- How I Met Your Mother: Possbily the most underwhelming episode since that 4 episode run midway through last season where it seemed like the wheels were falling off the show (before everything picked up for an awesome second half of the season). The whole thing was off-kilter, mostly because it was trying for the old HIMYM rythm of flashbacks -> reveal -> actual final reveal, but the story wasn't strong enough to carry it through. Not terrible, but it makes me look like a fool when I hype the show to make sure people watch and then they're all "Really? That's it?" Note to self: Stop hyping things.
Also, I want to start a fund devoted to kidnapping Jason Segal and taking him to a barber. That hair is a crime against humanity. - Fringe: Aaand the week I finally give up on this show is the week it gets picked up for a full season. Fine, I'm back in, since I know it's not going away mid-season like every other sci-fi-ish show on Fox in the last 5 years. But seriously, that main girl bugs me for some reason. Pacey really is good, though. I'm glad he has work.
- Project Runway: Holy crap, y'all. That was the most intense and horrifying thing I've seen on reality TV in ages. Like, I have to think back to the last episode of Big Brother that I ever watched (3 years ago) in order to come up with a more painful episode of something on TV. That said, it's weird that the result of that Big Brother episode was my vow that I would never watch another episode again (which I have kept easily), but I'm just more engrossed in PR than ever before.
Seriously though, every single person involved acted repulsively. Kenley is obviously abrasive, rude, condescending, and completely unable to take even the lightest constructive criticism without going off the edge. Leanne's method of passive aggressively escalating things is ultra annoying to me because it's my most hated kind of argument. Man up and deal with it, girl. And then Jerrell and Korto's little joy-of-tulle-denial routine was classless, with Jerrell's speech on the runway just about sending me over. Then Korto finished the job and sent me straight into the rage place, acting like she wasn't calling Kenley out just because she didn't say her name. When you pointedly praise the other two people left in the competition for their wonderfulness as human beings, the implied silent insult is louder than Leanne (for once) directly saying that she didn't like Kenley's designs. Bringing it up again during the deliberation is just gross and tacky. I would have been perfectly fine throwing them all out and starting fresh next season. But we move on.
Oh, also, it's complete bull that Jerrell has to compete for a spot at fashion week. Way to make the last regular episode mean absolutely nothing. It's sort of like in Season 3, except at least then you knew all 4 were going to get to show. This time Jerrell could be out at the last second, despite his 3 for 4 record of wins to end the season. All this is slightly mollified by the fact that they all actually got to show at fashion week (so did Joe and Suede, for that matter) since they needed decoys to keep the suspense, but it still annoys me to no end. It smacks of keeping drama for the sake of drama, since Kenley has been absolute bottom two for 4 of the last 5 (!!) challenges, and could have easily been out for 3 of them. Ugh.
Okay, that was way longer than I intended. Deep breath and we move on. - Pushing Daisies: AH BEES! Okay, that bit of the plot (okay, all the plot) was unnecessary in so many ways, but the show is still great. I don't have a lot to say about it, though. Shocking, I'm sure.
(Total Aside: Every single time someone on TV says "bees" nowadays, I immediately flash to that conversation in Arrested Development ("Beads."/ "Bees!?"/"Beads!"/"Beads!?"/"GOB's not on board.") and giggle to myself for about 5 minutes. So you can imagine how this episode was for me.) - Ugly Betty: Yeah, I'm definitely digging this season. Even if the Devil Wears Prada could file a lawsuit over the similarities (and okay, the homage to the homage is noted in the episode title, so fine), it was pretty hilarious throughout. Although I wish they would have done more with Betty's dream sequence as mini-Wili. But there was plenty of Mark and Amanda, an awesome smackdown during a party, and a real-life soap opera ending, complete with falling down stairs. Let's keep this going, shall we?
- Survivor: Boring, but I'm glad things are getting defined. Still with every passing year, I'm less inclined to watch these early episodes, as the alliances keep shifting more and more wildly each new season. Plus. all the contestants just blur together until the real personalities finally start coming out. Too many reality people these days.
- Things I missed: Simpsons, Amazing Race (AGAIN), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Dirty Sexy Money (saw the first 15 minutes, which I enjoyed, but then got a phone call that took precedence over rich people behaving badly. For shame.)
Best Episode of the Week:
Ugly Betty - Til We Have Prada
Best Line of the Week:
Ugly Betty - "Look at me when I'm talking to you!
Best Moment of the Week:
Uhh, none? Okay, if I have to pick:
Pushing Daisies - Any time Lee Pace looked cute and awkward at the same time (read: any time he was on screen.)
Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Unexpected Laughs:
Gossip Girl - The 5 minutes of the show that I stopped to watch in passing, because I was wondering why The CW was showing the intro to an awkward gay porn movie. Oh no wait, it's just Gossip Girl! (Now I kinda want to watch it this week.)
Most Disgusting Moment of the Week:
(Tie) How I Met Your Mother - Marshall's hamburger eating slow-mo
(Tie) How I Met Your Mother - Marshall's hair
Most Anticipated:
Home visits on Project Runway! I love this part!
2 comments:
Me gusto comer las hamburguesas en la cámara lenta... like woah.
But seriously, the slow motion hamburger eating? They knew what they were doing.
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