CURRY BEAR

Now that shoes like House and Prison Break are off the air for a few weeks and the new season of 24 doesn’t start till January, Curry Bear was thinking of going into hibernation. But some other shows are still on the air to keep him awake. Also, how can Curry Bear hibernate while the guys over at DesiDanceTeams.Com keep bugging him to write a review of The Bhangra Project?

Heroes:
This seems to be the best new show this fall. It’s a bit of Smallville without the horrible teenage drama. It is produced by Jeph Loeb, the writer of comics like Batman: Hush and The long Halloween. The show has plenty of potential. The most important thing about a show is that it must have enough unique and interesting characters. This show has a guy who can read people’s mind, a guy who can fly, one who can see the future, and my favorite one little Asian guy who can turn back time and teleport. Then to top it off, in 5 weeks the world is going to end. This is a really cool new show, even though the concept has been done before. However, this time the superhero genre isn’t directed towards kids. This is an adult show; if you watched the first episode, the strip tease and drug references should have given it away. The fact that this show isn’t targeted to teeny boppers gives it some credibility. The fact that I want to sleep with the hot cheerleader on the show doesn’t. This is the best new show out; let’s just hope they keep it that way.

6 Degrees:
I thought this show was going to be great. I thought this was going to be one of the best and most original shows this season. I thought wrong. This show was a drag. I just couldn’t get hooked no matter how hard I tried. I just could not force myself to like this show. As original as the idea is, the first episode was rather boring. I didn’t even pay attention to most of the plot. It has a few good looking characters, but it lacks interesting story line. I was very disappointed. I predict this show will get dropped faster than a 14-year-old dropping her first born.

Standoff:
This new show I had my doubts about but its doing better than most. It’s not as suspenseful as 24 or Prison Break but it tries. It is however, slightly funnier than other drama shows. And the scenarios are very interesting. The episode where the air traffic controller takes thousands of people hostages was very good. I didn’t realize air traffic controllers are responsible for more lives in one day than doctors are in their entire life time. The shows characters are acceptable and entertaining but the characters that are really interesting are the people who snap and take these hostages. There’s a new one every week. This show really goes into detail why a person would do things like this. The bad guys are more attention-grabbing to me in this show. This show can be very useful to Desi guys, when they are going to need to talk their drama queen girlfriends from slitting her wrist.

Justice:
This show is like the first really cool law show I have seen in a long time. There are so many law shows but this one is probably the coolest. It’s like CSI meets Law and Order. They take you into the world of high price trails. The show you how advanced technology is in proving a case. The best thing about this show is at the end they actually show you what happened. Sometimes the lawyers put the right person behind bars, sometime they let the wrong person go free, and sometimes they let an innocent man go to jail. This is a good show if you’re into law shows or tired of all the rape victims on Law & Order: SVU.

Vanished:
This show is just like I predicted in the earlier article. This is the most boring show on television. The story line is either too complicated or people don’t care enough to actually follow it. The show hasn’t been doing that great in the ratings and they might just end it without us finding out what happened to the senator’s wife. I think she’s out doing the underage gardener (or is that a different show?). If you missed a few episodes it’s really hard to get into. Apparently the show starts getting good at around the 7th episode. But I don’t know if it’s worth it. I recommend switching the channel to Heroes on NBC when this show is on.

Happy Hour:
Oh my god what happened? Fox ran out of comedy shows, what are we going to do now? Well let’s make a show about people getting drunk all the time. Since That 70’s Show is gone, Fox is hoping that Happy Hour will be the new hit comedy. It’s too bad it was the first show to be cancelled. Over on Bravo, they have a bet going on over which show will get the first boot. People were right in picking Happy Hour. CANCELLED BITCHES!

