witches-related stories
Posted Nov 6th 2009 2:08PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E08) "It's not every day a guy turns 162 years old." - Lexi to Stefan on his birthday
What?! Nooooo! They keep bringing in these great characters and then killing them off! Hopefully, they're just stashing the bodies somewhere for a mass resurrection at some point. And, by the way, I totally did not see that coming.
The Vampire Diaries started out great and continues to get better each week. It's so beautifully dark and gloomy. I love the Salvatore's gothic digs, and Stefan is showing considerable restraint at not offing his bad, bad brother Damon.
Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries - 162 Candles
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 30th 2009 3:12PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E07) "So she's a vampire with issues?" - Elena to Stefan about Vicki
Well! In case you haven't watched this week's episode yet, I'll save the big spoiler for after the jump. Suffice to say that things are jumping in
The Vampire Diaries, and for some characters, that's not necessarily a good thing.
I continue to love the show and look forward to it every week (and was seriously bummed when it wasn't on last week!). In a sea of mediocre new shows (well, mediocre to me anyway), that IS a good thing.
Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries - Haunted
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 16th 2009 5:47AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E06) "Everything you know and every belief that you have is about to change. Are you ready for that?" - Stefan to Elena
And to finish that thought ... "I'm a vampire." So Elena knows now; no more speculating or wondering. My first thought was that Elena knows that Stefan is a
good vampire. He even races to tell her: "I would never hurt you. You're safe with me." So why is she so freaked out? Because he's a vampire, of course, and who wouldn't be freaked out by that?
I'm loving
The Vampire Diaries.
Continue reading The Vampire Diaries: Lost Girls
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 9th 2009 4:03AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E05) "I'm not going to be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy." - Elena to Jenna, about Stefan
Ok, well, we'll see about that. Something tells me that by the next episode or two, Elena's world will indeed stop spinning. And then start spinning wildly out of control. She already knows something's up. She already knows in the darkest part of her heart that Stefan is a vampire. She just needs him to confirm it.
Continue reading The Vampire Diaries: You're Undead to Me
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 2nd 2009 5:10AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E04) "How do I fight the monster without becoming one myself?" - Stefan
I know
The Vampire Diaries has been taking a beating from some TV reviewers, but I'm actually loving it so far. A lot of it has to do with bad-vamp Damon, played so deliciously evil by Ian Somerhalder. He's manipulative and just plain scuzzy, but he's also really cute. That's a bad combo for impressionable girls.
At this point, it's hard to imagine that Elena would fall for any of Damon's tricks. Then again, he
did get her to believe that Stefan was actually the manipulative one, dating back to when the two brothers sparred over Katherine. Elena is either really, really stupid or she's being played by a master manipulator in Damon. Maybe a little of both.
Continue reading The Vampire Diaries: Family Ties
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 Oct 30th 2008 1:37PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
It's Halloween, so you know that like most holidays we're seeing more and more TV-related lists. AOL TV has picked
the top 20 witches of all-time.
I have to admit that when I first saw this piece I couldn't even name 20 witches that we've had on television. Sure, I immediately thought of Samantha and Endora on
Bewitched, Willow on
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, Tabitha on
Passions, and the girls from
Charmed, but after that I really had to scratch my head on how they were going to come up with 20. But then I saw that they extended the rules to include witches from cartoons and TV movies, so after that it's probably pretty easy. Though I think it's an easy way out to pick
all the girls from
Charmed.
Witchipoo from
H.R. Pufnstuf is there, as is the girl from
Wizards of Waverly Place. I've never seen this movie
Worst Witch they speak of, but they pick more than one witch from it so maybe it's more well known than I realize. I love the fact they picked Amanda from
Tucker's Witch.
Of course, the list isn't perfect. Nancy Grace isn't on it.
Continue reading Who are the top 20 TV witches of all-time? - VIDEO
Posted Aug 26th 2008 3:44PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free
Remember when rock 'n roll was to blame for teenagers being out of control? What about when John Lennon's quote about The Beatles being as big as Jesus drew the ire of the church and resulted in deejays advocating the destruction of LPs and singles?
Well, here's another missive from an "authority figure" about how pop culture is ruining today's youth. Sociologist Kristin Aune claims that
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is responsible for young women not attending church.
Dr. Aune, who's written
Women and Religion in the West, and is a teacher at the University of Derby (that's in the U.K.), doesn't know if
Buffy has also affected young men. Her research doesn't address if boys are abandoning the church, too, so I guess they're safe.
This is no joke, although it does sound like a good way to promote a book that would otherwise be ignored. Mentioning
Buffy is a good way to let the world know that Dr. Aune wrote it.
Continue reading It's all Buffy's fault!
Posted Mar 4th 2006 10:13AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry
Rose McGowan had been hinting at it in television interviews, but now it looks
like it's official. Charmed will not be making the transition when UPN and the WB merge into the CW. The last show of
the series, which ran for eight seasons, will be May 21. If there's the slightest bit of silver lining to this cloud
hovering over the heads of Charmed fans, it's that the last episode was written as a "series ender" according
to executive producer Brad Kern. At the very least, the series will end with some kind of closure.
Thanks to Cavalera for the tip.
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