October 6, 2008
Well, we couldn't expect another hour of total excitement after last week's tension-breaking catharsisfest, could we? It's back to the slow building, building, building. You know what I do while I watch Mad Men, to deal with the slowness? Jumping jacks. I highly recommend it. So, even though not a whole lot actually "happened" on last night's show, there were some good lines and some even better foreshadowing. And also a dream-sequence Don/Betty sex scene that defies the propriety of the times in which they lived!
Continue reading Mad Men: Real Predictions And Dream Drapersex...
Posted by Lindsay at 5:00 PM in ,
Tags: Betty Draper | Don Draper | Elisabeth Moss | January Jones | Jon Hamm | Mad Men
latest by GMoney
Entourage has four plot structures. There's the "Uh Oh, Vince Is Doing Fame Wrong," plot (#1). There's the "Hooray, It Still Paid Off, Though," plot (#2). There's the "One-off Episode of Insignificance" plot (#3). And then there are episodes like last night's show in which the plot seems to waffle between the #1 and #3. This is known as the "One-off Episode of False Significance" plot (#4). The only job Vince can get is on Benji so everyone piles into a Winnebago with Eric Roberts (sure) and drags Ari out to the desert where Drama has insisted they go on a mushroom-fueled spirit quest to discover whether or not Vince should take the job. At one point it looks like Vince might take the job, significance, but at the very last second he decides not so much.
Continue reading Entourage: Let's Do The Numbers...
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Tags: Adrian Grenier | Entourage | Jeremy Piven | Jerry Ferrara | Kevin Connolly | Kevin Dillon
latest by Angelaaaa
Now that we've gotten through the laborious first few episodes that were required to establish the True Blood universe, we're finally settling into some punchy narrative. The jury is still out on this show, in the way that sometimes a jury doesn't really like a trial that much but can't help watching the trial every week. You know, law stuff. But, despite the impossibly bad accents, and the over-the-top vampire as homosexual metaphor that drives all the True Blood superfans so crazy, there is one consistently bright spot on the show, and that is short order cook slash drug dealer Lafayette. Each week, he provides some of the most interesting moments on the show, and despite the fact that he's often a broadly drawn homosexual caricature, he's also the most human character out of the whole cast. Granted, he's on True Blood, so there are some obvious problems, like why is he a short order cook, a road crew worker, AND a drug dealer? That is TOO MANY things to be. Also, last night's episode had a particularly troublesome moment when Lafayette, who claims to genuinely care about Jason Stackhouse's well being, encouraged him to become more serious about his recreational drug use. But it's not Lafayette's fault! He's simply being used as a false narrative agent by the lazy slop artists who write this show and needed some way to get Jason back on vampire blood. Besides, the moment in the episode when Lafayette confronted the rednecks about their AIDS burger was golden.
Continue reading True Blood: Free Lafayette...
Posted by Gabe at 12:30 PM in
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Nelsan Ellis | True Blood | Vampires
latest by Funtastik
September 30, 2008
One of the main things that everyone has noticed and thought about in regards to reality television is WHERE ARE THE PARENTS? Almost every single person who has ever participated on a reality TV show has acted in a way that makes you assume their parents must be dead. But they usually aren't. In fact, sometimes they're even brought onto the show. That's confusing. Why are they on the show? Why aren't they at home developing punishments for their children for shaming the family? Or taking the family's shame into their own hands? Such was the case on this week's Hills when Heidi's mom came to visit.
Continue reading The Hills: Even Osama Bin Laden Had A Mom Once...
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Tags: Brody Jenner | Doug Reinhardt | Heidi Montag | Lauren Conrad | Spencer Pratt | Stephanie Pratt | The Hills
latest by I PEE GOLD
It's Fashion Week! This is obviously a show about high school because the most important thing to remember is IT'S FASHION WEEK. I remember when I was in high school every fall it was like "Ugh, isn't western civ over yet? I need to get down to the tents!" Just kidding. I would never have missed western civ because it was hilarious. Our teacher was this incredible failure who spent most of every class day showing episodes of Montel and talking about his obsession with Waco, Texas. Srsly. That's why I'm such a genius. Anyway, Fashion Week. It's funny how the fashion industry represents the supreme anti-humanitarian aesthetic accomplishment of capitalism and the indulgence of wealth, and this show is Gossip Girl.
Continue reading Gossip Girl: Charlie Trout, Don Grumphrey, Clair Waldorn, And Selena Ban Der Foodsen Go To Fashion Week...
Posted by Gabe at 11:45 AM in
Tags: Blair Waldorf | Blake Lively | Chuck Bass | Dan Humphrey | Ed Westwick | Gossip Girl | Jenny Humphrey | Leighton Meester | Penn Badgley | Serena Van Der Woodsen | Taylor Momsen
latest by e
September 29, 2008
I don't know if Marilyn Monroe had to go ahead and die, or if someone had to pee their pants or WHAT, but last night's Mad Men was not only the best episode so far, it was like they got a new writer who suddenly brought all this likability to so many characters. And so many chickens are coming home to roost, it's insane. And the funny lines in this episode! ("I got my diagnosis the other day: I'm bored.") Also admit it: you've been waiting forever to see Betty with seriously dirty hair.
Continue reading Mad Men: Best. Episode. So. Far....
Posted by Lindsay at 5:10 PM in
Tags: Betty Draper | Don Draper | Elizabeth Moss | January Jones | Jon Hamm | Mad Men | Marilyn Monroe | Peggy Olson
latest by Jeb
You know what, nicely done, last night's Entourage. Sure, the whole show has been like a low stakes weekly poker game since the first season. Just a bunch of dudes getting together every week to joke around, with no women, and even though everyone pretends like the betting chips have value we know that they don't. Perfect. Put that metaphor into a space capsule and send it out into the farthest reaches so that alien races can learn what metaphors are. But last night there was some genuine dramatic tension. Sort of. E represents a script that enters a bidding war that ultimately pits Vince against Edward Norton, but E has to do what's best for his clients, which may mean going against what's best for Vince. See what I mean? Dramatic tension! Kind of!
But I fear it's too little too late. I've been burned one too many times in the past. Remember the whole James Cameron at Sundance story arc? No, Entourage. I have to start taking care of me now. As I said last week, this show's failure to develop meaningful characters that anyone gives a shit about has left us with no choice but to focus on the celebrity cameos. We totally care about celebrities! Besides, it's that kind of stunt casting that is clearly what's keeping this show's lazy Sunday booze cruise aboard a pleasure craft afloat. Last night's most notable cameos came from Whoopi Goldberg, Sheri Shepherd, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, when Johnny Drama appeared on The View.
Continue reading Entourage: Does Hollywood Have A Different The View?...
Posted by Gabe at 11:30 AM in
Tags: Adrian Grenier | Elisabeth Hasselbeck | Entourage | Jeremy Piven | Jerry Ferrara | Kevin Connolly | Kevin Dillon | Sherri Shepherd | The View | Whoopi Goldberg
latest by Dolf
September 23, 2008
