this week in tv
Mar. 13th, 2011 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhGlee, "Sexy." So I'm feeling like I'm really just watching this show for the singing and dancing, and really, really not for all the other stuff going on.
That said, I am really glad they resolved the whole Brittany/Santana love thing. I loved Blaine talking to Burt and knowing what a carburetor is (and can we get some Kurt and Blaine bond over cars fic?) and then Burt talking to Kurt ("we'll get through it together and we'll both be better men because of it.") and how Mike O'Malley and Chris Colfer have started picking up some of each other's mannerisms. I liked Gwyneth's side pony in the jazzercise class, Blaine's first encounter with Sue Sylvester, and Coach Bieste making up her own dirty joke while Emma was talking, and Puck admiring the linens in a sex tape.
As for the tunes, nice to see Kurt singing co-lead on a Warblers song, even though he was being deeply silly. The Kiss tango was awful—if a football player can dance a pretty good tango after a week of rehearsals then we should have seen better dancing; also I hate when the extras aren't the other Glee kids. I don't know why Santana didn't just sing the lead on Landslide, other than just that she was afraid she'd cry. Afternoon Delight was awesome mostly for Puck because he's so great. But the less said about that rock thing, the better.
White Collar: "Under the Radar." One of the reasons that White Collar, for all that I adore it, isn't as good a show as Castle, even though Castle gets a lot of disparagement, is that the plots on White Collar just aren't as tight, and they aren't as good balancing an ongoing mystery (Kate's death vs Beckett's mom's death) with the week to week stuff. Some of the events in tonight's ep should have been in the previous ep, clearly. And the original scheme was way too complicated to have been set in motion by one man (Alex's grandfather). I didn't mind the whole Nazi pillaging thing, because they stole a lot of art. But the resolution of it was ultimately a let down.
That said, I'm really surprised how much I'm still enjoying Neal and Sara. Usually when a new character is brought in to be a challenging love interest for a main character, especially when that main character has an ongoing bromance or two, it's clunky and horrible. But Sara feels very organic to me—someone who was brought in for one episode to be a thorn in Neal's side, but the actors had chemistry so they ran with it. I like that she doesn't let Neal get away with shit, but while she's firm she isn't a jerk about it either. I like that Mozzie wants to warn Sara, but she's already on to the way Neal is. I'm really looking forward to her being a recurring or regular character next season.
Meanwhile I really love Peter and Neal setting up cons and breaking safes together, and also Peter heavily shipping Neal and Sara. I didn't think the dinner double date was about setting up parallels; I thought it was Peter's way of saying to Neal "you could have this life too" which is something he says all the time in one way or another. I feel like it actually brought Sara and Neal closer because neither of them want that particular kind of domestic bliss. But then both Peter and El said, well, you find the bliss that you want.
For the record, I think Alex and Mozzie stole the treasure. Neal calls it Alex's birthright; she'd never let it go. And Mozzie definitely knew where Neal's paintings were stored. Can't wait until the summer for season 3!
Top Chef: "Island Fever."I can't watch the show live because I'm too freaked out. I watch the opener of Justified, then watch the Quickfire, then go back to Justified and watch it all the way through, then spoil myself for Top Chef; then and only then can I watch the episode.
This week felt like a miss and not just because my darling Carla was sent home, but because the "beat the chef who beat you" wasn't as great as it should have been (Hosea, you'll never prove anything to the haters). The secret ingredients were not that interesting, and then the chefs were just … gone. The switch on the elimination challenge wasn't that exciting either, especially as it was totally undermined by all the chefs being able to re-shop and re-prep because of the fire.
I find it strange how consistently Mike underestimates Antonia's competitive nature, but I can't imagine that Tiffany is going to last that much longer. Having three elimination episodes is a bit of a slog—we really should have had a double elimination this week—and I'm hoping that next week is a little more interesting than this week was. I hope that Mike doesn't win, though, because he's such an ass.
Justified: "Cottonmouth." So I was trying to figure out the other day why I love his show, when usually lean more toward shows like White Collar. Dark shit happens on this show. And yet, it's really, really funny. (BSG? Never funny.) And the characters that we care about—Boyd, Raylan, Ava, Winona, Art, Rachel, Tim—are probably not going to suddenly die out of nowhere.
So when Raylan and Boyd were talking about unrelated matters and Raylan wished Boyd good luck in dealing with the outlaws he got himself mixed up with, man, that was intense, as was Raylan going to Loretta with the pager. And damn, MAGS. I mean, those boys were being really stupid, and they clearly shouldn't have gone behind their momma's back, but damn.
