CBS's Newest Comedy: Partners.

It seems that once a year, CBS tries out at least one new comedy show that is ultimately doomed to fail from the beginning. This year, it's Partners. This show is nice, but it's not great, and would definitely be my last pick if I had to choose between almost any other comedy on television right now. 

To sum it up: four people, three "partners". Joe and Louis are best friends since childhood. Joe is engaged to Ali. Louis is dating Wyatt. There's a gay joke ever two sentences. The end.

I love that CBS is adding more gay to their programs, but how the two gays are portrayed in this are absolutely outrageous. One is overly flamboyant and someone who I'd want to punch in the face if I met them in real life, the other is played by hunky-Superman himself, and is a soulless blob of nothing. 

When I saw that Brandon Routh was going to be on this, I got so excited, it was ridiculous. Any show with some Superman flavor has my attention ;) But this is Brandon Routh at a low point for me. His acting is just terrible. 

Then the other three were just rounded up randomly, thown into a mix, with the hope that they'd work out together. This cast is horrible. I think David Krumhotlz and Michael Urie work okay together, but I don't like either of them really. And Sophia Bush? I guess she had nothing better to do after the finale of One Tree Hill.

My prediction: this show will be cancelled before the end of the year. I will probably be watching to the end, in hopes that they fire the writers and create something better. 

Aaahhh!!! Real Monsters!!

After almost a decade and a half of being off the air, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters finally comes to DVD thanks to Shout! Factory. I've made it a goal of mine to get all the DVD releases of the old Nickelodeon shows Shout! releases on DVD, and I was doing very well. Until all of a sudden, the stores in my area, Walmart, Target, even Best Buy, stopped selling these releases, old and new. I have no clue what happened there, but it made it very difficult to get the DVDs, as I wished to get them on the day they were released. Most recently, Walmart isn't even selling newer releases online. I don't know how Shout! is expecting to make money off these with such limited releases.

Today I ordered the newest releases of The Angry Beavers, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Danny Phantom, and Hey Arnold all online.

Also finished season 2 of Real Monsters today. It has become one of my favorite older cartoons, and I had never even heard of the show before Shout! started releasing it on DVD last October. The only thing I really don't like about these releases, is that there are no special features! >:(

For those who don't know, it's a pretty dark show, like Invader Zim, that centers around a trio of monsters that are in school for the art of scaring humans. The show takes events and obstacles that happen in our every day lives, and twists them to what they might be like if monsters truly did exist. This is a show I'd recommend to any cartoon lover like myself! :)

ADVENTURE TIME!

Cartoon Network FINALLY released Adventure Time as a season release. Before they were only releasing chopped up DVDs filled with random episodes (and I don't ever buy shows like that). I had only ever watched two episodes of Adventure Time before this release, but with there being so much hype about the show, I definitely was interested. And SO HAPPY I bought it! This show is so addicting, and so random.. it's amazing.

It contains the first 26 episodes of the show, being the entire first season. Cartoon Network is, yet again, releasing another chopped up DVD in a couple weeks. They need to stop this and just keep releasing the next complete season sets. They aren't much more expensive at all, so I don't see what the big deal is. GET ON IT!

Survey Says... Danny Phantom!

Danny Phantom is one of my absolute favorite shows from Nickelodeon! And when Shout Factory! announced last year that they had got the rights to it (along with many other old Nick shows), I was so excited about getting them on DVD!

Season 2, Part 1 was released April 3, 2012, so OF COURSE I went out and bought it (I did the same for Season 1) :3 But I feel like ShoutFactory! didn't really give a shit about this release. The artwork is cool and all, but the actual content on the discs are all screwed up.

The inside artwork of the DVD set lists the first ten episodes as being:

1. Memory Bank
2. Doctor's Orders
3. Pirate Radio
4. Reign Storm, Part 1
5. Reign Storm, Part 2
6. Identity Crisis
7. Fenton Menace
8. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 1
9. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 2
10. The Fright Before Christmas

The list on the artwork is 100% correct, as that's the order the episodes were originally released by Nickelodeon while they were on air. HOWEVER (and this is what really saddens me), while watching the DVD, I noticed the episodes are ordered all out-of-whack, some are missing, and some are on the set that shouldn't be there. The DVD episodes go in the order of:

1. Reign Storm, Part 1
2. Reign Storm, Part 2
3. Doctor's Orders
4. Identity Crisis
5. Fenton Menace
6. Pirate Radio
7. The Fright Before Christmas
8. Micro-Management (should be in part 2)
9. Masters of All Time (should be in part 2)
10. Beauty Marked (should be in part 2)

So yeah, way to show no respect for the fans of a show. It looks like they just slapped together a bunch of episodes that just HAPPENED to be in Season 2 of the show, called them part 1, and hoped no one would notice. And so, obviously part 2 (whenever it's released), will be just as jumbled of a mess to finish up the season. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Season 3 isn't as out of order as this was.

**UPDATE**
ShoutFactory! commented on a Facebook post I left them about this issue, and they stated that the episodes on the DVD are in the order that they intended, but there was a misprint with the DVD artwork. They informed me to email them about getting the correct DVD wrap, so I'm doing just that! >.>

Black Panther!

This is a show that I had never heard of, but just came across randomly during one of my surfs of the web. It seemed interesting, so I got it. And it's actually pretty awesome. It's not your typical superhero show at all, though there are many cameos my Captain America and the X-Men. Storm especially plays a big part in the show. It was pretty awesome seeing some of my favorite characters mixed with brand new ones that I had never heard of before.

The show is about a man named T'Challa, who becomes the new Black Panther in the pilot. The Black Panther is the leader of the country of Wakanda, and protects all their land, people, and secrets in advancements. The show revolves around T'Challa's desire to get revenge on the man that killed his father. That man, Klaw, along with Batroc the Leaper, Juggernaut(a familiar face from X-Men: The Last Stand), the Vatican Black Knight, and the Russian Radioactive man, are aiming at taking over Wakanda for its technology and resources.

The ENTIRE SERIES is only six episodes long. If you want a quick show to watch, I definitely recommend this one! This animated series is the first motion comic show I've seen. I loved this different take on animation. The action in this is great, there's TONS of blood, and the story is rather great.

American Horror Review

*WARNING: TONS OF AMERICAN HORROR STORY SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVN'T SEEN THE FINALE*

Spoilers ahead! BEWARE!!

Note to television writers/producers: if you create a show that ends up killing off almost every single main character during the first season, it's gonna end up being my favorite new show of the year! That's what happened with American Horror Story, and aside from the entire cast dying off, there's a long list of reasons why this show was amazing! For one, you get to see Dylan McDermott's very very nice butt ;) The entire season was well thought out, well organized, creepy, and just SPECTACULAR! I hope Jessica Lange was happy with this being her first big television role, because I sure was =)

My favorite character, though, was the housekeeper, Moira. I want to go out and buy the complete series of Six Feet Under just to see more of Frances Conroy!

Last week, Ryan Murphy announced that he plans to change the cast and location for season 2... Which means that there will likely be no more Jessica Lange, Frances Conroy, ect =( But I also read that some of the major characters might return with cameos or something.. o.O So my fingers are crossed for more Moira! As she always seemed so distraught knowing her body was buried out back, so maybe we'll get some conclusion to that =)

My hopes are that season 2 has more episodes! THAT would be awesome! And really hoping we don't have to wait all the way until next October for more, but that is very unlikely..