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18 Friday Jan 2013

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Private Practice 6.12

A beautiful episode. Georgia, Caroline and Rachel! And Addie got Henry and Jake! And Violet is gonna write another book and I won’t survive next episode.

10/10

Grey’s Anatomy 9.11

Nooo! What do you mean Seattle Grace goes bankrupt?! Of course the insurance company wouldn’t pay. Nicely played, Shonda.

‘They say ignorance is bliss because once you know, you can’t go back. Will you be strong or will you fall apart? It’s hard to predict, so don’t worry about it. Enjoy the time you have before the news comes. Yep, ignorance is bliss.’

9/10

SVU 14.10

Let it go, Amanda, come on, let’s go.
Liv calls Amanda Georgia Peach.
He said he was gonna make her do it, until she didn’t want it again, to exorcise the demon of sex in her.I’m a dead girl walking, but he could still have a life.
He got the wrong priest, you should let him go.
That’s not the way it works.

10/10

SVU 14.11

A good SVU storyline.

It’s my fault he did, I shouldn’t have told him to stop.
You can say no any time.

8/10

Revenge 2.10

If only we did not have this Jack/the bar storyline and Nolan’s love life we do not care about the show would be perfect. What it needs is more Victoria, more Victoria interacting with Emily and with Conrad. The episode itself was definitely worth watching, the revealing abuse scene was to congratulate. But like I said, Jack and Nolan storylines, that’s a no. Other than that no good quotes, which is just disappointing.

6/10

Go on 1.11

I loved the episodes, many amazing quotes, and Hey Ryan remix killed me. And the intro coming right after this scene was an amazing choice!

If it succeeds, my life has been worth living. If it fails, I’ll be like Yolanda.

Let’s hear it for Mr. K! But not too loud, as we know it sexualized him in the past.

I have nothing. My life has no purpose. I’m just waiting to die. Like Yolanda.

Nothing’s worth it anymore. My life is devoid of meaning or purpose or hope.
What brave emotional honesty. Let’s discuss that further.
No, Ryan has his thing. My despair can wait.

Fausta, honey, there’s been some kind of mistake. You forgot to send me an invitation to the quinceanera.
I didn’t forget. You are not invited.
Wait a minute. Not that I care… I mean, I clearly have way better things to do…Why not?
Because you are… how you say… You are sour, you are difficult. Momento. Sonia wrote a few down for me. You are wet blanket, bummer, buzz kill, bit-cah? How you read?
Bitch.
Yes. That’s good. Bitch.

Well, what happens on the radio is between you and Dan from Burbank. Listen, is there anything I can get you? Coffee, medication, anything to help you avoid another epic meltdown like the last time you were on TV?

Do you experience me as a wet blanket? A bummer?
Anne, you’re kind of catching me off guard here, but yeah.
Fausta didn’t invite me to her niece’s thing. I mean, yes, okay, I’m not all sunshine and rainbows, but my life is hell. I’m basically drowning in a sea of sorrow.
Hard to imagine why she wouldn’t want that at a 15-year-old’s party.
I can be as difficult as I want. My stuff is bigger than hers.
I don’t think she sees it that way.
Why are you defending her? Why aren’t you mad?
Well, I was invited.
What? It never even occurred to me that she would invite you. That’s it. She’s not getting away with this.

Honey, is she bothering you?
What the fuck is this? I don’t want to know.

Anne, what are you doing here?
Shut it, Aladdin. Fausta does not get to exclude me from this. Look there. A completely empty table. All right, out of the way, girls. Widow coming through. Yeah, that’s right. Life ain’t all Justin Bieber and second base.

Now I have to be brave enough to ask, “what’s next?”

911, that’s a sequence of numbers that you should call. The fashion police to talk about that firbucci’s hat there.

Look at her having so much fun with her family and her friends while I sit at the table with my partner, loneliness.

Banana shoes, come. Translate for me. I want to hear what she says about me.
No, don’t sit at the table. It lessens my isolation.

She’s glad that we made it. She loves her niece.
Wow, what an orator. Move over, Abe Lincoln.

Fausta, I’m sorry that you miss your family. I’m sorry I sat at your table. I, uh, I am a bit-cah.
No. It’s okay. You and these people, you help fill my empty table.
How do you do it? How do you smile with so much pain?
You can smile or you can cry. And I choose to smile. You people help.
Come on. Let’s get you fun clothes.
What?
No more sad man suit.
This is a good suit.

Oh, God, look at him.
Are those tears in his beard?
Yeah.
Becoming a better person is such a drag.

Oh, honey, you’re on TV.

10/10

Castle 5.10

6/10

Private Practice 6.11

Amelia’s episode was not special.

5/10

Cougar Town 3.01

Disappointed the show used to be soo good.

3/10

Pretty Little Liars 3.15

Not so bad.

4/10

Suburgatory 2.08

4/10

Grey’s Anatomy 9.10

Yet Shonda killed off another character.

8/10

Revenge 2.11

And we’re back to bad episodes.

4/10

Shameless 3.01

I hate the Jimmy’s storyline.

7/10

Bones 8.10

Okay I have missed Wanda and Buck like crazy!
Sayonara, I don’t even like feet and definitely not when they’re coming off.
Who wants a real life when you can dance.
I love going undercover Because it’s fun and exciting.
I have a lot of stories like that, I’m Wanda.
Booth and I intend to win the rumba competition.
And solve the murder.
Of course that’s the main objective.
I understand Angela and I feels so bad for her.

5/10

Bones 8.11

Bones competing with Clark, yes, but the murder no.

5/10

Carrie Diaries 1.01

Sweet and awesome. I swore not to start another teen show, but the teenage version of me was obsessed with Sex and the City.

8/10

Castle 5.11

I have just realized that epiosdes with Alezis are betterm but enough with the boyfriend storyline. Anyone else wants to see her in trouble?

Major hottie is what you are.
Okay, now that we’ve got that cleared up.
During that investigation Stana loked like from season 2! Other than that, just another case.

