SaraRue-related stories
Posted Nov 5th 2009 1:52PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E07) "You say cursed like it's a bad thing." - Darryl to Roxie
Eastwick continues to gel a little bit more with each episode, and it's fun seeing the witches discover and hone their powers.
In last night's episode, I kept thinking that none of what happens should come as any big shock to the witches. For instance, Kat shouldn't be amazed that Joanna says she can move things with her mind, because she's made the weather change, for goodness sake.
But maybe they're trying to make the women more real by not jumping into things. If something weird happened in real life, you wouldn't automatically think, "oh, I'm a witch." You'd probably think it's just a strange coincidence, or at the most, there are forces in the world we know little about.
Continue reading Review: Eastwick - Red Ants and Widows
Posted Oct 29th 2009 3:28AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E06) "It's like you've stepped out of a 70's porno and into my life." - Roxie to Darryl
It's Halloween, and there's no better place to be than Eastwick. Unless you've got an insane pastor on your tail who's bound and determined to make you pay for your past sins (see photo above).
But first, the celebration! Everyone decorates coffins, fills them up with whatever's been bothering them this past year, brings them to the giant witch statue, and watches them burn. Sounds like a party, doesn't it?
Continue reading Review: Eastwick - Bonfire and Betrayal
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 5:07AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E05) "The inner animals of our citizenry will be released." - Darryl
As some of us have said on previous
Eastwick reviews and comments, the show seems to be moving along at a snail's pace. But -- as some of you have also said -- that's not always a bad thing. Let things simmer. Let the plot slowly unwind itself. Let the characters evolve organically. Let's just hope it doesn't simmer too long.
But we definitely got lots of simmer with this episode, especially the scene with the red-hot Jaime Ray Newman as sultry Kat atop the piano. I kept thinking about how Darryl's blonde attorney was talking down to Kat, saying her hair was lifeless and such. There was nothing lifeless about her on that piano.
Continue reading Review: Eastwick - Mooning and Crooning
Posted Oct 15th 2009 4:05AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E04) "No, they're boob-iful." - Penny's response when Joanna asks if her boobs are weird.
I'm reluctant to get too invested in
Eastwick, because I have a feeling it might be canceled and then I'll just be ticked off. On the other hand, it's getting better, and once again, they twisted things just a little bit in the last 20 seconds of the episode.
But first, let's talk about what's going on with each of the witches:
Kat. Oy, it makes me so mad that she keeps going back to Raymond, even though he's an absolute ass. And I would NOT have fired Ivanka the tigress lawyer. Kat needs her, and I have a feeling her bird's nest plan to let the kids stay in the house and have her and Raymond take turns staying there won't work. He's too much of an ass. Why doesn't she just cast some horrible spell on him? I know ... the kids. On the flipside, it might be fun having her stay at Joanna's.
Continue reading Eastwick: Fleas and Casserole
Posted Oct 8th 2009 4:25AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E03) Eastwick is definitely getting more interesting, even though my husband came in during the last half, said he was creeped out, and promptly declared the show a "dragedy." I think that's a step up from
last week when he called it "dribble" (or "drivel" - either one works).
The fact that Roxie kept seeing a dead Gus at every turn
was a little creepy. Hey, all she needed to say was "I'm sorry," and he'd go away. Since "screw you" didn't work, she finally made the right call at the end, when she went with her daughter to return something of Gus's to his mom. Then Gus the ghost disappeared.
Hmmm ... I wouldn't have minded him sticking around for another episode or two; maybe Roxie could have found a way to torture him a little more for almost raping her daughter. Oh wait, he's dead, so there's that. Anyway, I'm guessing there will be more ghosts in this show.
Continue reading Eastwick: Madams and Madames
Posted Oct 1st 2009 5:26AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E02) About half-way into this episode of
Eastwick, my husband came into the room and said, "This is mind-numbing dribble, posing as a plot." My husband never minces words, and while I'm usually the good cop in the relationship, I have to agree with him on this one. It IS mind-numbing dribble. At least, this episode was. I'm a little sad about it, too, because the show seems like it could work. Don't you think?
Continue reading Eastwick: Reaping and Sewing
Posted Sep 24th 2009 4:25AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) Is it bad that my favorite character on
Eastwick is a supporting character? That would be the fabulous Sara Rue, who starred in
Less Than Perfect from 2002 - 2006. I loved that show! She's done other stuff since then, but that's what I remember her for. in
Eastwick, she plays the sideline character of Penny, a co-worker of Joanna's (Lindsay Price). Hopefully, Sara will get plenty of screen time.
Let's talk about the show.
Eastwick is based on the John Updike book
The Witches of Eastwick, which spawned the
1987 movie by the same name, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Of note is that Veronica Cartwright, who played Felicia Alden in the movie, is playing the part of Bun Waverly in this new series. There was also a
2002 TV movie starring Marcia Cross that perhaps had three or four viewers.
Continue reading Eastwick: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Dec 9th 2008 1:01AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
(S02E10) I'm really interested to see what you guys thought of this episode, because I have to say: it didn't do it for me. I thought the
last episode, although a little too Sheldon-centric for my tastes, was good. This one, however, was just sort of blah.They basically had one joke--that every time Leonard tries to talk to Stephanie about their relationship, they end up having sex--that is just repeated throughout the episode.
I really like Sara Rue in general, but she and Johnny Galecki have zero chemistry. Because of this, I found all of their scenes together really boring, and unfortunately, they made up most of the show.
What makes this multi-episode relationship between her and Leonard worse, is that her scenes with Sheldon are a lot more amusing.
Big Bang Theory gets a lot of comedy out of how people deal with Sheldon, and I like her take: Be super-sweet and manipulate him for your needs.
Continue reading The Big Bang Theory: The Vartabedian Conundrum
Posted Nov 25th 2008 11:34AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
(S02E09) Dr. Sheldon Cooper, FTW? Maybe, but this episode... eh. Not so much. While it had its funny moments, overall, I thought this was one of the weakest episodes so far. I talked last week about my fear of this devolving into a show about Sheldon and the ridiculous things he says, and that's pretty much all we got this week. Even his interactions with Penny at the beginning of the episode, which are usually the best part of
any episode, felt kind of flat to me.
Sheldon's complete and utter inability to relate to people on a normal human level is where most of the comedy on
BBT comes from, but it only works when it's surrounded by the rest of their characters and their own sets of awkward mannerisms. When it's just The Sheldon Show, the fact that you're watching a sitcom in which actors are paid to read funny lines becomes more glaring.
Continue reading The Big Bang Theory: The White Asparagus Triangulation
Posted May 3rd 2006 5:24PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Talent, Industry, OpEd, Things I Hate About TV, Celebrities
I was watching
Less Than Perfect last night
(yes, it's back on ABC... yes, I thought it was cancelled, too), and the first thing I noticed was that Sara Rue had
lost weight. A LOT of weight. Not that this is the first time I've seen the skinny Sara (I think I saw her skinny self
on an episode of
Ellen or something), but I had forgotten just how much she had slimmed down since her sitcom
started four years ago.
But here's the thing: I don't understand why she had to lose the weight to begin
with.
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