Television for the Week of September 16th

This is where I talk about all the tv I watched during the week. Featuring Boardwalk Empire, The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Project Runway.

MORE TIM GUNN!!!! Episode 12 Recap

For the Project Runway fans out there:

I'm happy to report that the Tim Gunn recap videos are finally embeddable (...that 's probably not a real word...) again!
Disclaimer: This is actually the recap for last week's episode--the Barnum and Bailey Circus challenge, not last night's. Regardless, it's still entertaining because...it's TIM!!!!



In this recap, Tim...

• expresses his dislike for Emilio, the puddle-maker. 
• exercises his vast and fabulous lexicon by using words such as "incendiary," "lackluster," "privy" as well as the phrase "spherical cage" 
• apparently does this recap in an FBI storage area that holds all of Project Runway's secrets
• tells himself to shut up

Enjoy :)

pointless post is pointless (but fun!)

PROJECT RUNWAY PREMIERS TONIGHT!

let's hope it's better than last season, eh Tim?



yeah, idk what i'm saying anymore


You know what I watched the past two days in a row? THE AMERICAN IDOL AUDITIONS! I kind of sort of swore that I would never watch this show again, b/c I do not want to go through all the stress that I went through last year. I really do not need to get invested in this show again. But sigh...I watched. And kind of wanted to kill myself, to be honest. I am so sensitive to producer manipulations and sob stories and the like now, that so many things about the episodes bothered me. I think I'll continue to watch in order to see Kris on the background and the credits :D

if you didn't watch, this is pretty much the only thing you missed:

can't deny it, this guy is fucking amazing lol


WHO WATCHED CHUCK?! What did you guys think? I thought all three episodes were great! I think the 3rd one was my favorite though. So much wonderful Casey goodness :D What episode was your favorite? What did ya think overall?


AND LASTLY! watch this video if you want to see something completely and utterly random and hilarious and amazing and will probably make absolutely no sense to you: http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

Meh

Project Runway finale.....meh. I was dissapoint that Irina won, because she's a massive bitch, but to be honest I didn't really care that much because no one's lines were that impressive.

Worst. Season. Ever.


In better news, Lost is returning February 2nd at 9! It's moving to Tuesdays, people!

Also...Chuck returns on January 10th!!!!!!! omg I thought I was going to have to wait until March.

:D

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY? (IGNORE THE HEIDI)

ZOZIZZLE. WHERE ARE THEY? I'M SO DISTRAUGHT RIGHT NOW. COME BACK TO ME NINA/MICHAEL

One word: TIM!!!!!

How have I not talked about Project Runway yet? This is very surprising. Because I love Project Runway and I'm so happy it's back. A bit of time has already passed since the episode, so I won't go into it too in-depth, except to say that I enjoyed it, loved the winner, disagreed with the auf-ing, and was confused by the Lohan.

Let me just tell you though, the fact that Tim Gunn is in my life right now makes me a happier person. I want a Tim Gunn that I can just carry around in my pocket and take out whenever I'm feeling down so he can give me inspirational advice and make me feel better.

TIM!





Also, I guess I can't be mad at bitter Glamberts for still being upset that Adam lost American Idol, because guess what? Apparently, I was STILL bitter that Daniel Vosovic lost his season of Project Runway. I don't think his line was my favorite out of all of the All Star collections, but when he was announced the winner, I jumped up and down and screamed and felt so ridiculously happy. Season 2 was my absolute favorite season of this show, and Daniel V was my absolute favorite contestant that season and only rivals Christian Siriano as my favorite PR contestant of all time. I was so so upset when he lost his season, but it's all OK now! I only had to wait 4 years! GO DANIEL!




Also, can I just say? I am so happy I get to read the opinions of these guys again. I love them.

Project Runway Finale!

I don't have too much to say about the finale, but I figure I should at least mention it.

A big old CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Leanne who knocked it out of the park.  I can't say I thought hers was necessarily better than Korto's, but I did like it more and I think the judges picked the right winner.  It reminds me a little of the Jillian vs. Christian thing during last season's finale.  While Korto's line was very beautiful and wearable, Leanne's was more high-fashion, artsty, and creative.  I personally prefer the extreme creativity and inventiveness of Leanne's line, because I had never seen outfits like hers ever.  Plus, I am obsessed with this dress:

So pretty!  I'm also happy Leanne won because I've been rooting for her for the whole competition.  Not only has she produced some of my favorite looks from this years competition (the Diane Von Furstenberg challenge comes to mind), she's also very cute and funny and seems to be a really cool girl.

I have to give it up to Korto too.  She's extremely talented and I think will be around in the fashion industry for a while.  And while it's no secret that I'm not Kenley's biggest fan (and she continued to act just as snotty and mean in the finale as she does every episode), even I was surprised at how much I liked her collection.  So all in all, a good finale to a bit of a lackluster season.  Here's to season 6 on Lifetime!