4/10

Go On 1.12

4/10

Suburgatory 2.09

Each episode has good and bad moments, never shockingly good.

4/10

SVU 14.03 SVU 14.04 SVU 14.05 SVU 14.06 Greys 9.03. Greys 9.04. Private Practice 6.04 Dexter 8.04 Dexter 8.05 Revenge 2.04. Revenge 2.05 Castle 5.04 Castle 5.05 Suburgatory 1.01 Suburgatory 1.02 Suburgatory 1.03 American Horror Story 2.02 Pretty Little Liars Halloween Episode. x Factor 2.12 and 2.13

04 Sunday Nov 2012

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SVU 14.03

Those who can’t do, blog.
Taking down rapist. That is ours.
We mixed it up a bit. Sometimes I was on top, sometimes she was.
You could put a diploma on it, porn is porn.
Did you tell anyone?
You know if you keep it locked inside it doesn’t go away.
Then you asked him to stop.
By keeping quiet, you’re giving him power over you.
You were raped.
You told them what he did to you, you confronted him, no one will take that away from you.
I don’t need to rape anyone, thank you. I do fine with volunteers.
Show me how she likes it. Show me how she liked it.
Is this what excites you about sex? Hunting your victim.
SVU is the only unit, where the victim’s word isn’t good enough. You have to prove that a crime was committed.
That’s true. No one asks robbery victims if they wanted it.
Good thing about America, this country loves a comeback.

10/10

SVU 14.04

So he brands them, pimps them and kills them.
You want me to sing you guys a song?
Lord No.
Ice T plays a pimp.
Liv and Amanda spent the night together.
Soon, we hope.
Oh, nice.
Amanda and Nick in uniforms, playing taxi cops.
Amanda drinking from that straw.
We’re gonna keep you safe. That’s a promise.
She’s answered an add for a nanny job.
Welcome to America.
They showed me pictures odf my little sister back home. They said their friends would take her if I didn’t do everything they say.
They’re whores, can’t rape a whore.
It’s amazing, you are as stupid as you look.
Your dad called you a fat moron.
Beats me, getting a bikini wac.
SVU takes down Alkaida.
Amanda grabbing a girl, and oh that was so good.
Who do you think I am? I am just a whore.
We can have you ecamined and when we do we’re gonna find out you’re a virgin. Aren’t we?
How can a whore be a virgin?
She can’t.
And you were hid among girls who were being raped, who were inslaved and you let that happen.
I was sorry for them, but there is so many people to be sorry for.
All that time together, two of you, was like we were married.
But you weren’t.

10/10

SVU 14.05

Cold case gave up. Just like you did.
I’d love to get over to your unit and see some live bodies for a change.
Nothing’s fair in law and order.
Why? Because he kept looking when you stopped.
Just because he’s crazy, doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
All the flashbacks.

5.5/10

SVU 14.06

Amanda centring episode was amazing. When Liv and Amanda tell the girl her family is still looking for her and we find out her father did not make it, breathtaking.

10/10

Greys 9.03

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Greys 9.04

No! Let me go.
You’re suffering.
Yang helped the old guy.
I’m trying.
He had a beard and lived in the woods!
Because when you know who you are, it’s easier to know what you’re about. And ultimately what you really need. It might be hard to admit, but there’s no shame in simply being human. It can be a relief to stop hiding, to accept who you really are and let the world see you that way too. A little self awareness never hurt anyone. Because when you know who you are, it’s easier to know what you’re about, what you really need.
Owen in the woods and Christina’s friends with the old guy!

6/10

Private Practice 6.04

Char vomited on a guy and said Welcome to Saint Ambrose.
It never rains in California.
This is Los Angeles it doesn’t rain this time of year.
No it’s all in his head, but he still can’t move his legs.
Sure, don’t mind me, I’ll just push the kid out in a gas station.
Char, you shouldn’t use a mouthwasher right after a puke.
SVU case!
Damn it, Sheldon. You look like James Bond?
Which one?
I was always partial to Sean Connery.
Charlotte and I have already been through so much, the kind of stuff that a lot of couples don’t make it through, but we did. We made it through, and we came out even stronger and even more in love. And you know what that means? It means we are badass.
What did Sam exactly tell you about me?
Absolutely nothing.
I would think the same Sheldon have.
She’s a missing person.
I feel sorry for Stephanie, she seems great, and way too good for Sam.
I am about a hundred years older than I look.
She is not gonna walk through that door.

9/10

Castle 5.04

to be uploaded.

3.5/10

Castle 5.05

to be uploaded.

9/10

Revenge 2.04

To be uploaded.

Revenge 2.05

They say, ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’ and ‘To be without sin requires absolute forgiveness.’ But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions.
Victoria, I’m so glad you’re safe.
I wanna see you here in 1 hour!
Should have been there for you, I’m sorry.
Why did you save me, all those years ago?
God, I love the Hamptons.
Mason Tredwell is back!
She didn’t recognise her own daughter!
When I was 5 my mother tried to kill me, she succeeded, actually, she frowned me, my father had to bring me back to life.
Kara telling the fake Amanda that she grew into an amazing woman and Emily listening to it.
What is wrong with you? Conrad proposed.
After everything we’ve been through.
Maybe because of it.
You may be many things but the daughter of Karal Wallace and David Clark is one thing you most definitely are not.

6/10

Dexter 8.04

I knew she would think he killed Rita, and that makes me furious.
Are you capable of love?
I have to fucking answer to her skinny ass.
This incredible scene:
And then take her anyway that they wanted. You could hear how much she loved being fucked by all those men. All the things she could do with her mouth, same mouth that she would kiss you with. But be honest you kinda liked it, didn’t you? Were you kind of wishing it was you inside her?
It is not fair of you to ecpose a child to your life…choices. You have to decide your desires or…
You’re like a fucking magnet, bad shit is gonna find you.
You were too late for Rita.
It is not in your control.
Everything is in my control.
Someone needs to protect him from you.
You said it yourself Decter that you cannot stop, you don’t wanna stop.
I miss the I felt on the road. That life was just a beginning. And anything was possible.
But there’s something I can do.
Room filled with all the manequines.
It’s time for everyone to move on.
Fuck! Fuck!
Goodbye friends.
How do you feel?
Glad. What does that make me?
Human.

