There's always a lull in the middle of Reality TV shows where we know the people and we're just waiting for the chaff to blow away. Then we can wake up and root for our favorites.
RuPaul's Drag Race had a challenge where the "ladies" had to sing and dress up as rock stars. Our ears were still bleeding from Tyra Sanchez's singing from last week. When RuPaul told them they were going to sing for real, I think we all had an 'uh oh' moment. Most drag queens are used to lip synching because they're not supposed to be themselves. Jujubee was supposed to be a great singer but that doesn't mean she's a great performer and this show is all about the performance. They had a huge block of time showing the guys working with some lady rockstar who I didn't recognize, but whatever. I don't know who wrote the song, but it was terrible. We had to listen to it being sung 6 different times; eeeeek! Surprisingly, Jujubee was not only dead and boring in her performance, but didn't sing well either. She was in the bottom two but the other guy/girl was sent home.
This week the crying fatties (AKA Biggest Loser contestants) had challenges that actually gave the black team a chance to win. You could see the relief on Sam's face. Not only is he the only guy on his team, but all the women are getting lighter too. So the first challenge was food trivia. They do this every season. Isn't it obvious that these people don't pay attention to calories? They also don't read food labels. The blue team won. For a team of almost all guys, it was hilarious to see them win a spa day. I admired the guy who actually swam in the spa's pool. I think he's keeping his eyes on the prize. The next challenge was a cooking challenge to make a low cal great tasting meal. The blue team was missing Michael, due to a family emergency, and they blamed their loss on his being absent. Sooooo...what does that mean? All you fat guys have someone else cooking for you? It was very surprising that even with a prize of 5 pounds credit during the weigh-in, the black team lost the weigh-in. I think the younger women on the team are banding together because Sherry, the last older woman was voted out. Sam better keep winning the immunity or he's a goner too. I have a feeling the producers are cutting out the catty moments or not filming at the right times.
Shear Genius is losing the genius in the show. I'm sorry to say, it's getting boring. The first challenge was to give high school girls prom hair to go with their dresses. I don't get it. They criticized Brig for going too couture. When is a better time to go couture than when you have girls in gowns trying to outshine each other? Matthew did some ugly helmet head thing; ew. Janine is proving she's the one to beat cuz she keeps winning practically everything. For the elimination challenge, the hair stylists had to do a red carpet do for guests for a party and it had to be reminiscent of the 60's and 70's. I was expecting beehives and there wasn't one in the bunch. Matthew did Mary Tyler Moore hair. Ben did 2 tone hair that Jonathan Antin said looked like a heroine user who forgot about her roots. Brig went conservative which didn't go over well with the judges. Janine did the big airy fro look. She won. It wasn't that impressive but well done, I guess. Ben was sent home. Too bad cuz he was quite the hottie. Matthew and Janine showed their bitter disappointment when they saw Brig wasn't eliminated. Brig's great. She keeps the show from being too uptight.
Project Runway had a team of 2 challenge again. Material at Mood? $300. The look of sheer terror on the faces of everybody thinking they may have to work with Mila? Priceless. Anthony chose Maya, Amy chose the guy with the glasses, Emilio chose Seth Aron while simultaneously revealing a mancrush on him and poor Jay was left with Mila. He took it as well as a prisoner going to the electric chair; meek and defeated. The teams were given the choice of places in New York to go. Where else were they going to go? Duh! There was a lot of pointless footage of the teams looking at architecture, graffiti, and ugly apartment buildings. Only Emilio and Seth Aron seemed to note the fashion of the people in their area. Poor Amy, she can't catch a break. I didn't think her look was that bad. Okay so her model's butt did look bigger all she had to do was loosen the belt cinching the top. Mila can't seem to make anything with color but had to put orange leggings on her model to match Jay's look. She and Jay were very businesslike and just avoided each other and did their thing. Seth Aron made another pants and jacket outfit. I'm waiting for the judges to say, "We've seen this look before." Emilio's dress moved funny and had a zipper up the whole front of the dress that begged for a wardrobe malfunction. Emilio and Seth Aron were deemed co-winners and giggled and danced for joy. Amy was aufed and thank the gods, Jay was saved. Personally, I didn't think Jay's look was that bad. Oh well.
On Models of the Runway, the models seem to be getting more opinionated and bold. Brandise professed her love for Mila. She's the only one who does love Mila. The women were to have a night on the town to party. The 2 underage models were left home. I loved seeing them stuff their faces with junk food. It was great: milkshakes, burgers, onion rings and french fries. I remember when I was young and had a good metabolism too. Those were good times. When the older models were together, I noticed almost all of them had foreign accents. Hmmmm... At elimination, the losing designer's model was not chosen and sent home. Emilio got first choice and took the opportunity to take Lorena who's been designated the best model for the past weeks. I thought that was brilliant. Maya was not amused that he took her model.
America's Next Top Model made 2 episodes out of 3 so I'll recap all together. This season has very quirky girls. One was raised in a sex cult and looks like it with the weird sheared head. One has Groucho Marx eyebrows. There's a reject from last season who looks 30. One is a total Tyra superfan. A couple of girls are kind of homely. One girl is a half African American who looks totally caucasion but she does have the ghetto attitude. There's also a goth girl. The girls got their makeovers right after settling into their New York digs. I'm not a fashionista but it's still weird that the girl with Groucho Marx eyebrows kept those eyebrows and the girl with the sheared head had her eyebrows bleached. Can you say billiard ball? The girls were all cut, colored and styled by Sally Hershberger herself. Wow! Too bad all the girls are too young to know about the shag; Ms. Hershberger's signature haircut. Instead of giving Angelea a haircut to make her look younger, she got longer straight hair that makes her look even older. Now instead of looking 30, she looks like a 35 year old man in drag. Whatever. Each season, Tyra has the girls do a nude photo shoot of some kind. It turned out to be the very first photoshoot for the girls. This time, they didn't hide the private parts and there was a lot of blurred out bits on the photos. The black girl who looks white couldn't get that fiery personality to transfer to her photo and she looked awkward and dead in her photo and was sent home. Then the girls had a runway lesson with Miss Jay. They had to walk across a New York street while taking off their jacket. The New Yorkers expressed their pity and watched with looks that asked, "What is this skinny bitch doing undressing in 40 degree weather?" The challenge was a fashion show with a runway with swinging pendulums. You know we were all waiting for someone to get knocked off with the pendulums and it happened. To really make it good, the girl first slipped on the stairs and fell down them. I couldn't stop laughing. The photoshoot was outdoors. First the girls were in flimsy scarflike dresses, spritzed with blue liquid on their neck and then had to pose while water and wind flew in their faces. I swear, Tyra's trying to give the models pneumonia. The new judge of the season is an authority on fashion and modeling. It's a middle age African American guy who I've seen in crowdshots of fashion shows. Okay then. Most of the photos were pretty funny with the girls looking like those dogs getting bathed at the groomers. Nahdua proved you can't actually copy poses you've seen in magazines and was sent home. Darn! I was hoping to hear more outlandish stories of her weird cult life. Her unique accent was totally So Cal at times too. If you're going to be a character, don't go on a reality show cuz you have to keep up the acting for a long time. Yes, there was footage of fights and complaining but it's still the SOS (same old shit) we've seen from other seasons. I don't understand why Tyra seems to wear a lot of black catsuits since she's lost so much weight and looks great. Nigel Barker is just as sexy as ever. One thing I'm noticing; the girl who cries at judging and says she doesn't want to go home is always saved. Hmmm...there might be a lot of that to come. We'll see.
The Amazing Race stayed in France. First the racers had to find the statue of Joan of Arc. Miss Teen Caitlin thought it was Noah. Her boyfriend, had to tell her, "It's Arc, not ark." Oh boy! These 2 must share a brain and he had it that day. For the roadblock, a racer had to go down into a deep cave, find a champagne and then sabre it open. Unfortunately, the cute cowboy team thought they were supposed to go to champagne and went to the wrong town. Maybe they can't read in the early morning hee hee hee. At least they realized their mistake and remained in the middle of the pack. For the detour, the teams went to a champagne winery. The racers were smart enough to ask French people where the place was. Obviously, the French aren't too bright because all of the racers got a bum steer and initally went to the wrong town. Yeesh. The Dad and daughter team crunched the front fender of their Mercedes and proved you can fix anything with duct tape. At the detour, they could either hunt for a marked bunch of grapes or make a champagne glass pyramid and do the cascade pour. The hunt was the best option due to the fact that it really wasn't grape harvesting season and the only bunches of grapes were obviously tied on the vines. Since the bunches were sparse, it was easy to see them. Miss Teen ditzy couple first started to hunt and then switched to stack the glasses. Oh boy! I loved the look of horror when the pyramid crumbled during the pour. It was great! Like watching someone accidentally knock over their domino line after setting up dominoes all day. It was really too bad that with all the experience with champagne, hardly anybody had any to drink. The cops hit the pitstop mat first with an annoying mime greeting them with Phil. My wish came true and the Big Brother ditz and her boyfriend were sent home. Yay! The cute cowboys are still in it. Does anything else really matter?
The Celebrity Apprentice episodes are 2 hours long and I hope it doesn't continue. Unlike the Biggest Loser, there's just not enough different things to show for 2 hours. First, we started out with Bret Michaels talking with diabetic kids and then handing his big check over. OMG, I thought the sappy stuff was never going to end. It was quite vomit inducing. The celebs had a challenge with Kodak to make a showcasing event. The men lost sight of the fact that the point of a sponsored challenge is to showcase the sponsor's product, not the celebrities. Sinbad was the leader of the project. His type of leadership wasn't really Brett's type so I think Brett drank that energy drink for nothing. It seems Sinbad likes to plan, set up behind the scenes first and then pull everything out concretely the 2nd day. It's like the kid who looks at his blocks for an hour and then Wa-lah; he's got a great building 5 minutes later. It did make the team very nervous to not see anything put together at the end of the first day. Blagojevich was fixated on the goldenrod balloons. I think he only loved them cuz they had 'rod' in their name. Meanwhile, the women were led by Maria Kanellis. I kept wondering why she was wearing a red cowpie on her head and a towchain around her neck all day. I admired her for not letting the other women veer her off her course. She proved she had a good plan and it worked. The women had only 2 celebs do photo ops with customers and then the others did the hawking. The men actually had no hawkers and 5 of the men did photo ops while Blagojevich and Sinbad took pictures. When you have a Kodak sponsor, you might want the customers to actually go home with a photo of some kind. The men just handed out cards with the website and instructions. The women actually short circuited their place using the Kodak printers. The poor customers also had to fight a crowd to paw and hunt through pictures to try to find their's. Both teams had chaotic messes. Since they weren't being judged on how many people they could jam into their event, they could've done a station to station line. Oh well. In the end, the Kodak people liked the women's event better. Well duh! The women actually showed and explained the greatness of Kodak products to the customers. The only bad thing the women did was have a sick Sharon Osbourne cough and hack all over the cupcakes she was handing out to the customers. Nice. In the end, Sinbad was sent home for his unorganized and weak leadership. But, he did get in a lot of good funny lines in. There was a ton of redundancy in this episode and I even think they just showed scenes more than once. I mean, come on! How many putz faced New Yorkers do we have to see getting their photo taken and do we really have to see every kid they can dig up in the charity hawking scenes? Hey NBC, find another show for Sunday night to help fill the hours.
