You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'TV' tag.
This blog was not born yet when Project Runway: Canada first premiered, but rather got its taste of foreign fashion show spinoffs with Project Runway: Australia. But never fear, my people, for PR: Canada returns! On Tuesday, January 27, we will be able to get our clothing competition fix – albeit one that exists in this weird, alternate universe where everyone, and I mean everyone, is really damn polite. The first season was spectacular, and though I’m not sure this year’s winner could top the strong, powerful superhero theme, like Superfriends but AWESOME, that swept last year (unless it is of a similar ‘the woman wearing these clothes is both stylish and capable of kicking your ass’ bent and they give all their final pieces to me), I look forward to it with great anticipation. Also: Iman. You can’t beat that.
Tune in, people, you won’t regret it. Besides, with the American PR in legal limbo, what else are you going to do?
Have you missed these liveblogs? I sure have.
21:04: Despite knowing from last week’s preview that some poor schmuck gets stuck in the wall, I am still quietly horrified watching this.
21:06: Okay, I’m sorry, but all my comic book knowledge of phasing says that guy would have been dead the second the wall solidified around him. I DOTH PROTEST.
21:09: I feel extra bad for the actor who has to play the dead man stuck in the wall. That is a much harder position to hold than ‘lying still on a table.’
21:10: BALTIMORE.
21:11: Oh shit, everything is starting to come together! The man who pulled the apple out of the box, injections, Mr. Jones, this vaguely familiar British guy who I believe I’ve seen somewhere else…
21:15: I wonder how long it’s going to take Olivia to realize she was never in the marines, but Agent Scott was.
21:16: Oh snap. I guess the answer to that is “one minute.”
21:19: And NOW the poor actor has to hang there with his hand stuck in some sort of prosthetic stump arm.
21:21: Can WE see what’s in these boxes? Please? No? Well okay then. Also, I thought they could only read dead peoples’ minds for a finite amount of time after death – which, at least several weeks into the show’s timeline, is most certainly over.
21:22: Don’t high frequency vibrations in solid matter also cause friction to the point of lighting things (read: the people passing through it) on fire? The last time I took physics was in high school, but it was my best science.
21:24: Poor Astrid, she seems tired.
21:27: “There was nothing in any of his records.” “Yeah, that’s why I’m callin you.” Hey, at least you’re useful!
21:28: Poor lil’ guy has the shakes.
21:29: Thank you, Walter, for pointing out the simmering sexual tension between Olivia and Peter.
21:39: Don’t these Feds know how to shoot somebody in the le- oh, well done Olivia.
21:51: Joshua Jackson totally has a hand double.
21:52: Was it seriously easier for Walter to invent a time machine than it was to cure a rare disease? It would seem his skills in faux science greatly exceed those in biology.
21:53: Seriously, why does this woman go anywhere by herself? She’s dealing with highly radioactive people who walk through walls.
21:55: I’m sorry, Olivia, but sometimes the story’s need for tension and drama make you do stupid, stupid things.
21:56: Wait, he didn’t invent a time machine – he invented a TELEPORTER. Which is still somewhat excessive as compared to curing disease, but.
21:57: Can I just say I love the sort of shaky, beta tech nature of all the fringe science in this show? It is still absurd, but in a more endearing way than sleek, refined technology would be. Like a wobbly puppy!
The liveblog returns! Liveblogging episode 5 of the season, “Power Hungry.”
21:07: This show has officially made me never want to ride in a plane, bus, or elevator ever again. On the plus side, when I have to anyway, magnetic men do not seem to be among my fellow passengers.
21:15: I want a floating necklace for my birthday.
21:18: Mean boss near electrical implement? Deeead.
21:19: Well, at least down one arm.
21:22: You guys ran into someone altered through science to tap into the Ghost Frequency, how is this so weird?
21:25: This episode makes elevators fairly creepy, but not quite so creepy as the original version of <i>The Eye</i>.
21:26: Figments of one’s imagination don’t generally take the elevator. But then one could imagine an elevator opening and one’s figment stepping out. Who knows.
