The Social Network

Today I want to talk about a movie I recently saw.  It's called "The Social Network" and it's based on how the largest social networking site, Facebook, was created.  Overall I enjoyed the movie.  The split time lines from the present "getting sued" to the past and how it happened were well done.  This movie got me thinking on a couple things.  First, was Mark Zuckerberg that much of a jerk during the whole process?  And I had no cue Sean Parker, creator of Napster, had such an influence.

Community Halloween Special

I watched this a couple nights ago and I really enjoyed it.  Community is becoming one of my favorite shows on television.  It follows a diverse group of friends that met through a book club that Jeff Winger started to get Brinda's phone number.  The Halloween special takes place at a party in the community college library.  The Dean, dressed as Lady Gaga, is serving a food that he got from the Salvation Army.  Apparently that food is very powerful and people start turning into zombies.  Most of the episode is the group of friends avoid getting bitten.  Eventually everyone except Troy gets bitten but he goes back inside after the dean is told to quarantine the Library and keep the zombies inside. When Troy goes inside his plan doesn't work as he thought it should, but he does get to hit the thermostat to make it cold so that people wouldn't die from brain hemorrhaging.  At the end the army comes and drugs everyone and when they wake up they don't remember what happened.  They just think that someone drugged everyone.

 

Diggnation

This is one of the only Internet TV shows I watch.  Diggnation covers news stories on the social news bookmarking site Digg.com. It is hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. It is more of a video podcast than a production TV show as they have conversations with themselves and also two cameramen and whoever else is in the room.

30 Rock Live

Last Thursday, NBC's 30 Rock had two live shows.  One for East Coast and one for the West.  This gave 30 Rock a real SNL vibe from back in the 90s-early 00s.  The live show takes place when they are filming an episode of TGS.  It also falls on Liz Lemon's 40th birthday which no one remembered.  Also in the episode, Jack stopped drinking because his girlfriend can't while pregnant and Tracy wants to "break" (the act of messing up lines and start laughing during a act) during one of the shows. 

CONAN

With Conan O'Brien returning in less than a month, I wanted to blog about my top three Conan skits.

1. Walker Texas Ranger Lever

After NBC bought the rights to Walker, Texas Ranger, the lever was introduced.  Even though the lever is just a very simple prop that everyone knows it isn't connected to anything, fans cheered for Conan to keep pulling it.  When he would pull it, a scene from Walker, Texas Ranger, would play.  And what made them so addicting is that the scene would be so random and out of context, that it was funny.

The Event

THE EVENT 

RECAP

PART ONE

I am going to do these recaps differently than what is viewed during the showing.  The show skips through the time line and POVs of about five characters.  The first character's journey I will be going through will be Sean Walker's.  

CONTAINS SPOILERS

Modern Family

Modern Family is my favorite sitcom on air.  It is compromised of one extended family, which are broken down to three smaller branches.  First you have the most "normal" family which includes a standard Mom and Dad (Phil and Claire Dumphy) and three children (Haley, Alex, and Luke). Next you have a gay couple and their adopted daughter (Cam Tuker, Mitchell Pritchett, Lily). Lastly you have an older husband married to a younger Colombian woman who has a son via a previous marriage (Jay, Gloria Pritchett, and Manny Delgado).