this week in tv
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jlhOMG Glee and Justified were both great, weren't they? What a great note to go out on.
Glee, "Journey." I don't think there was a single part of this I didn't like. Flashback to conception of Baby Beth, the glee club being sad, Will going to Emma for advice, Will crying by the side of the road (I cried here too), Finn getting all fired up and Rachel kissing him, Will proposing the Journey medley in the first place, so much Tina/Artie handholding!
And then bam, we're at Regionals, and GROBAN! and the crowd cheering the loudest for Sue, and New Directions being awesome—solo moments for Mercedes and Santana and Puck, and when they started "Don't Stop Believin'" and panned across my personal Fave Four (Artie, Kurt, Mercedes and Tina) I cried watching Will dancing in the wings, ngl, and then omg Quinn's mom.
omg labor! and I want Mercedes with me too (I ship them so hard now) and Puck was hilarious, and then the cutting between that and Vocal Adrenaline was masterful.
Okay tiny thing I didn't like: Shelby saying she'd missed her chance with Rachel. Um, she's right there, lady. She's not an adult. So what if she's not a tiny baby—you can still have a relationship with her! She could still use some fucking guidance!
Anyway the judges were hysterical (GROBAN) and Sue's little heart started growing etc, and then it was very bittersweet but you know, kinda Rocky/Bad News Bears, really.
And then Puck and Quinn and Shelby, and then we're back at school with Emma on the rampage, and Sue getting in her last digs, and then omg, "To Sir With Love" and every single one of them getting a line about how glee club changed them (Mike Chang dancing in his room! my heart!) (except please Finn don't model yourself after Will, try for Burt Hummell) and Artie and Tina singing together (very shippy of them, this episode) and then Sue was crying like the rest of us, and making her last play. And everyone is happy, and Shelby adopts Beth and we will probably never see her again, which is really fine with me.
And then we get another year, only we know we actually get another two years, which is kind of awesome. And then Puck and Will sing Over the Rainbow, which fine, I love it when Puck sings, and then it's the end. And I'm all, awww!
Justified, "Bulletville." This is a horse of an entirely different color, of course. Let's just do this in awesome lines, since I can't give the incredible action choreography justice. It was definitely a season finale, wrapping up so many loose ends and written so tight it was like a freight train steaming down the tracks. This is the kind of storytelling I really enjoy.
Boyd: I just came to say I'm sorry. I will leave now and disturb you no further.
Ava: Sorry about what?
Boyd: So many things that I have done to you.
Ava: Well, I want to hear this.
Boyd: Well, it's hard to know where to begin. I suppose I could start with the last time I saw you. I held you hostage in your own home and I instigated a shoot out in your dining room.
Ava: That didn't end so bad as far as I was concerned.
Raylan: A dozen barrels of ephedrine?
Art: Somebody is going into the meth business in a really big way.
Raylan: Or the folks in Harlan are really, really congested.
Art: Maybe (Boyd) has become some kinda vigilante.
Raylan: Maybe he's Batman.
Art: Maybe we should just look the other way and let him clean up Harlan.
Arlo: How much more do you figure they'll pay me?
Art: (laughs)
Arlo: I'm nothing if not predictable, huh?
Raylan: Like phases of the moon.
Bo: Who am I kidding? I can't hurt my own son. Johnny? Hurt my son.
Bo: We never was as close as we should have been son, but how did it ever come to this?
Boyd: I don't know, Daddy. I guess it's just one of those things.
Boyd: Maybe I've just been talking to myself this whole time.
Arlo: How long you known?
Raylan: Well, Arlo, in truth, I think I've always known.
Arlo: This isn't something I wanted to do, son.
Raylan: No. Don't call me that.
Raylan: You were telling the truth, huh? This conversion.
Boyd: Was I?
Bo: You gonna shoot me son, is that it?
Boyd: Maybe.
It don't really seem right. I had a chance to kill you and I didn't do it.
Boyd: That's where you're wrong, Daddy. There's more than one way to kill a man. You can kill his physical body, or you can kill his spirit within.
Bo: You gonna pull the trigger, or you gonna talk me to death?
(Bo is killed by a sniper.)
Raylan: Just got your man out back. That leaves three of us and only two of you. You start walking, and we'll hold our fire.
(The house is sprayed with bullets.)
Raylan: You didn't happen to bring your rocket launcher, did you?
