Just some bros bunking up for the night, nbd. (HBO)Last night, HBO aired what was certainly the Season 3 finale of "Bored to Death," and what might be the series finale, given that the network has yet to pick up the show for a fourth season. Has the world seen enough of writer/unlicensed PI Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzman) and his best friends, magazine editor-turned-restaurateur George Christopher (Ted Danson) and phallus-focused cartoonist Ray Hueston (Zach Galifianakis)? I think maybe I have.

That's not to say that the show is bad, by any means, or that I haven't enjoyed this season. Though I am not precisely in its target demographic, in that I don't live in Brooklyn, I do enjoy making fun of Brooklyn — and the whole series plays out as an affectionate joke on the borough, and the idiosyncrasies of its residents. It just may be that the show has already told as many stories as it needs to.

Real friendship means never having to stay at Planet Hollywood.With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the BH Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

This was kind of a slam dunk this week. Seeing Taylor and Russell in therapy was about as ghoulish as this season has gotten. Even if we were somewhat gratified that the therapist called Taylor "childish." Up until about four episodes or so ago, Russell had been pretty much wiped clean off the show. Kind of a dubious choice, but at least we knew where Bravo was drawing the line. After these last couple episodes focusing so heavily on Taylor and Russell's marital troubles, it's tough not to squirm at this being made into simply another plot point.

Jon Stewart is back from holiday hiatus and ready to take on the pepper spraying that occurred in his absence. Calling the toxic substance "the new car horn," Stewart covers the UC Davis and Black Friday incidents from angles heretofore unexplored by the media (somehow!). It helps that Stewart was out ahead of the pepper spray fad with the trailer for the Tony Bologna story starring Christopher Meloni, which still might be the funniest thing that happened on a late night TV show in 2011. The "Daily Show" team sure is good at breathing life into the news's dead horses when they come back from hiatus:

This guy! (Stefanie Keenan/WireImage.com)Even as fans of "One Life to Live" continue to mourn the end of the show, ABC has moved on, and announced a premiere date for its replacement: "The Revolution" will debut on Monday, January 16. When this headline rolled by in my RSS feed today, I was excited: The show will be hosted by Tim Gunn, who I thought could join Nate Berkus in my list of daytime appointment TV shows. However, Tim Gunn is not alone in "his" show.

Following the models established by ABC's other daytime hits, "The View" and "The Chew," "The Revolution" will feature a whole panel of hosts: Along with Gunn (the Barbara Walters of "The Revolution," it seems), the show will feature Ty Pennington of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"; alleged relationship expert Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry; celebrity trainer/Canadian Harley Pasternak; and women's health expert Dr. Jennifer Ashton. (That's ASHton, guys. I know, I misread that as "Jennifer Aniston" at first, too.)