That said, I am really glad they resolved the whole Brittany/Santana love thing. I loved Blaine talking to Burt and knowing what a carburetor is (and can we get some Kurt and Blaine bond over cars fic?) and then Burt talking to Kurt ("we'll get through it together and we'll both be better men because of it.") and how Mike O'Malley and Chris Colfer have started picking up some of each other's mannerisms. I liked Gwyneth's side pony in the jazzercise class, Blaine's first encounter with Sue Sylvester, and Coach Bieste making up her own dirty joke while Emma was talking, and Puck admiring the linens in a sex tape.
As for the tunes, nice to see Kurt singing co-lead on a Warblers song, even though he was being deeply silly. The Kiss tango was awful—if a football player can dance a pretty good tango after a week of rehearsals then we should have seen better dancing; also I hate when the extras aren't the other Glee kids. I don't know why Santana didn't just sing the lead on Landslide, other than just that she was afraid she'd cry. Afternoon Delight was awesome mostly for Puck because he's so great. But the less said about that rock thing, the better.
White Collar: "Under the Radar." One of the reasons that White Collar, for all that I adore it, isn't as good a show as Castle, even though Castle gets a lot of disparagement, is that the plots on White Collar just aren't as tight, and they aren't as good balancing an ongoing mystery (Kate's death vs Beckett's mom's death) with the week to week stuff. Some of the events in tonight's ep should have been in the previous ep, clearly. And the original scheme was way too complicated to have been set in motion by one man (Alex's grandfather). I didn't mind the whole Nazi pillaging thing, because they stole a lot of art. But the resolution of it was ultimately a let down.
That said, I'm really surprised how much I'm still enjoying Neal and Sara. Usually when a new character is brought in to be a challenging love interest for a main character, especially when that main character has an ongoing bromance or two, it's clunky and horrible. But Sara feels very organic to me—someone who was brought in for one episode to be a thorn in Neal's side, but the actors had chemistry so they ran with it. I like that she doesn't let Neal get away with shit, but while she's firm she isn't a jerk about it either. I like that Mozzie wants to warn Sara, but she's already on to the way Neal is. I'm really looking forward to her being a recurring or regular character next season.
Meanwhile I really love Peter and Neal setting up cons and breaking safes together, and also Peter heavily shipping Neal and Sara. I didn't think the dinner double date was about setting up parallels; I thought it was Peter's way of saying to Neal "you could have this life too" which is something he says all the time in one way or another. I feel like it actually brought Sara and Neal closer because neither of them want that particular kind of domestic bliss. But then both Peter and El said, well, you find the bliss that you want.
For the record, I think Alex and Mozzie stole the treasure. Neal calls it Alex's birthright; she'd never let it go. And Mozzie definitely knew where Neal's paintings were stored. Can't wait until the summer for season 3!
Top Chef: "Island Fever."I can't watch the show live because I'm too freaked out. I watch the opener of Justified, then watch the Quickfire, then go back to Justified and watch it all the way through, then spoil myself for Top Chef; then and only then can I watch the episode.
This week felt like a miss and not just because my darling Carla was sent home, but because the "beat the chef who beat you" wasn't as great as it should have been (Hosea, you'll never prove anything to the haters). The secret ingredients were not that interesting, and then the chefs were just … gone. The switch on the elimination challenge wasn't that exciting either, especially as it was totally undermined by all the chefs being able to re-shop and re-prep because of the fire.
I find it strange how consistently Mike underestimates Antonia's competitive nature, but I can't imagine that Tiffany is going to last that much longer. Having three elimination episodes is a bit of a slog—we really should have had a double elimination this week—and I'm hoping that next week is a little more interesting than this week was. I hope that Mike doesn't win, though, because he's such an ass.
Justified: "Cottonmouth." So I was trying to figure out the other day why I love his show, when usually lean more toward shows like White Collar. Dark shit happens on this show. And yet, it's really, really funny. (BSG? Never funny.) And the characters that we care about—Boyd, Raylan, Ava, Winona, Art, Rachel, Tim—are probably not going to suddenly die out of nowhere.
So when Raylan and Boyd were talking about unrelated matters and Raylan wished Boyd good luck in dealing with the outlaws he got himself mixed up with, man, that was intense, as was Raylan going to Loretta with the pager. And damn, MAGS. I mean, those boys were being really stupid, and they clearly shouldn't have gone behind their momma's back, but damn.
