And I was so pumped about being right about Tim Foyle (or as I still think of him, Lucky) that I didn't really think too hard on the holes. Like why Tim would ask Veronica for help (maybe he wanted to prove to himself that he was better than her?) or why Mindy didn't think, "Mmm. Maybe my lover really did kill my husband. I'll still ask Keith to help me find out what happened. But I'll lie to him to stay out of trouble. That's the ticket!" I did love that Landry told Keith his plan to frame Grieco would have worked if Keith wasn't the acting sheriff. It was thisclose to being the admission of a Scooby Doo villian.
Complaining aside, I was entertained by the episode. I kept changing my mind about whodunit until the very end. And I loved that V could totally get in Tim's face and all he could do was sputter. Cause she's better than him. And he couldn't kill her in front of the whole class.
You know what I didn't even mind... Wallace spied Parker and Logan having a meal and broke the news to Veronica. She took it in stride and when Logan asked if she was cool with him asking her friend out, Veronica gave him the okay. I don't think there's any way in hell she's totally okay with it, but it's nice that he asked. And it was nice that Parker made it clear that she was interested in pursuing anything that would hurt Veronica. And what's college for if not dating friends' recycled exes? Plus, this totally opens things up for Piz! Seriously. I'm starting to forget what homeboy looks like.
Next week: The Pussycat Dolls hijak Veronica's timeslot until May, when she returns with four stand alone episode and with Keith in official law enforcement, Veronica puts the Mars in Mars Investigations.
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Yes, Jude’s still gotta end up with Tommy. Yes, I’d still wanna end up with Spiederman. But suddenly I’m getting why so many people dig Jamie. He’s grown up a lot since the first season. In addition to ditching the spiky hair and nerdy punk gear, he’s also turned into a mature, devoted guy. And yes, I’m aware that I’m talking about a character on a teen show.
This week we saw how much Jamie loves Patsy. Remember when she was a superfun punk cartoon? Well now she’s a supertragic alcoholic. And the awesome thing is, it makes total sense. On the verge of losing her record contract and his job, Jamie coaxes Patsy to lay down the vocals of a promising track and then he and Kwest bring in a horn section to make it the commercial single Darius demanded. Patsy’s horrified and she walks out on Jamie, ending the show in a bar, way past closing time.
In Jude and Tommy land: they’re doing a bickering little dance that means they will soon hook up. So that’s awesome. He wants to branch out as a producer and work on Karma’s album. She wants to branch out as an artist and co-produce with him. By the end, they both get their wish and continue to make schmoopy faces at one another.
Next week: Jamie makes Patsy choose between his adorable ass and the bottle. Also, it looks like our favorite punk rocker gets into a drunk driving accident. Dun dun dun!
Is it weird that this photo makes me happy? Like in a parallel universe Cyrus and Veronica are enjoying a lovely mentor/pupil relationship? Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's weird.
Ah, Oz. HBO's hyper-violent prison soap opera is absolutely delicious. The white supremacists vs. the Islamic dudes vs. the mob guys vs. the Latin dudes. The complicated drama is literally life and death, and I love this satisfying moment when O'Reilly kills the man who raped the female doctor with whom he is obsessively in love. It was sweet. Or at least as sweet as a prison revenge murder can be...
Before we get into the Greek tragedy that is Tim Riggins, let’s focus on the overboard of adorable that is Matt Saracen and Julie Taylor.
After a makeout/study session, in which the couple is hilariously interrupted by Matt’s tapioca-loving Grandma, Julie decides that it’s time to take the next step. Actually, from the look of things, she decides that it’s time for them to skip a couple of steps and make a run for the big one.
Landry and Smash help Matt come up with a game plan for doin’ the deed and another football player helps the cause by donating the least romantic lakehouse ever. A kink is thrown into the plan when Mrs. Coach sees Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Landry buying condoms. She gives her little girl an impassioned speech about why a 15 year old is too young to give up her V card and gives us a glimpse of a past a whole lot like Tyra’s present.
When it comes down to it, Julie clearly isn’t ready and Matt insists that they wait. Then they leg wrestle (seriously; I’m not being euphemistic) and innocently fall asleep. Unfortunately during all this, Coach has been alerted to the whole “condom” thing and the whole “Julie lying when she said was at a friend’s” thing. She rolls in past curfew and though they’re pissed, they’re happy she’s alive and relieved when she insists that she’s still in possession of her virginity.
