Mattv here with another set of recaps for a show that is very close to my heart. The Walking Dead is one of my favorite comic books and at first I was worried about the tv show staying truthful to the comic book, but after tonight I am not worried. Onward with the recap!:
The episode starts off with our new hero Rick Grimes as he scours a gas station for fuel. We can see that this station has been significantly roughed up thanks to the zombie-pocolypse and a nifty little sign informs Rick that there is no fuel. Rick is upset until he sees a little girl with her teddy bear. Finally another person in this crazy zombie Georgia! Well unfortunately for Rick this is a zombie little girl and as soon as she turns around and shows him her zombie face she is also running towards him to eat his flesh. It is right at this moment that we realize two very important things about AMC’s new original: 1. That the focus is going to be on the characters reacting realistically and emotionally to the crazy world around them and 2. That AMC is not pulling any punches when it comes to violence. Zombie girl’s head gets ‘ploded and we see it all. And cue the intro music…
Once the intro is over we flash back to pre-zombie-clypse era Georgia where good cop Rick is eating and talking with his partner and friend, Shane. Rick asks Shane what the difference is between a man and a women and goes on to talk a little bit about himself and his life Lori. It turns out things are a little heated in the Grimes household and Lori has no problem belittling Rick in front of their young son Carl, something Rick asserts a man would never do. This introspection is cut short when over the radio the officers hear of a high-speed chase heading their way. Time to throw away the burgers! Once a perimeter is set up we get a nice look at Rick’s weapon of choice, a magnum revolver. This gun is super nice looking and even though Rick doesn’t know it yet, will be used a lot during this episode. The bad guys come barreling down the highway and are run off the road/flipped over courtesy of police spikes. After the procedural “put your hands in the air!” fails Rick and the other officers start shooting and seemingly get all of them. Rick even gets shot by one of them, but is saved thanks to his bulletproof vest. Unfortunately right when Rick looks away another bad guy comes out of the car and shoots him right in the mid-shoulder region, where unfortunately for Rick, he is not so covered by his vest. Shane dispatches the bad guy and tells Rick to hold on as he starts to bleed out and lose consciousness….
Cut to a little while later… In a 28 days later style Rick gasps for breath and wakes up to find himself in a seemingly deserted hospital. His calls for nurse go unanswered and he is forced to yank out all of his IV’s and tubes attached to him. Thankfully AMC wisely choose to show us violence and not nudity, because we don’t have to watch as Rick takes out his catheter. Naturally Rick is a little weak thanks to the ole drug induced coma and he is very confused when he makes it out of his room, only to find that the rest of the hospital is empty and has been ransacked. In a very creepy scene Rick walks towards a door with the words, “Do not enter. Dead inside”, written on them as the overhead lights flicker on and off. A zombie hand reaches out towards Rick before he wisely runs out of the hospital and down the stairs to the parking lot, only to discovery rows of dead bodies with white sheets over them. Some of them even appear to have been shot in the head, after they were covered by the sheet. Rick continues his walk towards his house and runs across a zombie lovingly known in the comic as, “Bicycle Girl”. She is missing the lower portion of her body and slowly crawls towards Rick, which terrifies him. Rick takes her bicycle and rides off in terror…
The next stop on the disbelief tour is Rick’s house, which has also been ransacked and broken into. Rick screams with tears in his eyes as he realizes that his wife and son may be in grave danger, or worse, dead. Rick walks outside to collect his thoughts and is greeted by an incredibly strange sight. A dead or very sick looking person is casually walking down his street. Rick calls out to him, but to no response. Rick, meet the walking dead. Walking dead, meet Rick Grimes. No sooner does Rick stand in disbelief, as he is wacked over the head with a shovel, thanks to little Duane Jones. Bloody, Rick looks up and asks him if he is his son Carl, and Duane starts to freak out, realizing that he may have just killed someone who was not a zombie. Bang! Right out of nowhere Duane’s father, Morgan Jones, shoots the walker Rick saw moments ago in the head and helps his son carry Rick off to the house they are staying in nearby. The gunshot will soon attract other walkers looking for a tasty meal..
