Okay, another week has gone by.
Hell's Kitchen missed another week and I'm not sure why. We do watch it. I miss the cursing while cooking.
Dancing w/ the non-Stars did it's thing and the voters did their thing. I hear Bristol Palin wasn't all that good but was saved yet again. Who's voting for her? The basketball star w/ his partner Cheryl was voted out. All I care is, Karina is gone. I'm guessing the voters are actually voting for the pros again. That's another reason why I quit watching. I do watch Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday nights to see who's been booted but some stars refuse to do his show too. Yeah, I'm referring to Doherty and Bolton.
I did watch one episode of the crying fatties aka Biggest Loser. They had one challenge, they're not in pairs and they're working out. This time, they went to Camp Pendleton and lived w/ the Marines for a few days. Most times, living as a Marine really kicks peoples' butts and they can't help but get in shape. I'm thinking the Sargeants were a little easy on the fatties cuz they all came back either not having lost much weight or gaining. Really? I loved the excuses. We couldn't watch our diet, we couldn't rest well, blah blah blah. Okay. First, you don't have to eat everything that's on your plate and if you weren't sleeping, then you should've been running in place. No wonder the fatties always get fat again. They have no self discipline. I wonder if that might be their basic fatty problem. It's biggest loser alright, emphasis on loser. This show needs to get rid of Bob and Jillian. I'm sick to death of them and I can't be the only one. Anyway, once again, someone who thought they were safe was booted right out. Bye!
Survivor is getting downright sickening. There is absolutely no redeeming quality in anybody including Jeff Probst. The teams merged into one big fat tribe and they called themselves Libertad. They should've named themselves Muy Malas. Anyway, life isn't that sweet w/ everybody conniving w/ each other. Nyonkas helping herself to the tribe's food crate and thinks nobody knows but what's her face sees her. Everyone is out to get Elina but she thinks everybody from Espada is one big happy family and tries to rally them. How very naive of her. Nyonka's trying to win a final vote by befriending Elina and shows her the loot from the food crate and we get to watch the 2 chow down on the fruit together. The immunity challenge is a stamina challenge to see who can hold a stick between to hinge links the longest. Tough old Jane wins over everybody even though there was going to be a woman and a man winning. Fabio wins his immunity and actually makes it look like a day at the park. Finally, Nyonka is brought forth to admit her sins to the tribe and she tries to explain away her stealing and proves how dumb the tribe is. They believe she took the stuff to preserve it. Really? She's probably smart enough to just do her spouting in front of the camera only. She does realize she has to return to the real world who's been watching her, doesn't she? Anyway, Marty acts desperate. Skinny guy who made the deal w/ Marty to get the HII wants to stay in his good graces and convinces his group to preserve Marty this one time. I love the way everybody plans for the final tribal by being conniving. At tribal, Marty rails on Jane again. Probst, as usual, asks and says the dumbest inane stuff. Elina is voted out. It's obvious Nyonka voted for her so that was a wasted fake friendship. God, I hate these people.
Top Chef: Just Desserts had a challenge made for pastry chefs. The chefs had to make an edible bouquet. I thought someone would do a fruit bouquet since they're so popular these days but nobody did. What? They don't know how to make roses out of beets and radishes or tulips out of carrots? I'm guessing these people have never been on a cruise ship before. Yigit tried to make vases out of isomalt. I don't know why he was surprised they broke when Morgan breathed on them. In the end, Morgan did some amazing sugar work and won. I agree with Johnny Iuzzini. I liked Eric's giant cupcake covered with buttercream flowers. It looked like a fat bride's bouquet. Not fat bride; fat bouquet. The elimination challenge was to make tea pastries w/ celeb couples as inspiration. These chefs were all of one track mind. They never said the couples had to be real or alive. You never heard of Romeo and Juliet or Adam and Eve? Anyway, I was waiting for one of the gay guys to come up w/ a gay couple but it didn't happen. So they go to the store to shop for ingredients and when they return to the kitchen, they find all the chocolate is missing from the pantry. Never assume! 3 of the guys were counting on using the chocolate and it really messed up their game. Eric couldn't recover and Yigit kind of went into la la land. I loved that Danielle used Conan Obrien and Andy Richter as her couple. They never said the couples had to be sexual based. Zach won w/ his Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards dainty pastries. Eric came up short w/ his shortbread and I was kind of glad cuz he used Oprah as his couple and I can't stand her. I was, however, sorry to see Eric go home.
On The Apprentice, the teams were mixed up. First they showed Stephanie fighting it out w/ one of the guys. I think Anan. Whatta ya know? They end up on the same team. The teams were to make a print ad for Trump's clothing line. Boy! This show really is all about him huh? David and that blonde quiet chick take the managing jobs. David decides he's the only one who knows fashion. He takes an instant liking to one of the male models and goes blind and deaf. The rest of the team gives up and gives in to David. On the other team, they get stuck with irresponsible models who don't show up. Instead of calling the agency and telling them nobody's getting paid, they decide to do the modeling themselves. I have to say, Stuart looks good in the bedroom shot. In the end, David's team loses and David is sent home. Yay! What a freakin' nutball. The most boring part of the show is the meeting of the winning project manager w/ the CEO of a company. It might be a great prize for the contestants but for the audience, it's a real snoozer and we're glad we have DVRs.
The Next Iron Chef contestants are in Las Vegas. Their assignment is to cook a Vegas buffet. Really? All by themselves? I felt sorry for them as they ran like crazy around an unfamiliar kitchen. Everybody thinks Canora is on the bottom including Canora but he wins. The chefs are told there will be 2 people going home but as it turned out, Caswell was the only chef to have a sucky buffet. I still can't stand Arpaia as a judge. She's nobody and she's kind of stupid. Who eats an obvious banana peel anyway? That English guy has a weird palate and looks like he's been eating lemons all day. Alton Brown needs to eat a meal. He looks like he's been vacationing in Somalia.
Finally, America's Next Top Model did their commercial. OMG, what a disaster. In the first place, you don't put tall people on roller skates. They have a high center of gravity and tend to fall over easily. Poor Ann, when she hit the pavement, I almost heard bones crunching. She took it well but was very awkward and dead in front of the camera. Surprisingly, she didn't go home. Liz, last week's winner was sent home. I have always felt Tyra picks the winner the first day of meeting the models. I think it's going to be Ann and the rest of the girls are just on for the drama. We'll see.
Well, that's all for now. I'd comment on I Love Money, but I'm not sure I'm keeping up w/ the episodes. See you all next time!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Hoes, Hums and Hohums
Well, I'm back.
Let's talk about that Housewives franchise. Usually, I can't stand these media hogging shallow women w/ more time and money than brain cells. I do have to say, there's always a smart one in the group who makes the show a little less aggravating. The newest installment is Beverley Hills. This should be called the Real Desperate Housewives. Camille Grammar seems to think everything is all about her including all insults and compliments. I now have a whole new level of respect for the man who could put up w/ this bimbo for that long. Run Kelsey,run!!! And may the divorce be with you. The funny part of the show is the 2 sisters and one is actually a former star w/ real cred to her name (Kim Richards). The smart woman of the group is unfortunately, the lady with the English accent. Great, now all American women seem like boors to the whole world. The only really respectable person seems to be Adrienne with the shallow meathead husband. She actually is the wealthiest but is the least snooty and most down to earth. She's also the only really likeable one. All of the others are kind of sickening after about a half hour.
Hell's Kitchen was once again pre-empted for something else. They can't put MLB on one of the sports channels?
On America's Next Top Model, Ann seems to have shown her achilles heel. She's terrible when relating to real people. Ok, so remember,I'm having to watch webcasts to keep up with this series. The girls first had to win a spot as a grammy girl by dressing each other. Really Ann? You thought the skinny girl next to you would wear a size 12? Kayla, w/ the fire engine red hair, won. Oh boy! I hope she changes her hair back to a more natural color before the Grammys. Then the girls and to portray designers w/ another model in the shot. I didn't think Ann's picture was that great but what do I know. This time that hispanic short haired single mother w/ the bad complexion won. The prettiest girl in the competition proved it takes more than just stunning looks to stay. That black girl with the beautiful but somber face was told to go home.
On Survivor, the show is lacking any likeable people. Just when you think they may be nice, they turn out to be major snakes. The editors and producers are usually pretty good at toning down someone's unlikeableness but there must be too much footage. They're probably saying, "Gee if we cut out all the mean stuff, we'll only have a 10 minute show." Anyway, Nyonka seemed okay cuz they kept her off camera the whole time. This time, they had a reward challenge and a separate immunity challenge. The reward challenge involved one team launching a ball into a net mid-jump while the other team's person did blocking of the shot. Team not-La Flor seemed like they should've won but they didn't and the reward was to milk a cow and eat a rustic dinner including that milk. Ummm...I guess when you're starving, you will eat anything. I don't know how good the food was cuz a few people were crying. The immunity challenge involved aiming a chute to make a ball hit tables. It's amazing what a good meal will do for a team cuz team not-La Flor won again. On La Flor, the guy with the HII was dumb enough to let that skinny guy talk him into handing it over. At tribal council, the skinny guy made it kind of clear that he thought the HII was his and his alone. Hmmm...that'll make for an interesting next episode. Meanwhile, Marty tries to be the suck up to the people who seem to want to boot him out but someone sticks to their word. It wasn't Fabio. The ER doctor from the older team was booted out. Nobody really cares cuz at this point, we just want to see them all starve to death.
On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs were split into 2 teams. Heather deemed them, Team Diva and Team Loser. Hmmm...how very catty of her. How is it these Asians lose their respectability when they're American? So they start with the mis en place relay. Team Loser kept up until the spreading of the strudel dough. When doing a meticulous task, it's not good to shout at your teammates, Morgan. The funny moment was watching Zack make whipping egg whites look really hard while Morgan made it look really easy. So Team Diva won the relay race. The teams were then told they were to run a pastry shop. Cool! I wondered how they were going to do the business challenge. So we had Team Diva and Whisk Me Away. I love that name and you can tell it made a good impression because I can't remember the name of Diva's place. You can tell Eric has had business experience. He let Morgan and Danielle just hash things out while he worked and made sure the display case looked really yummy. All in all, Team Loser won! The celebration was great. Even better? Heather was told to pack her stuff and go! Yay! I'm glad to see that the judges recognize that a simple thing like a chocolate chunk cookie can be a great thing.
Project Runway had it's finale. They did fit in a small reunion show that seemed to be mostly about the 3 finalists. If I were one of the returning booted contestants, I would've been really mad. That girl who was booted the very first episode didn't even get to say anything and they never did address how bitchy Ivy was to everybody. Wretched Gretchen was called fakey bitch by her friends and cried about it. She should've owned up to it and said, "Yeah, I was exhausted, stressed and living on coffee and energy drinks. You'd be bitchy too." Really? We had to see that whole montage of the meeting of the relatives? Anyway, they rushed the final designers to the workroom and the cameras followed. We see a lot of talking and wondering and not a lot of sewing to justify a better reunion show. This time, we get to see the backstage frenzy with Mondo missing models and having line-up mix-ups. Andy's still making new clothes and Gretchen is wearing granny lipstick. On the runway, Andy's clothes are a lot of black and grey but avante garde. Mondo has a lot of mixed prints and color and seems fun. Gretchen's granola collection is half hidden under her models' big shaggy hair. Jessica Simpson is deemed fashionable enough to be a guest judge. Oh-kay... Jessica's looking somewhat bloated after her travels. The judges argue with the younger one's liking Mondo's fresh and young looks and the older ones liking Gretchen's futuristic stuff. Really? Clothes from the 60's and 70's with cut out backs are futuristic? Whatever. To the dismay of all of America, Gretch the wretch wins. I puked and turned the channel at that point but I would guess the family was brought it, everybody cries, the winning model is brought out and Gretch gets to gloat. Ick.
On the Apprentice, the teams had to sell a musical to backers. Surprisingly (is his name Dave?) is not so annoying to the team and actually shows he can be intelligent. Stuart stumbles during his part of the presentation but it still goes well and the booklet to go w/ it is well done. Meanwhile, the black girl who everyone disses volunteers to be the project manager but admits she has no musical experience. Meanwhile, the bombastic blonde seems to be an authority on everything. Why didn't she volunteer to be project manager? She also complained that she had too much responsibility on the past tasks and was tired of it. So she was put on the single task of making the promo booklet and...it sucked. These people have never heard of a teaser. The presentation was very choppy with narration cutting in to try to tell the whole musical. You don't do that. You make a teaser and make the backers want to be a part of the production. Anyway, the women lost but it came out that Masa revealed to the men how much was made the week before on the pedi-cab task. Masa talked herself right out of a job. I wondered when Trump would fire her for her disloyalty but when it was mixed with betrayal, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Bye Masa! Evil has left the building.
The Amazing Race went to Russia. It's so nice to see summer. There was no snow in sight and the day was very long. The teams all started out even getting onto a train. When off the train, the dating couple guy blamed the inability to get a cab on the fact that she took too long to get ready. Yeah, who you trying to impress? The cameras? So the first task was to either look for a film clip in a huge pile of film or try to identify piano pieces in a room full of different piano players. I knew the music one would be hard because concertos can be very long and different depending on where the person is in the music and when you're in a room full of other people banging on pianos, it's hard to distinguish music at all. Then at the next task, one person had to dress as a babushka and plant potatoes in the traditional Russian way. Once again, these are not things tourists would want to do. This time that other dating couple came in first and the goth couple got to the finish mat last. But... it's a non-elimination leg so...ho hum. Whatever. You know this show has been on too long when it's full of likeable people and we just want to see everybody just go.
