Thursday, October 25, 2007

Because she's been sleeping with my husband!

God, what a great show.

First off, within the first 2 minutes we get Meredith saying the title quote to this blog, TWICE. Then, we get Callie O'Malley, saying the above statement, about Izzie, to Izzie, in front of everyone. THEN, we get Sexy Lexie, in costume, AND pigtails, all before the opening credits. The night can only go well after this.

Ok, so, I can't hate Meredith for working her ass off to try to get that kid ears, honestly, I am getting mad at this redemption thing. I want to hate Meredith, they are making it hard. I can hate her for her little "I Need" speech she gave to Yang. Guess what McBitchy, no one cares what you need. She actually listened to Lexie, which was different, and fun. But, COME ON, I don't care how you spin it, she washed her mother down the drain. I watched her do it, on national television, Meredith Grey washed her mother down the drain. Terrible.

Karev got him some Eva action, that was great, really it was. I like her, I like Karev with her, I like Karev, he should have a spin off, like Callie should, and NOT like Addison should. Morals are very loose on this show. Eva is cheating on her husband, George, Addison, cheaters. Meredith, sort of easy, again, like George. Yang sleeps with her superiors, and, hell, only Izzie is any sort of chaste, cept for the whole George thing.

Dr. Bailey's breakdown on the bench, wow. This woman can act, she is completely great, she gets the good lines, no question, but god, she is good..

Dr. Sydney was back, as was nurse Olivia, which is nice. I feel like all the females on this show, save Callie, that I like, are guest stars and not on a lot. Grey's should do a Lower Decks type episode, of just those people, and maybe Meredith could die again in it.

Oh yes, and Dr. Hahn showed up, and knocked Yang down a few pegs, that was nice.

I don't do that stuff, but my best friend has Gonorrhea AND is pregnant!

Before I begin, I should note, and McFiance would agree, that I am the worst speller ever, yet somehow I spelled Gonorrhea correctly in the title, the first time. I don't know what this says about me, and the generation in which I grew up.....anyway.......

I cannot properly put into words just how terrible Private Practice truly is, and how it makes no sense from any practical level, at all. Sadly, it got a full season order this past week, which means we have it polluting our airwaves until at least May, 2008. If a presidential candidate would campaign on dropping this piece of turd off of ABC, he or she would get my vote in the Iowa caucuses, I swear.

Last night, as with every week, a big emergency popped up, and, so, everyone involved had to LEAVE their private practices, and go to the HOSPITALS where the real doctors with real coats actually work.

That terrible plot device aside, I was sort of taken aback by the gimmicky "young boy does Paps" gag, which, it is an office, why the slapstick. Also, the dialog is so stilted, and awkward at times. I like shows that have natural awkwardness, like The Office, but this show, GOD, terrible. Pushing Daisies, however, continues to please, and last nice, poor Olive, poor poor Olive, did right in the end, and still didn't get her piemaker. The piemaker loves Chuck, Chuck perhaps, loves the piemaker, and no one, no one is left to love Olive. I hope Chuck at least makes efforts to unite Olive and the piemaker, after all, Olive is showing a lot of compassion, despite how it was initially poorly placed to Chuck's aunts.

This show has such an interesting concept, and, while I worry of it tiring if Chuck and the piemaker can never touch, it is, so far, the best new thing on tv. At least, that is the story so far....

Kid Nation is good stuff. The kids are about half way through their time in Bonanza City, and, so far, only a few have dropped out. I do not get Taylor, at all. I mean, I know she is getting a terrible edit, but still, even bad edit complaints aside, she looks SO bad. I realize 11 year olds don't have a concept as to how bratty they will look on television, but, man, you'd think a beauty queen, who doesn't do dishes, would.

I also found it interesting to see Guylan start to fold under the yolk of leadership. It didn't take long for him to realize why Mike yelled so much, after all, his team, barely listens.

