Caterina Blog

Gym for your brain!

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:02:00 +0000

Twitter and VIPs

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:57:00 +0000

I created my Twitter profile years ago, when very few people used it. That's why I stopped twitting after a couple of months. Now everyone tweets all the time, so I decided to go back to my profile. I'm now following tv VIPs. Ahahahah they're hilarious!

House - 7x23 - Moving on

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:59:00 +0000

This seventh season finale bored me. I think it is the right word to describe the episode. Beside a couple a good lines and very few really nice scenes, nothing got my attention. Except, of course, the crazy car crash at the very end. It was probably the extreme way to put the word end to an extreme relationship. Sure, House acted like a loony, but in his very particular way of being it was the only rational thing to do to express his feelings and move on. Even if the episode was mediocre, the last scene was in my opinion the perfect cliffhanger. Usually the authors leave you with your breath hold because something unexpected happens, and then you spend the following months thinking about what will be in the next season. But your thoughts are based on some hypothesis that come from hinted the writers gave you. In this case though, we have nothing to base our theories on. We have absolutely no idea what will come next. And the fact the Cuddy’s character may not even come back in the eighth season, makes everything more intricate. A plus to the last two minutes of the episode, F for the rest of it.

2011 Season Finales

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:59:00 +0000

April 19
Parenthood (NBC)

May 5
30 Rock (NBC)

May 6
Fringe (Fox)

May 8
CSI: Miami (CBS)
Brothers & Sisters (ABC)

May 12
CSI (CBS)
Community (NBC)
Outsourced (NBC)
Vampire Diaries (CW)

May 13

CSI: NY (CBS)
Smallville (CW, two hours)

May 15
Desperate Housewives (ABC, two hours)

May 16
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Mike & Molly (CBS)
Chuck (NBC)
Castle (ABC)
90210 (CW)
Gossip Girl (CW)

May 17
NCIS (CBS)
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
Raising Hope (Fox)
One Tree Hill (CW)

May 18

Criminal Minds (CBS)
Breaking In (Fox)

May 19

The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Rules of Engagement (CBS)
The Mentalist (CBS, two hours)
The Office (NBC, one hour)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Private Practice (ABC)
Bones (Fox)

May 20
Supernatural (CW, two hours)

May 22
The Simpsons (Fox)
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Family Guy (Fox, one hour)

May 23
House (Fox)

May 24

Glee (Fox)

May 25
The Middle (ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
Cougar Town (ABC, one hour)

Skins - 5x01 - Franky

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Great fifth season premiere. As Skins' habit we have a whole group of new characters every two years, and this time we start with a very complicated and twisted girl, Franky.
I was really impressed by the episode. I have noticed that in this tv show there are a lot of ups and downs, but Franky definitely pointed high for the season premiere. Amazing episode, delicate, introspective, bittersweet and tender. The other characters that I have seen so far seem to be interesting, even if not every single one of them.. yet . We'll see, it is premature to judge. For now I can say that this new season is like a fresh air breeze from the darkness of the previous seasons. Beside the first one in fact, I think that things went out of hands for a while, even if once in a while there have been amazing episodes that reminded you the greatness of the show.
My opinion so far: keep it this way!

It's a ruler!

