Project Runway - WWE ? WTF?

I have to go with Chris on this one... not only did he win but he had the best comment about this episode... "Wouldn't it have been better if it was MEN?" pretty much wrapped it up for me as I have been getting a little disappointed with this cycle of Project Runway.

I did not get why this challenge was part of the competition for the life of me. " Tranny stripper wear" is not an area that I like my Project Runway in and I am not going to dignify much of the actual " competition" that happened this week aside from Chris winning (not a big surprise since the guy knows how to make an costume for a drag queen) and was all about channelling Shania Twain for our WWE diva, and that Ricky was FINALLY given the boot.

Cry-baby disappointed completely in this round, and our so called "lingerie designer" couldn't make stripper wear and was finally aufed and the little bastard didn't even cry... oh the drama....

Rumour has it 2 designers get the boot next week before the big finale at Fashion Week... my bets are that Christian, Rami and Jillian go to the end, but Chris might pull out a surprise and make it there instead of Ms.Bland.....

The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency - the Pilgrimage to the shrine of Versace

After leaving us on the edge of our seats last week with her famous " Everything you know is about to change" routine, Janice tells her models that she is taking some of them to South Beach to spread her wings and get the Agency more clients.

She also fires a model on the spot (Maria), who dared to arrive late (such a work horse that Janice) and gets all kind of information about Peter from her models. It appears that lots of them are unhappy with pay delays and the percentage they are getting and Janice says she will solve all these issues.... anyways some of the models are selected and off to Miami they go.

Besides the crappy editing that we have to endure in this show (the "coming up" and "previously on" parts really need to be cut down, but that would probably cut the show down to 30 minutes because it wouldn't be repeated all the time) we have to endure more drama with Crystal and Chris, and some pouty looks and "don't make me cry" business as Crystal jets off to Japan for a gig. She is looking even skinnier than before and her luggage weighs more than she does for the flight.

Janice has a meeting with Otto Models for a possible partnership and sets the wheels in motion to get rid of Peter (we have been hearing this all season)... and there is a big emotional scene where Janice cries. It's scary stuff....

There is a deal set up with Custo Barcelona and an impromptu meeting where CC doesn't get the message and accuses Traci of trying to manipulate things that seems overblown and over the top, but then again most things in this show are all manipulated in some way. There is more drama about the models not drinking at a party and working the crowd, which is kind of a repeat of the previous drama in this show. Sorin gets some bodyguard training and looks gayer than ever, but you can blame Janice for that one.

The biggest thrill of the episode was the pilgrimage to the shrine of Versace. Janice takes all her gang to pay tribute to Versace and she lays flowers on the stairs of his house. It's a huge cheesy moment and probably the biggest scene of the episode..... and it was all handled in a very supermodel way. Janice takes the models to a fancy restaurant after, where all the plates are less than 300 calories. Unfortunately this episode didn't really have any gratutious shots of the b oys so all in all it was pretty boring..... I think Janice misses the mark sometimes and really has to up the beefcake if she wants to keep us interested. Next week-- the big finale!

Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Heavy Metal

I am still so happy that they have skirted around the disaster that was T3 and that the storyline has gone off in a different direction. This was another great episode, and besides seeing how the characters are evolving I am really liking seeing more about the Terminators and how they are constructed/grown and seeing some of the technology involved.

Our Terminator from the future that has been reconstructing himself shows up again this episode, this time after a Plastic Surgeon who he forces to change his look (and I assume make him look more human). FBI guy Ellison gets in on the action once the dead surgeon is discovered (and more of that mystery blood). It appears that Ellison is losing some of his pull with the other law enforcement agencies and they are looking at him kinda funny. Since our Terminator has just had lots of work done, he looks like some guy named Lazlo who was in the surgeon's data base and they bring the guy in to interogate him and take a blood sample.

Of course none of this pans out for Ellison, and he looks like an idiot in front of the cops... but his story is far from over and he doesn't realize how much closer he is getting to the truth.

Not that the episode was all about Ellison, it was mostly about discovering that they were followed through time via the nasty Terminator who is rebuilding himself, and that there have been shipments of Coltan alloy that are disappearing. It seems this is an alloy used to create the T3s (or is it T4s?) because it has a high melting point.

We have some more butting of heads between John and Sarah, and John is evolving more and more into his role of mankind's savior. There were more fun scenes with Cameron ( who is pretty cool and I love how she plays the robotic part up) and Sarah pulls no punches when it is time to get information out of the bad guys. The scene where she leaves the guy in the minefield was hilarious, and I feel for her character. She is still walking that fine line between mom and protector and trying to save the world. It ain't an easy job. The episode ends well, the scene in the bunker and seeing how our Terminator of the week went into "sleep" mode once he completed his mission was interesting. Seeing our nasty Terminator from the future kill his human template and take his place and then meet with Ellison was even better.... and I can hardly wait to see how they will continue to develop this storyline.