Finally, Bionic Woman was also on last night, and, sadly, I am starting to see what the critics see, and can, perhaps, start to call this show bad. The concept is great, but, I don't know, I feel like Chuck is more Alias like than Bionic Woman is, and, I was sort of pissed that they went to the whole "fake a british accent from a british actress" so early in the show. I get it, its cute, she REALLY is english, so she's been faking american this whole time. But, awful. Isaiah Washington at least brings some measure of good acting to the show.

This show needs more Starbuck, otherwise, it will blow.

Ratings Round Up: Pushing Daises, sadly, lost almost 14% in the key demo, while, in that same demo, Bionic Woman only lost 2.94%. Private Practice, which is terrible, gained 2.27% in the ratings, and Kid Nation, amazingly enough, went up 8.33% in the key demo. There will be a Kid Nation 2 folks, the ratings are too damn good.


The Amazing Race is back a week from Sunday. I am giddy!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

When there is no cheerleader, I don't know what to do.

So, I don't know what to think about Heroes this year. The pacing has been slow, and I talked to a friend about this, who, apparently enjoys a good slow pace, but still, it is maddening to me. They are introducing new characters, all with connections to old ones, and, in doing so, they are certainly making things interesting, but, still, I am a bit maddened.

For instance, is there really a disease Mohinder is fighting? If so, why no mention in three weeks?
What the hell is Matt's Dad's power? Mind reading? Mind attack? Mind Manipulation?
Where the hell was Claire at last night? I actually like her and West's storyline quite a bit, even though HRG is freaking me out a bit.

Here is the problem with all the new characters, in bringing them out, we do not have near enough time or space to actually get anywhere with the old ones. Even more than last year, more and more characters are taking entire weeks off, and while that is fine every now and then, especially in a show with SUCH a huge cast, it bothers me a bit in this one.

Having said that, bring on Kristen Bell. She plays Elle, aka Electrogirl, and looks awesome, if not a little crazy/neurotic. She's a new character I can live with.

In other show news, Chuck was again Chuck, and is funny, but I cannot see it going anywhere. Sadly, I already grow weary of it, and, people are somewhat agreeing with me as it lost 12% of its audience from last week, without baseball being on.

Journeyman, on the other hand, is actually getting better, with more ties to the lead characters father being introduced, and, the new aspect of physicist who seems to know a lot more about the time travel than anyone, I actually am becoming intrigued by this show. Sadly, it lost 11% of its audience from last week, so, that is scaring me.

Samantha Who? is going to be a good show, if they stick to the pilot formula a bit more. I want to see longer flashbacks of Bad Samantha, and hope we see less of the fish out of water stuff we saw this week, and more of the her adjusted, but remembering how terrible she was, that would be great. Samantha lost a scant 5% of households, but gained in the key demographic, so, I am hopeful for a full season.

Starting a week from Sunday? THE AMAZING RACE comes back to the airwaves. Be ready for this, the greatest reality competition series, EVER! McFiance and I actually tried out for this show once, and sadly, didn't even get called back. Maybe someday!

Friday, October 19, 2007

The sad sad tale of Callie O'Malley.

Well, first off, McBitchy was more McJealous than anything last night. I try to find things to hate her for, and, well, she was going to take the bullet for Richard Gilmore, aka, the world's oldest intern, so that was admirable. She was a bit jealous/weirded out by McDreamy talking to Sexy Lexie, but, nothing out of the ordinary, because, I would be weirded out in that situation, especially with Yang getting all up in my face about it.

Kerev was great last night, he usually is, but he is so pointed, and usually dead on right. McFiance and I were both struck at his "I'm embarrassed for you" remark, and really, I think we all are. I wonder if the writers secretly hate Katherine Heigl, because man, they are making her very tough to like this year.

Callie O'Malley on the other hand, whoa, that girl needs HER own series, because she is great, and certainly better than Kate Walsh. The measured way in which she spoke to Izzie, her breakdown with the jerkiest boyfriend of all time, her over all being distraught over trying to deal with George, while, at the same time, not really forgiving him, and sort of blaming herself. This was her supporting actress Emmy episode, and I really hope she wins for it. Good for her.

