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'Lost' - 'What Kate Does' Recap {TV Squad}
Feb 10th 2010 5:37AM After last week, I felt this was a really dull, boring episode. Hardly anything happened, and nothing of real interest happened. Nothing answered, no significant questions were posed (at this point they really shouldn't be posing new significant questions, though).
Review: 'Undercover Boss' - Series Premiere {TV Squad}
Feb 8th 2010 11:57PM Brett: Sure I agree there is such a thing as "documentary TV" ... news shows like 20/20, Dateline, and the like are "documentary TV" when they are more than mere interviews and more than mere recitals of the day's events. When they have a topic and investigate it, interview several people about it, study it from all sides... that's "documentary." But like you said, creating a situation, filming it, and editing out the most boring parts is reality tv, if anything. It's not "documentary TV."
Martin: So the CEOs are not wearing thousand dollar suits. Big deal - they don't show the CEOs firing all the "regular" employees who gave them shit, wasted the company's time, stole office supplies, told dirty jokes, etc. Lots of employees are going to get fired as a result of this show.
Review: 'Undercover Boss' - Series Premiere {TV Squad}
Feb 8th 2010 9:54PM Wait, what's with calling it "documentary" instead of "reality"? Is that your personal annotation, or have the networks decided "reality" has (finally) gotten a bad name and that they're going to use the euphemism "documentary" from now on? If so, I surely hope nobody tunes in thinking "documentary TV" is somehow different than "reality TV." Those would be the same idiots who think "used cars" are cheap and dirty but "pre-owned" cars are nice and classy.
Marketing is a crime against humanity.
Review: 'Big Love' - 'Sins of the Father' {TV Squad}
Feb 8th 2010 9:33AM It's impossible to be religious without being a gross, disgusting hypocrite. This is as true for mormons as with any other religion, as we see over and over on this season of Big Love. Bill has changed from a cocky selfish asshole into a horrendously evil, narcissistic, self-centered egomaniac who will stab his best friend in the back and destroy the lives of his own children for a mere chance of obtaining a bit of power and attention.
Big Love is a great, hugely entertaining show, but I feel as though I put up with Bill in order to watch it and enjoy it. Bill has gotten so bad this season that I just can't wait to see everything collapse around him. As such, I'm going to be very unhappy if Bill ends up winning the state senate race, ends up having the casino be a success, and ends up keeping the problems at Juniper Creek from messing up his family life.
I want to see Bill destroyed. He should lose all his "wives" and the senate race and his homes and business. That would be wonderful entertainment, and he fully deserves it.
Kudos to Bill Paxton for playing such a convincing asshole jackfuck nutjob.
NBC Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month in a Strange Way {TV Squad}
Feb 5th 2010 1:42PM Anyone who gets offended at this is WAY too sensitive. I don't see it as any different than serving Mexican food (tacos, burritos, enchiladas, etc) on Cinco de Mayo or something like that.
Nobody is saying black people eat nothing but fried chicken, collard greens, and watermelon before going out to rape white women. Come on. Anyway, other than fried chicken and collard greens, nothing else on the menu (turkey, white rice, etc) is stereotypical black food.
If one were to create a menu of "traditional african american foods" it seems fried chicken and collard greens should be on such a menu.
There are far more viable things to get pissed off about.
The Big Question About Last Night's Season Premiere of 'Lost' {TV Squad}
Feb 3rd 2010 10:40PM I don't recall that but I'll take your word for it (I mean I don't recall him actually calling it "jacob's list" specifically). Regardless, Jack would still have no idea who Jacob is.
The Big Question About Last Night's Season Premiere of 'Lost' {TV Squad}
Feb 3rd 2010 8:13PM I cannot think of a time where Jack ever heard of the name Jacob, or would have any reason to know about him, his cabin, his relationship to the Others, or any of that.
In fact, they've kind of gone out of their way to keep Jack, Kate, and Sawyer away from this information. Kate and Sawyer (and Sayid too, I think) would have no knowledge of Jacob at this point (even if they ran into him at some point in their lives).
I thought one of the oddest things about last night's show, also a bit of minutia, was that Desmond was on the plane. My theory is that we have two different realities that will converge at some point (last episode I guess). Desmond was never on Flight 815, though in this version of flight 815 the island was not there - it was at the bottom of the ocean. That being the case, I suppose it makes sense that desmond wouldn't be on the island - but why would he be on that flight? Where was Penny?
It seems everything will be undone at some point, so that even desmond never ends up spending years typing away in the hatch.
South Park creators making a Mormon musical {TV Squad}
Feb 2nd 2010 6:04PM As a fellow atheist, I find all religions insane and ridiculous. But the "big ones" can always fall back on the fact that they were founded centuries ago and we don't "know" for sure exactly what happened. Mormonism is different. It's the most provably false and fraudulent religion of them all. Scientology is a close second, of course (I wouldn't really argue if one were to say it's basically a tie between the two).
And all religions are dangerous and should be skewered at every opportunity. Kudos to Parker and Stone, as always.
'Star Trek' Writers Orci and Kurtzman Sign With Fox TV {TV Squad}
Feb 2nd 2010 6:01PM Is Fringe "going strong"? That's not what I've heard. I love the show (though lately it's gotten quite lame, but this week's episode looks like we may finally get a long-overdue good one), but I can already sense the decision to cancel it has been made by Fox. It's their MO, why should Fringe be any different?
'Sex and the City' Director to Take on Anita Bryant {TV Squad}
Feb 2nd 2010 3:18PM I had never heard of her until seeing the movie "Milk." She's obviously an evil, horrible, cruel person extremely infected with the religion disease and obsessed with children (an "emotional pedophile"). I don't see anything interesting about such people. They're a dime a dozen here in Texas.
