*~ My Top 10 TV Shows of 2011 ~*

This is a list of MY top 10 TV shows of 2011.  This was so very difficult to make as I have a list of about 20 shows I loved this year but a top 10 always sounds  better.  So here we go.

• 10 - True Blood

Season 4 of True Blood was one of its finest in my eyes.  Firstly it did what no other season had dared to, it took us a year on straight away and wow the things that change in Bon Temps in a year.  Bill becoming King was a genius idea, after after beginning to hate him throughout Season 3 this was a well needed idea.  The witches storyline not everyone loved but I did, Marnie starting off so weak and then becoming so psycho with power.. The only downfall for me was Eric I really found him pathetic with no memory, I'm not the biggest Sookie and Eric fan but that wasnt what bothered me I wanted bad ass Eric back.  Ok yes ERic did possibly the most badass thing yet using the heart as a juice box (so hilarious) but that was all he really had this season.   

• 09 - The Mentalist

I find it shocking that I wasn't a massive Mentalist fan until this year, in fact until January I am not sure if I had even ever watched an episode, but here I am a year on putting The Mentalist in my top 10 and owing the first two seasons on DVD!  Now I could narrow down the reason its on here is for the Season 3 finale.  Jane who is so anti guns shoots the believed to be Red John blank in the middle of a mall and then sits back down to his tea.  Or it could be for the cabin scene with Van Pelt finding out her FBI finance is one of Red Johns men.  Actually the entire Season 3 finale was brilliant.  But on top of that Season 4 has continued to soar and I find myself thinking that this show just gets better and better.

• 08 - Suburgatory

If you are not watching this show you should be it is HILAR! When i first decided to watch it though I didnt think it would ever be as funny as it is, I thought it would be a fluff comedy but I am really glad I was wrong.  First Jeremy Sisto gotta hand it to him did not know he could do comedy, of course all i really knew him from was Six Feet Under and Clueless, but every time there is a George and Dallas scene I find myself in stitches.  Maybe its because Dallas is so so so into George.  But even better them then scenes are the ones between Tessa and Dalia two extreme opposites and I think everyone is on Tessa's side.

• 07 - New Girl

Nick and Jess! Schmitt! Douche Jar! Singing every thought! Schmitt! Ooooo i love this show! The word Adorkable is the way to truly describe this show as that's what it is!  Of course the real break out of this show is Max Greenfiled as Schmitt but for me it is Zooey Deschanel's best role, as much as I am in love with 500 Day of Summer I much prefer Jess over Summer! And then there is Nick and Jess, who need to be together by the end of well OK they can drag it out but please not too long!  I love all of Winston's little side plots as well like fighting to be the usher at a wedding with a child, actually all of Winstons scenes with kids are hilarious because he is always trying to be the best.

• 06 - The Vampire Diaries

I am very well aware that my picture of TVD does not include any of the main characters and that is for good reason.  As it is these two characters who have made the whole show onto my list.  Not just the relationship between Tyler and Caroline but also the individual characters themselves and the obstacles they have both faced this year.  From January we watched Tyler find out he was betrayed by Caroline after falling in love with her only to leave town and discover how to control his werewolf urges.  On his return he ends up locked in a well dungeon with Caroline and well season 2 ends with him comforting her over her Matt breakup.  Season 3 sees them become a couple and then have it horribly taken away from them by Tyler's allegiance to Klaus and becoming the first successful Werevamp.   As well as that Caroline also faced being tortured by her won father for being a vampire.  Here is hoping 2012 brings a lot more drama for these two but also for them to be back together!

• 05 - How I Met Your Mother

Yes this has been the year for Robin and Barney fans, but not only that but we are getting that much closer to finding out who the mother is.  This year started off with the tragic episode of the countdown to Marshall loosing his dad and they then ended the year with the episode where Robin discovered she could never have children.  But remarkably through both episodes the comedy remained, but we were still able to mourn with the characters.  I will say they are possibly two of the best episodes HIMYM has done.

• 04 - NCIS 

 

NCIS never gets old and we are into the 9th season.  In 2011 we have found out a little bit more about Tony's back story of how he ended up at NCIS and how Gibbs has been one of the biggest influences on his life.  We also got to see a little bit more of what Gibbs was like right at the beginning of his army career.  Ziva allowed herself to show emotions in front of Tony when Mike Franks was killed, and then also in front of Abby and  McGee.  We also got more about Palmer this year as we lead up to his wedding, which i am sure will be an nice NCIS event.  We even got to meet McGee's grandmother, its been a very good NCIS year. 