Okay, hopefully things will get better with Survivor returning and Dancing with the Stars starting. I already know who I don't like on the happy hoofer hooker show. See you all next week.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Yay! They're back.
I'm so glad to see the Celebrity Apprentice is back. I missed Trump more than I knew. The cool thing is, he gets less patient and more grumpy the older he gets and it's hilarious. The celebrities are a good mix of athletes, comedians, music artists, actors, a model, a chef and even a former governor. Trump split the teams into men and women. I really hate this kind of split because men always work well together and women rarely work well together. I also think the men's side has better money resources and men can do the physical work better. Anyway, the teams came up with names: Tenacity and Rock Solid. Okay. Then the men picked the first project manager for the women and vice versa. It's interesting that both chosen were music artists. The task was to run a diner for 3 hours. The men's team had the obvious advantage with celebrity chef Curtis Stone. He knew the concept. This diner wasn't about longevity and creating a clientele. It was about raking as much money in for just 3 hours. The men made their price points outrageously high with nothing under $100. This was a great ploy to keep the average cheap diner patron out of the diner and keep the place exclusively for the wealthy. It worked. The cheap people didn't even stay 5 minutes and therefore left the tables open for "high rollers". On the other side of town, the women were more in a working but busy side of town. They made their menu reasonably priced and handed out flyers to the average person on the street. The problem? They got the cheap diners who probably wouldn't fork out more than $50 for the dining experience. Since the place was packed with those people, the wealthy "high rollers" were left standing outside and were probably not in the mood to fight a crowd to give money away. Joan Rivers was sent by Trump to judge the better place. She's Jewish. Of course she picked the cheaper food with better service. She didn't seem to notice the shaved truffles on her burger. In the end, the men made twice as much money as the women. At the point where the winner was announced, there was still 40 minutes of the show left and I wondered what the heck they were going to do to fill all that time. Unfortunately, the women were all trying to be nice and not come off as bitchy for the first show. Trump asked them all who should be fired and nobody could come up with a name. They hemmed and hawed for a good 30 minutes. Maria Kanellis finally named Carol Liefer, I think, just because she knew her name the least. The women finally had a bandwagon to jump on and they did. Poor Liefer was the first to be fired. I loved the excuse that rich friends were out of town. That shouldn't have made a difference at all. Piers Morgan never had his friends in town either but would tell his friend to send someone with a check. There it is. They don't really need to have their friends show up; just their money. I hope the women bring out the claws and I hope the men lose once so they can unload Blagojevich. His hair is really annoying, not to mention what's under it.
I've forgotten to write about Rupaul's Drag Race for a couple of weeks. It's actually been very fun and funny with the drag queens having to do everything from celebrity impersonations to doing a commercial as a team. This week, they did a photo where they were both the groom and the bride. Tyra is really annoying and bitchy which is weird since he's straight. At least I think he is, since he's got a kid. For some odd reason, I just have to laugh out loud when drag queens cry. So I'm not sure who got booted but I have to say Pandora had the ugliest wedding dress I've seen since my cousin's wedding. I think Morgan got the chop.
On the Biggest Loser, the crying fatties had to experience the real world again. Right.... Okay so they had an 8 hour job to do for 5 days but who gets to be chauffeured to and from work, has a free gym before and after work, has free food to eat at work and at home, doesn't have any homelife to deal with and has a job where it only sucks for one week? Only on TV. Not to mention, the fatties are being paid TV show wages. Most people can't even find a job these days. Whatever. I loved that Sam forgot his lunch but what a great time to advertise Subway. I'm thinking one of the PA's (production assistants) hid his lunch. One good thing about the work week, it really gave us a rest from Bob and Jillian. They only showed up in a bit at the beginning to complain and then at the end of the week to work the heck out of the contestants before the weigh-in. It was hilarious that when the gym was supposed to close at 7pm, they turned out the lights on the fatties. So, the blue team was able to pull out the win this week and amidst a lot of tears, an older woman was voted out. That was smart because losing Sam meant losing any hope of winning challenges that took any strength. I'm thinking it wasn't really a surprise because the person voted out took it really well. Something tells me the team had a meeting without the cameras present. Tsk tsk...that's not good for television. Hee hee hee
Shear Genius is getting to be redundant already. This week, they had to do a precision cut for the short cut challenge and then for the elimination challenge, they had to give wanna be starlets 2 different looks for head shots. These starlets have no chance of being stars cuz half were homely and the other half had no personality or really annoying personality. Really? Your idea of a star is the Obama girl? Wow, tacky! Why do hairstylists from Miami think they're so good? Anyway, the woman stylists from Miami was booted and rightly so. She took a 19 year old and made her look 30. That's not good when they're trying to be stars. I was surprised nobody colored anybody's hair but oh well. Brig may be kooky, but she continues to show she knows her stuff. My money is on either Janeane or her buddy boy cuz they keep winning the challenges.
Survivor was very interesting and proved the Heroes really are all brawn and no brains. Russell did find the immunity idol. I never doubted he wouldn't. The luxury challenge wasn't worth anything just chocolate and swimming in a salt water cove. Except for the difference in the menu, there wasn't much protein except milk so I don't think the Heroes really tried that hard and all it resulted in was injuring one of their strongest players; James. The game was the old wrestle for a football that you throw to a teammate on a platform for them to throw into a net on the other side of the court. I still don't understand why the Heroes aren't any good at sinking baskets. With all that leisure time, you'd think they'd practice at things like throwing at targets, tying and untying knots, and throwing things into containers. I think they're overconfident in their athletic abilities. For the immunity challenge, the producers keep coming up with games that utilize Boston Rob's amazing puzzle abilities. This time it was the old blindfolded team with one caller leading them to stumble around and find large puzzle pieces. When they got all the pieces together, then they could put it together without the blindfolds. I think they should've shook it up and made the people keep the blindfolds on when putting the puzzle together while the caller kept bossing people around. Since James is the lame one and dumber than toast, it probably would've only pointed out what a moron he is. I loved the team of Boston Rob and stick figure Courtney trying to pick up the big heavy pieces together. She kept dropping them on his feet. It was hilarious and I'm sure a lot of cursing was edited out. Either that or Rob is just nicer than we thought. Okay, blindfolded or not, the Villains won again. So did the Heroes take the opportunity to boot the gimp in the group with the busted knee? No, they voted out the valiant fireman, Tom. Oh well, he's already won a million bucks before. At this point, they've proved having more brawn on the team isn't helping anyway. James needs to shut up at tribal council because we already think he's stupid. He doesn't have to open his mouth and prove it every week. I think the Villains have all the rest of the challenges in the bag because the only strong people on the Heroes team are Colby, JT and the blond chick.
Project Runway had an interesting challenge. The designers had to make a look inspired by one of the 4 elements of fire, water, air and earth. What is this, the middle ages? I expected to see a lot of green, red and blue but there was hardly any. People tried to be more abstract about it thinking of smoke, laughter, night sky, explosions, tornadoes, etc. Amy's outfit was supposed to look like an explosion but only looked like a mushroom cloud with the model sporting a lot of frizzy blond hair over her boobs. Seth Aron had an interesting look with his model sporting metallic spats and a black studded coat that looked like the skyline of New York at Midnight. The dress that looked like laughter won because it had color and was very striking on the model. Ben was sent home for his shark inspired suit that made his model look like she had a penis. That's never good. Everybody was creeped out, including all of the models. I think Ben saw how successful his pal, Seth Aron, was with his pantsuits and wanted to do one too. Note to all; stick to what you're good at. He should've saved the pants for a team challenge.
Models of the Runway lost their villain and now they're boring. They did show the models eating. The part of the show I look forward to is the elimination. The designers stuck with their same models this time, except Emilio. Yay for Emilio. He keeps Heidi from making the designers choose different models. I wish she would anyway. Poor Alison. Her designer had been booted so she was left out and sent home.
The Amazing Race went to France. I notice they don't show how much money the teams are given and some teams aren't even shown at their starting time. What's up? The New York cops are proving to be smart and savvy. They asked a postman for directions. Good thinking. It's a good thing they didn't make them eat French food except a baguette. I liked that the gay guys said they only had $20. It's probably the money they were given at the beginning of the leg. Hello guys. You're not supposed to spend the money on crapola but I'm sure there's not a perfume or scarf they can pass up. The detour took the teams to a WW2 French/German battle. I can't believe it went on for more than 3 hours. Really? I thought the French usually surrendered before lunch unless someone like the Americans or British came to rescue them. The Asian/oriental team was U-turned but good thing cuz I don't think his busted knee could take much more of the race. Morse Code is harder than it looks. The gay team let the cowboys run by them. Hey ladies! You are in a race. Miss Teen Ditzy and her boyfriend failed to get their clue after the detour. How the heck did they know where to go? I think something important was left on the editing floor. They had to bike back, get the clue and bike back to the pit stop. They didn't lose their placing though. The Big Brother winner and her lugheaded boyfriend team had to go through a speed bump but still made it to the pit stop. The oriental team didn't make it through their u-turn. Bye! All I care is, the hot cowboys are still in the race.
That's all for now. C-U next week. Stay tuned.
I've forgotten to write about Rupaul's Drag Race for a couple of weeks. It's actually been very fun and funny with the drag queens having to do everything from celebrity impersonations to doing a commercial as a team. This week, they did a photo where they were both the groom and the bride. Tyra is really annoying and bitchy which is weird since he's straight. At least I think he is, since he's got a kid. For some odd reason, I just have to laugh out loud when drag queens cry. So I'm not sure who got booted but I have to say Pandora had the ugliest wedding dress I've seen since my cousin's wedding. I think Morgan got the chop.
On the Biggest Loser, the crying fatties had to experience the real world again. Right.... Okay so they had an 8 hour job to do for 5 days but who gets to be chauffeured to and from work, has a free gym before and after work, has free food to eat at work and at home, doesn't have any homelife to deal with and has a job where it only sucks for one week? Only on TV. Not to mention, the fatties are being paid TV show wages. Most people can't even find a job these days. Whatever. I loved that Sam forgot his lunch but what a great time to advertise Subway. I'm thinking one of the PA's (production assistants) hid his lunch. One good thing about the work week, it really gave us a rest from Bob and Jillian. They only showed up in a bit at the beginning to complain and then at the end of the week to work the heck out of the contestants before the weigh-in. It was hilarious that when the gym was supposed to close at 7pm, they turned out the lights on the fatties. So, the blue team was able to pull out the win this week and amidst a lot of tears, an older woman was voted out. That was smart because losing Sam meant losing any hope of winning challenges that took any strength. I'm thinking it wasn't really a surprise because the person voted out took it really well. Something tells me the team had a meeting without the cameras present. Tsk tsk...that's not good for television. Hee hee hee
Shear Genius is getting to be redundant already. This week, they had to do a precision cut for the short cut challenge and then for the elimination challenge, they had to give wanna be starlets 2 different looks for head shots. These starlets have no chance of being stars cuz half were homely and the other half had no personality or really annoying personality. Really? Your idea of a star is the Obama girl? Wow, tacky! Why do hairstylists from Miami think they're so good? Anyway, the woman stylists from Miami was booted and rightly so. She took a 19 year old and made her look 30. That's not good when they're trying to be stars. I was surprised nobody colored anybody's hair but oh well. Brig may be kooky, but she continues to show she knows her stuff. My money is on either Janeane or her buddy boy cuz they keep winning the challenges.