8/10

Dexter  8.05

I did everything in my power to protect her from you, what you really are.
A monster.
You didn’t think she could handle it, because you couldn’t, but Deb is stronger than you are.
Get the fuck away from my desk.
Someone died here, someone I didn’t kill.
I’ll look into this, just fucking relax.
Deb having a breakdown in an elevator.
This is never gonna end, is it?
I don’t give a fuck Dexter.
Obviously you don’t know Dexter, cause this is normal to you., but trust me this is not fucking normal to me. I have already helped you cover up 2 murders, 3, this makes 3, and a fucking bartender, oh my fucking God, oh my God, how did this become my life?
Wow, what a bloodbath.
Fucking God Bless America.
A year ago, I might have been right beside you, following what I thought was right. But the hardest lesson that I’ve learned as lieutenant is knowing where to back the fuck down.
She killed that woman.
I don’t want to be involved in that part of your life.
I don’t want you to be.
I know you’re not gonna stop. But I don’t wanna know about it.

6.5/10

Suburgatory 2.01

So while everyone was cultivating stage 3 of skin cancer, I spent my summer living in a loophole. But like all loopholes, eventually It had to close.
Sorry, guys, loophole closes at 3 am now.
Dad! Dad!
I know you!
Chatswin, bitches.
He hanged the child and then used him to hold his coffee.
Bye Carmen.
Leaving for good.
Bye for good, Carmen.
New George will be hanging out doing your laundry.
Jane singing ‘Last Night I had a pleasant nightmare.

3.5/10

Suburgatory 2.02

Nothing funny, disappointed big time.

1/10

Suburgatory 2.03

The final scene of Dallas and George!
Ryan and Tessa, I do ship it, but why is he so stupid?

2/10

American Horror Story 2.02

They killed Clea Duvall’s character off! No!
Electroshocks.
The young sister is incredible. I did not see anything special in her last year and now she’s my favorite!
Whores get nothing.
Because I like sex, that’s my crime.

2.5/10

Pretty Little Liars Halloween Episode

Night of living preschoolers.
The train party is an intriguing idea.
Oh that girl is creepy.
This is a high school dance.
Oh how Paige came to Spencer’s rescue.
Aria lying in the coffin with dead Gareth, this just got really good, amazing scene.
Paige, thank you.
It was a pleasure. this. this.
Noah all we knew you did this.
I guess we’ve found Ali’s body.
And what the hell was up with the ending.

5.5/10

Factor 2.12 and 2.13

When I finally liked Sister C, Simon eliminated them from the contest. I did not like 1432’s version of Skyscraper, there was something happy in it with should never be. Tate Stevens has to win. Vino Alan needs to be with him in the finale or win. I may have not entirely liked this version of Nickelback, but it was Nickelback, damn it. Judges chose some really bad songs for the first episode live. I liked maybe one or two and was dissapointed with the rest of them. Beatrice Miller is my third favorite, I got a bit emotional when she said she would not think Britney would chose her first over Carly. Diamond should stay, not the guy. I did not like David Correy’s version of Since You’ve Been gone, it was a yell of desperation. I am glad Lyric 123 went through, though the song should be better, but they did rock the house anyway. I really liked Emblem 3’s song at the auditions, I even catch myself singing it, but then I stopped liking them, and now I am not a fan, but I see why they went through. Is it just me or did the only good hair Demi chose is for herself? All the other girls just looked better in their natural hair styles. Cece should not have let Demi choose a song where she has to sing with her lower voice. Paige, I did not like the performance, it was way too much. I like her voice though. Am I happy with the eliminations? Not with the groups and not with the teens, young adults maybe as well, I might have kicked Paige out. Or in this case I think Cece, cause she will make it later, even if she gets eliminated next episode, she is determined enough, and Willie, people will forget about him and his incredible country voice. The over 25? I’m happy with the elimination.

Pretty Little Liars Season 3 so far.

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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I have decided not to start a new show this summer, and catch up on some films I wanted to see. When The Big C ended, all I was left with was Pretty Little Liars. I have always treated it as my guilty pleasure show, or something to watch in a background, while working on something else, but when the holiday season started, I had time to pay more attention. We all knew A was coming back, and that Mona was just their tool, and we were exited for the new trouble girls would find themselves in. I must say, Pretty Little Liars is the last teen show that I watch and enjoy. If you read my previous posts, you know that this year I tried to watch a teen series, and I failed, as the story did not speak to me at all, and I ended up forcing myself to watch it just to kill time, and thankfully, I stopped, a few episodes before the show got cancelled. For more go to my previous posts. Anyway, I started Pretty Little Liars a few month after the first half of the first season ended, somewhere at the end of November 2010, and it just felt like an intriguing story, which may full-fill my empty guilty pleasure show spot. I have not graded the previous seasons, as it is a show I enjoy watching, but not obsess about, like some of my favourites, so I am not planning on rewatching the episodes, but now I have decided to grade season three and edit this post week by week.
This season was significantly worse than the full of surprises season two. The love stories get complicated, the show lacks suspense. This is also the season when I really started liking Spencer, she is my favourite liar now. This season disappointed me entirely, and though I probably should have a separate scale for this show, as it’s a teen show (ABC Family), but I have not established one and since I did not prepare a separate one for Suburgatory or Skins, I am assessing it like any other show. Right now I am patiently waiting for the Halloween episode, but most importantly, the upcoming episodes in January.