Weekend Rant - The Thursday Dilemma

It's hard to believe that even with the ongoing writer's strike (and the rumors say that there may be resolution to this soon) and the limited amount of new episodes left to play, that the viewing schedule would be so fricking congested on Thursday night. There is too much on, and with the next installment of Survivor starting this week, I have no choice but to record stuff to watch later (and that means watching shows from Thursday on the weekend with having a busy Friday schedule).

What it all means, is that it seems like everything plays on Thursday and there are other nights that are a complete wasteland. Sigh...

So-- It was great to have a new episode of Smallville called Persona, and there was finally some follow up to the cliffhanger left at the end of the previous episode with Bizarro Clark taking our original boy scout's place while he is kept prisoner in the Fortress by mean old Dad. At least the superboys are easy to keep track of, as they like to inverse their primary colors.

I am still getting real tired, real quick of the whole angst between Lana and Clark, and now the whole " Bizarro loved Lana in ways that Clark didn't" and " Lana was never as happy as she was with Bizarro" make me wish she has just left with him (instead of destroying him with the nifty Blue Kryptonite) and finishing this crap off once and for all. The best stuff was the return of Brainiac (yes, more James Marsters!), the guest appearance of yet another Superman alumni (Marc McLure aka Jimmy Olsen from the Christopher Reeve movies) as yet another Kryptonian on Earth and seeing Chloe know something is up and not to be the doormat of the episode. All this and more scene stealing by Lex, who has eliminated his cloned brother and is becoming more and more evil... the show still has enough good stuff that outways the teen angst (they are all getting a little old for all of this) and attracts enough of my attention and want more.
Supernatural returned with a great episode entitled Malleus Maleficarum, which was all about a surbuban coven of witches and some good plot development. Not only did we get more insight into the newer character of Ruby (bad yes but how bad?) and how she has fallen out of the graces of her dark lords.

I loved the whole housewives and their " Book of Shadows" (shades of Charmed!) and I was looking to see if any of the Halliwell sisters was going to show up. We spent a few minutes trying to see who the housewives resembles as far as the Halliwells go, and decided they were more like the original 3 than the later 3, and think that Shannon Doherty is way overdue to appear as a witch or demon on Supernatural.

Dean coming more to terms with why Sam has been changing was some nice resolution to the whole " Is Sam becoming evil?" routine that has been going on, and seeing Dean go ballistic on the witch/demon with Ruby's demon knife was way out there... Yikes-- do not piss these boys off. At least they kept the requisite humor ( the rabbit jokes were great, and Dean is always dependable for making some snide comment) and the new look of Ruby as more of an ally than enemy is a good move. The whole thing about a new leader rising in the west opens up more questions and I wonder how much is supposed to be resolved before the end of our abbreviated season.... will Dean make it to the end or will his fate play out later than expected?

Lost- The Beginning of the End

What an adventure last night.... Lost returned for a limited run ( 8 episodes? - let me repeat myself again, damn strike--) and sent my mind into overload with a kick ass season opener.

After ending last season with the killer flash-forward that showed Jack and Kate off the island, we join Hurley in the outside world (our time and space?) where he is on the run, and is now known as one of the Oceanic Six. It's hard to tell if this is the same future time as Jack and Kate, and it was interesting dissecting whether or not the events happening on the island are now flashbacks or current time... but the point quickly becomes moot. Time is used with such fluidity in this series it gets hard to figure out when and where things are all the time.

Hurley is one of my favorite characters and has a big part of the story. His big freak out and car chase in the beginning and then meeting Anna Lucia's former partner (and pretending not to know her) shows how there are really no coincidences in this show. Learning that Hurley has been having visions of Charlie who keeps appearing and trying to explain why he died is something that only this show can pull off. The freaky guy from Oceanic Airlines (so he said) who was offering Hurley a nice insane asylum to go rehabilitate in was so creepy... but that was not as freaky as Jacob's place appearing in the jungle and freaking Hurley out even more on the island.

Yup, bad stuff happened(s) to the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815... and we get another glimpse of part of the future (present?) before catching up where the story ended on the island in the present (past?). Yes, Charlie just died cutting off the jamming signal in the Looking Glass Station and the story is continuing on from that point. Jack is with the majority of the survivors and they are trying to contact the so called rescue ship and can finally do so because of Charlie's sacrifice. The only hitch is Locke who is not interested in leaving and throws a knife into Naomi (and believes she is not there for the right reasons nor she is who she says she is) trying to stop the communication and fails.

