SUMMER TV!!!!

Lets be honest , the first half of summer TV sucks!!! Everything ends, your left with crappy reality shows or random new shows that the networks are hoping might do something. The second half of the summer however is great , You got big premieres and then its not long till Fall TV starts.


Without a doubt the No.1 Summer Premiere that i have been waiting for is Breaking Bad Season 4. Did Jessie kill Gail???? (i hope so) Did the Chicken Man have Walter killed? THe only thing i can think about is the chilling end to last season with Jessie standing in the doorway pointing a gun at Gail, realizing he doesnt want to kill him , but basically its Gail or He and Walter.
It's situations like that, that make me love Breaking Bad. Its such a morally challenging show , How far will you go to get what you want and protect the ones you love??? Thats the world Walter White finds himself in , Here is a guy who was a mild mannered boring Chemistry Teacher in season 1 , now with Season 4 getting set to open he is fighting for his life as a meth chemist for a drug kingpin. Walter has killed people, watched people die and will definitely probably have to do more of the same.
The writing on Breaking Bad is spectacular , Acting is amazing , its just very very well done. According to Show Creator Vince Gilligan the show will end after Season 5, So two seasons left to end this story. I just dont see this one having a happy ending , i think it has to end with Walter dead either at the hands of Drug Kingpins or by a cancer relapse , he may or not have been able to take care of his family and its 50/50 whether Jason makes it or not. All i know is i will be there every step of the way with Mr.White for the ride!!!!



Next would be the final season of Entourage, now wait NO i am not trying to put Entourage in the same class as Breaking Bad , Entourage is definitely more of a guilty pleasure type show. It does have some great acting in it by certain people, Ari Gold (jeremy Piven) is a great character but other than him the best thing Entourage delivers is a inside look at hollywood and a guy fantasy of what it would be like to be super rich with your buddies. There are some funny moments of crude-guy humor. Entourage is a show i have been in on from the beginning and will see through to the end and part of me will definitely be sad to see it go.

Others im looking forward to unfortunately wont be coming on till late august- earlly September when Fall Tv gets kicking again.
Sons of Anarchy Season 4- This is a new love but one im definitely all in now. Cant wait to see what Jax and the boys in Charming have waiting for them when they get out of Jail.

Dexter Season 6- Now there are Dexter haters out there now including my boy who is on this very blog. I am the first to admit the Season Finale to Season 5 sucked Donkey Balls. It was the worst season finale of the 5. With that being said I have been in on Dexter from the beginning and it has been one of the top shows on tv consistently from the beginning. THere is a silver lining to Dexter , they finally started to hint at what the eventual end of the show will be , the ultimate confrontation when who Dexter truly is gets revealed to Deb and what she chooses to do. Will she be Harry and try to embrace it , or will she Capture or kill her murdering brother??? I personally believe that the sixth season could be it , they might could squeeze a seventh but i dont know , either way i look for it to rebound this year and will not give up on Mr. Morgan.
I believe my boy Dearing and i plan to either relaunch this blog or get a new one going and be a little more active in bloggin once our shows come back on. It should give us a little more material for you the reader of the media hero.

Another SOA Post

Hi. Media Hero Here...

First off I would like to welcome The Big Dawg to Media Hero. As I am sure you have noticed I suck something awful at this whole posting blogs thing and I am hoping his presence will help boost me to post more. He will be posting often as well I assume. But as many of you know "This may sound cocky but I used to work in TV" so The Big Dawg should have known when I started talking about this show that it would be an instant classic.

Since Big Dawg stole my thunder and posted about this series before the namesake of the website had the opportunity, I won't waste anyone's time with details about individuals in the show or information about the writers. I will just spend a few minutes of your day talking about my favorite characters and a few aspects about the show that really got me interested when I started watching. I, like the Big Dawg, had heard great things about this show from so many different people ranging from close friends to radio guys that talk about their Tivo all the time. So since I am the person that has to watch everything I DVR, I set up my DVR to record the entire season 3 of SOA knowing that I would be forced to watch the first two seasons before I watched 3. I bought season 1... knocked it out in three days... Then during a freak ice storm/gift from God, I bought and watched Season 2 in about 19 hours. Addicted. Plain and Simple.