Rick wakes up to find himself tied up to a bed, shirtless, and next to Morgan and Duane who want to question him. Rick explains to them that he is looking for his wife and son and that they probably would have headed into the city if something were wrong. Morgan is a little hesitant and tells Rick that there is no way that they could be in the city because the city is full of zombies and very unsafe for humans. If they are alive they are probably somewhere on the outskirts of the city. While he is tied up Morgan gives Rick a brief history lesson on the walking dead and how he they operate. The one that Rick saw before Morgan shot it was a walker and they are attracted by sound. They are pretty slow but deadly in large groups. He tells Rick that he should only shoot them if he absolutely has too, and that a blunt object will do the trick as well. During their conversation we hear a car alarm go off and Morgan instructs Duane to lock the doors and windows and hide. A zombie most likely ran into the car and set it off, but the noise will most definitely attract more zombies who might see their house. Later in the right the door starts to open and we find out that Morgan has been keeping a secret from us. We see that the zombie outside is an African American woman who looks strikingly familiar to a picture that Duane has and that Zombies will try and return to places that were familiar to them as humans. It seems that Morgan is having a hard time thinking of his wife as no longer his wife and an even harder time killing her to put her out of her misery. Luckily she is distracted by another noise before she can try to open the door anymore…
The next morning Rick is untied from the bed and tells Morgan that he knows a place that still has electricity and a stockpile of guns and ammo, Rick’s police office. The three finally reach there and after turning on the generator rick is reunited with his lovely magnum, along with many other rifles, handguns, and shotguns. Rick tells Morgan to take as much as he can carry and tells Duane that he can take a gun also, but that he has to listen to his father and be extra safe with it. Sufficiently stuffed they head outside and find two gassed up police cruisers with working radios. They also find one of Rick’s fellow officers who has been zombie-fied. Rick takes care of him with a swift shot to the forehead and once again we are reminded of how much violence AMC is willing to show. Rick takes one of the cruisers and tells Morgan that he is heading to Atlanta to find Lori and Carl. The two depart and Rick is on the road again!
After shooting the zombie girl we see Rick driving towards Atlanta on the barren highway and calling out for help on the radio. Unfortunately Rick hangs up before Amy can pick up on the other line and tell him that she is part of a survivor group and that the city is dangerous. Another survivor comes over to find out who was on the radio and it turns out to be…Lori! Yep Lori, Carl, and even Shane are all safe and sound with about half a dozen other survivors living in tents on the outskirts of town. We soon find out that things are not quite as they appear when Shane goes to comfort an upset Lori and they engage in a passionate kiss. It seems Shane has used Rick’s MIA status to his own advantage…
Back at the Morgan house, Morgan tells Duane to go downstairs and read his comics while he sets up a chair in the attic and takes aim at the walkers outside with his new police rifle. He manages to take out two of them, but ultimately cannot bring himself to shoot his wife. The shots have attracted other zombies towards their house and the last shot we see of Duane and Morgan in this episode is them huddling together and crying as more and more zombies head towards their general direction.
Still in transit, we see Rick pull over on the side of the road and end up at a familiar location. Bicycle Girl is still crawling around on the ground and Rick walks over to her and tearfully talks to her. He apologizes to her for whatever made her the way that she is now and then takes her out of her misery by killing her. This scene is very powerful and is a good example of how The Walking Dead is different you’re your average zombie flick. The characters feel real and really feel. Eventually Rick runs out of gas and stops at a farm, which for fans of the comic book, may or may not be Hershel’s farm. Regardless, Rick wanders around and finds that the homeowners have killed themselves and cryptically wrote “God Save Us” above their heads. Rick finds a horse and with his guns packed to his back, rides off towards Atlanta like a zombie killin’ cowboy.
