{"id":3802,"date":"2012-10-12T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:25:18","slug":"ah-the-new-season-of-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"AH&#8230; the new season of Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3857\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?attachment_id=3857\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3857\" class=\" wp-image-3857\" title=\"Nudity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Nudity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not much to do with Primetime except I think it needs more nudity!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m a Prime Time junkie.\u00a0 I freely admit it!\u00a0 Every fall season I make sure I watch EVERY new show on the few channels I get, ABC, CBS, NBC &amp; Fox.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll even check out a show on the CW&#8230;\u00a0 sometimes&#8230;. rarely tho!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I watched a preseason preview of ABC&#8217;s new shows Go On with Matthew Perry and Animal Practice with no one I gave a shit about.<\/p>\n<p>Does that tell you what I thought of those two shows!\u00a0 Haha.\u00a0 I DID enjoy Go On.\u00a0 But Chandler was always my favorite on Friends so\u00a0 maybe I&#8217;m biased.\u00a0 I hope this series works better for Perry than the last series, which I tried VERY hard to like but just couldn&#8217;t do it.\u00a0\u00a0 The supporting\u00a0 cast is genuine in a way that brings out a humanity in Perry that he needs&#8230; to be able to bounce his acerbic wit off.\u00a0 I genuinely liked it while I was watching and it left me wanting more.\u00a0 A lot more.\u00a0 Happily the next two episodes were just as enjoyable<\/p>\n<p>Not so Animal Practice!\u00a0 The monkey gimmick was cute but not enough to carry the show.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like House meets M*A*S*H with a cast of the uninteresting after all the humor had been sucked out of it and replaced with a huge dose of\u00a0 &#8220;Awwww&#8230;.. cute animals!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Gack!\u00a0\u00a0 I can&#8217;t get that off my DVR fast enough!<\/p>\n<p>I watched Men with Kids&#8230;.\u00a0 it has potential but its going to have to pick up the situational humor to captivate me.\u00a0\u00a0 I actually deleted an episode of The Mindy Project 5 minutes into it.\u00a0 I realized I didn&#8217;t like her enough to watch her publicly embarrass herself in order the &#8220;grow&#8221; thru the episode.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve watched shows like that before and marvel how the lesson learned in the previous episodes never seems to &#8220;take&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I adored Revolution and have 4 episodes on my DVR as I await a time when Sex God is over and we&#8217;re NOT watching The Voice because he wants to see it.\u00a0 Last Resort is a little of the same &#8220;type&#8221; of show, but I&#8217;m not sure its got the &#8220;fun&#8221; impact that Revolution does.\u00a0 If I had to choose.. well, Revolution hands down.\u00a0 Despite the fact its soooooo much a rip-off of S.M. Stirling&#8217;s series Sunrise Lands.\u00a0 Thank God I&#8217;ve got a DVR.<\/p>\n<p>You should have seen Sex God&#8217;s eyes when I told him the CW had a new series called Arrow which I assumed was based off the Green Arrow series since the guy&#8217;s all in green.\u00a0 He whispers, &#8220;That&#8217;s my favorite comic!&#8221;\u00a0 Since he doesn&#8217;t have cable &amp; only watches movies &amp; old series off Netflix I think he&#8217;ll be coming over to my house more! lmao\u00a0 Of course all I really have to do is tell him what I&#8217;m cooking for dinner and he&#8217;s all, &#8220;I&#8217;m coming over!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I liked Vegas.\u00a0 Not sure how long it will last.\u00a0 LOOOVED Made in Jersey!\u00a0 Hated Mod Doctor, that&#8217;s a casting\/plot flop if I&#8217;ve ever watched one.\u00a0 The PBS series Call the Midwife is very, very good and the first show that I watch that seems to connect with me thru my work.\u00a0 We sell to many doulas and having birthed 3 children I&#8217;m vastly familiar with all this! lol<\/p>\n<p>And now that the new season has begun\u00a0 my DVR is full of my favorites and the new shows.\u00a0 And since I talked the cable people into letting me upgrade for a cheap price for the next 6 months&#8230; I&#8217;ve got a lot of my OLD favorites rapidly recording to try and fill it in for when I have to pop it down to cheap basic.<\/p>\n<p>Makes working at home muuuuuuch more enjoyable!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Prime Time junkie.\u00a0 I freely admit it!\u00a0 Every fall season I make sure I watch EVERY new show on the few channels I get, ABC, CBS, NBC &amp; Fox.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll even check out a show on the CW&#8230;\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}