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The Biggest Loser: Interrupted

October 8, 2008 /

Last night’s episode of “The Biggest Loser” was cut short by two guys arguing about the economy and foreign policy and health care. Imagine that! Seriously though, the presidential debate gave NBC an excuse to air an hour of the show last night and the concluding hour tonight. In other words, the weigh-in and elimination will occur tonight.

You can’t tell me that the network couldn’t squeeze everything into 60 minutes, but well, there are sponsors to keep happy. So last night all we had were Vicky of the brown team talking about her bad knees that prevent her from running, Phil and Amy (red team?) on their trip home to see their kids (from winning last week’s challenge), and Shellay and Amy (blue team) working out with Jillian one on one (from the first week’s challenge prize). Jillian made it clear who the boss was too…..she rode Shellay really tough because Shellay was wimping out on the exercise machines. Damn, I’d hate for Jillian to be my trainer, but there is no doubt she gets results.

The challenge last night was one in which everyone had to hang from a beam in water, but then had to hang on as the water became lower and lower. It was grueling, but it came down to young Amy and Vicky, and Vicky won, after about two hours! Vicky’s prize was a care package from home and a family theme park vacation. But host Alison Sweeney told Vicky that she could choose one other team to receive a care package, and she not surprisingly chose Amy’s blue team. Meanwhile, the weigh-in was approaching, and Jillian was shown barking at her team some more, telling them they didn’t have the drive that her team last season had. Ouch.

So tonight, the weigh-in, elimination (once again just one teammate will go home) and probably 700 commercials. I can’t wait. See you tomorrow with the results!

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The Shield 7.6 – Animal Control

October 7, 2008 /

After last week’s surprisingly boring show, it was nice to get things back on track tonight with what might just be one of the best episodes of the season. Okay, so Corrine is still a major pain in the ass (and apparently on downers now), and Tina, Julian and Danny continue to prove worthless as part of the big picture, but that’s old news. The only thing that really worries me is that Dutch has sort of fallen by the wayside as a character.

His more recent run-in with the teenage serial killer seemed to offer some hope that he might finally be getting a good storyline, but that died off last week when he was, as Billings put it, “burned” by the kid. This week, he caused a suspect to commit suicide when he forced his conspiracy theory on the poor guy during interrogation, and now that he has blood on his hands, it’ll be interesting to see what happens. Asking Billings for help was a huge step when you consider their history together, but if he’s just going to keep working unrelated murders through the end of the season, well, the writers are going to have to do a lot better to keep me interested.

Thankfully, that isn’t the case with the Strike Team. Vic, Shane and Ronnie’s storylines this season have been captivating since Day One, and their relationship was taken to new heights (or should that be new lows?) this week when Vic – desperate to kill three birds with one stone – designs a plan that will ensure his family’s safety from the Armenians, put Pezeula behind bars, and pay back Shane for killing Lem. He’s only got one day to get it done (since Aceveda has decided to turn in the blackmail box before he suffers any blowback), but when Shane begins working an old case with Tavon (welcome back Brian White) on the side, Vic is worried that he’ll miss the meet. It’s not helping that Shane is making it really hard to hate him these days. The guy clearly knows that he’s done something wrong, and he’s made sure Vic and Ronnie know about it every chance he gets.

Vic decides to go through with it anyway, and had it all gone according to plan, the Mexicans would have killed Rezian and Shane and left the $100,000 that the Armenians brought to the meet. Unfortunately, Shane’s luck saves his ass once again, and when the Mexicans stop by to tear up the place with some Uzis, he just happens to be away at the moment. When Vic gets there worried that Shane was killed in the firefight, Shane assures him that he got out just in time. The money is missing, but Vic figures the Mexicans must have taken it with them after the hit.

What he doesn’t realize is that Shane is the one who took the money, and he now knows that Vic and Ronnie set him up. What’s a little unsettling is that he seemed okay it. Does Shane even want to fight back any more or will he just transfer out like he suggested earlier in the episode? I personally can’t see Shane backing down from this fight, but then again, he seems to have changed, so maybe he’ll be the bigger man and walk away.

External TV, The Shield, TV, TV Dramas

Prison Break 4.7: “Five the Hard Way”

October 7, 2008 /

Now that Gretchen is on the loose, it was just a matter of time before she hooked up with the gang. At the end of last week’s episode, we saw her confront T-Bag in the apartment, so in this installment we were treated to a little villain-on-villain action. For anyone who thought she might have softened up during her time in captivity…well, she didn’t. She is as big of a bitch as ever. I’d like to see what she’d do with Morpheus, but Mahone might get to him first.