Survivor was very interesting and proved the Heroes really are all brawn and no brains. Russell did find the immunity idol. I never doubted he wouldn't. The luxury challenge wasn't worth anything just chocolate and swimming in a salt water cove. Except for the difference in the menu, there wasn't much protein except milk so I don't think the Heroes really tried that hard and all it resulted in was injuring one of their strongest players; James. The game was the old wrestle for a football that you throw to a teammate on a platform for them to throw into a net on the other side of the court. I still don't understand why the Heroes aren't any good at sinking baskets. With all that leisure time, you'd think they'd practice at things like throwing at targets, tying and untying knots, and throwing things into containers. I think they're overconfident in their athletic abilities. For the immunity challenge, the producers keep coming up with games that utilize Boston Rob's amazing puzzle abilities. This time it was the old blindfolded team with one caller leading them to stumble around and find large puzzle pieces. When they got all the pieces together, then they could put it together without the blindfolds. I think they should've shook it up and made the people keep the blindfolds on when putting the puzzle together while the caller kept bossing people around. Since James is the lame one and dumber than toast, it probably would've only pointed out what a moron he is. I loved the team of Boston Rob and stick figure Courtney trying to pick up the big heavy pieces together. She kept dropping them on his feet. It was hilarious and I'm sure a lot of cursing was edited out. Either that or Rob is just nicer than we thought. Okay, blindfolded or not, the Villains won again. So did the Heroes take the opportunity to boot the gimp in the group with the busted knee? No, they voted out the valiant fireman, Tom. Oh well, he's already won a million bucks before. At this point, they've proved having more brawn on the team isn't helping anyway. James needs to shut up at tribal council because we already think he's stupid. He doesn't have to open his mouth and prove it every week. I think the Villains have all the rest of the challenges in the bag because the only strong people on the Heroes team are Colby, JT and the blond chick.
Project Runway had an interesting challenge. The designers had to make a look inspired by one of the 4 elements of fire, water, air and earth. What is this, the middle ages? I expected to see a lot of green, red and blue but there was hardly any. People tried to be more abstract about it thinking of smoke, laughter, night sky, explosions, tornadoes, etc. Amy's outfit was supposed to look like an explosion but only looked like a mushroom cloud with the model sporting a lot of frizzy blond hair over her boobs. Seth Aron had an interesting look with his model sporting metallic spats and a black studded coat that looked like the skyline of New York at Midnight. The dress that looked like laughter won because it had color and was very striking on the model. Ben was sent home for his shark inspired suit that made his model look like she had a penis. That's never good. Everybody was creeped out, including all of the models. I think Ben saw how successful his pal, Seth Aron, was with his pantsuits and wanted to do one too. Note to all; stick to what you're good at. He should've saved the pants for a team challenge.
Models of the Runway lost their villain and now they're boring. They did show the models eating. The part of the show I look forward to is the elimination. The designers stuck with their same models this time, except Emilio. Yay for Emilio. He keeps Heidi from making the designers choose different models. I wish she would anyway. Poor Alison. Her designer had been booted so she was left out and sent home.
The Amazing Race went to France. I notice they don't show how much money the teams are given and some teams aren't even shown at their starting time. What's up? The New York cops are proving to be smart and savvy. They asked a postman for directions. Good thinking. It's a good thing they didn't make them eat French food except a baguette. I liked that the gay guys said they only had $20. It's probably the money they were given at the beginning of the leg. Hello guys. You're not supposed to spend the money on crapola but I'm sure there's not a perfume or scarf they can pass up. The detour took the teams to a WW2 French/German battle. I can't believe it went on for more than 3 hours. Really? I thought the French usually surrendered before lunch unless someone like the Americans or British came to rescue them. The Asian/oriental team was U-turned but good thing cuz I don't think his busted knee could take much more of the race. Morse Code is harder than it looks. The gay team let the cowboys run by them. Hey ladies! You are in a race. Miss Teen Ditzy and her boyfriend failed to get their clue after the detour. How the heck did they know where to go? I think something important was left on the editing floor. They had to bike back, get the clue and bike back to the pit stop. They didn't lose their placing though. The Big Brother winner and her lugheaded boyfriend team had to go through a speed bump but still made it to the pit stop. The oriental team didn't make it through their u-turn. Bye! All I care is, the hot cowboys are still in the race.
That's all for now. C-U next week. Stay tuned.
Monday, March 8, 2010
As the TV world turns
Ahhh...it's so nice to see Law & Order back at it's 9pm (central time) slot. It's just as great as ever but at least the cops can talk like real cops now.
The Biggest Loser continued after the Olympics and it was a doozy. I was afraid it was going to be a boring season because the fatties were playing nice. They were getting cloyingly sweet. Then came Michael and showed who's really playing the game here. Michael took on the challenge to win the right to make the 2 teams. What a terrible challenge for a 450 pound person trying to lose weight. They played the game where you had to uncover 2 squares at a time and try to match items. Behind all but 2 squares were different foods. A lot of them were high calorie junk stuff and also, for each missed match, the chooser had to eat a chocolate chip cookie. If a match was made, the nonchooser had to eat the matched food. Either way, there was no getting around consuming large amounts of empty calories. By the time they had the 4th round with no matches, I felt sick. Michael finally matched the golden tickets but still ate 2400 calories. I thought, Jeez, that guy's gonna have to live on the treadmill for a couple of days. I was impressed. Did Michael keep the couple teams together? No. Did he make the teams well balanced with even numbers of men and women and heavy and lighter? No. In fact, the only pair he kept together were the mother/daughter team and he put them on the team that wasn't his. Poor Sam, he's the only guy on his team so the challenges are kind of one sided if they require strength. Michael was so sure the other team was going to lose the weigh-in, he left the old weak guy in the middle. It gave him immunity and then he was to join the losing team that lost a member. Michael thought it would split that team up too because he put the weak old guy's daughter on his own team. Well surprise, surprise, surprise. Jillian's black team won the weigh-in. Unfortunately, Miggy and Michael had alienated themselves from the other players on the ranch by being grumpy and catty. Since Michael won immunity by losing the most weight, I'll give you one guess who was voted out. I guess the other players decided this was a hardball game and finally joined in. It's about time. Now the show's more interesting and you can tell everybody's really hitting the workouts hard. It was nice to have a show where Bob and Jillian weren't trying to be psychologists. They suck at that. They stuck to their real job and the results showed.
Shear Genius producers are trying to keep the challenges complicated. For the shortcut challenge they tell the stylists they have to cut hair into sleek bobs. Oh wait! All the models have naturally curly hair. Oh wait! You have to cut the hair before you straighten it. Are you kidding? I was kind of confused and you guessed it, nobody got it perfect. It's really too bad they give a challenge where they're guaranteed to fail. Then the stylists had to give military wives 1940's pin-up girl looks. It was interesting. The winning guy did that poofy but sleek up do complete with little bow in the back. Brig did the Veronica Lake look and some tried the betty boop thing. One thing was clear, these women weren't good models at all cuz none of them did that booty tooch right or that big eyes with surprise look. Whatever. I'm not sure these women were worth coming home from Afghanistan for but I digress. Jonathan Antin continues to crack me up with his more than honest comments. I love when the stylists complain they didn't get enough time. Hello, this is a competition and it's not like they don't know their time limit. It's called hurry the fuck up and stop standing around blabbing and complaining. Anyway, the blond skinny Aussie girl was booted. Next time eat something. Maybe it'll give you energy to finish your task.
Survivor was really fun. They had 2 challenges and it was great. For the luxury challenge, the survivors dove on a slip n slide to get a numbered ball then they had to shoot the ball into a basket. Since this challenge didn't take any brawn, the villains team won. You can tell Boston Rob has taken the role as leader because they're making wise choices. From the catalog they chose tools and knives. Probably because Russell hid the machete. Each team found a clue to a hidden immunity idol in their camp. I was always wondering why Russell wasn't looking for it already but maybe he was and they didn't show it. Of course, he went for it and made his team mad. Whatever. If the little skunk finds it, it won't matter if they're mad or not. Tom found the idol at the heroes camp and wasn't good at hiding the fact at all. The immunity challenge was the old rolling the human in the ball and then have them guide their blindfolded teammates through a table maze. Boston Rob has proven to be quite the puzzle savvy guy cuz he was the one guiding all of his blindfolded teammates and the villains won immunity again. You can tell Russell really wants to unload some of the dead weight because after the win, he rolled his eyes. It was quite the hilarious moment. Tom and Colby swung the voting their way by a hair but it was just the ticket. The rest of the tribe tried to be conniving by splitting their votes for Tom and Colby thinking that if Tom used his immunity idol, Colby would still be voted out. Little did they know that JT isn't that much of a pushover and Cerie was voted out; much to her surprise. I loved the way Tom said that Cerie didn't have anything to fear. Wiping that smug look off of her face was totally great. If you missed it, you can find the full episode at www.cbs.com and enjoy the moments for yourself.
Project Runway did one of my favorite episodes. I love when the designers have to take unconventional materials and make clothes from them. This time it was a hardware store where they had to get their materials. The real men used sheets of metal to form their dresses or at least the bodices of them. I thought Amy's sandpaper dress should've been in the top three. Maya's look was really cool but the dress was not good for her figureless model. Jay made garbage bags look like leather and the whole outfit was great with good use of turquoise electrical tape stripes on the top. As usual, the judges liked that the whole outfit looked expensive. Emilio made a bikini out of washers and pink cord. I don't understand why he couldn't buy more washers with $150. Are they that expensive? He had plenty of cord. I think he should've worked on the macrame more. I've seen macarame swimsuits that didn't have washers and they hid more than his suit did. Kudos to Holly, his model, for working that pathetic swimsuit and acting like it was great stuff. Jesse was finally aufed. Good. I hated his sour attitude and he took his model, Alexis with him. She wasn't chosen by any designer for the next challenge and you could hear all the models in the win room all celebrating. Byeee!
