100 Questions

100 Questions is a complete and total failure. I know NBC was left with a huge gap to fill when Friends went off the air six years ago. This show is quite possibly the network's most pathetic attempt at filling that gap. I mean really, the two male leads are such deliberate and obvious rip offs of Joey and Chandler that I just call them Joey and Chandler. The characters are completely unoriginal, the writing is jaw droppingly bad, and for God's sake will someone turn down the laugh track.

You know those movies and shows that are about making really bad TV shows? Well 100 Questions is the bad show they are making. I feel like talking about how unwatchable this show is is like beating a dead horse. NBC reduced the number of episodes from 13 to 6, various cast members are now on other shows, and NBC hasn't wasted one dime promoting it. So however official or unofficial the cancellation is....it's pretty much cancelled.

However, there is one good thing about this comedy. Smith Cho who plays Leslie is a stand out actress. Her comedic timing is enjoyable. These actors have to deliver some of the worst dialogue ever written. But when Cho recites her lines, I can see that it's just bad writing not bad writing and bad acting.

I don't know why NBC even bothered to air this...this insult. And on Thursdays too. I usually can depend on their Thursday night line up to be quality (even though they have nothing good on for the other six days of the week). I watched two episodes of this show, because I seriously thought maybe the pilot was especially bad but the rest of the episodes would be better. I was so wrong.

Everybody Loves Raymond

I don't know what it is about Everybody Loves Raymond, but I am hooked on the reruns. I remember catching an episode when it was still on the air. I was immediately turned off by the set decoration, dialogue, and laugh track. Also, I didn't like that all three of the children were blond yet both parents have brown hair. I deemed the show unwatchable and never looked back.

A few months ago I was home with nothing to do and nothing to watch. I figured ELR was the least bad thing on so I gave it a chance. I was totally entertained. While the set decoration still activates my gag reflex and the Robert character needs work, I really like the parents and Deborah and after a while I didn't even notice the laugh track. The series is syndicated on many different networks but Nick At Nite has full episodes available on line. If you're like me and missed Everybody Loves Raymond the first time, it's worth a revisit.

Lost Finale

After six seasons Lost has gone off the air. When I saw the pilot episode I was hooked. And there aren't words to describe how I felt during the first season finale when The Others rolled up to the make shift raft and said "Give us the boy." I could not wait to find out what the Hell was going on on that island!

However, after catching a few episodes during the second season I lost interest in the show and eventually stopped watching all together. The mysteries that were so captivating became annoying and frustrating. But really I stopped watching because I was afraid. I get really into the TV shows I watch. (So much so that I created a blog just to talk about them.) And I was afraid that I would feel cheated and mistreated if this series took a bad turn with unbelievable plot lines or sudden cancellation. I didn't believe Lost could live up to the hype.

Cut to season three. Tired of being left out of the water cooler conversations, I was back to being an avid viewer. I scheduled Lost on the DVR and watched every episode. When I had questions or just wanted to talk about how hot Sawyer was I would call my sister, Gloria, because this was her favorite show. Then It was announced that Lost was going off the air. The commercials for the final season promised the mystery of the island would be solved. I was beside myself with anticipation.

The Lost finale was so big ABC billed it as an event. Commercial space cost more than The Superbowl. Local businesses were throwing private viewing parties. I spent the Saturday before the finale sitting in the park with friends listing the questions we couldn't wait to know the answers to. It wasn't just me and a select group of people, the country was excited.

Sunday evening arrives and I snuggle in for the two and a half hour Lost finale. After 120 episode I was finally going to be found. Or so I thought. I'm just going to get to the point. The finale was a huge disappointment. Gigantic. The creators didn't address any of the big mysteries. Instead they left us with some criptic B.S. about purgatory and redemption. WTF!!! I wanted to know why, before the plane crash, couldn't any of the women carry a child to term. I wanted to know what would happen if the smoke monster got off the island. I wanted to know what was the deal with the time travel. I wanted to know why the others captured Walt. I wanted to know about the Dharma initiative. I will never get a satisfactory answer to any of these questions, and that is why that crap finale made me see red. And to add insult to injury the show's producers said they didn't address specific mysteries because that wasn't the big picture of the series. That made me want to hurt someone. It is obvious that the writers and producers wrote themselves into a corner. They didn't solve the mystery of the island because they couldn't.

What makes me so angry is I knew Lost was going to disappoint me in the end and I watched and got invested anyway. Well I won't make that mistake again. From now on if I watch a mystery themed show it will have to be advertised like Harper's Island. They told you from the pilot this series will only be one season, someone will die every epiosde, and the killer(s) will be revealed in the end. That's what I'm looking for, no lose ends.