Unfortunately for TV lovers everywhere, John Wayne Rick is short lived as Rick finds out just how bad the city is once he arrives. There are zombies EVERYWHERE and what appears to be a remnant of a National Guard counter attack. There is even an abandoned tank in the middle of a city street. Rick’s galloping manages to catch the attention of the majority of the city zombies, which startles Rick’s horse. It also doesn't help that Rick is distracted by a possible CDC helicopter in the sky and doesn't notice the zombie attention he has recieved. Rick falls off of his horse in the confusion and his horse is then promptly fed upon by zombies as Rick crawls under the abandoned tank, leaving his big bag-o-guns behind. The horse feeding frenzy takes away most of the zombies attention but there are still a few of them who crawl after Rick under the tank. Rick prepares to end his life before apologizing to Lori and Carl, until he looks up and sees that the bottom hatch of the tank is open.
Rick quickly changes the position of his magnum from his head to the heads of the zombies around him and pops off five rounds before crawling into the tank and sealing the bottom hatch shut. Inside of the tank Rick finds some live tank shells on the ground and even better yet, finds a dead soldier with a semi-loaded semi-automatic handgun. Right as Rick is inspecting the gun we find out that the soldier is still very undead and Rick lets off his final revolver round into him, causing him to go partially deaf for a short period. With is ears still ringing, Rick notices that hungry Zombies can still get in via the open top hatch and climbs up to look outside and see his bag of guns on the street. Almost attacked, Rick seals it shut,effectively sealing himself into his own little inescapable panic room in the midst of a huge zombie feeding frenzy. Luckily for Rick the radio inside of the tank lights up and a voice on the other end informs Rick that he saw him get himself stuck in the tank and asks him sarcastically "if it's cozy in there." He might be trapped, but at least now he he knows he isn’t alone!
Joe Mantegna: Not to fear, the networked ordered two more episodes so we'll be doing 24. We are just finishing up 610 and start episode 611 on Wednesday. We'r almost halfway done for the season.
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(titles are hard) Cougar Town - Episode 2.06 - You Don't Know How it Feels - Recap
In case you didn't know it yet, this week it's halloween, and spooky things are happening in Cougar Town. Among those, was Laurie, who decides all of a sudden not tp drink wine before dinner (she says no. to wine!!!).
We also get the rare opportunity of seeing where Jules have gotten her crazy (her mother) when her father, Chick, comes to visit.
Even though Jules hates Halloween, she is still trying to make the holiday perfect for her father's visit. Only she has a condition which develops whenever her father comes to visit: she starts talking southern. So in order to avoid it, she asks the over enthusiastic Laurie to throw something at her whenever she starts talking all redneck.
Meanwhile, Ellie and Andy are trying to get baby Stan into one of those over valued, over priced pre-pre school. Only they are number ten on the waiting list (even though Ellie had done the unthinkable and let the head master hug her, but it's okay, because she liked it). It wasn't all over though, as Andy realized that the head master is Bobby's golf buddy. Naturally, off they went to do the second unthinkable thing for Ellie, suck up to Bobby. Even though they brought him a 50 pack, Bobby just wasn't as easy as that. Bobby has just learnt that he was no longer baby Stan's in-case-of-death legal guardian because he wasn't married to Jules anymore, so in exchange to his help, all he wanted was to be a legal guardian again. Only Ellie couldn't allow someone who doesn't even notice he hasn't got both shoes on, to take care of her child. Eventually though, Ellie found out that Bobby got baby Stan a spot in the pretentious school even though Ellie was a bitch to him (well, what was he expecting from her really), and Ellie agreed to let him be a guardian again, as long as he will let baby Stan be the man he isn't.
Moving on to Laurie and Travis (who should, and probably will get together): As mentioned earlier Laurie was very strangely not drinking, and therefore she was chosen as the designated driver for Chick as he went to pick up Travis a day early from college. Making the most of the situation, Laurie hid inside his bed and scared him until he became a frightened small kitten.
Back home again, Travis admitted he was too cool for school (or at least too old for halloween), and he didn't want to take part in the activities. However, after a few more scary moments caused by both Laurie and Travis, Travis finally admitted to Laurie that he still likes halloween, and completed her custome (more on that later).
