Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Soap Addict Part 1

Last week, I and my officemates went to Metrowalk for lunch. Of course, I have to pay my skuking DVD booth on the 2nd floor a visit. (I can imagine your placards coming out of nowhere emblazoned with the “No to Piracy!” sign). If it’s any consolation, I only buy TV series on DVD, logically cheaper compared to the original. Anyway, I bought the following:

1. Season 4 of Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy
2. Half seasons (much to my dismay) Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia
3. Will and Grace’s Debra Messing starrer, The Starter Wife and
4. The homo-erotic horror series, Dante’s Cove.
5. ANTM Season 10

In four days, I’ve finished Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Lipstick Jungle, Cashmere Mafia, and ANTM. So here it goes:

Desperate Housewives
Ended with the future. Bree Hodge became a domestic diva ala-Martha Stewart, one of Lynette Scavo’s twins got arrested for a misdemeanor charge, Gabrielle Solis was seen running with an oriental toddler, clearly her adopted daughter and Susan Mayer was seen kissing someone, not his husband but a new character played by Gale Harold from Queer as Folk.

Highlights:
1. Gabby’s mayor husband died from a freak tornado accident. He then remarries her ex-husband Carlos before learning that he will never be seeing again (he is blind, got it?).
2. Bree van de Kamp met her equal in the character of Katherine Mayfair. Their one on one encounters are really very hilarious. Bree broke it off with Orson after learning that he was the one who ran over Mike Delfino by a car, almost killing him.
3. Lynette was finally cancer-free. One memorable moment was when she got high from the “brownies” given to her by her mother. H-I-larious!
4, Susan Mayer was still on her crazy and embarrassing elements. She is pregnant with Mike’s baby, of course.
5. Edie Britt after blackmailing Bree, is finally shut out from their clique. Of course, Edie being very an attention-whore was devastated.

Grey’s Anatomy
I love this season because it’s not proliferated with the tedious and sappy love affair of Meredith and Derek. Though it ended with the most cliché and corniest scene ever, with Derek and Meredith complete with hundreds of candles exchanged saliva of course after a barfing dialogue. As usual, Cristina Yang and Miranda Bailey were both super funny. Alex Karev’s dramatic side was displayed with the introduction of his love affair with Rebecca, remember the lady whose face was destroyed from a major pier accident?

Highlights:
1. George O’Malley and Callie Torres got married. They will later break up because of Izzie Stevens.
2. Callie Torres and Erica Hahn will torridly kiss during the last episodes. Obviously they’re both big old lesbos. Harhar.
3. Alex Karev’s breakdown scene with Izzie was really heart wrenching. He will be deeply emotionally involved with Rebecca while she is suffering from some psychological stuff.
4. Lexie Grey, Meredith’s half-sister is more interesting than Meredith.
5. Cristina Yang is the new nazi. She calls her interns by numbers not by their names.
to be continued...

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