Drea de Matteo-related stories
Posted Nov 10th 2009 3:34AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E07) "There are two sides to every story." - Nick
And to finish that thought, Lynette said, "Yeah, well your side is married." Which sums up part of what this episode covered -- the fact that Julie and Nick had an affair, and Lynette found out about it and confronted him. During the scene, I thought to myself, why is Lynette confronting him? What does she hope to gain from it? But I can see why she did it -- to try and protect Julie.
I'm filling in for Isabelle this week (apologies for my lateness on the review), so be gentle with me. Mostly what occurred to me about this episode was how thin all the ladies have gotten again. For a while there, it seemed like some of them bulked up to at least a size two. Now they're all back down to a size 0. Bree runs a catering service, for cripes sake, and looks like she hasn't eaten in weeks. Sandwiches for all. Oh, and Carlos is looking more and more like John Travolta. And thank God for Kathy Najimy.
Continue reading Review: Desperate Housewives - Careful the Things You Say
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 1:30AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E06) "Aren't you glad I'm not crazy anymore?" - Katherine to Susan
To our pleasure and amusement, Katherine
is still crazy and maybe even more than before. She is so deeply in denial that she can't see the truth anymore and thinks her make-believe world is accurate.
I've had to teach a teen who was in such a denial a few years back -- he was making up all sort of lies to hide the fact that things weren't going well at home, so he made up this "other and better" life. I can tell you that it's extremely difficult to help the person come back to reality and also to differentiate if what they tell us is true or false, since they are really convincing as, to them, their world is accurate. It needs a lot of therapy to help someone like that come back to reality.
Since Katherine is not getting the help she needs to deal with her denial, fantasies and problems, she will keep plotting to get Mike back and hurt people in the process, including herself. It won't be pretty when she'll hit rock bottom.
Continue reading Review: Desperate Housewives - Don't Walk on the Grass
Posted Oct 26th 2009 12:19AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E05) "You seem like a nice lady. Don't you ever feel guilty?" - The maid to Bree This week's episode was pretty much what I call a "filler episode". Yes, there was some progress in the storylines but if someone missed this week's installment of
Desperate Housewives, they won't be totally lost next week.
Even if "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" wasn't the best
DH episode so far this season, I did enjoy the dialog between Bree and the maid concerning Bree's affair with Karl, as well as Julie's return home after two weeks in the hospital, especially since her return meant that she would run into Nick eventually.
Continue reading Review: Desperate Housewives - Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
Posted Oct 12th 2009 12:22AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E03) "You wanted to look pretty for your ex-lover." - Carlos to Gaby
As advertised on most TV sites over the past few weeks, the cutie gardener and Gaby's ex-lover is back! John Rowland, whom we last saw in season four married to a rich daddy's girl, returned to Wisteria Lane this week to cause chaos.
Is John still married? Did he try to seduce Gaby or another Wisteria Lane citizen? Answers coming up after the jump, along with my take on John's return, which was first rumored to happen in the season five finale.
Continue reading Desperate Housewives: Never Judge a Lady by Her Lover
Posted Oct 4th 2009 2:40AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E02) "She's like the nicest girl in the world. Who'd want to hurt her?" - Wisteria Lane residents as they learn about Julie
It's the day after Susan and Mike's wedding, but also the day after Julie got attack by an unknown assailant. The Wisteria Lane residents quickly gather on the scene and try to make sense of it all. Who would hurt the nicest young adult female on the street?
As expected, fingers are quickly pointed in Danny Bolen's direction. But did he do it? Detectives, as well as the Wisteria Lane men and us, loyal
Desperate Housewives viewers, are on the case.
Continue reading Desperate Housewives: Being Alive
Posted Sep 27th 2009 11:58PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E01) "Just last month, she took something of mine." - The woman who didn't get Mike about the woman who did get him
Finally! We learned who Mike married
in the season finale and, luckily, we didn't have to wait long to get the answer, as it was revealed within the first minute. Then again, if you read ABC's official description for the fourth episode of the season over the weekend, they spoiled the first scene for you, as they clearly stated whom Mike didn't marry.
I don't get why ABC couldn't be cryptic in their description or at least wait until tomorrow before releasing it, especially since they have been trying very hard to keep the name of the bride a secret.
Continue reading Desperate Housewives: Nice Is Different Than Good (season premiere)
Posted Jul 12th 2009 6:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
In the
last issue of Spoilers Anonymous, we revealed that Drea de Matteo, Jeffrey Nordling and Beau Mirchoff would be joining the show as the new mysterious family on the block. They will play Angie, Nick and Dominic Vitale, respectively, and are all set to be series regulars.
Want to know more about the new Wisteria Lane residents? Read through for new dish about this mysterious Italian family!
Waning: Spoilers coming up!Continue reading New spoilers about Desperate Housewives' new citizens
Posted Jul 11th 2009 10:05AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is
Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at
TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
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Note that over the summer,
Spoilers Anonymous will be published every two weeks due to production hiatus for most TV series. Weekly columns will resume in August.
