This episode was a little different. It usually has Gloria as the lead character
but she is stuck in a room for a couple of days waiting to testify. She meets
a former friend who is now divorced and goes on a date. Otherwise, she
isn't involved in the case. When each episode begins, it usually contrasts
what the victim is doing and what Gloria is doing, getting you interested
in what happens to each one. This week was a high stakes poker game
with wealthy players and Gloria playing solitaire. The game is robbed
and a divorce attorney and bodyguard are killed.
With Gloria gone, Michelle is teamed up with the Captain to investigate.
The mayor's office sent a higher ranking officer to the investigators to
oversee. Trouble is, it's Ramon's ex-wife played by Vivica Fox. Woo
Hoo!! the sparks fly, but not good sparks.
The robber is soon shot and we also have a car bomb. Lots of suspects
who hated the divorce attorney so lots of characters to interact with. Turns
out it was a former mob boss who hadn't been seen in 15 years. The
connection was that he lived across the street from the attorney and
hated the noise from his constant construction. Kind of a different twist
and gave us a lot of insight into several character's personal life. Ready
for the next episode, please.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Breaking Bad
Busy ~ Busy episode..!!!
The tension is building with many storylines going on. The ongoing theme was
summed up by Walt to Jesse "we're both dead men anyway." Hank needs a
ride to the warehouse he has discovered belonging to Gus. Walt buys some
time (again, does Hank know about Walt?) and let's Mike know about Hank.
The lab is being moved when a shot rings out from the hills and a man is killed.
Jesse is so scared he can't move and Mike tackles him so he isn't shot. Soon,
Gus walks out and every bullet misses him and he puts up his hands to surrender.
He talks to the Mexican cartel and agrees to their terms. He invites Jesse to
dinner at his home and explains that Jesse is to go to Mexico and teach them
how to cook meth. Jesse is more scared than ever. Rightly so. Walt has
bugged Jesse's car and confronts him about being with Gus. The plan to
rip their loyalty apart has been successful as they physically fight each
other and Jesse orders Walt out of his house and to never come back.
Skyler White is pretty busy herself with the car wash and shrink wrapping
money for her crawl space. Her former employer and lover, Ted, shows
up at the car wash to let her know that he is being audited and her name is
on the financial papers. It was a classic scene as she shows up at the
IRS, boobs hanging out, and works the ignorance is bliss con on the
auditer. I think I will watch that part again!!
Will Jesse go to Mexico? Can he cook Walt's recipe? Will Skyler keep
Ted and herself out of jail? Next week we may answer some of these
questions.
The tension is building with many storylines going on. The ongoing theme was
summed up by Walt to Jesse "we're both dead men anyway." Hank needs a
ride to the warehouse he has discovered belonging to Gus. Walt buys some
time (again, does Hank know about Walt?) and let's Mike know about Hank.
The lab is being moved when a shot rings out from the hills and a man is killed.
Jesse is so scared he can't move and Mike tackles him so he isn't shot. Soon,
Gus walks out and every bullet misses him and he puts up his hands to surrender.
He talks to the Mexican cartel and agrees to their terms. He invites Jesse to
dinner at his home and explains that Jesse is to go to Mexico and teach them
how to cook meth. Jesse is more scared than ever. Rightly so. Walt has
bugged Jesse's car and confronts him about being with Gus. The plan to
rip their loyalty apart has been successful as they physically fight each
other and Jesse orders Walt out of his house and to never come back.
Skyler White is pretty busy herself with the car wash and shrink wrapping
money for her crawl space. Her former employer and lover, Ted, shows
up at the car wash to let her know that he is being audited and her name is
on the financial papers. It was a classic scene as she shows up at the
IRS, boobs hanging out, and works the ignorance is bliss con on the
auditer. I think I will watch that part again!!
Will Jesse go to Mexico? Can he cook Walt's recipe? Will Skyler keep
Ted and herself out of jail? Next week we may answer some of these
questions.
Friday, September 9, 2011
PROJECT RUNWAY ~ Thursday on Lifetime at 9:00 p.m.
