GREEK
When this show came on last year, I expected little more than a cheesy, heightened drama about an fantasy Greek system. I was kind of right...except this show ended up being much more thoughtful and much more insightful than I expected. Told through the eyes of Rusty--a nerd who eagerly jumps into the Greek system--and Casey, his sorority queen sister, it embraced the Greek system without letting it off the hook. And, I have to say, it got a lot of elements spot on. Meanwhile, the ensemble cast is fantastic and the snappy dialogue is no less forced than the pop culture-laced lines. This season, the focus has shifted more onto Cappie (Casey's ex and Rusty's fraternity's president) while the school's administration cracks down on the Greeks. It's sudsy, sure, but it's a lot of fun and the episodes really stand up to multiple viewings.
GOODBYE BLUES BY THE HUSH SOUND
The Hush Sound have been making solid albums for a while; they sound like Nickel Creek's rebellious cousins with the way they trade airy male and female vocals over great piano, guitar, and percussion-driven melodies. "Wine Red" kind of put them on the map last year, but I think their new single, "Honey" should do more than keep them there. It's a take-no-prisoners, soaring love song that lets Greta Salpeter's voice really shine, a voice I wasn't aware she had. And when it's coupled with other great tracks like "Medicine Man" and "Not Your Concern," it's difficult to ignore the scope of their talent.
Yeah, I've sung the praises of this ridiculously hilarious show before, which I still claim is just like Arrested Development except more absurd and only 11 minutes long. On DVD, in which you can power through episodes, its ingenius becomes even more apparent. Only 13 episodes long, it chronicles the first season's antics--you know, when Killface tries to destroy the world using the Anhilatrix? It just recently wrapped its second season (I think--I thought it wrapped in October and then they shot off four more episodes in March so who knows?) which added some fantastic political undertones, specifically about the election. But it's still a show where 9 out of 10 jokes are inside references and for a loyal viewer, like me, the payoff is convulsive laughter.
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