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Did Katie Cassidy Had Some Work Done???

2014-01-16T19:55:00.003-08:00

Hello y'all. It's been a while since I last posted here. I have been too busy with mommy-hood and partly, my mommy blog that I kinda have no time to post some spoilers.

Now this one isn't really a spoiler on TV but more of a Hollywood beauty issue that has been going on since like forever.

So we all know how gorgeous Katie Cassidy is. I mean, I have been mesmerized (in a girly girl kind of way) by her face since I first saw her as Adam Sandler's 27-year-old daughter on Click. And that time when she starred as Ella Simms in the short-lived Melrose Place 2.0. I mean, I wanna look like her! But yea, I'm Asian so I highly doubt that's possible. Lol! But still, she's so pretty I wanna be as glam as her.

But recently, I noticed that she looked waaaaay too different. Did she went under the knife?

If you look at the photos pasted side-by-side, the left one is Katie Cassidy now. And by now, I mean Arrow season 2's latest episode. The other one, on the right, was Katie Cassidy last season. If I'm not mistaken, episode 22 of Arrow season one.

Her jawline has become narrower, cheekbones higher, and her eyes a bit bigger. I don't think the jawline was make up nor the weight, though. I checked all previous episodes and it kinda proved my point.

So yea, did she had some work done on her lovely face?

Comment away, folks.

SHOCKING! Glee to Bid "Buh-Bye" After Season Six

2013-10-17T08:39:00.001-07:00

It's official. Ryan Murphy has just announced that Glee will end by next year.

After that very tearful Cory/Finn farewell tribute episode, Glee creator Ryan Murphy and team have decided that Glee's endgame will be at the end of their sixth season. Originally, the creators had planned that this season is suppose to be a season for Finchel. But due to Cory's untimely demise, we were all left with a big question: What's next?

Murphy confirmed that it was Cory's death that has decided for them to can no longer continue the series as it is now not the way they wanted it to end. That it has forced him to rework the series' ending.

"The whole [last] year of the show--which will be next year-- was really designed around Rachel-Cory/Finn story. I always knew that. I always knew how it would end," Murphy declared to reporters at the Paley Center event for FX network last Wednesday in LA. "I always knew what the last shot was--he was in it. I knew what the last line was; she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happens, you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do."

Ryan continued. "I have a good idea. I'm going to tell the studio and the network [in a week] how after Cory's unfortunate passing, we can end the show that I think is very satisfactory. And kind of in his honor, which I love."

He admitted that while music in Glee still goes on, "it's been hard everyday" on everybody as the glue of their show's dynamic was so abruptly taken away from them.

Although Glee was renewed for a couple more seasons after the 4th season, the show has been painfully stagnant and has been gradually dropping their ratings--except for "The Quarterback" (Finn/Cory tribute episode), which has raked 75% more than the previous week. Ryan Murphy originally see the show end by the 8th season, but due to some "abrupt changes" in the line up, both FOX president Kevin Reilly and Glee creator himself, Ryan Murphy can't see the show go on past the 6th season.

My guess is that Glee ends with Rachel geting her New York dream, though with the shadow of Finn still hanging over her. Finn's stepbrother, Kurt, gets his shot at broadway as well. Santana lands herself a showbiz career, the Schuesters--Will and Emma will get their happily ever after, while the rest of the McKinley kids graduate and sing their hearts out into the sunset. Although I can barely figure out what's gonna happen with Sue, Figgins and Coach Beiste.

Anyhoos, you can still enjoy Glee while it lasts on FOX (United States), GlobalTV (Canada), JackTV and ETC (Philippines), etc.

Cheerio!

RECAP: Big Bang Theory Season 7 Premiere - The Hofstadter Insufficiency

2013-09-27T10:21:00.004-07:00

The gang of Big Bang is back! (See what I did there?)

The season opens with Sheldon's dream. As usual, even in his dreams, our dear Dr. Cooper is still suffering from OCD. He was calling Leonard, who is still at the Arctic, because of misplaced DVDs--Back to the Future 2 disc was interchanged with the Back to the Future 3 disc. Oh the horror! While in the middle of the call, Leonard was taken by a kraken, prompting Sheldon to wake from his crazy dream. He rushes to Penny's, asking if he could keep her company, knowing that she misses Leonard so much. That he's worried that she might have been experiencing bad dreams--like the ones you get after watching "The Clash of the Titans" before going to bed. Of course, it was all a ruse. Sheldon is the one who misses Leonard so bad that he already appears in his dreams, yes?

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Meanwhile, Raj is still brokenhearted after his break up with Lucy. He have been seeing her everywhere--in the shape of an oil spill at the garage and on the chicken pot pie's crust. Since Bernadette is in a neuroscience conference with Amy, Howard decided to accompany Raj at a welcoming party for incoming post-docs at the university. He figures it could help nurse Raj's broken heart, and forget about Lucy. Raj asks Sheldon to come, but Sheldon refuses saying, "I want you to be happy too. But not enough to do anything about it..."

At the party, Raj tries his luck on the girls. Considering the fact that he has been afraid of talking to women for 6 seasons already (unless he has alcohol in his system), he is doing pretty well now. He finally gets a chance to connect with someone--Mrs. Davis. She has just separated from her husband and Raj tries to befriend her. Though they were up for a bad start, Raj eventually proves that he is sweet and at the end of the night, was able to have a connection with her at a "human level", not as human resources to professor type of interaction.

He gushes at Howard about it. He tells him that he and Mrs. Davis had a "moment". Howard tells him that they didn't had a moment. Raj quickly, and defensively replies, "Who died and made you King of Moments?"

Howard tells him that even if they do had a moment, he doesn't think that Raj would do something about it anyway, to which Raj agrees.

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Penny and Sheldon play 3D chess at Sheldon and Leonard's apartment. They have been missing Leonard so badly that they decided to call him. They found out that Leonard is at a party with the rest of the people at the ship and seems to be having a great time. They were bummed upon realizing that Leonard may have not been missing them anyway. (aaawww...)

To ease their sadness, the two bonded by sharing some secrets. Sheldon having 9 pairs of pants and underpants--his take on something personal. Later on, Sheldon shares about his profound disappointment about the YouTube interface change. Penny was a bit annoyed about this confession of Sheldon's that she decided to take off. Sheldon's feelings was hurt as Penny did not know that the YouTube change was actually a big deal for Sheldon. She apologizes and tells Sheldon about a topless scene she did at a low-budget movie. She thought no one would see that movie anyhow, but Sheldon blurts out that they actually saw the movie online the moment they first met her.

Anyway, since they miss Leonard so bad, Penny offers Sheldon a hug. Hesitant, he eventually gives in. Of course, he never failed to give up a quip about being strangled, something he feels when somebody hugs him.

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At the convention, Bernie and Amy went to a bar. At first, the two hit it off. Bernie thought it is a great chance for them two to hang out together without Penny. That they are finally able to talk about something intellectual rather than just boys when they are with Penny. Some gentlemen at the bar sent them drinks. Bernie made a remark about Sheldon that offended Amy. Amy then blurts out something equally mean about Howard to make things even.

Eventually, the two made up. Before bed, they talked about the guys who sent them drinks at the bar. How it was flattering that someone noticed the two of them at a bar, without Penny to attract the men's attention. They confessed about which one they liked and realized that Bernie's type was the guy who seems like Sheldon, while Amy likes the other one--the guy who bears resemblance with Howard. Noticing that everything suddenly turned awkward, they bid goodnight on each other.

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Last scene of the episode shows Leonard at the Arctic. He shows everyone Penny's movie. He brags--and swears to God--that the girl in the movie is his girlfriend.

***Regina King reprises her role as Mrs. Janine Davis, the guys' Human Resources Administrator at Caltech.

Ezra is A - Pretty Little Liars Summer Finale Recap

2013-08-29T09:11:00.002-07:00

WOW. Pretty Little Liars' mid-season finale last night was a doozy!

Here's what you've missed.

So, a few weeks back, we were introduced to Ravenswood, as Toby and Spencer came to find Mrs. Grunwald, one of the many people Alison De Laurentiis, has encountered before her mysterious disappearance. The gang came back this week to visit her and get some answers about Alison's past and CeCe Drake's involvement with all of this (as Red Coat/A).

But before that, the episode opens with news about the real killer of the late evil Detective Wilden. Last week, Travis came to the police to help clear Ashley Marin's name. He told them that Hanna's mom had already fled the scene that time when Wilden was shot, making it impossible for her to be the killer.

Spencer gets a package from the mail, containing four Magic 8 Balls with their names written on it. It says,

Hanna: IF SHE GOES FREE
Spencer: YOU'LL HEAR FROM ME
Emily: KISSES
Aria: A

Is this the start of World War A?

In class, Mr. Fitz discusses Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, all the while looking at Aria with his super cute puppy-dog eyes as if his love and Aria's were like of Miranda and Ferdinand's. Aaaaand then the bell rings. Ezra calls on Aria to stay for a bit to have "a minute of your time". He thanks Aria for being there for him that time when Ezra needed her. Aria then tells him that she was glad to be there for him... as a friend. (Oooooh... Ouch!)

Meanwhile, at the precinct, Travis told the police that Ashley is NOT the person who shot Wilden. As Ashley, Hanna and Caleb wait for the decision of the DA, Ashley thanks Caleb for taking care of Hanna while she's in jail. How she was less worried about Hanna because she knows that her daughter is with Caleb. Caleb tells her that he admires how Ashley handled everything, without even breaking, though she never deserved any of the hardships that happened to her. And that he now knows where Hanna gets that "never settle" attitude of hers. The DA, Sidney Barnes (guest star Marcia Clark--yes, THE Marcia Clark, head prosecutor from the OJ Simpson murder trial!), comes over to Ashley to tell her that all charges have been dropped and that the real killer has finally been identified. Caleb nods a "thank you" to Travis for helping them out, as Travis nods back a "you're welcome".

Ashley leaves the girls to go on a date with Pastor Ted. Moments later, they hear a doorbell. Hanna gets the door thinking that her mom must have forgotten her keys, but instead sees another package from A. It was a coffin with a Mona doll in it. They get a text saying, "Hanna won, so Mona loses. Find her before the cops or they'll think you killed her. -A"

Hanna tries to track down Mona by calling Radley, while everyone watches the news and sees the sketch of the new murder suspect at the Wilden case--CeCe Drake. Hanna tells everyone that Mona has already been released from Radley. Spencer decides to call Wren, while Emily goes back to school with Paige, to check if Mona is there since it's French Club Friday. Aria decides on cancelling her date with Jake, but Hanna disagrees. She tells Aria to "keep Jet Li as close as you can" for protection from CeCe.

Hanna tells Caleb that she'll be out to find Mona. Caleb tries to stop her as he thinks that this is probably just some master plan that Mona is involved in. But Hanna thinks that if Mona is with CeCe, Mona is in danger, since they already know what CeCe is capable of after killing Wilden.

Spencer drops by to check Wren's place and finds no one home. All there is in the house are luggages and some packed stuff. As she leaves the porch, she sees Jenna's car outside Wren's house. She looks back and notices someone peeking through the window, then quickly hides upon noticing that Spencer has spotted her. It was Shana.

Back at school, Paige and Emily drops by the French Club and asks Jackie (Jacqueline) about Mona. She tells her that she's still not there, although they were expecting her as it was suppose to be her Welcome Back party at the French Club.

At Toby's place, he reminisces while looking at his old stuff--well his mom's actually and starts to well up. He gets a text from Spencer, asking him to call her. He dismisses it and goes at the coffee shop downstairs where he finds Shana. She was in a hurry filling up a bunch of papers. As she leaves, she accidentally drops one of the papers. Toby comes over and finds an address on a consignment for an international waybill with Wren's Rosewood address on it AND Wren's London address with Melissa Hastings as the "care of" addressee. He quickly calls Spencer and leaves a message that they need to talk.

Toby and Spencer inspect the consignment note while watching the news about CeCe's involvement in Wilden's death. Spencer tries to think of a connection between Shana and Wren. Toby says he doesn't know, but he thinks Spencer's ex-boyfriend is moving in with his ex-fiance, Melissa. Notice how Toby emphasizes on the "ex-boyfriend". Haha!

Spencer talks to Toby about him shutting her out after their fight the night before, at the hoedown. Toby says he had some thinking to do that's why he wouldn't answer her calls and texts. Spencer tells him how worried she was considering what happened to her after that time when she thought Toby was killed by A. That he could just have sent her a text saying he wants space, just so she wouldn't worry that much. Toby apologizes and tells her that when he used to feel like the walls are closing in, he would take off. But this time, he stayed for her. He tells her that she was right. That last night, he tried to break in Palmer's car and realizes that he's so desperate to get close to A. Spencer says that she doesn't want him to stop looking for answers about his mom's death. But Toby replies that he "doesn't want A's version of the truth." That it's not worth finding out.

Caleb and Hanna's having a stakeout at Mona's. At the car, the two of them discuss how Hanna thinks Mona really meant well when she stuck up her head for Hanna's mom. Caleb also tries to convince her that if Mona is really in trouble, it's not Hanna's fault.

Since Aria's date was a bust, she heads on to The Brew to check out the contemporary poet. She finds Ezra there and she asks about the reading. Ezra replies that one of the poems remind him of Aria's story about her lost cat. That he thinks it was about Aly. She confesses that she didn't realize it at first, but that it was indeed about her. The two sat down for a coffee and talked. Aria kisses Ezra, and pulls away quickly. Outside, Red Coat--CeCe watches them.

Hanna worries about Mona, and the girls get another package from A. They find a box that seems to be empty. But Spencer figures out that it was actually a "magic" box. They find a saw inside with a message saying, "Watch me make a girl disappear. Kisses, -A". Spencer tells them that A is not playing a game on them, but putting on a magic show and that they're a part of her act. She thinks that A will make Mona disappear forever. The girls look for a nearby magic show and learns that the nearest one is on Ravenswood.

Meanwhile at the Vanderwaal's Toby sends Caleb home taking his shift on waiting for Mona. He later finds Jenna's car racing out of Mona's place with Shana driving it. He tails the car, leading him to a bed and breakfast East of Rosewood. There he finds Shana meeting a very comfy Mona, knitting on its front porch.

At Ravenswood, the girls watch The Great Charlemagne at a magic show. He later on asks for Aria to assist him on a magic trick. While watching, they didn't notice A taking Emily. They receive a text from A, "Leger de main. Kisses Bitches, -A". Spencer translates the text as "slight of hand". A took Emily while the girls were watching Aria.

By the time they called her, they could hear a saw in the background and they race to save Emily. As they step out of the park, they saw Red Coat running towards where Emily is. They hurry to save her when Red Coat stops the saw. They then find two Red Coats. Aria follows CeCe Red Coat while Spencer trails the other, as Hanna helps Emily get out of the box.

Aria gets into a fight with CeCe, aaaand uses for the first time her combat training with Jake (you go Aria!). CeCe holds on to a rope to escape from Aria, but the rope tore. She tries to save CeCe, but CeCe's sleeve ripped, causing her to fall. As Spencer, Emily and Hanna helps out a shaken Aria, CeCe escapes.

Spencer tells Emily, Hanna and Aria that she thinks the other Red Coat was Aly. That she wanted Spencer to follow her so she could show the girls where A's lair is at Ravenswood. They find out that A has been documenting their every move, and that A had access to everything, from the police to their alarm systems. Little did they know that they were being watched.

Hanna tries to crack A's password, but fails. Caleb tells her that he'll on the next bus to Ravenswood. Spencer finds A's bank account and finds out that A formed a corporation. She thinks that CeCe, though, is just another person in A's payroll. Hanna opens a closet and finds it full of men's coat--that A is actually a guy. Emily finds an album full of Aly's photos and Em remembers the clothes that Aly was wearing from the photo. She remembered that Aly bought it for her date with the older guy. The girls speculated that it was Ian or Wren, but Aria notices on one of the boards that it couldn't be Wren as he, too, was also being watched. They then speculated it has something to do with Board Shorts.

As Aria checks the other side of the board, she finds out that A has been following Aly as well. They realize that Aly is still alive as they notice that A has been trailing Aly to Ravenswood. At one of the posts, they find a flyer for a party for that night at the cemetery. They think A is expecting Alison to be there.

Outside, they find Mrs. Grunwald and warns them about how dangerous it is to chase after Aly. She apologizes to Spencer for lying as she is trying to protect her. She tells her about how afraid Aly was of A. She tells her that Mrs. Grunwald had the "gift of insight". She was using it then to help Alison to see who was threatening her. That night when she went missing, Mrs. Grunwald drove to Rosewood and found Aly reaching for life. She saved her and tried to bring her to a nearby hospital, but as she ran in to get help, she returned to an empty car. Meaning, Aly's still alive. That she was NEVER really gone. But that she doesn't want to be found just yet. She tells the girls to leave Ravenswood. That they are being watched by A, so they could lead him straight to Alison. Mrs. Grunwald leaves, warning them that "he's here".