The pressure is on - we are down to 10 competitors. This week was a favorite - the
create your own fabric challenge. There were two teams of five and no team leader,
recipe for unlimited drama!! You could tell after teams were chosen which was the
stronger team but I watched anyway. They did not disappoint. The challenge was
for each team to create of 5 piece collection from the fabric they had designed and
to also produce the fashion show (music choices and video creation). They had
two days but it's a lot to do. Betsey Johnson stopped by to give advice, she is
always a joy to see, always makes you smile. Team names were chosen, Team Nuts &
Bolts and Team Chaos. Everything clicked for Team Chaos from fabric, to video,
to design. Everything was chaos for Nuts & Bolts and they did act like a bunch
of nuts. The video was poorly made as well as completely irrelevant to their design,
it took a lot of work to make it so bad.
The finished fashion show was great and poor as we knew it would be. Oliver did
finally do a wonderful jacket and Michael Kors said was possibly the best he had
ever seen on all of the shows. I think Oliver has coasted along on his perceived
potential and this time did come through. Enya was the competition winner and
I think she had more talent than I originally thought, waiting for more unexpected
surprises from her.
Team Nuts & Bolts couldn't even stand together without looking out of place with
each other, they couldn't even fake a team for the judges. The judges trashed
each and every outfit and eventually Becky was sent home. Joshua wins the
drama queen award (again) and seemed to look sad for Becky but it's pretty
plain that is what he had wanted from the first time he laid eyes on her. I'm
hoping Joshua will go soon, he is not nearly as talented as he would like to
think that he is and who isn't sick of his bitch fits???????????
create your own fabric challenge. There were two teams of five and no team leader,
recipe for unlimited drama!! You could tell after teams were chosen which was the
stronger team but I watched anyway. They did not disappoint. The challenge was
for each team to create of 5 piece collection from the fabric they had designed and
to also produce the fashion show (music choices and video creation). They had
two days but it's a lot to do. Betsey Johnson stopped by to give advice, she is
always a joy to see, always makes you smile. Team names were chosen, Team Nuts &
Bolts and Team Chaos. Everything clicked for Team Chaos from fabric, to video,
to design. Everything was chaos for Nuts & Bolts and they did act like a bunch
of nuts. The video was poorly made as well as completely irrelevant to their design,
it took a lot of work to make it so bad.
The finished fashion show was great and poor as we knew it would be. Oliver did
finally do a wonderful jacket and Michael Kors said was possibly the best he had
ever seen on all of the shows. I think Oliver has coasted along on his perceived
potential and this time did come through. Enya was the competition winner and
I think she had more talent than I originally thought, waiting for more unexpected
surprises from her.
Team Nuts & Bolts couldn't even stand together without looking out of place with
each other, they couldn't even fake a team for the judges. The judges trashed
each and every outfit and eventually Becky was sent home. Joshua wins the
drama queen award (again) and seemed to look sad for Becky but it's pretty
plain that is what he had wanted from the first time he laid eyes on her. I'm
hoping Joshua will go soon, he is not nearly as talented as he would like to
think that he is and who isn't sick of his bitch fits???????????
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
RIZZOLI & ISLES ~ TNT ~ Mondays at 10
This was the last episode before the "summer finale" of next week. A young woman
is murdered on the loading docks in Boston and Rizzoli & Isles work to find her
murderer. She is stabbed with an ice pick and that is a trademark killing for
Isles' father who is a mob boss. Her father is shot and shows up at her apartment
for medical treatment. This has been an ongoing story where Isles was adopted
and found out recently who her father is and still doesn't know who her mother
is. Another story within the story is Rizzoli's brother Tommy who is staying
with her mother after getting out of prison and there is heavy flirting going
on with he and Isles, as well as a long, involved chess game.
Even with all of this going on, they are still able to solve the case and attend
sensitivity training!! These are a couple of wonder-women (maybe I need
some sentivity training too). The young woman who was killed had come
to Boston to find out the truth about an "accident" that her father had six
months before. She was right that it was a setup by the union rep and
a mob boss owner but died while trying to film the evidence.
