Bones

It gets a B+, a high rating from me. This underrated show has a cool sciency female heroine, Angel (from buffy, ooooo la la), and the average crime plot. Nice tension, kind of snappy dialogue, side characters I give a hoot about. overall, worth watching. and nice lack of hype. so if you have time, maybe dig in.

Michael!!!

Lost

Juliet. I hate her. No joke. Tonight when Sun slapped her I was so happy.

Why do I hate her?
1) Because she has a such a snobby look on her face
2) she's selfish
3) she's mean- why be all Jerry Springer?
4) she's duplicitous- she lies, she cheats
5) she still does what Ben tells her to
6) she kissed Jack

I think the writers want us to flip flop on Juliet. Why else in one episode do they show us heart wrenching scenes where she cries over her lost lover, and in the next she is a rancid bitch? Juliet is like Ben in training, just as manipulative, but she leans more towards the good side of ambivalent/ambiguous. Anyway, I refuse to like her. But who is there to like this season? Sawyer is Locke's biatch, Kate is Jack's Biatch, and both Locke and Jack are whipped by Ben. so blah. Give me more info about the time travel, that's actually interesting.

Catching up

I've gone kind of crazy with the whole "I've missed seasons of good television and now i must watch them all or I will be disqualified as an actual film nerd" syndrome. I watched the first and only season of Firefly, then the last season of Buffy and I am currently watching the first season of Dexter and the first season of Freaks and Geeks.

I choose to watch most television shows for the first time on DVD (I didn't start watching Lost live until S3) because 1) they are commercial free 2) I get to watch them all in a row without the suspense and 3) i'm better able to sustain a very concentrated period of intense interest rather than a whole season/year of episodes. Therefore, I watch an entire season in a week and then move onto the next show rather than watching five or six shows simultaneously. it's me being Type A, I'm aware of that. but for shows like Lost, it can actually make more sense because you see things happen in a row without interruptions. I actually started doing it this way because I hated watching three episodes of a show and then have it be canceled. at least i know i'm going to get a whole seasons worth.

so, far both Dex and Freaks and Geeks are good. Dexter is very chilling, but a relief in a House kind of way- it's about a serial killer, or the antithesis of the sympathetic hero, so you get a break from the sentimentality. i'm watching F&G because it was apparently a cultural moment that I completely missed and is still popping up in popular culture (ie Knocked Up, Superbad, etc). and i hate being out of the loop! it's still hard to get into because it's so very, very awkward. i mean, who really wants to relive high school? not i.

Joss Whedon is incestuous and I'm a big nerd

I've been watching both season 7 of Buffy and the one and only season of Firefly, both creations by Joss Whedon (here i genuflect). But to make the connections I am now going to make, you have to have seen Angel, the Buffy spin off, as well, which makes me one big nerd!

River, from firefly first played an enchanted Russian ballerina on Angel (a special episode directed by Joss)
Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly, guested on Buffy, with the same atrocious Southern accent. although in buffy he's an evil, misogynistic mockery of a priest.

Joss likes his actors!

I'm sure I'm missing other connections (hello, that's what imdb is for), its just hilarious when I'm out of episode order and Mal pops in a random Buffy episode. he he

Buffy love

So i've had time recently to catch up on the last season of Buffy, ie the season of the First. And it's a little more serious and dark than usual. But the humor remains. And reminds why I love Buffy so much- no matter how complicated the plot gets, or how far it withdraws into the mysterious Buffyverse, the writers always manage to pull out the humor and a some meta commentary. this reflexiveness tames the series and reassures me, as a fan, that someone is in control and up there balancing the scales of drama and comedy. the same continues in Firefly.

like replacing "hostage" with "guestage" as Andrew says


I heart Joss Whedon

Gordon's a No Show

I was super excited because through Craigslist I got invited to come eat lunch at the Black Pearl, where Gordon Ramsey, celebrity chef, was doing the latest Kitchen Nightmares (if unfamiliar, its on the Fox website). So I went with my posse, and we ate a very uninteresting lunch and then lingered hoping for a glimpse. No such luck.

Where are you Gordon?

PS I really enjoyed Maze.

cosmo, meet jezebel!

i thought this was hilarious and wanted to share. find the real thing at:
http://jezebel.com/357764/ooooooh-mommy-cosmo-said-the-jay+jay-word

nothing like a good old feminist tear down of postfem culture!

sorry, nolte. i know you love the cosmo.