12 posts tagged “tv”

"Maybe the reason all your relationships fail is because you are already taken". The words of Christian's shrink, referring to Christian's love for his partner/best friend/idol Sean.

In an article Ryan Murphy stated the the show was inspired by his desire to display a loving heterosexual relationship between two men. I do not believe the psychiatrist's comments were meant to imply that Christian is gay. Rather that their male bond and love is so strong he is unable to commit to anyone else in that capacity.

So most of the episode focused on putting Christian in awkward sexually tense situations with Sean and watching him squirm. Ranging from, Sean demanding Christian to hold his testicles to Christian lovingly embracing his drunk/emotional/crying partner. Of course Christian got his obligatory emotionally vapid sex, first by joining in on some quality mother/daughter bonding and next with the aforementioned shrink. Who saw that one coming.

Next week, Christian confronts Kimber.

I just transferred to a new school and apparently the cable provider in this remote location does not offer BRAVO. What the fuck. So no more Project Runway for me. But with the fall tv season about to start up I will manage. September 5th is the only date that really matters now.

Apparently Cameron got really hot over the summer, wow I would hate to see how he looked last year. Now he's playing the most popular girl in high school, kyndra, and the most gullible girl in laguna, jessica. Yes jessica, alex 1, alex tall, and taylor all make appearances.

The narrator this year is tessa, former best friend of popular girl kyndra, hmm sounds familar. Kyndra complies with mtv producers and invites tess to the barbequuue. Tess brings her friend Rocky Bullwinkle and the two "cliques" stare each other down from opposite sides of the pool.

Looks like this season will focus on the cameron love triangle/square/octagon.

Who knew E had such a dark gangbanger(not sex) past. Apparently, the old E refereed to as "mad dog" cracked skulls american history x style when someone so much as tried to steal his lunch money. Tonight, the refined E we have come to know is pushed to his limit by returning guest star Seth Green. Restraint prevails until the final 30 seconds of the episode when seth delicately refers to repeated cum shots he's landed on sloan's face. At this point Drama storms into the club and reclaims his manhood by starting a brawl with Seth and his posse.

Overall the episode was disappointing. The Drama side plot was ridiculous and way overdone. The Seth Green appearance was good but wasted. Seemed to be mostly a filler episode and with only three remaining I'm not sure where the season is going. I guess the main arc is Ari's new agency and getting that off the ground. The other seasons have ended with Vince about to shoot a movie so I'm not sure if this will take a new direction or he will actually start working again.

By the way, E and seth seem pretty well matched for a fight, unless of course it's a full moon.

I semi-watched the last two episodes of the Hills tonight.

Not surprised at all at the decision LC made. She has to be the least interesting character I've ever watched on tv. She does not seem to be passionate about anything, obviously not towards her career and I feel like Jason is just convienent and nice for the time being. She was a terrible friend to heidi and I don't even feel like commenting on her laguna days.

Note to Jordan: All the reasons Heidi gave you were a cover. Obviously, she was frightened by your progression from normal looking dude to scary werewolf creature. Get a fucking haircut man.

If this show comes back for another season(I seriously doubt it will) I hope LC is dead or missing.

So the rumors were true. Keith was the FIRST person ever asked to leave PR. He manipulated, cheated, pissed off the other designers, and made fabulous clothing. Sorry to see him go but obviously there was no choice, the integrity of project runway was at stake.

Angela, after creating nothing but drama and ugly clothes in the previous challenges manages to win. I must say that her outfit did look great although I liked Jeff and Allison's(the Keith memorial outfit) a bit more. Clearly, having two sane people on her team helped to balance her eccentricism to create a wearable piece.

For the losers, Robert's was boring, Bonnie's was hideous. Did not really care which one left.

Side note: Bradley is weird. Funny(especially to himself) but weird.

This is hardly worthy of posting about but I just watched the latest episode of rw/rr challenge. What was Even trying to prove by staying. He was in unbearable pain with a likely chance of permanent damage to his body. Then he goes on to mention that there is a possibility of death but seeing as how death is less likely then him winning he should stay. Come on.

Wes is really the only reason to watch. I'm not sure why they even compete in the challenges, well they really don't. Just put yourself in the exile every week and call it a day.

Laguna Beach can't come back soon enough.

Ari (Jeremy Piven) is a genius. Old news I know, but it had to be said. He continues to play a larger role this season and he consistently delivers the sharpest funniest dialogue on tv.

Queens Bolevard is back after being recut, colorized, and generally massacered for the masses. The studio wants to give it a wide release after the success of Aquaman and cash in on Vince's newfound marketability. Billy the director is furious of course and E and Vince are not particularly happy either. Vince makes everyone aware of this at a press conference calling the studio execs peices of shit, or maybe he calls the new cut of the movie shit, I can't rememver which. Either way there probably not to happy.

Word is out that Ari has got the space and is starting his own major agency. Terence is using his leverage to try and keep this from happening. Ari lets the other agency execs know that he has no intention of going after there clients, only Terence's. Let the war begin. Ari is forced to relinquish 49% of ownership of the new agency to Babb's or else none of his agents will be paid for 6 months. Thus, Gold-Miler is born.

Drama missed the audition but still got a part in an Ed Burns pilot. Good for him.

Turtlle continues to do absolutely nothing interesting. And E does not have a threesome this week.

Well another episode proves I know even less about fashion than I previously thought. Apparently wearing a crumpled gold trash bag for a top and a plain purple skirt constitutes a well made outfit(excuse my ignorance). When they asked the model to turn around, "I bet the profile of this looks great" said the judges. Are you kidding me the profile makes you wonder what shes hiding under there. The entire episode focused on his incompetence only to trick us when he almost wins. And his dog had a little purple collar, how cute and inventive. Happy Birthday indeed.

Kick Angela off already.

I recently read an article regarding a writer's strike on America's Next Top Model. The writers on the show have the usual demands: better pay, insurance, and so on. In addition to that they are also demanding writing credits as opposed to being billed as producers. They argue for the same credit and compensation as writers of television drama and comedy. At first thought most people would say, it's reality tv, they do not really have to write.

This reminded me of an interview I heard awhile back with a television writer who worked mostly in reality tv.  He provided an inside look at just how much of reality tv is scripted. Now it's no secret the antics of Paris and Nicole on The Simple Life, are completely contrived. However, the writer doing the interview had worked on shows such as Big Brother and Survivor. In the case of Big Brother he revealed that almost every word out of the host's mouth was written in advance.

I believe that the writers on Top Model have a point. They along with sitcom and drama writers all work on scripted television shows. They should be given writing credit and payed accordingly. As far as I know the writers are still on strike and hopefully they hold out and get what they deserve.