Maverick

Aidy's Adele was awful. She can. not. do an English accent. She sucked doing Rebel Wilson too. Just because they're built the same doesn't mean she can pull an impression off. Andrew Garfield seems like a poo man's Daniel Radcliffe to me. Kinda bland. I didn't find him particularly attractive with the shaved head look. I liked Emma Stone when she hosted, but the overbearing girlfriend vibe was not endearing. The best part of the night was Jack and Chloe showing up. Awesome!

Chick with a Schtick? Check. (Loreal. No, not the cosmetics) Healthy Cook who wants to preach to us about how tasty health food is? Check. (Donna) Food Blogger? Check, (Emma) "Hot" Guy for Suzie to drool over? Check. (Luca) Personal Chef for the "real" chefs to snark on? Check. (Nicole) Home Cook for the the "real chefs" to hate on? Check. (Aryen) Guy Who Lost a Bunch of Weight--and probably doesn't want to talk about it? Check. (Reuben) Chef Who Learned to Cook from His Mon/Grandmom/Aunt/Great-Great-Great Grandma's Ghost? Check. (Kenny) Classically Trained Chef who think he's better than the room? Check. (Christopher...guessing on the arrogant part, but his clothes in both pictures scream "Doucebag!") Hmmm....I've never seen a lineup like this before. Brava casting team. I hope you were in a nice tropical locale when you phoned this in. Or I know...you couldn't get to work because of the polar vortex and you had to go with the rejects from previous seasons. Or maybe you dog ate your call sheets. I do give them credit for only recycling one (maybe two--I think Chris was on Cutthroat Kitchen) contestant from previous shows. Until I realized that contestant was Lenny. Then you lost all that credit, and actually end up in a severely debit position. Seriously? What an annoying moron. The only good part of his Guy's Grocery Games episode was watching him lose in the final round. He had better be booted damn quick here. Apparently Donna is not just a healthy cook, she's also a holistic life coach. Ugh, the preachy will be turned up to 1,000 with her. Why do the "healthy" POV cooks still sign up for this show? It's clear the judges will never pick a winner with that goal. Even if they do like the food (and generally the chef in that role gets lukewarm reviews, they're always more ga-ga over the "I lost a bunch of weight!" contestant) it's clear they don't think that type of show will sell to the audience so they will never pick anyone from that role.

I thought it was right after they captured Lucas and Keira was taking the remaining wedges on the time travel device to Alec's lab for safe keeping.

I loathe the Framily ads. I think they're supposed to be surreal but they're really just dumb. I'm kind of on the fence about Kyle Mooney on SNL, but these commercials are not raising my opinion of him.

I saw a bit of the Very Brady Sequel movie today. My God...it was like two retro movies in one. I'd forgotten how...90s all the non-Bradys were. Grunge! Pagers! Grunge! David Spade! Grunge! I was impressed that in addition to all the references to the show they worked in, they managed to get the animated Bradys in there too. One interesting I noticed was that one of the lifeguards who snarks on Greg in the pool scene is the guy who plays Diggle on Arrow.

Didn't they change Chris' midway through the first season?

"Wait a minute. If they weren't asleep they were awake!" "Well there's a monumental conclusion!"

You mean neglectful pimps.

The Walking Dead is the #1 show on cable; I think Legion of Doom is sexy enough to sell. It's all about location, location, location. Get out the swamp, baddies. If you can't get WiFi, how you gonna Tweet?

Oded Fehr as Dr. Fate was awesome. The voice casting on this show was outstanding but he was one of the best. Carl Lumbly as Martian Manhunter was great too. Also loved: Nathan Fillion as Vigilante, Gina Torres as Vixen and Kin Shriner as Green Arrow. Special mention to George Eads as Captain Atom (but boo to him bailing after one turn and being replaced by Corey Cox) and Dennis Farina as Wildcat.

Lazy toaster.

Mega creepy.

Oh, I'm sure seeing itself in a mirror won't confuse the bird. It'll just think it's in an episode of SVu and be hanging around waiting for Benson and Stabler to show up.

Preach! That one is so bad I actually feel embarrassed for the actor. It should actually be an ad for a shrink, because the dude clearly has obsessive/stalker issues, co-dependency/needy issues and child regressive issues, with a touch of gender identity issues. The man's a walking case study for an advanced psych class.