The Amazing Race finally left South America and headed for Germany. Oh boy! They made the challenges really reflect Germany complete with eating sauerkraut, big beer drinking and a redlight district. The only thing missing was greasy sausages. The cowboys continue to impress. The only time they helped a team was when they needed them to pair up with for a challenge. It might have been their downfall. Anyway, the cowboys proved you can bungee jump and play soccer and keep your hat on your head. After the bungee jump, they split from the NY cops and made the mistake of taking the metro to the next challenge. That metro must really be slow because by the time the cowboys got to the soccer field, 3 other teams had passed them up. For the detour, each team had to share a large boot of beer and it was hilarious to see how they handled it. Some people loved it and were ecstatic to be able to chug beer. Others didn't like it and made a lot of faces and the gay guys got drunk. I loved the grandpa chugging the beer. I only got mad at the ending. The Big Brother ditz team came in last but it turned out to be non-elimination leg. Really? We have to go through another week of these douche bags? Maybe the speed bump, next week will do them in. We can only hope. The guy is so annoying, I was hoping he'd get a soccer ball kicked into his crotch during the detour. Maybe next week.
This season of Celebrity Fat Club is really dumb. Nobody's really trying except Jay. There's a lot of overdramatic acting and cheesy stuff. It's boring and sucks.
The Oscars had their annual show. It was pretty good. Sometimes there's one movie that just sweeps up all the awards. It might be good for them, but boring for the viewers. This show was much better because it seemed each movie won something. The beginning started with a song parody thing from Doogie Howser and then a comedy routine from Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. I think they could've cut out the song. You don't always have to stick to tradition. They had 10 movies nominated for the best movie. Really? Whatsamatter? Couldn't make up your minds? I was glad to see most of the thank you speeches didn't name everyone in the family except one guy who started. Thank god for the the wrap up music. The orchestra conductor must've fallen asleep during Jeff Bridges thank you speech cuz they let him go on and on. Even he was looking to be cut off.
I love the show Til' Death. For once, they don't have the couple all gooey lovey dovey. You can tell they love each other but they still just put up with the other person's quirks. The ongoing subplot of the son-in-law thinking he's on a sitcom is hilarious because now they changed actresses who play his wife. He freaked out, then got used to it; just like the audience. Mayim Bialik did a guest spot that was really funny only because she underplayed it.
I do watch a ton more tv, but this blog does have to end. So tata for now.
The Biggest Loser continued after the Olympics and it was a doozy. I was afraid it was going to be a boring season because the fatties were playing nice. They were getting cloyingly sweet. Then came Michael and showed who's really playing the game here. Michael took on the challenge to win the right to make the 2 teams. What a terrible challenge for a 450 pound person trying to lose weight. They played the game where you had to uncover 2 squares at a time and try to match items. Behind all but 2 squares were different foods. A lot of them were high calorie junk stuff and also, for each missed match, the chooser had to eat a chocolate chip cookie. If a match was made, the nonchooser had to eat the matched food. Either way, there was no getting around consuming large amounts of empty calories. By the time they had the 4th round with no matches, I felt sick. Michael finally matched the golden tickets but still ate 2400 calories. I thought, Jeez, that guy's gonna have to live on the treadmill for a couple of days. I was impressed. Did Michael keep the couple teams together? No. Did he make the teams well balanced with even numbers of men and women and heavy and lighter? No. In fact, the only pair he kept together were the mother/daughter team and he put them on the team that wasn't his. Poor Sam, he's the only guy on his team so the challenges are kind of one sided if they require strength. Michael was so sure the other team was going to lose the weigh-in, he left the old weak guy in the middle. It gave him immunity and then he was to join the losing team that lost a member. Michael thought it would split that team up too because he put the weak old guy's daughter on his own team. Well surprise, surprise, surprise. Jillian's black team won the weigh-in. Unfortunately, Miggy and Michael had alienated themselves from the other players on the ranch by being grumpy and catty. Since Michael won immunity by losing the most weight, I'll give you one guess who was voted out. I guess the other players decided this was a hardball game and finally joined in. It's about time. Now the show's more interesting and you can tell everybody's really hitting the workouts hard. It was nice to have a show where Bob and Jillian weren't trying to be psychologists. They suck at that. They stuck to their real job and the results showed.
Shear Genius producers are trying to keep the challenges complicated. For the shortcut challenge they tell the stylists they have to cut hair into sleek bobs. Oh wait! All the models have naturally curly hair. Oh wait! You have to cut the hair before you straighten it. Are you kidding? I was kind of confused and you guessed it, nobody got it perfect. It's really too bad they give a challenge where they're guaranteed to fail. Then the stylists had to give military wives 1940's pin-up girl looks. It was interesting. The winning guy did that poofy but sleek up do complete with little bow in the back. Brig did the Veronica Lake look and some tried the betty boop thing. One thing was clear, these women weren't good models at all cuz none of them did that booty tooch right or that big eyes with surprise look. Whatever. I'm not sure these women were worth coming home from Afghanistan for but I digress. Jonathan Antin continues to crack me up with his more than honest comments. I love when the stylists complain they didn't get enough time. Hello, this is a competition and it's not like they don't know their time limit. It's called hurry the fuck up and stop standing around blabbing and complaining. Anyway, the blond skinny Aussie girl was booted. Next time eat something. Maybe it'll give you energy to finish your task.
Survivor was really fun. They had 2 challenges and it was great. For the luxury challenge, the survivors dove on a slip n slide to get a numbered ball then they had to shoot the ball into a basket. Since this challenge didn't take any brawn, the villains team won. You can tell Boston Rob has taken the role as leader because they're making wise choices. From the catalog they chose tools and knives. Probably because Russell hid the machete. Each team found a clue to a hidden immunity idol in their camp. I was always wondering why Russell wasn't looking for it already but maybe he was and they didn't show it. Of course, he went for it and made his team mad. Whatever. If the little skunk finds it, it won't matter if they're mad or not. Tom found the idol at the heroes camp and wasn't good at hiding the fact at all. The immunity challenge was the old rolling the human in the ball and then have them guide their blindfolded teammates through a table maze. Boston Rob has proven to be quite the puzzle savvy guy cuz he was the one guiding all of his blindfolded teammates and the villains won immunity again. You can tell Russell really wants to unload some of the dead weight because after the win, he rolled his eyes. It was quite the hilarious moment. Tom and Colby swung the voting their way by a hair but it was just the ticket. The rest of the tribe tried to be conniving by splitting their votes for Tom and Colby thinking that if Tom used his immunity idol, Colby would still be voted out. Little did they know that JT isn't that much of a pushover and Cerie was voted out; much to her surprise. I loved the way Tom said that Cerie didn't have anything to fear. Wiping that smug look off of her face was totally great. If you missed it, you can find the full episode at www.cbs.com and enjoy the moments for yourself.
Project Runway did one of my favorite episodes. I love when the designers have to take unconventional materials and make clothes from them. This time it was a hardware store where they had to get their materials. The real men used sheets of metal to form their dresses or at least the bodices of them. I thought Amy's sandpaper dress should've been in the top three. Maya's look was really cool but the dress was not good for her figureless model. Jay made garbage bags look like leather and the whole outfit was great with good use of turquoise electrical tape stripes on the top. As usual, the judges liked that the whole outfit looked expensive. Emilio made a bikini out of washers and pink cord. I don't understand why he couldn't buy more washers with $150. Are they that expensive? He had plenty of cord. I think he should've worked on the macrame more. I've seen macarame swimsuits that didn't have washers and they hid more than his suit did. Kudos to Holly, his model, for working that pathetic swimsuit and acting like it was great stuff. Jesse was finally aufed. Good. I hated his sour attitude and he took his model, Alexis with him. She wasn't chosen by any designer for the next challenge and you could hear all the models in the win room all celebrating. Byeee!
The Amazing Race finally left South America and headed for Germany. Oh boy! They made the challenges really reflect Germany complete with eating sauerkraut, big beer drinking and a redlight district. The only thing missing was greasy sausages. The cowboys continue to impress. The only time they helped a team was when they needed them to pair up with for a challenge. It might have been their downfall. Anyway, the cowboys proved you can bungee jump and play soccer and keep your hat on your head. After the bungee jump, they split from the NY cops and made the mistake of taking the metro to the next challenge. That metro must really be slow because by the time the cowboys got to the soccer field, 3 other teams had passed them up. For the detour, each team had to share a large boot of beer and it was hilarious to see how they handled it. Some people loved it and were ecstatic to be able to chug beer. Others didn't like it and made a lot of faces and the gay guys got drunk. I loved the grandpa chugging the beer. I only got mad at the ending. The Big Brother ditz team came in last but it turned out to be non-elimination leg. Really? We have to go through another week of these douche bags? Maybe the speed bump, next week will do them in. We can only hope. The guy is so annoying, I was hoping he'd get a soccer ball kicked into his crotch during the detour. Maybe next week.
This season of Celebrity Fat Club is really dumb. Nobody's really trying except Jay. There's a lot of overdramatic acting and cheesy stuff. It's boring and sucks.
The Oscars had their annual show. It was pretty good. Sometimes there's one movie that just sweeps up all the awards. It might be good for them, but boring for the viewers. This show was much better because it seemed each movie won something. The beginning started with a song parody thing from Doogie Howser and then a comedy routine from Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. I think they could've cut out the song. You don't always have to stick to tradition. They had 10 movies nominated for the best movie. Really? Whatsamatter? Couldn't make up your minds? I was glad to see most of the thank you speeches didn't name everyone in the family except one guy who started. Thank god for the the wrap up music. The orchestra conductor must've fallen asleep during Jeff Bridges thank you speech cuz they let him go on and on. Even he was looking to be cut off.
I love the show Til' Death. For once, they don't have the couple all gooey lovey dovey. You can tell they love each other but they still just put up with the other person's quirks. The ongoing subplot of the son-in-law thinking he's on a sitcom is hilarious because now they changed actresses who play his wife. He freaked out, then got used to it; just like the audience. Mayim Bialik did a guest spot that was really funny only because she underplayed it.
I do watch a ton more tv, but this blog does have to end. So tata for now.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
What's been happenin'?
Okay, well, I watched all the Olympics and couldn't really watch the shows on TV; but thanks to the internet, could keep up on what was going on by seeing episodes on my computer.
First, I want to say, the NBC Olympic broadcast was so boring, redundant and poor, I was sick to death of NBC before the end of the Olympics. They really do suck. The Olympics was exciting and fun but the televising was poorly directed and edited. We want to watch athletes not putzfaced NBC staff. Yeesh.
The Amazing Race started in LA. OMG, they have Caitlin the dumb Miss Teen USA contestant on a team and the other teams do remember her. Love all the snide mimicking of her. I've officially nicknamed her and her boyfriend, team dumb and dumber. I'm not sure which is which. There are a couple of brother cowboys from Oklahoma and not only are they hot, but sooo darn cute. They're so, "Aw shucks." low key that the other teams don't think they're a threat. They've proved to be smart, quick, crafty and rather athletic. So far, they've hit the finish mat first twice without asking other people for help. Way to go guys! Of course there are the requisite old person with grandkid team, lesbian team, gay team, married team and reality show team. I love the fact that the gay guys are totally living up to their stereotype. They can't drive a stickshift, are poor navigators and aren't athletically inclined. The Asian/oriental team is not living up to their stereotype. They can drive but they're not too smart. Hopefully the racers will leave South America soon. The dumb teams keep thinking they're in the USA and ask for tickets to San Jose and San Juan. Ha ha ha. BTW, I don't think Phil ages at all.
