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OCTV Year-End Wrap Up 2012: Weekend Shows

May 29, 2012 in off-color commentary by Nicole | 7 comments

Here is the last of our Year In Review posts for the 2012 regular season of tv. As usual, SB’s thoughts are in blue and mine are in purple. Read, agree, disagree, comment – you know how it goes! And get ready, because our summer 2012 coverage is kicking off soon!

SNL

OH MY GOD, KRISTEN WIIG IS GONE!  Our long national nightmare is over!  AND ALL THE PEOPLE REJOICED!

Okay.  It’s out of the way.  You knew it was coming, right?  Anyway, I thought this was a really good and funny season of SNL (the Mick Jagger finale not included).  Let’s review some highlights:

  • Jason Segel and The Muppets
  • Capitalizing on all the pedophiles in the news with Steve Buscemi (which would make an awesome title of a standalone TV show, right?)
  • JIMMY FALLON’S CHRISTMAS EPISODE, AM I RIGHT?  God, all the alums and everyone having such a good time … best ever.
  • Channing Tatum’s strippery monologue (and also, who knew he was so hilarious?)
  • Eli Manning making me laugh almost as much as Peyton did, which is a huge compliment
  • Even Lindsay Lohan was sort of interesting to watch, in a horrifying trainwreck sort of way
  • The introduction of the fake soap opera “The Californians”, which hilariously mocks how everyone in California is obsessed with driving directions and provided the INSANELY fun to imitate “What are YOU doing here?”

So overall, a very fun year.  But the big question on everyone’s mind was, where the fuck was Timberlake?  Yeah, yeah, he showed up from time to time, but I need him to host AT LEAST once a year.  Step aside, Alec Baldwin.  (And also, please no more Katy Perry ever on anything, okay TV Gods?)

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OCTV Mid-Year Wrap Up 2011 (Part Four of Four).

December 30, 2011 in off-color commentary by Nicole | 7 comments

Welcome to the fourth and final installment of OCTV’s mid-year wrap up, where Nicole and SB go over what they’ve been watching all year and take a step back to look at the seasons (or the seasons so far) as a whole.  If you missed part one, you can find it here, part two is here, and part three is here.  Gifs are generously rounded up by hockeybychoice, and as always, Nicole’s thoughts are in purple and SB’s are in blue.  Enjoy and be sure to comment!

The Vampire Diaries

I am still loving this show (even if I’m less enthralled with Damon than I used to be).  It continues to be excellent at managing a million things at once, even if sometimes that means that we don’t get to see certain people for weeks at a time (miss ya, Jeremy!).  I love love love Ripper Stefan and the entire Klaus and Rebekah story arc, and I’m intrigued by Katherine’s place in everything.  As per usual, the love story of poor, wounded Elena is the least interesting thing to me – the second a guy gets with her he turns into someone I don’t give a shit about.  She is excellent at making people boring by association.  That’s not a knock on The Dobrev because she is the opposite with Katherine, but Elena is room temperature vanilla pudding compared to Katherine’s…something exciting that they would make on Top Chef, like flaming spicy chocolate ganache, I don’t know.  Anyway, the show continues to be a thumbs way up for me, but I’ll let SB get into it since she’s OCTV’s TVD master and I know y’all want to hear from her.

Ooooh, TVD MASTER?  Well, I don’t know about that, but I have been spending a lot of time with TVD lately, as I recently wrote a Top Three Moments of Season Three (So Far) post for vampire-diaries.net, which is seriously the best fansite I’ve ever seen for anything (no exaggeration), which can be found here.

I am LOVING this season.  I had some serious issues with season two (namely, Rose and trying to cram too much in), but I think this season has been pretty great.  They slowed the pace down a bit, gave us a better idea of the general time frame of the show (two seasons equals a year), sent the kids back to high school (!!!), and turned the show’s sweetest remorseful bunny-killing vampire into a shockingly scary sidekick to a sociopath (holy god, the alliteration!).  The show is really functioning at its best this season, because there are several stories going on at once, but they’re all overlapping each other just enough.

