Posted by Dustin on 08.27.2010 at 5:19 pm

Posted by Dustin on 08.26.2010 at 9:12 pm

So Sookie finally found out what she was this week, she’s a fairy! She also learned from Bill that all supernaturals believed Fairies were wiped out by vampires for some reason. Bill later learned from Eric why the queen wanted Sookie . . . . there is a rumor that Fairy blood protects them from sunlight. Bill said only momentarily, then you begin to burn. Hmmmm, that’s it? Really? There has to be more.

Russell mourned Talbot this week, by hiring a hooker to pretend was Talbot. It was little Navid from 90210, who looked more his age as a sleezy hooker than he does on his own show. Sadly he didn’t last long, Russell staked him to pretend he was with Talbot at the moment of his death. I thought maybe they’d turn him, but that might be hard when you have no heart.

Meanwhile Eric was trying to devise a plan to save himself from Russell coming for him. It seemed he got an idea to use Sookie and chained her up in Fangtasia. Was he going to hand Sookie over to Russell, who wanted her because the queen did? I don’t think so. Based on the previews, and what Bill told him, I think he plans on dragging Russell out into the light to burn.

We learned where they seem to be headed with Lafayette and Jesus’ story, and it looks like they are trying to suggest they are Shaman. They went on a V trip and saw some of their ancestors. Jesus has a grandfather who is a powerful evil sorcerer, and Lafayette’s family used to practice conjure. I’m guessing Jesus’ grandfather, who always had plans for him, might be coming for him soon?

I had some issues with all this, mainly because I know too much about it (cause it’s a class I teach). The magics the family practiced, at least Lafayette’s, is not something inherited as they suggested, it’s folk magic. I do give them credit, though it might be a lucky guess, for making them Shaman. Often Shaman were in fact gay/lesbian/bisexual, as in many cultures they were a third gender (neither male nor female) and thought to be innately blessed (as well as have the power to shapeshift, including between genders).

I am not a fan of Sam’s darkside storyline honestly. I don’t like Tommy either. I really don’t like any of Sam’s storyline this season, but I like Sam! Tara learned Jason was the one who killed Eggs, so here is hoping she ends up with Sam again. I’d like that story.

Jessica choosing Hoyt made me happy, but not as happy as her bitch slapping Tommy the pitbull into the woods to save Hoyt from his attack! Then her giving him her blood to save him, they are connected for good now. Yay! I have a feeling Tommy might not live till next season, which would be fine by me.

Arlene told Terry the truth about the baby, and he stepped up and didn’t walk away, saying she needed to keep the baby and he’d raise it. However she knew it would be evil and went to Holly for help. Holly came out of the closet as a Wiccan in this episode.

Finally Jason learned exactly what Crystal was, a were-panther. Aside from Lafayette and Jesus, I knew all the other shockers from friends who read the books. Still, it was a good show with a lot crammed in it.

Best line of the episode? Pam wins for “Blah blah, Vampire emergency, blah blah blah.”
Runner Up? Lafayette for “That’s a whole new level of white trash.”

SPOILER ALERT! The actor who played Russell has given hints as to the end of the season and next season. While many people apparently come for him, it seems whatever happens, there is a chance for him in season 4.

Posted by Dustin on 08.26.2010 at 7:43 pm

As usual, we began with a recap of all the events up till the Veto and Matt’s nomination. Matt’s undoing was throwing his BFF Ragan under the bus.

Enzo said Brandon, Britney and Ragan were the Bra-Gade’s next targets.

Britney apologized to Ragan, but he was more upset that Matt threw him under the bus. Ragan avoided Matt, and Matt began to wonder why. However Matt soon learned that Ragan learned from Britney that he threw Ragan under the bus. He knew he had to get his BFF back on his side cause he needed votes to stay.

Matt tried to play sly with Ragan and that he talked with Britney and asked her not to punish Ragan for campaigning to save Matt. He tried to make it seem like he unintentionally threw him under the bus.

