Buffy Halloween

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     Happy Halloween! In honor of the night Buffy the Vampire Slayer one referred to as "Undead for the undead," I'm bringing my favorite Buffy quotable memes from the 3 Halloween episodes. The first ever spookfest was Season 2's "Halloween." Our heroes turned into their costumes and ghost Willow was the only one who could save them. Smartly preparing for season 4's "Dead Man's Party," a simple frat party turns into a murder house, and Giles wears a sombrero. The main lesson here: never paint your floor with the spooky symbol from an old book because it will probably release a demon. Finally in season 6's "All the Way",  Anya and Xander announce their engagement, Dawn has a date with a vampire, and Buddy attempts to protect her sister.


SEASON 2: After Buffy turns from a helpless maiden back to herself:

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Season 2 (left): Willow testing her friends to see who hasn't turned into their costume.
Season 2 (right): Buffy confronts shopkeeper Ethan Rayne about his spellcasting costumes.

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Season 4: Our first inclination that Anya has something against bunnies. It must be bunnies!

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Season 4: Buffy muses about her relationship status, when compared to the life of a pumpkin, and feeding her feelings with candy.

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Season 4: Willow and Oz presenting their couples' costume.

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Season 4: Anya goes to get Giles's help and he answers the door in a crazy costume.

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This is more of a visual joke

Season 6: Anya explaining her Charlie's Angels Costume. This is followed by the dance of capitalist superiority (dancing with money).

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Anya on her  "Charlie's Angels" costume

Season 6: Xander and Anya announce their engagement. 

There don't seem to be many memes for this episodes, but Xander tells Buffy he's going to marry that girl. Buffy thinks he means her 15-year old sister and then realizes she is about to be a bridesmaid. This episode is also the one right before the Once More, with Feeling musical episode. 

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Let's Hear it for the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend!

Congratulation to Rachel Bloom on her win for best actress in a tv musical or comedy at the Golden Globes! See here speech here. Read more of my thoughts about her show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend here!

What's Up With Wayward Pines- w/ Spoilers

I am addicted to this show. I usually don't enjoy stories about dystopian worlds, but somehow the Matt Dillon pulled be in to his seemingly perfect town and his fight to get out of there.

     Matt Dillion plays FBI agent Ethan Burke and he  ends up in the quaint town of Wayward Pines, Idaho after a "car accident." Somehow everyone in the town ended up there after a car accident. Strange, no? When he drives out of the town, the road leads right back in again and there' a large electric fence around the perimeter.The town's rules include: always pick up the phone and do not speak of the past.

     Ethan's wife Teresa (I'm giving a shout out to Shannyn Sossamon for getting a new acting gig, it's been slow since A Knight's Tale) and son Ben end up in an accident too and get deposited in the town, and they meet a cast of characters, including Ethan's  missing partner and former lover, Kate (Carla Gugino). Kate says she's been married for 12 wonderful years to the wonderful toy maker Harold, but she only went missing 6 weeks ago from Seattle. Sound weird yet?

     Don't worry, it's about to get stranger. The town hospital is patrolled by a super creepy nurse (Melissa Leo) that wears whites for work and black leather and braided hair when she goes to the town to take care of business. The town sheriff (Terrence Howard) is going around murdering people in the town square and telling them their cars were totaled in the "accidents". Then he dies and Ethan is appointed via mailbox note that he is the new sheriff. Plus, the only school, Wayward Pines academy, is teaching more than math and science, it's brainwashing the youth to lead a new generation based on on one fact:

Here's why:(SPOILER)
     Wayward Pines is the only town left  of civilization after humans began to mutate and become "abbeys",  a wild hyena-like creature that destroy and eat everything in sight. The year everyone has woken up in is 4028, when crazy scientist David Pilcher (Toby Jones) deemed it would be safe to start the human race again. Pilcer and his sister Pamela (the crazy nurse) began kidnapping people that would be frozen in pods and awakened when the abbey infestation was mostly done and the earth would be all green again. They tried to tell people what had happened, but they all went mad and killed themselves or others (so now this is the second society of 20+ years).

     To recap, everyone was taken by 2014 (Ethan was investigating kidnappings for the FBI when he got taken himself). Pilcher and his followers woke up first and formed command center to govern the lives of people. Every conversation and movement is tracked with camera, microphones and tracking chips.Worst of all, there's no cable or music left, except for  the guy that plays piano on the radio at nights). At least there's a beer hall!

     As for the people in the 2nd society, only the teenagers are told the truth. The creepy teacher Mrs. Fisher (Hope Davis) instructs the older students and takes them into a room under the school to conduct instruction for how life will be with the first generation, a group that knows the truth about the future and has not been in the world too long to have a major freak out about jumping 2,000 years into the future.

