It sure was quit the week: Melrose Place dumped two cast members to become more like 90210, Dollhouse was demoted out of the sweeps, TV's holiday season offically started with Halloween episodes and some shows took their first week of this season. Yep, it was alround entertaining again and I just can't wait until next week...
MusicThese songs are in my ears this week:
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition was heard on 90210 this week and proved once again to be very addicting and perfectly right for background music, but let's be honest, I loved this song since last year's Greek finale and just used 90210 to give an honorable mention...
Mark Salling - Sweet Caroline was heard on Glee when Puck tries to get to Rachel. Salling seriously knocked it out of the gate by proving he was the show's best male singer with a song that was both sunny and raw, if Glee doesn't work out he should seriously consider a indie band.
Matt Hires - Out Of The Dark on Grey's Anatomy brought back that old feeling of Grey's, plus Meredith's voice over and a great episode to end to, this song is both happy as sad.
Best Revelation
It would be easy to go with who was to blame on Grey's, but instead I'm going with Chuck's confession (or more of a by the way mentioning) that he kissed guys before. It's not the deed that was surprising (I'm from Holland) but the flair and ease he told it with. Just coming back from conservative America, I was very surprised that Chuck used the same mentality we harbor in Europe; guys, girls, who cares, just chill! Who knew America could learn stuff from Gossip Girl?
Up
These shows had a better week then last week, or just continue to be awesome
Heroes: 4.06 Tabula Rasa, after giving up on this show and deciding to try again, this episode was just in time. From the scene that Peter thought he stopped the gun only to find his insides were out, to Sylar's reliving his past (and Kristen Bell's face) and Hiro's first appreciated time travel, there might be hope yet...
Gossip Girl: 3.06 Enough About Eve proved that though Blair is genius with Chuck, her real power is having manipulative plans only to find that she failed. This time she got serious competition of no less then Vanessa, and both proved they were powerless against Hilary Duff's status, even when Blair manipulated her own boyfriend into the arms of a guy. The episode ended with V and B sitting at a table, spit out by their friends, with nobody but each other...
Desperate Housewives: 6.04 The God-I'm-Not-Going-To-Spell-Out-This-Name was another great installement of DH's tour back to quality, this weeks revelation was kinda obvious, but worked well enough for a cliffhanger and Gaby's and John's upteenth closure felt real and sincere this time. Bring on the next one!
Down
These shows are not doing that great, or continue ot slide down even further
Family Guy -, true, this show is doing just fine, but we're barely into the season yet and we're already skipping weeks? Come on Fox, just because you can afford to produce less eppi's, doesn't mean you should! Forget Cleveland, I want McFarlane back in Quahog asap!
Best Quotes
These dialogues had me laughing on the floor...
Carlos: "I know"
Lynette: "You know what?"
Carlos: "You're little secret"
Lynette: "Oh God, you know about the twins?"
Lynette referring to her unborn children, Carlos referring to the assumed boob job.
"Oh he's doing his Heath Ledger impression. Too soon, Roger, too soon..."
Stan on Roger laying on the floor drooling and shacking after accidentally taking rat poison.
"So, my interest in football ended as suddenly and dramatically as the climax of West Side Story."
Mitchell about his failed attempt to like football.
"I'm not in love with you, I'm in love with abortions!"
Cartmen dressed up as a girl in a wrestling match.
"I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat, I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat and then on some dark cold night, I will steal away into your home and punch you in the face."
Sue on what she will do to Will if she doesn't get the set list on her desk in time.
Notable mentions
The Simpsons: 21.04 Treehouse of Horror XX
Having a returning episode setting works great and the Halloween episode of The Simpsons continues to rule the subgenre. With an nice Hitchcock sketch, some songs and the death of Homer (thrice if you count becoming a zomby) combine in another sweet installment of our favorite part of Halloween TV.
Best Episode of the week
Grey's Anatomy: 6.06 I Saw What I Saw
What do you do when your main character is on bed rest and the biggest star is absent to shoot a movie? For the answer just look at Rhimes who delivered an original and gripping episode that touched upon every single character in a complete new way. The editing, the chaos, the pieces of a puzzle that you are just desperate to see resolved, it was the best episode of GA's sixth season so far and one to remember. And extra kudos for being the first episode since last year's One Tree Hill premiere that I desperately wanted to watch a second time, and even then it did not disappoint.
Apologies to several shows for being sick and working a lot so I couldn't watch them, I'll pay more attention to them next week, promise! So this was my week of television, how was yours?