Ragan held a meeting with the house to let them know people keep saying he was hard core campaigning to keep Ragan in the house. Enzo and Hayden said too much, and Ragan figured out the four were in an alliance . . . The Brigade! Ragan confronted Matt about his idea, but he continued to try and play dumb.

Matt tried to use Ragan’s knowledge with Hayden and Lane to keep him over Enzo. Matt told them if he stayed, he could control Ragan. Hayden realized they may need to keep MAtt, but could they trust him?

Julie then went to the living room and told them tonight was a Double Eviction, so they would go immediately to the first vote for the first eviction.

It was unanimous, Matt was out the door! The house guests then had to immediately go into the next HOH competition, while Julie Chen talked with Matt.

The HOH competition was a question about two house-guests, and they had to find the names to answer the question in a large box of peanuts. The new HOH ended up being Hayden!

The house-guests strategized for a bit before Hayden nominated Brendan and Ragan. Haydan said he was keeping a promise to Britney not to put her or Lane up, and they know how he feels about Enzo.

The live POV was then played, and it was a Before and After game, where they had to decide if an event happened before or after another. All house-guests played, and in the end Ragan won the Veto.

Ragan saved himself, and Hayden nominated Britney! The vote occurred, and Brandon went home unanimously.

The next HOH comp was played, but it was not shown. Based on feeds, it probably involves a game they were given to practice. It was one of those skeet shooting like games where they flicked the ball off a teeter-totter

Posted by Dustin on 08.25.2010 at 8:56 pm

Britney put Enzo and Brendan up, saying this was not an attack on Enzo, he just hadn’t been on the block. She told Brendan he was after her last week, so thats why he’s up.

Both Enzo and Brendan were furious and gunning for Britney should they survive. Britney later told Enzo he is a pawn, he is not going home. However Enzo knew Britney had made deals before she went back on.

Lane and Hayden realized they had to backdoor Matt, otherwise he’ll win the whole thing. Lane talked to Britney and said she should backdoor Matt, as he has too many people in his corner. Lane warned her that Matt would put them up since they are buddy buddy, or he’d put up Enzo and Hayden to break their bromance up. Britney however felt safer for Matt than Brendan, and she didn’t know why they were talking about this when veto hadn’t been played.

Players for Veto were picked, and everyone but Ragan played, he was the host. The game was one where people had to volunteer for punishments, but at the same time to win points for the veto. They also were able to give up points for prizes.

In the end, Brendan won the veto. He was also chained to Britney for 24 hours (by his choice!), had to take chum baths (fish guts) for 24 hours, and shaved his head.

Enzo ended up in the penguin suit for a week and gave all his clothes to charity. Lane won a call from home and Hayden won 5 grand as well as a trip for two to Hawaii.

The people who won the prizes remained secret, the punishments were made known. Britney was furious that her team basically betrayed her, and Matt was upset as his butt was also on the line. Britney was now considering the whole house as potential nominees for taking too many prizes.

Britney broke down to Ragan later, all the prizes were taken and she didn’t get a single one. She also said he’d be here next week too. Matt soon joined her as she ranted how they just couldn’t get out one person.

Lane admitted to Enzo, Hayden and Brendan he did take the phone call. Everyone thought Matt took the prized, the big ones that Hayden took!

Lane went to see Britney and they talked in private. Lane said that he took the phone call, but they all are sure Matt took the prizes (as Hayden told Lane he didn’t win them).

Britney later found Pandora’s Box in her room. She had no idea what was in it, and she was tempted with the ability to speak to a previous houseguest from another season for advice. She opened it and went inside, only to find Jesse there.

Holy hell can we just not be rid of this idiot? He had to rip off his shirt, and the secrets she won for a whole hour . . . . training tips to look like him! She wondered what everyone else got . . . . they got a Hawaiian feast and drinks!