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:46:00 +0000

Thanks to Vicenza. Thanks to bigoli, polenta and baccalà. Thanks to croissants with cream at the hotel breakfast. Thanks to the bartenders. Thanks to San Daniele, amazing sandwich. Thanks to the Japanese man who folded the candy paper in four and then put it in his pocket. Thanks to the lady who infringed the law “never take a candy from a stranger” and ate the one that was offered by the old Japanese woman. Thanks to the next stand neighbours for the offered bottles, the offered coffees, the offered cocoa-butter and the…no, they didn’t offer anything else. Thanks to Damiano, Fabio and Giulia for bringing us out for dinner, among young people, without Paola, who still remains a professional. Thanks to the lady who asked us if we sold sandwiches. Thanks to Giulio, you became our hero and if we corrupted you with our bad companion we will apologize to you father. Thanks to the signs on our backs where there were written “Cash desk” and “Credit card desk”. Thanks to Bartolini. Thanks to Melman’s colics. Thanks to Karin for this video. Thanks to Renato’s purple pullover and to Fani’s purple pullover. Thanks to the 3-1 of Padova football team. Thanks to our “???”. Thanks to the demagnetized key and its G point (a warm hug to Sesto Fiorentino). Thanks to “I Quaderni di Caterina”. Thanks to Micheal’s autographs. Thanks to those who discovered airplanes as a mean of transport. Thanks to the Chenno of north Italy. Thanks to Nandino’s Christmas mushroom. Thanks to Karin and Ton’s cakes. Thanks to Ton, in general. Thanks to those who spent more in our shop than for their house’s forniture. Thanks to who’s envious, in your face. Thanks to thieves as well. Thanks to who already knew us and came for a visit, and to who met us for the first time and would come the next one. Thanks to Marie and Bernadette for their chocolates, their laughs, for exist. Thanks to Eleonora who laughed in her sleep. Thanks to the Appenini’s fog. Thanks to Cristina’s Tom Tom. Thanks to Stefano’s compilations. Thanks to Giulio’s father. Thanks to Paola who let me use her car. Thanks to my adoptive sister who arrived first and also bought me dinner; I thank her for her fantastic drive as well. Thanks to the conversations in Italian-english-french-spanish-dutch-german-flemish-vicentin. Thanks to the speaker and to who moved the station wagon. Thanks to the steakhouse and the tirolese karaoke. Thanks to Giovanna’s ginseng. Thanks to the toasts at the end of the day, the ones before lunch, after lunch, in the middle of the afternoon. Thanks to Rakam. Thanks to those who believed we were the info point. Thanks to the cactus I didn’t find. Thanks to Elena for the image that took off my mother’s make up. Thanks to my father who signed right in the middle. Thanks to the stitch left on the Eurostar. Thanks to the curly two-in-one eyelashes. Thanks to our wonderful t-shirts. Thanks to Maria Concetta’s hair band (passata in Tuscany, cerchietto for the the rest of Italy). Thanks to those who didn’t pay. Thanks to who published for Il Castello. Thanks to the trolley-husbands. Thanks to Roberta, even if we didn’t say hello after all. Thanks to who run to have the ruler. Thanks to those who stayed at the warehouse. Thanks to the journalists and the interviews. Thanks to the passes that didn't work. Thanks to the motorway restaurant that didn’t have the bathroom, the pizza, the sandwiches and the coffee. Thanks to who didn’t know the road. Thanks to the meetings in the elevator. Thanks to those who stitched at the stand. Thanks for the stand. A special thanks to “Who the hell are you?” and to “You’ve been with us for three days, but we still don’t know your name and now it’s too late for asking because otherwise we would look bad”.

Thanks to my mother… and I don’t have anything to add, it explains itself.

Thanks to those who asked what on earth a ruler could be used for.

Thanks also to those who didn’t come. I know you will come next time, so since I’m already thanking, I thank you in advance.

The big bang theory - 4x03 - The Zazzy Substitution - Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:08:00 +0000

Penny: I hear you broke up with Amy.
Sheldon: A breakup would imply she was my girlfriend. She was a girl who was my friend who is now a girl who is not my friend.
Penny: Wow. That's, like, the worst country song ever.

Amy: In a world where rhinoceroses are domesticated pets,who wins the Second World War?
Sheldon: Uganda.
Amy: Defend.
Sheldon: Kenya rises to power on the export of rhinoceroses. A Central African power block is
formed,colonizing North Africa and Europe. When war breaks out,no one can afford the luxury of a rhino. Kenya withers,Uganda triumphs.
Amy: Correct.My turn.
Sheldon: In a world where a piano is a weapon,not a musical instrument, on what does Scott Joplin play "The Maple Leaf Rag"?
Amy: Tuned bayonets.
Sheldon: Defend.
Amy: Isn't it obvious?
Sheldon: You're right.My apologies.

Sheldon: She's not my girlfriend. She's a girl and she's my friend,but there's
no touching or unsanitary exchange of saliva. Although,for the record,on one occasion, she licked her thumb to remove raspberry
jelly from the corner of my mouth. It's an action we both regret to this day.

Raj: Nothing makes beer taste better than cool clear Rocky Mountain spring water. Where are the Rocky Mountains,anyway?
Howard: Philadelphia.
Raj: Really?I thought they were out West someplace.
Howard: Think about it,Raj.Where did the movie Rocky take place?
Raj: Philadelphia. Okay,now I get it.

