Posted by Dustin on 06.12.2013 at 12:59 pm

So the summer premier of “Pretty Little Liars” picked up where the winter finale left off, with the girls all standing in front of Wilden’s cop car and opening the trunk. Inside was a dead pig, clearly a clue. On the car’s computer was the video of Hannah’s mom hitting Wilden. Mona risked all to steal the hard drive, almost getting herself caught. At the time they thought they got away with this, but by the end of the episode A- sent them all a text with a video of them and Mona at the car stealing the hard drive! The next morning, Wilden’s dead body was found by the car. It of course was not their the night before.

Mona attempts to make peace with the liars, mainly because she’s now in their shoes. She’s being blackmailed by A- now too, but the other girls aren’t yet sure if they can really trust her. Frankly, neither am I. It could all be another game of hers. Mona tries to make amends by answering all their questions. She tells them everything she knows. She also offers to give them all her evidence. She explains that she didn’t kill Ian in the bell tower, or try and kill Jason at the elevator, she doesn’t know who did. She says Lucas did a lot under her blackmail, like give Emily her massage. She also says Wilden and Melissa were the ones on the train who put Aria in the coffin and drugged her. She goes to show them a video of Melissa and Wilden, but then her computer crashes and someone deletes it all remotely! Hmmm, where the heck is Hannah’s boyfriend right about now?

The only evidence Mona has left is in her camper. The girls thus decide hide it, but later A- blackmails Toby into stealing it. We find out something was wrong with his mother, she apparently had depression from flashbacks we see. A- promised to tell Toby what really happened to his mom if he brings her/him/them the camper. He of course does. So now we have yet another mystery from the past? Was Toby’s mom killed? Did she kill herself? So confused!

Jenna came to see Emily, she was afraid for her life as she saw Alison the day she died and one by one all of those people who did are dying. Emily then notices Jenna’s hand, which she’s hiding, is burned . . . Did Jenna start the fire?

Wilden’s funeral is held and the liars all attend. Alison’s mom is there, and she’s planning to move back to Rosewood. She seems a little bit cray-cray, but she fuels Hannah’s belief that Alison could still be alive and Redcoat. The other liars don’t think this is possible. So now do we add Alison’s mom as a possible candidate for A-? Not so fast, cause also at the funeral is a creepy lady in black veil . . .

Spencer and Mona get texts from A- about a surprise in Wilden’s coffin. They search it and find a phone inside, which ends up being Hannah’s mom’s phone. Hannah worries this means her mom is A-‘s next target. Mona promises her that nobody will hurt Miss M! Hmmm, again do we believe Mona? Has she changed? Time will tell.

The girls are confronted at the end by a new cop, someone from the State Police investigating Wilden’s death. He says Wilden had files on all of them which bordered on obsession. They say he has that right. He swears to get to the truth . . . A- then texts them “The truth won’t set you free!” As the credits roll we see the mysterious black veiled woman playing with the dolls of the liars, and a new one of Mona is added to the bunch. This woman was at the funeral too, and the girls wondered who she was. She lifts her veil to reveal a china mask which is burned on the side. Is this a clue that this is who set the fire last season, or was she burned in a previous fire? Maybe the one that blinded Jenna?

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Posted by Dustin on 06.10.2013 at 6:31 pm

So “Falling Skies” season 3 began last night with a huge 2-hour premier. I am not gunna do a huge recap, but just a brief set-up and then talk about some major plot points and what I thought.

The show takes place 7 months after the events of the season 2 finale. I think I spent the first hour trying to remember all that happened actually, and everyone’s name. All I remembered was a new alien showed up at the end. It seems Tom has been elected President of South Carolina/Charleston, and he’s made it a place for rebel skidders and humans alike to live. They are also working with the new alien, whose name is Cochise. He is helping them to try and defeat the Overlords, who apparently are called Efreti (sp?). Unfortunately as much progress as they’ve been making with his help, it seems they have a spy in their midst. Someone keeps tipping the Efreti off on their major moves.

Also at the end of last season, Karen and Hal faced off and she ended up putting one of those bug things in his eye after almost killing him. This made it seem like he was the spy. However by the end of hour two, we still didn’t know who the spy way. I don’t think it’s Hal though. Hal is now paralyzed, and still with the other blonde (Margaret) who looks a lot like Karen but isn’t Karen. Karen however has been taking over Hal at night and making him meet her in the woods for sexy time. It seems Karen has not let go of Hal and wants him back. By the end of the show Margaret found Hal walking in the woods in a zombie state. She knew Karen had done something to him, but they still doesn’t know what. They do know that Hal isn’t paralyzed, something Margaret kept telling him all along. She thought Karen was only making him think he was.