Who do I identify with the most in this series:

At first I would have started out with Jax but after two plus seasons, by far my favorite character is Opie. He is the quiet yet strong best friend of Jax. For those that are watching the show and think he looks familiar... He is definitely the guy from Remember The Titans (Gerry Bertier). He is a father of two young children and he struggles mightily with the balance of being a single father and a club member. His character has gone from almost an outsider when he came out of jail to what I see as one of the more powerful members in the club. His influence is all over almost every decision Clay and Jax make.


After a long debate with the four or five people that are seriously addicted to this show that I hang out with, it has been determined that as much as I want to be Opie in our MC we plan on starting, I am not Opie. I am Tig, the speak first, think later smart ass ex Marine. I can handle that because even though I hated him for his role in the ending of Season 1. Tig has proved himself with some solid one liners and also he is simply a hardass. Tig and Clay have one of the type of friendships that only certain people can understand. So, I do accept my role as Tig in the Mansfield SOA Chapter.

Another thing I really dig about this show is the way that they incorporate covers of songs into each episode. The season finale of season 2's finale montage is set to a cover of "Gimme Shelter" originally by The Stones and the way the montage was shot and edited to the music makes it rank in the top 5 of most epic TV moments I have seen in the last 10 years.


This show, for me, is just something I can finally get into that I look forward to catching up and hosting 'Sons' night at the house for all the guys and the old ladies to come over and hang out. I love me some Breaking Bad and Dexter, but the lack of new Breaking Bad in my life over the last year and Dexter's last season flop of a finale has really elevated the excitement over a new show to get into. I am still very dedicated to Dexter and Breaking Bad, and I know the excitement for those will go up as their new seasons approach... but right now I am hardcore SOA.


A shout out to my "Old-Lady" Media Hero-ette who has a love for Tara, Jax's Old Lady. I must say the more she transforms into the role of "Old Lady" of a Son... The more I like her but also the more I realize she could completely kick my ass.

S.O.A.

Snowpocalypse 2011 has brought many things , A Clean Apartment , Laundry getting done , Lots of boredom, an onset of Cabin Fever and yes quite possibly a new TV show to latch onto.

Over the last couple of years , I've heard from multiple people tell me you gotta try out Sons of Anarchy , its really good. I never did , but then my boy the Media Hero started it , he got hooked and has been talking it up non-stop ever since!! This guy honestly talked it up to the point to where it was kind of annoyying, but in the end i got to hand it to him , He was right.

Sons of Anarchy is set in the fictional town of Charming California and is based around a Motorcycle Gang , there lives and there business. The show's lead character is Jax Teller the Vice Prez of the Sons of Anarchy , younger than most members but Jax sits second in command only to his Step Father Clay Morrow. I cant lie Jax is pretty much the definition of a hard-ass, although sometimes he does look like a complete and total Cholo with his flannel shirts buttoned all the way up. Jax's mother is married to Clay so running the Motorcycle Gang is pretty much family business.
The show also has the great Ron Perlman in it , if you IMDB'd that dude he has been in a crap load of stuff! Katie Sagal is Jax's mom , she is probably best known for being Peg Bundy , not a bad gig to land as one of the lead's of this show , although i guess it doesnt hurt when your married to the show's creator. There are a bunch of other actors in it , that you recognize from Movies over the years. The show's creator is Kurt Sutter , Kurt is a guy who was a writer of and very influential in The Shield another huge hit for FX and quite possibly this blogger's favorite TV show of all time. That was definitely one of the things that hooked me to the show , when I learned Kurt Sutter was the creator , Sons has a very Shield feel in the way it's shot , not to mention the adult nature both in content and violence. FX definitely allows guy's like Sutter to tote that line where it's just barely passible for cable , basically it doesn't say the F Word and doesn't show complete Nudity so it doesn't have to be on HBO. Ill fully admit though if Sons was on HBO it would be way better!!!!!

Considering i watched Season 1 in the span of a bout 15 hours , I'd say I'm pretty much hooked , I will be getting seasons 2 and 3 knocked out shortly and be jonesing for Season 4 to roll around. As of right now it still ranks behind Breaking Bad and Dexter and probably Boardwalk Empire although i still have a couple of episodes to finish season 1 of it. Sons has made a quick jump up to the top of my TV charts and after Dexter's lackluster season I could see it jumping up to No. 2 behind Breaking Bad possibly. who knows what the future holds. And to the Media Hero- Nice Job my friend you did not lead me astray SOA- GOOD TV!