• 03 - Revenge

My biggest guilty please.  I really did not expect to love this show but I am so badly addicted now and that's possibly why its my highest new show on this list. Emily Van Camp has found her role of a lifetime with Amanda/Emily especially with the Emily stare, which as Nolan has witnessed you do not want to be on the other side of.  however it is probably Nolan and Victoria who steal the show as the deliciously evil supporting characters.  Nolan so desperately wants to be part of Amanda/Emily's revenge, they are like brother and sister, I hope it comes out that they are.  Whereas Victoria is like a silent storm, the scene where she tells Lydia she will forever hate her and every time she smiles etc my word i have shivers it was cold but amazing!

• 02 - Cougar Town

WHY IS IT NOT BACK ON TV YET!!! Cougar Town has been very much missed from my tv schedule this fall and the fact its not even had a midseason date yet, why is ABC doing this to me! Cougar Town is definatly one of the funniest comedies on TV at the minute with an amazingly funny ensemble cast.  However Busy Phillips as Laurie has me in stitches every time, how shes not received any award loving yet (apart from the critics choice) is beyond me.  So ABC executives if you happen to read this please please please get Cougar Town back on TV now!

AND IN THE TOP POSITION IN FIRST PLACE IS...............................

• 01 - Happy Endings

The biggest and bestest shock this year for me was the renewal of this hilarious show!  Ok ABC is killing me with Cougar town right now but I love them at the same time because they are keeping this gem on TV!  Max and Penny so camp but straight and bad but funny, I cant describe them, you probably shouldn't be laughing but its so funny that you have to, best friendship on TV.  Alex and Dave i am shipping these two to get back together, after that kiss on the Christmas episode so cute.  Any of Brad and Janes marriage scene crack me up as well, especially the scene where Brad is couch jumping or something like that and Jane just slowly moves her win out of the way, so simple but so funny!  i cant actually wait for new episodes!

Honourable Mentions

Chuck - Final season started this fall, this show shall be sorely missed, fans did well to keep it alive for 5 seasons.

Gossip Girl - After 4 years they actually made me love Dan! Very shocking! even more shocking they got me to start disliking Blair with Chuck and to want Blair with Dan instead!

The Office - This year we said Goodbye to Michael Scott and everyone thought that would be it, but the show has done very well to continue giving the funny and I am happy to say I am still a very big fan.

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*Hart of Dixie* offers some easy feel good watching!

I should say ways to watch if it lays of the cheese! Since it is Josh Swartez i have  A LOT of faith in this show, you could say the pilot of The OC and Gossip Girl, even Chuck, were riddled with cheesefesty moments b ut with the pilot you have got to set the scene and the basic big story lines of the season and Hart of Dixie defiantly did so.

First off lets talk about the fact that Rachel Bilson is now back on my TV.  I was a mahooosive fan of The OC back in the day so I get happy when any of the cast are in anything else (well apart from Mischa Barton just because well shes only good as Marissa Cooper), so a  show where Bilson is the leading lady already had me watching for the first couple of episodes.  I gotta say though I might stick this one out it defiantly had an old WB style to it, which again makes me happy, and its guna be nice and easy but probably addictive to watch.  I just dont know how well I am going to buy into this whole Bilson is a doctor thing.

The rest of the cast seem ok for now, I think Wade is going to get quite a bit more interesting, especially more so than George who seems to be a little bit dopey.  Lemon is going to annoy the frick out of me, I mean her name is Lemon for starters!  The Mayor hmmm not sure how I feel about him to be honest.

For now i am going to keep watching up, try and catch fully up this week, I am hoping the narration from Bilson's character Zoe stops though, cannot be dealing with that every episode!

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*ABC's Revenge - Defiantly Served*

Ok 1 episode in and I am a little bit addicted.  Gotta say I wasn't expecting to be, especially as I usually dislike the main actress Emily Van Camp, however it has proven to be a nice guilty pleasure, and better yet its like ABC crossed with the CW.

First off I guess I didn't know much about the show before going into it because I had no idea that the revenge  was from something that happened to her family when she was little, which makes it so much more interesting.  I am uber excited to see how Jack/Amanda develops, I'm really hoping he discovers her a couple of episodes in.  I am a little confused as to where the finances (Daniel) murder is going to happen, midseason or season finale.  Since its a first season, and the didn't have a full season order when they went into making the show, I'm guessing they had it prepared for midseason.

The Grayson family, first off Conrad is a douche can he be killed off, we know Daniel dies before him because he is at the engagement party in the pilot, wait one sec all the big players were which means its going to take a lot of episodes for anyone to truly be revenged on, hmmm.  I cant wait to learn all of Victoria's little dirty secrets like the one we learned at the end of the episode.  The daughter seems irrelevant for now so I will make more of a decision on her later on as the show progresses.

Emily/Amanda what shall we call her Amily? Emanda? I gunna go with Amily tis prettier.  So we have the childhood crush with Jack, the potential romance (which we know becomes an engagement) with Daniel, some weird flirting with Nolan.  Personally after the pilot I am rooting for Jack, although Daniel is a hottie, and her reaction to his death leads me to think she does develop actual feelings for him.  Maybe Amily and Nolan conspire to kill Daniel and she backs out but he continues with the plan, no its gotta be the girl Daniel killed  in the car crash's family coming back for their revenge.