Speaking of Mahone, he and Don had a nice little moment outside the warehouse. Don obviously respects Mahone to some degree, because he sought his advice about how to deal with the hitman. The respect is mutual, as evidenced by Mahone’s reaction when Don asked him, “What would you have done?” after Mahone was griping about Don’s decision to leave him in jail. Mahone’s silence spoke volumes. Anyway, that was a sly move to go straight to the general and deliver the “if anything happens to me” speech. It looks like it will buy Don some time, if nothing else.

Last week, I lamented over the departure of Trish Ann and her ample bosom, but they were back in full force this week as a part of T-Bag’s plan to capture Michael. I wonder how T-Bag made/convinced her to come with him, and did he ask her to put on a low-cut blouse to show off the girls? Was that their swan song, or will they make another appearance? These are the questions that try men’s souls.

The trip to Vegas was rather mundane, especially for a trip to Vegas, but Roland’s device did get snatched up by casino security. With the way he was going on about the city, you’d think that the gang would keep better track of him, especially after they shoehorned in that his device could be used to figure out which progressive slots are about to hit.

“I can’t believe those guys left me alone in Vegas after I totally foreshadowed that I was going to get into trouble.”

Of course, I have to mention my boy Sucre who was willing to bite the bullet and go up to the old man’s suite. Only instead of fending off the dude’s advances, he gets to have sex with the guy’s super-hot wife. AND he gets a thousand dollars for his trouble. Sucre hasn’t had a day like that since he last saw Maricruz.

Finally, Lincoln explained the nosebleeds to Sarah. Apparently, Michael’s mom had the same symptoms and she eventually died from a brain aneurism when she was 31. Now that Michael is the same age it’s time for everyone to get worried.

So are you worried? Good, that’s the whole point.

External TV, Prison Break, TV, TV Dramas

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2.5 – God save those born to die

October 6, 2008 /

Shakespeare once said, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” John Connor is years away from even seeing the crown (and when he does, it’ll be made of tattered, twisted metal), but everyone around him, to paraphrase Chuck D, has got him like Jesus. Not in the crucified sense but in that his life is not his own, and never was. He’s meant for great things, and he needs to appreciate the sacrifice people are making for him in the past, present and future. They’ve made this point in nearly every episode, but tonight’s episode marks the first time that I felt sorry for John Connor.

I do not, however, feel sorry for Sarah Connor. For someone who’s trying to keep a low profile, perhaps she should refrain from kidnapping small children, even if she saves their lives in the process. I get why she did it: two other Sarah Connors died before the T-888 locked on to her, so her survivor’s guilt kicked in when they discovered that Martin Bedell (but not the Martin Bedell) is brutally murdered. So she saves the life of grade schooler Marty Bedell – and even helped him with his book report – while this week’s time-traveling killing machine abandons his mission to kill young Marty in order to acquire the actual Martin Bedell, a military school student that would go on to become one of John’s most valued fighters…and would ultimately die for him. But more on that later.


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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, TV, TV Action

Heroes 3.4 – In The Future When All’s Not So Well

October 6, 2008 /

Although most of this week’s highlights came from the future, we did get a few interesting moments in the present. Mohinder tried to get a handle on his new abilities, only to find that his control over them isn’t what he hoped it might’ve been. What the hell is he doing to his neighbor, cocooning him? Despite how it may have seemed to many of us, Tracy discovered that she’s actually a triplet, but did you notice how Herr Doktor referenced that the triplets were named Tracy, Nikki, and…Barbara? The sequences with Nathan Petrelli and Mr. Linderman are very interesting, if only because I’m now totally uncertain about whether or not the latter does indeed continue to exist in some manner that allows only the former to see him. And Matt Parkman’s new buddy sent him spiraling into a white-eyed vision, which brings us to…the future.

Even with all of the advances in special-effects technology, it’s clear that we will never successfully reach a point where an actor can perform a scene with himself and not have it feel cheesy…or maybe it’s just because the only difference in Milo Ventimiglia’s PresentPeter and FuturePeter voices was that the latter was a tiny bit more growly. Either way, while the scene of the two Peters chatting with each other worked surprisingly well when they were interacting in the crowd, as soon as they headed down the alleyway and the focus of the scene was solely on them, I was very much in “gimme a break” mode. Fortunately, FutureClaire put a couple of caps in FuturePeter before I had to worry about it too much.

I liked the way FutureMohinder was couched in shadows, hissing his words, but what I really liked was that transition from the present to the future, with Mohinder’s voice slowing down on the tape recorder as it suddenly gained a coat of dust and a cockroach running over top of it. A small moment, but an awesome one. It was also good to see Molly again (kids grow up so fast these days), and the relationship between Parkman and Daphne is an intriguing one, to be sure.

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