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Are You Ready for Some Football Vampires


Pajiba After Dark / Dustin Rowles

Miscellaneous | September 10, 2009 | Comments (60)


The real networks have yet to roll out their television schedules, so for the moment, we’re still suffering the network-let shows. I know someone here is excited about one of the shows returning tonight, though. I won’t say who, but her name rhymes with Pacey.And Jared Padelecki makes her ALL CAPS hard.

Here are the night’s television highlights, such as they are.

8:00

— The series premier of “Vampire Diaries,” over on the CW.

— The NFL kicks off (!) with the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the Tennessee Titans on NBC.

9:00

— The 5th Season Premiere of “Supernatural,” over on the CW.

— “Skins” continues on BBCA.

— Trash TV Alert: “Police Women of Broward County” on TLC.

10:00

— “Aces of Cakes” on the Food Network (I understand this is the better of the cake shows).

— “Behind the Music” on VH1 covers lil Wayne, cause apparently they’ve run out of real musicians to document.

— “Project Runway” on Lifetime offers some decent counter programming to football. This is where it’s beneficial for many married couples to have two televisions.

— “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” over on Bravo is a nice reminder of what Bravo is missing since it lost “Runway”


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Comments

Guys. I am totally going to watch the vampire show.

No, really. To borrow a phrase, there are things that are wrong with me.

Also, what episode is Project Runway up to? 'Cause I saw, like, the first one. I keep forgetting it's back.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 7:07 PM

My name doesn't rhyme with Pacey! Oh, wait, you said Jared Padalecki, not Jensen Ackles. Never mind.

I don't think I ever finished last season, since I went without cable for a while. Shit. I need to fix that.

Posted by: SaBrina at September 10, 2009 7:08 PM

Double shit! I should not have looked at the season summary on Wikipedia. Thanks for ruining my life, you socialist group of cowardly, anonymous contributors.

Posted by: SaBrina at September 10, 2009 7:10 PM

I've completely had it with the vampires. At this point I'm wishing that Vlad Dracul was an actual vampire so that he could rise up and massacre every single person who was somewhat responsible for this entertainment vampire "boom".

How did a Wallachian lord who impaled criminals and fought the Ottoman empire turn into a sparkling, creeper of a teenager? HOW?

Posted by: io at September 10, 2009 7:15 PM

Fuck the vamps. Give me Supernatural!

Posted by: FabMax at September 10, 2009 7:19 PM

DUDE. I'm not even remotely caught up with S4 of Supernatural! I can't watch Season 5 yet! DAMMIT.

Also, AvB, I'll probably be watching the vampire show too.

Posted by: lizzieborden at September 10, 2009 7:22 PM

Supernatural! Yes! I am ready for some GOOOOOOOOORE!!!

Squee sensors set to maximum. GIMME SOME JENSEN!!

Posted by: Lauren at September 10, 2009 7:27 PM

FOOOOOOOOOOTBALL!!!! My favorite sport AND male punishment!!

Posted by: Julie at September 10, 2009 7:30 PM

Hm. I'd probably watch Supernatural, but I've seen approximately 47 minutes of one episode, and maybe 12 minutes of another one, twice (meaning, I saw the same 12 minutes of that one on two separate occasions). Also, I was surprised to see that it was coming back because I thought 1) at least one of the brothers had been killed, permanently, based on the one episode I saw 12 minutes of, twice, and 2) it was canceled.

@ io, I've pretty much had it with vampires (or "modern" "interpretations" of them, anyway) also, but I can't help myself. I may need a vampire fiction intervention. (Also, yay! lizzie!)

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 7:32 PM

I love that my hangover theater, Behind the Music, is back. I don't think anyone can understand how happy this makes me. Even if it someone whom I am utterly unfamiliar with. Which shitty rapper is he?

PR is on the 4th episode. We did have the most worthless contestant ever this season.

I need someone to give me a reason to watch the re-boot of Melrose. Anyone? I recorded it and can't bring myself to watch it. My love of original Melrose is unparalleled. Dustin, do you need a review of that trashtastrophe?

Posted by: Melody at September 10, 2009 7:33 PM

I'll take football AND Project Runway thankyouverymuch. DVRing PR, watching football live. I haven't seen Twilight, read any of the books, nor watched any of True Blood beyond 20 minutes of one episode (Anna Paquin and her horrific overacting killed any interest in that show for me) and I'm still so SICK of hearing about vampires that I'm ready to stake myself.