On The Next Iron Chef, the chefs had to show respect to ingredients. What does that mean? Does that mean keep the ingredient identifiable, or make it more spectacular than it is? The chefs first had to work with potatoes. According to the fellow chefs, respecting the ingredient means to make a potatoe dish where the potatoes are potatoes. Oh-kay... Chef Canora was given the win and was none too gracious about it. For the elimination task, the chefs had to make dishes from the 4 main regions of the USA: South, East, West and North and they didn't mean Alaska. Somehow East meant southern states to some chefs. To others North meant New England or the midwest. Hmmm... This time, Ming Tsai was declared the winner with solid flavor with his own unique twist. Chef Chauhan, along with her pierced nose, was sent home.
Let's talk about that Housewives franchise. Usually, I can't stand these media hogging shallow women w/ more time and money than brain cells. I do have to say, there's always a smart one in the group who makes the show a little less aggravating. The newest installment is Beverley Hills. This should be called the Real Desperate Housewives. Camille Grammar seems to think everything is all about her including all insults and compliments. I now have a whole new level of respect for the man who could put up w/ this bimbo for that long. Run Kelsey,run!!! And may the divorce be with you. The funny part of the show is the 2 sisters and one is actually a former star w/ real cred to her name (Kim Richards). The smart woman of the group is unfortunately, the lady with the English accent. Great, now all American women seem like boors to the whole world. The only really respectable person seems to be Adrienne with the shallow meathead husband. She actually is the wealthiest but is the least snooty and most down to earth. She's also the only really likeable one. All of the others are kind of sickening after about a half hour.
Hell's Kitchen was once again pre-empted for something else. They can't put MLB on one of the sports channels?
On America's Next Top Model, Ann seems to have shown her achilles heel. She's terrible when relating to real people. Ok, so remember,I'm having to watch webcasts to keep up with this series. The girls first had to win a spot as a grammy girl by dressing each other. Really Ann? You thought the skinny girl next to you would wear a size 12? Kayla, w/ the fire engine red hair, won. Oh boy! I hope she changes her hair back to a more natural color before the Grammys. Then the girls and to portray designers w/ another model in the shot. I didn't think Ann's picture was that great but what do I know. This time that hispanic short haired single mother w/ the bad complexion won. The prettiest girl in the competition proved it takes more than just stunning looks to stay. That black girl with the beautiful but somber face was told to go home.
On Survivor, the show is lacking any likeable people. Just when you think they may be nice, they turn out to be major snakes. The editors and producers are usually pretty good at toning down someone's unlikeableness but there must be too much footage. They're probably saying, "Gee if we cut out all the mean stuff, we'll only have a 10 minute show." Anyway, Nyonka seemed okay cuz they kept her off camera the whole time. This time, they had a reward challenge and a separate immunity challenge. The reward challenge involved one team launching a ball into a net mid-jump while the other team's person did blocking of the shot. Team not-La Flor seemed like they should've won but they didn't and the reward was to milk a cow and eat a rustic dinner including that milk. Ummm...I guess when you're starving, you will eat anything. I don't know how good the food was cuz a few people were crying. The immunity challenge involved aiming a chute to make a ball hit tables. It's amazing what a good meal will do for a team cuz team not-La Flor won again. On La Flor, the guy with the HII was dumb enough to let that skinny guy talk him into handing it over. At tribal council, the skinny guy made it kind of clear that he thought the HII was his and his alone. Hmmm...that'll make for an interesting next episode. Meanwhile, Marty tries to be the suck up to the people who seem to want to boot him out but someone sticks to their word. It wasn't Fabio. The ER doctor from the older team was booted out. Nobody really cares cuz at this point, we just want to see them all starve to death.
On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs were split into 2 teams. Heather deemed them, Team Diva and Team Loser. Hmmm...how very catty of her. How is it these Asians lose their respectability when they're American? So they start with the mis en place relay. Team Loser kept up until the spreading of the strudel dough. When doing a meticulous task, it's not good to shout at your teammates, Morgan. The funny moment was watching Zack make whipping egg whites look really hard while Morgan made it look really easy. So Team Diva won the relay race. The teams were then told they were to run a pastry shop. Cool! I wondered how they were going to do the business challenge. So we had Team Diva and Whisk Me Away. I love that name and you can tell it made a good impression because I can't remember the name of Diva's place. You can tell Eric has had business experience. He let Morgan and Danielle just hash things out while he worked and made sure the display case looked really yummy. All in all, Team Loser won! The celebration was great. Even better? Heather was told to pack her stuff and go! Yay! I'm glad to see that the judges recognize that a simple thing like a chocolate chunk cookie can be a great thing.
Project Runway had it's finale. They did fit in a small reunion show that seemed to be mostly about the 3 finalists. If I were one of the returning booted contestants, I would've been really mad. That girl who was booted the very first episode didn't even get to say anything and they never did address how bitchy Ivy was to everybody. Wretched Gretchen was called fakey bitch by her friends and cried about it. She should've owned up to it and said, "Yeah, I was exhausted, stressed and living on coffee and energy drinks. You'd be bitchy too." Really? We had to see that whole montage of the meeting of the relatives? Anyway, they rushed the final designers to the workroom and the cameras followed. We see a lot of talking and wondering and not a lot of sewing to justify a better reunion show. This time, we get to see the backstage frenzy with Mondo missing models and having line-up mix-ups. Andy's still making new clothes and Gretchen is wearing granny lipstick. On the runway, Andy's clothes are a lot of black and grey but avante garde. Mondo has a lot of mixed prints and color and seems fun. Gretchen's granola collection is half hidden under her models' big shaggy hair. Jessica Simpson is deemed fashionable enough to be a guest judge. Oh-kay... Jessica's looking somewhat bloated after her travels. The judges argue with the younger one's liking Mondo's fresh and young looks and the older ones liking Gretchen's futuristic stuff. Really? Clothes from the 60's and 70's with cut out backs are futuristic? Whatever. To the dismay of all of America, Gretch the wretch wins. I puked and turned the channel at that point but I would guess the family was brought it, everybody cries, the winning model is brought out and Gretch gets to gloat. Ick.
On the Apprentice, the teams had to sell a musical to backers. Surprisingly (is his name Dave?) is not so annoying to the team and actually shows he can be intelligent. Stuart stumbles during his part of the presentation but it still goes well and the booklet to go w/ it is well done. Meanwhile, the black girl who everyone disses volunteers to be the project manager but admits she has no musical experience. Meanwhile, the bombastic blonde seems to be an authority on everything. Why didn't she volunteer to be project manager? She also complained that she had too much responsibility on the past tasks and was tired of it. So she was put on the single task of making the promo booklet and...it sucked. These people have never heard of a teaser. The presentation was very choppy with narration cutting in to try to tell the whole musical. You don't do that. You make a teaser and make the backers want to be a part of the production. Anyway, the women lost but it came out that Masa revealed to the men how much was made the week before on the pedi-cab task. Masa talked herself right out of a job. I wondered when Trump would fire her for her disloyalty but when it was mixed with betrayal, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Bye Masa! Evil has left the building.
The Amazing Race went to Russia. It's so nice to see summer. There was no snow in sight and the day was very long. The teams all started out even getting onto a train. When off the train, the dating couple guy blamed the inability to get a cab on the fact that she took too long to get ready. Yeah, who you trying to impress? The cameras? So the first task was to either look for a film clip in a huge pile of film or try to identify piano pieces in a room full of different piano players. I knew the music one would be hard because concertos can be very long and different depending on where the person is in the music and when you're in a room full of other people banging on pianos, it's hard to distinguish music at all. Then at the next task, one person had to dress as a babushka and plant potatoes in the traditional Russian way. Once again, these are not things tourists would want to do. This time that other dating couple came in first and the goth couple got to the finish mat last. But... it's a non-elimination leg so...ho hum. Whatever. You know this show has been on too long when it's full of likeable people and we just want to see everybody just go.
On The Next Iron Chef, the chefs had to show respect to ingredients. What does that mean? Does that mean keep the ingredient identifiable, or make it more spectacular than it is? The chefs first had to work with potatoes. According to the fellow chefs, respecting the ingredient means to make a potatoe dish where the potatoes are potatoes. Oh-kay... Chef Canora was given the win and was none too gracious about it. For the elimination task, the chefs had to make dishes from the 4 main regions of the USA: South, East, West and North and they didn't mean Alaska. Somehow East meant southern states to some chefs. To others North meant New England or the midwest. Hmmm... This time, Ming Tsai was declared the winner with solid flavor with his own unique twist. Chef Chauhan, along with her pierced nose, was sent home.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Hero to Zero in one show
Hello folks. I seem to be in an every other week pattern here. Sorry about that.
Hell's Kitchen missed a week so we're off the hook there.
On the Apprentice, the schlub who said he could handle the wild guy found he couldn't. Actually, the wild guy wasn't the problem. The teams had to do fashion shows for shoes. Wow! It was a total plug show where they not only said the name of the shoes for the whole show but showed every style they had. I'm not going to say what they are cuz I'm not getting paid ha ha ha. I did notice the biggest star to attend the fashion shows was Ivanka Trump. What? No Andre Leon Talley? Anyway, it was literally a shoe-in when the women won this task. Duh. In the end, the most boring guy on the men's team was made the MC and he sucked so hard, he was gladly fired by Trump and then to put the icing on the cake, the project manager was fired too. Hee hee hee! (giddy laughter). The next week, the teams had to sell pedi-cab rides. The women made a bad choice to try to sell them to locals. Okay, in the first place, New Yorkers aren't taking slow pedi cabs cuz they have a real life and not all day to get things done. In the 2nd place, New Yorkers don't need to have the fun of seeing the city. They see it everyday and it's not that much of a novelty and it's not like there's not a thousand and one pedi cabs every day of the year. So the men won this task and there was much finger pointing. Just like on Survivor, all of a sudden there's people I never noticed before. In the end, that girl who didn't seem to be on the show before, was fired for being...not there. Hmmm...
On Dancing With the non-Stars, the Situation from Jersey Shore was sent back to Jersey. Yeah, dude, we're sick and tired of your face on our TV screens. Oh, and he couldn't dance. On the 2nd week, the producers are scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas and dug up a used one. The dancers did a TV theme. Florence Henderson used the Brady Bunch theme and it didn't go over too well w/ the judges. Bristol Palin used a Monkees theme and just looked dumb. In the end, the whole world was surprised when Flo Henderson got the boot. The judges are still raving about Jennifer Grey and Carrie Ann Inaba finally said what we were all thinking from the beginning, "This is your show, girl." Uh huh.
I wanna comment on Chuck. It's become another Remington Steele. Chuck's hiding who he is from the real world but has become cool with a sleek haircut, a hot girlfriend and better clothes. Somehow, they've fallen in the pit of mundane-ness. Casey has now become the cool part of the show. Too bad. All of us geeks lived vicariously through Chuck but now he's out of our league.
I finally saw the ending of Money Hungry on-line and it wasn't a surprise at all. Mission Slimpossible won and not much weight was lost. There wasn't any amazing body transformations like you see on Biggest Loser, so when they showed before ande after pictures, it was hard to tell. They needed to consult Celebrity Fit Club producers. The families were brought in and there seemed to be fake crying. Really stupid.
Survivor mixed up the teams. I kind of saw this coming. Nyonka is separated from her buddies and the young people have the majority on the tribes. The young people proved they don't like bossy older people and voted off the black guy who had the brains in the tribe and he was the most fit of the older people. The second week, they had double elimination with each team voting someone out. The challenge involved digging up a ring and getting it into a butt basket. I loved that older women from each tribe won because they got individual immunity. Then they tossed the rings to determine who would get the luxury prize of a feast. La Flor won that one. So the older people are trying to scramble and connive to stay alive but aren't very good at it. Marty stupidly told everyone he has the HII so the tribe is trying to flush it out. On the former older tribe, Eve was the odd girl out and was voted out. That was dumb since she was the youngest of the older tribe and more fit than everybody else. On La Flor, Marty convinced Fabio he was a chessmaster. Har har. So Fabio wants to align with someone to make up for his lack of a brain. The vote was split and Kelly B. (the amputee) was blind sided and on the chopping block. There has been no pity or love for the amputee girl from tribemates or the producers. After the re-vote, Kelly B. was voted out and boy did she give her teammates a dirty look. Meanwhile, the other team was eating their feast. Whatever. It was beef and chicken kabobs and the highlight seemed to be the ice cubes in the iced tea.
On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs have split into one cool group and outsiders. It's so weird that the best looking guy on the show is an outsider. Anyway, the teams had to make a dessert/food dress. 2 girls landed in the bottom because they made their dresses out of vegetables. Hello, remember the name of the show? They used mannequins so I wondered why they didn't just use fondant and icing and pipe the darn things on. Morgan, the straight guy, won with a chocolate dress that was really cute and he made a purse to go with it too. Anyway, Heather's return didn't last and she was booted again. Last week, the chefs had to make black and white desserts to go with a newspaper theme. I've made black food but not intentionally and it was never edible cuz it was burnt. The chefs had a hard time finding black foods and did a lot of chocolate. The skinny outsider girl made some weak petitfors but they must've been good. The black girl made an ice cream that was neither white nor delicious and was given the boot. This time, Zack won and he didn't even use disco dust.
