Hello everybody. Due to having to make financial cutbacks, I've had to downgrade my satellite package. Therefore, I get less channels. Don't be surprised if I don't write on some shows but I'm finding, I'm not missing the reality shows that I really like. The new season hasn't quite gotten into full swing. I still wonder why some shows don't return until November.
The Amazing Race went to Bangladesh. Everybody made it onto the same plane. I guess out of country flights aren't so plentiful out of Indonesia. At the airport, some teams got a jump on others by using the taxi dispatch. Wow! Whoda thunk it? Usually, it's better to do the NY style whistle and yell for a taxi but not this time. The Roadblock had 1 team member doing autobody work on a bus. They had a large area of the side of the bus that they had to spackle and sand. Then they had to haul 4 seats out of the bus to an area. All the co-ed teams had their men do the task but the twins really showed up the guys by getting it done in good time. The twin cheering on the other one really drove the other people nuts but it's probably because they were hot and tired. I thought it was hilarious because I love the twins' accents. The Monster truck guy had a good advantage because he repairs bodies of trucks. I don't know why, but I think this couple is really cool and find myself rooting for them when the other teams seem to diss them a lot. There was also a fast forward offered and shockingly enough, the first teams didn't go for it. Really? Do they know they only have to do 1 task vs. 2? The long hair don't care lawyers went for it. The fast forward consisted of gathering dead rats from 4 different places. Ew! I LOL when the laywers said they were used to working w/ rats. Ha ha ha Love it! After the roadblock, the teams made their way to a market stall w/ dried fish in huge bags. They had to find the red fish in the bag. I have a feeling each team got a new bag because they seemed to find it pretty quickly. Either that or the little guy manning the stall put a new red fish in the bags where it was found. The detour gave the choice of pounding metal or cotton. The teams could either make a huge spike by pounding the hot metal or make mattresses by pounding a pile of cotton to fluff it. The twins continue to surprise me in a good way by choosing the tasks that might seem not so suited for them and then really banging them out (no pun intended). They did the pounding metal and finished it in good time. Meanwhile, the long hair lawyers finish their fast forward and hit the finish mat first. Duh. I don't know why the 2nd place couple were surprised they weren't first. They didn't notice the lawyers didn't do the first task? I'm thinking more brawn than brains in the white couples. This time tall/small ran out of luck and came in last. I'm not sure where the hold up was except that they were really lame in the autobody repair task. Oh well. Bye! See you at the finish line.
Face Off was down to 4 artists and what a final four. These people have been really impressive all season. The challenge this week had the artists doing a kind of Grimm scenario makeup. They first found a crime scene and had to speculate what kind of creature did the murder. I was wondering who did the makeup of the murder victims because it was quite good. Did they really have to have the victims w/ open dead eyes? We don't need that much reality in this kind of show. They must've had a rule that they had to stick w/ the first crime scene they found because Derek didn't like the creature he had to do but he didn't go looking for another crime scene. Grimm creatures all are creatures that have human bodies but the heads are the creatures. This time, the whole body makeup that Roy likes to do wasn't necessary. I'm guessing the artists weren't that familiar w/ the show. Nicole made an incredible wolf face. Derek's bird guy was kind of sparse on the feathers. Laura made a scary bug like makeup. Roy made a lizardy creature. The judges even commented that all the looks were really good but Roy made a mistake in using a wig which proves he's not gay ha ha ha. Laura won and Roy was sent home. Not Roy! Noooo... Next week is the finale. Ooh, ooh, I can't wait!
The BBCA has a reality show on right now called Chef Race: UK vs US. It's kind of fun but it's definitely produced by Brits because you can see the production value is different. The hosts are relatively unknown and they utilize outdoor sets and natural lighting. Also, they like to show a lot of verbal fighting. The teams are in the USA which I think is kind of unfair since British and American palates are quite different. In the first few shows, the UK team would lose the challenges and then they put up 2 or 3 chefs from their team to cook against each other and the one w/ the worst dish would go home. So, needless to say, the UK team was getting quite whittled down. This week, the UK team got to take a chef from the US team. They chose Bianca because she was the only one they didn't have something bad to say about. Really? Not Cody? Hee hee. So the teams all had to sell food out of food trucks. 1 for each team. It was good the UK team had an American on their team because she was able to keep the food sellable. The US team had high pricepoints but probably too high for a food truck and for where they were (Tennessee). In the end, the UK team made the most money. The US team put up 3 guys. One of which had to be hospitalized for dehydration and heat exhaustion earlier in the day. That was so nice of them. After the cooking of fish and oysters, tasting and critiquing, the black guy w/ blonde hair was sent home. Bye! Wait, it was supposed to be a double elimination and the other 2 guys were tied. Really? They were given 15 minutes to make another bite of a dish. Oy! Cody came out on top and the Cuban guy was sent home. Bye! How funny is it that the team is left w/ the guy nobody on either team can stand. LOL! You know the producers made the judges keep Cody.
