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It seems like forever since I last blogged. Since I watch about 30 hours of TV Sunday-Thursday, I try not to turn it on on Fridays and Saturdays. Here are some thoughts about the weekend viewing:
"Ghost Whisperer" (CBS, Fri., 8:00): There was actually a decent plot, but I wish they would get to the gettin' with the Aiden storyline. It's far more interesting to hear a kid talk about the ghosts he sees than it is to see Melinda running all over town half dressed. We've all heard how kids are supposed to have some sort of sixth sense about these things. I just want to know if you're able to talk to spirits, is there ever such a thing as an "imaginary friend"? Rewind: I just realized why Aiden isn't believable as Melinda's son. He's supposed to be a 5-year-old, but his huge front teeth make him look at least 8 or 9. My dental assistant sister says it's normal for some kindergartners to have big teeth, but I want to see Aiden's driver's license! Also, has anybody noticed that ever since J.Love started dating Eli-portrayer Jamie Kennedy in real life, she has more scenes with him than with on-screen hubby, Jim? He came back from the the dead for Melinda and they have her running around with her Eli like they're Fred and Daphne. "Ugly Betty" (ABC, Fri., 9:00): I hope you guys caught this episode because it was the first time the word "gay" was used in reference to Justin. I've been waiting for four seasons for them to address this topic! It's very telling that as viewers we automatically make assumptions about characters based on stereotypes. I'm pretty sure Justin is gay and just not ready to come out. But I'm basing my conclusion on the googly eyes he made at a male dancer last season, not because of his fierce fashion sense. After being named Homecoming Queen (yes, Queen) Justin turns the joke back on the student body by accepting the crown. When everyone is saying how proud they are, he squashes it with three words: "I'm not gay." Mentor Marc's reply: "Then he's not." I love both Justin and Marc, and it's been really fun watch Marc step in and be Justin's buddy as he transitions through high school. I even detected a bit of adoration slash crush in Justin's eyes when he was asking Marc for advice. I'll definitely be following this storyline to see if Justin gets his heart broken by an unrequited crush.What do you guys think about Betty's transformation this season? I like this new confidence she has about her, but this physical metamorphosis she's got going on kind of takes away from the charm that is "ugly Betty". I'm guessing America Ferrera is getting tired of the braces. ... OH!! And who thinks Daniel is making a suicide pact and doesn't even know it!! Idiot. "Medium" (CBS, Fri., 9:00): The most beautiful moment of this show came in the last 2 minutes when it's revealed why a teen aged boy spent his whole life thinking he was someone else. After he was born, his dead father would come to him at night and tell him about his life. ... because only children can see spirits. "Ghost Whisperer" and "Medium" go so well together!!!
Since I was on vacation, I'm just now getting a chance to see some shows from last week. I can't believe I'm about 11 hours behind!!! These are my thoughts on some of last week's highlights.Friday "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (KING-TV, 4:00): Mike Tyson comes face to face with Evander Holyfield for the first time since the 1997 ear-biting incident. To see Iron Mike Tyson appear as soft and vulnerable as he did was truly touching. And for Holyfield to come out and heap mounds of praise on him, even after Tyson admitted his first apology was insincere, showed an amazing amount of plain old human decency. This really was all about learning to forgive, forget and let go. Do you believe Mike Tyson is a changed man? I do. Raw emotion like that can't be faked. (Take note Balloon Boy's dad.)"Ghost Whisperer" (CBS, 8:00): A haunted morgue? Scary. Seeing ghosts? Kind of cool. A dead body coming at you with a scalpel? Now that's just freakin' creepy! It's not even the obligatory Halloween episode and I was thoroughly creeped out. I dozed off watching this show and I kid you not, I was awakened by someone/thing shaking my foot. Sunday"Desperate Housewives" (ABC, 9:00): Ana falls for Gabi's ex lover/gardener John and Gabi is forced to come clean about her dirty past with him. Carlos and company suspect Lynette of having a boob job when it's really pregnancy chest. Lynette and Carlos have some weird boss/worker relationship. I know she's friends with his wife, but to flat out ask her about her "implants" was borderline sexual harassment, no? And ABC must really be on a tight budget. Did anyone notice Gabi had on the same shirt in every scene? It was just a different color. "Brothers & Sisters" (ABC, 10:00): Justin and Rebecca decide on a destination wedding in Hawaii. Kitty undergoes her first round of chemotherapy and makes sister Sarah her "chemo buddy". Sarah keeps Kitty's mind busy by telling her lustful stories of her time in France. I liked how the filming made it look like an old movie, and I loved how Sarah dropped everything to return to her ailing sister's side. (Single tear falling).