In the land of not-so-adorable land of teenage alcoholism: Tim’s back to drinking and brawling. Bad Daddy Walt is at his side, insisting that Tim can handle his own. Knowing where this slippery slope leads, Tyra appeals to his big brother Billy to step in, but Billy insists that Tim has to learn that Walt’s bad news on his own. And learn he does. Tim defends his dad when Coach accuses the man of stealing a $3000 video camera from the team's AV room. Tim inevitably finds the camera and starts to kick his dear ol' dad out, but Walt beats him to the punch, making sure Tim sees how easy he is to walk out on again.
Aching for a fight, Tim gets loaded and goes to a bar where he and his dad hustled some pool players. He starts getting his ass handed to him when the bartender calls Tyra. She and Billy show up and pull a bloody and broken Tim out of the melee. What is it about Billy that makes him break my heart a little more every time he shows up to help his baby brother?
Next week: More on stuff I didn’t talk about, like the aftermath of Buddy’s infidelity admission (he’s hoping to stay on good buddy Eric’s couch) and Street in Austin, trying to make the quad rugby team and hanging out with a cute tattoo artist. It goes without saying that it will most likely rule.
Lamb is dead, y’all. It came out of nowhere. Or rather, Grieco came out of nowhere. With a bat. And a system full of amphetamines. Which is never a good combo. So Lamb got smashed in the head and the episode ended with Keith sadly telling Veronica that their comic foil was dead and then taking over his old job. There’s a new sheriff in Neptune. And he looks somewhat less hot in the uniform than our Dorothy-loving Don. Sigh.
On to the mini-mysteries: Did Josh kill his dad? Did Veronica help him escape? Where is Stosh Piznarski? In short: no, yes(ish), the hell if I know. Turns out Josh is allergic to peanuts and the cookies he asked V to bring him caused a reaction that led to a paramedic reviving him with an epi pen and Josh overpowering said paramedic in a daring, off-camera escape. Then he totally kidnapped Mason to try to force him to admit that he killed the coach. Lots of crazy, Fugitive-like behavior follows and finally it turns out that the coach killed himself (with an Army-buddy’s help) and tried to make it look like a car-jacking to secure a big insurance settlement for his family. He had recently been diagnosed with a horrible brain disease and was about to die in a painful, expensive manner. So Veronica helps another cute boy nobly escape to Mexico. Everyone thinks he killed his dad, but his mom and autistic brother are financially secure. Does the fact that it’s obviously not a carjacking mean that they still get the huge settlement? I’m really not clear on all that and I don’t care to think too deeply about it since…
Mac totally got her groove back! Yay! So did Logan! Boo? I can’t decide whether or not to hiss at the development between Parker and Logan. When was the last time we saw Logan have as much fun as he had with Mac, Parker and Bronson on the Valentines Day Scavenger Hunt? I’m drawing a blank. And if he and Veronica are too screwed up to make it work right now, then at least Parker’s someone I like. Plus, it will make for some good drama. Back to Mac: she and Bronson totally did it! And he didn’t proceed to blow up anything, rape anyone or kill himself! Woo hoo! Not that she and Beav ever sealed the deal, but you know what I mean. And they had a lovely, sweet scene that makes me renew my vow to kill anyone that causes that poor girl any more emotional damage. Consider yourselves warned, writers.
In the land of crimes Tim Foyle totally committed: That’s still my guess. Right now it seems like Landry and Mindy are too obvious and I guess Greco’s a suspect, but he seems to really think that Mindy’s setting him up. I’m not sure why Tim would kill Dean O’Dell (maybe he wanted a super duper nice rec letter like Veronica’s, but failed to measure up), but the other three would be kind of disappointing. Especially since Weevil found Landry’s bloody shirt on campus. And who would bug Landry’s phone (other than Veronica and Keith)? It’s gotta be Tim. Of course, I’m the same girl who thought Liane Mars killed Lilly. But whatev.
