Do you like TV? We do. And we especially like it on Sunday nights, when the whole world watches with us. So we’re gonna try a little experiement here. Every Monday — until or unless we know you hate it — we’re gonna do a quick round-up of what we caught the night before, and invite you to discuss the same in the comments. There will, of course, be spoilers, because that’s just how life is sometimes. Now on with the shows!

60 Minutes: It was a re-run last night, but we mention it because they re-ran “The Electronic Wasteland,” a story by Scott Pelley about what happens to your dead computer monitors, cell phones and so on. It’s gonna make you MAD! And sad.

True Blood: Evan Rachel Wood is the Queen Vampire, and she likes to party. Sadly, though, she does not have a ton of advice for Vampire Bill about what to do with Scarianne The Maenad. See, the Maenads are all about the ancient gods, and there’s not too much vampires or anyone else can really do about that: “Gods only exist in humans minds,” she says, “like money or morality!” (Same as hipsters!) So instead, Vampire Bill hangs out with Queen Wood for a few days, playing Yahtzee in the Strange Vampire Poolhouse and letting everybody down by not having “the sex” with the Latvian guy. Back in Bon Temps, Jason Stackhouse and Andy Bellefleur are planning some dopey “War On Black-Eyed Freaks” that you just know is not gonna end, and Tara goes back to save Eggs, only to be sucked back in to Marianne’s Dionysian Freak Scene. We all have friends like this. Sookie is trying to do… something, but you know how that goes. Placeholder episode, just moving the pieces around for the season finale, when all hell will break loose (again).

Mad Men: It seems like every season so far, there’s one episode of Mad Men that is long and loping, an hour-long heaving sigh that mimics these last days of summer perfectly. This was that episode, filled with a series of minor revelations coupled with total WTF moments. Let’s start with the latter: Roger Sterling in blackface. Or, better put, Roger Sterling in blackface, being obviously comfortable with being in blackface. There was something kind of chillingly fucked about the whole Sterling derby debacle; and though you want to charge the show’s creators with repeating something they’ve shown to us a lot already — Don Draper’s slow realization that the jet set can be every bit as trashy as the dirt-poor life of low expectations he left behind — you’d have to admit that this has got to be this season’s tour de force on the meme. In other news, PEGGY OLSON SMOKED POT. As you might imagine, this is already The Internet’s Favorite Thing Ever. Here is an animated gif we found that will insure its longevity as such:

We had to compress the hell out of it to get it under 1MB, but you get the idea: After two seasons in which we didn’t want to, couldn’t have known, wouldn’t have admitted it, WE ARE ALL NOW PEGGY OLSON. Her struggle is our struggle. But it’s cool. As she told Smitty and Paul Kinsey, she’s in a really good place right now. And as she then told Olive, her old-lady secretary, she is going to be fine. You needn’t worry.

Hung: I’m tired of trying to convince you people to watch this every week. All I’m gonna say is, Horny Patty just might be one of the best names for a dog ever.

Entourage: Eric bought an extension on his unresolved college-style epic and unexciting romance with Sloan by going back and screwing Lollipop Head. Trust us, it’s an extension. We could write this show in our sleep at this point. Meanwhile, the guys hired one of the nihilists from The Big Lebowski to provide Vince with a high-end security force, because some gingerballs from Wisconsin is stealing Vince’s underwear and masturbating on his couch while everybody sleeps. Over at the office, Ari was once again besieged by Lumbergh’s brokedick sadsack divorce story. This whole show seems to have a massive problem with firing people. It shouldn’t.

Michael & Michael Have Issues: And finally, we caught a re-run of the season finale of Michael & Michael Have Issues, which wasn’t greeeeaaaaaaat, but was a lot more entertaining than we suspected. You might wanna give it a chance at some point over the next week, when you are doing nothing whatsoever.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 12:40 pm.