Paisan's Aiming for Perfection
Saying a pizza shop on Mill Avenue has been done is a heck on an understatement, but a night at Paisan’s (pronounced “piezons”) Pizza and Italian Kitchen hopes to change minds.
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Saying a pizza shop on Mill Avenue has been done is a heck on an understatement, but a night at Paisan’s (pronounced “piezons”) Pizza and Italian Kitchen hopes to change minds.
It’s your lucky day. On Friday, Arizona will provide a variety of different events for everyone to channel their inner Irishman.
If your family is anything like mine, when you go home for the holidays, you are subject to their television tastes. However, my faith has been restored in my family’s television taste with their newest show Parenthood. Usually I scoff at their drama TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, or reruns on the Lifetime channel. This Thanksgiving weekend, I watched Parenthood, and was pleasantly surprised with how much the drama wasn’t obviously scripted, but rather realistic and heart-warming.
As the semester nears its end, it is important to know what to look out for when you’re spending endless hours at home during the holidays. The new year brings new, exciting shows that I’m particularly excited about. Here is your guide to the new prospects (in no particular order):
My taste in television has shifted slightly in these last few months. I find myself watching more and more “bro comedies” as I like to call them—television shows which a large male following, typically of the comedic genre. Maybe it is the fact that I live with four boys, but these kinds of shows have grown on me. A perfect example of such a genre would be FX Network’s The League.
There isn’t a show that has endured its typical time frame more than American Horror Story. Despite the fact that the Halloween season has come and gone, American Horror Story still beguiles many across the nation. The fact that a categorized “scary” show can keep so many enthralled for a couple episodes, let alone its entirety of seven episodes, just credits how good the storyline and filming are.
After leaving America shocked last week, this week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother picked up where it left off, with Barney and Robin in a very big predicament. The unexpected relationship between Robin and Barney is quite shocking, and some people even say it rules out Nora, Barney’s girlfriend, as the possible narrator’s bride. If you’re not familiar with the show, the narrator, named Ted, is telling his son and daughter the events that led to him meeting their mother.
With such a successful season last year, it’s no wonder that NBC has released a sneak peak of the blind auditions for next season’s The Voice in order to increase hype in the television community. Despite being only 30 seconds long, it shows the four judges, in their usual red roll-around chairs as they listen, but not see, the contestants striving to make it on one of the judge’s teams.
With the semester nearing an end, it’s time to start preparing for new shows airing at the beginning of the New Year. With that said, I am particularly excited for the return of Eastbound and Down. After EBD left us with the huge news that April was pregnant with Kenny’s baby, I couldn’t wait for the next season to see if he stays inShelby,North Carolina, or takes the baseball job in Myrtle Beach.
A few days ago, my friend opened my eyes to the world of Workaholics, and since then, my life has been changed. My inner immaturity finds myself laughing at every possible juncture during any given episode. If you haven’t watched Workaholics, it’s a show about Blake (Blake Anderson), Adam (Adam Devine) and Ders (Anders Holm), “three friends who work together as telemarketers from 9 to 5, live together from 5 to 9 and party together 24/7.” When these three aren’t working their jobs at TeliAmeriCorps, they can most likely be seen partying on their roof, getting into shenanigans, getting high and coming up with wise remarks about the world.
If you have been keeping up with the blog, you know that I may have a bit of an obsession for anything NBC. This love started when I was child and on Saturday nights I would religiously watch Saturday Night Live with my family. Unlike so many people of this generation, I have never found SNL to be “not funny anymore.” To this day, I am as die-hard a fan as ever.
If you haven’t been keeping up with The Office since Steve Carrell left, you’re surely missing out. The eighth season has proved itself as funny as its predecessors thanks to the awkward personality of Andy, coupled with the sarcastic attitude of Jim and Pam.
Tale as old as time: when some cable network has a certain genre show, another has to have one better (although they usually are just two terrible versions of each other). We see this with the new shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time. Grimm airs Friday, Oct. 28 on NBC, and Once Upon a Time aired Sunday, Oct. 23 on ABC.
I’ll have to admit, when I have shows that I’m completely obsessed with, I have a hard time finding the right words to express how unbelievably awesome they actually are. I find myself in this exact situation this week, as we discuss (or mainly while I discuss) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. So far, this season has provided pageant children, an homage to Jersey Shore, and Frank’s club-owning days, leaving the audience in tears of laughter the whole way through.
With Halloween right around the corner, what better show is there to cover other than the Walking Dead? I am a sucker for anything zombie-related and disgusting, therefore Walking Dead does more than deliver. Serving a fan base of nearly 7.3 million viewers (and that’s just the premiere ratings!) it’s no wonder people are hooked. It has a strong storyline and one of the strongest art departments I’ve ever seen.
I’ll have to admit, the only reason I gave “Up All Night” a chance was for Maya Rudolph and Will Arnett. And rightly so. Maya is amazing as the sometimes self-centered and aloof Ava, and Arnett is even better as Christina Applegate’s quirky husband Chris. I usually don’t go for shows based around the process of raising a child, and it’s not exactly a typical show for the ASU demographic, but Up All Night doesn’t disappoint. I’ll give you three reasons why you should watch this show, or at least the pilot.
Because I am a pessimist at heart, 2 Broke Girls comforts my soul. Kat Denning’s sarcastic quips coupled with Beth Behrs’s naïve rich-girl comments basically make up the show’s plot line. Even though the idea of the story isn’t completely original, I enjoy that every episode they are working toward a goal, providing some sort of consistency throughout the story. If you’re not sure what kind of humor I’m talking about, take a look here.
Parks and Recreation is by far the most underrated show on television. I guess what people are hung up on is the fact that they think it is a spin-off-type show of The Office. However, it is so much more. It is quintessential NBC humor coupled with a stellar cast. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, refer here, here, and here.
The season premiere of Dexter left me enthralled and attentive as ever. If you’re anything like me, you find that Dexter balances a perfect amount of mystery and gore. I do enjoy a bit of violence, and coupled with Dexter’s fun wit, the product is an Emmy award-winning production. (I checked the credits page on IMDB.)
This week’s episode of Community brings a bit of healthy competition to the show, where Annie and her trusty study group compete against Annie Kim in a battle of Model United Nations. Annie Kim is Annie’s new “friend” from her Political Science class who steals Annie’s ideal of creating a Model UN club. Professor Cligoris decides the only way to settle the issue is to have a “head-to-head battle royale”. Jeff, Abed, Troy, Pierce, and Shirley join Annie in her Model UN Red Team. Annie channels every emotion I have regarding any competitive activity on one swoop here.
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