On How I Met Your Mother, Robin is uncomfortable with the things Ted still has from past relationships, like a couch pillow and a cute lamp. He sucks it up and gets rid of all the old mementos, only out that all her dogs are gifts from old boyfriends. Fun banter ensues and hilarity comes in the form of zany single guy Barney, who stages a retaliatory one-man play that consists largely of repeating Lily’s least-favorite word, “moist,” and spraying her in the face with a water gun.
On Rules of Engagement, that brunette chick is uncomfortable with the bed Oliver Hudson has from his past relationship. He sucks it up and agrees to return to her smaller bed, only to be reminded of all the men who’ve been there before him. Fun banter does not ensue and hilarity is not breached by David Spade, who at least doesn’t look as bored as that dude from Seinfeld and Less Than Perfect.
It's weird that these shows are in the same programming block, because they're in completely different leagues.
I've seriously watched the screener of this pilot six times. It's fantastic. The only thing that disappoints me about the final product is the changed music. Arcade Fire's Rebellion Lies has been replaced with something that makes Tommy's descent into crime far less haunting. It's a shame, but it's still a damn fine pilot.
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And don't forget: it premieres Monday, February 26 on NBC
My Degrassi expectations have plummeted to a new low. Apparently for Emma, one of the stages of grief is Rancid Bitch. Still reeling over the death of JT and rocked by the revelation that Manny’s parents want her to come back home, Emma focuses her anger on Manny and the Spirit Squad. Apparently they’re not supposed to move on and perform in their first city-wide competition because the mascot’s dead.
Since he goes to the same school, Emma blames Damian (AKA the first guy since JT to treat Manny like anything but a collection of orifices) for JT’s death. TeenMom insists that Damian is actually friends with the stabber, but we’ll see if anything comes from that claim.
Looking back, the idea of watching Emma handle her misplaced anger had a lot of potential, but he execution was clunky and painful to watch. It was the worst episode since Sean found out Emma went down on Jay and lost all capacity for reason.
On to Instant Star... I’m not sure how long it’s been since Tommy left, telling Jude he didn’t think he’d be coming back, but since then, Liam has also fled G Major to find himself in South America and Jamie’s gotten seriously cuter.
We begin with Jude judging the new Instant Star finalists. She’s eager to shed the “instant” part of her label and grow up as an artist, distancing herself from the show that made her a household name. Darius is surprisingly supportive, but then the drunken pictures of her from last season’s finale surface with a blackmail note. Jude tries to handle the situation on her own, but she tells one of the IS finalists, Karma, about the blackmail in a spontaneous act of bonding. The newbie rats her out to Darius in the name of “Instant Star sisterhood.” And Jude soon finds herself performing on the IS finale and Darius handling her problems for her.
The night of the finale, Tommy shows up with the little girl we saw in the last episode. Jude jumps to the same conclusion as the rest of us, assuming he has a daughter with Portia. She ignores his plea to listen to him, throws a tantrum in her dressing room and refuses to perform. Jamie comes in and demonstrates his own maturity, gently telling her that she's the only one to blame for always ending up the victim. She cries and he holds her, but doesn’t back down, telling her that it’s time to grow up.
Jude performs a killer new song, rocks the finale and then tells Darius that she didn’t pull it together for anyone but her fans. She’s a pro and he’s going to have to start treating her like one. She walks home through the rain as we see Karma named the new Instant Star. Back at home, Jude uploads to blackmail photos to her own webpage and says goodbye to her good girl image.
In the second part of the premiere, Jude deals with the aftermath of everyone seeing the blackmail pics. Darius tells her that she has to address her possibly alienated fans at Karma’s first press conference. Jude apologizes for offending anyone and tries to deflect attention back to Karma, who sweetly says that when she looks at the pics, she sees a talented artists who’s not afraid to be real. Bitch. Then she underlines the differences between the two performers: Jude’s into punk guitar riffs and in addition to having a soft spot for ballads, Karma’s a virgin. The members of the press collectively look to our 17 year-old protagonist and ask if that means she’s not. The look on D’s face is priceless.
Jude declines to comment and then finds out that she’s been pulled from performing at a Bar Mitzvah, which was part of her Darius-prescribed penance. Seems the kid’s record exec father want someone a little more pure, like trashy Karma with her tats and faux-chastity. Jude decides to crash the party with Punk Rock Patsy to tell the man that it’s not cool to judge women based on their sexuality. She ends up playing dueling diva onstage after Karma claims Jude couldn’t make it due to her “struggles with promiscuity and the bottle” and then launches into one of our girl’s songs. As usual, Patsy is hilarious, spitting out the virgin drinks and flashing her boobs in an attempt to gain entry to the party.