Youre Move, Pines... What's next?

A Note About the Bad in Good Wife

Wow! Good Wife has been kicking ass and taking names (see Kalinda baseball batting Blake) the last few weeks. Between Alicia demanding to find out about Will's season closing voicemail (and getting shut down) to Peter's campaign foibles to the power struggle at Lockhart, Gardner (and Bond).

Which begs the question: in this 'bad' world, is Alicia the only truly 'good' person? Here are the 'bad' characteristics:

- Will pretending to take down Diane.
- Bond in general being a shady dude.
- Will and Diane getting their client to lie about torture.
- Their trusted lawyer guy (the one from 'Spin City') double - or maybe triple- dealing on their behalf to mess up bond.
- Peter knocking out two candidates in one episode. See also Eli.
- Eli for sending Wendy's nanny back to Mexico, after having a date with her.
- Peter's son finding pictures to blackmail Gelnn Childs- also an illegal nanny issue.
- Peter threatening Childs.
- Blake tracking down Kalinda's husband - (say what?)
- Kalinda baseball batting Blake.
- Will lying to Alicia about loving her.
- Rita Wilson's character in general.
- The skanky blonde girl that's always hitting on Alicia and Peter's son.
- Grace rebelling against her mother by becoming a super Jesus lover.
- Carey in the episode where the college students were lying for each other because the girl was pregnant.

The Good:
- Nana Jackie.
- Carey giving Kalinda a kiss, and telling her about the indictment building against her.

So when is Alicia going to take a break and be bad too?

A Note About Shows Robbed in Their Early Stages

The recent EW post about underrated movies and the cancellation of NBC's Undercovers got me thinking. As far as UC goes, it was a great plot, with likable characters, but they spent way too much times setting up the bad guy plots and traveling aroudn the country. Crewatoe There have been so many shows that were whisked away too soon. I'm not saying some shows didn't need to be yanked off quick (see ABC's 2010 dud Romantically Challenged- honestly Alyssa Milano, what were you thinking??), (also see FOX's Running Wilde- how did it make it to December, that little girl had a grating voice that hurt as bad as Will Arnet's "pretty boy" persona), but some shows were shot down before their groove could be reached. Here are my favorites.

Maybe its Me (2000-2001)
This WB gem lasted a full season and was surreptitiously dropped. MIM was a half-hour comedy followed 16-year old Molly Stage and her insane extended family. Dad (Fred Willard) was her soccer coach, Mom (Julia Sweeney) was cheap. Her older brother Rick was dangerously handsome and total thief and con artist (he got them illegal cable in one episode) and her close in high school aged older brother Grant was in love with Jesus. Molly's best friend Mia (great Mia Hamm joke in the first episode when the frustrated dad is mourning the team's loss and mom offers Mia some more ham at dinner) is in love with grant. Throw in twin redhead little sisters whoa re cute but troublesome, and a grandma (the lady from The Wedding Singer)and grandpa (reverend from Little House on the Prairie) (not married, from opposite sides of the family), and it was sickly funny from Molly entering a town beauty pageant where contestants had to shuck clams, to the grandparents cranking up the heat while mom was gone, to mom giving the whole school food poisoning when she subbed as a lunch lady. Their theme song changed twice in the once season, from Lindsay Pagano's "All U R" to Simple Plan's "I'd Do Anything." Bad news: Grandpa got replaced in the middle of the season. GRADE: A+

Mr. Sterling (Jan. to Mar. 2003)
Mr. Sterling (NBC) made it to about ten episodes, all of which were splendidly written. What happened? Josh Brolin was the leading character, a CA-based lawyer that is called to be a senator when the current senator faces major scandal. He hops a plane to D.C., meets his staff, and sets out to get out from the shadow of his father, a former governor of California. The staff included Audra McDonald (Addison's bestie on Private Practice), Will Russ (the dad from Boy meets World).The best episode included Sterling give an all-night filibuster to change a law, complete with reading a copy machine manual. GRADE: B

Miss Match (Sept. to Dec. 2003)
On NBC, Alicia Silverstone is Kate, a divorce lawyer by day, and a matchmaker after hours. Great premise, plus the introduction of James Roday (PSYCH hottie) to television. Roday is a co-worker, and Ryan O'Neal plays her father and the owner of the firm. Kate's bartender best friend Victoria (played by Lake Bell), kept an eye on the matches and was a bit of a slut. Her "should be or shouldn't we" ex Michael (the husband on Ghost Whisperer)was interesting and his best pal Adam (Nathan Fillion, aka Castle) also kept the couplings interesting. The theme song was done by Macy Gray. I see a lot of parallels between this and the new USA show FAIRLY LEGAL. GRADE: B+