Back to Normal...Almost

So last week was a super slow TV week. Hardly anything was on, Parenthood was on, but hardly had any Lauren Graham, which made me sad.

This week most things are back, but some shows will not be returning till next year. Boo :(

I was excited to have Once Upon a Time back. I just LOVE that show, more for seeing what they do with the fairytales, than the actual characters, but its all good.

Parenthood was good this week. I found myself actually feeling bad for Haddie....which is odd, since I don't like her much, but she deserved sympathy in this week's ep. I don't know why, but I found the scenes with Sarah and baby Nora odd....not bad, just weird. Found myself not caring much about the Crosby storyline...so nothing different there....
Yay for Kristina going back to work, and getting something else to do.

Glee overall was good. The Puck and Shelby stuff still weirds me out....and Idina's song wasn't great this week...which was a pity, cause I actually liked all the other songs. Yay for The Beast! I liked her storyline...also cause it gave Emma a bit more to do....Emma really needs more going on.

Raising Hope was back on track this week. I enjoyed it muchly. The New Girl, however, is losing me more and more...yet I feel I can't quit it....and I don't know why.

Good stuff coming up later in the week. Can't wait for Katie Finneran's new show tomorrow!

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-Carlie

Glee - Good or Bad?

3 Episodes into the 3rd season, and I still have no idea whether I still like this show or not!

Things I Like:

• Plenty of Emma! Including character development!
• Less Rachel. I enjoyed the quote from Mercedes about it being the Rachel Berry show! I'm so sick of her, so I'm enjoying having songs and stories about the others.
• Idina being back. Although she was kinda wasted in the last ep.
• I like that they are starting to bring back the group songs, with lines for almost everyone! - That's part of what I loved about season 1. Group songs are better than solo after solo.

Things I Don't Like:

• Quinn's new 'tude...BORING!
• Sue....she may as well be gone...they ruined her character too early, and now she's just annoying when she's being evil...ish
• Too much Britney...sorry but I miss the days when she was just quirky and didn't sing so much...they autotune her and it sounds awfully fake.

Well I guess time will tell as to whether the show is still worth watching. But for now, I cannot quit...not while Idina is around anyways.- Damn my dedication!

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Carlie

TV IS BACK!!!!

Some of the shows started up last week, and some started this week...and some don't start till next week, but its all coming back now and I'm feeling good.

Parenthood started back last week...and there were some HILARIOUS dancing scenes. They brought back Adam and 'the fever'. They've also brought back Jason Ritter, who I just love, and him and Lauren have really good chemistry!

Yesterday I watched new Glee and Raising Hope (and Parenthood and The Big C) on my fancy new WD TV live media player...which is SO awesome. Got it last weekend, and it plays everything...even the stuff I download off youtube! It'd be fun to watch Puppy Love on the big screen!
I was worried about Raising Hope being less good now that Hope was growing up...but she's still pretty cute. The ep wasn't great, but still good, and I bet will get better.

I'm not sure what to make of Glee. I was prepared to hate it. But I was impressed with all the Emma...which I'm taking to mean - that's all we get for the whole season. Rachel is still kinda annoying, but overall I didn't HATE it. The songs were kinda cool, and there may be hope yet. I dunno...I won't call it quits just yet - Idina Menzel will be back in it next week, so I have NO CHOICE but to keep watching for now anyways.

Modern Family started out okay, the holiday to Wyoming was weird, but entertaining. New grown up Lily is both cute and freaky at the same time...which worries me. But at least she has expressions! We'll see how things go.


Then there are the new shows.

The New Girl - Not sure about it. I love Zooey, but her character seems like she could get annoying on a weekly basis. But I'll keep watching.

Up All Night - I loved the pilot. Ep 2 was not as good, but there were plenty of laughs to be had still. Maya Rudolph is AWESOME! (duh!)

Free Agents - I know I should kinda hate it, but I LOVE it. It makes me laugh. Kathryn Hahn is hilarious! The others are pretty funny. Hank Azaria is great too! Anthony Stewart Head weirds me out though.


Tomorrow sees the return of P-Rex, Community and Grey's Anatomy with a 2 hour premeire...so no PPP till next week, but I'll cope. -Season 4 arrived today!



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Carlie

The PPP on DVD

So since I finished watching 3 seasons of Brothers & Sisters, I gave in on and moved onto PPP which I was going to hold off and wait till I had the 3rd season, but since its never cheap on amazon and I was DYING to watch season 2, I couldn't wait any longer.

Because I could, I started all the way back in the beginning, with the Grey's double. It was SO weird to watch after all this time...Amy, Paul and Chris were all babies! It was so weird to have Merrin Dungey from Alias as Naomi...she just wasn't Audra...I love Audra now!

It was weird to see Stephanie Niznik of Everwood in those eps now...her hair was the wrong color...and she wasn't Nina. Gotta love Nina.

That was Sunday, by sunday evening I had watched 7 eps of the first season. -I couldn't go to bed before watching the ep where Charlotte goes down the rabbit hole. It's THAT good.
Monday I watched the rest of season 1, and started into season 2. Finished off day 2 of PPP-Palooza, having watched the first 4 eps of season 2.
Day 3 saw me watching all the way through to ep 11...and dying to watch ep 12.
22 eps in 3 days...crazy.