When Karma insults Jude onstage, Patsy shoves her into the giant cake and Karma reaches out, pulling one side of Jude’s top down with her. Then Patsy gets the classic line: “Jude. Your boob’s out.” So if you’re not keeping track, Jude has now shown the public drunken pictures of her rolling around on a hotel bed, made her fans question her virginity and accidentally flashed a bunch of tweens. Luckily, the party made headlines and Darius seems okay with his young star’s “wardrobe malfunction.”
In star-crossed lovers land: Kwest and Sadie have a tentative relationship and Kwest and Tommy have tension based on the young sound engineer moving up as a producer. At the Bar Mitzvah, T sees the new couple kissing and after Sadie leaves to check on Jude, he rips into Kwest about guy code. Kwest points out that Sadie’s not even the Harrison sister that Tommy wants and says that if Tommy ever did get Jude, it would be the worst thing that ever happened to her. Tommy punches him and Sadie comes back just in time to think the fight is about her.
When Jude finally finds out that the little girl she saw is Darius’ kid and not Tommy’s, she apologizes and he insists that she’s not off base in thinking that he’s a mess. Is it me or does he owe her an apology for being cryptic and leaving her hanging for no real reason? She doesn’t seem to think so and when he calls her a kid, she points out that she’ll soon be legal. Awesome.
In the land of tarty hypocrites: After flirting with Spiederman all episode, we see Karma gather her clothes and leave Jude’s rehearsal space while Spied’s still naked and asleep on the floor. Meanwhile, when pushed by Sadie to reveal who she slept with, Jude admits that she’s actually a virgin.
Next week: Karma moves in on Tommy and bitch better step off if she doesn’t want to see how scrappy Miss Harrison can really be.
I'm still really unclear about how Derek understood that the silent, brooding little girl (psst! I think she might be like a metaphor for Meredith!) well enough to pull his wispy lover out of the water. Seriously, y'all, if Mere ate a sandwich I really think she'd have had the energy to swim (even in those super heavy converse) over to the ramp that McDreamy used when he rescued her.
I was actually sad about the whole Meredith dying thing. The moment between McSteamy, McDreamy and Addison was great. Then Izzie started in with a really self-centered "I believe" speech, managing to chastize George for getting married too soon. "Glass houses," I say to the girl who got engaged to a patient she'd never seen outside the hospital. Also: "Your friend's dying in there so shut the hell up!"
And then there it was: Meredith's dead(ish) and she's hanging out with the ghosts of hotties past. Lame. And yes, I'll watch next week. But that's only because Kyle Chandler's so freaking pretty.
Remember when grief used to make him meaner? Part of me misses that now that Logan’s holed himself up in his suite at the Neptune Grand, refusing to return room service trays or let housekeeping air out his decadent squalor. To lift his friend’s spirits, Dick sets Logan up with his date’s sister. Except she’s 11 and Logan lands babysitting duty while Dick and his date run off to a swim team party and then to Vegas.
Kid Sister stands in for the viewing audience, trying to convince Logan to break out of his stupor and reach out to his lost love. Eventually she calls a radio station and makes a long distance dedication from Logan to Veronica. The look on V’s face as she hears the dedication, followed by Nick Lachey’s “What’s Left of Me,” is priceless. As is her look when she runs into the pair in the elevator and notices that Logan’s young companion is wearing her shirt.
Remember that guy on the left? Yeah, I thought we were gonna get to see quite a bit more of him since the A story revolved around Hearst basketball. But aside from a few scenes at the beginning, Wallace was pretty absent from the episode. The mystery centers on the coach’s son, Josh (that's him on the right), who is accused of murdering his dad after the game. Mars Investigations is hired to prove his innocence when Lamb targets him as the prime suspect.
