Posted by Dustin on 10.15.2009 at 7:05 pm

So some good stuff on this week’s “Eastwick,” yet at the same time I wanted to scream as well. First a recap then some thoughts.

First up, Joanna was all ready for her date with Will when her ex-fiance who dropped her at the altar showed up. This guy treated her like crap, so what does she do when he says he’s sorry and made a mistake? She sleeps with him and stands up Will. Only after did she bother to use her truth powers on him to get him tell her why he left her, basically he got to the point where he couldn’t stand her. The next day she told him off in front of the whole office, thinking he just can’t commit to a woman and runs when it gets too hard (he was in town to get married again). While she told him off, Will learned what happened the night before (when she stood him up) and wanted nothing to do with her anymore. Oops!

Kat panicked, thinking Raymond kidnapped the kids. He just took them out for the morning, and brought them back with a dog. However he issued the threat he could take them out again and never come back. She called Daryl’s lawyer, who of course was a sexy hot mama. They began legal proceedings, but by the end of the show agreed to call off the lawyers and settling this rationally. Kat however said the marriage was over, she has changed and can’t go back.

The real story in this episode was with Roxanne and Jamie, the Irish writer living upstairs who she keeps dreaming is going to kidnap and kill her. She saw him outside Daryl’s place taking photos of the mansion. Later she broke in and found a book in his place, a book with the same symbol she saw as a brand on him in her visions. She stole it and showed it to Kat and Joanna. Kat said Bun had been scribbling the same symbol at the hospital, while Joanna said she saw it an the house of a crazy lady outside of town (part of the older Daryl triad of women).

Later Roxanne learned Jamie was desperate to find the book, it was left to him by his real mother. He admitted he was adopted, and came to Eastwick not only to write about witchcraft, but to find his mother. She also found photos of Daryl at his place, so she realized he was spying on them earlier. Later Bun, out of the hospital but with amnesia, saw the book at Roxanne’s and said it was her book. Roxanne realized she was Jamie’s mother. She confirmed this later when she saw Jamie and told Roxanne she knew that boy somehow, she thinks she held him in her arms at the hospital after he was born. Roxanne promised to help Bun get her memory back.

At the end of the show Joanna’s assistant at the paper (Sara Rue’s character) went to see Jamie. She said she has been pushing Joanna to go ahead with the story on Daryl/Sebastian. Jamie is her mole and has been feeding her info . . . and they are having a love affair!

My Thoughts

So I just have a bad feeling about Kat and Raymond. He either will steal the kids, or he’ll meet a suspicious end and go missing on his own, leaving Kat to look like the big suspect.

Joanna just infuriated me this entire episode. OMG, how could she have used her powers after blowing off Will and sleeping with the guy. Couldn’t you have asked him that question the minute you saw him? I’d like to feel sorry for her, but I don’t. I feel bad for Will!

I loved the twist with Sara Rue’s character and Jamie. Is she going to be a bad girl then, or is he just using her? I just love seeing Sarah Rue on TV again. I’ve loved her since “Popular.”

Speaking of Jamie, I think we have Daryl’s first spawn on the show!

Posted by Dustin on 10.12.2009 at 5:26 pm

This spoiler round-up edition includes the end of October releases, early November, as well as the premier of V! Both “Castle” and “Eastwick” have Halloween inspired episodes this week, while Chandra Wilson takes a stab at directing “Grey’s.”

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Posted by Dustin on 10.09.2009 at 8:33 pm

I realized I never did a post on “Eastwick” . . . Ahhhh! Told you I’ve been busy this week Thought I’d do a quick post during commercials of tonight’s GW/Medium double feature.

First, I’m loving this show. It reminds me both of the early seasons of “Charmed” as well as season 1 of “Desperate Housewives,” you know when each episode ended on a shocker.

Kat, for some reason, game her dolt of a husband Raymond a second chance. Why why why? By the end of the episode she again realized what a piece of @$%@$#% he was thought when he blew up at her. However I have to wonder, how much of his blow-up was possible Daryl’s doing? Don’t get me wrong, I’d love for Kat to leave that waste of @$%@%@#%, but I can’t help but wonder who Daryl is controlling. By the end of the show Raymond had taken off with the kids!

On the same note, Joanna got her first major newspaper story and scoop. She caught the Reverend Dunn, the man most vocally opposed to Daryl, at a whore house! She however realized Daryl led her there. Again, was the revered a regular, or was this a behavior put into him by Daryl?

Finally Roxanna was not only haunted by Mia’s @$%@%@$% of a rapist boyfriend, but found out she now had the ability to basically wish death on people by her words. The first problem was solved by simply telling the ghost she was sorry, that made him leave. The second? Another power she has . . . or the devil granting wishes?

Like I said, I’m loving this show. It has not just redone the movie, but reinvented it. It’s also one big mystery every week, where we are left hanging waiting for next week. I swear if ABC cancels this show . . . . I will not be held responsible for my actions!

