Mockingbird Lane makes its one night only debut on NBC at 8p. If by some miracle millions and millions of people watch it, there is a chance the show can be picked up a series instead of being a (rumored) $10 million mistake.
Mockingbird Lane is a reboot of the classic sitcom The Munsters and this show has nothing to do with the original but the names of the characters and who they are are the same.
The show starts off with Eddie Munster (Mason Cook) on a scouting trip and a baby bear terrorizing the other scouts. His family hasn’t told him he is a werewolf, so they decide to move to keep his secret hidden. His cousin Marilyn (Charity Wakefield) is assigned the task to find the perfect house for them to live and she finds one with a past. So now the Munsters move to 1313 Mockingbird Lane. Grandpa (Eddie Izzard) needs blood, Herman (Jerry O’Connell) needs a new heart because the one Grandpa gave him is running out of beats and Lily (Portia De Rossi) needs to keep everyone together. The Munsters will now adjust to their new address and we have to adjust to the new version of them.
As I have said, this show is nothing like the original and it took me the whole episode to get over that fact. Like most people who will watch it, I gave it a chance because it was written by Bryan Fuller. The show definitely has his touch and for me that is just not enough to keep me interested past tonight. Charity Wakefield is the best part of Mockingbird Lane and I am sure she will find something really soon because of it. O’Connell’s Herman is nothing like Fred Gwynne’s, but he is still sweet, lovable and enjoyable to watch. Other than that the rest of the cast is OK just like the pilot.
While I can’t sing the praises for Mockingbird Lane, I will say that tonight’s Grimm at 9p is the show’s best to date. Nick and Hank are called in to investigate a missing boy. Before the boy was taken his fathered witnessed a woman walking into water crying. Fearing she was going to kill herself, he ran into the water to help her. Once he is in the water, he sees her walking away with his son and there is nothing he can to stop her.
Nick and Hank fear this might be Grimm related and they are right. The legend of La Llorona has come to Portland and now they have until midnight to stop her from taking two more kids. But she doesn’t only kidnap them on Halloween, she also kills them. She drowns them so that she can get her kids back. So the clock is ticking for them to find La Llorona and thankfully they will have help from Detective Valentina Espinoza (Kate del Castillo). She knows more about the mysterious woman who kidnaps and kills kids every year than everyone.
Will they be able to stop La Llorona or will we be getting a sequel next year? You have to tune into this suspenseful episode tonight to find out. The episode is not only airing on NBC tonight at 9p. It will be airing on Telemundo in Spanish at at 11p and in English at 12m on mun2.
And the episode is only about La Llorona, Monroe has the best haunted house you will see on TV this year. I so want to go trick or treating at his place because it is that awesome.
Tonight at 8p on Fox Gordon Ramsay goes to Salem, Massachusetts to help one of his scariest Kitchen Nightmares so far. La Galleria 33 is owned by two sisters who thought they could open a restaurant because their parents have one across the street. Well they are wrong and they desperately need Gordon’s help. Only problem is they really don’t want to hear what he has to say even though as usual he is right. Their food is so bad the staff tries to warn the costumers about it. The once fired bus boy acts like he manager and the owners refuses to fire him again. Then there is the kitchen staff that think it is OK to serve food that fell on the floor. When Gordon tells the owners about it, they don’t see anything wrong about that. Seriously it is more shocking to watch then to read about. By the end of the night, Gordon has had it with these sisters and we won’t know what happens next because that part airs next week. When you see how delusional these sisters are about their restaurant, you will understand why the season premiere has to be a two parter.
Then at 9p on Fringe, Walter thinks he knows where the secret to save the world is hidden after they uncover a new tape in the amber. Peter, Olivia and Etta will risk their lives to go where he thinks it might be. On the way they will hook up with Agent Broyles and we find out a secret about him. Then by the episode someone’s name who I mentioned above will not make it to the series finale. That’s right someone dies and be prepared to have your heartbreak even more than it did when you found out this will be the Fox show’s final season. Fringe is definitely going out with a bang and tonight’s episode is strong the from beginning until the end.
Conan O’Brien said last week that if he raised a significant amount of money for A Night of Too Many Stars to benefit autism, he would do a whole episode of Conan on TBS with a fake tan and corn rows. Well they raised almost $65,000 and he spent last night’s show with skin the same color as his braided hair. It is a sight we will never forget, but it was worth it because it was done for a very good cause. To make us laugh for a full hour and more importantly to donate money for autism research.
Now that I have watched the full hour, I am debating if he should keep that look or not. What do you think?
We all know that Michael Phelps can swim like a fish, and now we know he can’t crowd surf to save his s$$. On Monday he was at Steve Aoki’s show in Vegas when the singer took out an inflatable raft to crowd surf on. The audience encouraged the Olympic Gold winner to join in him the boat, so he took them up on their offer. Only problem is almost as soon as he got in it, he was out of it on the floor. I guess he was just a little to big for them to handle. And the fall was too much for his bum to handle because according to TMZ he broke his a$$. And from now until the end of his life, he will be the butt of all crowd surfing jokes. I know I am already making fun of him and I am sure I am not alone.
Children this is why you need to wear floaties as protection anytime you ride in a boat, whether it is in water or on top of people’s hands. Right now Phelps will spend the next few months sitting on a life preserver and had he had one on in the first place, it might not hurt as much every time he sits down.
BTW the best part about these videos is not that they show you both angles of his fall, but that Aoki went on without giving a sh!t that his rafting body went overboard.
Halle Berry is a guest on Ellen today and let’s hope this Catwoman hasn’t used up all of her lives. That’s because Ellen DeGeneres scared her with a person dressed as a huge spider and I have never seen anyone gets as scared as she did. She honestly looked like she was going to have a heart attack because of it.
The best part is not how scared sh!tless Halle got, but how much Ellen enjoyed it. I think she is even more sadistic than I am and I love watching people in terror like that!