The girls plan to crash the party at the cemetery. As they enter a shop, someone from the shadows emerge. It was A.

At his lair, it was then revealed that A is Ezra Fitz, furious that the girls have finally discovered his lair. Last scene of the episode shows Ezra wearing the steam punk costume that the girls found at one of the photos at the board.

***Pretty Little Liars will return this fall, October 22, on ABC Family.

Cory Monteith's Cause of Death Released

2013-07-16T17:01:00.001-07:00

The British Columbia coroner has finally released a statement about the death of Glee star Cory Monteith. The coroner confirms in its toxicology report that the actor died of a mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol.

Cops wouldn't delve into specifics about the contents of Cory Monteith's hotel room, but insinuated that "There was evidence in the room that was consistent of a drug overdose."

Autopsy yesterday says that it wasn't illicit drug use that killed him, though his toxicology confirms it.

We all know Cory has said to be struggling with drugs and alcohol since he was a teen and had just completed a 30-day program at a rehab facility just weeks ago.

All-New Suits Tomorrow on USA

2013-07-15T19:25:00.000-07:00

Our favorite tandem is back tomorrow on USA, with new twists and drama in tow! I just can't wait.

So here's the low-down of what we would be seeing this season:

Mike and Rachel

Last season, we were left reeling by Mike Ross's steamy file room hookup with sexy paralegal, Rachel Zane. We all know that this was coming. I wasn't surprised that he'd confess to Rachel either. But the question still stands, will Rachel keep his secret? Or will she use it for her own gain?

Mike and Harvey

With Mike and Rachel falling for each other, there comes the Harvey-Mike fallout. With the broken "bromance" between Harvey Specter and Mike Ross, we are all thinking of what's gonna happen to these two next season. Mike is said to be grow up this season. Patrick J. Adams (Mike Ross) tells, "I think that you see Mike sort of trying to resolve the conflict in a way that's a little bit more mature, whereas he might have been begging and pleading like a little girl last year or the year before. This year, he's kind of holding his ground and saying he's sorry, but also trying to explain himself and where he's coming from."

Does this mean more of Mike's past will be revealed this season? Will they (Harvey and Mike) pick up the pieces and mend their bromance? Or will Harvey fire Mike for real, this time?

Harvey and Jessica

Jessica Pearson has become way more stern now, tightening her leash on Harvey. We all know Harvey never listens to anyone but Jessica. However, at the end of last season, we have noticed Harvey has been trying to break away from her, doing things his way. Will Jessica and Harvey ever be okay?

Harvey and Donna

Sarah Rafferty (Donna Paulsen) gave the world a tease in a press-con about THE Harvey-Donna tandem. She says they will have a flashback that "goes to their roots". Finally, an explanation to the ever-so-solid team of Harvey and Donna.

Rafferty explains, "What I loved about [the flashback] is that we get to understand why Harvey's the moral guy that he is, it just digs into his past. I think what's so interesting about having flashbacks in the season is understanding what makes these people tick and why they're the way that they are."

Maybe well get to find out about the can opener as well, huh?

The Brits are Coming

We all know that the British invasion has now begun in the form of a merger between Pearson and Darby. As a result, Rafferty says, Donna "has her hands full as a result of that", and that the merger will play a big role on everyone's character.

The merger will also introduce the "British Harvey" in the form of Steven Huntley (Max Beesley), who will be Harvey's, uhm, new pain in the arse. (See what I did there? Haha!)

Gina Torres describes this season to be "agenda-heavy", compared to the previous seasons. Everyone's got something, and everyone's up to something. Torres adds, "I would have to say, to kind of put it all in a nutshell, it's got to be the most cut-throat season yet of Suits."

Suits Season Three premieres tomorrow, July 16, at 10pm on USA.

Gone Too Soon: Glee's Cory Monteith Dies at 31

2013-07-15T17:47:00.002-07:00

It has been a whirlwind of emotions for Lea Michele, and the cast and fans of Glee this month. News swirl that the two were engaged and are planning to marry in a few weeks, when tragedy struck. Cory Monteith was found dead in his hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver, British Columbia. With cause of death still unknown, the Canadian authorities have expedited his case, both on his autopsy and toxicology. So far, as per Vancouver PD Sgt. Randy Fincham, his autopsy reveals that there are no traces of illicit drug use in Cory's remains.

Troubled Glee star, Cory Monteith, 31, has been struggling with drugs and alcohol since he was 13, stemming way back from his parents' divorce when he was 7. He just recently completed a 30-day stint in rehab, and has been spotted out and about a few days back. TMZ has spotted him last month at LAX, very healthy and sober, while walking with his lady love.

With what's suppose to be a plan for the happiest day of their lives, Lea Michele is now left with planning a nightmare of Cory's funeral, not their wedding. She was said to be shaking and devastated after getting a phone call from the cops about Cory's passing.

What's next for Glee?

Glee writers and producers had an emergency meeting yesterday to plan about what's going to happen to Glee. It has been said that this season is suppose to premiere early, and should have been Finn Hudson's season, considering last season was a turning point for Cory's character on Glee. Now with his loss, the Glee producers and writers are planning to re-write the whole storyline this season. Hopefully, they would be able to give a beautiful tribute to Cory and a good season run to remember him by, as well as make a nice story for Finn Hudson's exit to Glee. I just wish this wouldn't be a story about Finn joining the army once more, not returning to McKinley High--or Lima, Ohio forever.

Cory Monteith's remains are still under post-mortem evaluation, with toxicology results to be released in a couple of days.

Rest in peace, Cory. Glee will never be the same without you. :(

Renewed or Cancelled? Which TV Shows will Return this Fall?

2013-05-24T01:03:00.001-07:00

Hello couch potatoes! Most TV shows have already wrapped up their season and it is with heavy heart that I let you all know the TV shows that have been cancelled. Silver lining: I have here as well those that have been renewed.

CANCELLED:

ABC

Body of Proof
Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23
The Family Tools
Happy Endings
How To Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)
Malibu Country
Red Widow

CBS

CSI: NY
Golden Boy
Rules of Engagement

The CW

90210

Fox

Touch

NBC

1600 Penn
Deception
Go On
Guys With Kids
The New Normal
Smash
Up All Night
Whitney

TNT

Southland

USA

Burn Notice

And now for the good news...

RENEWED:

ABC

Revenge

Grey's Anatomy

Once Upon A Time
Scandal

Castle

Modern Family
Suburgatory

The Middle

The Neighbors

Last Man Standing

Nashville

CBS

CSI

NCIS

NCIS: LA

The Big Bang Theory
Two and a Half Men
Elementary
How I Met Your Mother (Renewed for their final season)

Criminal Minds

The Amazing Race

Blue Bloods

Hawaii Five-0

The Good Wife

The Mentalist

Mike & Molly

Person of Interest

2 Broke Girls

Survivor

Arrow

Beauty and the Beast

The Vampire Diaries

Supernatural

The Carrie Diaries

Nikita (shortened final season)

Hart of Dixie

America's Next Top Model

Fox

Bones

Glee (renewed for two more seasons)

The Following
New Girl

The Mindy Project

Raising Hope
The X Factor

American Idol

Kitchen Nightmares

Master Chef

Hotel Hell

NBC

Parks and Recreation

Chicago Fire

Law & Order: SVU

Community
Parenthood

The Voice

Celebrity Apprentice

Revolution

So yes, there you go. Thrilled that some of my fave shows have survived, but then again, I'm still disappointed that the others got cancelled. Ah well, that's show business.

Which cancelled shows will you miss???

***source E! Online

Are the Eriksens moving? HIMYM S08E21 Recap

2013-04-15T20:35:00.003-07:00

Lily has been given a life-changing decision that could make or break her family life with Marshall. Since she has been working so hard for The Captain, he has asked Lily to move with him to Rome, Italy and buy art for him there for a year. Lily, shocked, could not give a straight answer to him. Though she loves to live abroad, she knows that saying yes to The Captain would mean that she is going to uproot her family, having Marshall give up his job so that he and Marvin could come with her to Italy. The Captain gives her the rest of the day to decide.

Lily asks Barney and Ted's opinion about the big move to Italy and she was convinced to turn down The Captain's offer as she doesn't want to ruin her family life just because they moved to Italy, making Marshall leave his old life for her.

Meanwhile, Ted has his eyes on a girl he met at his yoga class. She shows up at the bar and was seen by Ted and Barney. Barney, being Barney, cannot stand not seeing the "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol of bodies"that Ted has been telling him. He slipped Carl, the bartender, $100 to turn up the heat so he could see her rocking body.

Later on, Robin comes in and the boys are surprised to see that she knows the girl they're talking about. She comes over to their booth with Robin and was introduced to them as Robin and Barney's wedding planner.

Since she's already unemployed, she makes an unannounced visit to Marshall at work. She was surprised to find out that Marshall's company hasn't had any clients for months already. Marshall explains that they have lost a lot of business clients since the Gruber case (Honeywell & Cootes vs. Brad Morris). That there were a lot of people laid-off, leaving just Marshall and Bernard at the firm.

Furious that she just gave up an opportunity-of-a-lifetime, Lily tells Marshall about The Captain's proposal for them to move with him to Rome, Italy. That she turned the offer down, thinking that Marshall loves his job too much, so she'll just give up her Italian dream. Marshall was surprised and excited, thinking that if they move to Rome, he can finally stay at home and just take care of Marvin, make home-made pasta and watch the Italian version of "The Price is Right". Something Marshall has been dreaming of for quite some time now... and something Lily thought might make Marshall miserable. Marshall makes things right for Lily and he rushes to The Captain to convince him to take Lily back as his art consultant.

Back to the wedding planning, Ted and Barney are still drooling over Liddy. She still hasn't took off her coat, making them frustrated already. Robin suspects something odd so she asked them what's up. Barney spills to Robin that Ted says Liddy has a "ridonculous body" and that he just wants to verify it, but Liddy just won't take off her coat. He fesses up to Robin that he paid Carl to turn up the bar's thermostat, to suffice his curiosity over Liddy's rack under that coat. To their surprise, Robin also was curious why Liddy hasn't took off her coat.

Robin suggests to Ted that he ask Liddy out. Apparently, Ted tried to ask her out once, but wasn't able to say a word after seeing her ridonculous body. He thinks Liddy's body "could melt a Nazi's face". Yes. That ridonculous, I guess. Haha! Finally, Barney asks Liddy to take her coat off to both prove to Robin that he has no more pheromonal stink and to answer their question about how crazy Liddy's body is. And it was indeed ridonculous.

The Captain calls Lily about his talk with Marshall. He asks Lily again if she would take up his offer once more to move with him to Rome, along with Marshall and Marvin. Lily turned it down once more. She explains that she might fail her job and lose everything if they move to Italy.

Ted warns Barney to take it easy on Robin. That just because she seems cool about him looking at other women, doesn't mean that she is cool with it. Barney was offended and dismisses Ted's suggestion, saying that it's not his place.

Marshall talks to Lily about how she turned down her dream job. Twice. She confesses that she was scared, just like that time in college when she moved to France for a while to study art. That she went home two weeks earlier than planned because she was lonely and "terrified of living more than 10 stops away from where I was born". But after pointing out to Lily all that could possibly terrifying to her in Italy, he tells her about the good side of moving there and assures her that they still have each other then, Marshall finally convinces Lily to move to Italy and pursue her dream job.

***Mircea Monroe (Hart of Dixie's Tansy Truitt) guest stars as Liddy, Robin and Barney's wedding planner and Ted's new crush.

Nurse Jackie Season 5 Premiere - Recap

2013-04-15T08:14:00.002-07:00

It has been a while since we last caught a glimpse of dear Nurse Jackie.

Last season, we have seen Jackie's fallout with her family, O'Hara's pregnancy and the giving birth of her child, the new boss and his connection with Jackie in and out of All Saints.

This season premiere, we are given double episodes.

Episode one. Happy F*cking Birthday.

We open with Jackie's dream (flashback) where we see her happily married life with Kevin. Later on, she wakes up to her new reality. Kevin is still mean to Jackie (who wouldn't, right?). He comes in to pick up Grace and Fiona for school. Jackie asks Kevin if she could have the kids for her birthday, to which Kevin replies with the age-old "I'll think about it" answer.

At the hospital, people are going nuts with the new pill dispenser. After seeing a super long line of impatient nurses, Eddie busts the machine open and asks someone to jot down all the pills he's distributing to all the nurses. Problem solved e?

Jackie takes some "party favors" from a famous NFL player's southern part. Yes, the back side. After he swallow three condoms filled with drugs to save him from an arrest following the accident he's been in. After cleaning up the recovered condoms, Jackie takes all the now-cleaned-drug-filled-condoms as she checks on a new patient. She looks at the drug condoms and has to face the dilemma of a recovering junkie seeing her poison of choice.

Zoey apologizes to Jackie after she walks in on her and Kevin that morning while having an argument as they wait for the kids. Zoey tries to compare it to her relationship with Lenny. Really, Zoey? Compare three months to a 16-year-marriage???

New doctors in All Saints are in. The hospital's got a new trauma guy, who has served in the Army, in the name of Dr. Ike Prentiss and a slutty new doctor, Carrie Roman. Dr. Prentiss was first thought to be a hobo by Jackie after he comes in to the ER, wearing filthy clothing. Jackie isn't the only one typecasting the new doc. A patient also bitched out, saying that Prentiss looks like a drug dealer. Ouch! We also meet Dr. Roman, who was first seen doing another doctor, which according to Jackie, isn't new. Yep, you guessed it. Almost everyone had already done her. Unfortunately, Roman isn't really that good at being a doctor compared to her being a wh_re.

By the way, Gloria Akalitus is now back as the hospital's administrator. She re-hires Eddie after his heroic deed at the pill dispenser. She realizes that she needs Eddie more than the pill machine.

Back to NFL dude. Jackie snitches him to the po-pos. He tries to bargain with Jackie, saying that he'll pay for her home in Queens, if she says she made a mistake. Instead, Jackie tells him that it wasn't her home that she wants him to pay for, but to but the hospital a new CT scanner, costing $425 grand. Athlete says yes, to avoid the arrest, and agrees to buy the hospital a new CT machine. Nice one, Jacks!

Eleanor drops some bad news on Jackie. She tells her that she'll be leaving All Saints to be with her child. She doesn't want O'Hara to leave, reasoning to her about the lives that she save everyday. O'Hara doesn't want to miss her son's first steps, words, and be blamed by her kid for not being present in his life. She tells Jackie that she's leaving the day before her birthday. That's pretty bad for Jackie as she also learns that Zoey's also moving out to find her own place as well. Awwww... Looks like Jackie's spending her birthday alone, after Kevin leaves her a message that the kids won't be there too.

Last scene shows Jackie in bed, slipping inside her ring, the last of the pill left from the condom drugs, after she flushes everything down the toilet. Clock strikes 12:00 midnight and she greets herself, "Happy F*cking Birthday".

Morris Chestnut, Betty Gilpin and Eric D. Hill, Jr. guest stars in this episode.

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Episode two. Luck of the Drawing

The show opens with Kevin and Jackie sitting down with their divorce lawyer, talking about their case. Kevin seeks primary custody of the girls, to Jackie's disapproval and disappointment. The lawyer wants them to meet halfway and settle for joint custody. Jackie agrees, thinking that she wants it fair. Unfortunately for her, Kevin doesn't want fair. He'd rather jump into a time machine, way before Jackie becomes an addict and ruins their marriage and family life. Kevin thinks it's unfair, considering her schedule, to which Jackie rebuts. She thinks it's more unfair when she was working with her crazy schedule to pay for Kevin's bar, but she never makes it a big deal then. The divorce attorney suggests that if Jackie makes her schedule predictable, he expects Kevin to agree into meeting Jackie halfway into the custody settlement. This way, they don't need the case to be tossed to the judge.

It's still Jackie's birthday and she once again asks Kevin to give her a day with the kids. Even bargaining to make it her last birthday, and then she promises to have no more birthdays after that. Kevin, still cold to her, wouldn't let her have the kids for the day.

At her NA meeting, her NA moderator encourages her to share. That way, she wouldn't feel as bad as she is at the moment, with O'Hara leaving, Zoey moving out and Kevin not letting her have the kids on her birthday. Jackie, instead, leaves the meeting.