Brendan, shaved head and all, ended up chained to Britney for 24 hours. He also had to take the bath every time a bell rang . . . and he had to do it while handcuffed to Britney!

Matt talked to Britney to try and save his ass from going on the block. Matt, for some reason trying to save the brigade, threw Ragan under the bus to Britney as well as to the rest of the brigade. He convinced Lane to try and convince her to do this, as then MAtt wouldn’t come after her next week.

Lane did talk to Britney, but threw Matt under the bus saying he has been after him to convince her to put up Ragan. Britney warned Lane he better not be in an alliance with anyone else . . . . . Lane said he didn’t have the brains for it!

Hayden said the brigade was going to push for Matt, and both he and Enzo then pushed Britney to put up Matt as he was a snake throwing his best friend under the best, they can’t trust him. Britney began to realize she couldn’t trust Matt given he’s throwing Ragan under the bus, his BFF in the house.

Britney talked to Ragan and warned him people are throwing him under the bus to her. She however said she would fight for him to be here, she needs him here. Ragan warned her the both of them were in trouble with this whole house.

The veto meeting was held, and of course Brendan saved himself. Britney ended up putting Matt on the block!

The ironic thing is . . . . Ragan eventually learned Matt threw him under the bus . . . . and Ragan he ended up forgiving him and still tried to fight for him to stay (in spite of his final diary room message on the show).

Tomorrow is the double eviction, which most of the houseguests have figured out at this point is probably coming.

Posted by Dustin on 08.25.2010 at 8:10 pm

So I’ve been pondering what to write about the season 4 finale of “Army Wives,” but I guess one of my tweets that night sums it up. I kept waiting for a bomb to drop, but it never did. Let’s see, how did things end up?

Michael, who was taken hostage, was rescued by Chase and Delta Force before the first half hour was up, and he was on his way home to see Emmalynn graduate.

Jeremy proposed to Gabriella as she was just about to ship out for home. She apparently said yes, as later he told his parents. Denise meanwhile gave birth to Molly. I thought for sure since Michael was safe, Denise or the baby would be in jeopardy.

Joan got word she was cleared for duty again, should the Army chose to call her up.

The only real cliffhanger was with Pamela. She got a job offer from Gina in Atlanta to be part of a new task force there. as she decided to take it and say goodbye, Chase dropped the one and only bomb. He put in told her he wanted her back, he had put in to leave Delta, he realized now what was important.

So why all the fairly happy endings? As it turns out, Lifetime hasn’t given the show (or Pamela’s potential spinoff) the green light yet. I’d like to say given the ratings, which have been excellent, it should be a done deal. But a lot of shows people expected to be safe this year were in fact cut.

Will the wives be back? Time will tell!

Posted by Dustin on 08.23.2010 at 10:23 pm

These should be the final two episodes of “The Gates,” as the weekend after “Housewives” and “Brothers and Sisters” are back on for the season premiers. Still no word if we’ll get this back next summer. My guess at this point is not.

NICK’S SECRETS ARE ABOUT TO SURFACE, ON ABC’S “THE GATES”
“Surfacing” – A grim secret has been buried and forgotten in the sodden banks of the river . . . or has she? Nick’s past once again comes back to haunt him, and this time the demons are more real than he could fathom. Claire fears her own family is in jeopardy when Emily’s Aunt Nancy shows up with a social worker in tow, asking pointed questions about life in the Radcliffe home. Dana realizes that a lovesick brother is a miserable person to live with, and endeavors to reunite Charlie and Andie. But the teen romance is put on hold when someone-or something-plots to torment the Monohan family, on “The Gates,” SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Guest Starring are McKaley Miller as Dana Monohan, Georgia Kole as Emily Radcliff, Shannon Lucio as Teresa, Lori Heuring as Nancy and Ashley LeCont Campbell as Mrs. Stanley.

