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April 2009 Archives
Tonight's the second season finale of this show and to be honest with you, I never thought it would make it this long. But now that I've gotten past my initial outright hatred of it, I've kind of come to peace with this soapy medical drama. It's not good by any means (despite its strong cast), but it's not as horrible as it was when it started. You just have to let go of all reason or hope of things making sense or people behaving in a way that people in any sort of professional scenario would ever act, and it is totally watchable. It's sort of the Prison Break of medical shows. Totally preposterous, but I just can't look the other away.
Can you believe it has been 100 episodes? Yeah. Actually, while I love this show, it does indeed feel like it has been on forever. Or maybe it is all the time travel that just makes it seem longer. Anyway, they got a really cool cake from Duff at Charm City (aka the Ace of Cakes staff) to celebrate the big event and us loyal fans get nothing except a new episode. Cookies would have been nice...
This cycle of The Biggest Loser is winding down, and I am being told by the show's press release that it is "payback time" tonight! Which of course means that the Biggest Loser universe will be turned upside down as the contestants will be training Bob and Jillian. Which of course really means that the contestants will be torturing Bob and Jillian. Should be fun! Later, the contestants will have to race each other up and down hills while pulling a sack full of the equivalent of all the weight they've lost, which always looks pretty heart attack-inducing. But then again so does every second of this show. Oh well!
It's the season finale, and Ellie is getting married! I wrote already about how awesome last week's episode was, and it could have been the season finale, if it had to be. They hooked Sarah and Chuck up, they took the intersect out of his brain, they freed his dad, Morgan quit the Buy More for his dream job and Sarah and Casey both got their jobs back. Everything was wrapped up in a nice little bow, with the exception of Roark (Chevy Chase) surviving the airstrike and coming after the Bartowski family.
You watched Rock of Love Season 2 (the one before they went road tripping on the bus)? Right? So you already know about how Bret stupidly chose Ambre instead of his true soul-mate Daisy de la Hoya, right? And even though she looked like a muppet and not a Penthouse pet, she was awesome? If not, then you probably won't care about this show. If so, Daisy got her own show, but it is less Rock of Love and more I Love New York. She even gives them stupid nicknames based on their first impressions.
Sunday, April 26
It's the 250th episode of King of the Hill (FOX, 7:30pm)! Plot as follows: Hank must follow his deceased father's orders to flush Cotton's ashes down a toilet that General Patton once used. Classy.
Manks (man skanks for the uninitiated, which I pray most of you are), it's your time to shine when Daisy of Love (VH1, 9pm) premieres this week! Wow, did you know that all three members of a Swedish band called Snake of Eden are competing on the show? Or that they're triplets and look oddly like paler versions of Daisy? I think love has already been found for Miss de la Hoya.
Excccccccccelent, the first Goldblumized episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA, 9pm) airs this week. Goldblum's Zach Nichols is a cop who returns to the force after seven years of "finding himself," complete with a Zen sensibility and a taste for bagels paired with ham grits. Eclectic!
You have to love a show that doesn't take itself seriously. Considering that the self-mocking folks at Supernatural have previously titled episodes "Sex and Violence," "After School Special" and "A Very Supernatural Christmas," it's no surprise that they went with the very meta title "Jump the Shark" for tonight's episode, in which the Winchester brothers meet their new kid brother. I guess when the show's creator and stars are both looking to wrap things up after one more season, there's no harm in pointing out where fans will say the show started going downhill, huh? After all, they already made fun of their writers and their message board posters in the last episode, and mocked the show's entire conceit in the episode before that. Not that I'm complaining. It's my favorite show on TV for that very reason.
I've been a huge, quote-every-episode, dress-up-like-Clemmy-for-Halloween, psychotic Reno 911! fan since the show began, and while I've definitely been enjoying this season and the addition of Joe Lo Truglio and Ian Roberts so far, I'm still pretty distraught over the firing of Clemmy, Garcia and Kimball (the actors, anyway; the characters are dead). The show is still really funny and I'm going to remain loyal to it, but I think it's messed up to just fire three major cast members with no warning or explanation to the fans (aside from reluctant posts on Wendi Mclendon-Covey and Carlos Alazraqui's official sites that they were fired via email, of all methods), and I haven't really had a place to say that on the site until now. So, it's disappointing and sad, and I think it's a huge mistake story-wise, but I'm still going to keep watching. Best of luck to all three of them. Now, on to tonight's episode.
Justin Timberlake has a new MTV show. He's not singing or acting or, heck, really even on it, he's just behind-the-scenes as the executive producer of this action game show. Basically, four contestants get a phone call, get paired into teams of two and then have to complete extreme tasks in order to win $50,000. Some of the potential tasks include hanging off the Space Needle, racing into a burning building, recover a piece of secret military technology or stop a mad bomber. Sort of like The Game, or Eagle Eye or Saw or Phone Booth with a dash of Fear Factor thrown in for good measure. The press release makes it sound all very deadly and dangerous... with the potential that some people might die while completing these challenges or something. That seems highly unlikely. I'm sure that everyone has to sign a massive waiver in order to even start on this show.
So last week's 24 was full of all kinds of ridiculous crap, because god forbid we ever get a complete season of non-enraging storylines. Did you watch last week? If not, stop reading. If you did, you are already aware that Larry Moss is dead and that Tony, who has apparently caught evil from being undercover at Starkwood or something, was the one who killed him. He has also made off with a canister of the TerrorMist, and lord knows what he's planning to do with it or why. Also, Kim is back, and nobody likes it.