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Thursday, Jun 4, 2009

I'm back, and hopefully I'll be back to blog regularly again. I only have three more exams left, only one of which I find important (Science). I also have ICT and Technology, but I can't seem to care for them. I'll probably revise a little for Technology though, as paper one did not go well. At all.

Reviews!
This TV season has been weird for me, there are a lot of shows I just lost track off (Terminator) and some that I have not watched in ages (Supernatural, Smallville). I am going to write about four TV shows I actually did watch this year, and there should be more to come...eventually. As usual, SPOILERS!!


Desperate Housewives, Season 5
Number Of Episodes: 24
Favourite Character: Bree
Favourite Episode: The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Ep.100)
Rating: 6/10
The time jump was fun, but this has to be the worst season of Desperate Housewives yet. The main mystery was so irritating, and everytime Dave did something jingly background music would play that got on my nerves so much! Lynette rarely gets a good season long storyline (I think the cancer arc was the exception), and this year she had boring family issues as usual. As well as this, Tom has got to be one of the most annoying characters on the show. I like Susan, but she rarely gets a good storyline too. She is a fun character but her relationship with Mike and Jackson just annoy me. Gabbie is funny as usual, and her two daughters can be very funny! I love Bree, and it was nice seeing her grow closer to Andrew and have a successful career. The scene in the premiere with Benjamin getting took away by Danielle was depressing and well acted from Marcia Cross (as usual). I do think her storyline in the later part of the season did not work too well, and it ruined Orson who became crazy and starting stealing to hurt her. Okay....I used to love Katherine but her extreme need for marriage at the end of the season made me want to slap her. A lot. The end of the season in particular was dreadful, and the finale was the worst to date. I do not care who Mike married, he should have been killed off ages ago!


Dirty Sexy Money, Season 2
Number Of Episodes: 13
Favourite Character: Karen
Favourite Episode The Bad Guy
Rating: 8.5
As a warning, I will discuss aspects of the last three episodes. I don't believe they have aired in the US, yet. I loved season one, but this was such an improvement over that season! Right from the premiere, you could tell that season two was going to be much more dramatic and it was! I loved the Karen/Simon storyline, mainly because Karen is awesome and Simon is complete psycho. The murder trial at the start of the season was fun, and Lucy Liu was a wonderful addition as Nola! The Nick/Lisa breakup was a little boring, but neither character has ever been that interesting anyway. There were a lot of great moments throughout the season! I loved the Karen/Lisa catfight. Anything featuring Karen. Nola Lyons being hilarious right from the start. The drama! It really is such a shame to see this show go, it had a great cast and was hugely addictive. The last episode ended in a cliffhanger, I wish we got another season!


Pushing Daisies, Season 2
Number of Episodes: 13
Favourite Character: Chuck
Favourite Episode: Kerplunk
Rating: 9/10
Another show that got better in its second season only to be cancelled! Such a shame. As I was saying, season two was a great improvement over the first year! Ned and Chuck were as sweet as ever, Olive as perky, Emerson as hilarious, and the aunts as crazy! I loved all the cliffhangers during certain episodes that left me wanting more each week. Olive as a nun was hilarious, and I love that she called the pig 'Pigby'! The return of Chuck's father was a nice storyline with a few twists along the way. Everything was just great. The finale was a nice way of tying things up, considering the show was quickly canned. The ending narration did give some closure and that episode as a whole was the best of the season.


Skins, Season 3
Number of Episodes: 10
Favourite Character Emily
Favourite Episode 1.09 - Katie and Emily
Rating: 6.5/10
This is going to be hard for me to explain. This year, I thought the characters on a whole have been better than the original cast. However, the storylines and acting have not been as strong. So while I like the characters this year more than in seasons one and two, the show is not as good (and no one tops Cassie as a great character!). I loved the Emily/Naomi lesbian storyline, both are some of the best characters this series and they are cute together! Loved all their scenes together. I love Pandora, but after her episode she was barely there. Effy makes for a great leading lady, but they need to keep her away from Cook who is just so irritating. JJ is funny, but not the greatest character. I hate Katie, she is definitely not as interesting as her sister is! Freddy is a complete bore. I think that is all of the characters! The Effy/Freddy/Cook storyline was uninteresting and I am glad it (seems) to have ended. The finale was terrible, it seemed like a standalone episode and nothing really happened until the last ten minutes. Not as good as seasons one or two, but hopefully season four will be better!

I may also review...90210, Gossip Girl and Grey's Anatomy.

E3!
There were some fun announcements at E3 this year, for those who don't know, it is a gaming conference where various new games are announced and shown off.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer - I am so excited for this! I have been a Mario fan for years, and Super Mario Galaxy was one of the best Mario games ever! I'm definitely looking forward to this sequel. Yoshi ftw!
Metroid: The Other M trailer - I have only played MP3:Corruption, but I am definitely looking forward to this! It looks like heaps of fun.

'tis all for now. Hope everyone has a nice week!

Category: TV
Posted by tvfan332, 11:13am
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good luck on your remaining exams. I'm going to watch season 5 of Desperate Housewives this summer , cause I haven't yet, so I can't comment on that and the rest I don't watch.
Posted Jun 4, 2009 11:46 am PT
I only saw Pushing Daisies out of the shows you mentioned, but I definitely agree with you... I loved it Season 2 and it sucks it won't be coming back for another season although you're right the narration at the end was a nice way to close the show; and of course- Pigby was awesome Anyway, good luck with the exams you have left!
Posted Jun 4, 2009 4:12 pm PT
Welcome back! Good luck with the exams and Technology doesn't sound fun anyways.
Posted Jun 4, 2009 5:45 pm PT
This tv season has most certainly been weird. Uneven seasons, underwhelming plots and episodes and at first it was just most of my regular shows and then Heroes took the dive as well during volume 4 and it was all just totally weird. I didn't feel quite as devestated as I usually do when the fall shows end and the dreaded barren wasteland that is summer tv began because honestly the endings to everything seemed very below average or weird. I certainly hope next season is better.
Posted Jun 4, 2009 6:42 pm PT
Best of luck with your remaining exams!! I've only seen Pushing Daisies from your list, I definitely agree it was much better this season - which is great considering the first season was also pretty good! I loved Olive more this season, but I still adored Chuck and Ned. Pigby was cute Its a shame it was cancelled, but like you said, the end narration did a good job of tying everything up
Posted Jun 5, 2009 3:08 am PT
BLEEEH I have 3 exams left too, they are so awful, whoever made up exams should die painfully. The only shows I watched this season were Dexter, Dollhouse and Heroes- loved the former 2 and hated pretty much all of Heroes and gave it up midway through Volume 4 (even though it was better than the beyond terrible Volume 3).
Posted Jun 5, 2009 5:08 pm PT
Good luck with your remaining exams I haven't finished season 5 of DH yet but Bree and Gabbie are my favourites, mostly Gabbie this season! I wish dirty sexy money wasn't cancelled either Karen's awesome I've just gotten into skins and yeah Cassie is awesome! Haven't seen season 3 yet, still have to watch the season 2 finale and then all of season 1 and the parts of two I missed. Happy Weekend!
Posted Jun 5, 2009 9:08 pm PT
I have to agree about Skins but I was disappointed with the DH finale as well. Hopefully Season 6 will be a step up for the series. Oh and I'm reviewing Dollhouse.
Posted Jun 6, 2009 5:29 am PT
Uhh I hated season three of Skins!!! Hope four is much better.
Posted Jun 13, 2009 2:46 pm PT
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