Posts with tag keiko agena
Posted Feb 25th 2008 1:03PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Retro Squad, TV Squad Lists
How good are you at spotting someone's true age? There's been a few times I've caught myself wondering how old that actor really is on TV, when they're playing someone my age and look ten years older. Do I really look that good? Then again, I've seen the opposite and thought, "damn, I am an old decrepit fart." In any case, I'll pull up IMDb and usually find myself in shock of how young/old the actor on-screen really is.
The whole actor-to-character age ratio thing got me curious, so I did a little research (with the help of some of the TV Squad team) and made a list of some of the more extreme and well-known (or, maybe to some, not-so-well-known) examples. By the way, we didn't include actors who played flashback scenes of their characters for short periods of time, as there are more of those than we have room for.
Continue reading Some big actor-to-character age differences on TV
Posted May 15th 2007 10:15PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Gilmore Girls, Episode Reviews
(S07E22) This may not have been the way
Gilmore Girls was originally supposed to end, but, as it turned out, it was a pretty good way for it to go out.
When I think about it, ending the show in such a "rip off the Band-Aid" fashion was best for everyone, including the fans. We had only two weeks to cope with the show's departure, knowing that the finale was already shot and ready to go. Nothing we could do or say was going to change how we were going to leave Lorelai, Rory, Luke, and the rest of the folks in the
Gilmore world. Because of that, there was no speculation, no guessing. And there were also no grand moments, supreme life changes, and the obligatory scenes of someone looking back on an empty room before turning out the lights. It was very understated. And very satisfying.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: Bon Voyage (series finale)
Posted May 1st 2007 10:42PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Gilmore Girls, Episode Reviews
(S07E20) I really find it hard to feel sorry for Rory Gilmore. Yes, she grew up without a father for the most part, and for much of her young life, she and her mother Lorelai struggled to keep their heads above water. But, for the most part. Rory has been able to achieve whatever she's set her mind to achieving. Until now, of course.
There are worse things that can happen to a person than not getting a
New York Times internship: dismemberment, irritable bowel syndrome, bad haircuts, and at least a couple of other things. But she's gotten so much in her life that not having a job when she graduates seems like a complete disaster to her.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: Lorelai? Lorelai?
Posted Mar 6th 2007 10:34PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, The CW
(S07E17) When Dawn Ostroff, the CW's president of entertainment, was doing her "state of the network" press tour session in January, she said this about
Gilmore Girls: "(David Rosenthal) was painted into a corner into with a storyline that he got out of. The second half of the season is much stronger, and I think viewers will be surprised."
I scoffed a little when she said that; nothing about the season to that point had suggested that the show was going to improve. But I've got to hand it to Rosenthal and company; the show has been on an upward trend, giving us about a month's worth of entertaining episodes that, while not quite up to the level of the show's creative peak, certainly give me hope that the show won't go out with a whimper, whether it's this season or next.
The key? Keep the Gilmore girls together. All three of them.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: Gilmore Girls Only
Posted Feb 27th 2007 10:25PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, The CW
(S07E16) This was a fun one. After all that had gone on over the course of this season -- the gnashing of teeth over the Lorelai/Chris pairing, the stresses of the Rory/Logan relationship, Luke's custody battle, Lor's and Chris' break-up, and Richard Gilmore's bypass --
Gilmore Girls fans needed an episode like this. It was light and fluffy and completely angst-free.
Well, except for Logan. But there needed to be some angst in his life, as the Logan we've been seeing for the last few weeks has been very... well, he's been very un-Logan-like lately. In other words, he's been the perfect boyfriend to Rory. You know
that had to end eventually.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?
Posted Jan 23rd 2007 9:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, The CW
(S07E11) When I was out in LA, I ran into a few members of the
Gilmore Girls cast at the various network parties. Whenever I brought up the topic of whether there's going to be another season or not, the answer I got didn't seem to vary much. It wasn't definitive by any means, but the general feeling was that, yes, we're probably seeing the last episodes of the long-running show.
That's a good thing, folks. While episodes like tonight's had quite a bit of the chemistry of the first five-plus seasons, you just know that it's not going to last. But at least we're seeing some peeks into what we might see in the second half of the year, and it certainly looks like the Chris/Lor 'shippers are going to be disappointed.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: Santa's Secret Stuff
Posted Nov 14th 2006 10:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, The CW
(S07E07) Thanks for ruining things, Mike.
I'm talking to Mike Ausiello,
TV Guide's resident
Gilmore Girls fan and spoiler king. Because he had well-placed moles over at
GG (he was an extra there, after all), he revealed a big-ass plot point from this episode a few weeks ago, and by the time it wrapped around the Internets, even spoiler-averse people like me knew what was going to happen tonight. So the surprise wasn't there at all.
(By the way, I like Mike. Even
interviewed him once. Nice fella. But he's gotten so big that it's hard to avoid his spoilers, even if you want to.)
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: French Twist
Posted Oct 3rd 2006 9:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, The CW
(S07E02) Holy out-of-character, Batman!
This is what fans were afraid was going to happen during the new Rosenthal regime: a slowish episode where people do and say things that no one has ever seen or heard them do, punctuated by forced "classic
Gilmore" dialogue that neither flowed right nor made much sense in the context of the episode.
I've got to say, I was immensely let down here, in more ways than one. How many ways, exactly? Well, right now I can count five:
1. Predictability - As soon as the cold open started and we saw Luke driving in his truck with a map in his hand, we knew exactly what was going to happen.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopie
Posted Apr 18th 2006 11:36PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Programming, OpEd, WB, Gilmore Girls
(S06E19) While I was watching
this episode, I noticed something weird. Every one of the main female characters in this episode (well, except for Mrs.
Kim) looked absolutely radiant. Keiko Agena looked beautiful. Alexis Bledel looked beautiful. Lauren Graham looked
especially beautiful.
Was it the way the episode was shot? Different make-up artists and hair stylists?
Nope, it wasn't any of that stuff. Know why everyone looked so good?
They were all smiling.
Continue reading Gilmore Girls: I Get a Sidekick Out of You
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