Jackie is slowly becoming friends now with Dr. Prentiss as they form a small bond over a patient, a boy who had a spider on his ear. Zoey greets her a "happy work day" and offers Jackie herself, sensing that she's having a bad day. Jackie pushes her away.

A return patient from the Atlantic City accident from the day before, comes at the ER and is "examined" by Dr. Roman. She only wrote her a prescription for pain medication without even checking her thoroughly. Jackie suspects something else, while checking the patient's X-ray. Dr. Roman thinks that the kid is just an addict and is only after the pain medication. Jackie took the liberty of asking for lab exams for the patient, pretending to be Dr. Roman on the phone, and asks Prentiss' help instead. Just as she suspected, the patient indeed has a problem and was immediately sent to the ICU.

Jackie gets flowers for her birthday. She throws the card away. Zoey checks it out and finds out that it was from Jackie's father. Cooper was surprised after finding out that she still has a father, while Thor wasn't even shocked considering that Jackie has worked at All Saints for 10 years before people found out that she's married. Thor stops Jackie from throwing the flowers away. Jackie gives it to a patient instead.

Gloria calls in the employees for an assembly at the old hallway. Jackie's patient has incurred sepsis under the hospital's responsibility, All Saints' 10th case in the last year. Zoey volunteers to be the hand-hygiene monitor. Prentiss suggests that they ID patients with sepsis risk. Akalitus agrees, telling him that he's the new ER chief. Cooper feels bad about Dr. Prentiss' appointment as he has been in All Saints longer than him. Dr. Cooper tells Jackie that he would quit as a protest to Prentiss' appointment as the new ER chief. Jackie then tells him to not quit, but rather "man the f*ck up" to earn respect.

Jackie comes to Gloria to talk about her schedule. Akalitus wouldn't let her have an adjustment to her schedule due to conflict with other peoples' schedules--10 people to be precise. Jackie begs Gloria as this is her only shot at keeping her into the running for joint custody in her battle with Kevin. Disappointed, she storms out of Gloria's office.

Dr. Roman tries to charm Dr. Prentiss, but was immediately dismissed by him due to her previous misdiagnosis on a patient with sepsis for drug problems. He then gives Roman a crappy job of disimpacting a senior patient's bowels. Yuck.

Carrie (Dr. Roman) tries to make an alliance with Cooper by poisoning him into thinking that Prentiss is power-tripping. She tells Coop that she has been given extra work by Prentiss to disimpact the bowels of a patient. Little did he know, Carrie was just using him into taking her shift as well as take the icky job she was given by Prentiss. Haha! Sucker.

Jackie still tries to pursue a reasonable work schedule and presents it to Gloria. She tricks her into signing to a schedule she just made, knowing that Gloria's having memory issues lately due to a lot of administration problems that she has been working on since Cruz left. Jackie calls Kevin to tell him her new custody-friendly schedule, to Kevin's dismay. He still wants to fight for primary custody and hires a lawyer to help him win the custody battle. He files for psychological incapacity on Jackie's side so he can get custody of the kids. He have filed, through his lawyer, an order for a psych test on the girls. This way, he could prove that Jackie has been a bad influence on the girls, so that he could keep their children from their mom. Jackie, blindsided, was pissed after working on her new schedule only to find out that she wouldn't even get a chance to have Kevin settle for the mediation with the custody of their daughters. Zoey finds Jackie and she opens up to Zoey about the custody battle.

Jackie once again finds the flowers, obviously Thor took back from the patient. She then drops it on the floor, making it seem like an accident, so she could finally get rid of it.

Dr. Roman has been missing from the ER again, as Hanna is now having renal failure as a result of her sepsis. Ike and Jackie responds to the patient, since Roman's still not with her patient. She comes in just as Prentiss and Jackie's done checking on the patient and is once again on the hot seat after her absence in the ER to stabilize her sepsis patient. Her phone rings and just as she was about to answer her phone, Dr. Prentiss scolds her to put the phone down. Distracted, Roman didn't notice Jackie swiping her phone down the garbage. Oh snap! Lolz.

Jackie calls Charlie's phone--yes, dead Charlie Cruz's phone to open up about her effed-up day.

Eddie offers Jackie a ride home, knowing that it's her birthday. Still sad about how things turned out on her supposed-to-be-special-day, she declines Eddie's offer and talks to him about her horrible custody battle with her now-ex-husband. Eddie suggests that Jackie go to Dr. Saltzman so she could get an idea about what happens on a psych evaluation. He also offers his help, in case Jackie needs someone to talk to. She says that what Eddie has done for her that day is actually the best gift she has had for her birthday. She thanks Eddie, gives him a hug and leaves home. Unfortunately, Jackie wasn't able to see that her actual birthday from Eddie was indeed the ride home. Turns out, Eddie rented a horse-drawn carriage. How romantic.

Jackie comes to an empty home on her birthday, when Zoey enters shortly. Suddenly, Zoey surprises Jackie with a better present than Eddie--her daughters. Apparently, Zoey talked to Kevin and has convinced him to let the girls come over to see her on her birthday. The kids brought her cake and pinata. Zoey opens up her laptop, announces, "Live, from London..." and flips her laptop towards Jackie as Eleanor greets her happy birthday. Jackie was able to blow her candles with Fiona, Grace, Zoey and O'Hara.

The girls took turns in hitting the pinata. Grace got carried away and beat up the pinata when she got her turn. That's when Jackie notice that Grace was really affected by the divorce. Jackie talks to Fiona and asks her to draw a picture of their family, not knowing that she was doing an impromptu psych evaluation on the kid.

Jackie comes to Kevin and thanks him for letting the kids come to visit her on her birthday. She tells him about Grace's rage problem and Fiona's school struggles as a result of their divorce. She shows Kevin Fiona's drawing and he finds out that if he would still proceed with the psych evaluation, he would be on the losing end, and not Jackie.

Nurse Jackie Later

2013-04-15T00:31:00.001-07:00

Hello all!

Was about to watch and write about Nurse Jackie's season premiere (double episode!) right now. Unfortunately, yours truly is still glued to Youtube while watching Coachella's live feed and putting the baby to sleep... Yes, both at the same time.

Will be posting about Nurse Jackie later. But for now, I leave you with my sleeping baby's photo beside my laptop--in bed--with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing at Coachella in the background.

Later!

Bones was shot by a vanishing bullet? - Bones S08E15 Recap

2013-02-13T03:15:00.001-08:00

The team examines a corpse at the Jeffersonian. Based on the initial findings, they thought the victim died from a bungee-jumping-stunt-gone-wrong. However, as Brennan check on the skeleton for further investigation, the bones tell a different story. Turns out it was a murder. Victim was only thrown from the bridge to conceal the cause of death. As she looks at the bones using a magnifier, Brennan was shot by an unknown shooter.

Bones had a fight with Booth about parenting moments before leaving for work. The guard-on-duty checked up on her prior to being shot and left moments later to call it a night. Thus, leaving Dr. Brennan alone and vulnerable at the time of the attack.

Anyhoos, a sorry Booth comes to the Jeffersonian to apologize to Bones. Christine in tow, he finds an unconscious Temperance bleeding on the floor of the bones room. As Booth calls for paramedics, Brennan was having a near-death experience and meets her deceased mother.

At the hospital, as Booth and the rest of the paramedics rush her to the ER, Brennan continues her talk with her mom. Brennan, still trying to be logical in her sub-conscious, tells her mother that she is hallucinating, hence, the encounter. Her mother then "explains" that she also could be looking at an alternate reality--heaven. Brennan, declares to her mother her non-belief of heaven and gives her mother a scientific explanation of what's happening to her at the moment. Aaaahhh... Science and religion!

Her mother asks her how her life is now, but Brennan refuses to tell her at first. Considering that she's only a part of her hallucination, she figures that her mother already knows everything about her. But later on, she gives in and spills a bit her life to her mother.

Bones later realizes that she soon needs to go back. But her mother tells her that it's not her call. Frustrated, Bones forces her way out as she tells her mother that she doesn't believe in God. As she finally opens the door, she gets sucked in by a blinding light.

At the operating table, the doctors are trying their best to find the bullet as they found no exit wound. Unfortunately, no bullet has been found and Bones is left on critical state. She then gets sucked back to her alternate reality with her mother.

Still trying to get herself back into consciousness, Bones is desperate to get back to life for Christine. Her mother replies that she once was like that so she can get back to her own daughter (young Temperance), but later on died. Brennan still tries to find explanation on all things and her mother then argues that there are things that are just simply not understandable. Her point: after life.

Cam was one of the doctors at the OR who were trying to operate on Brennan. She meets Seeley at the waiting area to report on Bones' condition. She is relieved to tell Booth that Bones is now stable, though her heart stopped twice and was revived by a defibrillator.

Booth also tells Cam that the guard who was with Bones before the shooting was also killed. He was found dead at the stairwell of the Jeffersonian. They also have no word about the shooter yet. Cam then tells Booth about the puzzle that is the missing bullet. That there is no bullet on Bones' body and that there is also no exit wound on her as well as Hal, the security guard who was also shot dead at the Jeffersonian. Cam demands that Booth should rather stay with Brennan, instead of investigating on Bones' case.

At the Jeffersonian, Hodges, Sweets and Edison sees the aftermath of Brennan's shooting. Sweets could not believe that Bones has survived that massive blood loss and they try to think of who the shooter might be. They have this theory that the shooter could have something to do with the case she's been investigating on. Cam confides on Edison and Hodges about the vanishing bullet on Hal and Bones. And they are now caught into solving Bones' puzzle--er case.

Back at the hospital, Booth sits on Bones' bedside. She is finally awake, but still disoriented. Booth explains to her what has transpired. Bones tells him of her dream. Her father comes in and checks up on her. Booth asks Bones of what she may have seen before being shot. She tells him that it was all a blur, but tells Booth about Hal being there. Sadly, Booth breaks the news to her that he's dead. He also tells her that there was no bullet recovered on either of them.

Being a scientist, Bones knew at the time of her hallucination, she flatlined. She asked Booth how long she was out. He then informed her that she was dead for two minutes.

Back at the institute, Sweets and Sparling (yep she's back) are talking about the investigation. Turns out that all the cameras were disabled at the time of the shooting, so the perp was not ID'd. Their next option: question all the people left at the Jeffersonian at the time of the shooting.

Cam and Hodges are examining Hal's corpse to shed some light on the investigation. Montenegro approaches them happily that Bones is finally conscious, to everyone's relief. Cam though was confused as most gunshot victims would recall that they feel like it's burning at the area they were shot, but Bones feel cold instead. Aha! Maybe that's a clue. Hodges suggests an ice bullet.

As Sweets and Sparling interrogates the people at the Jeffersonian, they found out that Hal was a bit of a klutz. One testifies that he once tasered himself out of clumsiness. Later on, Edison finds out that the victim that Bones was investigating on was killed by a taser. Linking Hal and his taser (that matched weapon on the vic's body) on the murder. Probably the reason why Hal all of a sudden checks in on Bones at that time. Question is: Who shot Hal? And why?

Angela visits Bones. They confer about Hal being the prime suspect on the murder of the vic Bones was working on and that somehow, everything links to one another. Suddenly, Brennan flatlines--AGAIN. She talks to her mother once more and recalls the time her mother died and what happened before that--the fight, the boy, and how they never so each other after that. Her mother tells her that after that fight, Bones became who she is now. A person who'd rather use her brain than her heart and wouldn't change herself for someone. After that, Brennan again comes back to life.

Temperance comes back and she wakes up to Booth, her father and the doctor at the room. The doctor tells her that she had a reaction to the antigens of the blood she had during surgery. Bones tells Seeley her dream. She tells him that it has been Booth the whole time who has helped her come back to life. She confides to him of being in "another place" with her mother.

Back at the lab, Hodges makes his own ice bullets out of water, and demonstrates to Cam how it is impossible to penetrate the human body. Hodges then shows Cam that he had an idea through Bones' blood incompatibility issue at the hospital. He then concludes that the ice bullet used on her and on Hal was indeed made of blood. He made his blood ice bullets and demonstrates how that became the ice bullet that was used on both Bones and Hal. Perfect match. No exit wounds and no bullet trace. Genius. She then comes back into examining Hal's body.

Bones' father brings her her favorite ice cream. He talks to her about Tempe's encounter with her mother. Brennan, instead gives her father a logical, scientific explanation that it was not her mother but just a hallucination. Her father begs to differ and that he thinks that it really was her mother's spirit that she was talking to the whole time. Bones tells him about how her mom misses her father so much and that she still thinks that it was all a dream.

Cam and Hodges discuss about the particulates that she and Clark recovered from Hal's head. Hodges gives her information that the wood shavings that they found were from an ancient tree from Crete dated 12th century with gold flakes. They have the same materials that are of an artifact from their museum that suggests that the perp is also from the Jeffersonian.

Sparling breaks the information with Booth and tells him that the guard called a burner cell before he was shot. Booth thinks that this must belong to the shooter. That the shooter must have shot Bones because she's the only one smart enough to put the pieces together. Another clue that links the shooter to being someone from the Jeffersonian.

As they investigate on the painting, they have noticed that the 12th century artwork is missing and was replaced by a replica. They then realize that this must be a heist-gone-bad. The shooter must have taken the real artwork, replaces it with a fake, gets into a fight with Hal and kills him. Shoots Brennan to stop her from figuring out who the suspect is.

Booth, Hodges and Sparling figures out that the perp is indeed from the Jeffersonian. They come to arrest Dr. Batuhan, the chief of restoration at the Jeffersonian. They see the improvised gun (airbrush compressor) and the cryogenic cooler. Proofs that can pin him as the prime suspect.

At the FBI, Booth and Sparling interrogates Batuhan. He then lets him know that they have already traced some of the missing artifacts and the counterfeits at the Jeffersonian. The questioning has pushed Booth on the edge that he almost assaulted Batuhan at the interrogation. Booth was then texted to come to the hospital as Brennan will be sent to surgery due to some complications from the shooting. Brennan asks Booth to find more evidence to convict Batuhan. Brennan also advices Booth that she'll get those antigens for biopsy to find out if those were Batuhan's.

While on surgery, Temperance sees her mother once more. She notices her mother leaving again as she was "preparing for work". Tempe realizes that she's reliving her last hours with her mom, thinking that after this, she will not see her mother again. Her mother assures her that they'll be together again someday. She leaves Brennan with parting words that "It's time to find that little girl inside you again". That it's not surviving anymore, but flourishing. Brennan, tearing up, tells her mom how much she misses her. Her mom tells Tempe to tell Max that she has always known that the first gift her dad gave her mom was stolen. She then kisses Temperance goodbye, walks out the door as Brennan wakes up to her reality.

Booth smiles as Brennan opens her eyes. He tells her that Batuhan was finally convicted for Hal's murder, and Brennan's attempted murder. Max, relieved stands up and says that he'll be letting Temperance's friends that she has finally awake. But before he walks out, Brennan tells Max about what her mom told her. Max, surprised, informs Brennan that only he knows that. Nobody else has an idea about it until now. This suggests that Brennan may have had a change in her perception about the after life.

***Eugene Byrd reprises his role as Dr. Clark Edison. Ryan O'Neal also returns as Max Keenan, Brennan's father and Brooke Langton as Christine Brennan.

The Carrie Diaries - Series Premiere Recap

2013-01-16T01:48:00.001-08:00

Hello SATC fans. SHE. IS. BACK. Yes, Carrie Bradshaw is back--well, the young her, that is. We enter the world of the young Carrie Bradshaw before she becomes THE Carrie Bradshaw of NYC.

The series opens in a 1984 setting. Carrie is strolling the streets of NYC. Then she wakes up. Turns out, she has been dreaming of being in New York since her teen years in Castlebury, Connecticut.

Since childhood, she has already been dreaming of being a writer. She lives in CT with her dad and sister, and just lost her mom to cancer. Just like the usual kids, she deals with sibling fights with Dorrit, and teenage what-nots.

It has just been three months since matriarch Bradshaw died and everyone in the family is dealing with her loss. Carrie couldn't decide on anything to wear for school as she is distraught with the fact that it was her thing with her mother--shopping for back-to-school outfits. She talks to her dad about it and he offers to take her shopping instead. Carrie declines and just wants her mom's purse. Just a piece of her to get her by in school. In life. His dad then opens Carrie's mother's closet and finds it untouched since the day she died. She narrates that everyone has been forbidden to enter... til now--er that day in 1984. You get what I mean! Haha! So she goes through her mom's stuff, and wears her mom's sunnies in exchange for the purse.