Survivor needs a new director. They keep leaving in the boring stuff and leaving out the stuff we want to see. The Heroes lost the 2nd immunity challenge and booted Stefanie. James let out a tirade against her both at camp and at tribal council. I think he's just grouchy from hunger. Jeff Probst doesn't help when he asks someone to name names. Last week the Villains won. There was no puzzle and Boston Rob couldn't save the day. Once again, they rolled the luxury and immunity challenge into one and there was no contest. The Heroes have more food, sleep and water. When it comes to a contest of who can push who over, I think the Heroes have it in the bag. Russell did his usual thing and hid the machete. I'm thinking, weakening the team isn't a good idea but maybe it's good to get rid of some of the chaff. There was footage of some hemming and hawing but in the end, it was a landslide for the grouchy weak old guy: Randy. Did we get to see the Heroes enjoy their luxury? Heck no. Maybe next week.
Project Runway only had one show during the Olympics. This time they had to make something for a little girl. The next day Tim told them they also had only one day and $100 to make an outfit or dress for their adult model. I have to say, I was impressed. Most of the things were pretty cute. I didn't care for the drab lilac dress one guy made for a little girl. She looked like a poor orphan who had to wear her older sister's hand me down. Even the losing outfits weren't that bad. Janeane was booted for her cheap look. I'm getting a real trend here. The judges like things that look expensive. Really? In these economically bad times? Seth Aron won with his really cute Black, white and hot pink hoodie. The little girl liked the purse that went with it best. How funny. The adult model was equally stunning in a black and white geometrically striped look. Most of the time I can't pick the winner but this time I did.
Shear Genius was very interesting. 2 weeks ago they had to do hairstyles for a romance novel cover. One stylist just up and quit cuz he was missing home awwwww...whatever. So when the people had to work in teams of 2, someone had to work alone. Brig did a great job on her own. Do we care who got cut? Not really but it was the African American woman. Last week, the stylists had to do a different style for bridesmaids of a Bollywood wedding who had wedding styles already and they had only 1 hour. Brig and the English guy got the heads of lettuce. Poor Brig would do a curl and the girl wouldn't like it. Then she did a bouffant and the girl didn't like it. By the time Brig just decided to flat iron the whole head, she ran out of time. I really felt sorry for her after combing out the girl's hair about 4 times. The English guy's girl didn't know what she wanted and didn't really want anything done to her hair. Nice directions. What a dumbass. The English guy got cut but we were all glad to see the big blowhard go home. He bragged and namedropped so much, it was nauseating and he never did prove he was any good at hairstyling. Whatever. At least Alves has woken up and started browbeating the hairstylists. I love Jonathan Antin. His comments are totally hilarious, but true. I quote, "That horse has better hair than those models." LOL!
Carnie Wilson is hosting the Newlywed Game and she's great. She doesn't have that horney leering sound to her voice like the old host had but she's just matter of fact and fun. She does give a giggle and a wink here and there to let us know exactly what's going on in her mind. Girl! We're there with you. It's so cute and funny. I could do without the full profile of the couples before the show starts but thank god for TiVo cuz I can just FF through all that.
I watched 10 minutes of the Bachelor: On the Wings of Love and just about threw up. The show is as nauseating and ludicrous as ever. For some reason, Jake isn't good looking out of the uniform. Hmmm... He should wear that thing at all times.
I want to say; Hallelujah Law & Order shows are back at their proper time at 9pm my time. They shouldn't be on during family time. Kids can't really understand it and now the shows can be gritty like they used to be.
First, I want to say, the NBC Olympic broadcast was so boring, redundant and poor, I was sick to death of NBC before the end of the Olympics. They really do suck. The Olympics was exciting and fun but the televising was poorly directed and edited. We want to watch athletes not putzfaced NBC staff. Yeesh.
The Amazing Race started in LA. OMG, they have Caitlin the dumb Miss Teen USA contestant on a team and the other teams do remember her. Love all the snide mimicking of her. I've officially nicknamed her and her boyfriend, team dumb and dumber. I'm not sure which is which. There are a couple of brother cowboys from Oklahoma and not only are they hot, but sooo darn cute. They're so, "Aw shucks." low key that the other teams don't think they're a threat. They've proved to be smart, quick, crafty and rather athletic. So far, they've hit the finish mat first twice without asking other people for help. Way to go guys! Of course there are the requisite old person with grandkid team, lesbian team, gay team, married team and reality show team. I love the fact that the gay guys are totally living up to their stereotype. They can't drive a stickshift, are poor navigators and aren't athletically inclined. The Asian/oriental team is not living up to their stereotype. They can drive but they're not too smart. Hopefully the racers will leave South America soon. The dumb teams keep thinking they're in the USA and ask for tickets to San Jose and San Juan. Ha ha ha. BTW, I don't think Phil ages at all.
Survivor needs a new director. They keep leaving in the boring stuff and leaving out the stuff we want to see. The Heroes lost the 2nd immunity challenge and booted Stefanie. James let out a tirade against her both at camp and at tribal council. I think he's just grouchy from hunger. Jeff Probst doesn't help when he asks someone to name names. Last week the Villains won. There was no puzzle and Boston Rob couldn't save the day. Once again, they rolled the luxury and immunity challenge into one and there was no contest. The Heroes have more food, sleep and water. When it comes to a contest of who can push who over, I think the Heroes have it in the bag. Russell did his usual thing and hid the machete. I'm thinking, weakening the team isn't a good idea but maybe it's good to get rid of some of the chaff. There was footage of some hemming and hawing but in the end, it was a landslide for the grouchy weak old guy: Randy. Did we get to see the Heroes enjoy their luxury? Heck no. Maybe next week.
Project Runway only had one show during the Olympics. This time they had to make something for a little girl. The next day Tim told them they also had only one day and $100 to make an outfit or dress for their adult model. I have to say, I was impressed. Most of the things were pretty cute. I didn't care for the drab lilac dress one guy made for a little girl. She looked like a poor orphan who had to wear her older sister's hand me down. Even the losing outfits weren't that bad. Janeane was booted for her cheap look. I'm getting a real trend here. The judges like things that look expensive. Really? In these economically bad times? Seth Aron won with his really cute Black, white and hot pink hoodie. The little girl liked the purse that went with it best. How funny. The adult model was equally stunning in a black and white geometrically striped look. Most of the time I can't pick the winner but this time I did.
Shear Genius was very interesting. 2 weeks ago they had to do hairstyles for a romance novel cover. One stylist just up and quit cuz he was missing home awwwww...whatever. So when the people had to work in teams of 2, someone had to work alone. Brig did a great job on her own. Do we care who got cut? Not really but it was the African American woman. Last week, the stylists had to do a different style for bridesmaids of a Bollywood wedding who had wedding styles already and they had only 1 hour. Brig and the English guy got the heads of lettuce. Poor Brig would do a curl and the girl wouldn't like it. Then she did a bouffant and the girl didn't like it. By the time Brig just decided to flat iron the whole head, she ran out of time. I really felt sorry for her after combing out the girl's hair about 4 times. The English guy's girl didn't know what she wanted and didn't really want anything done to her hair. Nice directions. What a dumbass. The English guy got cut but we were all glad to see the big blowhard go home. He bragged and namedropped so much, it was nauseating and he never did prove he was any good at hairstyling. Whatever. At least Alves has woken up and started browbeating the hairstylists. I love Jonathan Antin. His comments are totally hilarious, but true. I quote, "That horse has better hair than those models." LOL!
Carnie Wilson is hosting the Newlywed Game and she's great. She doesn't have that horney leering sound to her voice like the old host had but she's just matter of fact and fun. She does give a giggle and a wink here and there to let us know exactly what's going on in her mind. Girl! We're there with you. It's so cute and funny. I could do without the full profile of the couples before the show starts but thank god for TiVo cuz I can just FF through all that.
I watched 10 minutes of the Bachelor: On the Wings of Love and just about threw up. The show is as nauseating and ludicrous as ever. For some reason, Jake isn't good looking out of the uniform. Hmmm... He should wear that thing at all times.
I want to say; Hallelujah Law & Order shows are back at their proper time at 9pm my time. They shouldn't be on during family time. Kids can't really understand it and now the shows can be gritty like they used to be.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Another post before the Olympics start
So the reality shows continued with Survivor starting a whole new season.
On the crying fatties, AKA The Biggest Loser; the contestants went to the Olympic training center in Colorado. How cheesy was that torch lighting? Not only have the Olympics never been in Colorado, but they're starting for real in Canada this week. They did footage of the fatties working out with the Olympic athletes. It was hilarious how much the real athletes underestimated the fatties. Oh hello, these people can actually lift 300 pounds. They've been doing it all their lives. They're not using helium balloons to get them off the toilet or couch. Don't worry people, they still managed to get in all the in show advertizing. God forbid they forget to schill the gum or ziploc bags. This season, Bob and Jillian do not have specific teams. I like this. It keeps them from influencing the votes. The problem is, in order to get more camera time, they now want to be pseudopsychologists. No wonder the contestants aren't losing as much weight this season; the trainers talk with them too much. They should be like the Marine Sergeants yelling, "Shut up and push!" This show really needs to get new workout coaches. Bob and Jillian are not only not stars, but they're so 5 years ago. Melissa proved she didn't throw her prior weighins by actually gaining a pound this week and getting immediately booted due to that darn red line. Really? A weight gain? Next time remember to poop before the weighin you dork.
On Shear Genius, first the beauticians had to recolor blondes. For some odd reason, most of them couldn't convince the bimbos to lose the straw color. Do these women realize their hair will grow out? I have to say, most of the contestants have really dull personalities (not to mention the host), so it's not too surprising these women didn't go with anything they suggested. The people who came out on top actually changed the hair color and the winner totally deserved it. He made a totally dry white blonde bimbo go auburn. Not only did it make her eyes really stand out, but it made her IQ seem much higher. The elimination challenge was interesting with the contestants tasting different gourmet dishes i.e. tiramisu, hamachi, seared scallops, etc and then told to make a hairstyle to reflect it. I'm beginning to really like Jonathan Antin. He gets straight to the point and doesn't mince words. That's cuz he's a real guy. Gay guys are too sensitive and beat around the bush like girly women. Anyway, the guy who won, did his model's hair to look like the scallop dish and it was totally great. I also liked that he didn't do anything permanent to the hair so the poor girl didn't have to look like scallop head tomorrow. I really thought the yellow haired girl would go due to her hair covered foam balls but nope, the girl who did the most boring hair did. I guess that's fair.
