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Written by EJ Feddes
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 20:16 |
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Previously on Big Brother: Otev the Broadway Clam! In a sign of the Apocalypse, Enzo won the Veto and took himself off the block. After campaigning from all sides, Lane nominated Hayden in his stead. Feathers were ruffled. And seriously, Otev the Broadway Clam. If he and ZingBot 3000 don’t team up for the finale, I will be one sad panda. Apparently we’re going to see the Jury House this week. We really haven’t seen them yet, have we? Probably because nobody really wants to watch the people who are in there. Julie Chen has lipstick and tousled hair this week. She’s actually looking kind of hot, which is weird and confusing. She kicks it to footage from the Veto Ceremony. Hayden isn’t happy that he’s been nominated, and again, really not a big deal with the way the votes are shaking out. Lane wants Britney for the Final Two, so hopefully he gets smart and has Britney vote to evict Hayden so he can break the tie. Enzo’s going to be a non-factor in any challenge, and I think both Ragan and Britney think they can beat Lane at the Final Two. Hayden and Enzo talk about how Britney would definitely win in the Final Two, and it’s clear that they’re just trying to, you know, talk about things and if Lane maybe hears then and realizes the wisdom of their plan. They are subtle, I have to give them that. |
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Written by Myndi Weinraub
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 23:27 |
 Previously, Lane won HOH. Big Brother teased Lane with Pandora’s Box and he earned $91.17, enough to gas up his truck. Now we will get the veto competition and see if there’s any way on earth Enzo can actually win something.
Enzo is accusing Lane and Britney of having an alliance he doesn’t know about. Is Enzo blind? Maybe that’s why he wears the sunglasses in the house. I don’t know. Ragan thinks it’s telling that Enzo is on the block; he’s the bottom rung in the guys’ alliance, and this gives Ragan food for thought if they somehow both survive this week.
It’s just about time for Enzo to lose his penguin costume. The housemates all use the word “shun” incorrectly about 50 times. These people are sooooooo bored. Enzo tells a rubber duck that he’s not his dad. No, really. In the diary room, now shirtless, you can tell Enzo needs to shave his chest hair stubble. Not a good look. Ragan is feeling like Rocky Balboa, and is studying up for a Big Brother veto that he knows nothing about. Well, I guess he doesn’t have anything else to do!
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Written by Myndi Weinraub & EJ Feddes
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 14:00 |
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MYNDI
This episode was so much more insightful on second viewing. There’s always so much going on in a typical Mad Men hour, so much simmering just under the impeccably groomed surface that you can’t always appreciate it all right away. A perfect example of that has to be Peggy calling the bluff of new art director/professional b.s.-er, Stan Rizzo. This guy does nothing around the office but show his previous work to swooning secretaries and lie on conference tables napping (no doubt telling the others that it’s just part of his creative process), while Peggy busts her butt to churn out ever-improving work. She knows that as a woman she’s got no choice but to work twice as hard to have a shot at what most of her male counterparts can achieve by simply strutting around with the right attitude and throwing out a well placed tagline every now and then. But we all know she’s not putting up with it.
When Don had Miss Blankenship book Peggy and Stan a “room with a lock” in order to get some viable creative to present to Vicks, she finally had the privacy she needed to shut him up in a way she couldn’t at the office. So, she interrupted Stan’s perusal of the latest issue of Playboy (yet another thing no one would do in a work setting today, if only to avoid a sexual harassment suit) to strip down. Stan talked a great game about how he would be a nudist, if society was only more “liberated”. The look on his face when Peggy went beyond working in her underthings and actually unhooked her bra? Priceless. He clearly didn’t think she had the gumption. Of course, he then thought he was getting lucky, but that was soooo not happening. Peggy was all business, while poor Stan couldn’t exactly formulate any ideas, what will all the blood in his body rushing away from his brain like that.
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Written by EJ Feddes
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 11:00 |
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 It’s been a while since I’ve written about Lost. I kind of thought that I’d knock out a wrap-up a week after the finale and all would be well. Instead, I’ve been mulling. And arguing. Because, seriously, a lot of the discourse has just been totally boneheaded. So now I’m going to break up my post-mortem into three parts – next week, I’ll recap the bonus material from the Season Six DVD’s, and after that, we can get into some of the big reveals and the thematic payoffs (Just a preview: When discussing the finale, my sister used the phrase “menstrual geyser”. Admit it – you’re hooked.). But today, I’m just going to defend the finale.
Now, I have to blame Jimmy Kimmel for a lot of the misinterpretation, since he put out his theory about how everything on the Island happened in that second of turbulence, and it really didn’t make any sense. But, you know, dude was writing jokes and preparing to host a live show while be was watching the episode. It’s understandable. But most people didn’t have that excuse.
I stayed home from work the day after the finale, so I caught a lot of the morning shows and I got to experience the instant reaction, and it was legitimately shocking how people just didn’t get it. How does a person watch that episode and come to the conclusion that the Island was a dream that Jack had as he lay dying after the crash of Flight 815? You know, even though he was wearing different clothes and he watched Flight 316 fly over as he died. And more importantly, Christian Shephard appeared onscreen and said “Everything that happened to you on the Island was real.” Short of having John Terry walk into people’s homes and slap them on the back of the head, they could not have made it any more clear that the series wasn’t a dream or a hallucination or an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge scenario. They came right out and told us!
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Written by Stacey Donley
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 04:36 |
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 Nothing digs at female insecurities like a game of “Who’s Most Likely to die alone”, so in the spirit of humiliating people, ABC decides tonight’s immunity challenge will be a test in telling the truth. As we all know the truth hurts, and simultaneously causes a surge in TV ratings. After just a few rounds of questioning we found out Elizabeth’s ‘the most shallow’ (didn’t need a survey to see that), Krisily’s a ‘bitch’ and everyone secretly has the hots for Dave. Honorary Girl Scout, Tenley took home the win for the females when her honest Abe approached ushered her through to 4 straight correct answers after only 4 questions. The first few started off light-hearted, but then blows began hitting beneath the belt. Gwen was fighting back tears when she realized her fellow bunkmates thought she was the ’dumbest’ in the house and Natalie did not even hid her disappointment for being coined ‘Always a bridesmaid, Never a bride’.
The real shocker of the night came to us when Kovacs, normally known for being all game and no sensitivity, showed his softer side. First signs of his weakening conscious game when he saw how crest fallen Gwen was at the realization that she was not only old, but also stupid. He finally reached his threshold during his tie-breaking question against Jesse B. If you ask me, this one was rigged: ‘who has the worst boob job’. Obviously the answer is Elizabeth, but as he could not bear to hurt her in that way, he blew his chances at winning and wrote “Krisily”.
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