like "Bewitched!"

Finally got to watch the True Blood finale - my power went out in the middle on Sunday and my attempts to record it since then have been thwarted until last night. I can pretty much just point to what kat perez says and nod. The maenad storyline never really worked for me, glad it's over. Too funny that they managed to get Sookie running through the woods in a white dress AGAIN.

I was so pleased with Jessica and Bill having their little family moment before going out for the evening, very sad that that's all a front on her part.

Eta: I have not curiosity about where Sookie's power comes from, which is odd considering how everyone keeps going on about how special she is. I do hope guy-who-works-at-vampire-hotel-and-is-also-telepathic turns up again, though.

I was so pleased with Jessica and Bill having their little family moment before going out for the evening, very sad that that's all a front on her part.

that was so cute!

Bill saying "...but times change" seemed like a Big Character Moment, but in a genuinely sweet way.

I think Johnny Drama, er, Kevin Dillon got robbed by Emmy. He should totally feel in good company for that, but still...and for some guy to play Designated Tightass on fuckin' Two and A Half Men?(Although my issue isn't with Cryer, but with Emmy's eagerness to give cooking awards to peanut butter sandwiches.) I wish it had been Piven, just because he would not have taken this quietly and I would LOL at some of the invective he'd come up with.Although it should have been Dillon to get the statue in Season 3...that whole arc leading up to Five Towns was some great acting, imo.

eagerness to give cooking awards to peanut butter sandwiches

I'm SO stealing this line in everyday life. erika, you are a genius.

Thank you...I even like peanut butter, but you don't need to be a great chef to make it. But seriously, I thought Drama was such a jerk in the first episodes, begging for new calves and all that, but by the time he gets that audition with Burns and he does that "VICTORY!" thing, you're just so on board with him, right?(Maybe that is partially about my writer's ups and downs, but it's also that Dillon plays it all: The bravado, and the insecurity and the love and the envy of having a little brother who's a sex god almost without trying...that stuff is not in 2 and A Half Men...it just isn't.)ETA: Actually, the brother stuff kind of is, I suppose, but only in the broadest way. Yes, by all means, let's reward the alimony joke again. Even though I don't know anybody that ever got alimony in real life and I know plenty of people who want to be artists and get screwed in the attempt. (I hope that happens to Drama, too...it'd be funny if the television Academy gets on the shitlist with the Valley and Jimmy Kimmel.)

That was a great arc for Drama.

I've never watched Two and Half Men, Jon Cryer could Laurence Olivier on it for all I know.

Hubs loves 2.5 Men. I usually doze while he's watching it.

It's usually pretty standard sitcom fare -- establish a few characters with a few character traits, and cover the same territory over and over. But every now and then, Cryer manages to turn the material into something better than it is.

I'm not going to say Emmy-worthy. But something better than you'd expect with a peanut butter base.

I'm not anti- "Men"...I've laughed at it a few times myself. I just think Kevin Dillon does an amazing thing with his part, and it's hard enough to get noticed with Piven around anyway, and I'd kind of like the guys to get attention for doing other than coming out of nightspots and being the patron saints of frat-boy douchebags everywhere. Talk about "You're making my side look stupid. Stay off my side." Also, it would have filled me with geek joy if he'd won and done the Torvald "VICTORY!" salute thing. Because there's nothing about Viking Quest that isn't hilarious.