Continuing the Top 100 TV shows here are 90-81 In this batch I’ve got 3 dramas that deal with the supernatural, 4 comedies and 3 reality shows. LETS DO IT!
The Top 100 TV Shows: 90-81
90) "Switch" (ITV2)
Switch is a British show about 4 young adults who are in a coven of witches together. They have to deal with a rival coven who wants to make them look like fools, their love lives and their jobs along the way. Each girl represents an element needed to perform spells. Those are wind, fire, water and earth. Each spell is quirky and always manages to get them out of sticky situations. They each shine in their own way as they try to get through life with and without magic.
One of the best things about the show was episode 2 introduces a character that is a love interest for 2 of the friends. The actor who plays the interest is Jamie Davis aka Harley from Footballers Wive$, one of my favorite shows and guiltiest pleasures. No idea if ITV will renew the series but I hope so! It was pleasantly entertaining.
89) "Men At Work" (TBS)
A new comedy on TBS staring guys from shows I used to watch all put together in one multicam, work, situational comedy. The guys struggle to cope with their love lives, work lives and interpersonal relationships. The acting may not be the most stellar but the show brought a bunch of laughs.
Milo, played by Danny Masterson, tries to get over his recent breakup with his long term love of his life. His friends work together to get him back into the dating scene but of course everything goes wrong along the way. Neal is the only one with a girlfriend and she’s hot, and how he managed to get her baffles everyone. The show was renewed for a second season of 10 episodes due sometime in 2012.
88) "Malibu Country" (ABC)
Reba’s newest sitcom debuted this year in the new ABC TGIF block. Reba, the wife of a huge country star, finds out her husband has been cheating on her so she makes her family move out to Malibu to start new. Reba’s neighbor, a ditzy Barbie doll tries to help her adjust to life outside of Nashville. Her whiskey drinking mother also moves with her who grows to love the new location and the availability of medicinal edibles she can now get!
The show has me cracking up anytime Reba’s mom, played by the great Lily Tomlin, or Cash, Reba’s son, comes on the screen. Cash is the typical HS jock, not too bright but always has good intentions. Sarah Rue plays Reba’s neighbor and always brings her A game (and has noticeably become pregnant since shooting the pilot episode!). It airs Friday nights.
87) "Alcatraz" (FOX)
Alcatraz was a short lived drama about the world famous Island Prison called Alcatraz. In this world, the prisoners all go missing one day and show up again in 2012 enacting some sort of revenge or mission on those who have wronged them in the past. Rebecca Madsen and
Hurley Dr. Soto try to find these re returned prisoners before they hurt more people and before anyone finds out that the prisoners are still out there. Where though is the question. Where did all of the prisoners go and why are they back now?
The show had a deep mythology and brought back many prisoners from earlier episodes to bring the show full circle. The final episode ends on a big cliffhanger and tragically the show wasn’t renewed so we’ll never know if ____ lives?!!?
86) "Dancing With The Stars" (ABC)
Dancing With The Stars, AKA DWTS, is a huge guilty pleasure of mine. The dancing is great, the contestants are funny and entertaining and the professionals are exceptional(ly good looking). 2012 has 2 separate series, the second being an All Stars cast, bringing back past contestants and winners all once again competing to win the Mirror Ball Trophy.
In the Spring, Donald Driver and his partner Peta Murgatroyd beat Katherine Jenkins & Mark Ballas. Both teams were amazing. For the All Stars Season, one of my favorite professional dancers who has never won the trophy FINALLY won. And his celebrity partner is one of the most beautiful women to compete on the show to boot. Melissa Rycroft & Tony Dovolani were well deserving of the title beating out former winner Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough (in that season Melissa came in third). Shawn was great too, but Derek, although a great dancer, has won enough times. It was time for Melissa and Tony to finally win. The show will return in the Spring of 2013.
85) "Sullivan & Son" (TBS)
Another new TBS comedy launched out of repeats of the amazing Big Bang Theory was Sullivan & Son. A comedy about a guy who comes home, buys his parents bar, and has to deal with his new change of career from a lawyer to bartender. The diverse crowd that frequests the bar bring up great comedic storylines. They tackled some serious issues like trying to find out who Owen’s father is with comedic grace. The show executive-produced by Vince Vaughn always brought the laughs.