Back to Jules' daddy issues. Jules was worried that whenever Chick comes to visit her, he goes out of his way to avoid spending time alone with her. So she tried to manipulate him into it. Her first plan, was to make Chick hate Grayson, so at dinner he'll want to get rid of him and stay with her. She did this at first by mentioning that Grayson is sleeping with her, and then by naturally counting on her daddy not liking Grayson because of his vainness. It didn't work out though, as they both got along well and even wrote a song about her together.
Then, when she finally got Chick alone in the jam/Travis' room, and he didn't want to talk to her she kicked him out of her house.
Jules was desperate to get some love from her daddy, so she decided to come in a costume (even though she hated it) to Grayson's halloween party, in order to win her father back. It didn't take her long to decide what to wear, as Grayson said he was going dressed as prince, she decided to go as a princess (only he wasn't that kind of a prince, to Jules humiliation).
We should stop now at the heart and guts of the recking father/daughter storyline to acknowledge some of the finer customs that were seen at the halloween party of the year.
Kudos goes to Laurie for a superb Ellie impersonation and for the very manly clothes. Then to Ellie, for the not as great but very bizarre impersonation of Laurie.
Third place (if this was a contest, which it isn't) goes to Barb for being the world's most revealing haystack. Or being the only one at that.
Then honorable mentions, go to both Travis for being the Andy to Laurie's Ellie (see what I mean?). Then to Bobby, for being able to be blown away so easily.
As princess Jules slowly lost her mind at the party, she was being bothered by a very persistent bear, who turned out to be none else than her father (who lied at first and said he wouldn't be there). She found this out when she decided to go home. He then gave her a hug that gave new meaning to the term “bear hug”, and confessed that the reason he couldn't spend time alone with Jules, was because she reminds him so much of her mother when she was young, and he misses her. He also, very beautifully admitted that he considers Jules the biggest achievement of his life. Aw.
So, in last week's installment of Supernatural, Dean is turned temporarily into a monster, and becomes a pawn of the Alpha vampire's will. During his short time spent in the nest he was investigating, he witnessed firsthand the incredible influence the alpha has over his subjects: the ability to telepathically transfer messages in psychedelic visions, as well as the ability to render anyone under his power 
unconscious (and I'm assuming there's a few other strings the main vamp can pull that we haven't yet witnessed). We get to witness one of these visions as everything gets super blurry and Dean falls to the floor, gone. His eyes whirring behind their lids, as well as every other vampire in the warehouse (and possibly every other vamp in existence).
The vision is a quick one, so while watching, aside from getting the creeps from it, as a viewer one doesn't really get a good look at what's actually happening. So, after watching it repeatedly, I was naturally inclined to come up with my own assertions/questions/ideas about what is taking place in this vision, and why were even shown this vision.
Question #1: What was the point of the Vision?
I believe first and foremost, the point of the vision was to be awesome, scary, and show some aspect of the alpha vampire without actually having to show the alpha this episode. I also think it basically shows the spread of vampirism (is that a word? Oh well, I'm using it..) from the alpha--I believe from what I've seen and put together that the alpha is that rather creepy, well-dressed man caressing the children's faces: This leads us to #2.
Question #2: WTF is with the man and his scary little counterparts?
From what I can tell, the girls are twin sisters that are from a family of prestige (read: money), and the man that is caressing one of the girl's faces is their servant/slave?/butler, who just happens to have (mutated? become? always was?) a vampire, who corrupts them with his blood, and then as they become his subjects, he tells them to go out, kill, spread the disease: (cue the blood cells, the red lines expanding through a map seemingly of Illonois, many graves, and eerily, the sight of school desks and the man looking into the horizon...) "GO FORTH MY CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT!!!"
Question #3: OMG will we get to see this vision again or some sort of expansion on it? Will we meet this man and the two sisters? Will we see the full story? Does anyone else feel like this is a huge step in the right direction of going back to the roots of evil in the world? If they can make all the alphas of the monster community this scary, and this awesome, I will be extremely happy about it, and will brand this season MUCH better than season 5.
Question #4: Is there someone above the alphas pulling the strings? What if these alphas are just pawns themselves in some gigantic conspiracy by some unknown power that we've yet to see? (I could see this being a really good idea, but also an awful idea...)