Sheldon's mother: He thinks he's such a smarty pants.He's no different from any man. You tell 'em not to do
something,that's all they want to do. If I hadn't told my brother Stumpy not to clear out the wood chipper by hand, we'd still be calling him Edward. Now,don't you move. I'll bring over all the food.
Leonard: No,no,no,I can do it.
Sheldon's mother: Well,isn't that sweet?

The big bang theory - 4x01 - The robotic manipulation - Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:17:00 +0000

Raj: When Winnie the Pooh got his head stuck in the honey tree, his friends all graped onto him and pull and pull.
Leonard: You do what you want I'm not touching another man's honey tree.

Nurse: What is this?
Howard: It's a robot arm.
Nurse: Where's the rest of the robot?
Howard: I only built the arm.
Nurse: Because that's all you needed, right?

Sheldon: I am aware of the way humans usually reproduce which is messy, unsanitary and based on living next to you for three years, involves loud and unnecessary appeals to a deity.
Penny: Oh, God.
Sheldon: Yes, exactly.

Sheldon: I just don't want to be yet another flip-flop fatality.

Sheldon: Well that's no threat, my mother's always wanted a grandchild.
Penny: Really? Your deeply religious born-again Christian mother wants a test-tube grandbaby born out of wedlock?
Sheldon: Curses!

Sheldon: I have a Masters degree and two Doctorates. The things I *should* know, I do know.

Sheldon: (to Penny) Consequently, if Amy and I choose to bring new life into this world, it will be accomplished clinically, with fertility experts in a lab with Petri dishes. Which reminds me, you have broad hips, a certain corn fed vigor, is your womb available for rental?

Penny: Can I ask you a question?
Sheldon: Given your community college education, I encourage you to ask me as many as possible.

House - 7x01 - Now what? - Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:41:00 +0000

House: This isn't gonna work.
Dr. Cuddy: That's it? You can't just say that and shut up.
House: It's just a statement of fact. It's not a debatable proposition.
Dr. Cuddy: Right. Because you can see the future.
House: No, but I can see the past. And you're gonna remember all the horrible things I've done, and you're going to try and convince yourself that I've changed. And I'm gonna start doing those horrible things again, because I haven't changed. Then you'll realize that... I'm an insane choice for someone who has a kid. And from there, it's a short step to the inevitable conclusion that all of this... was a mistake.

House: You think I can change. Tell me where I'm wrong.
Dr. Cuddy: I don't want you to change. I know you're screwed up. I know you are always gonna be screwed up. But you're the most incredible man I've ever known. You are always gonna be... the most incredible man I have ever known. So unless you're breaking up with me, I'm going home now.

House: You think I'm afraid to go public? I'm gonna prove you wrong.
Dr. Cuddy: With a tripod?
House: With a sex tape. We'll send it to Wilson. It's win-win. We get to do it again. And... he might actually learn something.

Dr. Cuddy: Why didn't you let him in?
House: You were thinking about Wilson while we were having sex? That's so cool! So was I.

House - 7x01 - Now what?

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:22:00 +0000

I still don't know what to think about this season premiere. I will probably watch it again and again and again... just because I loved it!!! But it wasn't the usual House episode, it almost seemed like a whole different new show: too much Huddy and not so much House. Honestly, do I really care about it? The answer is, of course, NO! Great episode!!! It opened the door for so many new interesting scenes for the future, and I can't wait! Too bad for just two things: we didn't have the chance to see House dealing with Thirteen leaving (yet), and I wanted to see more Wilson, but I think I just have to wait for it. It's amazing how a seven years old show has still the strenght to get new and reinvent itself: awesome writers. So, now what? We wait 'till next monday, of course!

The big C - 1x04 - Playing the cancer car

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:36:00 +0000

This show is killing me! Every new episode is better than the previous one, Laura Linney is simply amazing playing her character, and the supporting actors are well chosen and they fit perfectly in their roles. The story is both funny and tragic. Funny because the situation is presented like that, even if in the reality of things is the opposite. For the whole episode the critic condition of a cancer patient is faced as one of the many things that could happen in your life and is showed almost as a normal disease. The person that you are and the person that you could be meet on the screen, and (no doubts about that) you like the person you could be way more than the other one. But in the end, the very last minutes of the episode, you come back to reality again and an endless sadness and desperation grow inside you. Like in this episode: a day of fun and crazy shopping, almost a perfect happy day, but then... Cathy leaves the car as a present for her son.
Excellent written show, full of feelings and thoughts. When you've done watching an episode, you just stay still, you hold your breath and you realize there are so many things you wish you could do.

