New Internet = TV Galore!

So my new internet was activated Monday, meaning I was able to start downloading my shows straight away this week –which is awesome as the family internet has been slowed! It means I don't have to pick and choose my shows anymore too!

So this week we started with a rather so so ep of In Plain Sight. Overall it wasn’t the greatest ep, it was just lacking something...I’m not sure what exactly. Maybe it was that Josh Malina wasn’t in it this week. Who knows.

Then there was the season 2 premiere of Rizzoli and Isles yesterday, I gotta admit I got hooked on that show. Sasha Alexander is so entertaining in it! They have some crazy dialogue on that show. 

I finally watched new Weeds and The Big C tonight. Firstly, I’m not loving Weeds...but its slowly getting better, as it does every season. Hunter Parish in a giant clear inflatable ball in his underwear was interesting....I’m also liking grown up Shane. But how does Nancy still manage to make those coffee drinks to carry around, like she has since the beginning?! Crazy.

The Big C is a fun show. But I’m not used to Cynthia Nixon as a blonde...I know that’s her natural hair color and all, but she just looks weird without the red...but at least she doesn’t have the old Miranda haircut. Haha.

That’s pretty much the tv for the week...I hate that its all at the start of the week over summer. I’ve been watching the last few eps of Cougar Town in the meantime. Still got a few left, the last few haven’t been as funny as the older ones were.

In other tv news, the nominations for this years Emmys come out Thursday night, so that’ll be interesting to see who gets one. I hope Martha Plimpton, Lauren Graham and KaDee Strickland get nods, but they are long shots, well at least Lauren and KaDee are. But they both had stellar seasons.

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Carlie

Alias Revisited

So after many signs and finishing re-watching the whole of Brothers & Sisters, I felt the need to re-watch Alias from the beginning. I haven’t watched it since I got season 5 in 2008.

Firstly it looks SO weird on the big screen... Victor Garber’s face was not meant for such a big screen! Haha.

And I know I’ve watched Alias to many times, and the commentaries, when I can watch the pilot and season 1 finale without the commentary, but hear it in my head anyways! But it is still one of my all time fave shows, and had some of the best commentaries of any show past or present! I plan to go back and watch them all (or at least the cast ones) once I’m done.

Season 1 is awesome, but I’ve seen it the most, so it is easier to multitask to, until one of my fave parts comes up. My fave season one alias’ are, Victoria King, and Christiana Stephens.
Season 2 is perhaps my fave season, it’s the one I really got into the show, and since I only saw the finale of season 1 on tv, where I really fell in love with it! It also has some of the best eps. Phase One is awesome, not only did they take down SD-6 and the Alliance, but Syd and Vaughn finally made out!

My fave season 2 alias, and perhaps all-time fave alias is the one that Sydney makes out of stuff she buys at the Rite-Aid drugstore, turning herself into a blonde sorority girl with a skirt made out of contact paper – in order to escape the CIA tail.

The sad part about re-watching it all, is that I only can remember bits and pieces about what is happened in the last 3 seasons...I remembered a lot of season 3, but now I’m into season 4 and for the most part I have no idea what is coming, with a few exceptions here and there. Its kinda fun, because its almost like new, but also sad, cause I feel like I should remember.

What I’m finding interesting is that now 10 years later, Bradley Cooper is now this big movie star...I mean Jennifer has done okay, and the others were pretty big before, but Bradley went from best friend Will, to action/comedy star. I’m sure somewhere out there people who have become obsessed with him, are going back and watching him in Alias and getting hooked on it – like I have with SO many people and shows. It’s a little weird to look at it that way, but at the same time, its nice to know I was there first! –However, I haven’t seen most of his movies :P

A little under 2 seasons to go, and I’m having so much fun. Alias is one of those shows I loved as a teen and way back in the day, but the love is still there....just hidden under all the new stuff! I still get just as much enjoyment out of silly expressions and accents from Jennifer Garner, as I did back in the day! I miss JJ Abrams having tv shows. Alias did cliffhangers, and surprises like no other show! LOST was way too ensemble to have the same heart that Alias had. But I miss JJ tv. He's become all big time movie guy now!

oh and I’m also trying to watch the 3^rd season of Damages, so I’m trying to alternate, but Alias is much easier to watch and not stop. But I’ll get there. 

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Carlie