The Next Iron Chef had the chefs making dishes out of their catch of the day. It was cool to see the women were better at fishing than the men. The men didn't look happy about it either. I'm thinking Ming Tsai must go to the end because they hardly show him at all. There were a lot of scorpion fish caught. Chef Forgione won the quick challenge and took Tio's snapper. I saw that one coming. In the end, he won the elimination challenge too and... I can't remember who was told to go. Last week, the chefs had to transform dishes. The chefs are too critical of Chef Tsai which makes me think they really think he's the one to beat. They didn't think making a sauce into meat wasn't transforming? Then Chef Tio was deemed the winner of the quick challenge by her fellow chefs. The chefs went to the fair to transform fair food into cuisine. In the end, Chef Tio won again, although I thought Chef Tsai's food looked and sounded amazing. Chef Estes made caramel apples badly and was told to go. Donatella Arpaia confirmed what I always thought. She's not too smart and ate the peel on Chef Tsai's banana in his dessert. Duh! BTW, that small amount won't kill her so NBD. We also found the judges don't like being served something they've already had before.
On the Amazing Race, the teams first helped build the school in Ghana. I tell ya, those African people can't seem to do anything for themselves. The teams finally got out of the heat and went to Iceland. It was summer so the snow was sparse. The Glee team thought they were athletic and couldn't get down the sledding track w/out half killing themselves. The teams had to drive themselves a lot and it seems the ER docs had luck, athletic skills and good navigation cuz they came in first. The Glee team came in last and took it well. Last week, the teams went to Norway and I have to say, the Norwegians don't look like they love Americans. The ER docs decided to do the fast forward. How is it that the vegetarian people always seem to end up eating huge amounts of meat? So they had to eat a sheep's head. Ew! I about barfed when the one girl ate the eyeball and deemed it crunchy. Meanwhile, her vegetarian friend is gagging the whole time, but they did it and I loved the comments when the Norwegian guy wouldn't even crack a smile at them, "You're very inspirational." If that's a treat at Christmas, I don't even wanna know what they eat the rest of the year. The other teams had to do that ascender thing. I was very surprised that the women did it so well, especially that goth chick. The Korean team is doing well due to the fact that the son is very considerate of what his father can and cannot do. I have to say, the challenges aren't exactly tourist traps. So the ER docs came in first, one team got to the fastforward and didn't understand what the "taken" sign meant and the volleyball team was so behind, they had no hope of catching up. You can tell it's not even close when the shadows of the day aren't the same, but the producers like to make it seem like it's close. I like the women's teams this year. They're admirable and not bitchy to each other or other teams.
Okay, so I'll close with a real show. $#!& My Dad Says is good but not for the right reason. I was all geared up to enjoy a salty old veteran who doesn't give a crap what other people think. The problem is, there's absolutely no chemistry that says these people are related. Shatner just seems like that quiet guy next door. He's not quick or loud enough and his face doesn't show his crotchety-ness like it should. The son is a wuss bag that we all want to beat up. The show's really funny part is Sullivan and Sasso. These 2 were on Mad TV together and have not only great chemistry but comedy chops to go with it. They way overshadow everyone else and are the really funny part of the show. I think it would be better if the crotchety old father lived with them and they played off of each other more. Just because you base a show on a real life concept, doesn't mean you have to stick to it. It's all about what the audience likes.
Well, that's all for now. See you next time.
Hell's Kitchen missed a week so we're off the hook there.
On the Apprentice, the schlub who said he could handle the wild guy found he couldn't. Actually, the wild guy wasn't the problem. The teams had to do fashion shows for shoes. Wow! It was a total plug show where they not only said the name of the shoes for the whole show but showed every style they had. I'm not going to say what they are cuz I'm not getting paid ha ha ha. I did notice the biggest star to attend the fashion shows was Ivanka Trump. What? No Andre Leon Talley? Anyway, it was literally a shoe-in when the women won this task. Duh. In the end, the most boring guy on the men's team was made the MC and he sucked so hard, he was gladly fired by Trump and then to put the icing on the cake, the project manager was fired too. Hee hee hee! (giddy laughter). The next week, the teams had to sell pedi-cab rides. The women made a bad choice to try to sell them to locals. Okay, in the first place, New Yorkers aren't taking slow pedi cabs cuz they have a real life and not all day to get things done. In the 2nd place, New Yorkers don't need to have the fun of seeing the city. They see it everyday and it's not that much of a novelty and it's not like there's not a thousand and one pedi cabs every day of the year. So the men won this task and there was much finger pointing. Just like on Survivor, all of a sudden there's people I never noticed before. In the end, that girl who didn't seem to be on the show before, was fired for being...not there. Hmmm...
On Dancing With the non-Stars, the Situation from Jersey Shore was sent back to Jersey. Yeah, dude, we're sick and tired of your face on our TV screens. Oh, and he couldn't dance. On the 2nd week, the producers are scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas and dug up a used one. The dancers did a TV theme. Florence Henderson used the Brady Bunch theme and it didn't go over too well w/ the judges. Bristol Palin used a Monkees theme and just looked dumb. In the end, the whole world was surprised when Flo Henderson got the boot. The judges are still raving about Jennifer Grey and Carrie Ann Inaba finally said what we were all thinking from the beginning, "This is your show, girl." Uh huh.
I wanna comment on Chuck. It's become another Remington Steele. Chuck's hiding who he is from the real world but has become cool with a sleek haircut, a hot girlfriend and better clothes. Somehow, they've fallen in the pit of mundane-ness. Casey has now become the cool part of the show. Too bad. All of us geeks lived vicariously through Chuck but now he's out of our league.
I finally saw the ending of Money Hungry on-line and it wasn't a surprise at all. Mission Slimpossible won and not much weight was lost. There wasn't any amazing body transformations like you see on Biggest Loser, so when they showed before ande after pictures, it was hard to tell. They needed to consult Celebrity Fit Club producers. The families were brought in and there seemed to be fake crying. Really stupid.
Survivor mixed up the teams. I kind of saw this coming. Nyonka is separated from her buddies and the young people have the majority on the tribes. The young people proved they don't like bossy older people and voted off the black guy who had the brains in the tribe and he was the most fit of the older people. The second week, they had double elimination with each team voting someone out. The challenge involved digging up a ring and getting it into a butt basket. I loved that older women from each tribe won because they got individual immunity. Then they tossed the rings to determine who would get the luxury prize of a feast. La Flor won that one. So the older people are trying to scramble and connive to stay alive but aren't very good at it. Marty stupidly told everyone he has the HII so the tribe is trying to flush it out. On the former older tribe, Eve was the odd girl out and was voted out. That was dumb since she was the youngest of the older tribe and more fit than everybody else. On La Flor, Marty convinced Fabio he was a chessmaster. Har har. So Fabio wants to align with someone to make up for his lack of a brain. The vote was split and Kelly B. (the amputee) was blind sided and on the chopping block. There has been no pity or love for the amputee girl from tribemates or the producers. After the re-vote, Kelly B. was voted out and boy did she give her teammates a dirty look. Meanwhile, the other team was eating their feast. Whatever. It was beef and chicken kabobs and the highlight seemed to be the ice cubes in the iced tea.
On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs have split into one cool group and outsiders. It's so weird that the best looking guy on the show is an outsider. Anyway, the teams had to make a dessert/food dress. 2 girls landed in the bottom because they made their dresses out of vegetables. Hello, remember the name of the show? They used mannequins so I wondered why they didn't just use fondant and icing and pipe the darn things on. Morgan, the straight guy, won with a chocolate dress that was really cute and he made a purse to go with it too. Anyway, Heather's return didn't last and she was booted again. Last week, the chefs had to make black and white desserts to go with a newspaper theme. I've made black food but not intentionally and it was never edible cuz it was burnt. The chefs had a hard time finding black foods and did a lot of chocolate. The skinny outsider girl made some weak petitfors but they must've been good. The black girl made an ice cream that was neither white nor delicious and was given the boot. This time, Zack won and he didn't even use disco dust.
The Next Iron Chef had the chefs making dishes out of their catch of the day. It was cool to see the women were better at fishing than the men. The men didn't look happy about it either. I'm thinking Ming Tsai must go to the end because they hardly show him at all. There were a lot of scorpion fish caught. Chef Forgione won the quick challenge and took Tio's snapper. I saw that one coming. In the end, he won the elimination challenge too and... I can't remember who was told to go. Last week, the chefs had to transform dishes. The chefs are too critical of Chef Tsai which makes me think they really think he's the one to beat. They didn't think making a sauce into meat wasn't transforming? Then Chef Tio was deemed the winner of the quick challenge by her fellow chefs. The chefs went to the fair to transform fair food into cuisine. In the end, Chef Tio won again, although I thought Chef Tsai's food looked and sounded amazing. Chef Estes made caramel apples badly and was told to go. Donatella Arpaia confirmed what I always thought. She's not too smart and ate the peel on Chef Tsai's banana in his dessert. Duh! BTW, that small amount won't kill her so NBD. We also found the judges don't like being served something they've already had before.
On the Amazing Race, the teams first helped build the school in Ghana. I tell ya, those African people can't seem to do anything for themselves. The teams finally got out of the heat and went to Iceland. It was summer so the snow was sparse. The Glee team thought they were athletic and couldn't get down the sledding track w/out half killing themselves. The teams had to drive themselves a lot and it seems the ER docs had luck, athletic skills and good navigation cuz they came in first. The Glee team came in last and took it well. Last week, the teams went to Norway and I have to say, the Norwegians don't look like they love Americans. The ER docs decided to do the fast forward. How is it that the vegetarian people always seem to end up eating huge amounts of meat? So they had to eat a sheep's head. Ew! I about barfed when the one girl ate the eyeball and deemed it crunchy. Meanwhile, her vegetarian friend is gagging the whole time, but they did it and I loved the comments when the Norwegian guy wouldn't even crack a smile at them, "You're very inspirational." If that's a treat at Christmas, I don't even wanna know what they eat the rest of the year. The other teams had to do that ascender thing. I was very surprised that the women did it so well, especially that goth chick. The Korean team is doing well due to the fact that the son is very considerate of what his father can and cannot do. I have to say, the challenges aren't exactly tourist traps. So the ER docs came in first, one team got to the fastforward and didn't understand what the "taken" sign meant and the volleyball team was so behind, they had no hope of catching up. You can tell it's not even close when the shadows of the day aren't the same, but the producers like to make it seem like it's close. I like the women's teams this year. They're admirable and not bitchy to each other or other teams.
Okay, so I'll close with a real show. $#!& My Dad Says is good but not for the right reason. I was all geared up to enjoy a salty old veteran who doesn't give a crap what other people think. The problem is, there's absolutely no chemistry that says these people are related. Shatner just seems like that quiet guy next door. He's not quick or loud enough and his face doesn't show his crotchety-ness like it should. The son is a wuss bag that we all want to beat up. The show's really funny part is Sullivan and Sasso. These 2 were on Mad TV together and have not only great chemistry but comedy chops to go with it. They way overshadow everyone else and are the really funny part of the show. I think it would be better if the crotchety old father lived with them and they played off of each other more. Just because you base a show on a real life concept, doesn't mean you have to stick to it. It's all about what the audience likes.
Well, that's all for now. See you next time.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
What's happenin' TV world?
I've watched a few new TV shows.
The Event is very confusing. It was unclear what they were calling the event. Was it saving the drowning guy? Was it the wife disappearing? Was it the airplane hijacking by John Ritter's son? Not only that, they kept jumping around in time and by the end of the episode, I was totally confused and wondered where I was in my own world. Nobody likes to think too hard when watching tv. At least not for a whole hour.
The Defenders has 2 really cute things going for it: Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell. The 2 guys together are fun and the show has that Boston Legal pace. The scenes with Belushi's character's little boy are real snorers but maybe the producers will learn to cut the sap out. As you would expect in a city like Las Vegas, the cases are a bit outrageous but if you've ever experienced Vegas society, you wouldn't be surprised.
Raising Hope is the cutest sitcom to come along in a long time. It's kind of like My Name is Earl on a more domestic level. Who knew Martha Plimpton had comedy chops? They need to include Cloris Leachman more because at her age, she still lights up the screen and she's always hilarious even when she doesn't say anything.
Okay, so I'm still not watching Dancing w/ the non Stars but I guess Sarah Palin made a showing. OMG, I thought Obama was a media hog. I'm hoping it'll at least keep her from making her home in the white house. As I expected, Jennifer Grey is running away with the show. I'm done.
On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs were introduced to the sundae making quickfire. Seth flipped his lid and ended up looking like an immature dumbass and riding off the show in an ambulance with padded walls. Yeah, I think he's way beyond Prozac. Anyway, Morgan won both the quickfire and the elimination and his head has swelled. The chefs had to work in teams of 3 for the elimination. Heather with the forehead wound was brought back to annoy us with her mopey self, Malika fell on her sword and asked to go home. Poor Johnny Uzzini can't believe his show is crumbling around him and you can hear Colicchio laughing in the wings. Pastry chefs are really bizarre.