Glee - Season 1

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:23:00 +0000

I'm not sure what to think about this show. It's definitely one of the most popular show right now, and I have to say that is original and nice to watch (pretty much all the time), it's funny and well played; some of the characters are amazing and really interesting and full of potential. But there's still something that doesn't convince me. Maybe the fact that is all about musicals (not my favourite kind of show), or maybe the fact that something more could come out from the show, but it just doesn't. For example they try to create a storyline, and they get lost right in the middle of it; they face a lot of problems about education, art teaching, teenagers issues, but they don't go deep into them. And so you have this nice taste of a great show, but at the same time you don't completely make it yours. I will keep watching it though, because it's a really good show and I hope it could get better. We'll see!

"Sort Of" - a Peggy/Don video

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:02:00 +0000

Mad men - 4x07 - The suitcase

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:08:00 +0000

What a great episode!!! I'm not sure I can say this was the best episode of the series so far, because it wasn't focuse that much on the show itself, but it was definitely a break in the characters Don and Peggy. Now we know so many things about them, their hidden and secret personalities came out, and from now on the only thing we can expect is that everything is going to get better. Maybe slowly, but the difficult moments we have seen lately I think ended with the Don and Peggy scenes of this episode. Scenes that brought to maybe one of the best tv moment I've ever watched, a well definied climax, excellent played, that leads to a good, even if sad, ending. Nothing was out of place, and even if this wasn't the usual Mad Men episode, we were still able to follow the storyline. Storyline that is now even more interesting, and Mad Men keeps growing no stop as one of the best tv show ever.

The Riches

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:19:00 +0000

I didn't like so much the first episode of the series, but I decided to keep watching because I saw a lot of potential in this show. Maybe the very first episode finds you completely unprepared on travellers' culture and lifestyle and that's why you're not sure if it's going to be a really good or a really bad show. It turns out already in the second episode that it's a great series, an amazing story with incredible characters and a whole new world to discover. After a while you find yourself thinking about this confortable and clean life you're kind of stuck in, and you realize that the american dream is not such a sweet dream; it looks a lot more like a war you have to fight every day, and the hardest fight is the one against yourself.
If you're looking for a comic and full of laughs series this is not the best to pick up, but I hardly recommend it if you want to see a well written show!

Cougar Town

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Probably one of the best new tv show this year. Cougar Town is funny and sweet, well written and with incredible actors. The comedy is genuine and hilarious, there are no boring moments and every second fits perfectly in the story. Each character is well described and played: Courteney Cox is just brilliant and the role of the new divorced-still young and beautiful woman and mother is perfect for her; the best friend and neighbor Christa Miller comes straight from Scrubs giving her best as the bitch but sweet woman, as always; Josh Hopkins is handsome and sweet and unconventional as usual; and finally the amazing Dan Byrd (already seen in the very nice Aliens in America show) rises up as a new and fantastic actor. I strongly recommend Cougar Town!

United States of Tara

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:16:00 +0000

Amazing show with the outstanding Toni Collette. It's just incredible how she can play so many different characters. Of course they're kind of stereotyped, but that's exactly what you expect from a Multiple Personalities Disorder. The writing is brilliant. From one side in fact it shows how interesting and weird, and also sometimes funny, this very particular kind of disorder is, but on the other side it also shows how difficult, for both the affected person and their family, the every day life is. Main characters are well played, especially Marshall and the character of Max, the husband, is so sweet and tender towards Tara and the alters. His behaviour indicates a deep love for the family, and even with the simplicity of his personality he always try to make things better, showing how hard it is, but at the same time not impossible.
I highly recommend this show!

Justice

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Justice is probably the best legal show I've ever seen and I definitely do not understand why they didn't make a second season. Each episode has a very interesting case and everything is explained with incredible rationality and clearness. While many others legal drama are based most of all on the human case of the episode or the relationships between the characters, Justice is focused on the legal procedure of the trail, it's like being behind the scenes of the court. More over the characters are well mixed and played in an amazing way. No surprises considering the cast (Victor Garber, Kerr Smith, Rebecca Mader and Eamonn Walker) and of course the great producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Excellent show.