In spite of the progress in the war, some are not happy that Tom is so inviting of these new aliens. Pope doesn’t trust anything human, and Weaver has his doubts too. Conchise is helping Tom build a giant gun, the construction of which is very top secret. Tom finally let Weaver in on it, which didn’t ease his mind. What is the gun for? Even Tom doesn’t know, but feels it’s time to ask that.

One of the probable reasons for the 7 month advance in time was so Anne could have her baby. Anne went into labor and gave birth to a little girl. However Anne soon found herself baffled by her child’s amazing abilities. The kid can already say “mama” and seems to be able to track Anne and others around the room, as if she understands things. Creepy alien hybrid baby! Something definitely was done to her embryo, but who did it and why? Or is this just a result of some kind of chemical exposure that has lead to a superhuman? From the previews it definitely seems the aliens want her kid.

Tom learned via Ben’s connection with the Skidders that a new Overlord has replaced the one he killed, and this one is a human. Tom knew it was Karen. At one point we saw Karen’s spine beginning to glow oddly. I think she may be morphing into an Efreti? We already know the other human kids morphed into Skidders, and we saw some others in this episode who seemed to be some kind of mutants gone wrong.

As for the traitor, I’m not sure who it is. The old president and Tom’s old professor narrowed it down to about 12 people, but the traitor killed him first. I’m wondering if it could be the Max Hedrom guy?

Posted by Dustin on 06.09.2013 at 10:30 pm

So tonight was the big “Army Wives” Season Seven finale. For me though, there was nothing really big about it. This reminded me a lot of the Season Five finale, where they all toasted to one another at a dinner. We were left with a group possibly saying goodbye to one another with the base appearing to be closed, but later saved in the final hour. It was a happy medium, and an end to the show if they weren’t to get another season. They did however, and now we find ourselves in the same predicament. From this episode’s end it is clear the future is up in the air again, so instead of leaving us with a huge cliffhanger like last year, they opted for the happy medium like in Season Five. There of course were some cliff hangers, but nothing like a plane going down.

Tim had to face what he did to Holly, and with Hector and the others’ help, finally went off to a hospital to get treated for his PTSD.

Denise walked in on Michael and Kat sharing a kiss and was furious. She felt he was disrespecting Claudia Joy. Later after Kat talked to her, she told Michael she wanted him to be happy and she didn’t want her feelings getting in the way of that. It wasn’t really her full blessing, but it was a compromise. Kat and Michael planned to take things very slowly.

Tasha’s husband learned he was cleared to go back to the army, so their future looked bright. Their money troubles, and medical troubles for their son, were in the clear for now.

Gloria knew she had to choose between Pat and Hector. Both men showed her their best sides in this episode. Gloria was advised to chose the man she couldn’t see herself living without.

The end of the episode was Joan’s retirement celebration. She and the family were moving to D.C. for Roland’s new job. At the party Pat’s mom introduced Pat to Kat’s daughter. She thought he could give her pointers about heading into the Army, and maybe hoped for something more? Kat’s daughter clearly took a liking to Pat . . .

Gloria saw Pat talking to Kat’s daughter and realized she had made her choice. However before she would say who, she wanted to tell the man she chose. The show ended with the current “Army Wives” posing for a picture, along with various flashbacks from this and previous seasons.

So we don’t know how Tim will end up, and we don’t know who Gloria choose. My guess is we are supposed to guess she chose Hector? I would like her to choose Pat, only because Hector blew it once with her big time. I think we can also assume Tim will get better.

Was it a great ending? No. Was it better than some insane cliff hanger that would never get resolved if the show is not renewed? Absolutely.

Posted by Dustin on 06.04.2013 at 12:54 pm

So it looks to be a sizzling soapy summer. I’ve been tuning into some of the new nighttime dramas on a few networks. Some sizzle, some don’t. Time will tell what will happen with them.

“The Have and Have Nots” is a new soap from Tyler Perry on the OWN network. This one debuted last week. Tonight will be the second episode. I don’t know about this one. I couldn’t figure out if it was supposed to be camptastic on purpose, or if it was just downright cheesy bad. The show is almost a direct clone of “Passions” in a way, just without the magic. There are the rich families with their scandals and the poor ones, who work as the maids and housekeepers for the rich people. In fact, Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald is in it . . . and she’s a maid. Shocker!