Interestingly the A story doesn’t wrap up at the end of the episode. Instead, Veronica is arrested in the middle of Landry’s class for aiding in Josh’s escape from prison. Dun dun dun! Speaking of Landry, he’s not shaping up to be the best alibi for Mindy. Seems someone took her car out of the valet around one in the morning and returned shortly after Tim’s witness heard the gunshot. Fishy. Also, O'Dell wrote Veronica a really lovely rec letter for that FBI internship and she's through to the next round. This only strengthens her resolve to find his killer, who I think is Tim Foyle. My guess is that he was having a secret affair with Mindy. What? I'm allowed to be completely off base if I want.
In other news, Dick got married in Vegas and is need of a good lawyer. Lucky for him (and all of us), Logan knows a lawyer. That’s right, kids: Cliff’s back and he’s just as skeezy and wonderful as ever!
As much as I want to punch Chad Michael Murray's Lucas in the mug and call him a douche, I have to admit that he is the most earnest freaking character I have ever encountered on TV. Every line is delivered like it's the last thing he'll ever get to say before he dies in the French Revolution or of Cholera or in some romantic combination of the two.
In the blatant Breakfast Club rip-off episode, "Pictures of You," the students are randomly paired off to get to know one another beyond the five stereotypes Nerd, Jock, Prom Queen, Loner and Slut (or "Friendly"). The beautiful thing about this show is that it really struggles with the idea that those are the only categories available for teenagers. Sure, some of those labels are mixed and matched (Peyton's a Loner/Prom Queen), but the characters are each a combination of broad strokes and grand gestures.
Luke’s deep because he’s always quoting Important Books in his narration and he’s totally writing a novel. Haley’s more than a nerdy tutor because she used to be a rock star. Peyton’s not your typical cheerleader, she’s into angsty art. Brooke’s either playing Queen Bad Girl or peppy Stu-Co Prez, but rarely finds a happy medium. And Nathan, who may be my favorite character, is just a dude who loves basketball, and whose crazy personal life involves a dad who may be the devil and a pregnant teen bride. I know, it’s awesome.
At the end of the episode, each character had to take a picture of the person they got to know, showing how they now see the person. My favorite is the topless holier-than-thou born again virgin in leather pants. Enjoy!
It should be noted that the reason it's such a big deal for Lucas to talk to Glenda at the end is that she's Ally Sheedy and her mom totally doesn't get her. She made up a fake boyfriend and asked to get on the pill as a ploy to make her mother pay attention to her. Instead her mom said she didn't want to know who'd want to sleep with such a fat Goth chick (I'm paraphrasing), but got her a prescription any way. Also, she's the only person that Lucas has told about his "novel" and now she's going to help him with it. Me thinks Glenda's got a crush, but if I know Lucas, he'll be sticking with his faux-loner rather than jumping for the real thing.
There's a horrible, mean part of my soul that takes pride in the fact that I love Veronica Mars, but not Heroes. And Friday Night Lights, but not American Idol. It's true, I'm a big fat snob and I love bitching about how the public in general is too dense to pick up on what’s really good on TV.
But once in a while there's a really popular show that isn't totally overrated. Ugly Betty's one of those rarities. America Ferrera deserves that Golden Globe and I'd happily hand her the Emmy too. And she isn't the only thing great about the show. The supporting cast is uniformly fantastic. Wilhelmina, Amanda and Marc mince through Mode, balancing precariously on the tightrope between hilarity and cartoonish pandering without ever falling into the latter. Betty's family is poignant and plucky. And the show's message is simply that we should accept one another for who we are, no matter our color, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, gender or sense of style. That's something even a bitch like me can get behind.
This is the penultimate episode of last season. It features my favorite Instant Star song, "White Lines," and a kiss that made 14 year-olds across the Great White North squeal with glee. The new season starts Friday, February 16 and remember, it's not just for 14 year-olds. I'm serious. Stop laughing.
So I couldn't help notice the whole fake miscarriage thing you did last night with JD and that hot surgeon. It happened just after all that super zany stuff with the RV and that super touching stuff with the fetus clutching Turk's finger, which BTDub, was pretty messed up.
Anywho, the thing is, I did that in Season Two during one of Ryan and Marissa's 84 breakups. Ryan left da OC to be noble and care for Theresa and an unborn baby of questionable paternity. Then it turned out that being noble is totally contagious and Theresa pretended the baby died, but it didn't. So Ryan went back to Newport and Marissa's clavicle and he never knew that a baby that he may or may not have fathered was still totally among the living. It was hella compelling.
