Television Recaps
Ok, so can television watching be a hobby?? I'm just wondering because I seem to do that just about whenever I can. My husband, being the buff gentleman he is, choses such raucous activities as basketball playing, baseball throwing, football catching, etc as his hobbies, whilst I chose to lounge on the couch watching the finales go by. You see its the end of the summer once again which means 1:All the summer reality shows are ending and 2. All the really good shows will be back on shortly!!! HOORAY! So let me recap all of the finales that have taken place thus far infiltrating my own comments throughout the short synopsises.
HELLS KITCHEN:
Ok so Hell's Kitchen made the blog last year, so of course I wasn't going to miss out on this season's firey spats amoungst food. This season was spiced by the usual cornicopia of personalities. One large Asian guy (which in and of itself might be an oxymoron) who fainted mid stir because he literally couldn't take the heat was one of the standout moments of the season. Julia, a Waffle House short order cook and waitress, was a pure joy to watch. Seriously, Waffle House might be the one of the scuzziest places on earth but man do they know how to cook eggs and hashbrowns. So Julia always seemed to be in charge of anything involving eggs (which made me giggle each time I witnessed such occurances). On one occasion 5 of the remaining cooks were thrown into a high school cafeteria and ordered to produce 150 lunches for the students after which the students would partake of and choose a winner for the best lunch. Julia's gourmet decision...Grilled chicken and cheese sandwiches with fries....an item I KNOW FOR A FACT they serve at Waffle House....HEEE! AND SHE WON! Oh the irony...gourmet waffle house. She was actually kicked off at the end of this episode but I still enjoyed her thoroughly. The final two were two chefs named Bonnie and Rock. Bonnie was a personal chef and nanny for some high folutin' (thats some southern talk for ya) folks in some New England state. While Rock was a chef in like a real fancy shmancy restuarant and everything, so lets think about who would win this thing. In the finale they bring back all the fired chefs to help the finalists in the last competition. Oh joy to watch. Some of the people were still bitter about being fired so they would purposefully "forget" to do things...ahhh bitterness bodes for brilliancy! (I know you just loved that alliteration) Rock pulled it out in the end (let me tell you it wasn't exactly a breath holder). And Bonnie's all like...I didn't really want to win...I don't think I really want to run a huge restuarant....at which point I just stared at the TV because FREAK WHY WERE YOU ON THE SHOW THEN?! But she's a pretty little blond thing...so we all know why she was a finalist.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
Ok so this finale just went live last night...and I was at the temple...and BOY AM I GLAD I WAS! BECAUSE IT WAS STUPID! Ok so for all those living amongst wild animals in a cave for the last 3 months, So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) basically pits good dancers against each other in an old school dance off. They start out with 10 guys and 10 girls, pair them up and make them dance crazy routines, and at the end of the show one pair goes home because they just couldn't shake their groove thing hard enough. Throughout the season there were some choice and I mean CHOICE! routines...then came the finale...and it was LAME. The 4 finalists I'm sure danced their hardest but the choreography just didn't make my heart sing the way it should have. I mean one routine which the two final girls (Lacey and Sabra) performed was supposed to be them being FOXES....no not foxy...but foxes like the animals...so in the beginning Sabra's laying on the floor pretending to be asleep or dead I really can't tell and then Lacey comes skulking out dressed all in black with a red bandana in her mouth. Ok so when was the last time you saw a fox with a red bandana in its mouth...so I'm thinking Wade (the choreographer) doesn't know what a fox is and somehow has it confused with a robber. Anyway so Lacey continues to skulk over to Sabra and drops the red bandana on her and then begins to nudge her with her head...ahhhh to wake her up...SHES ALIVE! So Lacey is like the momma fox and Sabra is like the baby fox...they prance around the stage for about 2 minutes...nothing remotely exciting happens and then its over. Crickets. I think the audience is still wondering what the heck it was they just watched. Because I think it was supposed to be all symbolic of the animal kingdom but in reality its about as symbolic as poo. AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE FINALE DANCES!! So the judges kind of look at each other and shrug their shoulders and were like...um so you pranced really well...but I didn't get it. HA! I'm proven right by their comments and because of that I'm content. Anyway, then there were some other dances...and judges judged..and then america voted...and the WRONG PERSON WON! The girl who had only been dancing for 4 years, Sabra, beat out everybody. and I have to say it was the wrong choice...don't get me wrong she was alright...but she wasn't all that talented...I mean Danny the ballet guy...while obviously struggling with his sexuality...could DANCE...twist, turn, and turn and turn...I mean the guy could REALLY dance. And Lacey...she knew how to entertain...and dance...something that is just hard to find apparently. So those were the two people I thought should win...but NO...of course they didn't win...I mean they were only the best...anyway..thats why the show was stupid.
Well so there you go. This summer's top rated shows summarized for your pleasure. Now can we please get back to the REAL television. HOUSE, HEROES, etc!!! It's about time!