Really?? I like to take one of the walls out the home of the people behind this product, replace it with a piece of clear glass, have random people come by to observe them and see how 'undisturbed' they are. Seriously, they think the birds aren't going to notice the humans gawking at them and high tail it out of there?

I wish the producers had been a little risky when Mrs. G left and not replaced her. It was a move that didn't make any sense. They could have even split the girls up and still had them interact at the shop. The latter seasons were such a disappointment structurally.

Camilla: "I don't know what's going on right now". Me: "Bitch, you drunk. And you crazy."

I think the change is supposed to be that Kellogg figured out there's two Alec's. Somehow from that he determined that Esher was an even bigger threat than he originally thought and had to get him out of the way. He already knew Emily was under Esher's thumb (and had a shady past) so she was the perfect tool to eliminate him.

There's a commercial for AARP insurance that's been around for years. It has various AARP-eligible people at a gas station talking to a disembodied announcer about what the insurance and expressing surprise at what it can do for them ("they'll pay someone to walk my dog?!?"). The thing's been around for years. AARP has a new ad, but the odd thing is it's the exact same ad. From what I can tell, they've redone it word for word by with different actors--actors that are physically similar to the original but, to be blunt, worse. The original was hardly Shakespeare but this new one is so bad it reads like an SNL parody. I can't fathom why they remade a lame mediocre commercial that had been run into the ground, much less made such a schlocky version. ETA I was finally able to find the new one on Youtube. The ad agency posted it to tout their work. I think my favorite is "Did you lawn care?"

In addition to eHarmony and Christian Mingle, I am tired of the Our Time ads. I can't stand the one guy who drones on about getting his first flirt 30 seconds after signing on to the site. You can tell he's some douchey ex-frat boy who's only single and looking to mingle on an online website because his first two wives wised up and kicked his arrogant ass to the curb and his entire circle of friends, co-workers and casual acquaintances are on to him and have warned any eligible women they know of about him.

It's been a looong time since I've seen the 70s episodes, but as I recall they get worse as they go along. I seem to recall the one with Rick Springfield being pretty nutty and then there's various robots, aliens and chat with a dolphin or two, I think.

Even the original could put too much focus on interlopers, so I could have lived a Ramos season but making them a main part of the show is too much. The retcons bug me more. They are minor details...they're major events that couldn't have happened based on what we saw. I could live with Cally, James and the rest of the final few seasons being retconned out of existence, because just UGH but then they go and acknowledge Cally's existence at JRs funeral because they can get the actress to show up for a few hours. I also hate the way they use Lucy and Ray. They were never my favorite characters, but they're Ewings. Either use they as part of some family-based plot (even if most of their participation takes place off screen) or leave them completely off the canvas. It's annoying they're the only family to show up at parties, never with any of their own family in tow. Cidre is proud she never watched the original show, but I don't understand why TNT wouldn't want someone with at least familiarity and appreciation of the old show running it so as not to piss off the fans. I don't expect or want every plot and character of the decade plus run of the original referenced but I would like to not have to put up with the grown up street urchin Cliff supposedly adopted when he was running around thinking he was John Ross' dad.

I think past-Keira's murderer is ambiguous. The way the scene is staged your gut reaction is Keira shot her other self to avoid a contact with her or because she would be a hindrance (not yet having experienced Alec's betrayal). Alec's line in the previews could mean he was investigating Keira's death and was close to finding out she shot herself. If that's what happened though, it would have made sense for Keira to hide her counterpart's body and not reveal to either Alec that she was from the future. The other scenario is that Emily killed Keira as well as Escher and when Alec finds out he feels betrayed by her. It looks like Emily is eliminating anyone who would interfere with Alec running off with her, most likely with the help of Kellogg. He probably promised her that she and Alec would be left alone if she assassinated a list of people her provided her...a list of people that just happen to be a danger to him too.

Ann is a poor sport. She's a sore winner and 10 times worse when she loses. This show, Chopped, Next Iron Chef....she's shown herself not to be the nicest person to varying degrees on all of them.

The woman is drama personified. She's perfect for this show. I'm sure pimping her kids out again lately (that Today show interview was a doozie) helped too.