Who am I trying to kid? It was dumb then and it's dumb now. Don't you see how melodramatic and ridiculous it is, Scrubs? Look at what that kind of thing did to me? It signaled the beginning of the end. I started trying to wring drama out of Marissa's hissy fits near the pool and self-referential graphic novels. It was bad.
Here's my advice: Check the freshness date on your storylines, cause this one is passed due. We're talkin' chunky milk over here.
Peace Out!
The OC
PS. I stole it from Fools Rush in with Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek. That's how not-so-fresh it is.
Race is dealt with quite frankly in the book Friday Night Lights. Over fifteen years since it was published, it would be nice if it was no longer an issue, but prejudice, segregation and deep hurt still exists in places a lot further north than Dillon, TX.
This episode underlines one of the things that makes Friday Night Lights remarkable. It deals with issues without turning into a lecture (see Studio 60) or trying too hard (see Degrassi). It also shies away from moral platitudes (see One Tree Hill) and forces the viewer to sort through the moral grey area. To put it simply, it’s thought provoking.
We opened with a win for the Panthers and Smash leading all his teammates in a raucous locker room chant. We ended with blacks and whites divided, and Smash leading one faction off the practice field in an act of protest. In a passing conversation we learn that the team Dillon will next face is dealing with a scandal involving black face. What the Panthers deal with is much more ambiguous.
Stories are so much more interesting when no one’s completely right and no one’s completely wrong. Also, when they involve Powder Puff football or Quad Rugby.
Adam Baldwin (AKA Jayne from Firefly) has been cast as a grizzled NSA agent on Josh Schwartz's NBC pilot "Chuck." The good news is that Baldwin's awesome and I've heard the same about the pilot. The bad news: Baldwin's resume includes Firefly, The Inside, Day Break and a bunch of other cancelled shows.
That's right, kids! Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was on Lost last night. So was the governor from Oz and that dude from Suddenly Susan who killed Matthew Fox in Smokin' Aces. I'd look their names up on imdb, but I think those descriptions should suffice.
The episode was pretty good. Stuff went down, pulses pounded, mysteries deepened, people continued to look hot despite being covered in grime and sweat. I've said before that I'm not that into Lost anymore. I just kind of let it wash over me and try not to think anything deeper than "Cool" and "Lame," with an occasional "Aha!" I have a sneaking suspicion that thinking too hard about it is just a slippery slope to madness.
And why wouldn't we? He gets to say all the awesomely inappropriate things that were reserved for Logan before he became the schmoopy boy (nearly) every viewer wanted to cuddle. That said, I’m gonna pull a Dr. Phil and get real for a minute.
Dick's actions, both intentional and unintentional, led to Veronica's rape. Madison was not to blame. Yes, she’s a heinous bitch. Yes, she graffitied V's car with words like "Slut" and "It should have been her, Abel." Yes, had she not spit in a drink that she didn't know was laced with GHB and handed it off to our girl, Veronica wouldn't have wandered out of Shelley Pomroy's wondering what happened to her virginity.
But it seems odd that V's transferred blame of the entire messy event to Madison. She knows that Dick intended to drug Madison to make her more sexually pliable and that he encouraged Beaver to rape Veronica when she was passed out. Last year, when she thought that she'd merely had consensual and mutually out-of-it sex with Duncan, Veronica seemed to forgive Dick enough to tolerate him and not bother warning Gia about the danger of dating him. But now that she knows that his actions led to Beaver raping her, you'd think she might have reevaluated that rather benign view of Dick.
I guess this is what I'm saying: Veronica can tolerate Logan's friendship with Dick, but she can't handle an indiscretion with Madison that took place when they weren't together? I call bullshit.
The A Mystery was good. Girl gets pregnant, two possible dads, one unintentionally ingested morning after pill causes a miscarriage. Whodunit? One of the dads? The televangelist grandpa-to-be? One of his faux-faithful minions? A well-meaning best friend? Let’s just say Veronica learned the value of forgiveness. Although I didn’t see her running back to Logan, so we’ll see if it sticks.