Harper's island

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:21:00 +0000

When I started whatching this tv show I thought it was not so bad after all. The first episodes are interesting and misterious and you want to discover more about all these murders. The expectations are kept high. And in my opinion it was the only good thing to do because for the rest, the show is not great: characters are pretty much all flat and without personality, the stories are meaningless and sometimes even silly, and when you finally discover who the killer is, episode by episode you just lose interest and you even start wondering why you are watching the show. The final episodes have been painfull to watch and the conclusion of the story is completely out of reality. I have to admit though that during the episodes it was hard to understand who the killer was: that has probably been the only great part of the show.

2009 Season Premiere

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:00:00 +0000

8/31 - Greek - 3x01 - The day after
9/14 - One Tree Hill - 7x01 - 4:30 AM (Apparently they were travelling abroad)
9/14 - Gossip girl - 3x01 - Reversals of fortune
9/17 - Bones - 5x01 - Harbingers in the fountain
9/21 - House - 6x01 - Broken
9/21 - How I met your mother - 5x01 - Definitions
9/21 - The big bang theory - 3x01 - The electric can opener fluctuation
9/24 - Grey's anatomy - 6x01 - Good mourning
9/24 - CSI - 10x01 - Family affair
9/24 - The mentalist - 2x01 - Redemption
9/27 - Brothers and sisters - 4x01 -
9/27 - Californication - 3x01 - Wish you were here
9/27 - Dexter - 4x01 - Living the dream
9/28 - Lie to me - 2x01 - The core of it
10/1 - Private practice - 3x01 -

Six Feet Under - 5x10 - All alone

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:11:00 +0000

Nathaniel Samuel Fisher, Jr
1965 - 2005

One of the greatest episode of tv shows.

How I met your mother - 4x24 - The leap

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:10:00 +0000

An enjoyable episode for this forth season finale. We now have another hint about Ted's future wife: she is in fact in Ted's class. I really hope in the next season we find out who she is because by now I'm too curious.
Eventually Barney does his move with Robin and the scene is simply great. I'm sure funny and awesome things will happen between the two.
I would have liked a nicer story for the Goat, because they talked about this Goat so many times and I guess the expectations were too high, but yet it has been another funny moment.
The last scene is amazing and that leap on the roof opened many doors for this incredible show.

To everyone: have a legen - wait for it - dary summer! :-D

Eli Stone - 2x13 - Flight path

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:39:00 +0000

For the very first time I had the chance to watch an episode of an american tv show before the americans! In fact this episode of Eli Stone has been on italian television before time because of the decision to cut the show in the USA.
I don't know if it is going to be the series finale or if they eventually decide it is worthed to produce more epiosdes. Anyway it was a very nice episode. Eli takes a difficult case about heart transplant: the parents of a dying girl decide not to give their daughter's heart to a very sick woman who needs it, because of religion contrasts. Eli helps the woman to get the heart after he saw her in one of his vision. Unfortunately she will not survive.
In his visions Eli also sees that someone he really cares about will die in a plane crash. He tries to avoid the terrible accident and eventually he does it, but he ends up in the hospital because of one of his two aneurysms. In the end everyone is safe, Taylor and Matt are going to get married soon and Jordan is trying to fix things between him and Taylor's mother. Maggie is next to Eli in the hospital and a door is left open for the two of them. The future is still unknown and God's plans for what will happen aren't reveiled yet.

Eli Stone

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:53:00 +0000

I have started watching Eli Stone just few days ago because a friend of mine told me it was a very nice show, and since then all I have done has been watch episode by episode no stop. All this just to say that Eli Stone is a great show. The fact that a very serious medical condition can be used with such interesting prospective is the point of strenght of the program. A weird lawyer with visions sent by God and all the great characters around him create every time a wonderful case and incredible stories. Funny moments and life problems together with faith and trust issues are well mixed for a great result.

Chuck - 2x22 - Chuck versus the ring

noreply@blogger.com (Caterina) — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:41:00 +0000

It was a season finale full of amazing moments and it turned out as an excellent episode. Finally the wedding! We couldn't wait anymore. And finally those pretty intense moments between Chuck and Sarah, Brice that I really hope is not going to show up again because he makes trouble all the time, and the incredible Casey! That man rocked in this episode! After two lousy years at the Buymore Chuck and Morgan quit: great decision.
At some point it seemed that everything would eventually be "normal" in Chuck's live, but then again the very unlucky guy as to deal with the Intersect. And now he also has special kung fu powers! Best quote of 2009 seasons finale: Guys, I know kung fu!