On Survivor the older tribe is looking for a leader and nobody really wants to step up. Aren't those guys old enough to take care of themselves? In a game where you can be voted off for not being liked, nobody really likes to be the bossy one. On the younger tribe, it's really split. Nyonka and her friend finally figured out the hidden immunity idol clue and found it lying right on top of the ground. I think the producers thought they were going to be too stupid to find it by digging. The next day, everybody else started looking for the hidden immunity idol. Really? What the heck else do you have to do? Why aren't there divets all over that freakin' island? So Nyonka's friend spilled the beans to her friend that the HII had already been found. I'm guessing that's not going to be good for someone. The challenge was the old yell at blindfolded tied together teammates to find stuff. The younger tribe decided to use the medallion of power due to their inability to get along in close proximity of each other. They won by a lot w/ the older tribe swearing they only lost by a small margin. Whatever! The younger tribe got the prizes and the immunity idol and Sears got a big ad spot. So we go by the rule of, the most annoying person gets booted out and that was Jimmy T. It was probably that hugging thing he tried w/ people after the last tribal council. Bye Mr. fisherman who never caught a fish.
Project Runway is coming down to the final designers. So what do they do? They bring back old booted out bitter designers. Oooh, so much fun to see Ivy's sour face again. Not! The designers are supposed to use Heidi Klum's material to make a look for Heidi, to be sold on-line blah blah blah. While on their own, the designers are visited by not only Tim Gunn, but by Heidi too and she's very critical which makes for a lot of eyerolling. Mondo and Gretch the wretch are over her, Christopher is peeing in his pants and Michael C is still starstruck. So after that, they're told they have to do 2 more looks with help from past designers as their worker bees. Oh boy! Ivy and Christopher are paired together and Mondo gets Valerie. Ivy is her sweet self and accuses Michael C. of sticky taping his clothes onto his model. Tim Gunn calls them all together to poo poo the accusation and basically says, "Shut up and get back to work!" I'm not sure what activity these designers were thinking people were going to be doing in their looks but it didn't look like activewear to me. Since when are flowy clothes made for being active? You don't see many people riding bikes or playing golf in flowy loose clothes or triple layers. In the end, Mondo won again and Ivy proved she really does suck because Christopher was booted and she did his sewing. Schwing!
Hell's Kitchen had it's switcheroo. Melissa was sent to the men's team and Trevor was sent to the women's team. First, Sabrina's still being lazy and then playing the victim. This time the teams had to cook for the Beverly Hills High prom w/ the prom committee choosing among their dishes. The women won a day at the fair and the men had to decorate. The prom went on and in the end, the men really sucked and the camp cook went home (I think). Then the teams had the switcheroo. The theme was ravioli and the chefs had to have their dishes judged. I learned Ramsay doesn't like ravioli that have busted open. The men won this one and went to play golf and have lunch while the women cleaned up and prepped. That night, TV stars were the guests allowed to sit in the kitchen at the chef's tables. Melissa couldn't cook a scallop to save her life and the chef on the women's team doing the meat station put all the steaks at once in the oven overcooking every one of them. There was a whole heckuva lot of yelling from Ramsay. In the end, the women won and Melissa was booted from the show. Bye!
The Apprentice is much better with real working schlubs fighting tooth and nail for the job. This week the teams had to do a viral video for a popcorn company. Masa or whatever that fighting chiuaua's name is, was the project manager for the women's team and boy was she bossy. Everything had to be her way. I kind of saw that coming. I also saw people on the show I never noticed before. I kept saying, "Who the heck is that?" Whenever they showed one of the team members. The men's team was headed by the big midwest guy. The women made a video of people working out and eating the popcorn. It was quite boring except one rude moment with a guy doing a see food thing to another lady working out in the gym. The men made an event with a lot of popcorn throwing and smacking of the bag. I thought it was really fun but they left out one of the best parts with one guy doing snow angels in the popcorn on the ground. In the end, the men won. Masa was a bear, tiger and shark rolled into one in front of Trump and her BFF from 2 shows ago was fired.
The Amazing Race went to Ghana. The teams ran into taxi problems but the challenges weren't that hard with the women and geeks doing really well. The Americans showed how ignorant they were by not knowing where Ghana was on a map in front of school children. Then nobody could find the puzzle key which was only covering one whole end of a building. The glee guys came in first and the oriental guy and his Dad came in last but it was a non-elimination leg. All I can say is, it must've been really hot for some but not for others which makes me wonder, how much of a time lag there was between the teams. I loved the Dad/daughter team. He's very practical and cool headed and she just goes with the flow. They came in second and he also knew where Ghana was on the map.
The Next Iron Chef has a lot of unknown chefs and then there's Ming Tsai and Pagan. First they had to make breakfast out of coffee and donuts. What? No bread pudding? The first challenge is always the chefs judging each other and it seems they always give it to someone who's not a threat because giving them an advantage doesn't really matter. Okay then. The elimination challenge was to take a well known comfort food like meatloaf or chicken pot pie and redo it. Chef Chauhan won the first challenge and then got to pick which dish each chef had to remake. Ming Tsai and Pagan landed in the bottom and Pagan was sent home. I have to say, the judges this year are really annoyingly pretentious. I can never stand looking at Arpaia's big buck teeth that long anyway. Meanwhile Alton Brown acts like he needs to have a really good poop. Geez!
I Love Money is back and it's full of the same kind of camera hogging drama people. They're recycling the challenges from past shows. This year, they're assigning the captain of the teams for the week which is really good because it keeps one person from each team running things all of the time and other people from just hiding behind others the whole time. Some people are back again. I never care who gets booted but they've been making it surprising every week. These people aren't likeable enough to want to keep around anyway. I'm always glad they're on the other side of the screen. There's a real Eww factor with these people.
Well, that's about all for this week. See ya!
The Event is very confusing. It was unclear what they were calling the event. Was it saving the drowning guy? Was it the wife disappearing? Was it the airplane hijacking by John Ritter's son? Not only that, they kept jumping around in time and by the end of the episode, I was totally confused and wondered where I was in my own world. Nobody likes to think too hard when watching tv. At least not for a whole hour.
The Defenders has 2 really cute things going for it: Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell. The 2 guys together are fun and the show has that Boston Legal pace. The scenes with Belushi's character's little boy are real snorers but maybe the producers will learn to cut the sap out. As you would expect in a city like Las Vegas, the cases are a bit outrageous but if you've ever experienced Vegas society, you wouldn't be surprised.
Raising Hope is the cutest sitcom to come along in a long time. It's kind of like My Name is Earl on a more domestic level. Who knew Martha Plimpton had comedy chops? They need to include Cloris Leachman more because at her age, she still lights up the screen and she's always hilarious even when she doesn't say anything.
Okay, so I'm still not watching Dancing w/ the non Stars but I guess Sarah Palin made a showing. OMG, I thought Obama was a media hog. I'm hoping it'll at least keep her from making her home in the white house. As I expected, Jennifer Grey is running away with the show. I'm done.
On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs were introduced to the sundae making quickfire. Seth flipped his lid and ended up looking like an immature dumbass and riding off the show in an ambulance with padded walls. Yeah, I think he's way beyond Prozac. Anyway, Morgan won both the quickfire and the elimination and his head has swelled. The chefs had to work in teams of 3 for the elimination. Heather with the forehead wound was brought back to annoy us with her mopey self, Malika fell on her sword and asked to go home. Poor Johnny Uzzini can't believe his show is crumbling around him and you can hear Colicchio laughing in the wings. Pastry chefs are really bizarre.
On Survivor the older tribe is looking for a leader and nobody really wants to step up. Aren't those guys old enough to take care of themselves? In a game where you can be voted off for not being liked, nobody really likes to be the bossy one. On the younger tribe, it's really split. Nyonka and her friend finally figured out the hidden immunity idol clue and found it lying right on top of the ground. I think the producers thought they were going to be too stupid to find it by digging. The next day, everybody else started looking for the hidden immunity idol. Really? What the heck else do you have to do? Why aren't there divets all over that freakin' island? So Nyonka's friend spilled the beans to her friend that the HII had already been found. I'm guessing that's not going to be good for someone. The challenge was the old yell at blindfolded tied together teammates to find stuff. The younger tribe decided to use the medallion of power due to their inability to get along in close proximity of each other. They won by a lot w/ the older tribe swearing they only lost by a small margin. Whatever! The younger tribe got the prizes and the immunity idol and Sears got a big ad spot. So we go by the rule of, the most annoying person gets booted out and that was Jimmy T. It was probably that hugging thing he tried w/ people after the last tribal council. Bye Mr. fisherman who never caught a fish.
Project Runway is coming down to the final designers. So what do they do? They bring back old booted out bitter designers. Oooh, so much fun to see Ivy's sour face again. Not! The designers are supposed to use Heidi Klum's material to make a look for Heidi, to be sold on-line blah blah blah. While on their own, the designers are visited by not only Tim Gunn, but by Heidi too and she's very critical which makes for a lot of eyerolling. Mondo and Gretch the wretch are over her, Christopher is peeing in his pants and Michael C is still starstruck. So after that, they're told they have to do 2 more looks with help from past designers as their worker bees. Oh boy! Ivy and Christopher are paired together and Mondo gets Valerie. Ivy is her sweet self and accuses Michael C. of sticky taping his clothes onto his model. Tim Gunn calls them all together to poo poo the accusation and basically says, "Shut up and get back to work!" I'm not sure what activity these designers were thinking people were going to be doing in their looks but it didn't look like activewear to me. Since when are flowy clothes made for being active? You don't see many people riding bikes or playing golf in flowy loose clothes or triple layers. In the end, Mondo won again and Ivy proved she really does suck because Christopher was booted and she did his sewing. Schwing!
Hell's Kitchen had it's switcheroo. Melissa was sent to the men's team and Trevor was sent to the women's team. First, Sabrina's still being lazy and then playing the victim. This time the teams had to cook for the Beverly Hills High prom w/ the prom committee choosing among their dishes. The women won a day at the fair and the men had to decorate. The prom went on and in the end, the men really sucked and the camp cook went home (I think). Then the teams had the switcheroo. The theme was ravioli and the chefs had to have their dishes judged. I learned Ramsay doesn't like ravioli that have busted open. The men won this one and went to play golf and have lunch while the women cleaned up and prepped. That night, TV stars were the guests allowed to sit in the kitchen at the chef's tables. Melissa couldn't cook a scallop to save her life and the chef on the women's team doing the meat station put all the steaks at once in the oven overcooking every one of them. There was a whole heckuva lot of yelling from Ramsay. In the end, the women won and Melissa was booted from the show. Bye!
The Apprentice is much better with real working schlubs fighting tooth and nail for the job. This week the teams had to do a viral video for a popcorn company. Masa or whatever that fighting chiuaua's name is, was the project manager for the women's team and boy was she bossy. Everything had to be her way. I kind of saw that coming. I also saw people on the show I never noticed before. I kept saying, "Who the heck is that?" Whenever they showed one of the team members. The men's team was headed by the big midwest guy. The women made a video of people working out and eating the popcorn. It was quite boring except one rude moment with a guy doing a see food thing to another lady working out in the gym. The men made an event with a lot of popcorn throwing and smacking of the bag. I thought it was really fun but they left out one of the best parts with one guy doing snow angels in the popcorn on the ground. In the end, the men won. Masa was a bear, tiger and shark rolled into one in front of Trump and her BFF from 2 shows ago was fired.
The Amazing Race went to Ghana. The teams ran into taxi problems but the challenges weren't that hard with the women and geeks doing really well. The Americans showed how ignorant they were by not knowing where Ghana was on a map in front of school children. Then nobody could find the puzzle key which was only covering one whole end of a building. The glee guys came in first and the oriental guy and his Dad came in last but it was a non-elimination leg. All I can say is, it must've been really hot for some but not for others which makes me wonder, how much of a time lag there was between the teams. I loved the Dad/daughter team. He's very practical and cool headed and she just goes with the flow. They came in second and he also knew where Ghana was on the map.
The Next Iron Chef has a lot of unknown chefs and then there's Ming Tsai and Pagan. First they had to make breakfast out of coffee and donuts. What? No bread pudding? The first challenge is always the chefs judging each other and it seems they always give it to someone who's not a threat because giving them an advantage doesn't really matter. Okay then. The elimination challenge was to take a well known comfort food like meatloaf or chicken pot pie and redo it. Chef Chauhan won the first challenge and then got to pick which dish each chef had to remake. Ming Tsai and Pagan landed in the bottom and Pagan was sent home. I have to say, the judges this year are really annoyingly pretentious. I can never stand looking at Arpaia's big buck teeth that long anyway. Meanwhile Alton Brown acts like he needs to have a really good poop. Geez!
I Love Money is back and it's full of the same kind of camera hogging drama people. They're recycling the challenges from past shows. This year, they're assigning the captain of the teams for the week which is really good because it keeps one person from each team running things all of the time and other people from just hiding behind others the whole time. Some people are back again. I never care who gets booted but they've been making it surprising every week. These people aren't likeable enough to want to keep around anyway. I'm always glad they're on the other side of the screen. There's a real Eww factor with these people.
Well, that's about all for this week. See ya!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wow! Cool and oh no!
The shows are really running hot.