Boyd: I didn't think to pack one.
Woman outside: All we want is Raylan Givens!
Raylan: I'm Raylan Givens!
Boyd: No, I'm Raylan Givens!
Raylan: You tryin' to be funny?
Boyd: A little.
Woman outside: We get Givens, the other two can walk!
Boyd: I ain't goin' anywhere. They killed my daddy.
Raylan: You came here to kill your daddy yourself
Boyd: Well, that's different.
Boyd: You gonna shoot to stop me?
Raylan: Maybe.
Boyd: I'm pretty sure you're empty
Raylan: You gonna bet your life on that?
Boyd: No, Raylan, I'm gonna bet my life on you being the only friend I have left in this world.
Top Chef Masters finale. You know, I didn't like Marcus much all the way through the competition; I found him kind of annoying. But I got a little worried when some of the diners were reacting, honestly but not entirely positively, to his Ethiopian dish, because if he was going to get hosed over people's palates not being up to it I was going to be annoyed. But he wasn't, so I was glad he won.
Coulda done with the sound guys turning the mike down on the ululating, though.
Glee, "Journey." I don't think there was a single part of this I didn't like. Flashback to conception of Baby Beth, the glee club being sad, Will going to Emma for advice, Will crying by the side of the road (I cried here too), Finn getting all fired up and Rachel kissing him, Will proposing the Journey medley in the first place, so much Tina/Artie handholding!
And then bam, we're at Regionals, and GROBAN! and the crowd cheering the loudest for Sue, and New Directions being awesome—solo moments for Mercedes and Santana and Puck, and when they started "Don't Stop Believin'" and panned across my personal Fave Four (Artie, Kurt, Mercedes and Tina) I cried watching Will dancing in the wings, ngl, and then omg Quinn's mom.
omg labor! and I want Mercedes with me too (I ship them so hard now) and Puck was hilarious, and then the cutting between that and Vocal Adrenaline was masterful.
Okay tiny thing I didn't like: Shelby saying she'd missed her chance with Rachel. Um, she's right there, lady. She's not an adult. So what if she's not a tiny baby—you can still have a relationship with her! She could still use some fucking guidance!
Anyway the judges were hysterical (GROBAN) and Sue's little heart started growing etc, and then it was very bittersweet but you know, kinda Rocky/Bad News Bears, really.
And then Puck and Quinn and Shelby, and then we're back at school with Emma on the rampage, and Sue getting in her last digs, and then omg, "To Sir With Love" and every single one of them getting a line about how glee club changed them (Mike Chang dancing in his room! my heart!) (except please Finn don't model yourself after Will, try for Burt Hummell) and Artie and Tina singing together (very shippy of them, this episode) and then Sue was crying like the rest of us, and making her last play. And everyone is happy, and Shelby adopts Beth and we will probably never see her again, which is really fine with me.
And then we get another year, only we know we actually get another two years, which is kind of awesome. And then Puck and Will sing Over the Rainbow, which fine, I love it when Puck sings, and then it's the end. And I'm all, awww!
Justified, "Bulletville." This is a horse of an entirely different color, of course. Let's just do this in awesome lines, since I can't give the incredible action choreography justice. It was definitely a season finale, wrapping up so many loose ends and written so tight it was like a freight train steaming down the tracks. This is the kind of storytelling I really enjoy.
Boyd: I just came to say I'm sorry. I will leave now and disturb you no further.
Ava: Sorry about what?
Boyd: So many things that I have done to you.
Ava: Well, I want to hear this.
Boyd: Well, it's hard to know where to begin. I suppose I could start with the last time I saw you. I held you hostage in your own home and I instigated a shoot out in your dining room.
Ava: That didn't end so bad as far as I was concerned.
Raylan: A dozen barrels of ephedrine?
Art: Somebody is going into the meth business in a really big way.
Raylan: Or the folks in Harlan are really, really congested.
Art: Maybe (Boyd) has become some kinda vigilante.
Raylan: Maybe he's Batman.
Art: Maybe we should just look the other way and let him clean up Harlan.
Arlo: How much more do you figure they'll pay me?
Art: (laughs)
Arlo: I'm nothing if not predictable, huh?
Raylan: Like phases of the moon.
Bo: Who am I kidding? I can't hurt my own son. Johnny? Hurt my son.
Bo: We never was as close as we should have been son, but how did it ever come to this?