That's all I got this week. No real plot progression, for anyone, except for Yang being all nasty to the Lexinator, and said Lexie growing a spine.

Both of which were nice.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Hospitals are terrible to people, and why is Taye Diggs on this crap?

I don't have much to say about Private Practice this week. The show is well cast, but terribly written and even more terribly acted. I do not understand why anyone in the world thought it was a good idea to give Kate Walsh her own spin off, and then cast better people than her in it. Between Amy, Taye and Superman/Doctor Tim Daly they are just all bigger, better names then she is, and it really points out how terrible an actress she is.

Also, the plot this week, I mean, I am glad that Addison ended up being right, but why the made up rivalry between her and her friend, and, does Addison like Taye? I can't tell. Also, she acted like a crazy woman with people not RSVP'ing to her party. I have had new years party's and cook outs, I have used evite, and people are just being lazy. I am also getting married next year to McFiance, and I presume that some people will not RSVP and still come, there is no need to just go off on people about it. What a nut job. Speaking of Nut Jobs, her patient wasn't crazy, had a real disease, and now, can get better and have her baby, sweet.

Pushing Daises
continues to be the most interesting show on television, however, the narration and constant going over about how Ned's power works is getting a tad old. We get it, Touch Them Once....Alive. Touch Them Twice.... Dead Forever. I did LOVE the firefly parts at the beginning that showed him experimenting and getting down exactly how his power works, that was pretty cool shit.

Now, onto KID NATION, which, what a great show. I love little kids doing fake shots, and having fake elections, and actually being destructive toward one another. Tonight, with the fake elections, Taylor, the child beauty queen, who's parents honestly have to be CRINGING at home everytime she says "deal with it" was the least pleased with elections, and almost pulled them off, almost. She actually said during the show that "Love me or Hate me I don't back down from a fight." I do not believe that to be true, I think that if someone actually got in her face about anything, she would absolutely back down.

By a vote of 5-4 she was evicted (sorry, wrong show) she was voted off the counsel, and replaced by Zach. More surprising than Zach's close win, was Michael's blow out loss. The poor kid, whom I admit I don't like very much, only got one vote! He is a bit bossy, but, at least he worked hard, unlike Princess Taylor. If there is a single person on reality television that has a greater capacity than Taylor to grow up to be a real life Meredith Grey, I have yet to see her. Moral of the story, if any of you out there actually liked Taylor, she's gone, DEAL WITH IT!

Oddly, given the choice between a BBQ and Meat, vs Dental Care products, the town counsel took Dental Care. I mean, if you're out there for a year, I can see wanting toothpaste, but hell, they are only gone 40 days, TOPS, and you already gave up pizza for the betterment of all, so, for once, take the meat! Then, no more chickens have to die!

Finally, Bionic Woman was also on last night. This show is great. I have a lot of friends who disagree with that statement, but I like it quite a bit. Last night, Jamie started the show be running, very ALIAS like down a dark alley, to find her sister making out with a boy in the back seat of a car with a boy, whom apparently thought she was 18, when she really is 15 in show years. (Who hasn't made that mistake? right guys?)

Honestly though, this is my problem with television shows, none of them since Once and Again have actually cast real teenagers in real parts of the same age. Lucy Hale, who plays the part is really 18 in actual life, so, I mean, she COULD pass. Isaiah Washington was a total bad ass this episode, not as cool as Katee Sackhoff, but cool. Also, why in the world is the Bionic Woman afraid of anything? Even flying? I mean shit. She is tough as hell.

In the ratings round up of all of these new shows, Private Practice lost 8% of its audience, thank god, now just 92% more. Sadly, Bionic Woman also lost 10% of those who watched the week before. Pushing Daises remained even, THANK GOD, and Kid Nation gained 14% from the week before, there will SO be a season 2 of this show.