In school, everyone seems to be staring at her like the new freak. She sees Donna LaDonna and The Jens, the school's "it" girls. Donna thinks that being sensitive and trying to be super nice to people who just had tragedy in their lives would gain her some cred at school.

Carrie then walks over to her real friends, Jill, Walt and Maggie, who hugs her to comfort her from Donna's BS. They talk about the new kid in school--Sebastian Kidd. The stares for Carrie easily moved to Sebastian. Yep, I think the whole world can sense that he's gonna be one of the popular kids. Carrie's love interest too, maybe?

So he walks towards them and suddenly, he speaks to Carrie. He. Knows. Her! He gives his condolences to Carrie for her mom's loss and tells her, "See you around". Oh man, you gotta see the look on Donna LaDonna's face!

Later at the library, Carrie, Maggie and Jill talk about how she knew Sebastian. She tells them about Sebastian and her hanging out over the summer of '83 at the swim club. Jill gushes about a new guy in her life, Seth Glassman, as well as Walt and Maggie's relationship. Jill confides about losing her v-card to the guy, who is by the way, a freshman in college at DC. Speaking of sex, Maggie then confides to the ladies, in secrecy, about her and Walt. Making Carrie the only virgin now in the gang. Seems like Carrie's feeling the pressure now. Jill suggests that they go on a triple date--Maggie and Walt, Jill and Seth, and Carrie and Sebastian.

As she walks alone, she contemplates on her being a virgin. She then goes toward Sebastian, whose sitting on a bench at the school courtyard. She and Sebastian had a talk about her mother's passing, what's going on in Carrie's head, and Sebastian's mom leaving him and his dad for her tennis instructor.

A flashback of Carrie and Sebastian at the swimming pool is shown. The two of them were talking and hanging out when Sebastian almost kissed her. Nervous, Carrie pushed him to the pool, evading the kiss. But yea, the kiss still happened. Carrie's first kiss. Can't fight the chemistry right? Unfortunately, Sebastian will not be hanging at the swim club anymore. His parents had built a pool in their home, which means the end of what seems to be their perfect summer.

Back at school, Sebastian and Carrie walks to class and talks about swimming. She was about to ask Sebastian out when she sees her father in the school halls. Carrie faints and Sebastian catches her fall as her dad rushes toward her.

You see, last time Carrie's dad was at her school, he broke her the news about her mom's fate. Thinking it's gonna be another bad news, she fainted. Her father tells her that he's not there for some bad news, but rather to talk to their school's guidance counselor about bringing Carrie to New York. To take her mind off everything, she will start as an intern in Manhattan once a week for extra school credit. Of course, Carrie says YES! That's New York, for Pete's sake.

Back at home, she asks Dorrit for her mom's purse back and sees her mom's purse in a stuffed bear. It was accidentally smudged with white nail polish, along with some other stuff inside the toy. Turns out Dorrit wants it for herself. To have something of their mom's as well. Like Carrie, Dorrit was trying to cope with their mother's passing. But unlike Carrie, she had nothing. Carrie had her sixteenth birthday and is now in high school with an NYC internship, while Dorrit's got nothing. Carrie realized that she's way luckier than Dorrit, what with the extra two years she had with their mother (she's two years older than her sister) that her younger sister would never have, now that she's gone. Carrie tries to comfort her sister, but Dorrit suddenly snaps at her and leaves.

That night, Carrie takes the now-ruined purse and tries to fix it by using her nail polish to glam it up, making the smudged white polish that Dorrit had on the purse seem like a part of it all. The next day, Carrie leaves with her dad for the city, on her first day as an intern.

Carrie and her dad arrives at Manhattan and heads to Wall Street for her internship. Before her dad leaves, she declines of her father's offer to fetch her at work. She wants to take the six o' clock train back to Connecticut, go straight to the school dance and be home before curfew. She then bids her dad goodbye.

As she marvels and takes in Manhattan, someone accidentally bumps into her, ruining her stockings. She then had to go to work with no stockings on. You have no idea how bad that means in the 80s! LOL. Carrie gets acquainted with her new job and the lady who is orienting her notices that she doesn't have a pair of stocking and adviced her to get a new pair at lunch.

On her way to get a pair of new stockings at Century 21, she sees how awesome the place is. A style editor spots her at the department store after seeing her newly glammed up purse. Thinking that she would be stealing her purse, she pushes the lady away. The lady then introduces herself and well, a mortified Carrie apologizes and quickly becomes friends with her. The name: Larissa Loughlin of Interview Magazine.

Carrie hangs with Larissa for the rest of her lunch time and becomes an enabler for Larissa, as she steals clothes at the mall. SHOPLIFTER!!! Carrie thinks that Larissa must need some money, thus the shoplifting. But Larissa tells her that she's been doing that since she was a teenager just because of the thrill.

Larissa invites her for a night out, not knowing Carrie is still in high school. Carrie lies about her age. She calls Jill from work and tells her about her first day in New York. Jill then excitedly tells Carrie that Sebastian called Jill to ask for Carrie's number. Thinking that Sebastian might call her at home, she dials her home phone, but Dorrit drops the call.

Lucky for Carrie, her supervisor at the office came in her area. Since she is not allowed to make personal calls, she gets off the hook since no calls were made. Well, none on her supervisor's watch, that is. Anyhoos, her supervisor comes in and brings Carrie a dress with a note from Larissa. Carrie tells her supervisor that it's from her dad, so she could wear it on her school dance that night. Her supervisor has to leave early and that she would not be able to take Carrie to the train station, but gives her instructions to take a cab to the station, rather than taking the subway.

As she leave work, wearing the dress Larissa sent her, Carrie hails a cab. When she was asked "where to?", she is torn with a decision between the school dance or a night out with Larissa. Miss Goody-two-shoes Bradshaw picked Indo-chine with Larissa and hangs out with her for the night.

Larissa introduces Carrie to a group of people she's with and Carrie is instantly fascinated with Larissa's world. And since Carrie ditches her high school dance, Sebastian is taken by Donna LaDonna instead. Carrie loses track of time and realizes it's almost midnight so she rushes home, leaving Larissa and everyone else at Indo-chine.

Back at Castlebury, Carrie is picked up by Walt. They see Sebastian at the parking lot of the train station with Donna. He sees Carrie and offers her and Walt a ride, but she declines. Boo-hoo!

Walking home, Walt confides to Carrie about his relationship with Maggie. How Walt wants to wait before he does the deed with someone. She then realizes that it wasn't Walt that she lost her virginity with, or that she may just be lying about sleeping with Walt in the first place.

As they arrive to Carrie's, they find cops outside their home. They thought her dad called the cops because she missed curfew, but it turns out that Dorrit's missing. Dun-dun-duuuun!

The next morning, Dorrit comes home to an anxious father and sister. They notice she's wasted and yells at her sister. Dorrit snaps at her saying, "Or what? You're gonna ground me? You're not my mom!"

Carrie breaks down in tears and lashes out on her sister about her being the mature one and how broken she is after losing their mother, trying to be her sister and all. She then walks out. Her father then follows her to her room and talks to her about losing her mom. How he sees a lot of her mother in her that time she yelled at Dorrit. How he dreads his new job of being the disciplinarian to them, since their mom used to be the one doing it. He also grounds Carrie for missing curfew the night before.

Later that day, Mouse (Jill) comes over to Carrie's. She tells Carrie that she feels that Seth may be breaking up with her soon. That she has called him a lot of times the night before and cries.

Afterwards, having the realization that their mother is never really coming back anymore, Carrie, Dorrit and their father opens their mom's closet to pack up her stuff. Daddy Bradshaw hands Carrie her favorite dress of her mom's, but she passes it to Dorrit instead. They then box up their mother's things.

It is also revealed that Walt is gay, reason why he never had sex with Maggie. Maggie is seeing a cop, two-timing Walt, and sleeping with the guy. At the swim club, Sebastian comes to see Carrie and is spotted by the Jens, Donna's minions.

At the end of the episode, Carrie's dad gives her her mother's blank diaries, to write her future journey with.

Cast and characters:

Anna Sophia Robb - Carrie Bradshaw
Austin Butler - Sebastian Kidd
Ellen Wong - Jill "The Mouse" Thompson
Katie Findlay - Maggie
Stefania Owen - Dorrit Bradshaw
Brendan Dooling - Walt Reynolds
Chloe Bridges - Donna LaDonna
Freema Agyeman - Larissa Loughlin
Matt Letscher - Tom Bradshaw

The New Normal Recap: See what the gang's plans are!

2013-01-08T19:30:00.000-08:00

Our fave gay couple--well, on TV that is (my personal fave is NPH and David Burtka! HA!)--is back!

To start 2013, Brian is being interviewed by his favorite magazine, Ladies Home Journal. He talks about gloves, his family, him breastfeeding his doll (yes, you read that right!) and men's biological clock.

And just when you think Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha's looks are too much to take, in comes (drumroll please...) Matt Bomer! Pausing to let you ladies squee for joy. He and his abs guest star as Brian's ex-boyfriend, Monty. He tells Ladies Home Journal about his ex thinking less about children and more about getting drunk, and his plans on having more children in the future. That night, he talks to David about the interview and discuss their future children, spacing, etc. Turns out, unlike Brian's ex who wants zero kids, David also wants to have three.

Meanwhile, Nana Jane and Rocky (gurrrlfriends!) are reviewing for Jane's real estate license exams for California. Goggles (Shania) comes in to Jane's surprise. Shania says her mom dropped her off so she could pick up some fabric at Chinatown. Rocky notices that Shania seems sad and she opens up about some mean girls at school. She confides to Rocky and her Nana Jane about some bullies who posted a headless photo of a girl taking a dump at school declaring it to be Shania. Totally not true by the way. She says she only drops a deuce at home. But yea, them mean girls are making sure Goggles won't have any friends at school anymore.

Furious over what she heard, Rocky says she "better shut those bitches down NOW or your self esteem is shot for life". Nana Jane agrees and tells her that she needs a plan for total and complete dominance over those kids. Rocky adds that Shania better learn how to do that until she grows up so she won't be bullied and be as strong and independent as she and Jane are.

Back to David and Brian, they discuss their options about their future with Gary Snyder at the surrogacy office. Sine baby #1 is David's sperm, they are planning #2 using Brian's, while baby #3 as a mix of both dads' genetic matter. Suddenly, Gary cries and says he's gonna die alone. David suggests to Brian that they set up Monty with Gary. They have learned that he wants to have a child soon and well, with Gary's biological clock ticking down, he thinks Monty and Gary should have the kid they both have been dreaming of--together. Desperate, Gary agrees, saying, "as long as he's got a pulse, I'm in."

Nana's plan for Shania didn't work. Shania coming to school in a suit made it more difficult for her as the girls bullied her even more. Rocky steps in with her own plan: reading. She teaches Shania how to talk those girls down like how the drags taught Nana and Rocky in WeHo. Reading.

That night, Brian and David double date with Monty and Gary. While having dinner, Goldie comes in and Monty suddenly asks if he could touch her pregnant belly. The whole set-up-Gary-with-Monty-dinner was a bust when Monty decides to leave with Goldie. Yes, he was THAT fascinated with her that he blew the rest of their dinner to come with her. Poor Gary.

Monty comes back and declares his plans for the future. He tells everyone that he wants to pull a Sandra Bullock and raise a kid on his own. Aaaand he asked to have Goldie as his surrogate when she gives birth to David and Brian's. Uh-oh. So much for baby number 2 and 3!

Later on, Brian and David were angry because Monty's trying to steal Goldie from them. David thinks they should warn Monty to back off. So they pay Monty a visit--and a yelling, to tell him to leave Goldie alone.

At school, Shania gets her drag on and starts talking down to her bullies. Oh man, is she good! Who's the new queen bee now!

David and Brian talks to Goldie about their plans and learns that she turned down Monty's request to be his surrogate. The couple were relieved and asks her if she could be their baby #2 and 3's surrogate. Goldie stops them as she informs them of her dreams and her plan to open up a shop and make a children's clothing line. She says that as much as she wants to get knocked up with the couple's second child, she cannot commit just yet as she wants to stick to her plan. The couple agrees.

Now queen bee speaks to her new minions and declares that from then on, there should be no more queen bees. That they should stop pointing at peoples' flaws and rather see them as just mere people. Then she makes the mean girls her new girlfriends.

Brian and David comes over to Monty's to apologize. They were shocked upon seeing Gary welcoming them and finds out that the two are finally together. They were surprised to see how fast the two quickly got together and learns that they are currently testing the waters of parenthood by taking care of Gary's niece. The two thank David and Brian for showing them what it is to have a loving family and how they became good models for them.

Shania sees her mom's creations and was amazed by Goldie's awesome girl apparel. Goldie tells Shania that she is her awesome girl inspiration after seeing her with the mean girls, how she inspired them to be better people.

Later that day, Goldie launches her store at the farmers' market and is an instant hit.

The Cricket Game - Once Upon A Time Recap

2013-01-07T07:55:00.001-08:00

New year, new post. Hello 2013!

After the holiday break, Once Upon A Time comes back with a new exciting episode. Cora and Hook has arrived with vengeance both in mind--Captain Hook's croc, Rumplestiltskin; and Cora's peachy (or should I say, witchy!) daughter, Regina.

As the two alight the ship, Hook bids farewell to Cora, thinking that coming to Story Brooke is where they part ways. However, Cora thinks otherwise and tells Hook that he might want to rethink things through. Hook wants nothing to do with Cora anymore and says that they had a deal. Now that he's carried out his part of the bargain, it means that they're over. She thinks that the two should stick together as a favor to Hook. Now that magic is back in Story Brooke, Hook is helpless if he faces off with Gold/Rumplestiltskin.

Their talk was disrupted when a townsfolk interrupted them. Since no one should know of their arrival, Cora used her magic and transformed the man into a fish. Cora made Hook's ship invisible to avoid prying eyes to have an "element of surprise" before they reveal themselves to Regina and Gold. The two went on their way to explore Story Brooke.

Our resident love birds, Mary Margaret and David, are finally back in each others arms and wasted no time in making up for lost time. Henry and Emma walked in on them in bed as the two were "catching up" on the 28 years they have lost. Talk about afternoon delight huh? Good thing Henry has no idea. But yea, Emma's pretty scarred upon seeing that! Lols. David's pretty impressed though--28 years and they were still able to give Emma a traumatic glimpse of what her childhood should have been. Haha!

Flashback on Regina's past in Fairy Tale World. Her royal highness was overseeing the ogre wars from afar and was informed by one of her men that Snow White and Prince Charming has defeated King George. That the kingdom has already fallen under their hands. Now that he's done for, Regina and her men are now alone in carrying out their plans to take over Fairy Tale Land. Regina instructs her men that no matter how many lives are to be lost, they MUST keep them away from each other longer before the queen finds Snow. She is not going to let them defeat her that easily. And she makes her way to find Snow.

Regina finds Snow in the woods. Snow offers Regina the terms to her surrender. Regina's term is quite simple though--Snow's death for her to surrender. As Regina was about to charge on Snow, Blue (Fairy) flies down to disable Regina, stunning her in place. It was all a trap. Knowing that she's fixated on her revenge with Snow White, Charming and Snow devised a plan to capture her using Snow as their bait. Regina's kingdom has finally fallen into Snow and Charming's hands. Her reign of evil is now over.

Back in Story Brooke, a fully-clothed Mary Margaret and team Snow comes in Granny's diner to celebrate her triumphant come back with Emma after being trapped on the other side--what was left of Fairy Tale World.

Ruby rushes in to hug BFF Mary Margaret, ever so glad that she has come back. Archie Hopper also hugs her, happy with their return. Emma tells Granny her relief after she confides on her about how they survived Fairy Tale World by hunting for food. David makes a toast to cheer for his wife and daughter's return, and to hoping that he won't have to look for her again.

Talk about awkward entrance. Regina enters the diner to bring her share of pot luck to join team Snow in celebrating their return. Grumpy/Leroy quickly pulls a knife thinking that Regina came uninvited. Emma tells everyone that she invited her. Emma explains to her parents why she invited Regina. That they owe her gratitude for helping them come back from Fairy Tale World. She tells them that she wants to make things right with her for Henry, knowing that she's trying to change for the best, for Henry. The two then agrees with Emma's decision and lets her stay. Henry is glad too that Regina came.

Moments later, the party was a success. So is Regina's homemade lasagna. Unfortunately, as the night draws to a close, she feels that she's still not welcome in Snow and Charming's circle. She notices that
everyone else are with company except for her. She decides to leave. Emma sees her as she leaves and she asks her to come back for Archie's cake. Regina declines, but thanks Emma for being gracious enough to invite her on their party. She tells her that she did it for Henry. Regina extends her hospitality and invites her so she could come visit or even sleep over at her house some time. Emma turns down Regina's offer, saying it won't be best. Disappointed and hurt, Regina lashes out on Emma about her being a "good parent". Regina quickly apologizes for snapping at Emma. Emma tells Regina about her talk with Archie, and learns that he spilled their confidential talks to Emma, thus convincing Emma to give Regina a chance.