21:36: Who knew outdated technology and nature could save the day! Casette tapes and pigeons, the stuff of heroes.
21:38: Oh how I worry about that pigeon.
21:39: Um gross. He is either a ghost, a zombie, a hallucination, or someone else completely, and whichever it is Olivia should not be making out with him.
21:42: Given a man is being held against his will for use in deadly experiments, I’m having some trouble getting into the jaunty mood of this GPS magnetized pigeon chase.
21:46: Okay, I am now forced to acknowledge a point my friend Stephanie made: Olivia et al are supposed to announce/identify themselves when entering a building or pointing a gun at people. I suspect this show needs an FBI consultant.
21:52: Oh shit! The crazyman is in on it! Though Walter continues to walk the fine line of knowledgable vs deus ex machina.
21:53: I’m not sure how you plan to explain shooting off a door lock to break into a building, Olivia. ‘I saw my dead boyfriend go this way’ probably won’t cut it, even in your department.
21:57: I’m also not sure how Agent Scott was going to propose, given their relationship was a secret and revealing it would’ve gotten one of them transfered, but whatever, it adds extra tragedy/romance.
I’m not sure if chatting with Stephanie (who loathes Fringe) colored my opinion of this episode, but I found it a little lackluster. No Massive Dyanmic, no discussion of this incident’s link to the Pattern, and Agent Scott traipsing about being sort of mysterious and sort of annoying. Here’s to hoping the setup from this week leads to greater things next week.
Dean Winchester said it, so it must be true! “So what – go vegan, stay human?” To which the answer is yes.
Can we all just agree that Leanne and Tim Gunn riding a tandem bicycle is the cutest thing ever?
Also, Project Runway needs to stop ripping off Project Runway: Australia. The designers were told to make a wedding dress for their final challenge – and when they returned from their two months of work, told to whip out a bridesmaid’s dress, too. Aside from giving them a more merciful two months to work on the dress (and the rest of their collection), this is an exact replica of Australia’s final challenge. I’m not sure the monkey in the back room (the producers?) who comes up with these challenges is even trying anymore.
Liveblogging episode four of the season, “The Arrival.” I’ve got a bit of a tummy ache tonight so my commentary may be less than stellar. Not that I held it to such high standards before, but you know.
21:03: Was that a gastronomically caused disaster? He had an interesting meal there.
21:08: Oh no my cousin called at an inopportune moment, I missed the beginning of the witty banter.
21:10: Was it just me or did that building appear to be CGI?
21:12: “Do you feel like sharing?” “Noo.” Someone did not pick up some essential kindergarten schools.
21:15: My guess? MOLE PEOPLE.
21:16: I thought that weapon looked a little funny. Apparently it shoots force beams of light. I wait in great anticipation for when lightsabers start showing up.
21:20: Apparently, reverse psychology DOES work.
21:22: I amend my guess: ALIEN mole people. That would account for both the non-aging and the baldness. Or, alternatively, the kid from Powder.
21:24: Aluminum foil hats! Also, I’m not sure they make root beer floats to go.
21:25: Nooooo Walter what are you doing! Leave Astrid alone!
Commercial: That Apple ad just called the iPod touch “The funnest iPod ever.” The grammarian in me is dying on the inside. “Funnest” is not a word! It is “most fun”.
21:27: No device that puts electrical wires up one’s nose is meant for good.
21:33: Speaking of reduced wit, Peter seems a little off his game this episode. Maybe being harassed for root beer floats by his father has drained his energy.
Commercial: I’m both impressed and horrified that there is a fifth Saw. It makes me think I should try to get through the third one again, but I just didn’t have the stomach for it.
21:37: To amend my earlier statement: nothing good can come from a pair of wires stuck up ones nose attached to one’s brain. Though I do doubt that would cause pain, since the brain doesn’t have, you know, pain receptors, and I’m pretty sure the only thing accessible up the nose is the frontal lobe. And really, Peter is already morally suspect without having that part of him zapped.