Question #5: What was the first "monster" ever? The alpha of all alphas? Is there even one? Is this even a good question?
Nick needs to prove that a young man is innocence in a robbery gone sour and a police shooting, in so doing made themselves enemy with law enforcement. Meanwhile, Pete defends an impersonator for stealing Elvis memorabilia.
Favorite moments:
The opening of the episode where the father of the accused talks about his son with emotion as Nick and Pete look on with sympathy.
Pete agreeing to take the theft case.
Nick lecturing his young client to be more respectful of his father.
Nick being serenaded to by a Marilyn Munroe impersonator.
Favorite quote:
Pete: [on the theft of the famous blue suede shoes] Is nothing sacred?
Rating: 9/10
Modified with additional moment.
Here's my very personal table I made to collect this season's ratings of Brothers & Sisters: total viewers and 18-49 demo rating (which is the most important data). Note that italic data is refered to early ratings, while block capital is refered to the final numbers.
It'll be updated each week, presumabily on Mondays with the early numbers and on Tuesdays with the final ones! Enjoy it ;)
Dominic Brown
Live Free or Twi-Hard: The episode which boldly dares go where no episode has ever gone, and give a certain hysterical fan base what's coming to them. Unless, of course, you're a Twilight fan in which case, how dare they!
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Michelle Trachtenberg To Develop & Star In CW Drama Produced by Josh Schwartz
CW has handed out a script order to an untitled drama project starring Gossip Girl's Michelle Trachtenberg, which marks the actress' producing debut. It hails from the creators of CW's Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, whose Fake Empire banner co-produces the project with Warner Bros. TV and CBS TV Studios. Based on an idea by Trachtenberg, the drama would star the actress as a young criminology student with a gift for profiling and a dark past. Stuart Zicherman (Six Degrees) will write the script and executive produce alongside Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. Trachtenberg will serve as producer. This is Fake Empire's second hourlong project this season toplined by a young actress from one of Schawrtz's other shows. Schwartz is writing Ghost Angeles, a supernatural romantic comedy starring The O.C. alumna Rachel Bilson, which received a pilot production commitment from NBC. Trachtenberg has been recurring on Gossip Girl for the past 2 years. She will next be seen in Kids in America.
Source: Deadline
Six Degrees of Joss Whedon. Pop Confidential and Daytime Confidential would like to extend mad props to one of our favorite writers, Andrew Miller, creator of the best web series ever, Imaginary Bitches. Miller has been tapped to write the pilot for a new, high profile project for Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, both of whom wrote for Joss Whedon's Angel and Dollhouse series. New York Magazine's Vulture blog broke the news of Craft and Fain adapting Vampire Diaries author L.J. Smith's Secret Circle book series for The CW. Alloy Entertainment, the transmedia juggernaut behind such teen hits as Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries, is packaging the series.
The Secret Circle books revolve around Cassie, a teenage girl who is forced to leave behind SoCal for life in New England. Once there she bonds with a creepy group of kids, who turn out to be a coven of deadly witches. Yep, just like my high school senior trip. I caught up with the hubby of The Young and the Restless cutie Eden Riegel to get the dish on his new gig.
"The Secret Circle is a brilliant book series that uses the supernatural to explore the idea of adolescent empowerment and what to do with the power once you've got it," says Miller. "It's fun, sexy and edgy and I'm thrilled to be a part of it."
Sounds like Must See CW to me!
Source: Daytime Confidential
Guest Stars Include Marc Vann ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") as Funeral Director Wayne Lundgren, and Gregg Henry ("Hung") as Soccer Coach Swanson
"Talk to the Hand" - When Allison gets a skin graft on her hand after a burn, she is puzzled when the same hand acts with a mind of its own, gesturing uncontrollably. Also, Bridgette keeps her real role on the soccer team a secret from her parents, on MEDIUM, Friday, Friday, Oct. 22 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Guest stars include Marc Vann ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") as funeral director Wayne Lundgren, and Gregg Henry ("Hung") as soccer Coach Swanson.