Both shows that I tape on Friday nights center around women who see dead people. One uses her powers to help spirits cross over into the light. The other has visions that help solve crimes. Can't wait until there's a crossover episode between the 2. Let's talk about the day of the dead."Ghost Whisperer" (CBS, 8:00): Melinda tries to stop an angry spirit who's seeking to hurt people through a cursed chain e-mail. The girl's mom ended up in a coma after the car they were riding in crashed, leaving the girl to blame herself because she broke the e-mail chain. I would die 10 deaths a day if I were harmed every time I deleted a chain letter. Pause it: I could also please her all night long if I ordered every e-mail prescription that landed in my Spam box, but we'll save that kind of talk for another show.After some investigating, Melinda is able to convince the spirit that her mom had suffered a seizure while driving and the crash wasn't her fault. If I weren't typing right now I'd be bawling my eyes out. I have to give it J.Love. She really knows how to turn on the tears, and still manages to look cute when she cries. "Medium" (CBS, 9:00): What a chilling opening! Hearing Allison's voice as she spoke about children coming into this world as blank canvases, only to grow up and become murderers made the hairs on my arm stand up. When they showed pictures of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Daihmer and Aileen Wuornos as cute little babies, it made me wonder what kind of people my nieces and nephews will grow up to be. Sofia Vassilieva is turning out to be quite the breakout star. She was sublime in "My Sister's Keeper", and her performance tonight as Ariel possessed by a slain revenge-seeking stripper was great! I can see her nominated for an Emmy for this episode, but of course Emmy voters will never get that right. What did you think of Sofia's performance? If you were a spirit/dead person/crime victim, would you go to Allison or Melinda for help? I think I'd take my chances on Allison. Melinda is dragging around people from "the dark side" and I don't need that kind of energy.
"Ghost Whisperer" (CBS, Fri., 8:00) picks up with Melinda giving birth to a baby boy then he immediately undergoes what soap fans call R.S.O.A.S. (Rapid Soap Opera Aging Syndrome). You've seen it. Little Tommy goes into the bathroom as a toddler and returns in the next scene as T.J., the teen heartthrob. The show skips ahead 5 years with Jim looking like he'd aged at least 10 and Melinda carting around a kid who looks 12, not 5. And speaking of Melinda, it must be written in J.Love's contract not to age her character, because she looked like she was fresh out of the womb (or off the Botox table). Question: Why kill off Jim if you're only going to "ghost" him back as some other character, then turn him back into Jim again? Melinda may soon be seeing me in one of her visions because this show is killing me.I love the relationship between Gus and Shawn on "Psych" (USA, Fri., 10:00). I was two weeks behind on the episodes so I ended up watching them through On Demand. How genius to tie in the show's theme song with the storyline. In "Bollywood Homicide" they did a cool version of the song in Hindi and the names were in some language I will never be able to decipher. And in the "High Top Fade Out" episode they did an acapella doo-wop version of the song by whom I can only assume was Boyz II Men. The look on Shawn's face when he found out Gus was in a singing group was nothing but pure hilarity. The Bollywood episode was funny, but they were trying a little to hard to get in every Indian stereotype you could imagine.Some funny lines heard on "Desperate Housewives" (ABC, Sun., 9:00):Carlos's niece Ana, complaining about not being able to wear a sexy shirt: "All the girls in my class dress like this." Gabrielle: "That's why your school nurse is an obstetrician."Tom: "Yum, what do I smell?"Lynette: "Despair, mortality, paralyzing fear."Tom: "Oh, I thought it was waffles."Lynette, angry about being pregnant with twins ... again: "We will never be done if we birth two when one moves out. That's just math."Gabrielle: "She's one dead dog away from a country song."Orson: "You do realize while in prison I went three whole years without any sex."Bree: "No, but thank you for clearing up a question I never quite knew how to ask."
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