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March 2010 Archives
It's bad enough that vampires are invading our book shelves, our movie theaters and our scripted dramas, but our reality television? Is nothing sacred? Just when you thought ANTM had enough backbiting and sucking up in it, this week's episode is called "America's Next Top Vampire," and the photo shoot challenge sees them all dressed up as vampires, with holes in their necks and dead white eyes, posing in a bathtub full of blood. And can we just say, we totally called it?
The visitors are back. After a short introduction, or re-introduction, this fall, these aliens have been keeping to themselves. But now they are back with quite the vengeance. And it is about damned time.
I've already had the pleasure of watching this entire season of United States of Tara, so I can tell you the truth about this second episode: It's not very good at all. The pace is slow and the characters make a lot of dumb choices, which are two of the worst things that sometimes plague this show.
With all that's been going on with pilot season and all the winter hiatus shows finally coming back and Life Unexpected being awful, we haven't had much time to talk about The Pacific on the site, which is something I'm going to rectify right now. Because the miniseries, which depicts the Pacific theater of World War II and its aftermath on soldiers' lives post-battle, has been wholly enjoyable so far.
It seems like this show just started, but it is already ending the first half of the season. The other nine episodes won't air until sometime in the fall. And while it got off to a bit of a slow start, I've stuck by this show (mostly out of Battlestar Galactica loyalty) and found that it's pretty good. While I tend to like my sci-fi to take place in outer space, or involve monsters and lots of shooting, this twisted drama with computer-generated realities, drugged up religious cult members, and robots with feelings has actually won me over. Especially since some of the characters might look human, but do really twisted and monstrous things to each other. Kinda like real humans!
Zombies! You have no idea how excited I am about the Hardy Boys facing off against zombies. I'm sure Raoul is also excited, since zombies typically mean lots of GORE! There just aren't enough television shows out there that deal with reanimated corpses, in my humble opinion.
The show is on Wednesday this week because of all that bracketology nonsense happening on Thursday. Though it feels like a misnomer to have an NCAA March Madness game happening on April 1st, but The Simpsons used to have their Halloween episodes in November, so I guess in TV world, anything goes.
Yes, I'm still watching this show. What? You can judge all you want, but I'm going to watch this teen drama until the bitter end. Although, the current storyline about Annie and her stalker/would-be rapist/blackmailer of a former boyfriend is really pushing me to the brink of deleting my season pass. Seriously, wrap it up already. And you really don't need to show her confession letter (she did a hit-and-run on a homeless guy, who is Jasper's uncle) auto-saving in Word to telegraph that it is going to come up later on in the season. We already know that she's a moron who doesn't understand how to properly delete files or use a computer.
It is that time of year again where random celebrities put on tacky too-tight clothing and try and wiggle to the terrible renditions of live music that the band assaults our ears with without looking like a total lunatic. In other words, Dancing With the Stars is back!
Do you want to see why Bryan Cranston is racking up a nice collection of Emmys? Then you won't want to miss the season premiere of Breaking Bad tonight. Not only is Cranston on tap to deliver an emotional, riveting performance, he's also heading behind the camera to direct this episode. And while the finale of Season 2 had some fans griping about a teddy bear, this new season promises to be a doozy.