On Survivor, the older tribe members have been deferring to the wisdom of Jimmy Johnson. The soccer coach seems to have found her missing brain cell and the youngest member of the tribe seems to be hiding behind everybody's skirts. Other people may call it laying low. Okay. The younger tribe continues to think they're in Jr. High school. Nyonka or Nokia or whatever her name is, has crossed over from just being ballsy to being that mean girl. She hates everybody who doesn't meet up to her mean girl criteria. The guy they call Fabio is proving he's a true blonde and the other half of the tribe is sitting around deciding who's going to be the lead dog. I have a feeling there's been a lot of editing because Nyonka's BFF doesn't seem as bitchy as usual. So on to the reward/immunity challenge. I still hate that they don't have 2 but I think they're running out of ideas and also, they don't want to completely kill off the older tribe by having 2 challenges in one week. For the challenge, they had to get big barrels to certain spots and then they'd take turns throwing little sandbags onto the barrels. It really came down to the sandbag toss. Jimmy Johnson made the fatal error a lot of coaches make; letting a player having a run of bad luck stay in the game too long. The older tribe was ahead and then lost the game. The younger tribe also won a crate of fresh fruit. Nyonka and the amputee girl saw a note in the midst of the fruit and as soon as they put the crate down back at camp, there was a tussle and Nyonka was triumphant. I don't understand why they waited. It's not like the older tribe can steal their fruit. Somehow they've decided not to show the dissension in the tribe to the older tribe. So needless to say, the older tribe blamed the coach for the loss and he was booted out. After all, Jimmy did say he didn't really want to win.
Money Hungry had it's last episode before the finale. So far, I can't see a huge weight loss in anybody. I loved the phone call from the Flabulous guy and the guys hanging up on him. They did show the people working out but the level of activity shouldn't have made them sweat that much. Really? Walking made them sweat? Then for the challenge, they had to move huge tires while going through cars. This proved they weren't small people cuz half of them couldn't fit through the car doors hee hee hee. The Grading Curves team won with their better teamwork. So after a lot of plotting and planning, it came down to the black fugly team against the orange fuglier team. Yay! The orange ugly girl team went home. I wasn't surprised to see all the teams of 2, still weigh over 500 pounds. Geez.
For the new season of Two and a Half Men, they're focusing more on Alan. I have to say, it's lost some of it's edge. I know the show is trying to prove to Charlie Sheen, they don't need him that much; but they do. Charlie with his half drunken womanizing and no holds barred attitude, gives the show an edge that keeps it from being too stupid or too sweet. Having the mother on more does help but they haven't utilized her that much and when women are like Charlie, they just seem slutty and bitchy. In order to give Jake an edge, they've made him into a play-a but that doesn't really look too good on a young teenager and it's more uncomfortable than funny. Sorry people. Charlie is worth every penny you're paying him. Unfortunately, Sheen looks like he drinks a lot off the set. He's puffy and worn in the face and moving in a haze.
I'm loving the show Mike and Molly. The lead characters are innocent, upstanding and shy. Oh come on; he's a cop and she's an elementary school teacher. You can't get more upstanding than that. They also have great chemistry and Molly's sister and mother are too funny for words. Those two women are the My Name is Earl in the midst of the Leave It to Beaver show and it's a good balance to keep the show from being too sickly sweet. In fact, both main characters are surrounded by edgy and funny characters. My favorite line so far? When they're looking at a suit for Mike and his friend tells him he'll be a new man in it. The owner/cousin of the friend says, "It's only clothes." I'd like to thank the director for not actually showing Molly throwing up. We don't need that much real-ness on TV.
So on Dancing with the used to be and wanna be Stars, Michael Bolton showed he had no rhythm and was justifiably booted from the show. The viewers are proving they're not as dumb as they used to be. I'm still not watching. None of the people are stars we give a dam about and the dances are the same. Once again, Derek Hough has a great partner and I'm betting he'll probably win again. Boooring!
I haven't watched the crying fatties because there's an awesome new show opposite it called No Ordinary Family. Take a family drama and make them superheroes. It's kind of taken the place of Heroes. Unfortunately, Heroes became too unreal with too much going on at once. You needed a flow chart to keep everything straight. When watching becomes work, viewers tend to tune out. No Ordinary Family had a great pilot and I'm hoping they don't dwell to much on the family therapy stuff (big snore) and show the family coming together out of respect for their talents. When the parents told the kids what they could do, the only response out of the kids was; oh great. What? No Wow? Have kids become so jaded that surviving a bullet to the head doesn't impress them or make them concerned? They'll need to give the kids some warmth and soul in order to make us like them. The special effects are really good and Michael Chiklis is really great. How come he's never been named the Sexiest Man Alive?
America's Next Top Model is sticking to it's high fashion thinking and Ann seems to be winning every week. I was disappointed to see the one sister go because the sisters together really made some fun scenes. Even worse, as soon as she had her makeover, they booted her. I thought it was hilarious that the 3 girls made up the fake makeover list and freaked out the other girls. If they were real models, they'd have taken it in stride. Most models are used to having 3 or 4 hairstyles in one day. It's why you can't recognize anybody in high fashion photos. I'm impressed with most of the girls. They have weird quirks like huge boobs, gapped teeth, knock knees and even kankles but don't use them as excuses. Tyra is still her whack-a-doodle self but we've learned to tune that out. That stupidness keeps the show itself, from being high fashion.
On Hell's Kitchen, the teams are showing they're not too cohesive. I don't know where they dug up Sabrina, but she's major weird. One moment she's an authority in the kitchen and the next, she's asking dumb questions. I think she's one of those people who asks so many questions so you'll just tell her to get out and take over her work. Her voice is also very annoying. Raj on the men's team is a sweatball pompous dumbass. I loved the fact that there were actually 2 women up for the elimiination and Ramsey totally surprised everybody by booting Raj. Just because you're on the winning team doesn't mean you're safe and it shows who's really running the show. In the next episode, the camp cook was booted. I'm tellin' ya, that meat station must really be hard cuz it kills a lot of cooks. I've noticed the planes, buses and helicopters the contestants have been using are not Hell's Kitchen labeled? Whats-a-matter Ramsay? The economy bit you in the butt?
Law & Order has a new show set in Los Angeles. Hence the name Law & Order: LA I miss the usual voiceover beginning of the show that used to be the signature of the franchise along with the doink doink. It lent a dark drama note to the show that said it wasn't your mom and dad's cop show. LOLA (as it's become known) is looking like your mom and dad's cop show. What happened to the witty and wry one-liners? What happened to the casual mulling over the case between the cops? What happened to the ah ha moment when the prosecuters realized who was the real culprit? I think this show won't last. Not only that. We're sick and tired of L.A. The whole state is poor and over run by illegals.
All of a sudden men kissing each other has become a usual thing on TV. Modern Family had Cam and Mitch giving each other a peck and on Project Runway, we saw Christopher give his partner a peck and not on the cheek like Europeans. It wasn't repugnant at all. Actually, I think all prolonged kisses are uncomfortable to watch no matter what the sexual orientation. Whatever happened to the camera kisses of old Hollywood? So on to the Project Runway show. It was quite revealing. The designers made their own fabric design and the loved ones came to visit for a day. According to Nick's Blog on the Runway site, it takes more than one day to crank out a custom material. I was surprised how little of their own material the designers used in their clothes. I think it sends the message that they really didn't like it. I thought Michael's dress was cute with a bit of a glamazon look. If he had put a black wig on his model, it would've looked better. Mondo won with his bright pants and cool top and then we found out the plus symbols on his material stood for his HIV positive status and his outlook on life. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. It's cool that 20 years ago, that kind of revelation would have made people horrified and now it's just heartbreakingly sad. I would think the models would be nervous. Hopefully Mondo doesn't jab a model with a pin he's been holding in his mouth. It's unlikely she'd get AIDS but it depends on how deep the pin would go. At least quick action will help these days. Valerie's luck finally ran out. Her designs were so good in the beginning. I think she was the victim of the severe fatigue the contestants get. The show is a marathon and only the people who can keep a clear head to the end come out triumpant. I liked her individual parting goodbyes to everybody; especially the apology to Michael for being mean to him. If Ivy would've done that, we probably would've liked her more. We still hate Grech the wretch. I wonder if a designer can get Valerie's model cuz that girl is absolutely gorgeous and kept Valeries designs from looking totally hideous.
The Fox primetime cartoons are even better than usual. They've really pushed the boundaries and we're all waiting to see who's going to be slapped by the censors and the uptight Americans. So far, so good. It's hilarious and they say what we're all thinking. Peter Griffin is that kid in the story of The Emperor's New Clothes. He states the obvious thing that we all think may not be too kind to say in real life and we love it. Thank you! The Simpsons is still fresh, intelligent, fun and edgy. Ever since the Moral Majority leader kicked the bucket, we haven't heard much from them. It's so nice in a poor economy when the christians are too poor to pay attention. They're too busy begging for money. They may be moral, but they're no longer the majority ha ha ha.
The Amazing Race went to Ghana and what a difference going from England to there. The women on the show are showing they're intelligent and not wussy. The challenges are more simple but fun and prove, even the simple stuff can be hard if you have no brains. I'm still remembering the watermelon to the face that HSN girl host took. She still completed that task and that was really admirable. I learned from this episode, I don't want to go to Ghana. The people begged and reached into the cars just like Mexicans, tried to gyp the contestants, and seemed lazy and sleezy. Ick! Anyway, the HSN host women's team hit the finish mat first and the daughter/father team had some really bad taxi luck and came in last. Bye.
Well stay tuned people. TV does go on and on. See ya next time.
On Survivor, the older tribe members have been deferring to the wisdom of Jimmy Johnson. The soccer coach seems to have found her missing brain cell and the youngest member of the tribe seems to be hiding behind everybody's skirts. Other people may call it laying low. Okay. The younger tribe continues to think they're in Jr. High school. Nyonka or Nokia or whatever her name is, has crossed over from just being ballsy to being that mean girl. She hates everybody who doesn't meet up to her mean girl criteria. The guy they call Fabio is proving he's a true blonde and the other half of the tribe is sitting around deciding who's going to be the lead dog. I have a feeling there's been a lot of editing because Nyonka's BFF doesn't seem as bitchy as usual. So on to the reward/immunity challenge. I still hate that they don't have 2 but I think they're running out of ideas and also, they don't want to completely kill off the older tribe by having 2 challenges in one week. For the challenge, they had to get big barrels to certain spots and then they'd take turns throwing little sandbags onto the barrels. It really came down to the sandbag toss. Jimmy Johnson made the fatal error a lot of coaches make; letting a player having a run of bad luck stay in the game too long. The older tribe was ahead and then lost the game. The younger tribe also won a crate of fresh fruit. Nyonka and the amputee girl saw a note in the midst of the fruit and as soon as they put the crate down back at camp, there was a tussle and Nyonka was triumphant. I don't understand why they waited. It's not like the older tribe can steal their fruit. Somehow they've decided not to show the dissension in the tribe to the older tribe. So needless to say, the older tribe blamed the coach for the loss and he was booted out. After all, Jimmy did say he didn't really want to win.
Money Hungry had it's last episode before the finale. So far, I can't see a huge weight loss in anybody. I loved the phone call from the Flabulous guy and the guys hanging up on him. They did show the people working out but the level of activity shouldn't have made them sweat that much. Really? Walking made them sweat? Then for the challenge, they had to move huge tires while going through cars. This proved they weren't small people cuz half of them couldn't fit through the car doors hee hee hee. The Grading Curves team won with their better teamwork. So after a lot of plotting and planning, it came down to the black fugly team against the orange fuglier team. Yay! The orange ugly girl team went home. I wasn't surprised to see all the teams of 2, still weigh over 500 pounds. Geez.
For the new season of Two and a Half Men, they're focusing more on Alan. I have to say, it's lost some of it's edge. I know the show is trying to prove to Charlie Sheen, they don't need him that much; but they do. Charlie with his half drunken womanizing and no holds barred attitude, gives the show an edge that keeps it from being too stupid or too sweet. Having the mother on more does help but they haven't utilized her that much and when women are like Charlie, they just seem slutty and bitchy. In order to give Jake an edge, they've made him into a play-a but that doesn't really look too good on a young teenager and it's more uncomfortable than funny. Sorry people. Charlie is worth every penny you're paying him. Unfortunately, Sheen looks like he drinks a lot off the set. He's puffy and worn in the face and moving in a haze.
I'm loving the show Mike and Molly. The lead characters are innocent, upstanding and shy. Oh come on; he's a cop and she's an elementary school teacher. You can't get more upstanding than that. They also have great chemistry and Molly's sister and mother are too funny for words. Those two women are the My Name is Earl in the midst of the Leave It to Beaver show and it's a good balance to keep the show from being too sickly sweet. In fact, both main characters are surrounded by edgy and funny characters. My favorite line so far? When they're looking at a suit for Mike and his friend tells him he'll be a new man in it. The owner/cousin of the friend says, "It's only clothes." I'd like to thank the director for not actually showing Molly throwing up. We don't need that much real-ness on TV.
So on Dancing with the used to be and wanna be Stars, Michael Bolton showed he had no rhythm and was justifiably booted from the show. The viewers are proving they're not as dumb as they used to be. I'm still not watching. None of the people are stars we give a dam about and the dances are the same. Once again, Derek Hough has a great partner and I'm betting he'll probably win again. Boooring!
I haven't watched the crying fatties because there's an awesome new show opposite it called No Ordinary Family. Take a family drama and make them superheroes. It's kind of taken the place of Heroes. Unfortunately, Heroes became too unreal with too much going on at once. You needed a flow chart to keep everything straight. When watching becomes work, viewers tend to tune out. No Ordinary Family had a great pilot and I'm hoping they don't dwell to much on the family therapy stuff (big snore) and show the family coming together out of respect for their talents. When the parents told the kids what they could do, the only response out of the kids was; oh great. What? No Wow? Have kids become so jaded that surviving a bullet to the head doesn't impress them or make them concerned? They'll need to give the kids some warmth and soul in order to make us like them. The special effects are really good and Michael Chiklis is really great. How come he's never been named the Sexiest Man Alive?