One thing that made me laugh about the Grey's set up eps, was the mention of a non-consorting rule in the practice....that didn't last long at all!


Okay so here's the thing, season 1 I watched just after we got back from the US in October. I knew those eps almost inside out, having watched them at least twice before season 2 started...maybe more... But going into season 2 I have found I remember nothing. I mean I knew I didn't remember much, but boy was I right. I remember the ep with Charlotte's dad dying, and the whole Violet/Pete/Sheldon thing, and the finale with Katie, and Charlotte opening the practice downstairs, Joel Grey, and Dell and his kid. But other than that...nothing.
I guess I WAS distracted by a lot of things back when season 2 was starting...Pushing Daisies, Wicked, Kristin, Idina, The West Wing....all of that definately would have taken up a lot of memory space in my head.

I'd forgotten about pregancy scare with Charlotte and Cooper. -See I knew the kid thing had come up with them before, I just couldn't remember how. -But Marjorie and Walter?! -They should not be allowed to NAME children! hah. I'm sure they'll do better when the time comes.
Charlotte in season 2 is like a totally different person to the Charlotte of season 4....okay not really, but the hair, and the outfits (or lack there of...) seem like so long ago, she's grown up in many ways. Charlotte and Cooper as a couple are finally a little more stable in the current season.
Also, I don't remember PPP having such an 80's/90's soundtrack! In the earlier eps I have found so many old songs, almost none of which have any soundtrack potential. -But I have found plenty of other good songs for the soundtrack I'm gonna make when I'm done with the dvds.

Anyways...more comments to come I'm sure. Hopefully I'll find a chance to watch more eps soon. I'm sure I'll be done by the end of the week at this rate!
Yay new eps next week! Not that long now.

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Carlie

Glee - The Finale!

Well.....pretty much all I can say is "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"!


That was a really sweet episode, adorable in fact. -I never thought Glee would make me cry, but it did!

I must say though, 'Journey' was nothing like I expected. I knew it would involve Regionals, and that Quinn would have her baby. ....But I sort of expected a lot more of it to revolve around the Regionals performance than it did.

While I loved the Journey mash-up, it wasn't quite the same as the sectionals performance....it just didn't hit that same spot. -And a whole ep (2 eps...actually, I don't remember the last time we had one) without a Rachel solo! I must say that dissapointed me a little. As glad as I am that they are spreading around the songs, and letting more of them sing -Still waiting for Brittany's turn though, I kinda hoped we'd go out with a big Lea Michele belt! But who am I kidding, I still really loved the ep.
----Just looked it up, there was no technical solo for Rachel in these whole 9 eps...Gives You Hell was the only one, not that Poker Face and I Dreamed a Dream weren't AWESOME, I just like me some proper Rachel solos from time to time! ------

Finally Emma appeared! I know Jayma Mays has been busy filming The Smurfs movie, but still....I've missed me some Emma! And I'm so glad that they all fought to keep Glee club. Even Sue, who it turns out has a soul after all! -Gotta say though, not loving the Glee version of Olivia Newton-John....she's just painful!

Oh and I can't believe they didn't win! I never thought they'd actually lose! Although, kudos to the writers for not making the Glee-world perfect, so that they always win. I was just always in the belief that they would win Regionals, and then maybe lose Nationals....but it was too sad, I mean, I was CRUSHED! However, not that we saw much of the other teams, but I'm not sure they really tried hard enough to win. I mean all season they go on about their numbers and stuff...and then don't pull out the big guns for the performance - Let Brittany dance, let Rachel and Mercedes SING OUT....etc. -Although I totally loved their outfits! Pretty pretty dresses!


Ok...so I was all for Quinn not keeping her baby, because while I loved Spike back in the day (Degrassi Jnr High/Degrassi High), I don't think it would have worked for Quinn to keep her baby. The whole Shelby adopting the baby shocked me - and yet I feel I should have seen it coming (I did once she showed up and all....but still....I even mentioned the whole Shelby/Rachel similarity to Quinn and her baby recently). But I just hope there will be a chance to bring Idina Menzel back, because she rocks and as previously gushed, I love having her on tv, so I get to see her!

Anyways, back to Quinn...I kinda hope she doesn't move back in with her mum....does that make me a bad person? We'll see. Not that I like the idea of Quinn being the Glee Club lost puppy, passed around from home to home, her mum annoys me. Unless her mum is really changing her ways, it might be better off for Quinn to stick with Merecedes - they have formed a very odd and unexpected bond...but I like it.
-Just let Quinn sing more!

Oh and I didn't really care about Jesse's song....I mean I love Bohemian Rapsody, but meh...SO over Jesse. And having that song playing while Quinn gave birth was a little weird...
Oh and so not caring about Rachel and Finn as a couple - I could take it or leave it really. They were being kinda cute though. -I kinda feel the same way about Emma and Will...I like the idea, but don't really care if it happens or not. It might be more fun to find better more suited characters to bring in!