Unknown to Regina, she is being spied on by her mother and Hook from a rooftop, with a spotting scope.

The next morning, Regina confronts Dr. Hopper at the docks on his conversation and confidentiality breach. Archie explains that he only told her of the part where Regina consulted him, merely citing to Emma that Regina has been trying her hardest to stop using magic as part of her commitment to change for the better. That he never revealed to Emma the specifics of their consult. Ruby runs in on them and notices their "chat". Ruby stops by to diffuse the situation, but Regina slams her shut, telling her that she and Hopper are having a private conversation, thus leaving the two of them. Archie then assures Regina that he can be trusted. Regina then warns him that he's lucky she has changed and leaves him alone.

Flashback. Jiminy Cricket declares his fear that Regina may never change. He tells the council to suspense justice and they decide on what to do with the queen. Charming states that so long as the queen is alive, the kingdom is in danger. Thus, deciding that the queen must be executed.

Snow White is contemplating on Charming's decision, but he is adamant as he thinks that they have no other option. Snow then tells him that there is always a choice. That there can be another way. Charming thinks otherwise.

As Regina walks to Hopper's clinic, a suspecting Ruby sees her. Inside, it was revealed that it was Cora disguising as Regina and kills Hopper while stunning his dog. Leaving the scene, Cora changes back to her old self as she walks down a dark alley.

Over breakfast at Granny's, Emma recollects her memories of Fairy Tale World to her son. She was about to walk Henry to school when a frantic Pongo runs to them. Emma realizes something's wrong when she notices that Archie's nowhere in sight. Ruby runs to them telling them that there IS something wrong, as she listens to Pongo. Yes, wolf thing. She speaks canine remember?

Emma lets Henry walk to school alone due to the emergency, and she and Ruby rushes to Archie's. There they find his dead body lying on the floor. Ruby, seeing Regina (Cora in disguise) that night, thinks that she may have killed him.

Regina, being held prisoner in the castle, was visited by her father, Henry. He feels that it was his fault that Regina was captured. That he failed her as a father, for not protecting her enough. She says that she doesn't blame him. That she can never blame the person she loves most--her father. He convinces her to change. That they can probably spare her if she gives them a reason.

Her recollection of the past was interrupted when Emma--Sheriff Swan and her deputy-slash-daddy came into the interrogation room as Regina was summoned for questioning. She learns that Archie was killed. David tells her that Ruby saw her the night Hopper was killed. To her defense, Regina says she was home all night. Unfortunately, David does not believe her.

Once again. a flashback is being shown of Regina's execution. She declares her regret to cause more pain, death and kill Snow. As the archers were about to kill Regina, Snow cried stop. The archers have already released their arrows, but was stopped by Blue's magic, in time to spare Regina. She says that killing her is not the way, and David sends her back to her cell.

Emma is not convinced that Regina killed Archie. Upon profiling, she noticed the genuine reaction Regina showed upon knowing that Archie died. David and Mary Margaret thinks that she's lying, but Emma is adamant that she knows what she saw--Regina is innocent. And that she believes Regina. She then declares Regina is innocent until proven guilty. She decides that they should let her go, and they will find the truth behind everything.

Back at the castle, Charming and Snow were arguing about Snow sparing Regina's life. He says that he has seen her kill many innocent lives and that he thinks he will never change. But Snow knows the Regina before she became possessed by her dark powers. That she was once a good person, who saved her when she was young. That showing her mercy is the first step in rehabilitating the queen to bring her back to her old good self. Charming says that sparing her life would only put the kingdom at risk, but Snow knows that there is no going back from killing. That if the queen will be killed, there is no way to bring her back anymore, to save her soul from the dark path its taking. Charming agrees, but warns her that even if the queen is spared, there is no turning back from then on either.

Snow proceeds to the courtyard where the queen was supposed to be executed earlier that day. She was surprised when Rumplestiltskin appears sitting at the throne. Snow says she is not apologizing for sparing the queen's life as she thinks she can still change. Rumple lets out a loud laugh, finding Snow's statement amusing. He asks how she could accomplish Regina's redemption. Rumple offers Snow to give Regina a test to know if she is indeed redeemable. Snow asks Rumple how would she trust him, knowing he wants the queen dead. And that he wouldn't want to make deals without anything in return. Rumplestiltskin says that he doesn't want anything in return for the deal.

At Archie's home/office, David, Mary Margaret and Emma are searching for evidence and David notices that Regina's file is empty. Mary Margaret assumes that Regina must have wiped out her file to make sure that no one knows of her consult. Emma still doesn't agree to it. David reiterates the sequence of the story, stating that the evidences all point to Regina. She thinks that Regina must have been framed. Unfortunately, they were barking at the wrong tree--Mr. Gold that is.

They arrive at Gold's shop and walks into Belle and Gold. They then find out that Hopper had been killed and that Gold is a suspect in the frame-up. He says, he's "afraid to disappoint them" as it was not him who framed Regina. David doesn't believe him, but Gold thinks that they have a witness--Pongo. They then summoned Pongo so they could extract Pongo's memories to find out what has really transpired the night Archie was killed... but Emma would be the one to do it.

Emma agrees so they could solve Archie's mysterious death by using a dream catcher. Emma is told by Gold to will it so she can see what the dream catcher has extracted from Pongo's memory. They see Regina and they see her kill Archie. Emma rushes to arrest Regina, but is stopped by her parents. They think that coming to her without any plan may endanger them.

Back at the castle cell where Regina is being held, Snow comes to talk to her. She tries to talk some sense to her thinking that she can still bring back the good queen. That even though she tries her hardest to bury the good Regina inside of her, Snow thinks that she's still inside of her. But Regina says she's not. Snow opens her cell and lets her out. She is letting the person who once saved her life go. That she can start anew, leaving all the evil Regina behind in her jail cell. Just. Like. That. Regina then attacks her as she steps out of her jail cell, stabbing Snow White with Snow's own dagger. Regina doesn't know that it was all a ruse to test Regina. If she was still up for change, or if she's still the sinister queen that she is. Surprised that Snow was not affected by the stabbing, Charming steps in to inform her that Snow is under a protection spell Rumplestiltskin have created to help them out in testing Regina's resolve. She then was banished by Snow White and Prince Charming to live alone, outside of the kingdom. Before leaving, Snow tells her that they are now even--her life that was once spared when she was young for Regina's life spared from execution. She then warns that if Regina tries to kill anyone again in the kingdom, Snow will kill her.

At Regina's doorstep, Emma, David and Mary Margaret come to arrest her. She was then informed that Emma has seen through Pongo's memory (and magic) what has happened the night Archie died. How Regina choked the life out of him. Shocked, Regina thought it was Gold behind everything until she learns that Emma used her own magic to see what happened. Regina then told her that everytime she uses magic, there is always a price. Emma knows that there IS that stipulation and jumps into conclusion that it's Henry's heart that will cost Regina. Regina wants Henry to hear her side of the story, but a furious Emma would never let Regina near her son again.

Blue comes out from behind a tree to stun Regina, just like she did 28 years ago. This time, Regina wasn't surprised. She then uses her magic to thrust Emma away and Emma tells her that Regina will always be a evil no matter how hard she tried. Regina then uses her magic to escape in front of them.

Waiting for Henry at the bus stop, Emma doesn't know how to tell him that Archie has been killed by Regina. She is now frantic and is thinking of how to do it as well as be the sole guardian of Henry, now that Regina's out of the picture. Mary Margaret and David assures her that they will figure things out together, as a family.

Henry approaches them from the school bus and Emma breaks the news about Archie's death. Nearby, an emotional Regina watches them from her car. She sees a broken-hearted Henry crying over Archie's death. Regina tears up, knowing that Henry will never take her back again.

Rumplestiltskin visits the queen in her castle. He tells her of Snow and Charming's wedding. Regina is quite angry with Rumple's aide to Snow and Charming, making the queen unable to harm them ever again in Fairy Tale World. He then suggests that they can bring everyone to a different land, thus the loophole to the deal he made with Charming and Snow--hinting the reason behind the curse Regina created 28 years back. Delighted with the news, Regina then crashes Snow White and Prince Charming's wedding.

Back at the docks, Cora returns to Hook telling him that she has finally broken Regina, leaving her now with nothing. She also informs Hook that she has something--er someone for Hook to use against Gold. Someone who knows everything about Story Brooke--even Gold's weakness/es. It is revealed that Archie is still alive and is being held captive inside Captain Hook's invisible ship. It is implied that Hook and Cora might torture the truth out of their captured cricket.

How I Met Your Mother Recap - The Nannies

2012-10-10T04:43:00.000-07:00

After his break-up with Quinn, Barney tries to pick himself back and gets back to his old self. He starts up "Bang-toberfest" to re-launch himself back to the market. Unfortunately, his plan was a flop. He now tries to think of other ways to make him visible once more to the ladies so he can finally get his old life back.

Lily's dad, Mickey, comes over after burning his home due to some pyros he kept at the garage. Lily and Marshall now have a system in taking care of little Marvin. They're having trouble as Lily's maternity leave is done and has to get back to work. That means no one will be left to take care of the baby anymore. Although her father's there, she wouldn't want him to look after Marvin, based on his track record with Lily.

Robin offers Lily to help out by babysitting Marvin with Nick. Ted and Robin makes it a contest, competing to show the world who's "clicking" more... Aaah, trouble with exes! This is gonna be ugly. The two are bickering about whose relationship is better and much more perfect. Later on, they both pointed out each other's partner's flaws and they realize that they can't really stand those flaws.

Anyhoos, the couple is having a hard time finding a nanny. After searching and searching, they finally find one by the name of Julie. She happens to be from Saint Cloud, Minnesota--same as Marshall's hometown. Too bad, after her interview with the Ericson's, she fell in love... with Barney! He made this story about being a billionaire single dad.

So Marshall, Lily and little Marvin visit Barney's to find him and Julie. They explain what Barney is up to and tells her that the job offer still stands. Julie would not accept it anymore upon knowing that they are friends with a monster (Barney).

Barney confesses to Lily how he managed to find all those girls. Turns out, Lily's talk with the gang gave him the idea to go to a nanny website. He posed as a single father, interviews them while his imaginary baby is asleep and when he's about to hire the nanny, he'll go for the kill--tell them that he can hire them because he finds them attractive and then sleep with them. Of course, Lily's furious. It was the night before she goes back to work. She still has no nanny. What kind of mom wouldn't be angry if they find out someone screwed their chance of hiring a nanny they like because of a one night stand?! After calling Barney immature, she storms off with Marshall and their baby.

The next day, just as Lily's about to call in sick on her first day back to work, their old nanny, Mrs. Buckminster comes back. She says Barney called up the agency and offered to pay her salary to work for Lily and Marshall (awww...) He also sent Marshall the race track he was playing at Barney's home as some sort of a peace offering for pissing him off.

Lily can't let go of little Marvin anymore. As Mrs. Buckminster tries to get the baby from her, Lily snaps at her saying that she can't give her baby to a stranger, and walks to Marvin's room. Moments later, she comes back with Marshall to apologize. She has an ever so severe separation anxiety that she can't let go of Marvin and go to work.

Back to Robin and Ted, they talk about the night that they each had with their partners. Robin tells Ted that Nick cried that night when she killed a spider. Ted then replies, wishing that he should have had the spider so it can breed on the ants at Victoria's unwashed dishes.

Barney comes rushing in, all dirty and bruised. He tells his story. Apparently, the nanny community--well the "potential nannies" he interviewed and slept with tracked him down. They gang up on him and he woke up in a dumpster. Robin tells him to stop trying to score girls because clearly, he's still not over Quinn. Barney's having a hard time accepting he needs help and is having mixed emotions shouting, "I don't need help--Help me!". He then sees a blonde at the bar and takes off.

After Barney leaves, Ted and Robin decides to just look at things in a different perspective. They realize that maybe their partners would rather help them grow--Ted into becoming a "cleaner" and Robin to let Nick wear her pants. Ted makes a toast "to making these relationships last"... Both relationships would implode within the month.

Marshall comes home to find Lily at Marvin's room. She thinks she and Marvin slept all day, only to find out that she's holding a stuffed monkey, not Marvin. After shouting... breathing... and shouting again, they rush to go find the baby, when Lily's dad walks in with baby Marvin.

Mickey recalls, "Well, when I came back this morning from my jog, Marshall was gone and I couldn't find Mrs Whats-his-face... and you two were sawing logs. So I figured I'd lend a hand." He then switches Marvin and a sub (sandwich) in a sleeping Lily's arms. She wonders how come she woke up to a monkey. Her dad admits he got hungry, hence switch number 2. He then tells them of how his day with Marvin was.

Lily, shocked, asks Mickey how he became this great father all of a sudden. Mickey then reminisce on Lily's first years, being a stay-at-home dad, while Lily's mom works. She thought it was her grandparents who took care of her, but in reality, it was actually him and that they only came to visit back then.

He also tells Lily the story of how America thought Mickey rushed to his burning home to a potato salad, when in fact, he rushed back in to retrieve a photo album... aaand his potato salad. He showed a photo album he made for Lily when she was still a baby. That's when Lily realized that he wasn't that horrible of a father to her. He apologizes to Lily for not being there for the rest of her childhood, regretting what he did every single day of his life. He promises Lily that he'll change now, and will be always be present now for Marvin. Lily says yes, and Mickey becomes Marvin's new nanny (enter a photo montage of Mickey and Marvin through the years).

Back to Barney, it was revealed that he hired Mrs. Buckminster's assistance to help him make better decisions... but he ends up sleeping with her too, with Mrs. Buckminster's advances.

The Hold-Up - Two Broke Girls Recap

2012-10-09T11:18:00.002-07:00

Han gets a call from his mother from Korea and gets so frustrated. Max tells him not let his mom bully him. That for his age of 53, he should stand up to her. Han tells Max of his real age... 29. Max and Caroline are shocked. They explain that because of his hair, choice of clothes and well, the five-dollar-check he gave Caroline for Christmas, they thought he's old.

Anyhoos, some guy comes in at the diner to rob them. Max is told to collect everyone's purses' contents. Caroline freaks out and pees on herself. Oleg tries to be a hero and comes out with a bat. Unfortunately for him, he walks into a puddle of Caroline's pee, causing him to slip and fall. The man orders Caroline to come out of the counter, but panics and uses Max as a human shield.

The robber gets agitated and Han comes out of his office. He says he'll just take an heirloom from his fanny pack, but when the robber turns to face him, Han is holding a gun against his back. Turns out the robber doesn't really have a gun and surrenders to Han.

The girls are relieved but still could not believe that of all people, Han saved them. Everyone still picks on Caroline after pissing on the floor, freaking out while being robbed. Caroline sees a coupon for the movies and thinks of going to the movies after... well, the pee-pee boo-boo! Max tells her that she doesn't need to pay for it and offers to take her to the movies by sneaking into the theater.

Max still feels bad about her being used by Caroline as a human shield. She later lets it go as she and Caroline plan their trip to the cinemas. Max tells her that they should just right up in the ushers face and make an excuse, then "boldly walk with purpose". Their talk gets interrupted when Sophie knocks. She comes in to check the girls and makes a joke about Max as the human shield and Caroline for pissing. Caroline, uncomfortable with the jokes, heads on with Max to watch the movie.

At the movies, Caroline begins to feel nervous about their shenanigan. They sneak inside with Max's excuse for leaving her iPhone and Caroline's seizure medication prescription. At the refreshments, they chat with the guy in charge, named Hallelujah. Pretty cynical, but Max gets to his good side when she defends him from the nerds who came in late but kept complaining about the time. As a thank you, Hallelujah makes Max and Caroline a fresh batch of popcorn.

Inside the movie house, Max approaches the nerds and apologizes for being a bit too harsh on them. She then compliments one of the nerds' cape (well, technically, it's his sister's cape) and then leaves to find a seat for her and Caroline.

Caroline discovers how crazy Max becomes inside the movies. She heckles upon seeing the anomalies of the super hero movie. Max also shouts out the difference of the movie's story from that written on the comic books. Later on one of the scenes of the movie, a car exploded in front of two girls. Max makes a joke again about the human shield. Caroline asks her if she will not let it go. Max says it was a big deal considering her life was on the line at the time. To Caroline's defense, she has already apologized twice and doesn't know how much more she can do. Caroline says sorry once more. She points out how she was a spoiled, rich girl who puts herself first and that she hated herself for how she acted. She knows that it's something Max would never do.