And, finally, Grey's is on tonight, but, I again have obligations, so, the McBitchy tally count will have to come a bit late.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Monday Round Up, or How Christina Applegate can play the most likeable bitch....ever

Well folks, we have a new good show on the television, and its Samantha Who?

It is good for a whole host of reasons. First, it has a lead character who used to be a terrible human being (unlike Grey's, whose titular character is still a terrible human being). Second, it utilizes flashbacks in a constructive way to push forward the narrative of the story. Much like season one of Veronica Mars did so well. It was just interesting to watch how nervous everyone was around Samantha, at least right away, so I want to see more, just to see if that keeps up, if she will regress, if she will be better, and what not. I hope she does not stay with her parents long, if anything, I want to see more Barry Watson, whom does not have enough work since 7th Heaven ended, and What About Brian was canceled. (Side note, remember the first 8 episodes of what about brian? They were amazing, its a shame that show went to shit shortly thereafter).

It also had a very very good debut in the ratings, with a 10.2/15 rating, despite going up against Heroes. Christina Applegate really is good in everything she is in, and the cast, well, just watch it next week, its great.

Speaking of... Heroes was great last night. I am actually starting to like West, our junior flying man, quite a bit. I loved a lot of Micah last night, and whoa, Monica Dawson, his cousin, great. I love when we get powers that get very little attention in comic books, but are still cool nonetheless. Photographic Reflexes, what an interesting power. I hope they find really great ways to use it. Sylar was back last night, apparently accepting the fact that he cannot access his powers, and going on the journey with the wonder twins, who still can kill people.

Journeyman held solid in the ratings with a great episode last night, but nothing, nothing prepared me for the awesomeness of CHUCK last night. Not only did it have a hefty ratings increase, but the show is funny, AND good. I hope they bring on more team ups with the shady DEA agent, cause that, would be fun. I also find myself thinking "I wonder if the CIA and FBI really hate each other this much?" with every episode.

Friday, October 12, 2007

So, I guess she can be nice when she wants to be.

So, I knew that scene at the end was coming. I knew Meredith was going to talk to Lexie about how her mom died, and I was so waiting for Meredith to be all holier than thou about the whole thing. Sadly, she wasn't. She was professional, she was caring, and she was even honest about being fond of Lexie's mother. Hell, Meredith was even somewhat nice to Chang last night, who, mind you, was stealing all of her surgeries.

I am troubled by the direction that Izzie is going this season. She is sort of pathetic. Like, honestly, she's a resident? Thank god I have not seen her do one surgery this year so far, because her, with a knife, freaky. I still am sort of pissed that they ever let her back in the intern program after she killed Denny, and poor George has to repeat his intern year. But, the whole Izzie/George thing has already worn thin with me. I don't want them together, because, I don't think he really loves Izzie. I think he likes the idea of being with Izzie, but he loves Callie, married Callie, and Callie clearly loves him. I was never a Callie fan early on in this show, but man, she's been great this season, and Izzie, just sort of a slapstick joke.

Kerev was back in fine form last night, being a good doctor, and being a great jerk. The scene where he outed George for being a repeater was interesting. First off, because Daddy Gilmore Intern hated him for it. Secondly, because, and I believe this, Lexie was put off, yet, turned on by it, and finally, because George's downward spiral continued. Make no mistake I don't feel 'bad' for George. He is making a lot of bad choices in this whole thing, but, he started being honest last night. He had a day that just wore him down, and, at the end of it, he was honest with is wife, so, that was at least something.

Next Week - Meredith gets jealous over Derek talking to Lexie. God this show is like high school...seriously.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Italian Banker did what with the Bionic Woman?

Dirty Sexy Money is quickly becoming a favorite of mine, if, for no other reason, than it is just bad to like it so much. It isn't like, 90210, guilty pleasure bad, but god, its something to see.

Great cast, good writing, shot very well, and, for instance, last night. I don't know what is smarter, naming an episode of your network television show after a sexual position, or, making up the name of the sexual position in order to have it get past the network censors. Either / Or I am ok with it.

If anyone out there has any idea what the titular sexual position "The Italian Banker" would look like, please post below.