I do like this show and will miss it after next week.
is murdered on the loading docks in Boston and Rizzoli & Isles work to find her
murderer. She is stabbed with an ice pick and that is a trademark killing for
Isles' father who is a mob boss. Her father is shot and shows up at her apartment
for medical treatment. This has been an ongoing story where Isles was adopted
and found out recently who her father is and still doesn't know who her mother
is. Another story within the story is Rizzoli's brother Tommy who is staying
with her mother after getting out of prison and there is heavy flirting going
on with he and Isles, as well as a long, involved chess game.
Even with all of this going on, they are still able to solve the case and attend
sensitivity training!! These are a couple of wonder-women (maybe I need
some sentivity training too). The young woman who was killed had come
to Boston to find out the truth about an "accident" that her father had six
months before. She was right that it was a setup by the union rep and
a mob boss owner but died while trying to film the evidence.
I do like this show and will miss it after next week.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Breaking Bad
Another dark, dark episode. Gus comes in for questioning and has explanations
for everything. Hank brings it up that there is no record of him living in Chile
but that is passed off by countries not keeping accurate records. Gus's story
is okay with the other police but Hank still feels that he is guilty of something.
Hank has Walt drive him to Gus's chicken shack and wants
him to put a GPS devices on Gus's car. Meanwhile, Mike pulls alongside of them in
the car. Walt sweats bullets as he tries to keep his spinning world under control. He
is still in remission from the cancer and tells another patient to always maintain control -
a lot of irony in this show. Walt begins to pressure Jesse to kill Gus, how much more
can that young man take? You can see he is just waiting to die.
The ending was a long, sub-titled scene of Gus and the Mexican Cartel from
long ago when Gus wanted to get into the drug business. One man
is killed and Gus is spared because "I know who you are". When will we know
who he is??????
for everything. Hank brings it up that there is no record of him living in Chile
but that is passed off by countries not keeping accurate records. Gus's story
is okay with the other police but Hank still feels that he is guilty of something.
Hank has Walt drive him to Gus's chicken shack and wants
him to put a GPS devices on Gus's car. Meanwhile, Mike pulls alongside of them in
the car. Walt sweats bullets as he tries to keep his spinning world under control. He
is still in remission from the cancer and tells another patient to always maintain control -
a lot of irony in this show. Walt begins to pressure Jesse to kill Gus, how much more
can that young man take? You can see he is just waiting to die.
The ending was a long, sub-titled scene of Gus and the Mexican Cartel from
long ago when Gus wanted to get into the drug business. One man
is killed and Gus is spared because "I know who you are". When will we know
who he is??????
Friday, September 2, 2011
PROJECT RUNWAY ~ Thursday on Lifetime at 9:00 p.m.
Another week has flown by and another episode of Project Runway has
entertained us for a hour and half. There were 11 contestants left this
week in this "Back to School" episode. Everyone went to the Harlem
School of the Arts and were paired with a teenage student that attended
this school. The challenge was to have a collaborations with the student
and create an avant garde look that is inspired by the work of art created
with the student. They had two days and $300.00 to complete the
challenge. The students made a visit to the workroom and observed
how things worked and really seemed to enjoy that, you could see
the youthful enthusiasm in their faces.
Everyone worked hard and it is come to the point in the competition
where you have really good and really bad. It will only get better
each week from here on out.
Oliver held great promise at the beginning, he was my personal
favorite but the luster has worn off. He has no time management
skills and tried to glue the top of the dress to the model. Those
models are troopers as she agreed to whatever it took to complete
the task. Burt is growing on the others and shared some personal
history with them which seemed to make them appreciate him more.
His look was awful and very, very dated. I believe he's around to
add some drama but he'll get the heave ho pretty soon.
The guest judge was Kenneth Cole and he had a lot of input into
the decisions that were made and he added a lot to the runway
show. The students returned for the runway and seemed so
happy with how their designs had inspired others. They were
proud and should be.
The winner was Anthony Ryan but all three in the top were great.
