Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Red Widow, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement and Real Housewives...not a bad night of TV at all.





The answer to Monday's Trivia Question:  Kentucky beat Kansas in last years NCAA Finals. 

FIRST FIVE: Bobby Aguilera, Bill McLaughlin, Jim Carter, Dan Realson & Justin Jones
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Mahoney

Friday's Cable Top 5
Wizards Return-Disney 1.1/5.8
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/2.0
Bering Sea Gold-Discovery .8/2.1
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/2.0
Gravity Falls-Disney .8/2.0

Sunday's Broadcast Top 5
Family Guy-FOX 2.3/4.8
Once Upon a Time-ABC 2.2/7.2
The Amazing Race-CBS 2.2/8.7
The Simpsons-FOX 2.1/4.8
Revenge-ABC 1.8/6.4

Sunday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Once Upon a Time-ABC 72,609
The Simpsons-FOX 72,063
Family Guy-FOX 49,319
The Amazing Race-CBS 42,260
Revenge-ABC 41,843

Sunday's Cable Top 5
NA

Sunday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
The Walking Dead-AMC 524,459
The Bible-History 130,657
The Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 53,411
Girls Season Finale-HBO
Talking Dead-AMC 37,932

Top 5 DVR'ed Shows for the week of 2/25/13-3/3/13
Modern Family-ABC From a 4.0 to a 6.3 (+58%)
Criminal Minds-CBS From a 2.6 to a 4.1 (+58%)
The Following-FOX From a 2.8 to a 4.3 (+54%)
Nashville-ABC From a 1.6 to a 2.9 (+81%)
New Girl-FOX From a 2.3 to a 3.6 (+57%)

RED WIDOW
The reason I love Red Widow is because you don't need a PHD to figure it all out. Of course just like most shows these days, a double life is being lead, well it will be now that Marta has made deals with both sides, but I'm getting ahead of myself.  For all of you that haven't gotten on the bandwagon yet, I think maybe you should.  If this show only lasts 8 episodes, or if it gets renewed, it's going to be a fun ride that you'll want to be on.  So here's the scoop: Marta's husband, brother Irwin, and friend Mike are small time weed dealers in San Francisco.  Marta's dad is a Russian mobster, but he isn't involved in the weed biz.  Marta's bro screwed over her husband and it got him killed.  Marta's left to clean up the mess. Her original plan was to do one job for Schiller (the drug kingpin in town) and get out.  But you know the deal...it's never just one job.  She was planning to get to Canada and go on the run, but it's TV and nothing goes as planned. Her bro screwed her over during job #2 and she had to clean up his mess too.  So now she's in with the bad guys and her only way out...make a deal with the good guys...the cops. (Here's where the double life comes in) So that's where we are now.  Marta has 6 episodes left to get the info needed to put Schiller (our favorite bad guy) away.  I guess that's what happens if ABC doesn't renew the show.  If they do...it could go in a few different directions.  The nice part about this show is...it's easy to understand. No crazy time travel, no secret initiatives etc.  Bad guys, good guys and the person stuck in the middle.  I'm having fun with this one. Hope you are too.  

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Finally a really good episode of How I Met Your Mother that made me forget that we still haven't met her yet.  Although I thought after the last original episode Ted said he wasn't just dating anymore and this week he and Marshall pretended to be gay and he ended up having a "thing" with a woman, but I don't think it meant anything. Or did it? Anyway...Robin put Barney's bachelor pad on the market but he assumed with all the super perverted features the place came with like the Whore Begon Sleep System (by Stinson), Room with a Screw (by Stinson), Bitch Mountain (by Stinson) and so many more (all patents pending), that nobody would buy the place. Of course one couple wanted it but when Robin found out that they were going demolish it she didn't take the offer and it seems now the couple is staying put. I love NPH...love so I mean no disrespect at all when I call out that I noticed he had one slightly weird looking nipple...the right one. Just saying, but I digress.  Ted, Marshall and Lily were all currently obsessed with Woodworthy Manor (A Downton Abbey type deal) but every time Marshall and Lily would get set to watch, The Captain would call sending her off to check out a bizarro artist. Which had Marshall turning to Ted for love and affection...just kidding, but that's how they ended up pretending to be a gay couple at Barney's open house aka "The Fortress of Barnitude" complete with floating Jor-El head. Of course everything with Marshall and Lily ended up fine in our 22 minutes together.  My new obsession, Barney's bedding...I love it!

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
I knew there was a reason I loved Timmy.  Well there's a million reasons I love that guy but the fact that he had never seen an episode of the Three Stooges caused me to love him a tiny bit more than I already did.  Of course Adam loves the Stooges and made  Timmy watch an episode which like me...he just didn't find funny...nope...not at all. Glad to see Liz back after a 2 week hiatus.  Ironically enough it is she and not Russell claiming to be a sex addict.  She made him go to her "meeting" where of course he hit on the women.  Jeff promised Audrey dinner at a new French restaurant she'd been dying to go to, but when he forgot to make the res he had to come up with sitcom type scheme to get in. His was pretty good, he tricked her into dressing up as Nicole Kidman. Like every sitcom type scheme, this one went bad.  The restaurant and Audrey realized what was going on. Audrey stormed out, got mad at Jeff, they made up and went back for their 1130pm reservation. Everyone's happy.  Including me.  