On Project Runway, the designers were told to make a look for an April Marie Claire cover with Heidi Klum as the model. Then they were given pointers, $150 and 1 day to make it. It's obvious some of the designers either didn't listen or disregarded the advice. Since when is beige an eye catching color? Since when are charcoal grey or very dark green spring colors? Mila doesn't know the meaning of "up top" because she put all her notes of interest below the waist. Jay thought the challenge was lingeree. Someone made the ugliest thing he called a romper. I really thought Mila should've gone because her dress was so truly ugly, dull and somehow familiar but not in a good way. She not only had the beige color but she had dull colored chevrons at the waist and hem, all pointing to the crotch. It didn't go unnoticed by the judges. Sometimes they keep the interesting characters no matter what crap they churn out, like last year's Christopher or season 2 Santino. Somebody tell the producers to butt out. We know what's going on. Okay, so Anna did make an outfit that looked like discount store kidwear but it wasn't totally ugly. Anthony won with a beautiful vibrant turquoise short dress with a kind of constructed ruffle embellishment from right shoulder to waist. It was very cool and would totally be eye catching for a magazine cover, yet classy too. Anna was so uninteresting herself, when she was auf-ed, nobody noticed.
Models of the Runway finally has a villain. Alexis has a problem with diarrhea of the mouth and pisses everybody off. Note to Alexis; you don't have to say everything you're thinking. Of course, when a person has as big an ego as she does, they tend to think everyone wants to know everything about them. Ummmm....no, not this time. The models had a photoshoot directed by a Marie Claire exec. It was interesting. I don't understand why Brandeis thinks she's unattractive. Don't models get makeup applied no matter if they're attractive or not? Also, there are plenty of models who are way more dogfaced than she is. Unfortunately, her insecurity showed in the photos. Alexis thought the shoot was for a men's magazine so she's not as smart as she thinks either. Of course, the most commercial model in the bunch won the photo shoot. Unfortunately, commercial isn't good for runway and she was not chosen by the designers. Ummm...I forget her name but she was a blonde. It's funny to note, the designers chose the brunettes first. They're starting to notice the judges like color and blondes don't wear bright colors well.
I finally tuned in to see the Housewives of Orange County when I saw the ad for it showing someone getting an eviction notice. My schaudenfreude kicked in and I was totally rolling on the floor LMAO when the one housewife was being told by her beleagured husband that they've been living beyond their means. Well duh people. Let me see. His construction business has tanked due to the economy. She's wearing huge diamond jewelry and designer clothes with a boob job, poofed up lips and obvious botox in the face. I was also laughing cuz during the heated argument, she couldn't frown, smile or look surprised. Then like all dumb bimbos, she takes her impoverished self on a shopping trip to San Francisco with her shallow friends. They showed one housewife giving sympathy to her daughter who has nodules on the thyroid. If all these women got cancer and died, I guarantee the viewership would skyrocket. One interesting scene was at Hubert Keller's restaurant. One ditz tried her friend's foie gras and started to gag. Poor Hubert. White trash is still white trash no matter how much you dress it up. It reminded me why I hate these stupid shows where we follow around dumbass people in their lives. Do people really like this shallow crap?
Survivor started it's Heroes vs. Villains season. Wow! How many times are they going to bring people back? I was glad to see Colby and Tom Westman back. Too bad Ethan was too sick to participate. Really Sugar? Her only achievement was through pure luck. The introduction took a good 20 minutes. Did we really need that much footage on the helicopters? We already know these people. So after the drop off, Jeff made some stupid observations and then they had a reward challenge. It's interesting to note; everybody was dressed for practicality. There were no idiots dressed in fancy dresses and heels or business suits. JT proved he's not only good at wrestling, but football too. Colby and Tom proved you don't improve with age. Sugar proved you don't have to have a top on to get across the finish line with a large sand bag. Anyway, the Heroes won the first reward. The got flint; Yay! To really have a laugh, the villains got a fire started anyway. Boston Rob must have practiced with a boyscout. The producers thought viewers are totally stupid and the Heroes found a rooster with 3 chickens running around in their camp area. Right...oh and they looked as if they were tied down too. Because of that, the whole throwing the net over them wasn't that impressive. Just to prove how smart they are, they killed the rooster. Say goodbye to those eggs you dummies. Rupert proved to be of no value while whining about his broken pinky toe. BFD dude; I can tell you right now, every person in the dance and athletic world has broken that toe. BTW, everytime you talk about how much it hurts, the smaller we think your nuts are. Sugar proved to be annoying to Colby and everybody else. Poor Sugar; she was trying to latch onto a hunk of man (Colby) and he just wasn't that into her. For the immunity challenge, the producers dusted off an oldy but a goody. First the survivors had to swim to boat pieces, put them together, climb in the boat, row for all they're worth to light a torch and get back to the beach, then hand off stuff to teammates who put a puzzle together, build a kind of puzzle ladder, climb the whole team to the top and light a bigger fire. Whew! The Heroes won the first part of the challenge so well, you almost forgot they had an opponent. Well, then they proved there is no excess of brains cuz they totally lost their lead and the villains won. There really was no excuse. The people who put the puzzle together didn't have to do the physical stuff first so it wasn't like they were too tired to think like the original time the challenge was done. Anyway, there was a lot of footage of people questioning the vote. The Heroes showed why they're the good guys and did a solidly wise vote and it was a landslide for Sugar. Even she wasn't surprised. The problem for Jeff was, the Heroes are so good, there was nothing really controversial to bring up at tribal council. He was really digging hard too. I thought he was going to resort to asking about toe jam or something. Man is it hard to have nitty gritty stuff when everybody is respectful, hardworking and clean. I can't wait for the villains to go to tribal council. They'll probably have an hour with that alone. Oh boy!
I'm glad to see Jay Leno leaving prime time. His show was ridiculous in prime time. He couldn't use guests from other shows in prime time on other networks, broadway people are still working, and for most bands, it's too early for them. Everybody had to be really good because of the early time period. It just didn't work. When he had a guest on, Jay would often remind them to promote something they were doing. When Jay had to prompt a person on what they were promoting, you knew a producer had called in a favor. Some people had no idea what the heck they were doing and were timid to be themselves. For some odd reason, Leno's brand of humor goes over better when you're really tired and half drunk before bed. In my opinion, Leno's getting to be in the geriatric age bracket. You know that crotchety old uncle who always reminds you how much better it was in his day? Jay seems to be more and more like that. Maybe it's time to retire Jay. Oh well. I'll be keeping an eye out for wherever Conan OBrien lands.
On the crying fatties, AKA The Biggest Loser; the contestants went to the Olympic training center in Colorado. How cheesy was that torch lighting? Not only have the Olympics never been in Colorado, but they're starting for real in Canada this week. They did footage of the fatties working out with the Olympic athletes. It was hilarious how much the real athletes underestimated the fatties. Oh hello, these people can actually lift 300 pounds. They've been doing it all their lives. They're not using helium balloons to get them off the toilet or couch. Don't worry people, they still managed to get in all the in show advertizing. God forbid they forget to schill the gum or ziploc bags. This season, Bob and Jillian do not have specific teams. I like this. It keeps them from influencing the votes. The problem is, in order to get more camera time, they now want to be pseudopsychologists. No wonder the contestants aren't losing as much weight this season; the trainers talk with them too much. They should be like the Marine Sergeants yelling, "Shut up and push!" This show really needs to get new workout coaches. Bob and Jillian are not only not stars, but they're so 5 years ago. Melissa proved she didn't throw her prior weighins by actually gaining a pound this week and getting immediately booted due to that darn red line. Really? A weight gain? Next time remember to poop before the weighin you dork.
On Shear Genius, first the beauticians had to recolor blondes. For some odd reason, most of them couldn't convince the bimbos to lose the straw color. Do these women realize their hair will grow out? I have to say, most of the contestants have really dull personalities (not to mention the host), so it's not too surprising these women didn't go with anything they suggested. The people who came out on top actually changed the hair color and the winner totally deserved it. He made a totally dry white blonde bimbo go auburn. Not only did it make her eyes really stand out, but it made her IQ seem much higher. The elimination challenge was interesting with the contestants tasting different gourmet dishes i.e. tiramisu, hamachi, seared scallops, etc and then told to make a hairstyle to reflect it. I'm beginning to really like Jonathan Antin. He gets straight to the point and doesn't mince words. That's cuz he's a real guy. Gay guys are too sensitive and beat around the bush like girly women. Anyway, the guy who won, did his model's hair to look like the scallop dish and it was totally great. I also liked that he didn't do anything permanent to the hair so the poor girl didn't have to look like scallop head tomorrow. I really thought the yellow haired girl would go due to her hair covered foam balls but nope, the girl who did the most boring hair did. I guess that's fair.
On Project Runway, the designers were told to make a look for an April Marie Claire cover with Heidi Klum as the model. Then they were given pointers, $150 and 1 day to make it. It's obvious some of the designers either didn't listen or disregarded the advice. Since when is beige an eye catching color? Since when are charcoal grey or very dark green spring colors? Mila doesn't know the meaning of "up top" because she put all her notes of interest below the waist. Jay thought the challenge was lingeree. Someone made the ugliest thing he called a romper. I really thought Mila should've gone because her dress was so truly ugly, dull and somehow familiar but not in a good way. She not only had the beige color but she had dull colored chevrons at the waist and hem, all pointing to the crotch. It didn't go unnoticed by the judges. Sometimes they keep the interesting characters no matter what crap they churn out, like last year's Christopher or season 2 Santino. Somebody tell the producers to butt out. We know what's going on. Okay, so Anna did make an outfit that looked like discount store kidwear but it wasn't totally ugly. Anthony won with a beautiful vibrant turquoise short dress with a kind of constructed ruffle embellishment from right shoulder to waist. It was very cool and would totally be eye catching for a magazine cover, yet classy too. Anna was so uninteresting herself, when she was auf-ed, nobody noticed.
Models of the Runway finally has a villain. Alexis has a problem with diarrhea of the mouth and pisses everybody off. Note to Alexis; you don't have to say everything you're thinking. Of course, when a person has as big an ego as she does, they tend to think everyone wants to know everything about them. Ummmm....no, not this time. The models had a photoshoot directed by a Marie Claire exec. It was interesting. I don't understand why Brandeis thinks she's unattractive. Don't models get makeup applied no matter if they're attractive or not? Also, there are plenty of models who are way more dogfaced than she is. Unfortunately, her insecurity showed in the photos. Alexis thought the shoot was for a men's magazine so she's not as smart as she thinks either. Of course, the most commercial model in the bunch won the photo shoot. Unfortunately, commercial isn't good for runway and she was not chosen by the designers. Ummm...I forget her name but she was a blonde. It's funny to note, the designers chose the brunettes first. They're starting to notice the judges like color and blondes don't wear bright colors well.