And may I just add, go Titans!

Posted by: janetfaust at September 10, 2009 7:34 PM

FOOTBALL!!!

Posted by: Melody at September 10, 2009 7:35 PM

FOOTBALL! FUCK YEAH...EEAHHHAAAAAAAA!!

*ehrm*...sorry had to get that out of my system. Let me put this in a more ladylike way.

"I am ever so delighted for the return of the NFL season. Can anything be as elegant as a reverse pass blitz? Oh be still my beating heart! Oh Sir Rivers, how I long to see you preform better than an 8-8 record, as in last season. Oh I beg of you sirs,won't you please appease me in my ever so humble of football wishes?

Yeah, that'll do for all the lady like bullshit. But yeah, football, fuck I'm excited.

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 7:36 PM

"We did have", meaning that worthless contestant is gone? Well, so I only have two eps to catch up, and my sister probably has them DVRd, so maybe this weekend I can catch those. Yay!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 7:37 PM

Mitchell is gone. He was the Flo of PR.

Posted by: Melody at September 10, 2009 7:54 PM

30 seconds in and I'm already annoyed. Also, I TOTALLY expected the Buffy theme and was thrown off when it didn't start. Heh.

Also, this girl playing Elena reminds me of Christina Ricci and somebody else. Maybe Alyssa Milano.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 8:07 PM

— “Project Runway” on Lifetime offers some decent counter programming to football. This is where it’s beneficial for many married couples to have two televisions.

OR for us unmarriable faggot couples, we'll just SHARE a tv on this one.

Posted by: gp at September 10, 2009 8:09 PM

Well, you'd probably both be watching Project Runway anyway, gp. You gays and your love of fashion and catty bitchfights!

See, in my house, it would be beneficial to have two televisions, right next to each other, because I like both football AND Project Runway, while the pseudo-Mr. likes neither.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 8:20 PM

I'm watching the vamps too, AvB and lizzie. There are some pretty boys on here.

Now I feel a little creepy.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at September 10, 2009 8:24 PM

I'm not sick of vampire stories; I loooove vampire shit. But I am wicked sick of old-as-fuck pussy vamps falling in love with retarded high school girls. What anything in their right mind likes high school girls other than high school boys and rape van guys?

Also, and apropos of nothing, does anyone remember that nickelodeon show Doug, where Doug kept a diary and he kept insisting it was a 'journal', but the bully kept calling it a diary and said diaries were for girls? The bully was right. Diaries = pussy.

Posted by: Marra at September 10, 2009 8:25 PM

Thanks goodness the NFL is back.

Both the Hutt Tongues and the Savannah Meerkats are ready to kick some fantasy ass.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at September 10, 2009 8:34 PM

Welcome to my world, MelBiv.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 8:35 PM

I'm gonna smoke some .... stuff... yeah... that's it.. some stuff.... and NOT watch any of that shit. Guh.

Posted by: Janey at September 10, 2009 8:39 PM

Mmmm Ian Somerholder. Wait, did he have work done? his face is different, and I don't like it as much. Sad face! Still, pretty eyes and amazing eyebrows, though.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 8:48 PM

I am totally watching this ridiculous vampire show right now. At least there's some violence in this once and I don't believe these guys sparkle. So, its got that going for it.

Posted by: Kiddo at September 10, 2009 8:51 PM

Harry Connick Jr. for the National Anthem!! Nothing..nothing can top my excitement at the moment.

Forgive me. I am hopped up on pseudoephedrine rich sinus meds and a 5 hour energy drink. Basically that means I have done the equivalent of a hit from a crack pipe.

I take no responsibilty for anything said henceforth.

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 8:52 PM

Wait... did she really, actually say "Dear Diary"?! What. The. Hell. Nobody says that! And I'm pretty sure nobody actually writes that in a diary!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2009 8:58 PM

I have the feeling I'll be watching that with the mute button on from now on.

Has anyone read the books the show is based on? Should I bother?