“The Fosters” premiered on ABC Family last night, and this show I really liked. Granted I only watched it because a certain group is against it and trying to get it taken off the air cause it’s about a lesbian couple raising a family of kids and they take in two new troubled fosters. However it was a really good show, and I like a lot of the cast. It did have a lot of predictable soapy moments, but it was well made and kept me entertained and watching the whole hour . . . something the “Have Nots” really didn’t do.

Finally “Mistresses” aired on ABC. This is a remake of a hit BBC show. I never saw the BBC one to compare this too. I basically watched it because of Alyssa Milano. It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t great, it was your standard nighttime soap. It’s about four women who end up either being mistresses, or finding out their husband had a mistress. Actually in one case I think the guy is actually the mistress . . . not sure what you’d call him?

Posted by Dustin on 06.04.2013 at 12:44 pm

I honestly can’t believe I stuck through “Revolution” for the entire season, and that it got a second season. I have plenty of friends who love it. For me, I guess it’s more of a love-hate relationship. I love to watch the show and hate on it!

The finale had some nice twists and turns, though some like Neville taking over the Monroe Republic were just too predictable. I don’t know why his son is bothering to follow his dad again, that won’t lead to anything good.

I was a bit pissed that they killed Nora off, but then they have to have a way for Miles and Rachel to be together and she would be in the way.

Rachel and the crew did manage to turn the power back on, which is exactly what the DOD guy wanted. He launched Nukes at Philadelphia and Atlanta for a “fresh start for the United States to return.” He then shot himself in the head.

Adam figured out that the global power outage may not have been an accident, that someone may have used this on purpose. The end of the show showed a shadow figure in the US base at Guantanamo . . . it was the President. His right hand man said that it’s been done, the power is back and it was time for him to go home. So it seems the President, who we have yet to see, may have orchestrated this all for some reason? To have the US become number one on a global scale again?

With the bombs headed to Philly and Atlanta, it looks like Neville’s reign will be very short. I am guessing his wife is still hiding out there somewhere, as we saw her in a house when the lights came back on. Meanwhile the governor of Georgia planned to get her choppers and tanks powered on and wanted to send them to the Monroe republic. I wonder if the bombs will land? Or will there be a last minute save somehow?

I absolutely love how after fifteen years the lights just started to come back on. As if! The light bulbs would most not likely work anymore, fuses would blow, power plants hadn’t been maintained, and where is there a radio station broadcasting for the boom box we saw to even pick up? This is the stuff that makes me hate the show when I watch it.

Posted by Dustin on 06.02.2013 at 3:39 pm

Back from the Dead – Airs June 23 – Season Premiere

Jane frantically searches for Owen, who went missing after seeing her kiss Grayson just before their wedding. Luke tells Jane that “Old Jane” is back on earth and could be in anyone’s body, even Owen’s. Jane represents a desperate father trying to save his eight-year-old son who’s fighting T-cell Lymphoma when his drug treatment is abruptly terminated by a pharmaceutical company. Meanwhile, Kim takes on the case of a woman whose ex-boyfriend posted nude photos of her on website devoted to ex-girlfriend revenge. Luke is reprimanded for mishandling Jane and gets replaced. Finally, Jane gets an unexpected visitor.

Features guest stars Justin Deeley, Carter McEntyre, Natalie Hall, Sharon Garrison, Holly Fain, Aaron Farb, Shane Callahan, Kenny Alfonso, Mike Pniewski and Gary Hudson

Posted by Dustin on 05.29.2013 at 9:10 pm

So last night was likely the end of “Body of Proof.” ABC did not renew it, though some feel it may get a second life on a cable network. While the ratings weren’t stellar, my understanding was they were nevertheless good and it did win it’s time-slot often. Personally I feel the whole “retool” worked against the show in the end. While I warmed up to Tommy, I would still have rather had Peter and the other cops there. Also I don’t think they made enough use of Curtis and the others this season. It was too heavily focused on Tommy, Megan and Dylan from “90210.” The magic between the cast from the first two season was list, this season was too much of a reinvention and getting to know Tommy.