While talking, they notice Han at the back row at the movies. He seems to be sitting with a man and a woman. Moments later, Han leaves with the man. The girls follow them to see them go to the men's room.

Going back, an usher gets in their way and Max walks boldly as if she didn't hear anything. Caroline was left behind stunned. She spots Han and pretends they're together. Han cannot seem to produce the ticket(s) to show to the usher. The usher explains that sneaking into a theater is a felony. What he said scares Han and pees on himself.

Caroline comes to work making the "walk and flip at the movies" a big deal. She tells a that she and Han now have a mug shot at the cineplex dubbed "Hanny and Clyde". She tells Max that this proves that they're the same... selfish and for splitting the scene. However, Caroline realize that even though they are selfish (for survival), they still put each other first sometimes--well Max did.

At work, Sophie makes fun of Han for peeing at the movies. But later comforts him saying that it's normal for old men to control their bladder. Han tells her he's 29 and bursts out laughing.

Embarrassed, Han walks to Max. She makes him feel better by telling him that at least he was man enough not to leave Caroline alone. Max asks why would he watch movies in the middle of the day anyway. Han replies that sometimes, people bug him and that's what he does to get some time away. She then thinks he's cool and says they will hang some time.

Total money this week: $995 (from $877)

Quotes:

Han: (while watching Max and Caroline slapping each other for fun) What are they doing???
Oleg: I think they might be doing a scene from Fifty Shades of Grey.

Han: I AM 29...
Max: What do you got? A case of the Benjamin Buttons???

Max: Are you having a heart attack?!
Caroline: I'm peeing...

Han: (to robber; holding a gun) I don't think so homeboy... You're in my house now, bitch!

Caroline: Max, I'm surprised you're even affected by this. I mean, weren't you shot as a baby? I feel like you told me that.
Max: No, I drank shots as a baby... My mother hated to drink alone.

Sophie: Oh hi girls! Oh, I heard what happened. Max you got pushed in front of a gun... You must be very PISSED! Oh and Caroline, what a nice outfit. On a scale of 1-10, you're an 8. Get it? Urinate!

Max: Please. The only game Han has is "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe".

Max: You think Han's an Asian drug dealer? What selling? Crystal MATH?!?

Usher: (to Han while peeing on the floor) Well at least your fanny pack isn't the most embarrassing thing about you anymore.

Til Death Do Us Part - 90210 Season 5 Premiere

2012-10-09T09:04:00.004-07:00

Previously, on 90210, Silver wants to have a baby in case cancer happens. So she asks for her BFF, Teddy's help to father her child. Liam and Navid fights over Silver (and her future baby), which mars their bromance. Vanessa comes back, stirring trouble, and Ade jets off for a gig, after a fight with Dixon. Dixon tries to find his way home by hitching with some guys and ends up rammed by a huge truck on his way back to sunny Cali. Annie ends her relationship to a soon-to-be priest, Caleb. Finally, Naomi crashes and stops Max's wedding to Madison.

This season opens with Max and Naomi facing the aftermath of his wedding--er lack thereof. Max calms his family down after the crazy non-wedding, while Naomi sacrifices a job opportunity in New York. The two run away to Nevada to elope.

Meanwhile, Liam resists Vanessa's advances and tells her that their partnership is over. However, Vanessa, knowing that they have a contract, uses that against him and ultimately forces him to go to Bolivia... unless he buys himself off the contract with 200 grand.

Teddy is overwhelmed after hearing Silver's request. Silver doesn't really expects to have the baby WITH him, if he doesn't want it. I know, it sounds weird. But all she needs is Teddy's sperm, so she can tell her kid someday that she knows his/her dad and that she cares for him deeply. He refuses it, thinking that he's not yet ready to be a parent. He is hesitant because he still hasn't resolved his issues with his dad after coming out. Teddy says he'll think about it.

Ade lands on Vegas and meets Carly Ray Jepsen at the hotel. They exchange niceties and Ade finds out that they'll be performing on the same stage. Carly jokes about how she'll be one tough act to follow and takes off, leaving a starstruck Adrianna behind.

Ade heads to the bar with Austin to drink some champagne to celebrate. Moments later, Navid calls her and tells her that Dixon called him to tell him that he's coming home. Ade doesn't wanna go back because she's still hurt and would rather not give him a chance. What better way to make herself feel better? Hook up with some random guy she meets at the bar!

Back at the bar, Liam tries to sell The Offshore to buy himself out of the movie contract and finally escape Vanessa. He confides to Annie about it when Navid comes in to tell about his call with Ade. He asks Annie to call Dixon and someone else answers his phone. It was the Coroner's office. Luckily, after identifying the corpses of those involved in the car crash, Dixon was not among them. They rush to the hospital and find him in critical condition.

After the hook-up, Ade learns from Annie that Dixon is in serious condition at the hospital. She hears about the car crash and Austin sends a guilt-ridden Adrianna home.

Naomi and Max drives away to Nevada to elope. Unfortunately, they had to pull over after a champagne cork mishap while driving. They soon hitch a ride to some guy and asks Naomi to drive. Turns out, the guy is a robber (with drugs at the back of the car) and the two becomes an accomplice when he robs a gas station after crossing Nevada border. The cops pull them over, arresting and booking them for the robbery.

In California, Alec, Max's best friend and associate, tracks Naomi and leads him to her home. He finds Liam, Teddy and Silver--no Naomi. He tells them how much of a liability Naomi can be, considering how she ruined Max's life back then. They soon find out that Max and Naomi are in jail and Alec rushes to help Max out.

At the county jail, Alec bails Max out... sans Naomi. He tips the police about her being a habitual offender. Later on, she faces the judge. Naomi explains to her the story about her arrests, trying to convince her that she didn't get herself in trouble for those on purpose. She later on spills about their plans of eloping--her and Max, and their misfortune of hitching with a felon. The judge, convinced and sympathizing, let her go with a $200 bail and an extra 60 to perform their civil union... much to Alec's disapproval and dislike.

Liam accidentally sets his bar on fire. Later on, he realizes that this could be a perfect opportunity to find himself enough money to buy off the contract. Instead of calling the fire marshall, he lets the bar char down to get insurance. He uses his trip to the hospital to see Dixon as an alibi, making him seem to know nothing about the fire when it was happening.

Ade finally gets to the hospital. She later finds the whole gang, plus Dixon and Annie's mom, Debbie who just came back from Paris to tend to poor Dixon. After some time, the doctor declare that Dixon is finally in stable condition, relieving everyone of their worries. The ladies soon move to the beach house, Ade, Annie and Debbie.

Liam and Navid contemplates about their situation with Silver. They came to an understanding and a truce, rekindling their friendship. Teddy comes in to tell the guys that he'll finally agree to Silver's wish of fathering her child. He explains that upon spending some time at the morgue trying to find Dixon, he realize that life is short and that Silver needs him.

Back at The Offshore, Navid sees potential in Liam's charred business establishment. He offers his financial assistance to Liam, and the two agrees to a partnership. A man by the name of Taylor Williams (Wes Brown) comes in to find Ade. Surprise! It was her Vegas hook up, trying to find her. Navid informs him that she's in the hospital with her boyfriend.

Something tells me he'll be there for quite a while to stir up some trouble between Ade and Dixon as he says "yes" to help Navid. Apparently, he is a club promoter and Navid thinks he would be of great help to Liam and him.

The newlyweds come home to Beverly Hills. Max and Naomi celebrates with Alec, as he comes to visit bearing champagne. As Max gets them wine glasses, Alec threatens Naomi that he will not let her ruin his life again.

The episode ends with Vanessa parking her car and sees Liam. She finds out about the fire and hears about Liam's insurance claim.

Where is Serena??? - Gossip Girl Premieres for its Final Season

2012-10-09T07:17:00.000-07:00

'Tis the premiere of Gossip Girl's sixth and final season. Now let's do a quick run down of our fave Upper East Siders.

Well, first of all, what happened to Serena? Has she gone off the rails? Where is she? So many questions... Read on to find out.

Blair left Dan for Chuck, going "all in" for him. She follows him to Monte Carlo and sit beside him at a poker table giving him all that she can offer, take it or leave it. Fast forward this season, it is revealed that they had two days at Monte Carlo together doing the nasty and what not, before making a pact to fulfill all the things they plan on doing and get back together. For Chuck, Blair is one huge distraction that will only cost him his father's legacy, hence, the "we're together, but not really together" relationship status.

Chuck, after that pact, took over Bass Industries. He went to Dubai to check on his dad's "unfinished business" before he, well, fake died. There he meets Amira (Andrea Gabriel), who apparently knows something about an off-the-record Bart Bass business deal. He is trying to find out what it is when he gets a call from New York about a missing family member.

Blair, meanwhile, is also busy taking over her mother's fashion legacy. Eleanor Waldorf has retired from the fashion business now and well, handed it over to her one and only little girl. She jets off to Paris to meet with an associate, Jean Pierre. She also gets a call from New York, causing her to take the next flight home.

At the Bass' abode, Chuck meets Momma Van Der Woodsen-Bass-Humphrey-Bass (Damn! That was a handful.) He brings with him Amira to use as a weapon against old man Bass. And boy did that rattle Bart!

Anyhoos, Chuck sees Blair come in with her Jean Pierre (cue awkward, jealous stare). As everyone walks out of the loft, Blair and Chuck were left to talk about their pact. The two talk about their difficult parting and their regret of leaving Monte Carlo.

Nate, manages the NY Spectator alone, with no investors. He has let go of all of the partners after finding out that his grandfather William Van Der Bilt has something to do with them. So yea, he's not really independent from the Van Der Bilt legacy if he lets grandpa deal with them investors. This season, he meets a college girl who interviews him at the NY Spectator headquarters for her school paper. At the end of the episode, she invites him for a drink. (hmmm...)

A worried Lily comes to pay Rufus a visit, in the hopes of finding S in his home at Brooklyn. Unfortunately, Lily finds someone else... Ivy Dickens. Rufus, really??? IVY?! With Lily thinking he and Ivy are now together, she leaves with bitter parting words for Rufus. Rufus later on leaves to follow Lily and tries to help out in searching Serena. Ivy, left at the loft, calls and leaves a message to Lola aka THE Charlotte "Charlie" Rhodes. Ivy congratulates Lola on landing a TV show and tells her of her new gig--manipulating a vulnerable (read: gullible) Rufus Humphrey.

Dan is not a lonely boy anymore, coming home from Italy with Georgina Sparks. No hook-ups, but the two have a common interest--expose our Upper East Siders. He enlists G's help to write a tell-all book about his life inside the UES circle and everything about Manhattan's elite.

He gets a call from Blair (though, G answered it) about Serena's missing. Dan returns to NYC to help out search Serena, with G in tow. Georgina helps out, but with a different motive. She wants to find Serena first so she could show the world what S becomes of, probably humiliating S in public.

They drive to Poughkeepsie, where Damien Dalgaard's guy left a high Serena some few months back. According to him, that's where they last saw her and since then, has no word from her. Dan and Georgina searches the place for an asylum or maybe a rehab to find her, thinking maybe she was far too high the last time that she may have ended there. But still, no sign of S.

Nate blackmails Gossip Girl into telling him where Serena is. He uses the surveillance footage as bait to scare her into revealing Serena's whereabouts. He then sets off with Blair and Chuck to find her.

Later on, at a gas station, Georgina spots Chuck and his limo (with Nate and Blair) driving out. Feeling that they are also trying to search for S, Georgina hurries to drive her Odyssey (yes, she has a Honda! Shocking for a rich kid, eh?) with Dan and intercepts them.

Together they all find a happy Sabrina (Serena) at a wedding ceremony. There, they meet Steven (Barry Watson), Serena's new boyfriend. Thinking that it's her wedding, and that she's gone psycho, the gang tries to stop the wedding. After all the humiliation, they find out that it is actually a gay wedding. The grooms were shocked to find our UES gate crashers, stopping their union.

Later on, Serena comes clean to everyone. She explains to the gang that she's turning her life around after a near-death episode inside a train, being revived by paramedics. She pretends to be someone else so she can start fresh. Afterwards, S goes home to The Big Apple with her new beau.

Now that everyone's back home, Dan goes back to his Dad's. Unfortunately, he comes home to find Rufus and Ivy in bed. A baffled Dan, sneaks out. Shocked.

Prince Charming's Heroic Quest - Once Upon A Time Synopsis

2012-10-08T08:34:00.001-07:00

The seven dwarves draw straws to find out which one should cross the city boundary to find out what happens if they cross the city line out of Storybrooke. Sneezy picks the shortest straw and he gets to step out of the city. Unfortunately, they find out the repercussions of leaving town through him.

Everyone now at Storybrooke are in a panic, trying to find the loved ones they have lost after being transported to the real world due to the queen's curse. Prince Charming, aka David Nolan, rushes to Regina's house demanding an explanation about Jefferson's (Mad Hatter) magical hat. David thinks that the wallpaper trick from last time was just an anomaly. That she still doesn't have all her powers, reason why she couldn't step outside, to be seen by people. Unfortunately, she wouldn't explain how she got them, nor find a way to get his family back--Snow and Emma.

Flashback. Regina tries to escape her fate of becoming queen. She leaves the kingdom, only to find out that her mother has cast a barrier spell to keep her in the realms of King Leopold. Her mother tells her that she can only leave his kingdom provided she's with him. Regina is reluctant to marry the king because she doesn't love him. But her mom's greed with power just wouldn't let her be.

Charming finds Blue (Mother Superior) to ask if they have the tree that carried infant Emma back then from Fairy Tale World to the real world. He thinks that through that tree, he can get back to Fairy Tale World and retrieve Snow and Emma. Blue says that though it may be possible, the lack of magic in Storybrooke might hinder him from going there.

The dwarves return to report to everyone of what happened to Sneezy. They brought an amnesiac Sneezy, who could only remember his life before the curse was broken. Leroy (Grumpy) realizes and tells them that if anyone of them tries to leave Storybrooke, their cursed selves will be their only selves.

David thinks of a plan to fix everything. Red asks him what that is, but apparently, Charming has no idea as well and says he's got two hours to figure it out, when the town convenes later on. David, followed by little Henry, leaves a worried Red with the town folks.

Meanwhile, Regina tests her powers by lighting a candle. She finds out that her magic still has glitches. She tries to escape her home and finds Hopper outside. He thinks that talking to Regina, making her spill her guts out, might help them into going back to Fairy Tale World and help her in the process as well by making her realize who she truly is. Regina adamantly refuses saying, "I know who I am." Then leaves.

Back to Regina's memories. We all know who made her the bitter person that Regina is--Snow White. Snow finds a box with a ring inside. She asks Regina about it but she says she doesn't remember.

However, in Regina's mind, she recalls to Snow, that it was given to her by Daniel, the stable boy. Snow White thought he left her, but Regina confesses to her that he met his untimely fate because Snow couldn't keep her mouth shut, revealing to Regina's mother her relationship with the stable boy. A mortified Snow is being choked by the Regina in her imagination.

Regina confides to her father, Henry, about her thoughts of escaping. Her father thinks that maybe it's just cold feet, but she explains that it is not just that. Regina thinks that she is becoming like Cora, her mother. And the more she stays in King Leopold's castle (and if she marries him), she becomes angry all the time. That her mother drives her crazy. That she wants a life of her own.

She wonders how her mother became that evil and hungry for power. Henry (Regina's dad) tells her about the man who gave Regina's mother magic and a book of spells. Regina asks who he is but her father doesn't know his name.

"Real world Regina" gets into Gold's shop, trying to find the book of spells. Desperate to get back her power, she asks Gold that she needs the book. That she needs her powers back the soonest time possible. Gold tells her to leave. He says that jumpstarting her powers is not in his best interest. Regina, however, fires back at him saying that he's keeping from everyone the fact that the enchanted forest still exists. She knows that he's up to something.

Turns out, Rumplestiltskin (Gold) still has his magic. Through Regina's motivation (threat of telling the people about the forest), he conjures up from thin air the magic book of spells that Regina needs. He warns her though to be careful that it might turn her green. She says she doesn't care as long as she gets little Henry back.