  1. Aria’s scene at the bathroom was intriguing. I couldn’t stop laughing when Emily, a character I like the least, got drunk and just dig up Alison’s body, and doesn’t remember anything except for the car, ridiculous much? ‘Mona played with dolls, I play with body parts.‘
    Last night never happened.
    We’re always gonna be those girl who knew Alison.
    I really want to turn my brain off.
    I wanna know what I did to make you hate me so much.
    Have you even noticed how many skinny brunettes go to this school?
    I had a panic attack, I think I saw A.
    Bitch crazy.
    4/10
  2. I used to think that Ms Montgomery would be a great friend, and she is my third favourite character, and now she’s finished Emily’s test for her, amazing woman. Her accepting Ezra may be a little over board, or maybe she’s just a dream mother. I am enjoying Hanna’s monologues a lot. Why do I have a feeling Jenna was sleeping with Aria’s dad, is that too much? Then why the hell was her earing there? The bathroom scene, very Pretty Little Liars, and very good.
    Dead girl can’t smile.
    You have made my life a nightmare.
    I’m having an ambiguous loss.
    Trust me you’re not the first person to hurt me, and you’re certainly not the last.
    Is it just me or is she blinder than last year?
    Honestly I don’t think that you remember anything clearly from that night, when we picked you up, you kept calling me Arlene.
    Bitch can see!
    4/10
  3. Melissa lied about losing a child. Caleb is protective of Hanna, he also finds out Mona is the one who ran over Hanna. Ezra overstepping in Emily’s case, pretty impressive. Spencer’s mother is representing Garrett, this may be actually good. Spencer does a hell lot of digging, and her mother just acts like it’s all normal, which is again, good. Bitch can see! And… drive! When did she do her licence when she was supposed to be blind for two years? Was she lying to her parents too? ‘Wow Jenna, what a sight for sore eyes’.
    You’re laughing at all of in there, in your head, aren’t you? Now here’s the real joke, I get to walk out of that door, but you aren’t going anywhere.
    Maybe we should push a table in front her and see what happens.
    Don’t go all Spencer on me.
    He killed the girl Emily was in love with.
    If people think that you’re blind, they get careless. You see what they think you can’t see.
    God, you’re so twisted.
    I wonder how I got that way.
    I am really getting tired of everybody treating me like I was made out of glass.
    6/10
  4. I was right who the black swan was. Caleb and Hanna break up, and the scene was not as heartbreaking as when he was leaving to California, but this couple is just nice to look at, and we are definitely going to miss them. Aria trying to find her mother a date. Okay, so imagine this you’re falling behind school, so you’re taking a job, real mature.
    All right, Roger that.
    Roger that?
    What? We’re on a mission.
    You know what they say, if the feather fits…
    Hanna, It’s the shoe, if the shoe fits.
    Mom, you better tell me right now or I swear to God, I’m gonna walk out that door and I’m never gonna come back.
    Like it or not, this is your family.
    I can’t do this anymore. This, I feel like you’ve been pushing me away for weeks. I just, I keep, I keep hoping that things are going to go back to the way they were, but clearly that’s not gonna happen. I feel like I only exist in half of your life and that’s not good enough for me.
    You have no idea how much I’m looking forward to get out of this place. All these dysfunctional people.
    Truth always comes out, one way or another.
    Look I get that you’re trying to help me here, but you’re not.
    4/10
  5. Jenna’s birthday party. Paige is back and gets drunk. Hanna wears sweatshirt and finds Emily’s clothes from the night she got drunk. Emily finds out she has been drugged that night. Aria walks with Ezra not afraid of everyone finding out, and Jenna doesn’t pay attention to it. Aria gets a job and finds out Lucas is the one who drugged Emily.
    Hanna hasn’t eaten since Tuesday.
    Why would A care about Garret’s mother?
    Maybe A wanted her out of the house.
    I feel a lot safer when I’m in charge of what happens to me.
    I’m too depressed to work a zipper, alright? Get over it!
    Do you have plans tomorrow?
    Yeah, I’m going to listen to every sad song I’ve ever downloaded on repeat.
    I’m hungry and your cupcakes taste like old pennies.
    4/10
  6. Garret’s trial is dismissed. Aria finds a huge amount of money at Ezras. Spencer finds Ali’s bracelet. Spencer has a breakdown at the end of the episode, which was the only good thing of that episode.
    I’ve been in the library so much I am on a first-name basis with the homeless guy who sleeps next to the microfiche.
    2.5/10
  7. We find out Hanna gave a false hope to Ali’s parents. Emily finds out Maya’s cousin likes her, which is a plot I could not care less, as it does not bring anything new to the story. Aria’s mom goes out with the same guy as Hanna’s mom last episode, but finds herself another date. The girls meet Ali’s friend. Hanna is being framed. Hanna and Aria go to see Mona but do not find out anything really important. The season is slowly losing suspense and is becoming weaker and weaker with each episode.
    I just wanted to say I’m sorry for what I did.
    Miss Aria you’re a killer, not Ezra’s wife.
    Friends don’t let friends sneak into insane asylums alone.
    Move over, why? Because this never happened.
    No one save Ali from evil. No one save Ali from evil.
    God you used to be so much more fun.
    And then I grew up. Go to bed, mom.
    2/10
  8. We meet Ezra’s mother who is a bitch, which helps Aria reunite with her father. Spencer asks Caleb for help in breaking a password. Paige tells Emily that the night Em was deadly drunk she came to Paige’s house, and the stupidly in love girl took advantage of her. Emily first seems to be pissed, but then realizes maybe that’s what she really wanted. Girls find something on Maya’s website. Hanna convinces the board not to move Mona and kisses Wren.
    You ask questions like you already know the answers.
    Am I just destroying everything that I touch?
    No, you couldn’t. You would never hurt anyone, and no one could ever be harmed by having you in their life.
    Get out your phone, we’re taking pictures.
    You kissed me, maybe you thought I was someone else, I think I knew that, but I didn’t stop you. I didn’t wanna stop you, it was like a dream.
    And then what happened?
    The dream ended. Then at school I could tell you didn’t remember or you didn’t wanna remember.
    I convinced myself that what I did was okay, it wasn’t. You were there and I just got greedy. It was bad enough when I thought you were drunk, but when I found out about the flask I felt worse than awful.
    I can’t talk to them the way I talk to you.
    That was then, and this is now.
    I think I understand how angry she was. We started out at the same place. Mona made sure we didn’t disappear and I owe her that. I see her in that robe and these slippers and I realize that could be me in there and if it was me Mona would be sitting here asking all of you to not send me away, so please don’t. Don’t send her to Saratoga, she doesn’t know anyone in Saratoga, there will be no one there to hold her hand, and no one will care a brown rat’s ass about her in Saratoga, so please.
    I was drunk that night and I got lost, only I didn’t really get lost. I was looking for something, I was looking for somebody and I came here. Don’t look away.
    3.5/10
  9. Hanna and Caleb are back together. She tells him that A ran over his mother and is still out there. The scene when they were staring at each other from across the hall and that song was playing, I got a little emotional. Aria went to Jenna’s party with Ezra and now is afraid about someone finding out, it’s obvious they already now. Truth or dare game, a big yes. I wouldn’t trust that girl with my application. When Spence got an email that her early admission has been accepted I got all very emotional, that scene was just beautiful.
    The universe is a finicky little bastard.
    This person dag up a grave and stole a body, this person might have killed Maya, because she knew something she shouldn’t have. This person… A run your mother off the road. Do you think I would have just let you walk out the door If I had a choice? I have missed you so much, it’s making me do stupid things, crazy things.
    At least one of us deserves to be happy.
    I don’t appreciate being lied to.
    Dude, keep walking.
    3.5/10
  10. We find out that Maya has been to Noah’s cabin in the woods, and the video he sends Spence we see someone kidnapped her from there and it was neither Noah, Jenna or Garret. Emily’s a slut and kisses Maya’s cousin. Bitch is cheating on Paige and doesn’t have the balls to tell her. Spenc and Hanna got locked in Noah’s cabin. Hanna gets stabbed, and Holden gives her stitches. Aria tries to deal with knowing that Ezra got some girl preggers and his mother paid her off. I don’t think Paige is A’s ally. Let’s hope it’s not Caleb.
    I’m saving you for later – A.
    What the hell just happened?
    3/10
  11. Spencer is suspicious of Paige after Cece told her pigskin was abusive of Ali. We learn that Ali bullied Paige. We find out Erza has a kid. Spence is attacked by a snake, but the scene was way below my expectations. The only good part about this episode was when Jenna came to worn Em about… Nate I hope. We also see there are two As other than Mona.
    Once I’m done with that no neck bitch, she won’t even exist.
    Um, Nate, she’s gay, she dated your cousin!
    2/10
  12. Halfway through the episode we could see who A was. We knew it was Toby the minute we saw his face, when he was hugging Spence. We knew Nate killed Maya, as a sudden trip to the cabin in the woods was suspicious. We know Caleb is gonna get shot when we see the gun. The scene when Caleb and Emily are hugging after he put the gun away is ridiculous. What surprised me was that Paige was not involved, seeing her tided up in a wardrobe. I suspected Nate from the very beginning, cause It just seemed off that he was so desperately trying to be close to Emily. And like I said, I also suspected Paige, but the last two episodes were just too obvious, the way Spencer was on to her. Calling the parents would be the best decision at this point. The scenes I admired were finding Paige in the closet, Emily running towards and hugging Hanna not Paige and Spence forgiving Paige for suspecting her. Hanna’s cry over Caleb made me cry and seeing Toby’s face under the hood was obvious, but good. Finding out Toby was one of As was a little shocker, I though at this point, when we’ve learned to trust Toby, he was harmless. I suspected him the entire first series, but now when he was hugging Spence after they slept together for the first time, that was not expected. What the writers should have done, was changing the saying goodbye scene, Toby should look all happy when hugging Spence, that way, out jaws would drop when we saw him wearing the hoody. I do not think Nate was A, he was just Maya’s killer. I like Ezra’s ex, I actually think she and Aria could be friends. Definitely the best episode of this season.
    ‘It was actually kinda genius.’
    Three against one, A wins.
    That’s just another monster Allison created.
    She’s been gone two years and we’re still caught in her cell.
    With a pink ferry lamp?
    7/10

