Musgo Del Jefe's Week in Television for 11/4/07

MUSGO'S TOP 100 FEATURE OF THE WEEK:
No. 99 - Rushmore (ENC) (TUE)

Is Wes Anderson a genius? Jury's still out on that one but he intrigues me every time he gets behind a camera. We're almost the same age, we have many of the same influences, and we're both living in Texas. I guess the difference is that he's decided to apply himself and I decided to sell books for a living. We were all big supporters of Bottle Rocket at Gen X, but this film took another leap. Since revisiting The Graduate on DVD a few weeks ago, I realized how much influence that movie had on Rushmore. Not to mention the obvious relation to Holden Caufield that Max Fischer has. The cast of characters are like a live-action Peanuts film. This film works it's way into the Top 100, but will it be the only Wes Anderson film there???

Ratings around this movie . . .

89 - Diabolique
92 - Heat
96 - The Conversation
98 - Diva
100 - Fist Of Fury

SUNDAY
Family Guy (FOX) 100th episode. Now a few years ago, that would've been the most unlikely thing to hear. How many shows have ever been as dead and buried as this show and been revived to as much success? Maybe there's as many bad jokes as good, but when they hit it (like the Star Wars episode this season) - it's greatness.

The Simpsons (FOX) What better tradition than the first week of November's "Treehouse Of Horror" episode? Always the best quotes of the year.

MONDAY
Prison Break (FOX) It wasn't on last week because of baseball, so we get two hours this week - way to keep my Tivo happy!

American Masters (PBS) Talk about a show that's hitting on all cylinders this season - last week was the brilliance of Charles Schulz and this week is the comic genius that is Carol Burnett.

TUESDAY
Nip/Tuck (FX) Another show that I'm sleeping on. I know that it's probably pretty good but it's just never seemed good enough to make me actually put forth the effort to tell Tivo to grab an episode. This falls somewhere down the TV on DVD line.

Reaper (CW) The cast is right up my alley. But it's that CW thing that keeps me from tuning in. Send this show to USA Network and I'm all over it.

Late Show w/David Letterman (CBS) Tom Brokaw and Bear Grylls.