At Regina's flashback, she takes the book of spells from under her mother's pillow one night, when she was asleep. She summons Rumplestiltskin and meets him for the first time. She finds out that he has been waiting for her since when she was young. He predicted that someday Regina will summon her. He tells him that they're back where they belong... together. (I'm starting to think of all the people who made a deal with Rumplestiltskin back in season one)

David, back at Snow's loft, thinks of what to do. Henry recognizes the Mad Hatter's hat and explains to David what it is. He then rushes to Gold to get answers. David asks to buy from Gold something to track someone--he wouldn't tell. Gold asks him if he has something to use to track him and if he can see it. David answers yes, he has something that belongs to the person to track, and no, Gold is not allowed to see it. However, he gives David a potion. Gold instructs David to pour the potion on the object and it will lead him to its owner... but he wants peace in return. Nolan obliges, if he stays out of his way as well. A non-interference guarantee of some sort between them. Before leaving, Gold asks him what would happen if a person from Storybrooke crosses the border. Nolan informs him that it would cost them memories of their old lives.

Rumplestiltskin recalls how he and Regina has crossed path when she was still younger, more "portable". He tells her his ties with Regina's family in the past... and in the future. Regina asks for his help. He convinces her thought that she could be powerful if only she lets herself. That magic will set her free. He entices her with magic. However, Regina refuses, thinking that it would only make her like Cora, her mother. Rumplestiltskin then gives her something instead... a portal to to a different world.

In real world, Regina opens the book of spells and inhales magic from it. David pours the potion onto the Mad Hatter's hat and follows it. He then sees a car and finds Jefferson inside it.

At the town meeting, Regina comes in, with her magic back again. She uses her powers scare the people once more. Henry realizes that she's doing it to get him. Henry then sacrifices himself and comes with Regina just so she leaves the people alone. She then takes the child with her and leaves.

David and Jefferson talks about how they can go back to Fairy Tale World. He reveals to him that the enchanted forest still exists, only that they could not go there. David threatens him to figure a way, however, Jefferson tells him about the rule about the portal only taking two lives. It drives Jefferson crazy, he ran away. Nolan runs after him, but was stopped by Red in his way out. She tells David about Regina's powers. That it scare the whole town, rather crossing the border and forget everything than stay under Regina's reign.

Regina brings Henry back home but he runs immediately to his room, sneaking out of his window. Apparently, she made the same barrier spell her mother made, keeping him in. Regina shows him her magic and wants to teach him magic. Henry doesn't wanna be like her. Just like her to Cora.

Cora sees the mirror (portal) Rumplestiltskin gave to Regina as a wedding gift. She gets into a fight with her mother and pushes her into the portal. Trapping her inside.

Meanwhile, David stops the people from leaving Storybrooke. He gives them hope to go on living at Storybrooke because no matter how dark and scary their memories are, it is what makes them who they are to become who they want to be in the future. That it would be better than having no memory at all, losing themselves in the process. He convinces them then to stay, get back to their lives. And he promises to protect them. Telling them to come together, like they did before so they will not be hurt by Regina.

Regina continues with her life after marriage with the king. She meets Rumplestiltskin to return the book of spells. But before she goes, he asks her what she felt when she used magic. She confesses that she loved it and he convinces her to do so much, if she let Rumplestiltskin show her how... but if she agrees to do something for him someday.

David busts into Regina's with his sword and all of his royal bravado, demanding to see his grandson Henry. She calls on Henry and tells him to go home with David, surprising them both--Henry and David. She admits that she shouldn't have home in the first place. She admits she doesn't know how to love very well, but know that if she holds on to someone too hard, it won't make them love you. (Read: Mommy issues) She wants to redeem herself from Henry.

Hearing it all, David challenges Regina to prove that she wants to redeem herself. He asks her of the enchanted forest's existence. She tells him the truth, but has no idea how to get there. She requests for him to take care of Henry. David obliges and leaves Regina, bringing Henry back at Snow's. It is scene at the last part of the episode that although she wants to redeem herself from Henry, she still keeps the book of spells in an armoire, not destroying it when she had the chance at first.

The town finally gets back to their old lives as they struggle to come into grips with reality. Henry and David walks into Granny's and Henry whispers to Marco (Geppetto) where Pinnochio is and he rushes to find him. Gold looks past the border, probably contemplating on leaving town to find his son, until he realizes that he can never leave now that he knows the backlash that could happen if he crosses the city line. David tells Henry of the forest's existence, giving them hope that they'll soon find Emma and Snow again.

Episode ends with Mulan and Aurora dragging Snow and Emma. Showing them the survivors of Regina's curse. The two tries to escape, but was caught by Mulan, holding them prison. A voice of a woman emerges from the shadows of the pit. They find Cora, still alive, offering them of her assistance. (Uh-oh... Blast from the past for Snow!)

Live in New York, the Brits are here!!! - SNL Daniel Craig/Muse

2012-10-08T02:00:00.001-07:00

Who would have thought Mr. 007 could be not serious??? This week, THE James Bond, Daniel Craig graces the SNL Studios to guest host Saturday Night Live. Well, I know people will have mixed reviews on this one. I have mixed feelings myself! Some of them are funny, while some are so-so. But hey, he's not a comedian, so I guess that's forgivable.

Cold Open: Presidential Debate

SNL, with the coming elections, will not be complete without spoofing the recent Presidential Debate. Jason Sudeikis and Jay Pharaoh reprises their roles as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, respectively, facing off at the Denver Debate. This sketch "explains" why Obama lost to Romney at Denver. I mean, who wouldn't get distracted with the thought of forgetting the anniversary gift right??? Oh and the altitude, air's getting pretty thin, Obama got stuck at the podium.

Monologue

Daniel Craig's monologue showcases an "In Memoriam" tribute to all those he had killed at the movies--from James Bond, Cowboys vs Aliens, The Adventures of Tintin, etc. The tribute features a montage of how he killed them and some of them, he explains why. He complains about the fog, though. Yep, a bit too much. Looks like we know who's next! Lols

Anyhoos, Daniel Craig transformed from a dashing 007 Bond hottie to a construction worker with a heckling problem, Long Island Medium's Larry Caputo, an astronaut, a depressed working class guy and a loving boyfriend (to a she-man aka Fred Armisen).

Here are the highlights of SNL's October 6 episode:

The Less Known Bond Girls

Since it's James Bond's 50th celebration, SNL also did a sketch on it to introduce to the world the "Lesser Known Bond Girls". It shows Diane Keaton (Vanessa Bayer) from 1973 Bond film, "Never Die Twice Tomorrow", Jodie Foster (Kate McKinnon) in "Kill Me Once, Shame on You" from 1979, Lea Michele (Nasim Pedrad) from 2010's Hippopotopussy", Molly Ringwald (Vanessa Bayer) in "The Man Who was a Gun" (1984), Ellen DeGeneres (Kate McKinnon) in Honey, I Killed the Spy" (1989), and Penny Marshall (Fred Armisen) in "Quantum of Leap" (2010).

I See Dead People... And Squirrel.

Long Island Medium is here!!! Kate McKinnon stars as Theresa Caputo. It's really funny how she seemed to roam the whole of Long Island and all the people she sees, she talks to them about their dead relatives. Creepy eh? The sketch introduces us to Victoria Caputo (Vanessa Bayer) and hubby Larry Caputo (Daniel Craig). Credits due to Caputo's goatee and the squirrel at the picnic!

The Kitty Kat

Captain (Daniel Craig), along with Wazowsky (Taran Killam), McReedy (Keenan Thomson), Ramirez (Cecily Strong) and Bobby Moynihan were sent to space en route to Mars. They recall the things that they miss on Earth when a homesick Kirby tells how he misses his pet cat. At the end of the scene, he reveals that he "told a little fib". Turns out, he brought his cat along in the space mission.

The Weekend Update with Seth Meyers

No SNL episode is complete without The Weekend Update. This week, Seth discusses the Presidential Debate, the debate's winners and losers, PBS getting axed by Romney, Ah-nold Schwarzenegger, etc. Big Bird drops in to express his views on Romney taking down PBS. LOL'ed on Big Bird yawning because "it's 7 hours past his bedtime".

Also joining weekend update is Cecilia Giminez, the Spanish woman who "restored" Ecce Homo. She explains how Jesus has given her permission, when he came to her in a dream. How her painting seems more accurate than the others. She also made an "accurate" painting of Seth Meyers' face. Unfortunately, she sees most things differently...

Working Class Drama

Daniel Craig also appears in a sketch about a working class drama, "A Sorry Lot We Are". It shows friends, Craig, Hader and Moynihan talking about their lives. Seems like the men have been in a string of bad luck. Danny (Craig) has lost his job for so many times and has finally found a new one... at the Olympics. Since the Olympics has already ended, it seems that he's jobless yet again. His friend lost his mom a few days back and the other one seems like a pedophile.

The Loving Couple

Okay, I just gotta say, I didn't like this sketch that much. Though Fred Armisen's Regine seems like a character, the rest of the plot is well, uhm... Yea. It just seems kinda gross, creepy and not funny the sketch turned out. Don't get me wrong, Fred Armisen appearing as a girl seems like a real laugh, but I think putting Craig in the scene made it seem... odd.

Other notable political sketches this episode includes "Three Days Later: A Look Back at the Obama Debate Disaster" and "The Undecided Voter".

Muse performs "Madness" and "Panic Station as musical guests. I have no words to describe it but awesome. Call me biased, being a Muse fan and all. But really, Kate Hudson's a really lucky woman. That Matt Belamy's voice is just... heaven! Two thumbs up.

***Next week, October 13, SNL will be having Up All Night's Christina Applegate as host and musical guest, Passion Pit.

Where There's Smoke... - CSI: NY Recap

2012-10-06T11:29:00.001-07:00

Last week, we met Leonard Brooks, a serial arsonist who worked with the NYPD to solve an arson case and help track down the perp.

This episode opens with Brooks recalling his first arson experience in a video of him in prison. Fast forward, Leonard Brooks kills a woman by setting an elevator on fire with her alone inside.

The CSIs come to investigate the fire and the burnt corpse. Upon checking at the camera footage, they find Leonard Brooks coming in, pretending to be the elevator repair man, making him the person of interest in the fire/killing.

The SWAT team comes with Mac Taylor's group to pay his home a visit, only to find an empty apartment. Mac orders the NYPD to track Brooks down, checking all points of entry/exits, and alerting them for his whereabouts.

Someone calls at Leonard Brooks' home, asking for Det. Mac Taylor. It was Brooks. He tells Mac that his victim was nothing but innocent, unlike what the reporters on TV are saying. Mac tells him to surrender, but he refuses. Mac asks Brooks who Rita Lowman is but Brooks wouldn't give him an answer, only telling him that there still has work to be done. Clearly, his work is still not done.

Upon inspecting the corpse's body, they find a Twelve-Step Recovery pendant in the victim's neck. It appears to be personalized, bearing a name different from that of the victim's.

Mac and Jo wonders why Leonard Brooks' MO suddenly changed. From his records, he only performs arson to cause damage on structures and never people. They start to think why the sudden change of mind. Jo thinks that this may be because his relief from starting fires no longer have anymore value, causing him to find a stronger "drug" to sustain his pyromania. To find him, Jo suggests they get inside his head. Mac thinks that if they don't find him soon, someone else is gonna die.

A muscular man was arrested and brought in for booking at NYPD. He tries to run off from the station, throwing cops around. Some girl stops her, catching the eye of our very own Don Flack. Turns out, she's a new detective, Det. Jamie Lovato, who was transferred from narcotics after her cover was blown. Flack welcomes her to homicide.

Mac comes to talk to Flack about Rita Lowman. She appears to be using an alias and they have no idea of her real identity. Mac struggles to find his words (memory lapses as a result of being shot) to give out orders to Flack about circulating the vic's photo, in case someone remembers her identity.

Brooks stalks a man named Jimmy Clark at Central Park. As he eats his lunch, he collapses and dies. EMTs think it was Myocardial Infarction that killed him. At autopsy, Sid Hammerback concludes that he was killed by someone burning him alive from the inside out. Whatever it is that he may have swallowed has ignited a fire inside him.

Mac Taylor and Don Flack checks on the camera footage at the scene where Clark died and finds Brooks in it to probably enjoy watching his victim's death. Mac realizes that the victims have a personal link to Brooks. Detective Lovato butts in to fill them in on the details on how Clark is linked to the first vic, Lowman. Mac orders her to check into the victims' files to find their connection to Brooks.

Meanwhile, Jo Danville tries to get into Brooks' head by studying his videos from prison for the past 14 years. Danny Messer walks in on her. He starts to ask about Mac, worrying how he seems of lately. She explains that it could be because he suffered life-changing trauma and months in rehabilitation. She assures him that she'll keep an eye on Mac.

At the lab, Lindsay explains how Brooks manage to kill Clark by just using basic Chemistry. She checks on the contents of his lunch and finds out that he just used Cesium to add into his sandwich. Cesium, being an alkaline metal, when mixed with water, the hydrogen bonds break down causing the gas to generate intense heat. Thus, burning his insides the more he drinks water. The cherry on top: when Cesium proceeds down his GI tract, to the vic's stomach, it mixes with the digestive fluids, causing an explosion in his stomach.

Mac wonders how Brooks manage to make Clark eat the deadly sandwich. Turns out Brooks applied at the deli where Clark was a regular. Brooks exploits Clark's routines by making him the sandwich that killed him. They now try to find who his next victim is.

Back to Flack and Lovato, the two are checking out old files to find victim #1's real identity. Flack asks Lovato about her past at Narcotics and why she moved to Homicide. Their chat was disrupted when Lovato finds Rita Lowman's file. Her name: Jennifer Brooks. Checking her files, they find out that victim #2, Jimmy Clark was her foster kid. They learn that Leonard Brooks killed his own mother and his foster brother.

Tracking his past, they find out that Jennifer Brooks had another foster child named Rachel Nelson. Mac orders them to find her before Brooks does. Adam Ross finds her in the DMV files and learns that she now goes by Rachel Moore. The team rushes to find Moore at a rehab facility in upstate New York. They assume Brooks has taken her somewhere after creating a diversion at the rehab facility.

The team finds Leonard Brooks and Rachel Moore at Saint Aidan's, an abandoned hospital where his mother used to work when he was younger. He hid her at the Burn Unit and is planning on killing her.
Mac comes in just in time. Flack tackles Brooks, stopping him from burning Rachel to ashes.

Upon questioning, his dark past was revealed and that his mother was an alcoholic and abused him when he was just a young boy. Clark, when he was adopted by his birth mother, would also beat him, thus plotting revenge on him as well. He wants to kill Rachel too because she has seen their mother back then hitting Leonard but never did anything to help him. He also revisits his past on how he became controlled by the fire, becoming the arsonist that he is.

Rob Morrow reprises his role as Leonard Brooks. This week, we also meet spunky newcomer, Det. Jamie Lovato, portrayed by Natalie Martinez (End of Watch).

Penny's confused, Howard's a space plumber, and Stuart becomes a Wolowitz replacement... The Big Bang Theory Recap

2012-10-06T09:33:00.001-07:00

Bernadette opens their wedding presents, when the ladies started talking about possibly Sheldon and Amy's wedding (in four years as per Amy). Bernie asks Penny about her marriage with Leonard and she keeps dodging the question. It seems that she has no plans of marrying Leonard some time in the future. They ask her if she loves Leonard and she finally admits to them that she loves him--she just never have said it to him yet.

Raj, Sheldon and Leonard calls Howard at the International Space Station to see how he's doing. He said it's great and that he still finds it unbelievable that he's living this adventure. Massimino and Dimitri interrupts to remind him of cleaning up the space toilet. According to tradition, the new guy is the one who cleans it.

Stuart knocks in the guys' loft and Sheldon was surprised. Apparently, Raj invited him to join their movie night. Sheldon says he didn't authorize it, but Leonard agrees. Turns out, since Leonard is coming with Penny and Sheldon with Amy, Raj just doesn't wanna sit in the movies the whole time by his lonesome. Leonard suggests that Sheldon just pretend that Stuart is Howard.

At the movies, Amy wants Sheldon to hold her hand. Sheldon obliges, but not without complaining about how preposterous her insistense on hand-holding is. He also whines about Penny and Leonard not holding hands, and they have to. Amy tells him that probably the reason is because Penny thinks that she doesn't wanna be Leonard's girlfriend anymore. Sheldon thinks otherwise.

Later on, Sheldon wonders if Penny doesn't wanna be Leonard's girlfriend anymore, how come she doesn't just break up with him. Amy spills that Penny is not sure of how she feels. Of course, Sheldon makes it all about him. Amy then compels him to keep it a secret. Unfortunately, Sheldon thinks it's wrong to keep it from his best friend, Leonard.

At home, Sheldon feels guilty about keeping the secret from him. He tries to tell Leonard about it in a weird "Transformers" way. However, Leonard didn't get it. That night, Sheldon knocks on Leonard's room to talk about it, but he just can't. He goes to Penny's instead.