And you know what else is pretty incredible?  That with an already large cast with a lot going on, that the show has managed to add in the Originals without it feeling like anyone is being cheated out of story time.  That takes a deft hand.  And oh GOD, you guys, the talent levels on this show–I can’t even handle it.  I mean for REAL–just think about the crying or almost crying scenes ALONE, JUST this season!  Stefan calling Elena.  Rebekah in front of the mirror.  Caroline when Tyler left angry.  Matt letting go of Vicki.  Bonnie holding Grams’ hand as she disappeared.  Anna and Pearl’s reunion.  Klaus’ Single Perfect Man Tear™?!?!?  Geez, you guys, and that is all in like nine episodes and without Sara Canning, who was a fucking all-star crier!

Anyway, I kind of took a detour there, but all of this to say that I’ve been really happy with this season and how it’s all been working together.  I’ve enjoyed the Damon and Elena slow burn, even as I feel the Stefan pain, and Caroline and Tyler are pretty much ripping my heart out.  The ghost episode was so fun, Simon Camden bled from his eyeballs (delightfully gross, and also wonderful inspiration for my Halloween zombie makeup), and I love the new Buffyication of Elena.  It feels weird to say that a season that’s already been so fab has promise, but I feel like it really does, like everything up to this, while it’s there have been payoffs all along, is really leading up to some like massive event of awesomeness.  Of course, said massive event is probably going to ultimately end up being me having a heart attack, but that’s just how I assume every season of TVD will end, from now until eternity.

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Marry, Fuck or Kill: Friday & Weekend Shows!

October 14, 2011 in off-color commentary by Nicole | 18 comments


You guys, this week has been SO much fun!  Thanks for all of your comments and Twitter pimping – you rock!  We’ve covered Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and now we’ve reached our final destination on this week long journey of reflection and self-discovery.  Friday’s kind of quiet on tv, but there are still epic battles to be had (hello, we have to choose between Winchesters!), and we’re including some weekend tv to boot, so let’s get to the main event.  As you all know by now, my picks are in purple and SB’s are in blue:

Fringe

So, truth be told, I haven’t watched this show since around the middle of season 2 (I like it, I just fell behind and haven’t had a chance to catch up), so I’m pretty sure that there are a billion characters I don’t know, and probably 3 versions of each character that I do know, but here goes: I’d marry Peter (unless he’s dead? or evil?  he was nice and Pacey-like the last time I saw him), eff Astrid cause she’s sassy, and kill Olivia because she has the emotional depth of an automaton (at least she did, I think there are 6 different Olivias now, so one or more of them might be interesting).

Yeah, I had to stop watching this in S1 because of how much I hated Anna Torv.  So based on that and like the four or five episodes I watched, kill her, fuck Pacey, and marry the old guy.  God, is there anything better than a hilarious and eccentric old man with an accent?  No, there is not.

Chuck

Oh this post is making me feel so guilty, because it’s also been a while since I’ve seen Chuck.  The last ep I saw was the one where Chuck proposed to Sarah – I know, I know – I’m going to catch up I promise.  ANYWAY I feel perfectly comfortable making my picks regardless.  I’d marry Chuck as long he promised to stop being a whiny bitch about our relationship at all times and ESPECIALLY while we’re being attacked by bad guys – he really needs to learn a few things about timing, that guy.  I’m having a hard time figuring out who I’d eff between Captain Awesome and Sarah because they are equally hot.  Probably Sarah to be honest – the girl is pretty smokin’ and she usually has weapons strapped to her which is kinda sexy.  I’d kill Jeff because he is gross.  

Awww, Chuck.  I’m a little sorry to see it come to an end, but I also sort of think it’s time.  I’m going to fuck Sarah.  This doesn’t even need an explanation if you’ve ever seen her in a girl fight.  Or strapping a weapon to her leg.  Or dancing.  She OOZES sex.  And while I thought about marrying Ellie (again, I like being taken care of), I can’t go through with it because I’m gonna marry Casey.  And even though I will never be able to follow his portrayer on Twitter again, I thankfully unfollowed in enough time that my Casey (and Jayne, from Firefly) love remained untainted, and I am in it with Casey for the long haul.  We will have a very opposites attract kind of thing going on, obviously, since I am not down with … pretty much anything he’s down with.  But he’s so BIG.  And I’m going to kill Big Mike.  Never been a fan.

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