America's Next Top Model is sticking to it's high fashion thinking and Ann seems to be winning every week. I was disappointed to see the one sister go because the sisters together really made some fun scenes. Even worse, as soon as she had her makeover, they booted her. I thought it was hilarious that the 3 girls made up the fake makeover list and freaked out the other girls. If they were real models, they'd have taken it in stride. Most models are used to having 3 or 4 hairstyles in one day. It's why you can't recognize anybody in high fashion photos. I'm impressed with most of the girls. They have weird quirks like huge boobs, gapped teeth, knock knees and even kankles but don't use them as excuses. Tyra is still her whack-a-doodle self but we've learned to tune that out. That stupidness keeps the show itself, from being high fashion.
On Hell's Kitchen, the teams are showing they're not too cohesive. I don't know where they dug up Sabrina, but she's major weird. One moment she's an authority in the kitchen and the next, she's asking dumb questions. I think she's one of those people who asks so many questions so you'll just tell her to get out and take over her work. Her voice is also very annoying. Raj on the men's team is a sweatball pompous dumbass. I loved the fact that there were actually 2 women up for the elimiination and Ramsey totally surprised everybody by booting Raj. Just because you're on the winning team doesn't mean you're safe and it shows who's really running the show. In the next episode, the camp cook was booted. I'm tellin' ya, that meat station must really be hard cuz it kills a lot of cooks. I've noticed the planes, buses and helicopters the contestants have been using are not Hell's Kitchen labeled? Whats-a-matter Ramsay? The economy bit you in the butt?
Law & Order has a new show set in Los Angeles. Hence the name Law & Order: LA I miss the usual voiceover beginning of the show that used to be the signature of the franchise along with the doink doink. It lent a dark drama note to the show that said it wasn't your mom and dad's cop show. LOLA (as it's become known) is looking like your mom and dad's cop show. What happened to the witty and wry one-liners? What happened to the casual mulling over the case between the cops? What happened to the ah ha moment when the prosecuters realized who was the real culprit? I think this show won't last. Not only that. We're sick and tired of L.A. The whole state is poor and over run by illegals.
All of a sudden men kissing each other has become a usual thing on TV. Modern Family had Cam and Mitch giving each other a peck and on Project Runway, we saw Christopher give his partner a peck and not on the cheek like Europeans. It wasn't repugnant at all. Actually, I think all prolonged kisses are uncomfortable to watch no matter what the sexual orientation. Whatever happened to the camera kisses of old Hollywood? So on to the Project Runway show. It was quite revealing. The designers made their own fabric design and the loved ones came to visit for a day. According to Nick's Blog on the Runway site, it takes more than one day to crank out a custom material. I was surprised how little of their own material the designers used in their clothes. I think it sends the message that they really didn't like it. I thought Michael's dress was cute with a bit of a glamazon look. If he had put a black wig on his model, it would've looked better. Mondo won with his bright pants and cool top and then we found out the plus symbols on his material stood for his HIV positive status and his outlook on life. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. It's cool that 20 years ago, that kind of revelation would have made people horrified and now it's just heartbreakingly sad. I would think the models would be nervous. Hopefully Mondo doesn't jab a model with a pin he's been holding in his mouth. It's unlikely she'd get AIDS but it depends on how deep the pin would go. At least quick action will help these days. Valerie's luck finally ran out. Her designs were so good in the beginning. I think she was the victim of the severe fatigue the contestants get. The show is a marathon and only the people who can keep a clear head to the end come out triumpant. I liked her individual parting goodbyes to everybody; especially the apology to Michael for being mean to him. If Ivy would've done that, we probably would've liked her more. We still hate Grech the wretch. I wonder if a designer can get Valerie's model cuz that girl is absolutely gorgeous and kept Valeries designs from looking totally hideous.
The Fox primetime cartoons are even better than usual. They've really pushed the boundaries and we're all waiting to see who's going to be slapped by the censors and the uptight Americans. So far, so good. It's hilarious and they say what we're all thinking. Peter Griffin is that kid in the story of The Emperor's New Clothes. He states the obvious thing that we all think may not be too kind to say in real life and we love it. Thank you! The Simpsons is still fresh, intelligent, fun and edgy. Ever since the Moral Majority leader kicked the bucket, we haven't heard much from them. It's so nice in a poor economy when the christians are too poor to pay attention. They're too busy begging for money. They may be moral, but they're no longer the majority ha ha ha.
The Amazing Race went to Ghana and what a difference going from England to there. The women on the show are showing they're intelligent and not wussy. The challenges are more simple but fun and prove, even the simple stuff can be hard if you have no brains. I'm still remembering the watermelon to the face that HSN girl host took. She still completed that task and that was really admirable. I learned from this episode, I don't want to go to Ghana. The people begged and reached into the cars just like Mexicans, tried to gyp the contestants, and seemed lazy and sleezy. Ick! Anyway, the HSN host women's team hit the finish mat first and the daughter/father team had some really bad taxi luck and came in last. Bye.
Well stay tuned people. TV does go on and on. See ya next time.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Yay! A new season of TV
Okay, I know I'm not blogging regularly but hey, when I see nobody's reading it anyway, why the heck do I owe due diligence?
Anyway, let's start with shows that are still leftover from the summer.
Bachelor Pad ended up with Tenley and Kypton and Natalie and Craig. Nat and Craig were chosen by the rest of the contestants who were brought back for a nice reunion. Then they had that choice thing. If Nat and Craig both chose to share the money, they would split it evenly. If one chose keep and the other chose share, the one who chose keep would keep all of the money. If both chose keep, neither would get any money and the quarter million would be evenly divided amongst the losing contestants. It was pretty funny since the ousted people were egging them on to choose to keep the money. In the end, both chose to share and Nat and Craig rode off into the sunset on a pile of money. I learned this show was a big waste of my time and just as dumb as the original show.
On Money Hungry, the people are still fat but more conniving. Flabulous changed their vote 2 weeks in a row. It worked out for them the first week but not the second. No Excuses are out and Flabulous should've remembered it's a weight loss show and actually tried working out. Now the Regulators are shaking in their boots because they don't feel in control anymore. Whatever. Everybody is still fat and most are pretty ugly too.
The Apprentice is back and with regular people who have fallen to the bad economy. Now why isn't anyone mentioning Obama on this show? The teams chose Octane and... some other dumb name. Anyway the first task was to make a modern office out of an open space. The pageant girl was made project manager for the women and the military guy was made project manager of the men. The pageant chick turned out to be a ball passer who delegated too much and was too diplomatic and the military guy was too into himself to notice the rest of his team didn't know what to do with themselves. I got the feeling that the Don didn't have such a big budget for the people. The women ended up with an old fuddy duddy office and the men's office looked like Legoland. The decorator lady on the women's team proved why she lost her job. She sucks at decorating. The lawyer chick on the women's team proved her disloyalty by dissing the project manager before knowing whether they won or not. They didn't. In the end, the pageant chick was fired but she has a job to go back to and the Don was so impressed by her. He's setting up an interview with the Miss Universe organization for her. I think he just noticed what a hot chick she was. The next week, the teams had to sell ice cream. Both teams had similar ideas about dress and location. The men made fools of themselves. The women stuck to their higher price point and ended up winning the task. This time the quiet Hispanic guy was fired. Now I don't know who's more annoying: the whiny guys or the arguing women.
She's Got the Look is winding down and down to just 4 women. Marianne and Lisa were let go. It was kind of obvious but Jocelyn should really go for not being flexible and cooperative. She's also ugly on the inside and everything's all about her. Julie is proving she does have what it takes even though Jocelyn keeps saying she doesn't. I love Roshumba as a judge. She doesn't sugarcoat anything.
Survivor is in Nicaragua and has split the tribes into people younger than 40 and people older than 40. There's one girl on the over 40 tribe who I doubt is over 40 but whatever. It's really quite interesting. They have a famous football coach on the oldies tribe and a girl with only 1 leg on the younger tribe. The first week, the older tribe made fire right away and a good shelter. I liked that they built a good shelter and then didn't think it was good enough and started fixing it right away. Now that's work ethic. Unfortunately, they didn't quite gel with the first challenge and lost and ended up at tribal council. The goat herder lady got diarrhea of the mouth and said stuff that made her look like a total nutball. The whole tribe wisely voted her out. When you're living with a bunch of strangers, you don't need someone who's a whole lot of crazy. The 2nd week showed the disharmony of the younger tribe. There seems to be a minority faction. Even though the soccer coach started to go mental, the tribe pulled together and the older tribe won the immunity challenge and the fishing gear. Weirdly enough, the younger tribe voted off a strong male player. Are they trying to lose the challenges? It should be interesting.
America's Got Talent had a surprising winner. Michael Grimm was the last person I thought would win. He won. Oh well. Do I think he can hold a show in Vegas? Nope. I wouldn't pay to see him. I hope someone signs Fighting Gravity right away.
I'm not watching Dancing with the Stars this season. Of the contestants, I don't care who wins, I don't care to see any of them and I'm sick to death of the same pros winning. Just once, I wish they'd give Louis, Edyta, Tony, Michael and Anna someone who has a freakin' chance. Okay, they did give Anna Evan Lysachek last year but still... So far, I hear David Hasselhoff was voted off first.
The Great Foodtruck Race ended up in New York City with Grillem All and the Nom Nom truck. So far, the Nom Nom truck was blowing the competition away every week. This time, Grillem All had the other teams backing them up with advice and good resources. It was interesting with the trucks having to sell in each borough. In the end, they proved a lot of support works cuz the Grillem All guys won the whole enchilada.
America's Next Top Model is back with a very high fashion season. Expect very tall thin girls with very high cheek bones. They're all pretty young with the oldest 22 years old. There's no plus sized or old this season. There are 2 sisters who are so funny that they really make the show very enjoyable. Unlike the twin sisters on a previous season, they're quite competitive with each other so the dynamic is different. Ironically, Tyra herself doesn't qualify for this season since the modern couture look is very different from the 80's. Also, Tyra's not that thin or young anymore. It should be good. Unfortunately, everything good is on Wednesdays and Thursdays and I'm having to watch things on the web.
Top Chef went to Singapore for the finale. The top 4 were Angelo, Ed, Kevin and Kelly. Ed blew everyone away the first day and Kelly was sent home. Then the chefs were joined by winning Top Chefs from past seasons: Michael, Ilan and Hung. They were given the same main ingredients to use, given parameters for the meal and let go. Someone poisoned Angelo and he was bedridden for a day. Good thing Hung was his soux chef because he whipped everything together in no time. Ed had the Carla problem of wanting to be in charge of his meal but with no idea for dessert so Ilan threw out ideas. It proved to be his waterloo. Even though Angelo was able to go back to cookin' after a shot in the butt and a day in bed, his head was still not on straight. In the end, Kevin was declared Top Chef. All of his food was well thought out, well seasoned and looked great.
Top Chef: Just Desserts is a great concept. The chefs are quick to point out the superiority of pastry chefs over savory chefs. They also seem to use a lot of lingo that I have no clue what the heck they're talking about when describing cooking and food. The first week, the chefs had to make their signature dessert for the quickfire then halfway through, they were told it had to be in the form of a cupcake. Not being wonder twins, some of the chefs had quite a condundrum. Pudding in a bowl is not a cupcake. Then they had to do a chocolate dessert with Jacques Torres as a guest judge. Oh boy! I love Zac. He's hilarious. Meanwhile, the chef who looks like Dexter seems to be very egotistical. Morgan is too. Is that a heterosexual male chef trait that I don't know about? Anyway, the homely lady with the big buck teeth was let go and the oriental girl won. Last week, the chefs had to make a dessert with penny candy for the quickfire. The Dexter guy had a complete crying meltdown about his Mommy over is unfinished dessert. Instead of awkwardly moving on, Faulkner gave the guy a nice peptalk and a hug. Awww... Then the chefs had to make a dessert based on a cocktail. This time the Dexter guy's mood swung the other way and he got shouting made at his fellow competitors. Eeek! Get this guy to the whacky shack right away. In the end, the black girl won and the old guy who didn't bake anything was sent home.
Project Runway always proves I don't know good fashion. The designers had to do a sportswear look inspired by Jackie Onassis. Okay, so I loved Mondo's design and he won. Michael Drummond was sent home for making butt ugly clothes which some designers deemed genius. Whatever. Last week, the designers were told they had 2 days to make a high fashion look based on Loreal eyeshadows. April and Michael C. were the only one's smart enough to smell a rat. Most of the other designers made big plans that they talked over with everybody instead of sewing like Cinderella's mice. Sure enough. On the morning of the 2nd day, Tim Gunn announces they have to make a ready to wear look to go with it too and they have to make another trip to mood. Swatch, the Mood mascot Boston Terrier seemed to steal the show with Tim Gunn running after him. How cute was that? Anyway, the designers scrambled. The one's who had lollygagged most of the first day now had to edit down their high fashion designs. Valerie about had a breakdown and Ivy wasted time talking her through it. Stay on task people! This isn't Girlscout camp, it's a competitiona and the name of the game is get those clothes sewed. So in the end, Gretchen sent a bohemian 70's mumu looking thing down the runway (complete with headband), followed by a dress that looked like it had nothing to do with the original. Ivy made an ugly pageant dress followed by an even uglier bridesmaid dress. Valerie made a wedding gown followed by a basic black strapless number. Michael C. made a beautiful burgundy gown but made a train on it that could rival the orient express but the cocktail dress that followed was cute. Christopher made a dress that looked like something made with toilet paper at a bridal shower. Anyway, in the end, Mondo won again for his cool colorful edgy gown and very cool chevron sheath. Oh and he won 20 grand too. Finally, Ivy the bee-yotch was sent home. Man, she was the crabbiest Korean I ever saw.
