Huffington Magazine Issue 18 | Page 30

Voices JEFF SORENSEN HUFFINGTON 10.14.12 CBS’S VEGAS Dennis Quaid is the man, but this show is just plain boring. Old people will love it because old people love everything on CBS. It’s the old people channel. I gave this a shot mainly because of Quaid, but it lost me multiple times during the pilot. It’s like Justified if Justified were bland, watered down and poorly written. If you want to see an amazing Western-style show, just watch Justified. JUSTIN LUBIN/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK VIA GETTY IMAGES ABC’S THE NEIGHBORS I honestly had no idea what this show was about. I saw it on my OnDemand and turned it on. It caught me off guard to say the least (a family moves into a neighborhood occupied by aliens with famous people’s names). I finished the episode and I still am not sure what happened. I laughed, but it was just odd. I love odd, but this was really out there. It was like a single-camera version of 3rd Rock from the Sun, and everyone in the neighborhood was the clueless squinty-eyed one. NBC’S GO ON Everyone loves Matthew Perry and this series lets him do his Chandler act, but it’s only kind of funny. I’d only watch it again if I’m really bored, the remote is really far, I’m feeling really lazy, and it comes on NBC while I’m sitting there. Not a ringing endorsement, but it is what it is. NBC’S GUYS WITH KIDS This isn’t hyperbole, this is the worst show I have ever seen, and I’m counting the time I watched a VHS tape of me from a school play when I was eleven. This series shouldn’t just be cancelled; the people who wrote it should go to jail. That’s it, folks. As a result of this exercise, I’ve decided to abandon watching anything on the top networks. AMC, FX, and the pay channels have the best series by far. Matthew Perry returns to the small screen in Go On.