Our gang of survivors who are still at the beach have managed to get out of a difficult situation due to Hurley's heroism, and have just learned that Charlie has died and relayed the message that it is not Penny's boat that is out looking for them. We have no idea if these other people (not to be confused with the Others) are on their side or not, but are willing to listen with their hearts to what Charlie died to tell them.

It's all very derisive, and the survivors end up splitting into 2 groups, with some willing to hide and survive (Locke, Hurley, Sawyer, Claire and others) versus those wanting to be saved (Jack, Kate, Juliet and others) and all we know is the so called rescuers are on their way, and that in the future(s) Hurley had been locked away again, and that both he and Jack have felt in some way that they have done something wrong and need to go back and fix it.

Lost is back in all it's complex glory... and I am completely hooked again. I fear for the survivors and want to know who the rest of the Oceanic Six are... are they the only ones that got off the island? The only survivors? Why so famous? So many questions... so little episodes.

Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency - Vegas Baby Vegas

In this week's episode we continue from where we left off last week....(the editing is atrocious with this series)....

...and it's still about her with "good friend and special friend of JDMA" Christian Audigier at the casting for his company Ed Hardy and a HUGE show in Las Vegas. There is all this drama created by her Business Partner Peter about Dominic and JP being already booked for a 2(x)ist job and that they shouldn't be at the casting.

Apparently Janice knows nothing of this, nor do the boys it seems and she dismisses Peter. Real classy and clearly shows the lack of communication between these 2. Anyways... dear Christian chooses a whole herd of models for his show and before you know it Janice and Co. will be off to Las Vegas for some fun and games.

We have a little interlude where Janice tries to play good Mom and takes Nathan to Ikea to buy him some furniture for his new place. She plays like a child on beds and couches, and then doesn't even pay for the stuff as she forgot her wallet. Gosh thanks Mom, that is a great gift. Nathan doesn't seem surprised and is probably used to Mom being such a basket case most of the time.

Once in Vegas, CC parties with the boys at the pool, while most of the other girls shun the sun like vampires. Desiree is especially vile and ends up being a major bitch. The boys look great in their trunks, and we learn that JP has been avoiding Rodrigo since their date. Guess things didn't work out ( we get this whole spiel from JP about not being ready for a relationship yada yada and what the hell is wrong with dating?) and JP comes across as a selfish idiot. Actually he always seems to come across like that (since his Survivor days) and is in sheer horror that he is *gasp* sharing a room with Rodrigo. Best way to fix that is to ignore the other guy and to avoid him, how very grown up. JP does do a little bonding moment with Payton and I wonder if there are ulterior motives with that....

Janice arrives and all the fun and games end and she lays down the law once again. There will be "No drinking on the job" as she finds it very unprofessional (we all know how Janice is known for her professional behaviour) and although a huge hypocrite, I have to agree with her and admire her work ethic. The models are kind of pissed but deal with it.

Rodrigo has his very own big gay moment, and goes on a Gondola ride with CC, who is completely shocked to find out JP is gay. Seriously? What kind of chemicals are in that skin product there missy? I am just surprised that Janice's number one fan (yikes), has no idea that JP is the big gay icon of JDMA. Maybe they don't have homosexuals where she comes from... anways Rodrigo pours out his heart and is really into JP. I feel sorry for the guy and then think he is probably better off with out the prima donna.

Janice and Co. go out to the big party put on by Christian Audigier. As Janice says, " He's French and you know how they love to party", and all of the gang are there except Desiree. Janice is pissed and if girls had pissing contests you know there is a big one going on right now between the 2 of them (I think Desiree is playing with fire). There is a "spontaneous" photo shoot, Janice and Christian fall in the pool and Desiree shows up late at the party. Nathan tells her to watch her ass and she pouts back that she "showed up and that's all that matters" ...besides she sees it as not part of the job and Janice has been trying to instill that work ethic in her models. It's all about networking...

There is more drama about Dominic and dealing with Jason from 2(x)ist to clear up the confusion over model bookings. Jason says that Dominic was booked, and that there seems to be some communication problems between Peter and Janice. Ya think? Janice works out a deal that seems to make everyone happy and is still fuming over Peter.

Finally we get to Christian Audigier's show and it is very Mad Max in that Post-Apocalyptic Thunderdome look. I was hoping for Tina Turner to pop up but no such luck. The models are hot hot hot and look fierce. Janice is thrilled with the show and it is a huge hit.