But moving on...When the kids all sang 'To Sir, With Love' it got me all choked up. It was so sweet, and pretty and I loved it! Might be my fave song of the ep. I also loved Mr Schuester's rendition of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'...although I was sorta hoping that Rachel/the Glee Club were gonna sing it....but Matt Morrison with Mark Salling did a great job, and I love that version too! And I love all the interactions between the Glee Club members, showing how far they've come as a group, as friends since the beginning. Quinn more than anyone I guess. But it was very sweet.


I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself until I get to see next season....which probably won't be until after the US trip...I guess I will just have to rewatch all the eps, and listen to the music till I wear it out! Glee I love you, come back soon! :)

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Carlie

Thank Heavens for Glee!

So I'm listening to the latest Glee soundtrack for the umteenth time....and thinking to myself just how glad I am that Glee came into the world!
It all started last year, when I heard about this new show starting about a glee club....back then I had no idea what a Glee club was. -Then I learned it was a musicial show....and those never had a good track record for staying on air. Mostly I paid attention to news of it because it was announced that Kristin Chenoweth was going to guest star....and I'd watch just about anything for Kristin! Victor Garbor guest starring was also another draw card.
So in March or whenver it was that they aired the pilot, we watched it and thought it was interesting, but were not sure how long we'd want to watch it......boy we were fools!

So then in September the rest of the episodes started airing, and within a few eps I was totally hooked! Obsessed even! I loved Rachel, her voice was amazing, and the others slowly became favourites of mine too. I was iffy on Puck, untill he sung 'Sweet Caroline'....I do like guys who can sing :P Even the characters I hated at the beginning have become faves, like Quinn!

I bought the first soundtrack, then the 2nd....and downloaded the songs I liked that were not on the soundtracks. I watched the episodes over and over....I also passed them onto my sister and my mum who both became hooked....in a lesser degree than myself obviously.

So 13 episodes aired, and then there was a long wait for new eps, Sectionals is one of my Glee faves. Lea Michele continues to blow me away week by week!
Finally new episodes aired, and brought Idina Menzel into the Glee-verse, allowing people all over the world to see the awesomeness that is Idina. The same for Kristin...however Kristin has done more movies and TV than Idina. I have loved Idina since I first saw RENT the movie. But there is very little out there to see or hear of her's. Glee has allowed me to get semi-weekly fixes of Idina. So thank you to Ryan Murphy for getting Idina on!

Now there's only 1 more ep left of season 1 part 2. Can't wait. While these last 8 episodes have had their ups and downs, some fall into my least fave category, others into the all time fave one.....I have been ever as obsessed, and am not sure what I'm gonna do for months without it. -The same thing I did with every other series I love/d I guess.....deal, and rewatch!


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Carlie
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A Little of This, A Little of That

So at this current moment, I am in the middle of a West Wing Quiz, where you have a list of actors and have to name the characters they play. Grouped by difficultly....I have an issue with this in that Dule, Janel and Rob have been placed in the 2nd easiest group, while Jimmy and Alan who were on the show much much less are in the easy group....
Presently I am trying to remember Anna Deavere Smith's, and Adam Arkin's characters. ....Stanley..... It might come to me by the end of this post.

So it's been a while since I've posted much. I've been watching a lot of Grey's Anatomy lately. I finished season 4 and am just past halfway through season 5.
In terms of current tv, its been slow lately....however Glee came back last week. And it still rocks. I have some issues, but they might resolve themselves. So excited that Idina Menzel is in it! Kristin Chenoweth's ep airs next week. SUPER EXCITED!
Lost is up to ep 13, so not many left now. I'm gonna be really sad when it goes....cause other than Grey's Anatomy and Brothers & Sisters, all my shows are new or young.

The Good Wife has been on break, which sucks. It somehow evened out my Wednesdays. For some reason all my shows are on on Tuesdays in the US, so its Wednesday by the time I get them. The pecking order used to go, LOST, and then Parenthood or The Good Wife - alternating. Now it goes, LOST and Glee first, then Parenthood and The Good Wife. It doesn't matter which goes first in each set.

Parks and Recreation has been on break for ages and doesn't come back till next week. It better be a good ep! Modern Family and Cougar Town are still on, and I still can't let go of Cougar Town. I like it too much....but it's probably my least fave of all my shows.

I've been getting some extra stuff while things have been on break. I got some Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey was awesome. I got Taylor Swift's one from last year. And there are a few more that I can get.
I watched 2 eps of How I Met Your Mother  - one for Amanda Peet, and one for Carrie Underwood. I have to admit that I really don't like that show much at all.

......still no clue on Anna and Adam's characters other than his first name is Stanley....Damm Will & Grace, all I can think of is Stanley Walker...and I KNOW that's not right.
I give up....oh yeah Nancy McNally!.....and Stanley KEYWORTH!  I also missed Mark Harmon, John Goodman, James Brolin, and Zeljko Ivanek. But that's not THAT bad.

Makes me sad that of the 3 people that answered the forum, only 1 person knew Mary McCormack's character, and NONE knew Kristin's character :(     -These are not my people!

That is all I've got for tonight.

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Carlie