The Porter family, you can tell we will be rooting for them all the way through to come out of financial struggles, to get the girl, they are defiantly the family who deserve happiness, the opposite of the Grayson's, maybe Daddy Porter was good friends with Amily's father and ends up helping her out?

See one episode in and I already have about a gazillion questions, guess I better get catching up so I can answer myself!

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*Suburgatory - Easy A In TV Form*

Finally got round to watching ABC's new comedy Suburgatory and I am thinking that i might just watch all the episodes Iv'e missed in one because its that good.  Think Emma Stone in Easy A taken out of her comfort zone and placed into well the suburbs of NYC!  And that's what this show is!

Ok it helps that the leading girl Tessa played by Jane Levy  kinda looks like Emma Stone and has the same coolness factor probably as her but that's probably what they were going for when they were casting this show.  Tessa is just very New York in her attitude, e.g. I have been brought up to be an individual why should I change myself to fit in, and of course I agree completely with this attitude so i really love this character, and kinda would like to be as cool as her.

What i love most about this show possibly though is how ever cliché about the people in the suburbs is heightened to a scary stepfordness.  Cheryl Hines is hilarious as Dallas, she reminds me a little bit of Amy Pholer in Mean Girls as lead mean girl Regina's mum, probably not as desperate but defiantly as fake.  Her daughter Dalia (is the right way its spelt, not sure) is just so bland boring and robot like that she had me kinda in stitches, or maybe it was the fact in the most monotone way possible that she says exactly what she like.  Imagine Cordelia Chase constantly glued to a mobile phone and not learning how to make expressions in her voice, i assume that's how we would get Dalia

George played by Jeremy Sisto is going to have it hard, single man quite attractive, he will be eaten up by all the single ladies, and well the married ones probably too.  This of course is going to make for some excellent comedy.  At first I was a little concerned about Sisto in a comedy I have only really seen him in Six Feet Under and that's so far from comedy in unreal, and his character in that had Bipolar I think, if not sorry its been a while since i watched it.  However I am pleasantly surprised by this lighter role he has taken on.

So I am off to watch more of this series and I think you all should to! :D

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*Chuck is Back*

Chuck's Final season has started and I am uber excited to see how this show ends.  Constantly struggled to return each year but with a very active fanbase it has survived into its 5th season.  What annoys me with this show is that hardly anyone gives it a chance, especially to discover how awesome it actually is, so if you are unsure about trying out the show i always strongly recommend it.

With this first episode back we got a little bit of everything (apart form a lack of awesome, where was he?).  Introduction to the new company Carmicheal Industries, Morgan with the intersect (so much funnier than when Chuck first got it), Casey finding private hire difficult for the mere fact that they now work for the scumbags, Chuck and Sarah kicking off married life and a lil bit of Buymore goodness.  

The new company isn't doing too well at earning itself money and apparently the millions Volkoff left them isn't going as far as you would think.  I like the fact that the show has shown that money runs out quickly, too many spy world in popular culture make out that everything is at their disposal and that there is unlimited funds, but no the spy industry is just like any other, you need money to keep going.  So at the end of the episode when the CIA freezes all their assets, well it makes Chuck very unhappy because this means he cant give Sarah her dream home life.  I suspect the season finale will be Chuck and Sarah buying the white house with the little red door, i hope it is anyway.  

Which leads me to another season long arc, Decker! What a nasty little government man.  I am very very very intrigued to know what their big plan for Chuck is, I know they are being mean now but its leading me to think that the end result might actually be a good one, I'm not sure though, its a very complicated story right now, i cant wait for it to speed up.  

Morgan and his intersect is just hilarious, but i kinda think he suits it more than Chuck ever did, maybe its because he small but everything just looks more awesome when Morgan is doing it, like kung fu etc.  Also gotta love the fact that he is still very much Morgan, the intersect has not changed him and he still looks up to Chuck, even though Chuck now feels inferior to Morgan.  I don't know where this story is going to go, weather Morgan's intersect with transfer to Chuck or will Morgan forever be the intersect I don't know.

Next onto the Buymore.  I am so glad that in this final season the Buymore has to play a bigger part in order to turn profit to make money for the spy business.  I've always loved the Buymore scenes, how normal it is compared to the outrageousness of the spy world but also how outrageous the Buymore itself can be.  More Morgan and Chuck bringing down Jeff and Lester please, that small little tidbit with Jeff begging for money and Morgan and Chuck finding him climbing and walking, loved it, classic Buymore.

Overall though i am very excited for this series to continue but a little sad at the same time because this is of course its last :(

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Apologies.................