This week we have spoilers for:
Big Love, Brothers & Sisters, CSI: Miami, Desperate Housewives, Fringe, Glee, Gossip Girl, Heroes, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, One Tree Hill, and The Mentalist. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)
Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Aug 27th 2008 9:59AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Reality-Free
You're going to hear a lot of things about FX's new motorcycle club drama Sons of Anarchy. It's different, it's edgy, and it covers a fairly taboo topic that, up to now, hasn't really been addressed in a TV drama.
However, strip away the leather jackets and exhaust fumes and you're looking at something we have seen before: Sons of Anarchy is The Sopranos on Harleys. You've got your powerful crime family, illegal gun smuggling, rival gangs, conspiracy, and for good measure? Drea de Matteo (of Sopranos fame) plays a crank addict. Trade the crank for blow and we've seen that before too.
Continue reading Sons of Anarchy -- an early look
Posted Mar 28th 2007 1:41PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, The Sopranos
Joe Pantoliano does not want his infamous
The Sopranos character to be remembered as "a head in a bowling bag".
Access Hollywood obtained a letter that "Joey Pants" wrote to
Sopranos creator David Chase, expressing his anger over a photo spread appearing in the April edition of Vanity Fair (
see the photo here).
The photo, taken by Annie Liebowitz, features the legendary characters who've been whacked over the years, including actors Drea de Matteo, Vincent Pastore, Annabella Sciorra, and Steve Buscemi. Pantoliano refused to appear in the photo, so Liebowitz improvised by having a headless mannequin hold one of the actual head molds used from the episode where Tony kills Ralphie and puts his head in a bowling bag.
Continue reading Joe Pantoliano's panties get in a wad
Posted Apr 6th 2006 11:54AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Talent
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that
Joey is not coming back for another season. First, co-star
Andrea Anders left the cast to join the
CBS comedy pilot,
The Class. Now Paulo Costanzo, who played Joey's nephew, has signed on to a different CBS
comedy pilot about an engaged couple, a married couple and a single guy. I know, you were probably thinking Costanzo
will be the single guy, but he's actually one-half of the engaged couple.
Now, what do you think Drea de
Matteo will do next?
Posted Mar 11th 2006 11:29AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming
After one appearance in its new Tuesday night
time slot, NBC has
pulled
Joey off the schedule indefinitely. It will be replaced by the one show that may be even less
entertaining than
Joey:
Most Outrageous Moments.
Variety is reporting that
NBC might burn off the remaining new episodes of
Joey sometime this summer. Of course, the peacock network has
yet to actually admit that it has cancelled
Joey, but it's only a matter of time. Especially since one of the
co-stars has already
signed on to a new
pilot on a different network.
Posted Feb 28th 2006 5:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Web, The Sopranos
HBO realizes that it's been a really, really long time since
we've seen any new episodes of
The Sopranos, so it has enlisted the
assistance of Google Maps to
help you remember. On
The Sopranos website, the Google Map
shows different locations in New Jersey where key plot points happened last season. Move your mouse over a red dot and
a box will appear with a video clip, summary, and a link to an entire episode guide. A lot of the video clips are just
conversations between Tony and other major characters like Tony B. (Steve Buschemi), Christopher (Michael Imperioli),
and Sack (Vince Curatola) and really aren't all that exciting. They're used as a reminder of who got whacked and where
the tensions lie between crime bosses. And, of course, it includes the scene where Adriana gets whacked.
Speaking of getting whacked,
here's a way to
kill time. It's
The Sopranos' version of Whack-a-Mole.
Posted Feb 19th 2006 10:35AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Web
HBO
understands the viral power of the internet and is apparently hoping to get in on it with a couple of online promotions
for the upcoming season of
The Sopranos, which starts March 12. First, it's paying Google to use its maps to
identify certain parts of New Jersey where key parts of
The Sopranos have happened (does that mean we'll know
where Ralphie's head is buried?). Starting February 27th, all you'll have to do is go to Google and type in
"Sopranos Map".
HBO.com is also planning an interactive game called
Whack a Soprano.
Posted Feb 15th 2006 8:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming, The Office
Joey is making a surprise return to NBC, but it's
getting moved to Tuesday nights. From March 7-21,
Joey will air at 8 pm and then a
Joey repeat will
air at 8:30 pm. That means
Fear Factor is being bumped off the NBC schedule until this summer.
Scrubs
will air at 9 pm, followed by a new comedy,
Teachers, at 9:30. Don't worry. We'll get our back-to-back episodes
of Scrubs starting on March 28, when it airs at 8:30 and 9:00 pm. Your TiVo will figure it out.
Also, NBC has
figured out that
The Office is good. Really good. The network has managed to work around Steve Carell's
busy
schedule to add one more episode to the schedule, a finale that will air on May 11. Originally, the season was going
to end on March 30th but now NBC is going to play reruns through April and add that one new episode in May. I wonder if
Jim will crash Pam's wedding?
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