We finally get to the end of the episode and another HUGE cliffhanger (they have been promoting it non stop since the beginning of the episode) and all the models are assembled and Janice says "All I can say is that everything is about to change!"

and another badly edited ending... sigh.... so much manufactured drama and I can't stop watching...

Journey to the Center of the Earth - What were they thinking?

OK ION network-- I wasted 2 hours of my TV time last night watching this piece of crap that you called "an adaptation of the Jule's Verne classic".


I call it a piece of regurgitated phlegm that I can barely dignify with a classification. The sad part is that I saw the ads for it and thought " Great, an adaptation of a classic story with some decent actors."


Just shoot me, now.


Bad (oh so bad) adaptation of the story.... It's all Americanized, the characters are wooden, the pacing is terrible, it's just a big mess. Victoria Pratt proves once more why she has such a crappy career, she keeps picking bad roles that no decent actress would ever dare take. She probably saw that Rick Shroder and Peter Fonda were in it and it was supposed to be decent.


Yikes! All I know is that if I see the words RHI Weekend Movie again I am changing the channel as fast as I can-- no one deserves this kind of treatment.

Torchwood - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Saying that Season 2 started off with a bang is an understatement. The Brits knocked my socks off with the return of Torchwood and special guest star James Marsters (bad boy Spike) as the uber sexual and very naughty Captain John Hart. Yup it's another bad boy character for James (and another with a British accent) but no worries as he pulls it off with great ease....

The Team has been "making due" since Captain Jack Harkness disappeared last season and we catch up with them chasing down (believe it or not).... a Blow fish in a stolen sports car. This isn't you everyday run of the mill blow fish, but one of those wacky alien beings that populate the Doctor Who universe.

Captain Jack Harkness appears just in time to save the day, and before we know it the gang is back at Torchwood HQ and trying to figure out what the hell happened over the past few month while another rift opens and our friend Captain John Hart appears. With in minutes of arriving, he kills a criminal and then zips off to a local bar, where he frightens off the customers and waits for Jack.


Jack gets a holo message from John ( both of them are rogue Time Agents it appears) that ends with a hilarious " Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope." quote that is another major geek moment and Jack zips off to meet with his old chum. He leaves the gang behind, something that they are most unhappy about and track him down. Jack meets John at the bar and after a long awkward pause we get some hot lip lock (that probably imploded the American censor's heads) and one of those rough fight/make out scenes that are usually reserved for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. It's all very good stuff, and gets even more hilarious when the rest of Torchwood shows up and discover Jack and his former partner (in every sense).

This just adds more fuel to the fire that is known as Captain Jack, the team is still fascinated with this walking mystery that everyone wants yet no one knows anything about. Jack manages to blow over most of the fascination and once John explains that he is there because of promise to " a woman he loved that died" and he needs to find some wayward containers... so the team is mobilised to search them down. Jack knows that John is completely untrustworthy and warns the team, yet he says he wants to play along so he can end that chapter of his life and to move on.

There is some great scenes with naughty Captain John Hart and the rest of the gang and some great chemistry and joking with Captain Jack. Their chemistry reminded me a bit of the Spike/Angel chemistry and I loved the " Mine is bigger than his" jokes and the whole who's in charge/ on top bit. The best part is when Captain John takes them out one by one. He kisses Gwen and paralyzes her with some poisonous lip gloss (I guess that Jack is immune), knocks Toshiko out and then shoots Owen to keep them busy, and then sets his sights on Jack and Ianto.

I knew that Jack was kinda flirty with different characters (men, women or alien no difference) but was still a little surprised that he was asking Ianto out on a date. It was charming the way they cautiously agreed to go out, and I was in hysterics when John showed up and kept calling Ianto " Eye Candy" before sending him off to save his friends. John was the master manipulator, setting all the players up to pick up his pieces, and taking them out one by one. Jack fares no better and ends up getting pushed off the building and ends up sprawled all over a statue in the promenade and John is off with his treasure.

It appears that John killed the woman he loved for a diamond, and that you need the 3 pieces to make the key to get to the diamond. Our gang at Torchwood re-group (thanks to Ianto) and once Jack re-animates (the guy just can't die), they catch up to John as he opens up the treasure. Surprise... it's no treasure and John gets a nice little bomb that is attuned to the DNA of the killer attached to him. He takes Gwen hostage and there is a mad scramble to find a way to disarm the bomb before it detonates and they only have 10 minutes. The gang steps up and save the day just before they have to sacrifice Gwen.