As far as last night's Pushing Daisies goes,  LOVED IT.  Again.  But dude, this episode made me cry!  Twice!  Once when Chuck was talking about how she thinks they may have upset the balance of the world by bringing her back and Ned's like "what are you saying?  Do you want me to touch you?" and he looked at her with those sad, tear-filled, puppy eyes.  And another when Ned was talking about his lousy, dead beat dad who abandoned him and how he prayed as a child everyday that he would come back and take him home.  SOB!  This show isn't supposed to make me sad!  There are only supposed to be smiles involved!

9/29-10/2 Weekly Television Recap

Chuck-  Another reason why this show is so great?  They used a Flight of the Conchords song this episode.  Awesome!  As for the episode itself?  I thought it was really good.  Pretty much the same as what I come to expect from this show.  My favorite part of any episode is still Casey though (and he totally loves Chuck! Aw!).

Heroes-  I liked this episode better than last weeks overstuffed premiere.  I thought a lot of the story lines were pretty interesting.  Except Claire's.  Girl is REALLY starting to bother me.  The bank story line was OK, however I absolutely HATE what they're doing with Sylar.  If they make him at all sympathetic or try to redeem him in any way I am going to be so pissed.  I like Sylar because he's just straight up bad ass evil!  Not because he's this morally complex character!  Save evil-Sylar!

House-  I was really happy we got to learn about Taub this week instead of having Thirteen shoved down our throats like most weeks.  I actually liked his story line involving his wife too, and hope that they stay together because they both seem pretty cool (his wife was way prettier than him though).  This was probably the best episode of the season so far.  Jury's still out on the private investigator, but I thought it was cool that he found out Cuddy went to Michigan.  Shout out!

Fringe-  Walter is still the best thing about this show.  Everything he says is hilarious.  Root beer float, heh.  The lead actress still bugs which is disappointing.  Although the writing for her isn't really doing much help--Olivia is kind of a boring character.  Creepy bald guy is creepy, and I like that they've added a new mysterious villain (or is he?) to the show.  I didn't think this week's case was as good as some of the other weeks, but it seemed as though the episode was more for learning about Walter, having Peter buy into the program, and exploring the father/son relationship between the two.  Something which I'm surprisingly interested in knowing more about.  I like those two's dynamic.

Pushing Daisies- THIS SHOW IS THE MOST WONDERFUL SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF SHOWS!!!!!  I spent the entire episode with a giant grin on my face.  It is just AMAZING!  "He's stalking you" = greatest Emerson line ever, and if Lee Pace gets any adorabler I won't be able to stand it!  I LOVE THIS SHOW!

Project Runway- Wow, dudes, that was intense.  One of the most intense runway shows I've ever seen!  With the tears and the yelling and the insults.  Wonderful!  I'm a little ticked off however that Kenley wasn't eliminated.  It was so obvious that hers was the worst outfit, yet the producers want to up the drama by having someone get eliminated next episode.  Whatever.  I'm just hoping Jerell makes it to the final 3, because he's just so awesome!

Supernatural-   Mary was a hunter WTF?!  This was an awesome, awesome origin episode.  So many things were explained and in a totally meaningful way that made sense.  I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did, what with Sam being absent pretty much the entire episode, but it was...amazing.  And tragic!  It was so sad to see that Mary didn't want her children to grow up like she did.  And seeing John when he was young and cute and sweet and nothing like the hardened and bitter man we met in season one totally broke my heart.  Add that to the extremely brutal way in which Mary's parents were killed, and this was one depressing episode.  It also added a ton of questions to the mythology.  It really excites me that the yellow-eyed demon's endgame is still in effect, AND the forces of good are concerned for what's happening to Sam.  Is there a Sam vs. Dean showdown in our future? Probably.  And I'm not sure whether that makes me excited or breaks my heart.  I think both, heh.

My pick for favorite episode of the week:  Pushing Daisies!!! With Supernatural at a very close second.

Annoyed

What the fuck is it going to take to get Kenley off my show?

And I'm not even saying that because I like Suede or anything. I actually don't think Suede could have made it to the top three (and he can be really really annoying at times).  But for the love of god, does Kenley need to go!  If only for her attitude alone.  If she doesn't get eliminated next episode I'm going to be pissed.  I think the trio of Jerell, Korto, and Leanne is a completely deserving group to be going to fashion week (I'm rooting for Jerell!), and if whiny-bitch Kenley gets it over them?  Yeah, no.  That will not be good for my health.  You do not diss Tim Gunn and get away with it!

/rant

So, how did everyone else feel about this episode? :)