Blog sites are filled with comments - both pro and con - on how Dexter played out this season. I can only say, the predictions I gave weren’t a spoiler because I hadn’t seen the final episodes, but I was right on. Lila - as annoying as Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s little sister Dawn - just had to go. She was ruining his control, and would likely have ruined his life. As for Doakes, would Dex have finished him off if Lila hadn’t conveniently done it for him? I like to think not. I’m sorry he’s gone. It would have been so much more interesting had he killed Lila and gone on the run, another hanger-on for next season’s plotline. So where is Dexter going in Season 3? I suspect [Read more →]

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by WindUpDoll

So naturally, there will be no recap today. I didn’t watch the old episodes; instead I watched Ninja Warrior on G4. If you haven’t watched it, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Happy Holidays everyone!

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Posted by Sarah

Old Man Samuels is on the floor of his office, oozing blood as Alex tries to grasp what’s just happened. Alex calls 911 and puts his coat around Samuels and tries to stop the bleeding, but of course it’s not doing anything. Alex: “I want you to make it so you can rot in prison for arson and the attempted murder of my son.” OMS: “I’ll die happy knowing you didn’t get the satisfaction of killing me.” Alex: “I hope it hurts, Joe. I hope it hurts, real bad, all the way down.” Old Man Samuels dies, and then the cops bust in and tell Alex to get his hands up. “I didn’t do it!” They confiscate the gun he’s carrying, the one he borrowed from Santo, and he tells them it’s fully loaded, no shots fired, “And while you are wasting time frisking me, the real killer is getting his ass away!” Cop-voiced cop isn’t amused when Alex tells him why he came to the house, especially when they find Alex’s REAL gun on the premises. The gun from Alex’s safe. Alex is hauled down to the station for questioning, and the game is afoot …

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This week gave us a more exciting episode — airport suspense, physically challenging (and possibly dangerous) tasks and teammates hating on each other. That’s the kind of stuff that makes us love Amazing Race!

TK and Rachel came in first last week so they leave the Pit Stop in Vilnius, Lithuania at 1am with $109 for this leg of the race. They must make their way to the airport and fly to Dubrovnik, Croatia, to find the Fort of St. Lawrence. Kynt & Vyxsin leave next followed closely by the other teams. Nicolas & Donald are last, leaving at 1:42am. All the teams are less than an hour apart and headed toward the airport so there is a lot of potential for a change in the order.

Michelle: I sure hope Nicolas & Donald can get ahead, I’m not ready to say goodbye to Grandpa Don yet!
Note: Bex is out on assignment, scouting locations for next season. She will return for the Dec. 23 episode recap.

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Posted by Zhillbear

To give you an idea of how bad a contestant I would be on Survivor: I get exhausted merely from watching the two-hour finale and hourlong reunion show. The final four reflecting on their journey, the tribute to the fallen Survivors, the endurance challenge, the agonizing decision of who to take to the finals, the grueling interrogations at the final Tribal Council, Jeff Probst asking our burning questions (and leaving some unasked) at the reunion show — I’m left feeling drained and a little overheated and queasy. It’s as if parking myself in front of the TV and shushing my husband for three hours is as close to being in a marathon as I’ll ever get.

Amanda wins the reward challenge (which involved forming a bridge to collect puzzle blocks to assemble into part of a miniature Great Wall … otherwise known as just a big wall), and gets a meal of pizza, beer, soda and brownies. She can eat it by herself, invite one person, or invite two people (so whatever she chooses, someone will be left out). She chooses to just invite Todd because she doesn’t trust him and wants to have a chance to chat to make sure they’re both still committed to sticking together. (The life lesson here: Be untrustworthy, and people will give you food.)

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Posted by Zhillbear

Maybe it’s because I’m relatively new at this blogging thang, but I admit to getting a kick out of checking the blog stats for me and my fellow Channel Guide bloggers. It’s interesting to see which of my postings get lots of hits and which of my brilliant musings get barely a glance. In particular, I’m amazed (and humbled) at how many hits have come from people searching with words pertaining to Amanda and her butt (which, by the way, once again attained blurry glory in this episode, and often). So as I approach the end of my first Survivor blogging season, I just want to say to all those searchers, with my deepest sincerity: survivor amanda butt blur china.

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by WindUpDoll

I’m seriously ready for some drama tonight. We’ve been given a glimmer of hope that we find out what the drama is with Jack. We begin the episode with Jack discussing a sore that he thought was a zit, but by the way it’s growing, it’s definitely not a zit. Apparently he has had staph infections in the past, and he’s hoping that this is not one of them. I can’t blame him. It’s a nasty thing to have.

