I didn't blog last week, I was watching TV! Alright let's talk about what we saw:
American Idol, I couldn't bear to watch until they got to Hollywood this time - okay I watched a little of it, but not much. I hate it when they have the people who really think they are good and they really aren't. To me it's like bass fishing with a gun. There's just a little more force than necessary. I love Simon and I tend to agree with him. And for the people who are serious competitors I don't have a problem with his cutting criticism, they need to get used to it or perish.
But what a lot of people don't realize is that people came and stood in line for days to get into the competition, and then they auditioned for people who were not Randy, Paula and Simon. Anyone half way decent, anyone really crazy and anyone really, really bad gets to see the celebrity judges. Everyone else goes home. Here's the problem, the people who are crazy don't know they're crazy and the people who are really bad don't know they suck - they actually think they made the first cut. It seems a bit inhumane to break the news to them on national television. I'm just saying....In any case I will be anxious to actually see the good people perform this week.
Jericho - My husband said he didn't think he could watch it because he had missed the last few episodes and he didn't think he could get caught up. I told him this was nonsense, any show worth its salt will take a few minutes to fill you in on what the heck happened, because even those of us who did watch it can't possibly be expected to remember what happened A YEAR AGO! I don't know who edited the opening but they need to be fired and taken out behind the barn and spanked too - I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON! I feel like I just walked into season 5 of the X files - except guess what - there's no smoldering sexual repression. I'm giving them one more week to get it together.
Why do studio execs not understand that the love story is the most important thing? There has to be a love story and it has to have conflict - no one tunes in to watch happily ever after. Jericho - flash forward - 3 weeks later and Jake is kissing the blonde saying I won't be home for dinner honey. Okay, who is the idiot with an IQ of three less than celery who decided on that story line? Do I really need to name all of the shows that died immediately after the love interest was consummated - can I just say "Moonlighting" and we'll all know what I'm talking about? By a vowel gentleman! Women want romance, which means yearning, not having. Once you get into happily ever after its all having to deal with his socks on the bathroom floor!
On to Big Brother -Til Death Do Us PartYeah, what can I say? I shouldn't like it. I do. In fact I wish it were on every night. Let's start with Adam - at first I felt so bad for him, and then he made the comment about autistic kids being retards, which he then made worse by saying "Well, they are." And this idiot works with an autism foundation doing PR? First of all Adam, the term retarded is no longer politically correct, the term is now developmentally disabled or delayed. Some children with autism are also developmentally disabled (as in they will never be able to progress past a certain mental level), other autistic children are developmentally delayed in some areas while they may be developmentally accelerated in others. These children continue to progress, and generally catch up in terms of general development but they continue to struggle with the social stigma of being unable to socialize in the widely accepted fashion of our "typically minded society" The fact that someone as ill informed as you are is working in PR, excuse me, was working in PR- I am quite sure that you have lost your job by now - is both sad and maddening to me. Instead of just picking up your paycheck you might have asked some simple questions about who you were working for. If you had even spent 5 minutes with one of our kids you could never have so blithely referred to them as retarded, you yellow toothed, cigarette smoking unemployed ignoramus! But ask me how I really feel. I am glad they stuck you with the Queen Bee Biotch of Menopausal Angst. I hope she gives you crabs, you deserve each other.
Then let's talk about Jen, is this the stupidest most selfish girl to ever be on BB! I love it! I hope she gets evicted and that Ryan and Allison fall madly in love and make beautiful babies. I will miss Parker, but I'll get over it - Besides I didn't like his Brad and Angelina OR Kathy Griffin and Pauley Shore comments. I would rather be Kathy Griffen than Angelina Jolie any day of the week and twice on Sunday!
And shall we talk about Amber's butt? How can you not! She sticks it up in the air every single opportunity she gets. If there were a college drinking game involving her butt - every time she sticks it up in the air or refers to it the room drinks - we'd have alcohol poisoning reported on campuses across the country. I'm ready for them to evict someone. I pray that the POV doesn't get used.
Eli Stone was good again - but I miss George Michael. C'mon guys! Every week there should be another 80's has been rockin out in Eli's living room. Flock of Seagulls - I Ran - as Eli is running away from mobsters. Rick Springfield, doing Jessie's Girl as Eli defends a jealous lover. Dexies Midnight Runners chanting C'mon Eileen when Eli needs to find a client named Eileen. Call me, you're missing what really worked in the first episode and if you waste this all star cast I'm really going to be angry with you!
And last but not least Celebrity Apprentice. Excuse me, but Omarosa should have been fired. I don't care what the rules may or may not say. Are you Donald Trump or not? She was verbally abusive, if a man had done that to a woman there would have been no discussion he would have been fired. As a woman I am insulted that she was not fired. And Trump sat there like a neutered and badly coiffed sheltie, I can't fire her, those are the rules. I was waiting for Trump to start crying for his Mommy.
More than ever I am convinced that the only reason why she was included in the show is because she was threatening a law suit. She should never, ever be hired, ever by anyone, ever again. She and Adam should be forced to live on welfare and eat cat food sandwiches while cameras roll - forever. But ask me how I really feel!