SERIES REGULARS:
Allison Dubois........................ Patricia Arquette
Joe Dubois.................................... Jake Weber
District Attorney Devalos........ Miguel Sandoval
Ariel Dubois............................ Sofia Vassilieva
Bridgette Dubois............................ Maria Lark
Detective Lee Scanlon.................. David Cubitt
Marie Dubois...................... Miranda Carabello
GUEST CAST:
Lynn DiNovi.............................. Tina DiJoseph
Dr. Heath Timlin....................... Matthew Glave
Coach Swanson...................... ....Gregg Henry
Wayne Lundgren............................ Marc Vann
Coach Amy Gabler................. Katie Sigismund
Monica Janeway............................ Teri Reeves
Surgeon.............................................. Stan Egi
Josh Whitman............................... Don Fischer
Mrs. Lundgren.......................... Mary Garripoli
Elderly Woman........................ Candice Azzara
WRITTEN BY: Executive Producers Robert Doherty & Craig Sweeny
DIRECTED BY: Colin Bucksey
RATING: To Be Announced
Source: CBS
Sometimes penny can, and sometimes penny can't. This time, it's penny undecided, when the whole gang is at Jules' living room slash kitchen. While Jules is going through her lists with the girls, we discover that if Travis was girl, Jules would have called him Jay-jay (I guess Coco was already taken), that Jules is the hottest one of the group and that Penny Can is the most boring game in the planet.
In order to make Penny Can less boring, Laurie comes up with an alternate game, “Truth or Penny Can”. In this game, when someone misses the can they are asked a personal question. Although his many hours of practice, Bobby misses it, making Ellie jump on the opportunity like a gangsta' lion onto his redneck pray. She asks him if he feels ashamed to be taking money from Jules every month. This makes him storm out and to decide to stop accepting Jules' money and help.
This makes Jules so extremely happy, that she is forced to torture Grayson by stealing his fries (he is a battered, poor, man), but in order to actually make it happen Bobby has to make some sacrifices: he'll need to give more golf lessons, sell dog Travis' sperm (who the hell buys dogs sperm, and what does he use it for?! Forget it. I don't want to know. Really), and give up his health insurance. Which is stupid. Because he is Bobby. Not long after, and Jules' is having a party to celebrate her “new found money” (by drinking margaritas with crushed aspirin. Does it even taste good?), and Bobby goes and pretends he is a dog. He tries to catch a frisbee with his teeth, but naturally and necessary for the dramatic continuity, he fails, falls and dislocates his shoulder. Leaving Jules to pick up the pieces, literally, and put them back into place. More on that later.
Meanwhile, Laurie who was broken up with, by Smith, seems to be taking the breakup well. Maybe too well. So well that Grayson and Andy suspect she might be a robot. Okay, they don't actually think that, but they do think it's weird. At first Laurie goes to Smith' place to pick up her stuff, and meets his exuberantly happy father there (who seem to have gone more senile and insane since we first met him). Then they both trick Grayson and Andy to think she is attacking Smith violently. Then they hang out. Then they sleep together. Then Smith tells Laurie they shouldn't act like a couple anymore. She is fine with it all. Nothing takes her down. Eventually, and after agreeing that both Andy and Travis are the women in their relationships, Andy gets Laurie to admit she will miss her special moments with Smith. She was probably just faking it to get those women (Andy and Grayson, obviously) off her masculine, yet delicate back.
As we move to the Ellie island, we meet her as she realizes that there are other people who are stupid apart from Laurie. They are called Jules and Bobby, and (together with Laurie) they declare Mexico an island, because it has beaches. Even though Florida has beaches too, and it is not an island. Ellie puts on her condescending hat, and too, declares everyone but herself and Travis as stupid. After a while of superior bitchiness, Jules is tired from Ellie's attitude and proves to her that she is just like them. This, actually works – and Ellie is depressed by this news. She takes the time off being evil or condescending, to perfect her penny can skills, and although it makes her sad, she becomes the most skillful of the group. She gets so amazing, she can actually perform penny can tricks. Travis notices them, and notices she is not herself. He brings her up again, by telling her that they are both still better than everyone else, because they are so smart, they can fool everyone to think that they are smarter than they actually are.