Boyd: I don't know, Daddy. I guess it's just one of those things.
Boyd: Maybe I've just been talking to myself this whole time.
Arlo: How long you known?
Raylan: Well, Arlo, in truth, I think I've always known.
Arlo: This isn't something I wanted to do, son.
Raylan: No. Don't call me that.
Raylan: You were telling the truth, huh? This conversion.
Boyd: Was I?
Bo: You gonna shoot me son, is that it?
Boyd: Maybe.
It don't really seem right. I had a chance to kill you and I didn't do it.
Boyd: That's where you're wrong, Daddy. There's more than one way to kill a man. You can kill his physical body, or you can kill his spirit within.
Bo: You gonna pull the trigger, or you gonna talk me to death?
(Bo is killed by a sniper.)
Raylan: Just got your man out back. That leaves three of us and only two of you. You start walking, and we'll hold our fire.
(The house is sprayed with bullets.)
Raylan: You didn't happen to bring your rocket launcher, did you?
Boyd: I didn't think to pack one.
Woman outside: All we want is Raylan Givens!
Raylan: I'm Raylan Givens!
Boyd: No, I'm Raylan Givens!
Raylan: You tryin' to be funny?
Boyd: A little.
Woman outside: We get Givens, the other two can walk!
Boyd: I ain't goin' anywhere. They killed my daddy.
Raylan: You came here to kill your daddy yourself
Boyd: Well, that's different.
Boyd: You gonna shoot to stop me?
Raylan: Maybe.
Boyd: I'm pretty sure you're empty
Raylan: You gonna bet your life on that?
Boyd: No, Raylan, I'm gonna bet my life on you being the only friend I have left in this world.
Top Chef Masters finale. You know, I didn't like Marcus much all the way through the competition; I found him kind of annoying. But I got a little worried when some of the diners were reacting, honestly but not entirely positively, to his Ethiopian dish, because if he was going to get hosed over people's palates not being up to it I was going to be annoyed. But he wasn't, so I was glad he won.
Coulda done with the sound guys turning the mike down on the ululating, though.
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Date: 2010-06-10 04:07 am (UTC)Glee left me completely satisfied too. There are moments when I want to slap Will's head but I felt so much for him when he started crying in the car. I wanted ND to lose to VA because VA definitely did seem better, but I do want ND to win more than Sectionals next season.
Did you see that moment with Mercedes, Quinn, and Kurt? OMG, I think I flailed at my screen and made an embarrassingly high pitched noise. I have a thing for friendships.
Even if Quinn does move back with her mom, I want so much fic of her and Mercedes building a friendship. Season 2 better not retconn that either. I'll be so upset.
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Date: 2010-06-10 03:44 pm (UTC)I did see that moment! I'm all about Mercedes and Quinn, for reals. Hopefully after a moment like the delivery room they won't be able to just walk away from that.
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Date: 2010-06-15 01:50 am (UTC)I wasn't unhappy about ND losing Regionals, cos knowing there's more to come it would be too early for that in their arc, and would have sent them to Nationals at a time when there was no more season left to show that.
I LOVED that Sue's strong feeling about who should be in third place was about VA.
I'd been expecting Shelby to adopt Beth ever since a couple weeks ago when she told Will that she really wanted her baby girl back. I got the sense she doesn't feel up to dealing with Rachel as an adolescent, that she didn't even want Rachel per se at all, as much as "my baby back," and once she got that sorted, she just wanted a baby, that's all. So as long as Shelby's totally unprepared/unwilling to be any kind of figure in Rachel's life, I'm as happy having her out of it.
My housemate was saying she was a bit surprised Quinn was willing to have Shelby adopt Beth, given the VA rivalry. I hand-wave that as Quinn trusting Shelby a little more than a stranger cos of her being Rachel's birthmom.
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Date: 2010-06-19 03:47 pm (UTC)I totally agree. I just felt like the show was a little too easy on her about that. Will was just like, "oh, you want a baby, not a teenager!" and I thought, "well, but that's kinda shitty, right?" But you know, this show, not really all about the realism, so I'm over it and willing to chalk that up to a bit of overidentification. And yeah, I can see Quinn being more willing to give her kid to someone she knows even if the whole thing was very "tv-ending." I'm willing to give Glee all the glib tv-endings they want.
I was definitely prepared for them to not win, it was just sad in the moment. But it was fair, and I was glad they showed us VA because VA really was better.