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TWoP 10: Things We Hope Get Answered By Mad Men's Finale (But Probably Won't)

We love this show. We do. And while this season hasn't knocked it out of the park in quite the same way the first season did, it's still better than half the crap that's airing on TV. But honestly, this show leaves us with more questions than Lost. Here's what we're desperate to find out in the finale, but know these secretive sorts behind-the-scenes will probably keep us hanging during the long-long-long wait until Season 3 begins. That's if anything of any consequence actually even happens in the finale. Here's hoping. And fingers crossed that creator Matthew Weiner and the cast get those contracts signed soon so they can actually start making Season 3, when we'll likely be given even more questions and less answers.

Pushing Daisies: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

I adored Pushing Daisies last season, it was just so cute and clever and charming, but I worried, because I also adored the first season of Ugly Betty and season two got a little dicey and season three's been hit or miss. I'm just delighted that Pushing Daisies (which no one is watching for whatever reason) is still as perfectly precious and adorable as it was and now even more so because the characters have just really come in to their own. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to burst with absolute love for it. I need a hug machine to give me a comforting squeeze after each episode! I was feeling inspired to write poetry about how I adore this show, but I'm really terrible at writing poetry. Instead, I'm just borrowing my title from the Elizabeth Barret Browning sonnet and counting the multiple ways that I am absolutely smitten with this show.

The good people at Hulu (they are saints, I tell you!) have posted next week's 30 Rock season premiere oh so many days early, and I've gone ahead and posted it after the jump. I'm only about halfway through it as I'm typing this, but as my officemate Angel can attest, I've been laughing at an annoyingly loud and frequent rate so far, which is a good sign when watching a sitcom. Still not ready to give a verdict, obviously, but who cares what I think? Click, watch, and give us your review after the jump.

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Baby on Board for HIMYM's Lily?

by Angel Cohn October 23, 2008 2:20 PM
Baby on Board for HIMYM's Lily?

We're not usually big on the whole who's having a baby, who's not having a baby sort of gossip over here in Telefile land, but when it comes to Alyson Hannigan, it's a whole 'nother story. Mostly because we, OK, I, am worried about what will happen if a baby gets written into How I Met Your Mother... and because a baby that is the product of two Buffy alumni (Hannigan is married to Alexis Denisof, for those non-Buffy obsessed people in the world out there) is just the most awesome thing ever. Do you think it will come out with a little stake in its hand? Will it be a grow up to be a rogue demon hunter like daddy or a lesbian witch like its mommy?

A Hobbit Is Invading Chuck's Buy More

I knew if I could just get through yesterday and all of the baffling news about shows that I despise getting picked up, that today would bring me better things. And it has. Charlie, er, Dominic Monaghan, aka my favorite hobbit (sorry Samwise, I just love me some Merry) and the reason that I started watching Lost in the first place (not the reason that I've been banging my head into the wall and trying to figure out cryptic clues for the last four seasons and have watched this preview clip six times this morning, but definitely what sparked my initial interest in the show) is going to be on an episode of Chuck. I adore this show as I've mentioned just once or twice or three or four or more times before. Anyway, according to EW's Ausiello (who is in such trouble the next time I see him for not informing me that he would be talking to my favorite hobbit) Dominic is going to be playing a British rocker who is entangled with evildoers. Hmm... that sounds familiar. But there's no return of the Oasis wannabe band Drive Shaft. No feuding brothers, "You All (Everybody)" or drug addictions to be found on Chuck, just Dom as a good crazy metalhead. Swoon.

Jack Shaved His Beard! And Other Lost Season 5 Trailer Musings. The first promo footage for the next Lost season was released last night via Watch with Kristin, and while that is exciting, it's also about as vague as you'd expect. There's a brief rehash of last season followed by new action like Hurley holding a giant gun (!), Sayid putting some kung fu hurt on an unidentified character, and a clean-shaven Jack explaining how if he doesn't go back, everyone they left on the island will die, and Ben Ben-ily responding, "Well, thank God for second chances," which could mean anything. Did everyone die and Jack had to travel back in time to prevent it? Does Ben just mean a second chance on the island in a general sense? Hee! I've missed Lost so much. Oh, and Aaron is like 30 now. Check out the trailer after the jump and discuss away.

David at 17: A Heroes Villain Speaks Out

by Daniel Manu October 22, 2008 6:11 PM
David at 17: A Heroes Villain Speaks Out

When should you root for the villain? Maybe when he's played by David H. Lawrence XVII. After years of working as a voice talent, radio host, podcaster and new media consultant and entrepreneur, the unusually named actor finally got his big break on Heroes with a memorable part as the dastardly Eric Doyle, the Level 5 escapee who temporarily took control of Claire and both of her moms in the Oct. 20 episode, "Dying of the Light." As we discovered during a recent interview, Lawrence is a true fanboy success story: an admitted geek who loves Heroes and genuinely relishes the opportunities his role has unexpectedly provided him. Find out how he got the part, what really happened between Doyle and Meredith (Jessalyn Gilsig) and what's next.

Seven Things To Do Instead of Watching the (Possible) Seven Games of the Tedious World Series

To be upfront about this, I like watching baseball on TV. It's one of the few non-Olympic sports that I actually find engaging on the small screen and not just in person. I'm a Mets fan by marriage, but I'll watch the local Yankees or the Red Sox since I grew up in New England, or the Orioles, since my dad is a fan. But this World Series match up between the Phillies (whom I am sort of in theory rooting for because they outplayed the Mets in their division and I respect that) and the Tampa Bay Rays (whom I have lost all respect for since they took the word Devil out of their name) is shaping up to be the most tediously boring series ever (people who know real stuff about sports agree!). Unless you live in Philadelphia or Florida, or grew up there, are you at all interested in them? If the Red Sox had made it, I know plenty of people who would have watched, just to see if they'd lose (it's the schadenfreude effect in action).

Things That Don't Make Sense: The October 21st Edition

So yesterday I heard the news that Knight Rider somehow got a full season pick up. How is this possible? I know not one single person (aside from the diligently devoted weecap writer Montykins) who was able to make it past the first episode. And I've got bunches of teenage boy cousins. I know NBC's lineup isn't super strong this fall, what with the Kath & Kim nightmare and the tediously boring Crusoe, but really, Knight Rider? I'm still stunned that it even made it past the TV movie stage. Good lord.

More Vampires! Just What We Needed! I love vampire and supernatural shows, movies and books probably more than the average person. (My book cases are a sad testament to this fact.) But I'm not even sure that I want to watch a series that is essentially a vampire music video. (Oh, who the hell am I kidding? I'll watch every minute of it.) Something called FearNet (which has a pretty bitchin' name) will be releasing Dark Path On Demand and on the internet. It's your basic vamp plot: hot hungry newbie vampire, pretty girl who hears voices (hmm... now that sounds familiar) joining together to "explore a parallel reality." Yeah. And the whole thing is set to loud horror-themed music and shot by famed music video (they still make 'em!) director Mary Lambert. I'm stocking up on Excedrin for this one, but it should keep me busy until Twilight arrives in theaters.
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