Total grade: 3.7/10

Castle 04.13 Shameless 2.03 Desperate Housewives 8.11 Pretty Little Liars 2.17 Skins 6.01

29 Sunday Jan 2012

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Shameless 2.03

Fiona’s story was very good, her image of the perfect high school boyfriend was all ruined. I did not see that bitch coming on Fiona like that, they probably have a similar situation, older sister taking care of her siblings, at least Gallaghers have money now. Karen and that 37 years old dude getting married, just ridiculous. Frank genius as always, but for the first time watching this show I was disguised by his character, when he answered that pager and then called and said ‘She doesn’t need that heart anymore.’ How she paid him 2 000 $ and a flat screen so he fuck her to death, that was good. I was nicely surprised when he felt sad after seeing death’s face. Frank’s talk how people shouldn’t interfere with god’s plan, that was excellent. Last scene, of Frank stealing money from church, that was so obvious. Debbie and her death phase was good, don’t know why they had to end it.

7/10

Castle 4.13

The incredible interaction between Kate and Castle in the hand scene. When he was showing her how she should rub the dog, was touching her, when she is so in love with him, her face said everything. I am so intrigued by this scene. The rest of the episode was not good enough for season 4, which is in total a masterpiece. Too much Esposito and this reality TV star not enough investigating and Castle and Beckett. I knew the dog would not choose them, this scene was nice though. The running away from dogs scene was amazing, Esposito’s ‘Run’ and Kate’s  ‘Aaaaaa’. Hilarious.