The one thing I’m glad the solved was the mystery of Megan’s father’s death. I’ve been waiting for that since season 1, and season 2 ignored it almost all together. I did feel though that they saw the writing on the wall and rushed that storyline out in the final episode. Having the Captain be the killer was just way too much like “Castle” for my taste. Also . . . where the hell is his body? They never answered that! And the serial killing psychopath saves Megan and just escapes? I guess all these questions, along with Kate’s run for office that went no where would have been answered in season 4.

I do hope the show finds a second life, because I will miss it in spite of this being my least favorite of the seasons. It’s still a good show that I don’t think was ever given a fair shake. They just stuck it in wherever there was a gap in the schedule.

Posted by Dustin on 05.28.2013 at 2:46 pm

So I was really worried I was going to hate the finally of “Smash,” but for the most part I didn’t. There were some things that definitely annoyed me, but over all I liked it and felt satisfied with the ending.

Probably the thing that irked me the most was the new-Diva got nominated for a Tony, and won. Really was she the Diva all that long that they’d slight Anna? Derrick tried to do right by Anna by getting her a role in a touring show. In the end she decided to take it and not destroy his career, she was sure he’d do that on his own one day.

Derek did do the right thing and told the truth to a newspaper reporter about what he did to Anna. This was after he realized both Karen and Ivy were pretty much disgusted with him. Okay I had some issues here with the story he told. I thought he only promised this gal the under-study role, not the full role. She blackmailed him to get the full role. So why not expose her blackmail as well? I mean ruin her career too! But no, she gets away with it and a Tony award? Though I guess now everyone at least knows she slept her way to it and her career is probably tarnished.

Ivy found out she was pregnant and wavered about telling Derek, especially after learning what he did to Anna. In the end she did tell him, and it seems they would likely be together. Ivy also told her mom she was thinking of taking time off, not that she was pregnant though, and her mother said that would basically be like committing career suicide. I think this is ultimately why they let Ivy win the Tony over Karen. I was miffed initially, but they basically set it up that Ivy was probably bowing out for awhile, and now it would be Karen’s time to shine. Eileen gave Karen a little cheer-up speech saying as much to her.

I loved that Karen and the others screwed the Diva out of her performance on the Tonys, and that Karen and Ivy closed the show together . . . literally the show . . . the Tonys and “Smash.”

Bombshell pretty much swept the awards, which I guess was right since the show was initially about the making of Bombshell. Hit List however won for writing, which is the only award that seemed to matter in the end for them.

Karen learned the truth about Jimmy’s hidden past. He left a girl to OD, never knowing what happened to her. She lived, but he turned himself in and was basically off to jail for about a year. Julia and her soon to be ex seemed to come to an amicable divorce after she was truthful with him about everything. She met Michael Swift long before she married him, and basically he was always apart of their marriage and she knows that wasn’t fair to him. In the end Julia went to see Michael and give him a letter she initially wrote to her husband. I guess we are to assume they ended up together. Finally Tom met an actor (Scotty from Brothers and Sisters) who claimed he was straight, but wasn’t. We got hints that they would end up together, someday . . . maybe? Eileen meanwhile ended up back with the bartender, who just got out of prison after Jerry ratted him out thanks to Ellis.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about Ellis. Add that to the few things that were a disappointment. I would have liked to see him come back, just to get squashed somehow. Maybe a marquis could have fallen on him. That would have been a better ending I think.

Posted by Dustin on 05.26.2013 at 7:54 pm

So I ended up watching the final two episodes of “Bates Motel” back to back this week. While some things were resolved, others were not, and I have a lot of questions! This is just a rundown post of my thoughts, and questions . . . with a bit of summary in there.

The guy in Number 9 was in fact in cahoots with Keith and Zach in the Asian sex slave business. Apparently he wanted to start it up again, but Keith absconded with a wad of cash he owed him and he thought Norma had found it. He wanted her to turn it over to him, or else he’d kill her entire family. Norma didn’t have it, and she went to the Sheriff Romero. He said he’d take care of things, but she wasn’t so sure. The Sheriff then went to see Keith’s sister . . . it seems she had it? He then met with the guy when and where he told Norma too meet him with the money. Apparently the Sheriff had the money, or at least a bag that maybe it was is. As Norma spied, the guy tried to make a new deal with the Sheriff, they could just continue on with the business as usual. The sheriff claimed this was his town and he runs things, and then shot him dead! He then told Norma that he told her to trust him . . . as he walked off. I can’t figure out if the Sheriff is good, bad or what !?!?! Obviously he knew what was going on, which is why he covered for Zach and Keith’s murders and shot this guy dead. So he’s not completely good . . . But is he really evil?