Owen’s mom is the “town *****” who has pretty much slept with everyone who has been to the bar. Owen and his mothers’ chemistry is poked fun of when they decide to pursue a singing/musical career but neglect to tell everyone that they are related. What a hoot! I think we are starting to see a recurring theme here. Take a sitcom, revolve it around a bar, and I’ll love it! It will return with a second season in 2013.
84) "Jersey Shore/Snooki & JWoww/The Pauly D Project" (MTV)
Everyone’s favorite reality stars came back for more this year. We got the final season of Jersey Shore and two new spinoffs. Snooki & JWoww (my two favorite housemates) and The Pauly D Project. I’m lumping them all together because they don’t really deserve their own individual slots. It’d only take away from better shows! (oops)
Jersey Shore saw the housemates return to Seaside Heights after a season in Italy to get crazy and have fun on the shore. Then we got The Pauly D Project in which we see Pauly D get a job as the house DJ at a resort in Las Vegas. He brought his friends and co workers from home to document the experience. It wasn’t as good as Jersey Shore but it surely had its moments.
Then we got Snooki & JWoww, where we find out our old Snickers is knocked up! Jenni and Nicole move in together and the show documents their time in Jersey City preparing for life after Jersey Shore and Nicoles upcoming life changing moment. Hopefully in season 2 we can see more of Nicole and Jenni having fun now that Nicole has given birth!
Finally in a year full of Jersey, we returned to Seaside Heights for the final season of Jersey Shore. All of the housemates returned again and we got to see them have fun one last time at the shore. Since Snooki was pregnant at the time, she got her own house so she can rest and not be woken up every five minutes by drama in the house. We had an arrest, motorized scooters in the club and even more shenanigans. The show wraps up soon and it’ll be sad seeing it go!
83) "X Factor" (FOX)
As a fan of the UK version of X Factor since Shayne Ward won, I was once again excited to see what the second season of XF had in store. We got 2 new judges, Demi and Britney, and new hosts, Mario and Khloe. The talent this year was great yet again. The show still has is faults and needs to sack Khloe asap for her horrible presenting skills.
At the moment we are top 4 and all four acts deserve to be there. We all know the final 3 will be Carly Rose Sonenblurgh (I still laugh thinking about when Mario messed up), Tate Stevens and Emblem 3. The show still has to fix a bunch of things before it returns for a third season in 2013. Hopefully Britney will return because I need more gifable facial expressions on my TV.
82) "The River" (ABC)
One of my favorite new shows in 2012 was The River. Sadly it only got one season but I enjoyed every minute of it. A Steve Irwin character goes missing with his crew on a mission to document the things happening on and around the river. His son and wife gather a crew to go searching for him.
Along the way they experience unexplainable supernatural phenomenon. The show is from the guys behind Paranormal activity and was shot in the same fashion using footage from cameras set up all over the ship. We have people go missing, possessed by others, dragonflies doing creepy things, dolls doing creepy things, zombies, everything! I loved watching not know what the **** was going to happen next. Sadly the show also ended with a cliffhanger and there were talks that someone like Netflix could rescue the series but it never happened. The main storyline was mostly wrapped up so it was an ok ending.
81) "Wilfred" (FX)
The first season of Wilfred ended with a mind boggling, questioning everything type of cliffhanger that is resolved quickly but there is still so much left up in the air during the second season. Is Wilfred real? Is Ryan crazy? How does everything come back to Wilfred, even his past?! The show has a great mix of comedy and out of the box thinking.
If you don’t know, Wilfred is a dog that Ryan sees as a human in a dog costume. They can talk, smoke weed and do things together. Ryan is in love with Wilfred’s owner and Ryan and Wilfred spend a lot of time together. Ryan tries to get his life back in order this season after attempting suicide in the pilot episode. He deals with a new girlfriend, Wilfred shenanigans and Kristen’s upcoming wedding. Ryan sees the return of his sister and mother in hilarious storylines. Wilfred will return sometime in 2013 for a third season.
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