Presumed Season Finale (or part 1 of a 2 part finale as this airs at 9pm) of “The Gates”
“Bad Moon Rising” – Buckley and Vanessa make a controversial decision that threatens to tear apart the neighborhood. Reeling from the discovery that The Gates is teeming with Supernaturals, Sarah pulls away from those who kept her in the dark and seeks respite in her friendship with Devon. But Sarah is about to find out that Devon is the one person she should never have trusted. And angered that Andie and Charlie are once again an item, Brett resorts to drastic measures–ones that will have lasting consequences–on “The Gates,” SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Posted by Dustin on 08.22.2010 at 8:08 pm

Tonight on “Big Brother” we got a lot of recaps of the last episode and what happened, a lot more than usual. Much of it was everyone’s reactions to the Diamond Power of Veto.

Enzo worried that The Bra-Gade showed their cards to Matt when they planned to vote him out and warned him that he didn’t have the votes to stay.

Brendan was convinced everyone in the house was seeing what a sneak Matt was. He also thought he was safe as he kept Britney safe next week.

Enzo and Hayden worried though that Brendan would go up, and one of them next to him.

Britney got her HOH room, and everyone laughed behind Britney’s back about her fiance Nick, who they think she built up to be some greek god supermodel athlete, but thought he was a geeky dork.

Enzo confronted Matt to try and smooth things over, but also warning him the Bra-Gade is worried about his thing he has going on with Ragan. Matt swore he was committed to them, but really he wasn’t.

Matt and Ragan advised Britney. Brendan was going up, and Matt suggested Enzo because he’s never been up there. He said it’s an unbiased reason to use him, but Matt suggested it because he no longer trusts Enzo.

Brendan tried to assure Britney he will win HOH next week, and he will not target her. However if she goes back on their deal . . . He also tells her Matt and Ragan threw her under the bus last week (which I do believe they did, they all discussed getting her out!)

The Have Have-Not comp was played, and it was some kind of cowboy themed comp where they were divided into Lawmakers and Outlaws. They then played one of those games where they had to do shots of nasty things and try and not let on who had the horrible shot out of the three people on each team. The other team had to guess who took the nasty shot of the three.

Enzo, Brendan and Hayden ended up losing and the have nots. They learned the treat they could have was broccoli and bean dip.

Hayden, Enzo and Lane talked to Britney. She asked who the house wanted out. Lane said they all want Brendan out, but they also realize Matt is doing fishy stuff. They suggested use Matt as a pawn, but secretly wouldn’t have cried if the pawn went home.

Britney then talked to Matt again suggesting he goes up as a Pawn to win the veto, as he has his best chance of beating Brendan. Matt begged her basically not to.

At the nominations, Britney went with the plan to put Enzo up against Brendan. She told Enzo this is not an attack on him, he just hasn’t been on the block. She said Brendan was after her last week, so she is looking out for herself.

Brendan was pissed, saying she went back on her word. Enzo said he was going to win and then get Matt up on the block. Matt was sitting pretty as he felt either one of them leaving was fine with him.

Some SPOILERS below as to how things have gone down since this episode!

The veto was played, and apparently Hayden won 5000 dollars and a Hawaii trip.

Brendan won the veto, but also for 24 hours was chained to Britney and has to take hourly dunks in this nasty tank of crud.

Enzo meanwhile had to get stuck in the penguin suit.

Matt looks to go on the block as the replacement nom. Hayden and Enzo are telling her they can have a final 4 deal with Lane, but it seems they too want her gone ASAP.

The houseguests also seem to have figured it’s a double elimination week coming up.

Posted by Dustin on 08.22.2010 at 1:53 pm

I unfortunately only saw part of last nights “Person’s Unknown,” so I have little to comment on. It seems like many of the hotel guests are now complacent with, or indebted to, “The Program” for saving them somehow. So in fact in a way, “The Program” is somewhat of a brainwasher . . . well with Joe it really is. He oddly seems to the only one no longer complacent. It also seems to be centered around Janet, who I feel is poised to become the new Joe for the program.