21:41: Seriously Olivia, have you never heard of backup?
21:42: “He’s got a gun!” Understatement of the year.
21:43: Your bullet thing ran away.
21:53: That is a rather steely-eyed driver’s license photo sir.
21:58: I wonder how much careful planning went into the contents of Olivia’s refridgerator. Hey, Agent Scott! How ya doin’?
I found this episode a little lackluster in comparison to the three previous, but probably because it was much more involved with the overarching mythology of its characters. Also, maybe because there was no Massive Dynamic involvement? I do miss our one-armed redhead. Next time!
A few days ago I saw an episode of What Not to Wear from 2007, featuring Erin, the Florida vegan with a funky art school style. She got some pretty sweet shoes, not to mention a great short haircut, so I tried to track down some info on her purchases and maybe more photos of her haircut in order to replicate it.
In my search, I found her MySpace page. As this is one person on one episode of What Not to Wear, and there were also some pictures only someone who was actually Erin (or knew Erin) could have taken, I was fairly convinced it was really her. So I sent her a message. And she replied!
People on the TV are real!
This is obviously an idea that many of us only partially grasp, if grasp at all, given the sort of faceless internet commentary on peoples’ personalities, skills, looks, and so on. Case in point, all my Project Runway raving in Kenley’s general direction. She’s a real person. But because she’s on TV, and maybe a little crazy, and has definitely been edited, that makes it okay – and easy – to pretend she’s not.
And before, I really wouldn’t have cared, because I didn’t believe in a million years (and really, still don’t) that she or anyone she knew would ever read this blog and be affected by what I said. Also, because I knew in my head I was commenting on limited-in-scope and carefully-crafted-portrayal-TV-Kenley, not the real person who existed in the real world, it was okay.
But tonight, Petrova Hammond may have commented on my blog. I am not sure if it was really Petrova Hammond or an (extremely bored) internet impersonator, but if there is even a chance that a designer from Australia could come across my American blog (which, to be fair, comes up 7th if you Google “petrova hammond lady”) then anybody could. The internet works in mysterious ways.
So I’m sorry, Kenley, or friends or family of Kenley, if you ever in a million years actually read what I wrote. I know nothing about you as a human being. I am just commenting on how you’re shown on TV, which, after editing, may or may not remotely resemble you. I have a personal preference that is not in line with some of your work. Also, you shouldn’t give a damn about me.
So all that aside.
Petrova Hammond (might have!) commented on my blog.
:D
There are no other words.
Oh Project Runway, how it hurts me to see my love for you wane. But you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel this season, and it’s becoming increasingly obvious that Kenley survived the zodiac challenge purely because she brings the drama. I only hope you have the decency to make the final three Korto, Jerell and Leanne, and not give that shrieking crazywoman a shot at something she has not earned.
And now, the two greatest moments of the episode:
#1 Leanne rapping: “Yo Kenley’s gonna make an outfit for me, she’d better not make it look like it’s from 1950.”
#2 Tim, saying ‘Kenley, you are insane, and not to anyone’s benefit’ in his own special way: “I’m just trying to follow your thinking. And you led me off a precipice.”
If PR has taken such a downward turn already, I can only imagine the horrors in store when it moves to Lifetime. Be strong, everyone, be strong.
Liveblogging season four, episode four of Bones.
20:02: Is Sweets the only psychiatrist in DC or something?
20:11: I sort of missed the whole son / author impersonator thing. What?
20:12: “She is wicked literal.” Agreed.
20:20: Oh Temperance, you don’t even know when you’re sexually harassing your interns.
20:22: I understand that they all love Zach and shit, but seriously, he blew up his own hands and murdered a man with a knife. That is very good reason not to be all buddy buddy anymore.
20:25: Really, a confession in the first 25 minutes? There is something else going on here.
20:32: Aww his name is Wendell!
20:40: Well now at least I understand the situation with the double, even if I had to suffer through a guy in a ski cap and a bad haircut to do it.
