Before I break

It's my last post before I get away for the weekend. I thought about blowing it off, but you know I love me some Thursday primetime.

"Survivor" (CBS, 8:00): UGH! It's the gross food challenge week! This is one of my least favorite things to see on this show besides emaciated girls in swimsuits. I haven't been able to sit through one of these since they were made to drink cow's blood on "Survivor: Africa".

The game was played roulette style - whatever the ball lands on goes into the blender. Jellyfish and milk, anyone? How about a glass of sea slug guts and water? You drink the shake, you win the steak. After Ashley was unable to chug hers down, Galu wins reward. Downer for Shambo, who is sent home with Foa Foa and doesn't get to partake in the protein. Pause it: That's what you get for losing that chicken last week.

The rain took center stage as it poured on the camps for 48 hours straight. I thought this was clearly a time when production should've been suspended for a day or two. The skin on their hands looked like it was falling off. Foa Foa lost immunity and because of the rain, the tribe was unable to strategize about who they wanted to see gone. It didn't matter though because Ashley was voted out by a vote of 5-1. Do you think conditions like the torrential rain tonight are just part of surviving or is there a time when production should step in for the sake of safety?

CSI: (CBS, 9:00): It was a game of racism vs. reality tonight when a white policeman kills a black fellow officer and the CSIs must determine if the shooting was an accident or premeditated. I really liked how this story played out because you could see the judgements being formed but nobody verbalized how they felt. Anyway you looked at it, prejudice could be formed. But in the end it was just a case of one officer taking action in the line of duty and one trying to help a kid.

Did anybody catch that it was Enrique Murciano (formerly Danny Taylor of "Without a Trace" fame) playing the gang cop? At first I thought it was a crossover episode then I realized that "Trace" was based in New York and "CSI:" is set in Vegas. That was quickly followed by the memory that "Trace" was canceled because CBS wanted to make room for a lame reality show about neighborhoods. CBS was without a clue.

Reality check
"Project Runway" (Lifetime, 10:00): Bob Mackie, the "Sultan of Sequin", drops by to task the designers with creating an extravagant stage look. Two days and $300 to come up with an outfit for Christina Aguilera? They could've did that with a 2 hours and a Victoria's Secret gift card. You know Xtina likes it "dirty". Local boy Logan hangs on by a thread while table mate Carol Hannah wins the challenge. Give it up Logan. They're only keeping you around for eye candy.