At last, we are back to Bobby. He is still in pain, but refuses to get help from Jules (but using everyone else as his extra hands is fine). Jules though, really wants to be in control of Bobby, so she asks him to come and help her in the office, so to get health insurance. He agrees, but after Jules leaves him in the office to sharpen the pencils (which isn't a euphemism) and think of ways to get more customers, Bobby actually does that. He proves to be a pretty good advertising man, and gets a lot more customers in. Too bad most of them are homeless who just came in because of the free Jules' beer Bobby gave away. Jules is mad at Bobby for messing up her office, but they make up. Jules admits that she takes care of Bobby as a way of revenge of his cheating on her, and ruining the relationship.
If this is revenge, i'd like to order one too, Jules Cobb.
Also, I'd like to ask Ellie to marry me. This is all.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - "Sorry Grateful" - Thanksgiving on Wisteria Lane finds Gabrielle and Carlos hosting Carmen, Hector and Grace to a bountiful feast. But the Solis's discover some surprising news about the Sanchez's that could threaten their time with Grace. Meanwhile, Bree invites Keith's parents (John Schneider and Nancy Travis) to partake in Thanksgiving at her house and learns some family secrets; Susan butts heads with Lynette over her sleep training techniques for baby Paige; Renee continues to remind Tom about their past; and Beth tries to uncover more about Paul's past misdeeds, on "Desperate Housewives," SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
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via ABC
WHEN ALLISON FLASHES TO A SPECIFIC TIME IN THE FUTURE, HER FEAR GROWS AS SHE BEGINS TO FEEL POWERLESS TO STOP A CATASTROPHIC EVENT FROM TAKING PLACE, ON "MEDIUM," FRIDAY, OCT. 29
"Where Were You When...?" - When Allison begins having flashes to a specific time in the future, her sense of dread grows as she feels more and more powerless to stop a catastrophic event from occurring, on MEDIUM, Friday, Oct. 29 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
SERIES REGULARS:
Allison Dubois........................ Patricia Arquette
Joe Dubois.................................... Jake Weber
District Attorney Devalos........ Miguel Sandoval
Ariel Dubois............................ Sofia Vassilieva
Bridgette Dubois............................ Maria Lark
Detective Lee Scanlon.................. David Cubitt
Marie Dubois..................... Madison Carabello
GUEST CAST:
Rob Walcott.............................. Clancy Brown
Gavin Finch.................................. David Burke
Mrs. Halstead............................. Angela Paton
Booth Guard #1............................ Rick Gifford
Russ O'Toole................. Stoney Westmoreland
Secretary.................................. Jennifer Chang
History Teacher................ Caroline Kingsolving
Art Teacher.................................. Jodi Fleisher
Booth Guard #2...................... Michael Manuel
Goateed Man.............................. Jack Harding
WRITTEN BY: Jordan Rosenberg
DIRECTED BY: Peter Werner
RATING: To Be Announced
Source: CBS
I had been looking forward to this episode before I even knew it was airing: it is no secret that Bobby is my favourite character and aside from stressing the hell out about him dying whenever he's on screen, I always cherish the episodes that center around him. I'll try to stay as objective about this episode as I can, however, and give you a fair and balanced recap.
As Sarah pointed out in the comments, this was also Jensen Ackles' directing debut. It's always great to see actors take initiative with their shows in this way, it demonstrates a commitment and how serious they take the narrative, when they engage with it in this completely new way. Jensen did an amazing job, and through his directing showed a great understanding of Bobby's character. Great job Jensen!
I'd also like to apologise for this week's recap being delayed. I had a really good reason: I pretty much used up all of my self-allocated blogging time this week typing up reports of the author talk with Philip Pullman and the award ceremony with JK Rowling I attended within this last week - I know right?! If you are a fan of either of these authors or their works feel free to check out these reports at The Patchwork Blog!