Dylan started seeing Reilly, the girl that Norman screwed and was interested in, while Emma started loosing patience with Norman. I’m not sure if we ever learned what the deal with Reilly’s dad dying in the car crash in the premier was? If we did, I missed it. Later the teacher at school that felt Norman needed to see a psychiatrist became way too interested in his talent as a writer. After a school dance, which Norman initially went to with Emma, he ended up at the teacher’s house. This is when he heard the voice of his mother saying “What kind of teacher undresses in front of a student Norman? She’s a slut!”

Norman ended up going home to mommy, where everything was going to be okay. She said everything with the bad man had been taken care of. Initially she thought they’d have to move, which made Norman throw a fit. They may still want to though, as the final shot was of Norman’s teacher dead on the floor with her throat slit!

Other things that happened, Norma and Dylan got closer. He helped her learn to shoot to defend herself, and even called her mom. She was touched, it had been so long. He then confessed his job was guarding a weed field, which she didn’t like. I still don’t think we learned who the big wigs running that are. I’m sure the sheriff is one of them. I also don’t think Norman will like Norma and Dylan’s newfound closeness. Something tells me Dylan won’t make it till the end of season 2!

Posted by Dustin on 05.23.2013 at 3:27 pm

Wow I really wasn’t sure how “Nashville” would top their last episode in the previous episode. However, they did! I really hope that the show got some kind of inside word that their renewal was a sure thing, otherwise that ending would have left me furious! So where to begin?

Will seemed to throw himself into women and his career, trying to keep his homosexuality on the DL. I don’t think that’s gunna last very long in this town. The actor has been added as a full cast member for the fall. My guess is a tabloid scandal will rock him the minute he hits the big time.

Gunnar learned that Avery seemed to be putting his life together and moving back in on Scarlet. It was a wake-up call for him to get his shiznit together or else. At the end of the episode he proposed to her. Will she or won’t she?

Both Teddy and Lamar are in pretty bad situations at this point. Tandy ended up walking out of her dad’s company, after telling him off in a speech about how he seems to only have room in his life for one daughter at a time (or something along those lines). Later a fed, I am guessing, approached her and said they would like to talk to her about her father’s company . . . Uh oh! My guess is Tandy has found a way to oust Lamar!

Meanwhile Teddy was in just as much hot water with the feds after they learned about his little embezzling fiasco. I’m assuming Tandy or Coleman tipped them off based on previous episodes. He went to see Peggy, he thought she may have turned him in or something because she was mad at him. As it turns out the feds came to her first with an immunity deal, but she turned them down. Peggy’s pregnant! Man when Teddy steps in it, he does so with both feet. I’m thinking his resignation as mayor is not far off into next season.

Juliette was devastated over her mama Jolene’s death, and the news was having a field day with a drug-fest-lovers-quarrel-murder-suicide. She was pissed, she thought her mother went on a crazy bender. In the end, thanks to a letter her mom wrote before hand, she learned her mom did all this to protect her for once. I don’t know why I thought she knew, I thought her mom had called her and told her as much after she shot Dante and basically was left dying on the couch? I guess she didn’t explain everything though . . . I still think Juliette will end up a junkie herself at some point. Oh the only upside for Juliette in this episode was she won the female artist of the year award.

Speaking of junkies, Maddie told Deacon about the paternity test she found, and he confronted Rayna. Rayna told him it was true, and he had a melt down. The first thing he asked was “How is this even possible?” She told him that right there is why she never told him, he doesn’t even remember half of that period of his life because of the substance abuse. She said she didn’t know it was his till after she had married Teddy, and then she and Teddy AND Coleman all agreed the truth wasn’t what he needed at that point, and Maddie needed a father she could depend on. Deacon ended up going on a huge bender, getting into a fight with Teddy, and then bailing on going back to AA with Coleman. The episode ended with Rayna and Deacon in a car driving and fighting and then BAM! They swerved to miss hitting a car and flipped theres down into a ravine.

Ohhhhhh my! I’m guessing neither of them will die, though someone will probably be in rehab and the other in some kind of physical therapy/recovery situation. I actually can’t wait till the fall as this was a great finale. I’m also, as I said, really glad it’s coming back. Otherwise I would have been livid to have things end like that with no resolution.