I finally tuned in to see the Housewives of Orange County when I saw the ad for it showing someone getting an eviction notice. My schaudenfreude kicked in and I was totally rolling on the floor LMAO when the one housewife was being told by her beleagured husband that they've been living beyond their means. Well duh people. Let me see. His construction business has tanked due to the economy. She's wearing huge diamond jewelry and designer clothes with a boob job, poofed up lips and obvious botox in the face. I was also laughing cuz during the heated argument, she couldn't frown, smile or look surprised. Then like all dumb bimbos, she takes her impoverished self on a shopping trip to San Francisco with her shallow friends. They showed one housewife giving sympathy to her daughter who has nodules on the thyroid. If all these women got cancer and died, I guarantee the viewership would skyrocket. One interesting scene was at Hubert Keller's restaurant. One ditz tried her friend's foie gras and started to gag. Poor Hubert. White trash is still white trash no matter how much you dress it up. It reminded me why I hate these stupid shows where we follow around dumbass people in their lives. Do people really like this shallow crap?
Survivor started it's Heroes vs. Villains season. Wow! How many times are they going to bring people back? I was glad to see Colby and Tom Westman back. Too bad Ethan was too sick to participate. Really Sugar? Her only achievement was through pure luck. The introduction took a good 20 minutes. Did we really need that much footage on the helicopters? We already know these people. So after the drop off, Jeff made some stupid observations and then they had a reward challenge. It's interesting to note; everybody was dressed for practicality. There were no idiots dressed in fancy dresses and heels or business suits. JT proved he's not only good at wrestling, but football too. Colby and Tom proved you don't improve with age. Sugar proved you don't have to have a top on to get across the finish line with a large sand bag. Anyway, the Heroes won the first reward. The got flint; Yay! To really have a laugh, the villains got a fire started anyway. Boston Rob must have practiced with a boyscout. The producers thought viewers are totally stupid and the Heroes found a rooster with 3 chickens running around in their camp area. Right...oh and they looked as if they were tied down too. Because of that, the whole throwing the net over them wasn't that impressive. Just to prove how smart they are, they killed the rooster. Say goodbye to those eggs you dummies. Rupert proved to be of no value while whining about his broken pinky toe. BFD dude; I can tell you right now, every person in the dance and athletic world has broken that toe. BTW, everytime you talk about how much it hurts, the smaller we think your nuts are. Sugar proved to be annoying to Colby and everybody else. Poor Sugar; she was trying to latch onto a hunk of man (Colby) and he just wasn't that into her. For the immunity challenge, the producers dusted off an oldy but a goody. First the survivors had to swim to boat pieces, put them together, climb in the boat, row for all they're worth to light a torch and get back to the beach, then hand off stuff to teammates who put a puzzle together, build a kind of puzzle ladder, climb the whole team to the top and light a bigger fire. Whew! The Heroes won the first part of the challenge so well, you almost forgot they had an opponent. Well, then they proved there is no excess of brains cuz they totally lost their lead and the villains won. There really was no excuse. The people who put the puzzle together didn't have to do the physical stuff first so it wasn't like they were too tired to think like the original time the challenge was done. Anyway, there was a lot of footage of people questioning the vote. The Heroes showed why they're the good guys and did a solidly wise vote and it was a landslide for Sugar. Even she wasn't surprised. The problem for Jeff was, the Heroes are so good, there was nothing really controversial to bring up at tribal council. He was really digging hard too. I thought he was going to resort to asking about toe jam or something. Man is it hard to have nitty gritty stuff when everybody is respectful, hardworking and clean. I can't wait for the villains to go to tribal council. They'll probably have an hour with that alone. Oh boy!
I'm glad to see Jay Leno leaving prime time. His show was ridiculous in prime time. He couldn't use guests from other shows in prime time on other networks, broadway people are still working, and for most bands, it's too early for them. Everybody had to be really good because of the early time period. It just didn't work. When he had a guest on, Jay would often remind them to promote something they were doing. When Jay had to prompt a person on what they were promoting, you knew a producer had called in a favor. Some people had no idea what the heck they were doing and were timid to be themselves. For some odd reason, Leno's brand of humor goes over better when you're really tired and half drunk before bed. In my opinion, Leno's getting to be in the geriatric age bracket. You know that crotchety old uncle who always reminds you how much better it was in his day? Jay seems to be more and more like that. Maybe it's time to retire Jay. Oh well. I'll be keeping an eye out for wherever Conan OBrien lands.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
What's New?
Sorry I've been away for awhile, but during that time, I did watch TV.
The Worst Cooks in America finished it's run. It was quite a fun concept. 2 fine and relatively famous chefs take the worst cooks they can find and do the Eliza Doolittle on them so they cook a meal good enough to fool a panel of tasting judges. Now I'm not saying I'm a great cook but the stuff these people made for their first dish was horrible. Mind you, I was only seeing it. Who uses cottage cheese in Mac & Cheese? Anne Burrell and Beau Quinlan did a good job of not throwing up when they had to taste the first offerings. Anyway, the winner was a sincere young female who cooked her heart out. I was rooting for her because at the last episode, she was up against Jenny Cross who seemed like she was just wanting to be on TV and may have been a ringer. Isn't it a pity I can't remember the girl's name who won? Yep, she was that memorable.
Project Runway has started it's new season. They're back in New York and must've filmed the season during Heidi's last pregnancy. So far, the designers seem promising except Ping. Just because she's minority, doesn't mean you have to give her a free pass. Her clothes were just ugly and I'm not sure if she understood she was actually supposed to clothe a person. I can't remember names yet except Jesus and Anthony. Jesus went home already and Anthony is hitting hot and cold.
Models of the Runway seems to be more exciting this year. Mostly because the designers aren't sticking with the same models week after week. I've always wondered why they didn't change the model to gain different inspiration. You know, design for a blonde one week and then a brunette the next and so on. Brandeis is the oldest model but is still interesting and confident enough not to look pathetic during the model choosing. She also has a great walk. Now with HDTV, I can see all the blemishes beneath the makeup and it's not pretty. EEEK!
Launch My Line finally finished it's season. For some odd reason, I was tired of this show before it ended. Kathy Rose won by altering some of her past looks and getting a few more brain cells. If I had to hear those D Squared twins say, "Merle..." one more time, I thought I was going to scream. It was really annoying and they seemed to say it every week. What do I think of Kathy's line? I wouldn't buy it but...Ok.
Shear Genius has started it's new season. The hairstylists are even more quirky this season. I miss Jaclyn Smith but at least Kim Vo's lips have recovered from all that restilyn. Yikes! Camila Alves is hosting. The only thing interesting about her is her accent. Otherwise, she's like a lot of models; looks like she's half asleep and doesn't really give a damn. The first elimination challenge was to design hair for a topless runway show and not have the models show their breasts. I thought the hair extensions would be all over the place. Most people did okay but a couple of guys seemed to think making a fake hair necklace that wasn't part of the hairstyle would be a good idea. It wasn't. One Aussie guy was ousted.
RuPaul's Drag Race is starting it's new season. It's so much fun to see the transformations. The men had to make an outfit out of curtains and Wow! They did great. They did better than most of the Project Runway people and they had to fit the garment onto themselves. Shangela had to do a lip synchy dance off with her friend and lost. I do have to say, this season, there are a couple of guys to rival RuPaul; good looking both as a man or woman. After the episode, they have a behind the scenes show with the women and boy are they catty. It's not pleasant and after about 10 minutes, I'm sick of it.
I wanna say, thank the gods Leno's leaving prime time. Poor Law & Order, they had a hard time finding their time niche and that 9pm/10pm slot is much better for them. I hope OBrien goes to Fox where he can be more funny and out there. Let's face it, of the telecasting family, CBS is the Mom, ABC is the oldest child, NBC is the stern Dad and Fox is the bratty baby of the family. I love the irreverence of Fox.
So this Friday, the Winter Olympics are on. I'm a very faithful watcher so I won't be able to see much else. Catch ya after that. I'll have to read other blogs and websites to keep up on the reality shows. Oh well.
The Worst Cooks in America finished it's run. It was quite a fun concept. 2 fine and relatively famous chefs take the worst cooks they can find and do the Eliza Doolittle on them so they cook a meal good enough to fool a panel of tasting judges. Now I'm not saying I'm a great cook but the stuff these people made for their first dish was horrible. Mind you, I was only seeing it. Who uses cottage cheese in Mac & Cheese? Anne Burrell and Beau Quinlan did a good job of not throwing up when they had to taste the first offerings. Anyway, the winner was a sincere young female who cooked her heart out. I was rooting for her because at the last episode, she was up against Jenny Cross who seemed like she was just wanting to be on TV and may have been a ringer. Isn't it a pity I can't remember the girl's name who won? Yep, she was that memorable.
Project Runway has started it's new season. They're back in New York and must've filmed the season during Heidi's last pregnancy. So far, the designers seem promising except Ping. Just because she's minority, doesn't mean you have to give her a free pass. Her clothes were just ugly and I'm not sure if she understood she was actually supposed to clothe a person. I can't remember names yet except Jesus and Anthony. Jesus went home already and Anthony is hitting hot and cold.
Models of the Runway seems to be more exciting this year. Mostly because the designers aren't sticking with the same models week after week. I've always wondered why they didn't change the model to gain different inspiration. You know, design for a blonde one week and then a brunette the next and so on. Brandeis is the oldest model but is still interesting and confident enough not to look pathetic during the model choosing. She also has a great walk. Now with HDTV, I can see all the blemishes beneath the makeup and it's not pretty. EEEK!
Launch My Line finally finished it's season. For some odd reason, I was tired of this show before it ended. Kathy Rose won by altering some of her past looks and getting a few more brain cells. If I had to hear those D Squared twins say, "Merle..." one more time, I thought I was going to scream. It was really annoying and they seemed to say it every week. What do I think of Kathy's line? I wouldn't buy it but...Ok.
Shear Genius has started it's new season. The hairstylists are even more quirky this season. I miss Jaclyn Smith but at least Kim Vo's lips have recovered from all that restilyn. Yikes! Camila Alves is hosting. The only thing interesting about her is her accent. Otherwise, she's like a lot of models; looks like she's half asleep and doesn't really give a damn. The first elimination challenge was to design hair for a topless runway show and not have the models show their breasts. I thought the hair extensions would be all over the place. Most people did okay but a couple of guys seemed to think making a fake hair necklace that wasn't part of the hairstyle would be a good idea. It wasn't. One Aussie guy was ousted.
RuPaul's Drag Race is starting it's new season. It's so much fun to see the transformations. The men had to make an outfit out of curtains and Wow! They did great. They did better than most of the Project Runway people and they had to fit the garment onto themselves. Shangela had to do a lip synchy dance off with her friend and lost. I do have to say, this season, there are a couple of guys to rival RuPaul; good looking both as a man or woman. After the episode, they have a behind the scenes show with the women and boy are they catty. It's not pleasant and after about 10 minutes, I'm sick of it.
