Ok, I admit, this post is a little late but it's because my TiVo was misbehaving last week. It thought it was in Alaska and froze every 3 hours. Therefore, some of my shows didn't record and I had to wait to watch them online. Some shows don't officially unlock for viewing until a whole week later. So there you have my official excuse and I hope it's adequate. So let's get on w/ it. I hope my human memory holds up.
On Food Network Star, the contestants got to make on camera presentations but in Miami at the beach. Now I'm not going to say this show is getting mundane, but...it is. I think they've run out of ideas and are just having one challenge per show. The challenges are getting redundant too. Anyway, everybody did well w/ their food but Emily decided to just talk about her dish. Well Susie and her co-hort like to hear about peoples' lives. I'd like to tell them, some of us don't really care about hearing about the chef's lives all of the time. When they have time to spare and are just standing and stirring, go ahead and blab about your life. When you only have a minute or 2, tell us what you're cooking or what you've made. Well, to sum it up, Emily landed in the bottom w/ I can't remember who. They did their on-camera challenge and Emily was sent home. Shucks. I really liked Emily and thought her POV was really cool. Bye Emily. I'll miss your revved up old school dishes and your horn rimmed glasses. Don't ride backwards in any buses.
America's Got Talent was in Vegas. They had the job of watching the huge pool of acts and whittling them down to a medium sized pool. All I can say is, the one shot wonder acts were just that. When there's only one thing about it like getting kicked in the nuts, the 2nd time is just really boring. People had trouble being original the 2nd time around, some of the comedians didn't work on their acts, some of the magic acts proved they did their biggest thing the first time around and some acts proved that w/out great music and lights and effects that the show provided the first time, they were really dull. All I can say is, really? You had time between the auditions and Vegas and you didn't work on making your act better? You don't deserve a show because it's work that earns the bucks in any job. I was proud of the judges for not caving into pathetic stories and peoples' situations and just judging on the acts. I liked their choices. On to New York.
Love In the Wild wasn't too exciting. The show started out w/ the couples in their overnight digs. It was funny to see the wonder couple not having a great time in the lean-to under the mosquito netting. Roughing it isn't that romantic. The guy tried to get cozy and the girl wasn't into it. The next morning, the couples find they first have to put together a wheelbarrow or not to transport a certain number of coconuts and then swim to find a map, then cross a chasm on a rope and then cut down bananas or something like that. Good grief. I loved the couples who didn't think they had to put the wheelbarrow together. I guess they found the value of the wheel. So the wonder couple came in first again. This time they had their choosing ceremony before the overnight. One couple liked each other and hinted to people not to break them up. As it was, the first girl decided to switch her man and picked the Aussie guy. The first guy was surprised and felt sorry for the Aussie's partner and chose her. So all the other couples stayed the same and the couple who came in last went home. Oh...so it is bad to come in last during the tasks. Yeah, this show's kind of boring and I may have mixed up some stuff but it was all kind of crap anyway.
I watched The Glass House and I'm not impressed. There's a twist w/ the audience choosing who returns to the house from limbo. There's a lot of talking amongst the contestants which is actually a lot of bullshit and the audience knows it. Were we impressed by the girl bawling over her lost love? Not really because we didn't believe it. The problem w/ reality stars is, they're horrible actors. It's no wonder another lady tried to jump in w/ her own sob story. Ick! So after a lot of blah blah blah in various rooms and corners w/ various mixes of the contestants, they have a stupid challenge of what looks like college frat stunts. The leader of the losing group goes to limbo and the rest of the contestants vote secretly in a room to see who'll be the other person sent to limbo. At this point, we want everyone to go to limbo. Also, we don't care who goes and who stays and I'm not watching this show again. The people are gross and need showers. Is the bathroom glass too? Everybody is fake and untrustworthy. They did a poor job of casting for this show and it shows. People aren't interested in watching.
Around the World in 80 Plates went to Hong Kong. The chefs had to make their way to a temple. Avery chose to join the girl's team and the the 2 teams had to get to the top of the temple to find their next clue. Nookie is totally hilarious and commented that old people were passing him up. I thought he was going to pass out before he got halfway up all those stairs. Then they had to find a market where one person had to bind up crabs. Nookie and John were lucky to find helpful locals to find the places they needed to go. Nookie and Nicole were the official crab binders and w/ a lot of yelping and cursing, Nookie finished first. Meanwhile, the girls were miffed Nicole couldn't do the task faster. Then the teams had to go to a place and make dim sum. I'm not sure why, but Nicole thought she had to do all the tasks. Maybe because she's Asian. When the elimination is all about who likes you, don't piss people off by shoving your way into a task and then not doing it well. So the team of John and Nookie win the exceptional ingredient. The chefs are told to make an innovative dish for dinner service. They get to see innovative food in Hong Kong by eating food by the Demon Chef. Oy! Where did they find this guy? He's that arrogant ugly bully in grade school who you know you're going to hit in the back of the head when he's not looking. He actually made a dish that looked like a used condom. Gross me out! Yeah, that fit coming from him. Total dickdom. The grossioso chinese chef got flirty w/ Avery and it made everyone's skin crawl, including her's. He also served a dish in a dogfood can. At least I think it was a dish put in a dogfood can. Good thing it wasn't Korea, cuz the dish would've had real dog in it. The next day John and Nookie get their exceptional ingredient which is a soux chef and extra time in the kitchen. John decides he doesn't need a soux chef. All I can say is, all the food looked subpar and uninteresting. John learned not to serve snow on a hot plate. Anyway, in the end Avery won MVC w/ her cool dessert that really wasn't Chinese. Nicole was sent home by the majority vote and really took it well. I think she was totally over the whole thing. Next stop is Argentina. Oh boy!
Retired at 35 is back. Marisa Jaret Winokur has joined the cast and it has even better energy. She's hilarious and the pace has picked up w/ the lines zinging around like bullets. I love it. I also love that they show the father's ignorance of the new technology. Why? Because us middle age and older people can relate and it's funny. I'm glad they dropped the girlfriend and kept the buddy. The show is even more fun to watch. The Exes is also back. It's not as good. The writers seem to be college freshmen w/ their minds in the gutter all of the time. Really? They had to have a whole episode about the size of a guy's penis? Totally juvenile and it got old and tiring halfway through the show. Also, if TV Land was counting on family viewing, that wasn't it. The new show Soulman; I'm not loving it. I hate to say it but it's kind of boring and Niecy Nash isn't proving to be a good actress at all. She's kind of her annoying self from Clean House. Cedric the Entertainer isn't believable as a minister and instead has a bit of sleezeball vibe and his smile isn't genuine. The daughter is annoying and the rest is boring. The only bit of brightness in this dreary crap is the minister's father. Yeah, I'm not watching this either and also, it's not family viewing w/ it's stupid double entendres.
Well, that's it for this week. Hopefully I'll catch up and post in a timely fashion next week. Until then, stay tuned.
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