Anyway, next weekend are two back to back episodes for a full two hour finale. Here are the spoilers!

8/28 – 8pm AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
LAST CHANCE – When the group goes searching for Janet (Daisy Betts) and Ulrich (Alan Smyth), they discover all their supplies have disappeared. After finding the pair, they turn to Ulrich for help, but soon realize they are left on their own to survive. Meanwhile, Kat (Lola Glaudini) and Renbe (Gerald Kyd) receive crucial information from a medical examiner that leads them dangerously close to “The Program.” Also starring Jason Wiles, Alan Ruck, Sean O’Bryan, Tina Holmes, Chadwick Boseman, Kandyse McClure and Joanna Lipari.

8/28 – 9pm SHADOWS IN THE CAVE
FREE AT LAST—After surviving an unexpected van crash, the abductees finally escape and decide to go their separate ways. Everyone attempts to return to their normal lives, however, “The Program” has no intention of letting them go. Meanwhile, Renbe (Gerald Kyd) and Kat (Lola Glaudini) race to help Janet (Daisy Betts), only to end up reunited with the rest of the group in eerily familiar territory. Also starring Jason Wiles, Alan Ruck, Sean O’Bryan, Tina Holmes, Chadwick Boseman, Kandyse McClure, Kate Lange Johnson and Joanna Lipari.

Posted by Dustin on 08.19.2010 at 7:39 pm

As usual, the show began with a recap of the last episode and Matt going on the block. Matt however knew with the Diamond Power of Veto, he would chose who goes home. . . but would it also make him a target of others? Both Hayden and Enzo have realized they need to get Matt out as he has too many votes and people in his pocket.

Ragan still feels bad that Matt is on the block, as he’s playing for his sick dying wife . . . which is just a big fat lie!

Matt tried to find out how Enzo and Hayden were feeling about the votes . . . knowing if they were going to keep Lane then he might need a new alliance and could send one of them home.

Matt learned Kathy learned about the pretzel message that Rachel left targeting him, and because Kathy didn’t tell him, she became a big target for him.

Lane felt Enzo up about how he and Hayden’s vote, and he felt he had their vote as well as Britney’s. The Brigade felt sure that Matt would be going home.

Matt began to realize that Enzo was planning to get rid of him, so Enzo became a target of his too.

Ragan took his next job, leaving a note that says “I know your secret!” He left it under Enzo’s pillow, and Kathy was asleep in the room at the time when Enzo found it.

Enzo told Kathy and Hayden, because they are in his room. Soon everyone in the house knew. Um maybe Enzo shouldn’t be telling everyone, as the note is bad for him . . . but now everything thinks Kathy is the saboteur because Kathy made the beds.

Matt of course loved it, because if he puts Kathy up, she’ll go home and he’ll look like a hero for getting out the saboteur.

We went to the living room, where Julie talked to the house guests about Rachel’s return to the house. Julie also told them that the saboteur is still in the house, but their reign of terror is over.

Before the vote, we had to learn how Lane and Britney’s family are reacting to their flirtatious friendship. Lane family and friends think he likes her, but Britney’s family think she’ll be loyal to her fiance.

Julie then went to the living room, told Matt to plead his case first. Matt stood up and took a ton of shots at Brendon, and then revealed he has the diamond power of veto. Julie told them that Matt received this for opening Pandora’s box, and what it does. Everyone was stunned.

Brendan and Ragan were safe, and he put up Kathy up (dumbest move ever not taking out Britney!). Lane and Kathy made their speeches, and it is no shock that Kathy was sent home unanimously.

Kathy was sent out the door and talked to Julie Chen. Kathy was mostly hurt that she didn’t have time to say goodbye to anyone, but she had no hard feelings.

BEfore the HOH, we learned the house guests had to play “Big Brother Says.” Clearly what they were told to do would be part of the HOH competition (they were reviewing this all last night, now that makes sense!)

