Monday, September 17, 2007 Rant Archive
Tonight’s episode of WEEDS is where the rubber meets the road for Mary-Kate Olson.
Mary-Kate is joining the cast of WEEDS for a 10 episode arc, and we will finally get to see if she is a true actress or just part of the Hollywood clique that’s best known for their partying ways. According to
Zap2it.com, Mary-Kate plays “Tara, who is a good Christian girl from Majestic, who bonds with new boyfriend, Silas, over smoking pot.” I’ve seen a few short clips, and I have to say the girl looks like she has some acting chops. Of course a few short clips don’t mean much, so I’ll have to reserve judgment until after I’ve actually seen the full show. But I am definitely rooting for her to succeed.
It isn’t easy to break free of childhood bonds, especially when you’ve grown up in front of the world. Add to that the fact that Mary-Kate and her sister, Ashley, were always looked upon as America’s little sweethearts, and you can see how somebody can get a little lost along the way. That being said, the worst press Mary-Kate got had to do with her Anorexia, and that elicited sympathy from the public more than anything else. I think the real test here is whether or not she can live up to all her earlier hype, rather than whether she is worthy of all the press she gets now. Let’s face it, you can put just about any toddler in front of a camera and create magic, but can she hold her own with a cast as talented as WEEDS?
Changes are in store for this season of SURVIVOR. Some of them good and some of them…? We’ll have to see how they play out.
The SURVIVOR hype machine has gone into overdrive promoting this season’s location: China. It bills this as the first American series filmed entirely in this country. Honestly, the location has never been that interesting to this regular SURVIVOR watcher. What makes or breaks the season is the players and SURVIVOR seems content to stock the show with both the recruited and the volunteered. This time there are even a couple of quasi-celebrities with a WWE female wrestler, a Christian Radio host and a professional poker player. I think it’s hard for the producers and host Jeff Probst to hold themselves above the messy affairs of loosely scripted reality TV and then cast these professional attention hogs but I’ll still watch.
Just when you think you've had your fill of costumed superheroes running around and spouting one-liners while bashing baddies, another one comes along that gets your adrenaline flowing. I had my doubts when it was announced that Jon Favreau was going to be directing IRON MAN. Could the guy who directed ELF and came to fame in SWINGERS do this justice? I thought he'd make it into a campy version of the classic superhero.
Boy, was I wrong. The new and recut IRON MAN trailer that was originally shown only at Comic-Con in July has finally hit the webs, and it looks pretty damned awesome. In fact, it has me more excited about this film and any of the Spidey movies, and it also looks like it might trump BATMAN BEGINS or THE DARK KNIGHT. Blasphemy, you say? Quite possibly, but that still doesn't change the fact that this trailer made my jaw drop.
Robert Downey Jr. (who I was also apprehensive about) looks perfect as the boozy playboy version of Tony Stark, infinitely better them Tom Cruise (who was attached to this film for awhile) would have been. The Mark I version of the armored suit looks like a freaking tank, and just check out when the red and gold version bursts onto the screen. Just make sure you've gone to the bathroom beforehand, because you might wet your pants.
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Season 4 came to an end, with tonight’s episode of THE 4400. Jordan (Billy Campbell) has been abducted by the marked, but with his many followers, something tells me he will find his way back to Promise City. And we now know that Promise City, and their work, may be the future’s salvation, while the marked have been working frantically behind the scenes to keep things as they are. The question remains, if the people of the future are fighting for opposite agendas, how in the world can the people of the present know whom to trust? That’s truly been the crux of this whole season. I’ve spent most of the season vacillating back and forth between whom to root for. So now that they have answered that question, my next one is how are these people going to save the world?
There’s something about Larry David and black people. Whenever he seems to encounter them, incredibly awkward hilarity ensues.
First there was Wanda Sykes, who didn’t even need any provocation to start hating Larry. And who can forget her fiancee, Crazee Eyez Killa? Larry inadvertently exposed his philandering ways, and jeopardized his relationship as Crazee Eyez’s “caucasion.”
Now there’s the Blacks -- a family displaced from the latest hurricane -- and Uncle Leon, who shows up at their doorstep even though he actually lives in L.A. Needless to say, things are gonna get ugly. On Leon’s first day in the house, Larry accuses him of leaving a, um, masturbatory stain. He then drives Leon around town, stealing Joe Pepitone Yankees jerseys that may or may not be his. Yeah, all in a day’s work for our favorite race relations liaison.
I’ve spent a week trying to figure out whether the central characters of TELL ME YOU LOVE ME are real human beings or just brightly painted clichés mouthing psycho babble. Frankly, this episode doesn’t help.
A lot of it is centered on Jamie (Michael Borth) and Hugo (Luke Farrell Kirby). He’s the jackass who essentially told his friend that he couldn’t imagine being loyal to Jamie for the rest of their lives. I say jackass because he said it loudly at their engagement party where she overheard him. At that point, the party was over.
They broke up. They great make up sex –you can watch it for yourself – but Jamie understandably can’t get that statement out of her head. When this episode begins, they’re looking for an apartment, but her mind is really on the conversation he had with a waitress the night before. She thinks he’s flirting. He says he’s just being nice.