In Who Killed Dean O’Dell land we learned: 1. Mindy’s stopped payments to Greco and on the car that she gave him as part of the “sorry I stole your bone marrow” settlement. 2. Oldest O’Dell kid is quite angry and Cyrus was thinking of sending him to one of those troubled teen bootcamps (Higher Ground-like spin-off, anyone?) 3. There was some sort of white substance (dried egg maybe?) on the windshield of the Volvo Mindy was driving the night of the murder. 4. Creepy Tim the TA is also investigating the case and found a witness who heard the gunshot on his way back to his room. He was drunk and Veronica figured out that the shot was a little after 2. 5. Greco’s a meth addict.
Am I the only one who’d forgotten how fun Weevil is? And who’s staring to forget what Wallace looks like?
Seriously. Bravo, Degrassi. If you're not careful, I'm gonna raise my expectations.
This week the Degrassi kids deal with the aftermath of JT's death. TeenMom's beside herself, sobbing in public and begging Toby to tell her exactly what JT said before he died. The fact that JT had no idea he was about to bite it does nothing to assuage her disappointment that her name was not the last thing on his lips. Bitch.
Everyone's grief manifests itself differently: Liberty tries to assert her control over her emotions, Toby develops feelings for Liberty, Manny reverts to playing Devil's Advocate and dispensing awful advice, Jimmy paints a mural and talks about the cyclical nature of violence (in case you forgot, that's why he's in a WHEELCHAIR) and Spinner makes a slideshow.
Liberty and TeenMom fight over the contents of JT's locker and when TeenMom says that JT hated Liberty, Toby tells her what JT actually said just before he died: that he still loved Lib. Damn. TeenMom's response is "You suck, Isaacs." But it's that knowledge that enables Liberty to rise above and allow TeenMom's tape of JT and her daughter to be shown during the memorial. And that tape, of JT playing with a child, and the knowledge that he'll never play with theirs, is what finally makes Liberty break down and cry.
I'm gonna call bullshit on Paige not coming back for the memorial. She and JT became friends after he went after her rapist and I don't think there's any way she'd miss saying goodbye.
Next week: Manny's starting to date the RivalPrez and everyone turns against her because his school killed JT. I was under the impression that it was one psycho kid and not an entire group, but it looks like that won't stop Emma from being a huge bitch.
Why is this show so good? By all rights I shouldn't like it. I should roll my eyes and dismiss it as something my mom would watch, but that I'm too savvy for.
And yet, it's awesome. The characters sparkle and the dialogue pops. The episodes are thematic without being like My Boys and I find myself giggling and squealing at more than just Marin and Jack. How weird and perfect are Patrick and Annie? And Jane with the plow guy? Love love love! If you're not watching it, why not?
10. Buddy Garrity (AKA Tyra's sister's best customer at the stip club--when does this man have time to go to a strip club?)
9. The fact that daughter Julie has just made her first bad grrrl friend (technically he doesn't know yet, but trust me, this is gonna chap him but good)
8. Matt Saracen continuing to date his daughter (though breaking his daughter's heart is also gonna sting)
7. His wife working (at school and for lesbian politicans)
6. The current administration's foreign policies (what, you think he only cares about football?)
5. Getting sued by the Street family.
4. Mandatory appearances on local sports shows (see also Buddy Garrity and Matt Saracen)
3. People tellin' him how to do his damn job (see above and add one lesbian politician)
And I was so pumped about being right about Tim Foyle (or as I still think of him, Lucky) that I didn't really think too hard on the holes. Like why Tim would ask Veronica for help (maybe he wanted to prove to himself that he was better than her?) or why Mindy didn't think, "Mmm. Maybe my lover really did kill my husband. I'll still ask Keith to help me find out what happened. But I'll lie to him to stay out of trouble. That's the ticket!" I did love that Landry told Keith his plan to frame Grieco would have worked if Keith wasn't the acting sheriff. It was thisclose to being the admission of a Scooby Doo villian.
Wallace spied Parker and Logan having a meal and broke the news to Veronica. She took it in stride and when Logan asked if she was cool with him asking her friend out, Veronica gave him the okay. I don't think there's any way in hell she's totally okay with it, but it's nice that he asked. And it was nice that Parker made it clear that she was interested in pursuing anything that would hurt Veronica. And what's college for if not dating friends' recycled exes? Plus, this totally opens things up for Piz! Seriously. I'm starting to forget what homeboy looks like.