The game was True/False based on “Big Brother Says” and in the end, Britney won the HOH!

We know Brendon will go on the block for sure this week, and unless he wins POV he’ll also be the one to leave.

PS DOUBLE EVICTION NEXT WEEK!

Posted by Dustin on 08.18.2010 at 8:30 pm

So I never saw Sunday’s Big Brother, therefore I felt the need to make a post about tonight’s episode . . . even though I already kinda had in another post this weekend.

Basically Ragan won the veto, which meant someone else had to go up. In a twist, Hayden and Enzo bonded over the fact neither would shed tears to see Matt go, because he has too many people in his pocket. The Brigade, and Britney and Ragan. They have been trying to make deals with Brendan on the feeds all week too.

Ragan meanwhile cried to Britney that he would hate if she went up and home, as she is such a good person and he loves her. Really? This is the woman you host a bitchy talk show with every night and bitch about all the other house guests. She’s a good person? I will say her nasty rants about everyone in the house in the diary room are in fact the most entertaining part of the show!

Brendan the HOH opened Pandora’s Box. He was whisked away to a 24 hour vacation at the Jury House. Rachel meanwhile was sent back into the game. Brendon, it would seem, was lead to believe by Big Brother that he’d be on vacation with Rachel. NOT!

Upon returning, Rachel immediately got into a fight with Ragan, who tore into her about being a horrid person. Ragan went into this speech about how horrible she was, and how this game was more about treating people with class and she can’t do that. She fired back with “Do you feel the need to be the biggest bitch because your gay?” This has lead to a lot of sites on the internet to accuse Rachel of being a homophobe (which Ragan also did in his own way). I don’t think Rachel is a homophobe at all, and I do think Ragan is a bitch

The fights were the final straw for me. Ragan is the biggest smack talker in this game next to his BFF Britney. All he has done is bitch and be nasty about people behind their backs. I’m not sure what moral high horse in the clouds he lives on, but he showed himself later when he really tore into Rachel telling her how she’ll get what’s coming to her, all she does is walk all over people, and how she is a nasty devil. Rachel might not have been the nicest person in the world, yes she could be a bitch, yes her voice is like nails on a chalkboard sometimes . . . but Ragan is just as bad! She tried to tell him this was a game, but he kept going off on his moral crusade about how you win is by treating people with respect (but then talking about them behind their backs like he does.). Has he watched this show? The nice guy rarely ever wins!

Rachel left Brendan a pretzel message to put up Matt before she had to leave. Ironically what we didn’t see on air is that Rachel and Ragan did have a heart to heart and made up. I don’t know how much of that was Ragan basically realizing in fact yes he has to kiss her butt to get her vote though. My guess is if I tune into the feeds or After Dark tonight, Ragan with be bitching about Rachel and Bredan still with Britney.

Brendan returned and got Rachel’s message. He had a talk with Britney and warned her that it was between her and Matt going up. Britney swore on her boyfriend she wouldn’t put him up if she won HOH next week. Next Ragan talked to Brendan and tried to save Matt.

The houseguests got another video from the saboteur (Ragan) who warned them there was a competition tomorrow that will change the course of the game. Later though the saboteur told them it was a hoax, there was no competition, it was just him keeping them on their toes. The whole thing was to make everyone paranoid and sleep deprived.

BTW, there was another message not shown, that two people in the house were in fact childhood friends, and it was a male and a female (Not sure if they showed this Sunday night when I missed it).

At the veto meeting Ragan saved himself, and Brendan put Matt on the block. Of course we know Matt has the diamond power of veto, so he will most definitely put Britney or Kathy up. My guess is he’ll put Britney up because she is a competitor and Kathy will be easy to take out when needed.

PErsonally, I hope to see Matt go home next week after this move and “The Brigade” realize maybe they can’t trust Matt at all. I’d also like to see him on the block against Ragan, because then we’ll see how his moral compass helps him play this game