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I've always hated the American Music Awards the least of all the music awards shows. It doesn't showboat as much as the Grammys, it has less screaming and Twilight than MTV's VMAs, it somehow seems slightly less pointless than the Billboard Music Awards -- it's just perfectly innocuous, hanging out there at the end of the year, minding its own business.
Okay, I'll admit that this season hasn't been the greatest in Project Runway history. Far from it, in fact. But I'm still curious to see how it all goes down tonight. Leading up to the final runway show, it's just as hard to judge how things are going to turn out as it is in any given episode -- until the dresses get onto the runway, you never know what they'll look like or how they'll be received. (Although sometimes you can get an idea.)
While we will admit to being slightly biased against some of the characters on this show this season (which Erin's mother totally called us out on), I have to say that the right two women went home last week. Jennifer occasionally had some very good shots, but she didn't always know what to do with herself, and ditto Erin, who also happened to not be particularly nice. Remember her shoving people in the Wal-Mart race?
I really wasn't smitten with this show from the premiere the way that some people were. I thought it was solid acting on a decent show, but didn't really find it compelling to watch again. I think perhaps it was the "ripped from the headlines" aspect that seemed irksome and like it would get old quick. However, I was recently convinced to give it another chance, and now I'm actually hooked. Not because I've suddenly become fascinated with the political aspects, since the whole Chris Noth storyline is still my least favorite part. Let him rot in jail for all I care. It's an interesting set up for some of Alicia's emotional issues, but what really appeals to me is the actual legal drama. It's smart, well-written and well-acted. I've been consistently impressed with the law firm and the way they handle their cases.
For decades, fans of the original Prisoner TV series have sung its phrases, calling it one of the greatest TV series ever made, and Patrick McGoohan was certainly hypnotic as the involuntary resident of a mysterious European-style village surrounded by mountains, sea and desert, with no means of escape. So the only possible way AMC could rival the original's legacy was by casting their re-interpretation with Gandalf and Jesus.
The Kandorian army plotline from this season of Smallville is so achingly dull that almost any one-off episode that deals with something else is welcome. Especially when the episode introduces new, ridiculous, twentysomething versions of established DC Comics characters. So after last week's "I am your father's clone" episode, I am actually excited to watch this week's, in which two superheroes try to help the Blur clean up Metropolis in their own, less-than-experienced way. Those two heroes? The Wonder Twins.
Table for 12 has been off the air (with new episodes, anyway) since September, but now that TLC is no longer the network of Gosselins, they're pinning their hopes on Table for 12, which returns tonight. It's an interesting tack to take -- if you've watched the show, you've undoubtedly noticed that the Hayes family is the polar opposite of the Gosselins. The mom and dad actually like each other, the family all gets along, no one vomits on cue because they're so stressed out by their family life they can't control their gag reflexes, etc. It's really an entirely different viewing experience, and while I for one have honestly fallen in love with the family despite my icy black heart, I don't know how interesting this is going to be over the years.
You down with AoP? No? Well, here's what you need to know about it. Billie (Jenna Elfman) is pregnant, knocked up by a much younger guy, Zack, who now lives with her. She has a prudish younger sister, Abby, and a hard-drinking Scottish best friend, Olivia. Zack has a stoner best friend Davis. Hilarity ensues. Get it? Got it? Good. Because tonight, there are Developments. Or, at the very least, Shenanigans. And a guest star!
The Mad Men season finale is already upon us tonight (seriously, is it just me or did this season fly by at supersonic speed?), and I don't know anything about it. Matthew Weiner's notorious paranoia about secrets getting out has been in full effect for tonight's episode -- there's no trailer, no detailed synopsis, no revealing promotional images of any kind, nothing official of any sort. All I know is the episode is called "Shut the Door" and that "Don has an important meeting with Connie. Betty receives some advice. Pete talks to his clients." Which isn't much, so here we are left to speculate. Will Betty really leave Don? (I think she will.) Will Pete leave Sterling Cooper? (I think he will.) Will Roger take up with Joan again? (Oh yes, most definitely. I don't care if it is "different with this girl.") Will Peggy's Duck hickey ever heal? (Only time will tell!)
It's a new season of Legend of the Seeker, and the Seeker has a new mission. Apparently, killing evil sorcerer Darken Rahl in last season's finale (which will re-air tonight, for your convenience), triggered a series of rifts between the underworld and the world of the living. Now Richard Cypher and his two companions must find the Stone of Tears in order to stop it. Except the teaser shows that Rahl is back from the dead? So, that sucks.
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