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS
Lisa's house, Villa Rosa (as it says at the door, on the doormat and in other various locations)  is INSANE!  Between Adrienne's, Yolanda's and Camille's houses I am constantly amazed at how over the top these people live life. Did you ever notice that we've never seen Brandi's house? Adrienne was in the midst of throwing one of the craziest and most decadent parties I've ever seen.  This one was to promote a red velvet vodka called Zing. There were naked women painted red with the word Zing on them, like statues, like fountains, like trees etc.  Paul had to get in on the action but then he left the party in anger.  Probably because Adrienne treats him like crap.  Lisa and Brandi don't go to the party they get massages on the cliff in Lisa's unbelievable backyard instead.  Adrienne and Paul announced their separation online the morning of Lisa's house warming/vow renewal party. Kevin Lee was at Lisa's making her place a palace of pink.  This guy will do anything for his clients including taking his pants off to put flowers in the pool. Taylor and Camille arrived at the party looking freshly botox frozen.  I go back and forth about my feelings for Yolanda.  I love her classiness and then I can't stand her "he is my king" thing when she talks about how she takes care of her man. Faye Resnick, Marissa, Yolanda and Brandi got into it at the party, because every party has to have a fight included or it wouldn't be considered a success. Next week is the finale and reunion part 1.  Can't wait. 

DALLAS
I don't watch every primetime drama obviously, but I would bet that of all the primetime soaps, Dallas is truly the best of the bunch.  Between the integration of the original cast, the new cast, the storylines, the sexiness, the juicyness...it's really too good.  One week is better than the next and last nights episode just rocked. Whitey from One Tree Hill showed up for the reading of JR's will.  Even in death, JR had the ability to tug on our emotions.  From the sweet, to the funny, to the shocker, JR's will had it all...just like him.  The biggest news to come out of it though is that Sue Ellen and John Ross split JRs ownership of Ewing Oil.  Bigger news came from Miss Ellie though. She gave JR's half of Southfork to John Ross not to Bobby.  The good news for the Ewings is that now they have a reason to come together...they all have common enemies in Cliff Barnes and Harris Ryland.  Since Cliff blackmailed the redheaded Allison Jones to get the transportation contract, the Ewings sent in a pro to fix the situation. John Ross knows how to get things done. He should he had the best teaching him. I gotta tell you..it was pretty steamy. I can't write the sexy talk that went on between the two of them, that'd be a whole other blog, but it was hot, and it worked.  John Ross got the married, politically motivated, Allison in her robe and on film which got Ewing oil the contract. Only problem is that on the walk through with the entire cast on the rig, Elena's brother Drew hid a bomb.  (He was sort of forced to by Harris, but it was also poor judgement).  Cliffhanger ending...Cliff gives the order to detonate the bomb even with his pregnant daughter on the rig. He is one evil guy.  I'm assuming everyone lives, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.  Back on land...Sue Ellen's drinking again, Gary's trying to help her again and Valene Ewing, looking younger than her daughter Lucy is back in town.  Harris and his controlling Mom, Judith Light, who seems to have lost her ability to act in between Who's the Boss and now, got into it big time.  She took away his money and his job. So what's a spoiled son to do? Throw his Mommy down the stairs.  Is she dead? Tune in next week to find out.  If you thought this recap was good...it's nothing compared to the show.

News & Information:

-What's interesting to me here is that mobile video consumption with the exception



-It figures I gave up on The Bible before the controversy over Satan looking like the President.  The History Channel is of course denying this and saying its ludicrous. I just had to check it out and thought you guys should be the judge.  I do sort of see it though. I doubt it was intentional, but I do see the resemblance.

-I'm always amazed that with YouTube and all of the other ways we all share funny videos these days, that America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air.  It is and is currently ABC's longest running Primetime show. With it's April 7th episode it will celebrate 500!

-Syfy gave Face Off another season.  Good news for those of you into that one.
-MTV renewed Awkward which is good news for those of you into THAT one.

-Simon Cowell is looking via YouTube for his next star.  The yearlong talent competition called The You Generation starts tomorrow and will span 26 competitions, each will last 2 weeks. Syco execs will be the judges and winners are announced every other Friday. If you want to audition, you can submit a video.  Lots of categories to choose from in this one.  singing, stand-up comedy, makeup, style and cooking.  I'm betting one of you out there's got something to send in.  C'mon go for it!

-If you haven't gotten enough Justin Timberlake (and who hasn't?) then tonight you may want to watch his album release party on the CW at 8pm.  Just thought I'd mention that one for you.

-On Fashion Star Friday night, 7 designers items were purchased via the retail partners, Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Express totaling $600K.   All of the items sold out over the weekend.  Who says people aren't watching TV on Friday nights?

Tuesday's Tough Trivia Question: "Let's Be Careful Out There" What show, who said it and what was the actor's name that played him?  If you get all 3 right...10 POINTS...NO GOOGLING!!!!

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