He had taken fabric and made long strips that resembled brush
strokes down the front and lightened them as they appeared to
drip down the long dress. Very striking look. The odd man
out was Josh C. who was very lost in this challenge. He had
an original idea but changed it when Tim spoke with him and
it all ended up with no direction. He was just brought back
last week so it was doubly sad for him to lose because he was
so intent on not going home and got sidetracked.
entertained us for a hour and half. There were 11 contestants left this
week in this "Back to School" episode. Everyone went to the Harlem
School of the Arts and were paired with a teenage student that attended
this school. The challenge was to have a collaborations with the student
and create an avant garde look that is inspired by the work of art created
with the student. They had two days and $300.00 to complete the
challenge. The students made a visit to the workroom and observed
how things worked and really seemed to enjoy that, you could see
the youthful enthusiasm in their faces.
Everyone worked hard and it is come to the point in the competition
where you have really good and really bad. It will only get better
each week from here on out.
Oliver held great promise at the beginning, he was my personal
favorite but the luster has worn off. He has no time management
skills and tried to glue the top of the dress to the model. Those
models are troopers as she agreed to whatever it took to complete
the task. Burt is growing on the others and shared some personal
history with them which seemed to make them appreciate him more.
His look was awful and very, very dated. I believe he's around to
add some drama but he'll get the heave ho pretty soon.
The guest judge was Kenneth Cole and he had a lot of input into
the decisions that were made and he added a lot to the runway
show. The students returned for the runway and seemed so
happy with how their designs had inspired others. They were
proud and should be.
The winner was Anthony Ryan but all three in the top were great.
He had taken fabric and made long strips that resembled brush
strokes down the front and lightened them as they appeared to
drip down the long dress. Very striking look. The odd man
out was Josh C. who was very lost in this challenge. He had
an original idea but changed it when Tim spoke with him and
it all ended up with no direction. He was just brought back
last week so it was doubly sad for him to lose because he was
so intent on not going home and got sidetracked.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
MODERN FAMILY ~ ABC ~ WEDNESDAYS AT 9:00 pm
How can a network give us a dreadful show like "Shark Tank" and an
incredible, wonderful show like "Modern Family". I'm ready for some
new episodes of this crisp, fast-paced comedy. It deserves all of the
awards it has been given. But until mid-September we will have to
make due with re-runs which are so funny, who cares??
Claire and Phil had a fight, a doozy with a fire extinguisher, ripped
off microwave door and frozen vegetables everywhere. Phil doesn't
know what he did wrong and spends most of episode trying to
figure it out in true Phil fashion. His comedy timing is terrific and
he takes the clueless, doofus just far enough to not seem stupid.
Mitchell forgets to mail invitations for Cameron and his party is
destined to be a flop. Cameron is hilarious with his earpiece
barking out orders to little Luke even though he is standing
right beside him. Mitchell saves the day and Phil saves himself
and Gloria sends back her karaoke machine when her son
finally tells her how awful she is. I did have to look up "wedge
salad" and it looks pretty good. Claire was mad because
Phil tried one after his friend suggested it and she had suggested
it for years. Those who have been married for awhile or have
children will understand and agree how frustrating it can be.
Mid-September can't come soon enough, until then there is
another episode on right now.
incredible, wonderful show like "Modern Family". I'm ready for some
new episodes of this crisp, fast-paced comedy. It deserves all of the
awards it has been given. But until mid-September we will have to
make due with re-runs which are so funny, who cares??
Claire and Phil had a fight, a doozy with a fire extinguisher, ripped
off microwave door and frozen vegetables everywhere. Phil doesn't
know what he did wrong and spends most of episode trying to
figure it out in true Phil fashion. His comedy timing is terrific and
he takes the clueless, doofus just far enough to not seem stupid.
Mitchell forgets to mail invitations for Cameron and his party is
destined to be a flop. Cameron is hilarious with his earpiece
barking out orders to little Luke even though he is standing
right beside him. Mitchell saves the day and Phil saves himself
and Gloria sends back her karaoke machine when her son
finally tells her how awful she is. I did have to look up "wedge
salad" and it looks pretty good. Claire was mad because
Phil tried one after his friend suggested it and she had suggested
it for years. Those who have been married for awhile or have
children will understand and agree how frustrating it can be.
Mid-September can't come soon enough, until then there is
another episode on right now.
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