All My Children introduced a new-faced Scott Chandler today, previously played by Mutant X alum Forbes March. Scott now comes in the form of Adam Mayfield and I’m happy to announce he is a hottie. It’s even conceivable that he was spawned from David Canary’s Scream-mask-shaped face. He’s better looking than most soap actors, so it doesn’t really matter how good of an actor he is.
There’s still one more episode left, but I don’t even care who wins. This is one of the best things television had produced, ever.
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There is no real reason for a reunion episode when it comes to reality shows of this ilk. But they all have them, it’s become part of the formula. In the case of “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” the reunion episode was actually before the finale. They are just an excuse to play the same damn clips we’ve been seeing for months. What made me want to see this one was the fact that I was actually curious as to what Megan and Brandi C. were up to.
Well, Megan delivered, but that satisfaction was nullified by the results of Megan’s interview. Megan, first of all, seems doped up on something. She’s slurry, floppy, and sleepy. I can’t make a “more so than usual” joke because Megan usually keeps herself somewhat composed. After a brief chat with her they bring Rodeo down and Megan begins interrupting her. Words are then exchanged with Sharon Osbourne and a fight ensues, captured on this video:
Now Megan and Brandi C. are BFFs so I was wondering what her appearance/interview would be like after that scuffle. Well, that’s the kicker. She had none, Brandi was gone, just gone. Never to be mentioned again. There’s even a part where the camera sweeps across the stage, 1:14 into this video, and you should be able to see her at her table but it’s empty, like she vanished instantaneously. First major disappointment of ot-nine. That’s okay. Megan was still the most entertaining part of the whole thing. And we’ve still got new episodes of Nip/Tuck, Bad Girl’s Club, True Beauty, and I Love Money 2, just to name a few, in the coming months.
A couple of years ago the Buffy television series continued on in comic book form, picking up a short while after the TV series ended as “Season Eight”. Just like the show, the comic follows a larger story arc with some stand-alone stories thrown in. This latest issue is one of the self-contained stories that borrows from the never-really-produced Buffy Animated Series. A lot of comics and cartoons in the nineties used the stylization of characters popularized by Bruce Timm’s designs of Batman in his animated series, and the Buffy cartoon followed suit in it’s character design. As far as I know, only a short promo was produced and the latest issue of the comic book uses the plot from that short story.
Buffy, tired from demon slaying, falls asleep and has a dream which is, in essence, the cartoon complete with direct quotes. Since the comic book takes place about ten years after the cartoon, Buffy fumbles around with not revealing too much about the future, like Willow’s lesbianism and Xander’s missing eye, and delights in changes that have not yet happened, like her mother’s death. She ends up fighting a dragon rather than getting to go to a party with her friends. Then she wakes up. The message is that while things seemed so simple when she was young, it’s only hindsight and her life was always complicated.
I enjoyed the use of the cartoon story. It never really had a chance but here it’s used to illustrate another aspect of life in the multifaceted Buffyverse. That cartoony art style gets tired really quickly when put on the printed page, working much better on the screen. The longer storyline in Season Eight has been rather weak so far with some of the shorter story arcs and standalone stories like this being more entertaining.
Here’s the animated promo:
So Far, So Gay
Typical set up for a reality show: a group of people live in a house vying for the affection of a notable person. The thing about this show, that pits an assortment of young men against each other for the attentions of Andrew Shue/Ryan Renolds love child Brody Jenner, is wikkid gay. It starts out with the contestants being pulled out of their hotel beds in the middle of the night in their underwear and sat in front of Mr. Jenner as he introduces himself and the house to them. The house was not uber-furnished like other reality shows featuring ladies, but more like a frat house that dudes could chill in. But we all know that, if anything, that environment is even more likely to induce a circle-jerk if enough alcohol is introduced.