I feel i need to apologise with my lack of writing since well mid September, yes its been about a month now but let me explain what happened.  Back in September i moved into my student accommodation, well a house, and no internet had been set up.  Long story short it took 3 weeks for our internet to be activated and It only arrived on Tuesday.  Since then I have tried desperately to catch up with the show i love love love and others that i started.  Hopefully once I have caught up I will be back to a flow.  I can say i have caught up completely on How i Met you Mother, Happy Endings, The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl.  I've watched a couple of The Secret circle and NCIS, but there are still so many i NEED to watch, for my own sanity.

I promise to try to post my thoughts as often as I can in the next couple of weeks! :D

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A Double Bill of *How I Met Your Mother* Followed by New Faces on *Castle*, My Mondays are Back!

The double bill of How i Met Your Mother took us back to that finale moment with  Barney standing their being the groom and also gave us another few teases as to who the bride could be.  On Castle it started off with the aftermath of the funeral shooting, we all knew Kate would survive but what we didn't know is what she would remember and how it would impact her.

How I Met Your Mother - 7x01 The Best Man & 7x02 The Naked Truth

The first hour of HIMYM was all really about Punchy's wedding and Marshall and Lily telling the rest of the gang their news.   Ted was best man at Punchy's wedding and scared to give a toast as he managed to break down at all the other weddings whilst giving the toast and thanks to Punchy had become somewhat of a you tube hit in Finland.  This does scare me sometimes thinking that people could have videoed me and in some other country I am a hit.  However the gang pointed out that this year he hasn't been left at the alter (Stella), he hasn't lost his job in fact he is on the cover of New York Magazine.  Unfortunately when it came to bragging about this to everyone at the wedding their news was better, to Marshall, because they each had families, which leads Ted to serial dating,  usiing the magazine at newspaper stands as a pick up line.  After dating two women successfully Ted was going to carry it on until seeing how much of a fool Barney was willing to be for love, it reminded Ted exactly why he was a sucker for love.  So in the end instead of inviting one of his new conquests to this big architecture ball he takes Robin but end up seeing a very old fling there, it was the return of Victoria/Buttercup from Seaosn 1. 

Onto Marshall and Lilly, I gotta say I kinda love Marshall drunk in both of the opening episodes we see for the better term of it wasted.  In the wedding episode he gets drunk to hide the fact that Lilly is pregnant and well ends up outing the brides pregnancy as well, funny times.  In the 2nd episode his new potential boss (played by the awesomely funny Martin Short) explains they will have to do an internet search and background check but if it all pans out well he has the job.  Which leads them to discovering videos on-line of Marshall in collage as Beercules, and then to try to get the video taken down he ends up doing an updated version just for his new potential boss, who incidentally loved it and hires him anyway.

Robin and Barney had a very seductive dance at the wedding confirming to Lily and Robin that there was still chemistry between the two of them, unfortunately though Barney has all eyes for Nora at the minute.  After disgusting Nora with all his pick up stories he decides to wait in the diner until he gets his second date with her, which works out indeed.

Castle - 4x01 Rise

Castle pick up right where we left off in the finale, Kate gets rushed into hospital after being shot in the chest and Esposito and Ryan promise to catch the shooter. Castle4 and Kate's boyfriend Josh who is also one for the doctors at the hospital come to blows ad Josh blames Castle for Kate being shot.  When Kate wakes up the next day Castle goes to see her and she asks him for some time, I knew here straight away she wasn't gunna call him for months, but I thought It was because she's still angry at him for taking her out of the aeroplane hanger, not because she's not ready to deal.  Kate tells Castle that she cant remember anything form the moment she was shot, which of course is when Castle told her he loves her.

Time passes on, 3 months from what I think they said and Kate is back to the precinct, where she meets the news boss Captain Victora Gates (Iron Gates) who has come from IA (Internal Affairs) so does everything exactly by the book, you know straight away thought that this means she is gunna get caught up in something nasty and that the team are going to have to go well against the book to help her.  Iron Gates we find out has got rid of Castle and has been keeping a close eye on her detectives, she has also shut down the shooting case on Kate as there were no new leads.  Of course this tremendously peeves Kate off and leads her to find Castle apologise and well sneak around the new boss ladies back to continues investigating her shooting, Roy's death and her mothers death, oh I see this ending well, not.   I'm kinda hoping that the continue with this conspiracy case like they have been the past 3 seasons, not making it a big deal until a big lead turns up for one episode.  Or maybe they can solve this conspiracy or at least why her mother was murdered by the end of this season and get Kate and Castle together. 

This première episode was more about introductions and  well getting back to old ways, the murder of the episode was nothing interesting in itself, it lead Kate to question her ability a little bit but that was cleared up by the end. I am not saying it was a bad episode at all because I really enjoyed it, just means I am excited for the rest of the season! I see next episode brings back the humours Castle:

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