20:44: I thought that OCD guy confessed to killing him? Not that I believed him, but where did he go?
20:49: I like Wendell, even if he is a shallow white working class stereotype! I hope he sticks around.
20:51: Zach stole Sweets’s card to escape the insane asylum. So can we report him to the police now? And never, ever see him again? Really, there’s enough obsessively logical for one show already.
20:53: No Wendell, don’t go, we love you!
20:54: I still protest this unequivocal Zach love. He killed a man and doesn’t regret it!
20:56: Oh, apparently he didn’t kill anyone. Well that makes him marginally more sympathetic.
20:57: Wait, what? The master didn’t commit the murder but someone else did and then the master killed that someone else and he’s still out there? This flies in the face of last season! I object! Also that Gormagon thing went on way too long, I’d really like to drop it (and Zach).
Meh, a lackluster episode. If there hadn’t beeing the Deus ex Machina of Zach and all this weird buddy-buddyness with a guy they thought was a cold-blooded killer it would have been much better. I understand the actor needs to make money and it is great for him and all, but I would rather he just get locked up and we never hear from him again. Or, you know, he not be written as a redundancy of Temperance.
Liveblogging episode three of the first season.
21:02: Open on poor tortured psychic!
21:03: This show enjoys its massive chemical exposures on enclosed transportation plot points.
21:06: I still cannot get behind this floating block text to indicate scene location. It just looks funny.
21:08: “I wasn’t going to tell you this… but he said he loved me too.” Bless you for lightening her angsty mcangst, whatever your name is, Gravely Voice Man.
21:10: Mystery! Intrigue!
21:15: Walter’s moments of lucidity are dangerous at best.
21:17: Nicaraguan drug cartels hear about The Pattern, too. This is dangerous ground people.
21:19: Massive Dynamic, why do you keep coming up? Oh, perhaps it’s because you’re evil.
21:23: Where is our Mulder to jump to the conclusion of “psychic”?
21:25: Evil Red-haired Lady raises a good point: These strange occurrences are suddenly very localized around our intrepid protagonist, since she became our intrepid protagonist.
21:27: And their psychic woke up around when they learned about The Pattern. HMM. At least they are addressing the sci-fi trope of strange things happening in a convenient distance from the heroes.
21:28: They are also addressing why Dunham doesn’t get to know everything when really they might just not want the audience to know everything. Thank goodness for basic logic amid scientific illogic.
21:34: And finally, an explanation as to why Walter doesn’t remember his own Ghost Network experiments on Harvard undergrads: He’s crazy! I think we’re done here.
21:37: Who hides medical equipment in a wall? Really?
21:38: I think we can all agree Astrid has a better bedside manner than “Strap him down!” crazyman Walter.
21:41: The set designers for this show must have so much fun. Not as much fun as the set designers for LOST, but we can all dream.
21:43: “Dammit don’t you FEEL anything?” “Well I’m a little scared.”
21:44: Also I would argue that Latin is not a handy language to use on modern topics, given they stopped speaking it centuries and centuries ago. Also not as sneaky as they’d like, apparently, since Astrid conveniently speaks Latin.
21:46: Damn, can’t we find a good, non-dirty government agent these days?
21:51: TV shows that make you loudly “GASP!” are the best.
21:54: Stop your whining, Dunham, isn’t it worth it to get this thing out of evil hands? And look, you got extra clearance, now aren’t you happy?
21:56: I’m still curious as to how these men were broadcasting on the Ghost Network. It doesn’t seem to be a thing that one can do through a cell phone. Though I may have lost that information when my cousin and her friend were chatting over the dialogue.
21:57: Why does Massive Dynamic want something they already have? Why is everyone trying to poach Dunham? Is that the dead DEA agent? Maybe I would know what was going on if some people would quit talking over the show!
Lesson learned: Watch Fringe alone, or with people who’ve watched it from the beginning and know better. I’m going to have to try to catch this online to figure out all of what happened at the end. But really, if this was the greatest trial in my day, I am doing pretty well.