All is well that ends well.... there is some more joking about John joining the team before he is sent off on his way via the rift but not before leaving what seemed to be an ominous message with Jack... I guess Captain John will be back again this season and I can hardly wait... damn those sexy Time Agents....

Chuck VS the Marlin

Ahh such a twisted tale of events. The season finale (damn) came too soon and this was another great episode. I love the episodes where the Buy More gang are in full geek mode and this episode was uber geeky goodness.

Some highlights:

Bad guys (Fulcrum) are looking for the Intersect (Chuck), and have started planting bugs in the Buy More to find out more. Once this is discovered, the CIA/NSA empty the store to search for clues and Big Mike discovers his store is empty in a completely oblivious and hilarious scene. Funny thing, Big Mike only cares about his Marlin (bought on EBay) and where it is.

Awesome has decided to ask Ellie to marry him, and asks Chuck's blessing before getting Chuck to hold the ring for him. In a series of events....Awesome asks for the ring as he is ready to pop the question to Ellie and Chuck thinks ring is gone when all of Buy More gets emptied by the Government, but in reality the ring was with Morgan who had taken it by accident and thought Chuck had gotten it for Sarah, and the ring ended up in the Marlin that had been hanging on the wall in Big Mike's office.....

-- take a deep breath now ---

... because the Marlin was taken before the Government emptied the store by Jeff and Lester who were drunk and thought it was a funny joke to play on Big Mike, and then thought the best place to store it was at Chuck's place. What they didn't know was that the Pita Delivery Girl (who was a spy for Fulcrum) was the one that had been planting bugs in the Buy More and the receiver for those bugs was hidden in the Marlin. Anyways.... if you have followed all that, all you need to know is that the Marlin was taken by Morgan, from Chuck's place, with the receiver and the ring in it and put in the Weinerlicious freezer.

We get a short but slightly T&A fight scene between Sarah and Pita Girl, Sarah gets locked in the freezer and Pita escapes with the ring and the receiver. Chuck arrives, is getting ready to try to shoot the lock and gets busted by fake Police who are Government Agents who are taking him into "Protective Custody"-- meaning they are planning on locking him away. We get some nice teamwork with Casey and Sarah working to save and protect Chuck (and to keep him free), and the story ends with Chuck finally getting the ring to Awesome, the marriage proposal with Ellie, and the ominous cloud that continues to loom over Chuck, whether or not he will stay free or have to go underground and lose his regular life, or will he be eliminated once the new Intersect is ready to go? Damn I hate these short seasons.....

Chuck VS the Undercover Lover

It has been way too many weeks since our last episode (damn strike), and Chuck was back this week for not one, but two episodes in the same night. I don't know why they had to play them both the same night but I am not complaining, after all some Chuck is better than no Chuck at all.

I have missed this show, it has the right balance of geeky goodness that I love and our first episode of the evening got me right back in tune with our nerd and his wild and wacky world.

Since this episode highlighted Casey (and a bit more of his back story) it was a great opportunity to see how Adam Baldwin is so fricking hilarious as the uber serious but seriously sexy spy... and everything from his affair with the Ilsa, his undercover name of Sugar bear (OMG), his drinking scotch while listening to Neil Diamond's " Love on the Rocks", the fight scene while being tied to the chair with Chuck and the whole "coming out of the pool scene in a wet tux" scene nearly put me over the edge watching this episode. Having the scene where he opens up to Chuck about his feelings for Ilsa ,and Chuck screaming " It's.... ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE" in response was one of those priceless moments.

In fact this episode was full of funny and priceless moments, the show is well done and they have done some great development with all the characters as well as the interaction between them.

There was a bit less Sarah in this one (Casey was the main focus) but greeting Chuck at Wienerlicious and offering him "The new breakfast corn dog with country sausage and syrup wrapped in a pancake" was insanely well written (and probably scarily true) and the whole undercover in the Russian bar and in the hotel was all very fun spy stuff.

My favorite Chuck lines of the night (besides the alive comment) was his statement that he always thought " Casey was like a Ken doll, you know, from the waist down" and his " I don't want to die a man-stewardess" during the big fight scene. We were howling with laughter at home watching this one.

Our gang at the Buy More were right on track, and there was some fun banter with the gang when Awesome and Ellie visit the Buy More to make a big purchase and learn what "Retail Therapist" means. The storyline was cute and the whole poker night with the boys was hilarious. Morgan playing all the angles with Ellie and Awesome being completely non threatened was more of the show being well, awesome, and I can't believe that it may be months before we see more... if ever....