He wakes Penny in her room. Clearly, he really just can't let it go! He then gives Penny awesome trivia about Leonard just so she thinks he's a keeper. Penny, sensing that Amy said something about her relationship with Leonard, she asks Sheldon what Amy may have said. Sheldon opens up with Penny about the talk he had with Amy earlier at the movies about Penny's relationship with Leonard. She tells him that it's none of his business. He explains about it using homeostasis as his reference, saying that he's not comfortable with change. That if she breaks up with Leonard, things will change, so she just have to continue dating him to avoid that... and he also complains about the scent of her new shampoo. Yes, he hates change.

Penny tells him that until she figures out how she really feels, Sheldon must not say a word to Leonard about it. Then she kicks Sheldon out of her loft. Before he leaves, Sheldon pleads Penny to never hurt his friend (Awwww...). Penny says that it's the last thing that she wants to do.

The guys are playing cards when Raj and Stuart invites Leonard and Sheldon for drinks later that night. They tells that they're trying to meet girls. Sheldon suddenly suggests Leonard to come. He gives Leonard reasons why Penny is not the girl for him. Leonard tells her that he can't just replace her that easily. Sheldon gives him the "Hulk" analogy. Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo and seems like a better Hulk, and Sheldon thinks that his "Mark Ruffalo" is still out there somewhere. Leonard thinks it's ridiculous and dismisses him.

Penny's about to break up with Leonard, when he started doing those "puppy dog eyes". She couldn't take it, and slept with him instead. Later, she tells Amy and Bernie about it. Their talk is interrupted by Leonard's text saying how amazing she is and how lucky he is to have her in his life, causing Penny feel guiltier.

The episode ends with Howard calling Bernadette about how he stood up for himself to the other astronauts, after confiding with her previously about being bullied there. He says that after that confrontation, he has never slept better in his entire stay at the space station til that moment. Little did he know, the other astronauts Sharpeed his face.

Quotes:

Penny: Do you ever feel that way about Howard?
Bernie: That's not really a fair comparison. I'm basically married to a sexy Buzz Lightyear.
Penny: Amy, you?
Amy: Can't help you kid. Whenever I'm around Sheldon, I feel like my loins are on fire... In the good way, not the urinary tract infection way.

Raj: Hey buddy, how's it going up there???
Howard: You don't have to shout Raj. It's not like I'm an astronaut floating around in outer space... Oh wait. I am!!!

Sheldon: If you're gonna replace Wolowitz, I need to know a little more about you.
Stuart: Alright.
Sheldon: Wolowitz went to MIT. What's your educational background?
Stuart: I went to Art School.
Sheldon: Equally ridiculous. Let's go.

Stuart: I like Mark Ruffalo too
Sheldon: Yea, settle down there, Fake Wolowitz. No one likes to kiss up.

Bernie: Don't worry, you'll have plenty of chances to break up with him... Your wedding day, your honeymoon, your fiftieth anniversary...

Break-Up(s) - This week on Glee

2012-10-05T10:25:00.000-07:00

The first relationship that bit the dust over the summer was Tina Cohen-Chang and Mike Chang's. This episode, a few more casualties of long-distance relationship is joining the list.

Finn and Rachel

Last week, Finn interrupts Rachel's date with Brody at their loft. After weeks without a work from Finn, Rachel decides to move on, thinking Finn may have already forgotten her. The two were kissing, when Finn knocks at the door to surprise Rachel... only to find himself much more surprised with Rachel's company at the loft.

Rachel asks Finn how come he's in New York and not in the army. He confesses that he only was in the army for 16 days but was released on "semi honorable discharge" after shooting himself through his thigh by accident. He went backpacking through Georgia and apologizes for not calling. That he wasn't dissing her, but because he was embarrassed to tell her what happened after she left Ohio.

Rachel encourages him to find a life in New York, maybe enrol in NYADA and finally be with her. She invites Finn to come with her at school and sit in class to see if he'd like to study there. He notice how far along Rachel has gotten since she left Ohio. He feels left out and doesn't have an ounce of feeling that he belongs with her in New York.

Kurt and Rachel brings Blaine and Finn at Callbacks, a local bar in NYADA. Finn and Rachel run into Brody at the bar (check out Finn's fiery eyes!!!) and he asks Finn if he can sing a song on stage. Finn refuses and tells Brody to rather sing it with Rachel since they're both NYADA students.

Rachel and Brody sings on stage and Finn notices the chemistry between the two. He also sees how she shines so brightly in New York, without him.

The group took a walk outside the streets of New York and talked about how great Rachel and Brody are singing together. He tells Rachel that life in the Big Apple isn't for him and that he doesn't fit there.

Finn feels that Rachel has been keeping something from him. He asks Rachel if she and Brody are just friends. Rachel admits that she and Brody kissed. To her defense, she thought Finn has already moved on that's why he never texts or call her back.

Finn leaves the next morning without even waking Rachel up. On his way out, Finn sees Kurt sitting, contemplating on what just happened. They said their goodbyes.

Rachel follows Finn in Ohio and she walks in on Finn at the auditorium, where they had their first date and where he proposed to her. She gets mad at Finn and blames him for everything. She said that all those four months that he never texted nor called, and that day he sent her to the train station on her way to New York, she hated him. He says he did that to give her her freedom.

Rachel doesn't want Finn giving her that freedom. That no matter how successful she will be, at the end of the day, she's still the same moon-eyed girl that freaked her in their first glee rehearsal. She confesses that he was the first boy that made her feel loved, sexy and visible. That he was her first love and more than anything, to be his last.

They break up... for now.

Flashback: Finn and Rachel kissing at the auditorium

Blaine and Kurt

Blaine wins Senior Class President at McKinley, while Kurt lands an internship with Vogue.com. Their relationship has been in a rut lately as Kurt is becoming more and more immersed with his life in New York, making Blaine feel alone and neglected by Kurt--the guy whom he left Dalton Academy for.

Blaine and Kurt are starting to miss phone dates. Blaine misses him badly and is becoming lonely, making him look for affection some place else. Since Blaine has been so alone lately, he begins a flirtationship with some guy on Facebook named Eli. C. They have been messaging each other and poking (no, not that poking--Facebook poking! I know what you're thinking. lol) to ease the sadness.

Blaine surprises Kurt in New York and they went to Callbacks. He sings a very emotional Teenage Dream to Kurt at the bar.

While Finn and Rachel talk as they walk ahead of them, they too had a heartfelt talk about their relationship. Kurt was wondering what just happened. Blaine confesses that he was with someone while he was left at Ohio. He admits to hooking up with someone because he's lonely. Kurt walks away in tears.

Blaine sends Kurt flowers as a peace offering and apology. Kurt, being crushed by what happened, throws the card in the trash.

Flashback: Kurt and Blaine running hand-in-hand to glee practice at Dalton

Brittany and Santana

After Britanny gets kicked out of the Cheerios, she also lost her Senior Class President status to Blaine. Now she's left with only the glee club and Santana. Lately, she feels that Santana is slowly drifting away from her too.

Santana comes to visit Brittany in Ohio. She tells her how college life is. She notice that Brittany seems off and is yawning the whole time they were talking. Santana was surprised how much Brittany has changed while she was out. Brittany had been reading books (gasp! shocker!) and has joined an after-school club making her read tons of books to discuss at school.

Santana comes with Brittany to the Left Behind Club at Breadstix. After Kitty's prank, Santana realizes that this group is not good for Brittany, and she asks her if they can just go home. Brittany won't go home and tells her that what happened to Dodi just then is exactly like what happened to her (well, minus the fake rapture part of course!). She opens up about her being left behind by Santana and how it has hurt her.

Santana talks to Brittany at the choir room. She recalls the first time she fell in love with her when she was in Sophomore and tells her how much she misses her. Santana then sings "Mine" to Brittany. Crying.

Later on she breaks up with Brittany.

Flashback: Brittany and Santana sitting side-by-side, smiling at each other at the choir room

Will and Emma

Will applies for a job in Washington, DC for Blue Ribbon Panel to Advance Arts Education. He was accepted and that means, he'll be leaving McKinley for a couple of months to work in DC. That means, he'll be leaving his fiancee, Emma, in McKinley High with the rest of the glee club.

Will comes home to Emma and shows her the letter of his acceptance. He invites Emma to come with him for a few months. At first she thought it was just for the whole weekend, but when Will asks her to do a sabbatical on her part so they can be together, Emma says no.

Emma loves her job and she doesn't expect Will to make her drop her whole life just for him to pursue his dreams. Sure, she supports of him, but that doesn't mean that she'll leave with him to Washington for it. She says she "doesn't wanna sit alone in a hotel room some where doing nothing, while you're off fulfilling your dreams..."

They had an argument about it and Emma storms off.

Flashback: Will kisses Emma at the school hall for the first time

Marley and Jake (and Kitty)

We all know Jake's getting all googly-eyed with Marley. Unfortunately, dude's already taken. He's dating Cheerio head-cheerleader Kitty. Yes, Quinn 2.0, if I may say so myself.

This week, them free lunch ticket kids gotta stick together. Jake and Marley notice that they are both from the same class in the society. Blaine and Brittany can see the chemistry between the two of them.

Anyhoos, Kitty invites Marley to be part of "The Left Behind Club"--where everyone's invited except for Muslims. They convene at Breadstix and Kitty starts preaching about the end of times. Turns out, they were just making a fake rapture and it was all a prank with their Japanese member, Dodi Kasatori as target. It happens to have broken her really bad. Jake stops Kitty from making any further damage on her.

Jake apologizes to Marley about the rapture thing, saying that it wasn't his idea but Kitty's. Marley tells him of how she is so disappointed in Jake for liking a horrible person like Kitty. He confesses that being with Kitty makes him feel wanted. That no one makes fun of him because he is with her. Turns out, he's having a hard time fitting in--being not black enough for the black kids, and not white enough for the white kids at school.

Kitty comes over and gets jealous of Marley and Jake. She attacks Marley by insulting her and Jake defends Marley. He breaks up with her in front of Marley, causing Kitty to throw a fit at school. Marley thanks Jake for defending her from Kitty. She invites him to join her to practice for "Grease" when he suddenly becomes off. Ugh! Too much mixed signals Jake!

***

Finn visits Mr. Schue and tells him about leaving the army. He cries to Mr. Schue about his problems. Later at the choir room, he sees Blaine and confronts him about what he did to his brother (well duh?! Kurt = Finn's little [step]bro). The glee club sees him and gives him warm welcome home hugs. Finn sits in to see how the new New Directions are doing.

Mr. Schue and the glee club discuss what their fall musical is going to be. Finn suggests "Grease" and they decide to do it.

Later on, they old New Directions (well the newly broken up couples) performed The Scientist at the auditorium with Mr. Schue and Ms. Pillsbury.

Songs:

Barely Breathing - Blaine and Finn
Give Your Heart A Break - Rachel and Brody
Teenage Dream - Blaine
Don't Speak - Finn, Blaine, Rachel and Kurt
Mine - Santana
The Scientist - Finn, Rachel, Blaine, Santana, Kurt, Brittany, Will, Emma

Jess and Nick Goes to a Date; Schmidt Pretends to be a Romney! - New Girl S02E03 Recap

2012-10-04T03:04:00.002-07:00

Sam bootie-called Jessica and is having a hard time separating her feelings from casual sex. She runs to Nick for advice. The next morning, Jess tells the guys of her night. TMI! Nick tells Jess that she needs to date a guy that she likes and not just some guy for bootie call. Besides, Sam is not the boyfriend material. Schmidt suggests that they bring her on a date that night--Jess, Winston, Nick and Schmidt.

Schmidt dreams of having Kanye West as a friend. He bails on his date with the gang after hearing that Kanye is coming to a club. He brings Winston with him, leaving Nick alone with Jess. Jess comes in looking all pretty and Nick starts acting awkwardly. He complements Jess in a weird way saying she looks "Vava-vava-voooooms!!!". He tells her that the guys aren't coming and since they're already there, Jess tells him that they just stay and have dinner together.

Meanwhile at the club, Schmidt notices that Winston has been staring at a girl for 5 minutes. He tells Winston that he'd better be staring at her because he's checking her out or he'll suspect he's a serial killer. Winston fesses to Schmidt that he hasn't had sex with his girlfriend Shelby for three weeks now and that his love life is in a bit of a rut lately as Shelby is always shutting him down whenever he tries to become intimate with her. Therefore, him looking at the girl at the bar is like him cheating in his mind at the moment. He feels guilty and Schmidt tells Winston it's just normal and most people do it.

Upon entering the club, Schmidt was turned away by the club bouncer. Winston suggests he lose the douchey belt. Schmidt refuses because he thinks the belt is amazing. Winston has a plan and if he won't lose the belt, Schmidt just had to make the belt work. Winston talks to the bouncer pretending to be Schmidt's bodyguard, and Schmidt pretends to be a Romney.

Back at the bar, Jess and Nick were surprised at how fancy the restaurant Schmidt picked. Turns out they can't afford it. Jess, luckily, brought white wine with her, placed in a thermos. The waitress notice them drinking with the thermos, when Sam suddenly texts Jess that he wants to hang out. She leaves Nick with her thermos at the restaurant and he gets drunk by himself.

Winston sees Cece at the bar and suspects that it's not Kanye, but Cece that Schmidt is stalking. Cece comes over when a girl approaches Schmidt thinking he's a Romney kid. Winston walks Cece from Schmidt and a girl approaches. Schmidt introduces himself as "Tug Romney", scoring some Republican chick that night.

The next morning, Nick and Jess are talking at the bathroom when she notice Winston staring weirdly at her (yes, he's cheating at Shelby with Jess on his mind! lol). Jess tells the dudes that she had a great night in bed with Sam, because of Nick's advice (and cue Winston's creepy stare again!). She asks Nick to Ikea and he says yes.

Winston begins to notice that Nick is starting to become Jess' "fluffer", doing all the boyfriend stuff for her, without the benefits of becoming a boyfriend. Nick quickly dismisses his idea. He later on realizes that Winston may be right and he tells Jess he's not her fluffer. Since Jess doesn't know what that means, Nick explains it to her and he tells her that it seems like he's her emotional fluffer. Jess tells her that's not what he think he is.

Suddenly, Nick brings up about Winston's idea that he's kind of Jess' "boyfriend without the benefits". Jess thinks that Nick might want something more that's why they're having that argument. And being the only girl roommate, she asks him if he has fantasies of her. Nick admits that he has in his dreams, but never when he's conscious. Jess admits that she did too, but dismisses it thinking it's never gonna work between the two of them. Jess then enumerates the reasons why Nick drives her nuts. Nick thinks that she needs him because Sam doesn't do the boyfriend stuff--just sex. So Jess calls Sam for a date.

Nick feels terrible about his fight with Jess. Winston tells him that he has to set boundaries with Jess. He still can do stuff with her, but they have to set limits, so he won't seem like a fluffer. Jess, however, realizes, through Sam, that what she's doing to Nick is actually not a friend thing, but more like the boyfriend/husband type of errands.

Schmidt now becomes obsessed with his new life pretending to be Tug Romney. He studied Romney facts that night just so he can impress the ladies and tricking them into thinking he's the Prez hopeful's son. Cece tells him that it's a bad idea.

Schmidt wouldn't listen and still pretends as Tug. Unfortunately, his lies caught up with him. One of the girls at Kappa's for Romney felt he's lying and they researched him on the spot. Schmidt tries to lie out of it with a speech about "his life" being a Romney kid. Girls didn't bought it so he left.

Schmidt texts Cece about it and they talk. He confides that he's done with being a Romney. He opens up about his daddy issues and Cece advises him to forgive his dad because, well, he's his dad. Cece comforts Schmidt, then hands him his phone so he can call his dad.

Winston finally confesses of his "cheating" with Shelby. She says it's okay. Afterwards, she invites him to her home to watch TV. She thinks that after a fight, she just wants to watch some TV. To Winston, they just talked.

Nick, with all the boyfriend-without-benefits talk, still put up the dresser for Jess. She walks in on Nick assembling it for her and she tells him to stop. Nick insists building her dresser because he thinks it's like "high stakes Legos". She agrees to him doing it, but while he's at it, she opens up about their friendship. She admits that she has no idea about him being her emotional fluffer because she never had friends like that. She thinks that their situation might complicate things, and she doesn't wanna mess things with Nick. Nick says that he was just pissed because he knows that his friendship with Jess is different that's why they had that argument. He hates it when people would dictate how he should act around Jess as his friend. His only problem is, he doesn't wanna be Jess' date BEFORE she has sex with some other guy. After the talk, Nick gives her a mixed CD--"Nick's Sexy Mix".