Also great last night, Bionic Woman. I know, I love this show too much, as it is fairly campy, and, not terribly well acted, but Isaiah Washington is great, and, the lead actress is really really growing on me.

Sadly, ratings are starting to show their ugly head. Bionic Woman lost 5% of its audience from the week before, and Dirty Sexy Money lost only a little less than 3%. Sadly, somehow, the shit ball that is Private Practice is actually GAINING in popularity, up 6.67%. As big of a tragedy as that is, Pushing Daisies the BEST new show of the fall, lost a bit over 16% of its audience from the week before. Let's hope that trend ends right now.

The Grey's blog will be a bit late this evening, as McFiance and I have evening plans, so, check back well after the show airs.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

She wanted some magic, but her who ha was broken.

What a piece of shit show. God I hate private practice. The only reason I watch this steaming pile of shit is because, just in case someone I know watches it, and likes it, I can berate them for it and not feel, at all, bad about it.

I swear, if Bionic Woman gets cancelled before this, I will kill people.

Anyway, tonight, the main plot involving our Girl Addison, formerly of Grey's is that a woman (oddly, the actress who played Ellie on the West Wing) who waited till her wedding night to "go all the way" finds out she cannot because of, what appears to be, clinical fridgidity. That actress, by the way, played, like, a 40 year old in The American President, so, I consider her to be a good actress, she just decided to guest star on crap t.v.

Taye had a very very brief role tonight, but he and his ex wife actually TALKED about their daughter, which is really good, because I thought she was getting the "little sister in family matters" treatment.

For those of you who don't know, Jamie Foxworthy played little sister Judy Winslow for like 5 seasons on Family Matters, and then, vanished. No explanation, just gone. Given the names of the movies she did on the imdb, I think she may have done soft porn.

Oh, and, apparently, to solve the great "unable to have sex mystery" Addison and Tim Daly, aka, Superman, had to work together. She had to go ask him for his thing. AWKWARD.


Sigh, at least Pushing Daises, also an ABC product, is AMAZING. Honestly, watch this show, I cannot stress how great it is enough.

Greys Tommorrow!

Friday, October 5, 2007

She just gets worse, and worse, and worse.

I will confess something. I made last nights post, before the episode ended. I was watching with McFiance, and was giving too much time to my computer, and not enough time to her, and so I put the computer away.

Then, Meredith got worse. First, she just flat out lied. "I am normally a really nice person." She says to Lexie. Well, no, no she isn't, as Dr. Burke's mother so fantastically pointed out, she is a fairly terrible person, and has little to no redeeming qualities.

I really felt for McDreamy in the end. Yeah, it was bad for McSteamy to lie to Meredith, but, he was doing it for the right reasons, to help Derek, because, as the McBitchy voice-over pointed out, addiction is a bad thing, and Derek is, clearly, addicted to Meredith, in a fairly bad way. What's worse is, she knows it, she knows he is, and she knows how he feels. Remember the point in his life when he found Meredith, his wife was cheating on him, he found this fun girl full of life, and he fell for her, hard. He had second thoughts, tried to make it work with his wife, and realized that Meredith was for him. He then went back to her, and fought to get her from McVet, and won. Now, she is just using him, and what's worse she is blaming it all on her dad.

I do not excuse her father for leaving her, and for going off with Lexie's mom. However, Meredith's mom was sleeping with the Chief. Not only that, she was cold, and a total career woman. Here is my problem with Meredith, she is pushing away other people, not because of what her Dad did to her, leaving, when she was young. She is pushing people away because she is JUST like her mother. She is focused on herself, and not on caring for others. She it taking it out on poor Lexie, who, admittedly, looks to be half the Doctor Meredith is, but she is taking it out on Lexie, who turned out to be, so far, a fairly nice and normal young woman. Meredith isn't cold, and untrusting, and selfish because of what her dad did to her, she is that way because of how her mother raised her. Hopefully that will be explored a bit more, who knows.