Posted by Dustin on 10.05.2009 at 6:10 pm

Bunches of ABC spoiler releases for the last weeks of October. Included are: “Brothers and Sisters,” “Castle,” “Eastwick,” “Housewives,” “Ugly Betty,” “Grey’s,” and “Private Practice.”

Some highlights include Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig’s daughter Roxy guesting on “Brothers and Sisters,” as well as a Susan-Katherine catfight on “Housewives.” The lows? “Grey’s” and the continuation of the “you gunna get fired” story.

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Posted by Dustin on 10.02.2009 at 1:46 pm

Lots of good stuff went on this week on “Eastwick,” and it was a big departure from the movie, showing the show can be its own entity.

The biggest story of course was Joanna looking into who Daryl Van Horne was, only to uncover a connection to someone who came to town years ago named Sebastian (something-or-another). She found a photo of Sebastian, who of course was Daryl, and with him were three women . . . One was Bun, who is in the hospital. The other she recognized as a woman living on the outskirts of town. She went to see her, only to learn that the woman killed Sebastian years ago!

Other stories going on, Kat made up with her crummy husband, but realized their marriage was over and their make-up sex was really goodbye sex. Meanwhile Roxanna tried to put off committing to her boy-toy (Kyle XY) who wanted to be her boyfriend. By the end of the show she agreed though.

Also some weird writer from Ireland came to town. Roxanna dreamed he would try and kill her, but in her dream he had a scar. Roxanna saw in real life he didn’t have it though. He claimed he was researching witchcraft. By the end of the show he did brand himself with the symbol from the dream (a variation of the celtic knot, a triad symbol).

Like I said, I loved how this episode ventured off. I love the idea that Daryl has been to town before . . . and was killed? Also who is the third woman in the photo Joanna found? Her face was slightly turned, aka creating a mystery. Why do I feel like it will be one of three’s mother and Daryl will be one of their father? (He hasn’t slept with all of them yet has he, that would dismiss that idea). Otherwise if it’s not one of them, I think Daryl will have spawn in the town!

Posted by Dustin on 09.28.2009 at 6:34 pm

Some more ABC spoiler releases for the middle of October. Included are “Castle,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Eastwick” and “Ugly Betty.”

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Posted by Dustin on 09.23.2009 at 11:12 pm

Hmmmm, I don’t know what to say about “Eastwick.” Did it suck? No. However why didn’t it suck? Probably because so far it’s just been a retelling of a good book turned movie staring awesome people. If you’ve seen the original movie, there is no way you can’t watch the show and draw comparisons. I have not read the book by John Updike, so I can’t even begin to draw comparisons to it.

If you’ve read the book or seen the original movie, there isn’t much I can recap that you don’t know. If you haven’t . . . . um at least go rent the original movie! The pilot/season premier basically just introduced us to the three main characters: Joanna (Lindsey Price) who is a newspaper reporter (aka the nerdy girl), Roxanna (Rebecca Romijn) who is an artist (aka the town slut -Cher’s character-) and Kat (Jamie Ray Newman) who is a nurse (aka the woman trapped in a bad marriage with a buttload of kids). Then there is Paul Gross as Daryl Van Horne (aka The Devil). (Side Note: Daryl is the only one keeping the name from the movie, not sure about the book).

Basically three women living in the town of Eastwick who have separate lives, don’t like each other, but come together one night and make a wish to spark up their dreary lives. Into town walks the devil who not only grants their wish, but sparks hidden powers inside of them. In this episode they meet the devil and realize they each have a different power. Joanna can influence men to do what she wants. Roxanna dreams the future. Finally Kat can control the powers of the earth (via thunder, lightening, earthquakes, etc).

Again the first episode didn’t suck, but I felt like I was simply watching a retelling of the movie. Where it will go, how it will deviate? Who knows! It will be interesting to see what they do. I did feel like I was also watching a retelling of “Charmed” in a way with the three powers. That and the fact that only one of the three (Kat) had a cool power (see Shannan Doherty in Charmed!).

Your thoughts and opinions?

Posted by Dustin on 09.21.2009 at 7:23 pm

Another batch of spoiler episodics, this time from numerous ABC shows. “Brothers and Sisters,” “Housewives,” “Castle,” “Grey’s,” “Private Pracitce,” and “Eastwick” included.

Remember, “Eastwick is starting THIS WEEK!

These spoilers also have the return of Jesse Metcalf to “Housewives!”

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Posted by Dustin on 09.14.2009 at 4:54 pm

Several shows included in this round, including second episodes of the season for “Brothers and Sisters,” “Castle,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Eastwick”

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Posted by Dustin on 09.06.2009 at 6:43 pm

The official season premier press releases for “Desperate Housewives,” “Castle” and “Eastwick” are included after the jump. Spoilerish!

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