Hell's Kitchen is back with all new contestants. Right away a lady got ill and had to drop out of the competition. Good thing cuz she was a terrible cook. The men proved they've got some lunkheads this season and the women have a big talker who actually proves she's got talent and a palate to back up all that hot air. So far the women have lost 2 teammates and the men lost one. They haven't proven they're as good as last season's chefs. It should be interesting.
Mike and Molly is a cute sitcom that is funny and real.
$#!& My Dad Says had a weak pilot. It's weakened by it's early primetime timeslot of 7:30pm Central time. You can't be edgy and raw and family friendly at the same time. Straddling the fence makes for a weak show. Shatner does his best with what he's given but we know he can do better. He just needs to unleash that Denny Crane persona and we'll all be rolling on the floor laughing.
Hawaii 5-0 had it's pilot and it's disappointing. McGarret just doesn't seem tough and manly enough like Jack Lord and Dano isn't nearly as handsome as James MacArthur. Why are Koreans portraying Hawaiians? They also had way too much of Dano talking goo goo with his kid. The main criminal plot was very weak and stupid. Ugh. I'll pass.
Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and The Middle are still just as good. Smallville is in it's last season and just letting off all their ammunition. The season premiere was awesome and is nicely bringing Superman to the hero we all know and love. I was disappointed Lex Luthor wasn't Michael Rosenbaum but we can't have everything.
So that's it. As more shows come on, I'll keep you up to date so stay tuned.
Anyway, let's start with shows that are still leftover from the summer.
Bachelor Pad ended up with Tenley and Kypton and Natalie and Craig. Nat and Craig were chosen by the rest of the contestants who were brought back for a nice reunion. Then they had that choice thing. If Nat and Craig both chose to share the money, they would split it evenly. If one chose keep and the other chose share, the one who chose keep would keep all of the money. If both chose keep, neither would get any money and the quarter million would be evenly divided amongst the losing contestants. It was pretty funny since the ousted people were egging them on to choose to keep the money. In the end, both chose to share and Nat and Craig rode off into the sunset on a pile of money. I learned this show was a big waste of my time and just as dumb as the original show.
On Money Hungry, the people are still fat but more conniving. Flabulous changed their vote 2 weeks in a row. It worked out for them the first week but not the second. No Excuses are out and Flabulous should've remembered it's a weight loss show and actually tried working out. Now the Regulators are shaking in their boots because they don't feel in control anymore. Whatever. Everybody is still fat and most are pretty ugly too.
The Apprentice is back and with regular people who have fallen to the bad economy. Now why isn't anyone mentioning Obama on this show? The teams chose Octane and... some other dumb name. Anyway the first task was to make a modern office out of an open space. The pageant girl was made project manager for the women and the military guy was made project manager of the men. The pageant chick turned out to be a ball passer who delegated too much and was too diplomatic and the military guy was too into himself to notice the rest of his team didn't know what to do with themselves. I got the feeling that the Don didn't have such a big budget for the people. The women ended up with an old fuddy duddy office and the men's office looked like Legoland. The decorator lady on the women's team proved why she lost her job. She sucks at decorating. The lawyer chick on the women's team proved her disloyalty by dissing the project manager before knowing whether they won or not. They didn't. In the end, the pageant chick was fired but she has a job to go back to and the Don was so impressed by her. He's setting up an interview with the Miss Universe organization for her. I think he just noticed what a hot chick she was. The next week, the teams had to sell ice cream. Both teams had similar ideas about dress and location. The men made fools of themselves. The women stuck to their higher price point and ended up winning the task. This time the quiet Hispanic guy was fired. Now I don't know who's more annoying: the whiny guys or the arguing women.
She's Got the Look is winding down and down to just 4 women. Marianne and Lisa were let go. It was kind of obvious but Jocelyn should really go for not being flexible and cooperative. She's also ugly on the inside and everything's all about her. Julie is proving she does have what it takes even though Jocelyn keeps saying she doesn't. I love Roshumba as a judge. She doesn't sugarcoat anything.
Survivor is in Nicaragua and has split the tribes into people younger than 40 and people older than 40. There's one girl on the over 40 tribe who I doubt is over 40 but whatever. It's really quite interesting. They have a famous football coach on the oldies tribe and a girl with only 1 leg on the younger tribe. The first week, the older tribe made fire right away and a good shelter. I liked that they built a good shelter and then didn't think it was good enough and started fixing it right away. Now that's work ethic. Unfortunately, they didn't quite gel with the first challenge and lost and ended up at tribal council. The goat herder lady got diarrhea of the mouth and said stuff that made her look like a total nutball. The whole tribe wisely voted her out. When you're living with a bunch of strangers, you don't need someone who's a whole lot of crazy. The 2nd week showed the disharmony of the younger tribe. There seems to be a minority faction. Even though the soccer coach started to go mental, the tribe pulled together and the older tribe won the immunity challenge and the fishing gear. Weirdly enough, the younger tribe voted off a strong male player. Are they trying to lose the challenges? It should be interesting.
America's Got Talent had a surprising winner. Michael Grimm was the last person I thought would win. He won. Oh well. Do I think he can hold a show in Vegas? Nope. I wouldn't pay to see him. I hope someone signs Fighting Gravity right away.
I'm not watching Dancing with the Stars this season. Of the contestants, I don't care who wins, I don't care to see any of them and I'm sick to death of the same pros winning. Just once, I wish they'd give Louis, Edyta, Tony, Michael and Anna someone who has a freakin' chance. Okay, they did give Anna Evan Lysachek last year but still... So far, I hear David Hasselhoff was voted off first.
The Great Foodtruck Race ended up in New York City with Grillem All and the Nom Nom truck. So far, the Nom Nom truck was blowing the competition away every week. This time, Grillem All had the other teams backing them up with advice and good resources. It was interesting with the trucks having to sell in each borough. In the end, they proved a lot of support works cuz the Grillem All guys won the whole enchilada.
America's Next Top Model is back with a very high fashion season. Expect very tall thin girls with very high cheek bones. They're all pretty young with the oldest 22 years old. There's no plus sized or old this season. There are 2 sisters who are so funny that they really make the show very enjoyable. Unlike the twin sisters on a previous season, they're quite competitive with each other so the dynamic is different. Ironically, Tyra herself doesn't qualify for this season since the modern couture look is very different from the 80's. Also, Tyra's not that thin or young anymore. It should be good. Unfortunately, everything good is on Wednesdays and Thursdays and I'm having to watch things on the web.
Top Chef went to Singapore for the finale. The top 4 were Angelo, Ed, Kevin and Kelly. Ed blew everyone away the first day and Kelly was sent home. Then the chefs were joined by winning Top Chefs from past seasons: Michael, Ilan and Hung. They were given the same main ingredients to use, given parameters for the meal and let go. Someone poisoned Angelo and he was bedridden for a day. Good thing Hung was his soux chef because he whipped everything together in no time. Ed had the Carla problem of wanting to be in charge of his meal but with no idea for dessert so Ilan threw out ideas. It proved to be his waterloo. Even though Angelo was able to go back to cookin' after a shot in the butt and a day in bed, his head was still not on straight. In the end, Kevin was declared Top Chef. All of his food was well thought out, well seasoned and looked great.
Top Chef: Just Desserts is a great concept. The chefs are quick to point out the superiority of pastry chefs over savory chefs. They also seem to use a lot of lingo that I have no clue what the heck they're talking about when describing cooking and food. The first week, the chefs had to make their signature dessert for the quickfire then halfway through, they were told it had to be in the form of a cupcake. Not being wonder twins, some of the chefs had quite a condundrum. Pudding in a bowl is not a cupcake. Then they had to do a chocolate dessert with Jacques Torres as a guest judge. Oh boy! I love Zac. He's hilarious. Meanwhile, the chef who looks like Dexter seems to be very egotistical. Morgan is too. Is that a heterosexual male chef trait that I don't know about? Anyway, the homely lady with the big buck teeth was let go and the oriental girl won. Last week, the chefs had to make a dessert with penny candy for the quickfire. The Dexter guy had a complete crying meltdown about his Mommy over is unfinished dessert. Instead of awkwardly moving on, Faulkner gave the guy a nice peptalk and a hug. Awww... Then the chefs had to make a dessert based on a cocktail. This time the Dexter guy's mood swung the other way and he got shouting made at his fellow competitors. Eeek! Get this guy to the whacky shack right away. In the end, the black girl won and the old guy who didn't bake anything was sent home.
Project Runway always proves I don't know good fashion. The designers had to do a sportswear look inspired by Jackie Onassis. Okay, so I loved Mondo's design and he won. Michael Drummond was sent home for making butt ugly clothes which some designers deemed genius. Whatever. Last week, the designers were told they had 2 days to make a high fashion look based on Loreal eyeshadows. April and Michael C. were the only one's smart enough to smell a rat. Most of the other designers made big plans that they talked over with everybody instead of sewing like Cinderella's mice. Sure enough. On the morning of the 2nd day, Tim Gunn announces they have to make a ready to wear look to go with it too and they have to make another trip to mood. Swatch, the Mood mascot Boston Terrier seemed to steal the show with Tim Gunn running after him. How cute was that? Anyway, the designers scrambled. The one's who had lollygagged most of the first day now had to edit down their high fashion designs. Valerie about had a breakdown and Ivy wasted time talking her through it. Stay on task people! This isn't Girlscout camp, it's a competitiona and the name of the game is get those clothes sewed. So in the end, Gretchen sent a bohemian 70's mumu looking thing down the runway (complete with headband), followed by a dress that looked like it had nothing to do with the original. Ivy made an ugly pageant dress followed by an even uglier bridesmaid dress. Valerie made a wedding gown followed by a basic black strapless number. Michael C. made a beautiful burgundy gown but made a train on it that could rival the orient express but the cocktail dress that followed was cute. Christopher made a dress that looked like something made with toilet paper at a bridal shower. Anyway, in the end, Mondo won again for his cool colorful edgy gown and very cool chevron sheath. Oh and he won 20 grand too. Finally, Ivy the bee-yotch was sent home. Man, she was the crabbiest Korean I ever saw.
Hell's Kitchen is back with all new contestants. Right away a lady got ill and had to drop out of the competition. Good thing cuz she was a terrible cook. The men proved they've got some lunkheads this season and the women have a big talker who actually proves she's got talent and a palate to back up all that hot air. So far the women have lost 2 teammates and the men lost one. They haven't proven they're as good as last season's chefs. It should be interesting.
Mike and Molly is a cute sitcom that is funny and real.
$#!& My Dad Says had a weak pilot. It's weakened by it's early primetime timeslot of 7:30pm Central time. You can't be edgy and raw and family friendly at the same time. Straddling the fence makes for a weak show. Shatner does his best with what he's given but we know he can do better. He just needs to unleash that Denny Crane persona and we'll all be rolling on the floor laughing.
Hawaii 5-0 had it's pilot and it's disappointing. McGarret just doesn't seem tough and manly enough like Jack Lord and Dano isn't nearly as handsome as James MacArthur. Why are Koreans portraying Hawaiians? They also had way too much of Dano talking goo goo with his kid. The main criminal plot was very weak and stupid. Ugh. I'll pass.
Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and The Middle are still just as good. Smallville is in it's last season and just letting off all their ammunition. The season premiere was awesome and is nicely bringing Superman to the hero we all know and love. I was disappointed Lex Luthor wasn't Michael Rosenbaum but we can't have everything.
So that's it. As more shows come on, I'll keep you up to date so stay tuned.
Monday, September 6, 2010
We're back
Okay, so I thought, I'll just take a little break and all of a sudden, 2 weeks went by. Meanwhile, I did watch TV. You really think I'd miss my TV shows?
Let's start with Bachelor Pad. This show is like high school. Some people are pairing off and the rest are jealous. The dates are kind of stupid since most of the time it's 3 girls and 1 guy or 3 guys and 1 girl. At least last week, they made it a real date with just 1 choosing 1. There's a lot of attempting of ousting people and the planners seem to get voted out. The end of this show oughtta be really good if they let it go to a vote. So far, Gia, Weatherman, Wes and Chrisily are out. Elizabeth and Kovacs make me gag every time they're together. They had a kissing competition a couple of weeks ago and Gia made a big deal of having to kiss other men. I guess that means you're really not an actress. The guys couldn't figure out how the girls could tell who was who. Probably from their cologne. It's pretty much a give away when Elizabeth starts cringeing before Weatherman even starts kissing her. Suddenly the blonde bimbos are emerging. I'm starting to fast forward through their scenes since nothing intelligent seems to be said. I liked one girl finding the guy wasn't so great after he got drunk. I still can't stand the host of this franchise. What a rat faced geek. They should've just stuck with Rycroft by herself.