6/10

Desperate Housewives 8.11

Gaby’s story, the scene when she tells that woman ‘At least you believed her, my mother never did.’ That was just well written. Also the previous ‘Then believe me.’ Bree is definitely my favorite character this season, when he walked through church, after she confirm she is a neighborhood slut, genius. I love how this show can handle alcoholism, the card very nicely played. Australian guy should be back on V, where he belongs. Renee is less annoying these days, maybe after her speech last episode I look at her differently. I am not saying that Lynette and Tom shouldn’t break up (they shouldn’t though) but this is not the storyline for the final season. It is hard to watch these two, and we all should fully enjoy this last season. Not well thought, Mark Cherry, not well thought.

5/10

Pretty Little Liars 2.17

Finally a not so bad episode, the previous one was so cheesy. Ezria all the way, I am glad they are staying together, but when the hell are they going to sleep together? This is ridiculous, in real life he wouldn’t wait for her. You should have told Caleb everything, I have a feeling he could protect you. Alli was harassed by A too? That is interesting. Spencer is acting all stupid again, and Emily is such a useless character.

3/10

Skins 6.01

This generation is super annoying and just disastrous, but what happened in the last 10 min of the episode was genius. This is the old Skins back! The most annoying character ever falling into coma, well played. I don’t like Minnie and Al together, when she got up I thought they were going to play the ‘Cassie waking up to drink water’ card, which could have been marvelous, but no, she woke up to take a shower and get into Al’s pants. They could have played the ED card so well here, and now I don’t like any of the characters. First season of a new generation is usually better as we get to know all the brand new characters and the second is all about partying, but this coma storyline may change it.

5/10

Castle 4.12 Revenge 1.11 The Secret Circle 1.11 Greys 8.12 Private Practice 5.12 Shameless 2.02 Desperate Housewives 8.10 Suburgatory 1.11 Pretty Little Liars 2.16

19 Thursday Jan 2012

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Castle 4.12

Tense episode, just excellent. You’re a writer, finish this sentence. Many good lines, of Castle wanting to protect Beckett. ‘Trust me when I say, it’s not your concern.’ ‘It is if it involves Beckett or her mother’s murder.’If Weldon had been run out of office…’ ‘…I’d be gone from the 12th precinct.’ ‘And then who’d keep Beckett from looking into things she shouldn’t? Who’d keep her out of harm’s way?’ ‘What am I supposed to do, Rick?’ when she calls him Rick. it’s even better than when he calls her Kate. ‘I can’t just stop being a cop, because it’s inconvenient.’ ‘When he’s gone, the first thing she’ll do is get rid of Castle.’ ‘I know.’

10/10

Revenge 1.11

An excellent Revenge episode. ‘How much collateral damage are you willing to accept? I may have Jack’s blood all over my jacket, but you’ve got it all over your hands.’ ‘The Graysons framed my father. They were responsible for that plane going down. They set him up to take the fall. While I was rotting away in juvie with you and my father was rotting away in federal prison, the Graysons were sitting in that house, living their lives spending their money, raising their kids, like nothing ever happened. So that’s why I’m here. I came back to avenge my father’s death. And to take everything away from them.’

10/10

The Secret Circle 1.11

Best episode of the entire series. This is one of the three shows, along with Suburgatory and Pretty Little Liars that I watch just in the background while doing something else, but today I was so in the story. Why do I think Adam’s father is Cassie’s father? Grave digging and dog’s skeleton, so good.

10/10

Greys 8.12

What the hell is Shonda doing to my favorite guy character of the show right now? Owen screaming ‘You killed our baby!’ in front of everyone, best scene this year so far.Owen’s ‘You’re drowning, Grey.’ and Mer’s ‘Drowning is a strong word.’ he may not know, but hell, she almost drowned in season three. Adele’s story was very good, Kepner acting all stupid. Everyone telling Mer she should continue her mother’s path, that was a good storyline, but chief’s speech was marvellous. ‘Meredith, look at everything you did today, this party for your daughter, what you did for me in that OR. You don’t have to ever worry about being anything like your mother. I knew her, and you’re nothing like your mother. You have a gift. Don’t waste it.’ I loved Sandra’s acting this episode and this line ‘You let me operate on her husband, and now he’s dead. She gets whatever she wants. Do you understand? Anything she wants from me, ever.’

9/10

Private Practice 5.12

Stop beating Violet up. She’s been through enough and she always ends up a victim anyway. loved the storyline and the new boyfriend of hers. Of course she believed that woman, who wouldn’t have? But how she bit Violet up, and the paramedic kid told her ‘I’m here for you, whatever it is.’ that was so good, and how she did not want Pete’s help and went to see the paramedic kid. Amelia is annoying again, but I loved how she told Erica not to do the surgery. Addie is done and drinking with Jake, I love that.

9/10

Shameless 2.02

They could get over the Liam masturbating all the time storyline, he’s just a kid. Veronica’s ‘If God loved me he would have made me white and rich.’ Grandpa died. Deb at the hospital. ‘Eat shit, Frank.’ ‘Well, I would, but I recently went vegan.’ this line. shameless at its best.

9/10

Desperate Housewives 8.10

Renees storyline and Bree’s ‘U’ll always b d person who saved my life. N now that I’ve had time to think about it, I realize that makes u d best friend I’ll ever have.’ Susan being the stupidest person on TV. Alejandro raped his other step daughter too, that was a good plot. Lynette screaming at kids, that now she has to do it all on her own, a very good speech. Bree sleeping around and drinking, ridiculous and good.

9/10

Suburgatory 1.11

Where did Lisa got all these condoms from? I thought she was the perfect kid till her ‘running around the neighborhood naked’ incident. George now thinks Tessa lied about what she was doing with her boyfriend.

6/10

Pretty Little Liars 2.16

Oh so ridiculous, Lucas’s storyline was so bad, no idea why they wrote it into the script. Ezra acting all I don’t know you kid is super annoying, but real at least.