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at September 10, 2009 9:31 PM

At this moment I'm eating me a super hot chicken pot pie (why in the hell do they get so freaking hot, I think I'd rather have the shits from undercooked food then have to wait another ten minutes for my CPP to stop being lava) and drinking a dark chocolate stout and then later going to follow that down with a sweet and sour whiskey drink out of my jelly jar. Oh, classiness I have arrived.

Oh, and I'm watching Mall Rats. Triple score on the classy button!

Posted by: Jasper Buckleman at September 10, 2009 9:33 PM

TOUCHDOWN!!!! Come on!?! Come on...really. Am I the only one watching the footbal game???

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 9:56 PM

There have been times in my life when I've gotten into football, but I think I'm over it. Boys, standing around scratching their balls and pretending they aren't gay...someone throws a ball five feet, someone drops it...everyone mills around while the refs vogue for a few minutes...announcer dudes make uninteresting small talk about how Dick Dork had more yards than Joanne's Fabrics...a couple of camera shots of boys on the sidelines or the coach or a pretty girl...back to the field where no one knows what the fuck is going on and everyone's standing around waiting for something, blow the whistle, boys run around and smack into each other like los toros without a damned matador, whistle blows again...everyone stand around some more...STOP!

I think I'm going with Project Runway, where the women are bitches - and the men are too.

Posted by: Cindy at September 10, 2009 9:56 PM

TOUCHDOWN!! Come on I am the only one that is watching the game?? Really?? Am I on some kind of alternative timetable?

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 9:57 PM

Ignore the double post. I apologize.

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 9:59 PM

Here we go, Stillerzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...

*snork* Wha ... hunh? Somebody say "dark chocolate stout"?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at September 10, 2009 10:03 PM

It was AWWWESOMME. So well done. So fantastically written. Welcome back, Jensalecki!

Posted by: Stacey at September 10, 2009 10:08 PM

Oh my god Supernatural you've taken my heart all over again. I just want those boys to take me up in their arms and save me from the apocalypse.

And Dean, do me. No seriously, right here.

Posted by: buttercup at September 10, 2009 10:18 PM

i will be watching Vampire Diaries on dvr. i'm a sucker for shows where pretty, pretty boys are pretty--plus Boone!--but i need to watch it without commercials because i watch way too much tv to watch all those commercials.

i'm also really excited for Supernatural--and not just for the pretty, pretty boys being pretty--because i think it is a really entertaining show. the pretty boys don't hurt though. Jared P. is a great big beautiful hunk o' man.

Mitchell was a big ball of suck on Project Runway, so much so that i wonder how he ever made the cut.

at the moment i'm actually watching Pacey--since i somehow missed the first season of Fringe--and i need to catch up before season 2 starts, so i'll quit with the rambling and get back to pretty Pacey.

Posted by: pq at September 10, 2009 10:30 PM

Don't watch the stupid vampire show. :( I'm a huge fan of the books it was based on, and they've assraped them to epic proportions. It pains me to see this shit on TV, because the original book series is actually a LOT more original and refreshing than this Dawson's Creek soap opera SHIT the CW has produced.

Sigh. :(

Posted by: Nat at September 10, 2009 10:49 PM

The header stuff is changing again. (I swear I'm not drunk.)

Now we have a great Pajiba ball of fire.

Posted by: Cindy at September 10, 2009 10:53 PM

ha! cindy, when i saw that it changed, i *knew* it was going to mess with you!

Posted by: gp at September 10, 2009 10:58 PM

Does anyone else have this problem when watching football: Whenever someone mentions the San Diego Chargers, all I hear is Whale's Vagina Chargers. Is that just me?

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits (aka Dangle McGee) at September 10, 2009 11:03 PM

Oh, Hines Ward. I love you. But that was bad.

Posted by: neurotica at September 10, 2009 11:33 PM

Thank you footballers for finally joining me. I've been waiting.

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 11:44 PM

I hate the Steelers.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at September 10, 2009 11:48 PM

I love the Steelers. They aren't my team but I won money tonight. I am a happy camper.

Posted by: ashes at September 10, 2009 11:52 PM

So I watched Vampire Diaries. I know what books I'll be reading over the weekend.

I read all this love for Supernatural. Should I be watching it? It should be right up my alley I just haven't ever watched it.