Survivor showed the tribes starving and standing around complaining about it. It seemed Skupin had been scoopin' up the rice right into his mouth eating it raw. Ok, I'd like to ask, why don't people forage for food? Here's a good rule, whatever those monkeys in the trees are eating, you can eat. I did notice there doesn't seem to be coconut trees like we've been used to seeing in other seasons of Survivor but they are right on the beach. There's no seaweed, kelp, crabs, or insects? What season of the year is this? Are the Survivors not allowed to wander the jungle or whatever the terrain is? We really don't see them going far into the trees much. I don't think that's fair for a show like this. If you were stranded on an island, there wouldn't be any restrictions on where you could go to find food and resources. Also, doesn't each team have fishing gear? Okay, so on to the luxury challenge. The teams had to play get the huge sphere in your goal. The game came to a huge stall when the players found they were too weak to push the big sphere when the other guy was leaning on it. Yeah, this game may have been better suited for the earlier days when the Survivors weren't so weak and hungry. I have to say though, some players have a lot of heart and gut it out (Lisa and Denise). So after an hour of no progress and everybody over the whole thing, Skupin and Penner make a deal. The red tribe would give the yellow tribe all their rice and the yellow team would let the red team win the prize. The prize was a picnic w/ huge sandwiches. Of course, the only people on the yellow team not going for it were the 2 dorks on the mat waiting to play their round. So the producers let the deal happen. The yellow team ended up w/ a bag of rice that was just as small as their's and the red team ended up w/ full bellies for only 1 day. We finally got to see the winning team enjoy their prize which they also found included letters from home. Penner had said he could catch fish. He did. Unfortunately, they were size of credit cards. He tried to do the Jesus thing and break them up to seem like more but it didn't work. My question is, why is Penner the only one trying to find food. These people are just as stupid as they are pathetic. Also, that white guy w/ the monkey face is getting homelier by the day. For the immunity challenge, the teams had to play catch the ball in your net shot from a slingshot. I would say the hero of the day was Lisa who was manning the slingshot. When Skupin told her to shoot to someone, she did. Wow! Somebody search her backpack. She's got protein bars or something in there. In the end, the yellow team won and the red team was sent to tribal council again. Before the tribal council there was a lot of vote planning and scheming but it's obvious the men are playing smart and kicking out their weakest links. At tribal, there was talk about the food decision and the obvious game play of making friends and then kicking them off; blah blah blah. In the end, the beauty queen was sent home. Bye!
On The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, they showed the young people enjoying themselves except Alton. For some reason, the young guys were trying to pick fights w/ him and kind of being bullies. You could see on Alton's face, he was thinking he's too old for this. It does seem quite stupidly immature to bother someone on purpose when they're not bothering anybody else. It seems like envy or something. For the challenge, the teams had to do a series of events. The first was a chariot race w/ 1 guy pulling the whole team w/ a horse mask on. It was really funny to watch w/ the guys running into each other, falling and not able to get up. Hee hee hee For the next event, a girl hurled eggs over a wall while a guy caught them in a dog collar/cone. Even funnier! Finally, the top 2 teams jousted in their chariots. Team San Diego seemed to have the advantage w/ only 2 team members which made the chariot a lot lighter when the team was in it. San Diego proved they deserved to be in the game and pulled out the win. I'm not sure who the losing team was but it was one of the younger ones; maybe St. Thomas. Then Alton did something really dumb. He told a guy to tell the San Diego team he wanted his team to go to the arena. Really? I'm sure the rest of the team didn't want that. Even weirder, he didn't put himself in the arena, because of course San Diego obliged the request. The arena game was that strategy thing w/ the long rope in the jungle gym and tangling and untangling it. Las Vegas pulled out the win. I think Nany's anger at Alton really propelled her a lot. This is getting really interesting because that makes 2 teams of only 2 team members. Cool! Meanwhile, Alton's still there. Who knows what he's going to do but it's disappointing to see him caving in to the bullies.
Project Runway Allstars returned w/ a whole new bunch of vets. Ivy seemed more mellow. Andre wasn't a huge crybaby. Wendy was just as homely as ever. Kayne seemed to get more cool. And the rest were the rest. For the first challenge, the designers split into 2 teams to do collections. They were chosen by schoolyard pick and Wendy ended up as the cheese, standing alone ha ha ha. Her reputation really did precede her and the designers had good memories. Each designer was responsible for their own look in the collection so it wasn't really a team challenge. One team's collection looked black and blue and the other team's looked black and white. There was the visit to mood, a little work shown, the visit by Joanna Coles and then the runway. I was interested to see Aminat from Top Model in the show. She has a great walk but a dead face as usual. Anyway, Mondo was the guest judge and seemed to contradict the opinions of the other judges a lot. The black and white collection team were declared the winners. Andre made a cute quirky outfit and the judges hated it. Peach who was know for her good sewing skills landed in the bottom w/ an illfitting dress that was quite plain too. Suede who was still talking about himself in the 3rd person landed in the bottom w/ his handkerchief skirt dress; sooo 10 years ago. Anthony Ryan, Ivy and Casanova were the tops. Anthony Ryan was declared the winner w/ his sexy back top and white trousers. Peach was given the boot and rightly so. I think she knew it too because she took it well. I'm very excited for the rest of the season.
Ok, so I know I didn't watch Top Model. I got really mad at that show for last week's stunt. Also, NBC debuted a new show that sounded cool: Mockingbird Lane. See my review on it at tvjunkiejantina.hubpages.com and you can decide if you want to watch it or not. I'm really enjoying the Halloween episodes of my favorite shows. The Middle, The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family were really hilarious. Well, keep watching and until next time, stay tuned.
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