But first, it’s model selection time. There’s this really weird shadow behind the Project Runway logo. What appears is a group of rather ordinary-looking woman. Steven wonders if these are people’s relatives, but he realizes that he doesn’t know any of them.

Heidi ends the suspense. This week’s models are women who’ve all lost a significant amount of weight. They introduce themselves and say how much weight they’ve lost, which in some cases is staggering. The models are wearing their favorite outfits from their pre-weight loss life, so they are comically huge on these women now. The designers’ task is to create a new outfit from these old clothes.
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by WindUpDoll

There’s a lot of crying in this episode. A lot. Weepy, weepy, weepy ’cause the girls LOVE each other and everything is all warm & fuzzy. Blech, I mean, snooze.

This is the episode where we all know what’s going to happen. There will be a Cover Girl ad. There will be a runway show. Tyra will ask the girls who is the strongest and who is the weakest. This is just the way Tyra has decreed it, and it shall be so.

No surprises, we begin with Saleisha marveling at how marvelous it is to be in the top 3. All 3 girls discuss in various ways of how it would suck to go home right now. Then, while the girls are in getting ready for the Cover Girl shoot, Jaslene appears! Squeal! She gives the ‘my life is so different now’ speech & gives the basic pep talk. You go Jaslene! I wasn’t paying too much attention to what she was saying, but I’m sure it was inspirational, and perky.

Chantal thinks she’s a Cover Girl because she’s perky & loves life. She does ok with the commercial & photo. Then Jenah struggles to get the words out, almost getting the cue cards. Saleisha is confident… until she gets in front of the camera. She has to walk off set to compose herself before she’s finally able to pull the commercial out. We then see all 3 girls posing with fruit and BAM we’re at panel.
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Posted by Sarah

A two-hour event for a drama series? I think they were just making up for the fact that last week they were bumped in favor of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The reason I think so is that the first episode was a standalone. It had nothing to do with the major plot arc: a hurricane hit, Santo was left to watch Alex’s youngest, Alex’s house got broken into by looters and lots of gunpointing and table-turning ensued, and Henry went to the distillery to check on Terry only to find her with her Australian husband (she’s married? Oh.). By the end of the show, Terry and her man are no longer together, and we find out that Santo had a son who was lost at sea as they were crossing from Cuba to the States.

The SECOND episode picked up where we left off last time. Jaime’s wedding day is here, and he tells his parents that when he ships out, he wants Rebecca to live with them. Of course, they agree, and they let a little secret slip: They eloped, too, and had the big fat Cuban wedding just to please their own parents. Aw, a family tradition …

Back at the Samuels’ place, the Old Man fires the PI because he’s really botched his job. Instead of demonizing Alex, he’s let Alex demonize the Samuels, and has cost them millions of dollars in fines because of the investigation into their illegal land holdings. The PI points out that Old Man Samuels still owes him 45 grand for his work, but the Old Man dismisses him. Ellis comes in and tells her daddy that some developers are offering to buy their land, and her daddy replies with “They can kiss my cracker ass.” Then he gets all creepy, calling Ellis “Swamp trash” and talking about the bond between himself and Ellis, a bond that was “consecrated years ago.” Do we want to know? I doubt it.

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Posted by Mike

Over the past few seasons of How I Met Your Mother, Barney has taught us a lot of things about dating — the Lemon Law, the Crazy/Hot Scale, etc. But now we find out that one lesson stands above all others: that of the Platinum Rule. The Platinum Rule takes the Golden Rule — which Barney incorrectly thinks is “Love thy neighbor” — and extends it to the next level: “Never ever, ever, ever love thy neighbor.”

Ted’s decision to date Dr. Stella Zinman, the woman who has been removing his butterfly tramp stamp, is the catalyst for Barney’s explanation of the rule, which is aided by testimonials from Robin, Lily and Marshall — who, like Barney, have all broken the Platinum Rule in the past. Robin, when she dated her station’s sports guy, Kurt “The Iron Man” Irons; Marshall and Lily, when they made friends with their charades-loving neighbors, the Gerards; and Barney, when he dated Wendy the waitress from McLaren’s.

Ted is busy fixing his hair for his date, which gives Barney time to run down the eight steps that occur when one breaks the Platinum Rule. They are as follows:

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