Catching up...

DWTS!

Ok, lots of dancing lots of dancing, and then Rick Fox went home. Is anyone surprised? I mean really. THe next to go should and I'm guessing will be Kurt Warner, followed by Bristol Palin, though she's getting so much better. Finally an underdog that is getting better on the show and staying in.

But anywho, is anyone else tired of Jennifer Grey and Brandy complaining? I mean for real! I love me some Jennifer Grey and she's uber talented, but seriously, lighten up, you're partner is the hottest man on the show, you were in one of the greatest movies ever made, you have a fantasticly funny husband and a wonderful daughter, and besides all of that, you're Joel Grey's daughter! Lighten up!!!


GLEE

I didn't mention Glee last week, but it was the Rocky Horror show. Ugh, I can't believe this happened. I'm kinda over Glee, but I can't pull myself away. It's the biggest guilty pleasure I have, I would say. It's like reality tv, I LOVE to hate it.

Some positive points, Jayma Mays singing "Touch me." No, it wasn't phenomenal singing, but she was AMAZING!!! I love her sooooo much. And I loved loved loved Mercedes as Frankenfurter. I couldn't handle it. I loved that Kurt didn't want the role, though. It's pretty much any gay boys dream role from that show and they didn't do the stereotypical "give the gay boy the gay role" thing. It was a nice twist. HOwever, Mr. Shue, STOP SINGING WITH THEM! Old dude John Stamos, you're not even a teacher there, STOP SINGING WITH THEM! Jesus, it's insane. I can't stand that shit.

BETTER WITH YOU

And the wonderful opening is gone again!!! What? For real? Why did you take it away. Oh well, i guess it's fine that it's at the ending. As long as it's there, I don't care, i just think it's a really cute convention of the show and I want it to stay, damnit!

This episode was funny. The boys take a bonding trip up north and Ben is worried that Casey is bonding more with Mr Putney than with him, until Mr Putney just leaves them stranded on the side of the road. Back in the city, Casey's crazy hippy mom from Vermont is visiting and pisses off not only Mia, but Mrs Putney as well. Then in a remarkably bitchy scene, Mrs, Putney puts her in her place.

I can't get enough of this show. My favorite person on it has to be Debra Jo Rupp who plays the mom. She seriously gives some of the best deliveries of every single one of her lines. OVerall the cast is brilliant and the writing is cute! It was full of surprises and yet everything is wrapped up with a nice little bow on it.


MODERN FAMILY

FOR REAL? I can't believe this. The Gays get their daughter involved in a racist commercial for furniture. Claire and Hayley are both home sick dealing with constant phone calls from the boyfriend and his being freaked out because he dreamed somethign about Clair and Hayley together. Phil is obsessed with taking care of everythign for Claire while she's sick, but has to deal with the constant chirping of dying batteries from the smoke alarms, while Manny's visit to Jay at work get's Manny's favorite employee fired when he lets Manny drive a forklift and he crashes into a wall.

First of all, the gays. The gays. It's amazing to see them maneuver life like any other couple, but with an added hint of drama because of Cam. He's so wonderfully dramatic and over the top I can't deal. He's worth every bit of his emmy. Probably one of the best actors on television today. So funny, so spot on and so together.

Hayley is becoming quite the little comedienne on this show. Each week, I feel like she grows more and more and adds a little bit more depth to her shallow bitchy character.

Phil. Oh Phil. Who doesn't want a dad like Phil Dunfy? For real? He is so cute and adorable and so unaware of so many things, that you always find yourself rooting for him even if he is flat out wrong. It's genius.

This entire show just keeps getting better and better and I can't wait for the next episode. I wish it were on every day just so I could watch even more. Or that I could watch everything they cut from the show, because even if it doesn't end up on tv, I'd be willing to bet it's funny as all hell!!!

COUGAR TOWN

EVeryone is trying to get Jules the perfect birthday gift. And Travis gets he dad into a Netty pot. that's it. That's the entire plotline for the entire show. Two lines and a thirty minute show is built. Fantastic. Seriously.

I think the best part was the plotting of each character to get Jules the best gift and then Laurie's ability to take the big prize by leading everyone down the wrong path to get her sucky gifts. But the more I think about it, that's a shitty thing to do because she pretty much just ensured that her friend is getting bad gifts except one. Hers. I'd rather have a bunch of good gifts though. Just me. I'm greedy.


Each week, I kinda like this show a little bit less. It's lost some of it's appeal from season one and I'm not sure how they'll get it back. However, Ellie and Andy are the best people on the show and I'd love for them to get a spin off if Cougar town doesn't work out.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

Drama Drama Drama.

I'll try to recap quickly. Lynette and Renee get an interior design team together and offer Susan a job as a nanny to Lynette. Susan thought it was going to be designing with them and is embarrassed to find out she's now working for her best friend. Bree is hitting menopause and her new doctor who is initially excited for her to be dating a younger man is not thrilled when she finds out Bree is dating her son. Gabrielle is worried that Carlos is about to turn gay because he's hanging out with Bob so much, so when she finds out that Bob is just lonely, not trying to flip Carlos, she get his and Lee back together again. And we find out a HUGE secret about Paul Young's wife, she's Felicia's daughter. So, Paul won't be with us for very long.

Watching Susan this week was actually tolerable. Because we all have to take jobs at times that we don't want to, and as much as I hate to admit it, I didn't exactly mind watching her blubber through her scenes as a week little deer. Meanwhile, I don't think it was so unexpected that Bree's doctor turned out to be her boyfriend's mother, however, it was sad to see that the relationship is pretty much over because he wants children and Bree just doesn't. As much as it pains me to see it, I know they are going to drag that shit out for at least a few more episodes because Brian Austin Green is too good on the show to get rid of. But still it sucks because we all know the relationship is over.

Lynette is, once again, the best actress on the show. I can't get enough of her. She carefully walks the thin line of fiend and employer beautifully. She really honed in on the sensitivities it takes to maintain a friend who is also your employee. And Gabrielle got some of her old sense of carefree, snotty, conceited old self back. It was overall, a pretty fun episode. I can't say it was amazing because it just wasn't. I think the writing and direction of the episode was pretty lackluster, and overall it's difficult to just watch them run in circles, but it was still fun.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS

SOOOO much is happening. Justin is interested in a new nurse helping Holly out. Kitty and Sarah struggle with finding a common ground in starting a business, blaming their mother for shaping their lives by sending them into business and politics, but then they find out that their mother just sent them in the direction that they were already going. And Paige is obsessed with trying to get kevin and Scottie Back together again.

Which they do. Kevin and Scottie are one of the best couples in tv right now. I really think them having an affair and the problems was presented in such a way that it didn't feel like a cop out of lack of creativity on the writers part. Typically it just feels so forced and trite, but this one feels so real and to rough. Granted, they skim through the time frame of healing and I think they could have stretched it out over a few more episodes, but, it was still upsetting and emotional and some of the best writing I've seen for something of this nature.

And kudos to the young actress who plays Paige. She delivered some tough lines for a young teenager to do well and usually I think she's kinda awful, but the last few episodes, I think she's really turning out some great moments.

And the women's banter on the show and the way they just talk all over each other is just wonderful, because they still get things done. Even Norah, who finally begins to realize that she is not the constant healer of all wounds, nor is she the one who is to blame. So she is finally growing herself as well. it's a pretty remarkable show. I can't wait to see next week when the drama heals and something new happens.