4/10

Private Practice 5.05 Greys 5.07 Desperate Housewives 8.05. American Horror Story 1.04 The Slap 1.04. Pretty Little Liars Halloween Revenge 1.06. The Secret Circle 1.07. Suburgatory 1.05

29 Saturday Oct 2011

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Private Practice 5.05

Genius episode, that’s it. Just genius.

‘Are you crazy?! Are you actually clinically insane?! Did you really do this thing? Because even I didn’t think you were stupid enough n crazy enough to actually go through with it. What is wrong with you?! Why are you this self destructive?!’

‘So we’re both screwed up, but maybe we can be there for each other. Like some kinda messed up body system.’

‘I won’t drink today, if you don’t kill yourself.’

10/10

The Slap 1.04

Just brilliant, I assumed Connie’s story would be just another teen romance, was nicely surprised.

9/10

American Horror Story 1.04

good not superb.

8/10

Pretty Little liars Halloween

Did not bring anything to the story but I absolutely loved the fat Hanna, wild Aria and nerdy Spencer. This is what this show should be about, not the perfect teens.

8/10

The Secret Circle 1.07

Very good. Point plus for Halloween decorations!

8/10

Revenge 1.06

Almost as good as the previous one.

7/10

Greys 5.07

Funny, medium good.

7/10

Desperate Housewives 8.05

The only scene I loved: ‘It’s okay, Gaby, we got it.’ ‘I don’t know what to say.’ ‘Just take care of your husband.’ heartbreaking scene.

6/10

Suburgatory 1.05

That was just bad.

5/10

Private Practice 5.04 Greys 5.06 Desperate Housewives 8.04. American Horror Story 1.03 The Slap 1.03. Revenge 1.05. The Secret Circle 1.06. Suburgatory 1.04

22 Saturday Oct 2011

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Private Practice 5.04

This season is absolutely amazing. Cried through the entire ep! Why does Pete hate Violet so much? Why did Char write this check? And Cooper, you’re gonna be an amazing dad!

9/10

American horror story 1.03

‘Now you’re stuck here forever.’ american horror story is just excellent.

9/10

Revenge 1.05

Very good episode! All the Lydia thing.

8/10

Greys Anatomy 5.06

This week’s episode was pretty boring.

6/10

Desperate Housewives 8.04

Starting to be a bad season 7.

6/10

The Secret Circle 1.06

The Diana/Cassie drama is pretty good. But the whole Jake story just doesn’t seem like worth watching.

6/10

Slap 1.03

Boring episode, the character not interesting at all.

5/10

Suburgatory 1.04

Dolls drama. That was actually pretty bad.

5/10

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About me

I am the dark and twisty Meredith Grey, the mad Dexter Morgan, hoping to grow up to be a little more like the wise, but fun Nora Walker. I am an aspiring filmmaker. My favorite actresses are Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore. Favorite genre – psychological drama. I watch anything with a sexual or mental abuse plot. I used to be a horror freak. I am obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy, SVU and many more. My other interests include making oil and pencil portraits and wildlife conservation. I cannot say no to beautiful landscapes, travel, Aussie accent, TV/film quotes and avocados. I have recently moved back from Australia to the UK. I’ve been running this blog for the last 9 years. Here I comment on films and episodes I watch. Enjoy! – Joanne

currently following on tv

currently (re)watching

dexter final season

shows I need to catch up on

Feud
Transparent
Gentleman Jack

will watch at the cinema

Last films watched at the pictures that I loved

the substance
blink twice

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my twitter bios

15.04.2011 ‘You forgot the number one rule about remakes: never fuck with the original.’ (Scream 4)

01.06.2011 ‘We need to become doers.’ 2×16 ‘You’re a doer, remember?’ 5×22 (Greys)

5.08.2011 “It’s just… Meredith always makes me think screwed up people have a chance.” (Greys)

9.10.2011 ‘You be wowed, I’ll be drunk.’ (The Big C)

10.11.2011 ‘George is dead and Izzie is gone and we’re all different. We’re different.’ (Greys)

17.12.2011 ‘I thought I was headed in the right direction. My Dark Passenger back behind the wheel. But if I was so sure I knew where I was going…How did I get so lost?’ (Dexter)

23.01.2012 ‘You’re drowning, Grey.’ (Greys)

18.11.2012 ‘You’re a serial killer and I’m more fucked up than you are.’ (Dexter)

7.05.2013 ‘I think my antidepressants just kicked in.’ (The Big C)

10.05.2015 ‘The sad widow is my friend. My best friend.’ (Greys)

My tumblr titles

10.10.10 – ‘Like I said, I’m screwed.’ (Greys)

15.04.11 – ‘It’s just a good story.’ (Greys)

22.06.11 – ‘I should have fought for you, Violet.’ (Private Practice)

20.12.11 – ‘I am a father, a son, a serial killer.’ (Dexter)

8.08.12 – ‘You have to pick the girl who lives.’ (The Big C)

5.10.12 – ‘You are my person. You will always be my person.’ (Greys)

10.11.12 – ‘Thirty second dance party. Dance or you’re fired.’ (Greys)

19.02.13 – ‘There’s nowhere on Earth I’d rather be right now.’ (Castle)

29.07.13 – ‘The family that kills together.’ (Dexter)

15.01.15 – ‘Let’s go home.’ (Parenthood)

20.05.2015 – ‘The sad widow is my friend, my best friend.’ (Greys)

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favourite film and tv quotes

‘When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney, I haven’t listened to one Abba song. That’s because my life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.’ (Muriel’s Wedding)

‘I used to think about
your life in New York. I tried to imagine your room. I kept track of the time difference, so I  knew when you were awake and when you were asleep.’ (Disobedience)

‘Nothing’s clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?’ (The Aviator)

‘No, I’m not quitting. I don’t quit things.’
‘No, actually you do. Your mother quit your father. Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend and if I read your hospital chart correctly you quit your life momentarily on a couple of occasions. You quit. It’s what you know how to do.’ (Greys)