Until then, the Office was pretty funny last night, and I am being drawn back into Smallville, oh how great Supergirl is.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Were you being inappropriate, or were you being selfish?

I have to say, before tonight, I never really had any strong feelings, one way or the other, for Dr. Burke's mom. But tonight, wow, she was great. She made the titular quote of this blog entry, to Meredith's face, about Meredith.

The answer, of course, is that McBitchy was doing both.

Other McBitchy moments? Her acting jealous when Kerev checked out Sexy Lexie.

Tonight, the show became slapstick central, with Lexie and Izzie both spilling shit, and doing a poor job of it. Sigh.

Meredith actually did go the clinic, without arguing, really, so that was a nice change of character, but, when she got there she had to work with intern Lexie, and, well, that made her uncomfortable. So far Lexie seems super nice, and i do not know why she would not be loved by all, she is awesome, after all.

In other news, Kerev got punched, and Izzie and Callie bonded a bit, even though Izzie wants George, and Callie totally knows whats up.

I will post more tommorrow, this show is really starting to suck this year.

Wednesday Night Round Up

Good morning all. Well, we had another Wednesday come and go, and, there was a lot of good T.V. on last night, and, sadly, some really crappy shows as well.

To begin, I think that Bionic Woman is really an amazing piece of work. It is going to have a great internal mythology, a lot of mystery, and solid acting. Isiah Washington, formerly of Grey's Anatomy, was pretty damn great last night, and I look forward to see more of him. One thing that really struck me though was the sudden death of the doctor who made Jamie our new little Bionic dynamo.

I know that he was shot last week, but, somehow, I thought that he would pull through. I mean if his company can make Jamie the Bionic Woman, why on earth can't they fix his gun shot wound? Did Chris Bowers get better work? Anybody know?

Not surprisingly, Private Practice was terrible. I feel like actress Kate Walsh must know that the show is just not any good, and is therefore over acting, to make it worse, so she can go back to Grey's in a bit part, in order to share screen time with McBitchy. Even McFiance stated, after watching "I'll give it one more episode". She LOVES Grey's (as do I, I just hate the main character), so her not liking it, that has to be trouble for producers. The only two cast members I can tolerate are Tim Daly, and Taye Diggs, not only because they are awesome, but, because they at least seem to be acting well, given the crap they have to say. But even then, it still had problems, big ones. I mean, any time there is a major emergency on the show, they call an ambulance. It happened last week, and this week, Taye did the same thing. Perhaps they just want us to make sure we know that they have a co-op clinic, although, the feel good group meetings at the beginning of the show certainly bash us over the head with that concept. Or maybe they just want to give more screen time to the Chief of Medicine at St. Anthony's, which is possible, given the fact that she is the only likable female character on the show.

This crap will not make it past 13 episodes, trust me.

Pushing Daisies was fairly unreal on every level. I was expecting it to be a bit more noir than it was. I totally did not expect the "Big Fish" feel to it. Also, I had no clue that Kristen Chenowith, formerly of The West Wing, and Wicked was in it. I don't know how to describe it, other than cheesy, surreal, odd, fun, and amazing. It is completely a show you have to watch to understand it, and one, I think, that you will have to see from the beginning to appreciate. I am big fan of the creator, Bryan Fuller, who got his start on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as a writer. And has been involved with, or created, some amazing shows. I also deeply enjoyed Wonderfalls, despite its short tenure, and this show, definitely has that sort of cooky feel to it. Watch it, it is great.

Finally, I have to give a shout out today to South Park from last night. Wow. That show continues to amaze me. Not only do they get away with murder because of their format, but, the show REALLY knows itself so well. I will not get the quote right, but when Cartman says to Kyle, "I can go on t.v., and let the jews really have it, and people won't say anything, they will call me brilliant, I might win an emmy." I mean, not only does this come a week after South Park won another Emmy, but honestly, that is what South Park has done. They pick any group, say horrible things about them, and win Emmy's, because it is called brilliant. I don't know how they do it, but I am amazed.