Money Hungry is a lower budget kind of Biggest Loser. Nobody cries but at the same time, nobody really works out and nobody really loses weight. It's kind of a white trash lazy man's Biggest Loser with the emphasis on Loser and I don't mean of weight. In the first place, each team of 2 paid in 10K to be on the show. OMG, where did they find these suckers? You don't see them working out like they should and they don't seem to eat as well either. There's one New York team that tries to be the Godfathers. "We'll look out for you if you do what we say." Whatever! Funny thing is, their cohorts have fallen by the wayside. The really lazy teams all bunched up with the cavemen looking guys and found they were outnumbering the other group. They thought they were safe, so didn't work out at all. The producers threw in a wrench and made the elimination all about weight loss. OMG, how funny! At the weigh in, some teams only lost 2 or 5 pounds. Really? Next time pee and poo before the weigh-in. Also, I don't think I've ever seen an uglier bunch of people. No butt-er faces there.
America's Got Talent is down to the final 12. What an amazing group. There's a young girl with the voice of an opera diva. Really amazing. We finally got rid of the sisters with the sob story. Prince Poppycock and Fighting Gravity are still in it. That guy who does the mountain bike balance thing is really great and shows us something even more thrilling each week. We have dancers and a really great magic act. They finally got rid of that French street performer who I thought should've stayed on the street. Bye Bye Frenchie. Gaborey Sidibe's mother is out. The nervous girl singer is out and thank the gods we never have to see Mary Ellen ever again. Meanwhile, Howie has proven he doesn't know the difference between talent and stupid entertainment. Piers may be grumpy but always seems to be right and Sharon is the mediator who keeps Piers from punching Howie in the face. What a show. So far, America has shown, this year, they do have taste.
Top Chef is winding down. They had a challenge cooking for the CIA, cooking for the Nationals baseball stadium and for NASA. Gee, all the government reference is getting nauseating. We lost Alex, Amanda and Tiffany. Alex made a veal dish that was declared a weapon. Can we say overcooked? He couldn't figure out what he did wrong. Gee, I guess he's as smart as he is handsome. Amanda made tuna tartare for the baseball stadium that had oxidized overnight. Eeek! Chef Eric Ripert admitted he wouldn't swallow it for fear of getting sick. With the NASA challenge, Angelo finally pulled his finger out after lagging for a couple of shows and won both the quickfire and the elimination. All the chefs did really well for the NASA dish so it came down to sheer luck and Tiffany's ran out. Her mussels got frozen. How the heck are you gonna freeze dry mussels? Oh well. So for the final 4, it's Kelly, Ed, Kevin and Angelo. We'll see who's learned something after their break. Some people come back refreshed and prepared and some just come back.
Project Runway has the cattiest bunch of people I've seen in a long time. 2 weeks ago, they had the group break into 2 teams of 6. Michael C. must've forgotten about those knives in his back because he chose Gretchen to be on his team and then Ivy too. Really? So one team ended up consisting of winners and the other team no winners. I knew the egos would show more with the winners and boy there was no holding them back. Gretchen kind of ran the show for team Luxe. They chose to make a line of clothes with menswear to women's wear beige. Meanwhile, the scrapper team went with military and lace. Really? beige? Ooh, exciting. In the end, the scrapper team won and Casanova finally got some taste and was declared the individual winner. Since he's respectful to everybody, they all gave him respect back and gave him his due. A. J. was ousted for his sad shirt dress. I had one in high school in the 80's but it had a lot more color. Last week, the designers took ugly bridesmaids dresses and made them into something else. They also came with the owner. Surprisingly, the designers didn't really care what the dress was. They chose depending on the lady in the dress so of course the heavier girls were left to last. Valerie and Michael D. had last choices and I really think they started the challenge with a defeated outlook. Both acted like they didn't think there was enough fabric in the dress to work with it and cover the girl. Everybody dissed Michael C. Why? Ivy has proven the green eyed monster has made her ugly inside and out. Gretchen is more humble after being called out by Tim Gunn the week before. He admonished the Luxe team for letting her bully them and blah blah blah. All I know is, I was RFLMAO cuz he said it right in front of her. She needed to be cut down a few pegs anyway. She's still making those ugly earthtone clothes. She's someone who can only design for herself. Way to have ingrown eyeballs, Gretch. So Anyway, Michael C. won for the 2nd time and Peach was ousted for her really ugly avocado green dress. Ivy and Gretchen were livid over Michael C's win. Casanova was the only one who showed any class by congratulating him. Gee.
The Great Food Truck Race went to Austin and New Orleans. The Nom Nom truck just can't be beaten. They're not only good cooks, but they're good business managers too. They're very savvy planning ahead and doing research on the city while driving there. They tend to pair up with a local business guaranteeing not only a spot to park but associated customers too. The French team lands in the bottom 2 every week, but seems to stay in the game by the skin of their teeth. I think they probably have a high price on their food. Even though they don't sell as much, they still make more profit. So the Ragin' Cajuns, the crepes truck and now the Austin Daily Press are out. I don't understand why they thought they'd do worse in the rain in New Orleans. The people are used to rain.
So that's it. Survivor and the Amazing Race should be coming back. They showed the new stars participating in Dancing With the Stars: David Hasselhoff, the Situation from Jersey, Ummm...and nobody else I wanna know. I don't think I'll watch this season. I'm sure there's a lot better things to see on TV. Also, Brooke Burke is back and I can't stand her.
Oh talk about Brooke Burke, she's hosting She's Got the Look this season. I loved that the youngest lady who thought she was all that was kicked off first. Hee hee hee. Shawn Patterson is more blunt and to the point. I think he found it didn't work to be kinder and gentler when you have a complete nutball in the mix. Remember the crazy lady who stripped her clothes off at judging last year? I love Roshumba Williams. She tells'em like it is and also doesn't beat around the bush. She also still looks really great and has a ton of personality. Tyra who? The women had to do a swimsuit shoot and were all worried. Why? They all look great! Then they had makeovers and all of a sudden, that mousey southern lawyer lady came out of her shell and just killed the next photo shoot. It was great to see.
The Emmy's came and went. Finally, Kyra Sedgewick finally won her Emmy. Jim Parsons won and Modern Family were winners too. Claire Danes elevated herself from totally ugly to just homely and won an Emmy too. Jimmy Fallon proved to be forgettable and Ricky Gervais showed why he should host every awards show.
That's it. Come back again and see what I've been watching.
Let's start with Bachelor Pad. This show is like high school. Some people are pairing off and the rest are jealous. The dates are kind of stupid since most of the time it's 3 girls and 1 guy or 3 guys and 1 girl. At least last week, they made it a real date with just 1 choosing 1. There's a lot of attempting of ousting people and the planners seem to get voted out. The end of this show oughtta be really good if they let it go to a vote. So far, Gia, Weatherman, Wes and Chrisily are out. Elizabeth and Kovacs make me gag every time they're together. They had a kissing competition a couple of weeks ago and Gia made a big deal of having to kiss other men. I guess that means you're really not an actress. The guys couldn't figure out how the girls could tell who was who. Probably from their cologne. It's pretty much a give away when Elizabeth starts cringeing before Weatherman even starts kissing her. Suddenly the blonde bimbos are emerging. I'm starting to fast forward through their scenes since nothing intelligent seems to be said. I liked one girl finding the guy wasn't so great after he got drunk. I still can't stand the host of this franchise. What a rat faced geek. They should've just stuck with Rycroft by herself.
Money Hungry is a lower budget kind of Biggest Loser. Nobody cries but at the same time, nobody really works out and nobody really loses weight. It's kind of a white trash lazy man's Biggest Loser with the emphasis on Loser and I don't mean of weight. In the first place, each team of 2 paid in 10K to be on the show. OMG, where did they find these suckers? You don't see them working out like they should and they don't seem to eat as well either. There's one New York team that tries to be the Godfathers. "We'll look out for you if you do what we say." Whatever! Funny thing is, their cohorts have fallen by the wayside. The really lazy teams all bunched up with the cavemen looking guys and found they were outnumbering the other group. They thought they were safe, so didn't work out at all. The producers threw in a wrench and made the elimination all about weight loss. OMG, how funny! At the weigh in, some teams only lost 2 or 5 pounds. Really? Next time pee and poo before the weigh-in. Also, I don't think I've ever seen an uglier bunch of people. No butt-er faces there.
America's Got Talent is down to the final 12. What an amazing group. There's a young girl with the voice of an opera diva. Really amazing. We finally got rid of the sisters with the sob story. Prince Poppycock and Fighting Gravity are still in it. That guy who does the mountain bike balance thing is really great and shows us something even more thrilling each week. We have dancers and a really great magic act. They finally got rid of that French street performer who I thought should've stayed on the street. Bye Bye Frenchie. Gaborey Sidibe's mother is out. The nervous girl singer is out and thank the gods we never have to see Mary Ellen ever again. Meanwhile, Howie has proven he doesn't know the difference between talent and stupid entertainment. Piers may be grumpy but always seems to be right and Sharon is the mediator who keeps Piers from punching Howie in the face. What a show. So far, America has shown, this year, they do have taste.
Top Chef is winding down. They had a challenge cooking for the CIA, cooking for the Nationals baseball stadium and for NASA. Gee, all the government reference is getting nauseating. We lost Alex, Amanda and Tiffany. Alex made a veal dish that was declared a weapon. Can we say overcooked? He couldn't figure out what he did wrong. Gee, I guess he's as smart as he is handsome. Amanda made tuna tartare for the baseball stadium that had oxidized overnight. Eeek! Chef Eric Ripert admitted he wouldn't swallow it for fear of getting sick. With the NASA challenge, Angelo finally pulled his finger out after lagging for a couple of shows and won both the quickfire and the elimination. All the chefs did really well for the NASA dish so it came down to sheer luck and Tiffany's ran out. Her mussels got frozen. How the heck are you gonna freeze dry mussels? Oh well. So for the final 4, it's Kelly, Ed, Kevin and Angelo. We'll see who's learned something after their break. Some people come back refreshed and prepared and some just come back.
Project Runway has the cattiest bunch of people I've seen in a long time. 2 weeks ago, they had the group break into 2 teams of 6. Michael C. must've forgotten about those knives in his back because he chose Gretchen to be on his team and then Ivy too. Really? So one team ended up consisting of winners and the other team no winners. I knew the egos would show more with the winners and boy there was no holding them back. Gretchen kind of ran the show for team Luxe. They chose to make a line of clothes with menswear to women's wear beige. Meanwhile, the scrapper team went with military and lace. Really? beige? Ooh, exciting. In the end, the scrapper team won and Casanova finally got some taste and was declared the individual winner. Since he's respectful to everybody, they all gave him respect back and gave him his due. A. J. was ousted for his sad shirt dress. I had one in high school in the 80's but it had a lot more color. Last week, the designers took ugly bridesmaids dresses and made them into something else. They also came with the owner. Surprisingly, the designers didn't really care what the dress was. They chose depending on the lady in the dress so of course the heavier girls were left to last. Valerie and Michael D. had last choices and I really think they started the challenge with a defeated outlook. Both acted like they didn't think there was enough fabric in the dress to work with it and cover the girl. Everybody dissed Michael C. Why? Ivy has proven the green eyed monster has made her ugly inside and out. Gretchen is more humble after being called out by Tim Gunn the week before. He admonished the Luxe team for letting her bully them and blah blah blah. All I know is, I was RFLMAO cuz he said it right in front of her. She needed to be cut down a few pegs anyway. She's still making those ugly earthtone clothes. She's someone who can only design for herself. Way to have ingrown eyeballs, Gretch. So Anyway, Michael C. won for the 2nd time and Peach was ousted for her really ugly avocado green dress. Ivy and Gretchen were livid over Michael C's win. Casanova was the only one who showed any class by congratulating him. Gee.
The Great Food Truck Race went to Austin and New Orleans. The Nom Nom truck just can't be beaten. They're not only good cooks, but they're good business managers too. They're very savvy planning ahead and doing research on the city while driving there. They tend to pair up with a local business guaranteeing not only a spot to park but associated customers too. The French team lands in the bottom 2 every week, but seems to stay in the game by the skin of their teeth. I think they probably have a high price on their food. Even though they don't sell as much, they still make more profit. So the Ragin' Cajuns, the crepes truck and now the Austin Daily Press are out. I don't understand why they thought they'd do worse in the rain in New Orleans. The people are used to rain.
So that's it. Survivor and the Amazing Race should be coming back. They showed the new stars participating in Dancing With the Stars: David Hasselhoff, the Situation from Jersey, Ummm...and nobody else I wanna know. I don't think I'll watch this season. I'm sure there's a lot better things to see on TV. Also, Brooke Burke is back and I can't stand her.
Oh talk about Brooke Burke, she's hosting She's Got the Look this season. I loved that the youngest lady who thought she was all that was kicked off first. Hee hee hee. Shawn Patterson is more blunt and to the point. I think he found it didn't work to be kinder and gentler when you have a complete nutball in the mix. Remember the crazy lady who stripped her clothes off at judging last year? I love Roshumba Williams. She tells'em like it is and also doesn't beat around the bush. She also still looks really great and has a ton of personality. Tyra who? The women had to do a swimsuit shoot and were all worried. Why? They all look great! Then they had makeovers and all of a sudden, that mousey southern lawyer lady came out of her shell and just killed the next photo shoot. It was great to see.
The Emmy's came and went. Finally, Kyra Sedgewick finally won her Emmy. Jim Parsons won and Modern Family were winners too. Claire Danes elevated herself from totally ugly to just homely and won an Emmy too. Jimmy Fallon proved to be forgettable and Ricky Gervais showed why he should host every awards show.
That's it. Come back again and see what I've been watching.
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