I wanna say, thank the gods Leno's leaving prime time. Poor Law & Order, they had a hard time finding their time niche and that 9pm/10pm slot is much better for them. I hope OBrien goes to Fox where he can be more funny and out there. Let's face it, of the telecasting family, CBS is the Mom, ABC is the oldest child, NBC is the stern Dad and Fox is the bratty baby of the family. I love the irreverence of Fox.
So this Friday, the Winter Olympics are on. I'm a very faithful watcher so I won't be able to see much else. Catch ya after that. I'll have to read other blogs and websites to keep up on the reality shows. Oh well.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The new year!
The holidays are over and the new year is here with it's new shows.
I'm sorry I haven't done the blog for a few weeks but I'll catch you up on what's going on.
On Chef Academy, Chef Novelli keeps playing jokes with his students every week. One week, he hosted a dinner with Tracey attending. For her birthday, he had Emanuelle (the hot french student) serve her dessert wearing only a chef's apron. It was kind of like a mullet. Business in the front. Party in the back. She took the opportunity to feel his buns. Most of the students graduated after cooking for elite dinner guests. Susanne, the desperate housewife, flunked before the final exam but god forbid she not be included in every episode. Novelli had her host the dinner. Good Lord! Is there no respite? All I can say is, I'm glad this series didn't go on too long. Since there really wasn't eliminations, we had to put up with the same annoying people all season. I still don't think they're real chefs. All they did was cook Novelli's recipes.
Launch My Line is still going. The designers rejected by Project Runway are showing why they were rejected. They either have no personality or really annoying ones. Also, they don't have enough talent to overcome the personality problem. Even though Leann was boring, she at least made awesome clothes. Some of the booted people have been very surprising. So far, I only really loved Merle's gown that changed into a cocktail dress. Most of the clothes look like things from a hooker sale rack or a desperate housewife's closet and I don't mean the show. In the meantime, the D Squared twins still look like they've vacationed in Somalia. Eat a sandwich guys! And don't share one between the 2 of you either. The Greek designer is still giving Patrick fits and turning out scary stuff. Whatever.
Survivor ended with one of Russel's dumb girl alliance winning instead of him. It was great! He did put up a valiant fight. I can't wait for the new Heroes vs. Villains season. I see Tom the fireman is in it and that's enough for me. They should have 3 teams: heroes, villains and who the heck are they again?
The new season of crying fatties (Biggest Loser) is on. It seems Bob and Jillian are hogging even more camera time. Really? We needed more Bob and Jillian? What happened to those cool puking and passing out shots? This season, the people are really really big. They doubled the humility by having their initial weigh-ins in front of their hometown people. Yeesh! There's a guy over 500 pounds and twins who are only 20 pounds shy of 500 each. These people aren't as whiny as we've seen in the past but very diverse, hardworking and interesting too. Most are good looking in the face. All the women over 45 need to cut their stupid hair. I love the bouncing body footage. If they would only include boink boink sound effects, it would be even funnier. Maybe we're seeing less puking and whining because Bob and Jillian are having more philosophical expose's on camera. That stupid blather makes me want to puke. Hey, maybe I'll lose weight watching the show this season. At least we can count on Ali Sweeney being her upbeat self. It seems the contestants are planning on playing nice this season and have so far, sent home people who asked to go home over their teammates. How sweet. Warning; there's a lot of advertising during the show from Subway sandwiches to gum to jello snacks.
The Simpsons has proved why it's a keeper. They had their 450th episode and it was just as funny as ever. Why is it so great? They're irreverent, quick witted, wry, the kids never grow up and Homer never learns. I don't know how they do it, but they keep coming up with fresh stuff. After 20 years, that's quite a feat. I hope this show can keep it up for another 20 years. Thank you Fox for letting it be itself.
Modern Family is getting raves from the critics and rightly so. Because it doesn't dwell on one family too long, it's very quick and nothing has a chance to plod along. They focus on the adults. I'm not sure if we'll even notice if they recast the kids. They certainly do show today's modern families; the typical suburbanites, the interracial May-December couple and the gay adopting couple. It's very cool to see we don't buckle to the religious right anymore. The comedy is quick, irreverent and funny. The actors are all very good and well casted. I'm wishing Vergara will do more rants in spanish. It's just as hilarious as when Ricky Ricardo did it.
The Big Bang Theory is into it's new season and it's still great. I'm seeing a lot more Hindi people on tv but this ensemble really works. Even the recurring characters are great. I especially love the scientist with the Elmer Fudd speech impediment and the mothers of Sheldon and Leonard. Christine Baransky and Laurie Metcalf are great! Kaley Cuoco balances out the cast by keeping it real. If it weren't for the Penny character, it wouldn't be believable. It's the same reason Marilyn was a normal person in the Munsters.
Scrubs is back. I'm not sure if I really like it. I miss Carla, J.D. and the janitor. Now they have too many snarky people and the nice innocent schlub is a girl and just seems to be a blonde twit. They're starting to rehash old plots. Okay, how many cool things can you think of for patients to have wrong with them? So far, they've kept things fluffy and not shown the crazy murderous druggie, the fat cat non-medical administrator, or the whiny person who comes to the hospital on a twice weekly basis. We also haven't seen the Munchausen by proxy parent who makes their kid sick for the attention. What's the matter people? The real stuff too gritty? Maybe this show needs bite in more than it's characters.
Chuck has finally come back and it's better than ever. One critic bashed the Nerd Herd side stories but that's the really funny part of the show. This season, Chuck and Sarah have broken up. Awww... whatever. The chemistry is still there. Who doesn't believe they'll get together again? What? No hands? Ossum and Chuck's sister know he's a spy so they can be in on some of the action. Adam Baldwin's character is still just as badass and great as ever. He's just enough crazy and daring to be a real hero but not so mean as to be unlikeable.
So that's enough for now. The new season of Project Runway and Models of the Runway starts tomorrow. I can't wait.
I'm sorry I haven't done the blog for a few weeks but I'll catch you up on what's going on.
On Chef Academy, Chef Novelli keeps playing jokes with his students every week. One week, he hosted a dinner with Tracey attending. For her birthday, he had Emanuelle (the hot french student) serve her dessert wearing only a chef's apron. It was kind of like a mullet. Business in the front. Party in the back. She took the opportunity to feel his buns. Most of the students graduated after cooking for elite dinner guests. Susanne, the desperate housewife, flunked before the final exam but god forbid she not be included in every episode. Novelli had her host the dinner. Good Lord! Is there no respite? All I can say is, I'm glad this series didn't go on too long. Since there really wasn't eliminations, we had to put up with the same annoying people all season. I still don't think they're real chefs. All they did was cook Novelli's recipes.
Launch My Line is still going. The designers rejected by Project Runway are showing why they were rejected. They either have no personality or really annoying ones. Also, they don't have enough talent to overcome the personality problem. Even though Leann was boring, she at least made awesome clothes. Some of the booted people have been very surprising. So far, I only really loved Merle's gown that changed into a cocktail dress. Most of the clothes look like things from a hooker sale rack or a desperate housewife's closet and I don't mean the show. In the meantime, the D Squared twins still look like they've vacationed in Somalia. Eat a sandwich guys! And don't share one between the 2 of you either. The Greek designer is still giving Patrick fits and turning out scary stuff. Whatever.
Survivor ended with one of Russel's dumb girl alliance winning instead of him. It was great! He did put up a valiant fight. I can't wait for the new Heroes vs. Villains season. I see Tom the fireman is in it and that's enough for me. They should have 3 teams: heroes, villains and who the heck are they again?
The new season of crying fatties (Biggest Loser) is on. It seems Bob and Jillian are hogging even more camera time. Really? We needed more Bob and Jillian? What happened to those cool puking and passing out shots? This season, the people are really really big. They doubled the humility by having their initial weigh-ins in front of their hometown people. Yeesh! There's a guy over 500 pounds and twins who are only 20 pounds shy of 500 each. These people aren't as whiny as we've seen in the past but very diverse, hardworking and interesting too. Most are good looking in the face. All the women over 45 need to cut their stupid hair. I love the bouncing body footage. If they would only include boink boink sound effects, it would be even funnier. Maybe we're seeing less puking and whining because Bob and Jillian are having more philosophical expose's on camera. That stupid blather makes me want to puke. Hey, maybe I'll lose weight watching the show this season. At least we can count on Ali Sweeney being her upbeat self. It seems the contestants are planning on playing nice this season and have so far, sent home people who asked to go home over their teammates. How sweet. Warning; there's a lot of advertising during the show from Subway sandwiches to gum to jello snacks.
The Simpsons has proved why it's a keeper. They had their 450th episode and it was just as funny as ever. Why is it so great? They're irreverent, quick witted, wry, the kids never grow up and Homer never learns. I don't know how they do it, but they keep coming up with fresh stuff. After 20 years, that's quite a feat. I hope this show can keep it up for another 20 years. Thank you Fox for letting it be itself.
Modern Family is getting raves from the critics and rightly so. Because it doesn't dwell on one family too long, it's very quick and nothing has a chance to plod along. They focus on the adults. I'm not sure if we'll even notice if they recast the kids. They certainly do show today's modern families; the typical suburbanites, the interracial May-December couple and the gay adopting couple. It's very cool to see we don't buckle to the religious right anymore. The comedy is quick, irreverent and funny. The actors are all very good and well casted. I'm wishing Vergara will do more rants in spanish. It's just as hilarious as when Ricky Ricardo did it.
The Big Bang Theory is into it's new season and it's still great. I'm seeing a lot more Hindi people on tv but this ensemble really works. Even the recurring characters are great. I especially love the scientist with the Elmer Fudd speech impediment and the mothers of Sheldon and Leonard. Christine Baransky and Laurie Metcalf are great! Kaley Cuoco balances out the cast by keeping it real. If it weren't for the Penny character, it wouldn't be believable. It's the same reason Marilyn was a normal person in the Munsters.
Scrubs is back. I'm not sure if I really like it. I miss Carla, J.D. and the janitor. Now they have too many snarky people and the nice innocent schlub is a girl and just seems to be a blonde twit. They're starting to rehash old plots. Okay, how many cool things can you think of for patients to have wrong with them? So far, they've kept things fluffy and not shown the crazy murderous druggie, the fat cat non-medical administrator, or the whiny person who comes to the hospital on a twice weekly basis. We also haven't seen the Munchausen by proxy parent who makes their kid sick for the attention. What's the matter people? The real stuff too gritty? Maybe this show needs bite in more than it's characters.
Chuck has finally come back and it's better than ever. One critic bashed the Nerd Herd side stories but that's the really funny part of the show. This season, Chuck and Sarah have broken up. Awww... whatever. The chemistry is still there. Who doesn't believe they'll get together again? What? No hands? Ossum and Chuck's sister know he's a spy so they can be in on some of the action. Adam Baldwin's character is still just as badass and great as ever. He's just enough crazy and daring to be a real hero but not so mean as to be unlikeable.
So that's enough for now. The new season of Project Runway and Models of the Runway starts tomorrow. I can't wait.
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