Til Death:
This show is a pretty funny one but it’s targeted towards a different audience: the married and newly married couples. If you’re newly married, been married for a while, or been in a relationship so long you just want to strangle the other person, you will love this show. You will turn around to your significant other and smile and go “oh my god that’s just like us”. Then you’ll remember how you’re sick of him/her and go back to ignoring each other. This show is funny and it will give you insight into how your life is going to be when you get married, and it’s going to suck. Curry Bears knows what marriage life is like and he says: DON’T GET MARRIED. Your wife is like a condom…she spends more time in your wallet than on your dick.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip:
This show is a decent one. It has got a lot of praises from critics. And this show marks the return of Matthew Perry on NBC. Matthew Perry pretty much plays the same guy he did on Friends, Fools Rush In, and The Whole 9 Yards. I don’t believe Matthew Perry can act like anyone but himself. He just tries to be himself in all his parts, and it works for him. So if you liked any of those Matthew Perry movies I mentioned above, you will like this show. If not, watch it for Amanda Pete who is fine!

Friday Night Lights:
This show looks familiar. I just can’t put my finger on it. I think there was a movie; I believe it had the word “light” and “nights” in it and possibly a day of the week. Anyway, as I was watching the first 30 minutes of this show I wanted to blitz my brains out. The drama of a hick town that doesn’t care about anything but football was really bothersome. However, after 35 minutes of dreary Texas drama the football game started. Now this show got real interesting. The show is done in a one camera style similar to shows like The Shield or The Office. The second half of this show got really interesting. The football scenes are cool. The thing that I don’t like about this show is the somber religious undertone. Everything has to do with God, and God loves football, and God will make us win. God can’t help a dying orphan in the Middle East, you think he cares about a high school football game? Being a good Christian isn’t going to make your team win. You know what is? Steroids! The show has its appeal but if it was set in a suburban or urban town I would have liked this a lot more. If the characters were interesting and diverse like “Any Given Sunday” , “Remember the Titans”, or “Gridiron Gang”, then I can see this show being great but seriously I don’t want to see a show about hicks playing football. I don’t think this show has an appeal to a Desi audience. Now if it was about Cricket, then that would’ve been interesting. I recommend if you like football to only watch the last 30 minutes of this show. Even though it has action and decent drama, its characters don’t appeal to me. However, the hot girls on the show do appeal to me, every Friday Night with no lights.

The Nine:
The most anticipated show this season. This show has been hyped up beyond all others and rightfully so. The show starts off with 9 people going into a bank and is robbed moments later. They are held hostage for 52 hours and let out after. What is unique about this show is that they show the beginning and the end. But they don’t show you the middle at all. At first I thought the show was going to be like 24. I thought they were going to show us the beginning and the end and the rest of the season was going to be between that 52 hour period. But its not, in fact the show begins at the end. Did I confuse you yet? Well, the show is basically the aftermath of the crisis: How the lives of the 9 people have changed in that one day. They will slowly explain things like how they got a certain cut, bruise, and what happened to the characters during the crisis. It’s kind of like going to India for summer vacation and when you come back your girlfriend is dating your best friend, your dog died, your parents got divorced and you are sitting there trying to figure out how all this happened and if anyone can fill you in. This show has a lot of familiar faces. It has Scott Wolf who you may recall from “Party of 5” and “Double Dragon”. It also has Kim Raver who played Audrey Raines from “24”. I guess that mean she’s going to die in the first episode of 24 this season. The third person I noticed on this show is the hottest person on the show. She is the girl who plays Mari Cruz, Sucre’s hot girlfriend from “Prison Break.” She has a rack to die for. Now I know why Sucres broke out to marry her. I would too. The show starts off really good so lets hope they can keep it up.

Ugly Betty:
This show had 19 million viewers its first day. How can a brand new show have ratings that high? Well, there is a Spanish soap opera called “Betty La Fea”. You may recall your high school Spanish teacher mentioning it. It’s about an ugly girl working in the fashion/modeling industry. It’s suppose to be an empowering comedy show telling you that it’s OK to be ugly and that ugly people need love too. The show is produced by Latin hotty Salma Hayek, who (FYI) is part Indian. This show is more for chicks than guys, but its funny enough for a guy to sit through if it will get him brownie points. And by brownie points what I mean is sexual favors.