‘Where the hell was I that year?’
‘Your were watching television’. (Everybody Loves Raymond)

‘It’s impossible to worry about anything else when there’s blood coming out of you.’
(Short Term 12)

‘I wanted it to happen. And when we were girls… Even then, it was the same. It’s always been this way! I have always wanted it.’ (Disobedience)

‘Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you play games in your head. You make up someone, someone good.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a moment when our lives change forever. The moment we admit our weaknesses, the moment we rise to a challenge, the moment we accept a sacrifice, or let a loved one go. And sometimes the change in our lives is an answer to our prayers.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Yesterday I went to the movies all day by myself. One after the other. I’ve never done that before. I had a really happy day.’ (Doing Time for Patsy Cline)

‘I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I might die today.’ (Greys)

‘She saved me my whole life. Without her, I’m nothing.’ (The Favourite)

‘Don’t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don’t. In face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that make us hold it together.’  (Greys)

‘Bree sobbed quietly in the restroom for five miutes, but her husband never knew, because when Bree finally emerged, she was perfect.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘I am not food, you cannot just eat and eat.’ (The Favourite)

‘I don’t love him.’
‘Of course you do.’
‘No!’
‘Don’t take me for a fool Olive,  I’m many things but I’m not a fool.’
‘I know that, you’re brilliant.’
‘Don’t you see, it’s over. Whatever this is, was, it’s over.’
‘I love You.’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing, is reason enough to celebrate.’ (Greys)

‘Many years ago, a neighbour and a good friend of ours took her life, and that left us all heartbroken and perplexed. But somehow, when I was alone in that hotel room, I forget about all the pain that she caused. In those awful moments, I thought maybe she had the answer.‘ (Desperate Housewives)

‘What happened last year when you fell in the water?’
‘I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?’
‘You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ammunition.’
‘I was trying to save a patient!’
‘Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.’  (Greys)

‘This is the street where I used to live and these were the people with whom I shared my life. I met them the day they moved in. And I saw what they brought with them. Beautiful dreams for the future. And quiet hopes for a better life. Not just for themselves, but for their children, too. If I could, would I tell them what lies ahead? Would I warn them of the sorrow and betrayal that lie in store? No. From where I stand now, I see enough of the road to understand how it must be traveled. The trick is to keep moving forward, to let go of the fear and the regret that slow us down and keep us from enjoying a journey that will be over too soon. Yes, there will be unexpected bends in the road, shocking surprises we didn’t see coming, but that’s really the point. Don’t you think?’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?’
‘When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?’
‘When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.’
‘Give me my chart.’
‘Why?’
‘Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.’ (Greys)

‘There is nothing wrong with me.’
‘Then show me your arm.’ (Degrassi)

‘Look, my whole life, I have been the freak. The girl who nobody picked for dodgeball. The girl who didn’t have a mom. The girl who dressed funny because it was her dad buying her clothes. And then, tonight I looked at these people, and I thought maybe there’s a future where I don’t have to be a freak. Maybe I can be who I am and that’s okay.’ (Everything Sucks)

‘Dr, I have been this way since…since I can remember. There is no cure.’ (American Horror Story)

‘He was so crazy about me, I couldn’t breathe. So we tried drinking our way back into love, but it never made sense in the morning. So I ran. And every time I came back, he was here. And he was still crazy about me.’ (My Blueberry Nights)

‘Bree van de Kamp had always wanted to live her life with elegance and grace. That is also how she wanted to die. Her plan was to pour herself a glass of her favorite chardonnay, put on her most stylish nightgown and leave behind a note on embossed stationery.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘All we have is this moment. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be… here…. now.’ (Six Feet Under)

‘On the train coming here, we were in the same cart, I saw you, you were reading and you feel asleep. I didn’t dare to look at you, you were so beautiful, it was scary. Afterwards,  I couldn’t stop thinking about you. It made me smile. Then I thought of all the men who would get to hold you, who’d make you laugh. How lucky they were.’ (Enemy at the Gates)

‘It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. Even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I cant do this, I cant do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a time when we must expose our weaknesses. When our secrets can no longer remain private, when our solitude can no longer be denied, when our pain can no longer be ignored, but sometimes we feel so alone that a weakness we thought we’d overcome suddenly becomes too strong to fight.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Why did you get married, Esti? Why didn’t you just leave? So everything was all right when I left?’
‘No. I was ill.’
‘What sort of ill?’
‘In my head.’
‘If I had to sleep with a man, why not with our best friend?’
‘Oh, Esti…’
‘It hasn’t been a complete disaster.’
‘And that’s enough?! Do you have to have sex every Friday?’
‘It’s expected.’
‘It’s medieval. What happened to you?’
‘Nothing. You happened to me. And then I started teaching and that became important. I give them ambition.’
‘To do what? Push out seven babies and be a good wife?’
‘Don’t. Don’t. I help them to value themselves.’
‘Okay, but what about you?’
‘That is me. And you? Are you happy?’
‘Yes, I am.’
‘Have you been with other women?’
‘No. Not really. And you?’
‘No.’
‘But, Esti… Do you still
only fancy women?’ (Disobedience)

‘OK, then, listen. Let’s not get caught.’
‘What are you talkin’ about?’
‘Let’s keep goin’!’
‘What d’you mean?’
‘Go.’
‘You sure?’
‘Yeah. Yeah.’ (Thelma & Louise)

‘She let me live at Nora’s house. She let me believe that I was a part of their family. I fell in love with that family. What am I supposed to do, just sit there, pretend I’m related to them? I was happy. For the first time in my life I was happy.’ (Brothers and Sisters)

‘You will be left all alone with your bitterness and your rage and your knowledge that you loved her and she loved you and you threw it away for them.’
‘Do you love her?’
‘Yes.’
‘And Have you always?’
‘Yes.’
‘So then ask her.’
‘Olive, will you forgive me?’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘No razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom.’
(Short Term 12)

‘You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.’ (Six Feet Under)

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