Posted by: DoubleH at September 11, 2009 12:38 AM

Yes DoubleH you should be watching Supernatural. The devil vs. angels story set up from last season is awesome. Ackles always get in hysterical one-liners. The show never takes itself too seriously, and I love how it makes fun of itself and the crazy real-life fans who wish Sam and Dean were lovers. You'd just have to watch it too understand that part!! Any show that has an episode titled 'Criss Angel is a Douche Bag' should be watched by everyone.

Posted by: Dingle Berry at September 11, 2009 8:59 AM

Football? zzzzzzzzzzz

I'm just waiting for NHL & my love/hate relationship with the Leafs to start up again...

Heyyyy, what'd be cool would be a TV series about hockey playing vampires who use their skates to ...um... y'know... (shades of Clint Malarchuk incident in '89)

nevermind.

Posted by: oskar at September 11, 2009 9:33 AM

I watched the Vampire Show while I was reading Living Dead in Dallas (yeah, I'm obsessed with vampires), and I forgot to switch back to the game, so I caught the beginning of Supernatural. I'd never seen it before.

OH MY GOD, the HOTNESS.

Posted by: Kolby at September 11, 2009 10:55 AM

All week long my husband and I were poking fun at the "Vampire Diaries" commercials; what with the "Love Bites" song attached to it and the cheesy voice-over.

And then my husband woke up from an unplanned nap on the chaise and discovered that I was watching that very show. He was horrified.

Frankly, so was I. But it has Boone! And he's so pretty!!

Posted by: Kelly at September 11, 2009 10:57 AM

Anna,
nah, nobody important stays dead in Supernatural (until the final season, when I guess all bets are off). They have these handy Crossroads Demons who Make Deals. Both brothers are therefore up, around and creaming demon ass.

OK, that last part came out wrong....

Posted by: Tarn at September 11, 2009 11:10 AM

Kolby,

yup. Hotness abounds. And it's addictive, I warn you.

Posted by: Tarn at September 11, 2009 11:13 AM

I DVR'd Vampire Diaries and watched it later last night.

I think I'm much happier without those lost 20 IQ points.

Seriously, though, another CW show with 30-year old teenagers, angsting all over the place. The guys were moderately pretty, but unless they start getting naked and doing each other, I won't be back.

Posted by: Drake at September 11, 2009 12:01 PM

On the other hand, I dreamed that I was back in high school and Matthew Morrison (from Glee!) was one of my teachers, and I had such a crush on him that I went a bit insane.

Actually, more than a bit.

Posted by: Drake at September 11, 2009 12:08 PM

Hi, my name is Eyvi, and I watched Vampire Diaries. It was ridiculous, a thinly veiled copy of Twilight (really all it was missing was sparkles, oh and there are books?!? Jebus, I am going to need help)but I watched anyway. I knew it was wrong. But I couldn't stop it. And I will watch it again.

Posted by: Eyvi at September 11, 2009 12:18 PM

Watched The Vampire Diaries last night. Am ashamed to say that I will watch next week too. The villain is pretty, and that's all I pretty much watch TV for anyway.

Supernatural is recommended for anyone who likes looking at hot men - one of them can act too. The series is entertaining with moments of humor as well as horror. And yeah, can't overstate how smoking hot the leads are. Damn.

Posted by: Groovy Violet at September 11, 2009 2:13 PM

I too admit to watching The Vampire Diaries and it sucked.
hahahaha

no really it sucked.

Supernatural was fun.
Project Runway is getting on my last nerve. They need to get Nina and Kors back soon to balance out The Klum's love of short and tight.

Posted by: Jules at September 11, 2009 4:06 PM

Eyvi - Actually, the books predate Twilight by over a decade. They were first published in 91. They're trash, but fun trash!

Posted by: Catnik at September 11, 2009 8:14 PM

Wow. I leave Pajiba for a few months only to return and find it overrun by the basest sexual obsessions. I mean, "OMG HAWT MEN!!!!" is how we're rating quality movies/TV now?

Pathetic.

Posted by: hotaruhikari at September 12, 2009 12:40 AM

overrun by the basest sexual obsessions

.... you say that like it's a bad thing...

Oh please, that's how we've always rated them. Along with more artistic stuff, of course, for shows which call for that. But some shows are undemanding of anything more cerebral than OMG HAWT MEN!!, so that's what they get. The producers fill them with eye-candy for a reason, no?

Posted by: Tarn at September 14, 2009 11:29 AM





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