The assortment of dudes include lunkheads, a token black dude and a bona fide homosexual who presents Mr. Jenner a birthday card during the first challenge, offending one of Mr. Jenner’s already-existing friends in the process. The gay dude ends up bailing because he was an avid fan of The Hills who misunderstood what the show was like. The the elimination happens in a hot tub. Yeah, like eight dudes in a hot tub, going over their relationships with this studly guy. Sounds pretty gay to me.
I’m going to give this show a chance just because I’m interested in seeing where the drama comes from. Either it will dispel my belief that this show is totally gay or it will reinforce it. The point of “The Pick-Up Artist” was to get chicks and it was wikkid gay. The point of this one is to be a dude’s best friend. . . I can only hope it supplies some mild j/o material.
I first saw this on Adult Swim right before moving to Seattle. I had noidea what the hellwas going on in it. More recently I was looking for something to occupy my mind, something rather than thoughts, and I ran across this show again on the interwebs. It sure did the trick. If you need to turn your brain off, this is good for that. Here is my favorite episode featuring Sarah Silverman.
I’m halfway throught the premier right now and I can tell you that I love it. I didn’t watch the original, but I don’t think that really matters.
-I love that Annalynne McCord still looks like she’s blind sometimes, not really looking at anything. I think this show will get her a lot more exposure than Nip/Tuck did.
-I love that her character had Tilly and the Wall play at her super super sweet 16 (i know) party.
-I enjoyed the Spring Awakening scene.
-I like seeing Jessica Walter.
-My favorite line so far: “How many times have we had to talk about this blog of yours? It causes nothing but trouble.”
Yeah, it was pretty bad. A lot of people are saying that she looked fat and out of shape and gave a half-hearted performance. I agree with most of that. Yes, she looks heavier than she has, but for someone who’s had two (ugly) children she looks pretty good. I mean, out-of-shape? Yes. Fat? Not really. She could have pulled off that outfit and extra weight more effectively, though, if she just didn’t seem so bored. Her moves were slow and minimal as she just paced back and forth while the extra dancers did all the work. If she was more on her game and danced like she meant it, most people would overlook the pudginess. The best way I can describe it is that she looked like she just woke up from a pill-induced nap. Not the best way to execute a highly publicized come-back.
Maybe it’s not Vincent. While Ethan escaped, someone took all the blackmailer’s pictures down, but Vincent was meeting Chad at a motel at that time. So very important, I know.
Seeing as how the show has been cancelled, I was hoping that towards the end, similar to shows like Roseannes talk show and Arrested Development, it would just get fucking ridiculous. I may be in luck. This is the best episode of Passions I’ve seen in a LONG time. There was arson, a gun fight, a half man/half woman blackmailer tying a naked dude to a chair, a baby witch making herself into an adult, and demons in a basment torturing a pimp. And in the “next time on Passions” thing, there was gay sex!
Thats not to say there weren’t bad things. Let’s start with those.(this may be complicated and/or boring if you don’t watch the show.)
-Jared is a douche. When he first showed up I thought it might be interesting to have another romantic interest for Theresa, but it ended up lame. And ever since he got shot or something, he’s been sitting in the hospital with this stupid grin on his face because Theresa is being blackmailed into marrying him. He doesn’t know that, naturally, she’s in love with Ethan like she has been since the first episode. I can’t stand looking at him anymore “ooh, I’m gonna marry Tess, blah, blah…”
The Boys in the Basement. Ever since the beginning we’ve seen these floor vents in Tabitha’s house glowing red, or a red glow and smoke coming from her basement door. There was always the mention of the evil that lived down there, but up until now we never got to see what was down there. While my imagination likes to think there is more, what we saw were two gnarly demon guys attacking Spike the pimp. Tabitha threw him down there to teach him a lesson, or “lession” as the person who writes Endora’s word bubbles chose to spell it. The guys look pretty evil (for a soap opera) and one even sinks his teeth into Spike before he escapes. He (for some reason) goes back into the house where he gets tossed and spun around by disembodied shadows. Rad!
Arson The blackmailer killed an informant and rigged his apartment to blow up when Luis went investigating. Explosions and fire are always cool.
