitpicking, the light tends to be far less flattering that TV would have you believe.

“Fringe” on Fox.

“Supernatural” on The CW.

10:00 p.m.: “Celebrity Rehab Presents: Sober House” on VH1. Here’s my problem with these shows; if what you’re famous for is being being a druggy mess who has to go to rehab, why would you want to bother staying sober? I suspect we can present Lindsay Lohan as Exhibit A in this conundrum.

“The Marriage Ref” on NBC.

“The Mentalist” on CBS.

“Project Runway” on Lifetime.

“Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew” on MTV. Fifth season finale.

“The Real Housewives of New York” on Bravo.

Late Night Listings.

“The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on NBC featuring Demi Moore, Rep. Barney Frank, and Train.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC featuring Martin Lawrence, “Science Bob” Pflugfelder, and Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights.

“The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” on CBS featuring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Stuart Neville.

“Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on NBC featuring Tina Fey, Justin Beiber, and Mario Batali.

“Last Call With Carson Daly” on NBC featuring Nick Kroll, Chelsea Peretti, and Circa Survive.

“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on Comedy Central featuring David Remnick .

“The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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Comments

“Flash Forward” on ABC. Has it gotten any better?

No.

Posted by: Drake at April 8, 2010 7:05 PM

If the CSI cast still looked like that picture, I'd still be watching.

Posted by: katy at April 8, 2010 7:34 PM

I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. That is all.

Posted by: jadeblue at April 8, 2010 7:44 PM

Well, looks like I shall continue my "Avatar:The Last Airbender" marathon, as planned.

Posted by: meh at April 8, 2010 8:25 PM

There's a half hour till 9:00 -- should I be bothering with Fringe again?

Posted by: D-Day at April 8, 2010 8:28 PM

Bones was last night.

Posted by: esme at April 8, 2010 8:51 PM

esme, every listing I've seen has it tonight and I'm watching it on my TV right now. I don't know why or how you saw it last night.

Posted by: Intern Rusty at April 8, 2010 8:58 PM

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Posted by: Cytheria at April 8, 2010 9:47 PM

wow. How the hell did I get ahold of it yesterday? It was online...

Posted by: esme at April 8, 2010 10:06 PM

Well, the last scene of Bones made me cry. Then, Fringe made me cry at Olivia's cowardice and Walter's courage. Then, I watched Ugly Betty from last night, and Justin made me cry, and Marc made me cry harder. Now I guess it's time to stop crying and watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at April 8, 2010 11:53 PM

Did you torrent it? Very occasionally stuff shows up in Canada a day early (happened with "Chuck" for a few weeks at the start of this season).

Posted by: Chugga at April 9, 2010 12:42 AM

I missed a good part of Bones last night but I was annoyed by what I saw, particularly the ending. I know it's a time honored tradition to keep the male and female leads apart as long as possible, but it's getting stale. And I love her declaiming that she can't be in a relationship because "I'm a scientist!" I think the Bones writers confuse scientists with Vulcans and androids constantly. Most scientists I know, including myself, are capable of emotion, and are in happy, healthy relationships (NOT including myself). Also, Booth's switch from how he knew she was the one the first time he saw her, to shrugging his shoulders when she turned him down and accepting that they would just work together, was ridiculous.

Also, what is the deal with bringing that Zach kid back all the time? I liked him well enough (although he seemed to be emulating Data from Star Trek all the time). Then they shipped him off to Iraq for a while, brought him back long enough to turn him into a murderer, then kept bringing him back for flashbacks and dream sequences. What the hell? Does the actor keep having to go to rehab or something?

I love the title of this article by the way. It's one of my pet peeves that on TV, in lab scenes or morgues or any place that ordinarily would be well lit, they keep it unreasonably gloomy and dark for the atmosphere.

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