It’s been a long weekend of blogging and catching up on some things, but I’m getting there. Sorry these are all a bit late, but I hope that doesn’t decrease their enjoyability any.
How to Live with Your Parents
Natalie invents a bully named Betsy in order to get her family to feel like a family again. While Polly and Julian initially feel that the “big fat lie” route is the best option for why they’re not going camping again as a family this year, they realize that they’ve only dug the hole deeper for themselves.
Meanwhile, Elaine gets Max to confront his anger toward his aunt, who’s dying in the hospital, let go of it, and rejoice in the weight being lifted, aka her “Clear” method, though it’s technically only “CLR”.
While most sitcoms can get into a series of gimmicky plotlines, this one has characters unique enough that it doesn’t quite fall into that trap. It comes close – Parent Trap episode? come on, guys – but not quite. Here’s hoping they can keep it going without too much predictability/formulaic writing.
Hannibal
This one was extremely disturbing. I felt like they were deliberately trying to evoke a visceral reaction by showing the same murder so many times, and in such long segments, throughout the show. I’m here to watch the characters react to and solve the murders, not get sick seeing people’s backs carved into “angels’ wings”. They overdid it, and they shouldn’t have.
However, we got a surprise guest visit from Gina Torres (Suits) playing Crawford’s wife Bella in this episode, which was kind of fun.
It’s pretty obvious from the plotline that she won’t be visiting too often, seeing as she’s got terminal lung cancer. She speaks to Lector about it, as she’s unable to deal with and process the knowledge on her own, but she also pushes her husband away in the process.
Will’s talking about getting out of the “getting into murderers’ heads” business because of how it’s affecting him, but I have to agree with Crawford. As hard as it is for him, he would have a hard time living with himself if he knew there were deaths out there he could have prevented. This show seems to be pretty popular, so if they’re already aiming at a season two, I doubt he’s going anywhere.
Smash
It was the big debut for Hit List on tonight’s episode, and while everyone loved it, the investors shied away because they thought it might be too dark (read: unmarketable) for a general audience to get into on Broadway.
Derek is crushed and awed–saying it never ocured to him that the show actually wouldn’t make it to Broadway. But you know, Hit List isn’t a Broadway musical. I vote they run it on the other theaters and playhouses around the city and they’ll do quite well with it.
The big schism occurs when Tom wants Julia to give him The Great Gatsby again so they can write it together, but she tells him she’s already writing it as a play, and has promised it to Scott for the next season. He tries to get her to pull out of that promise, and she starts to, but she realizes she can’t. She wants to do it alone.
As much as she and Tom have done together and as much as they enjoy working together, they are going in different creative directions. Maybe that’s a good thing.
The other big change is that Derek auditions Sam as Jimmy’s understudy, and when Jimmy gets high and screws up his performance at the opening (mostly unbeknownst to the audience, but painfully obvious to Derek), Derek fires him, and Kyle realizes he has to cut ties too.
Karen was disgustingly flirtatious with Derek and basically invites him home after the show. Just a short while ago, she was fawning all over Jimmy and now Derek’s the fallback guy – the rebound. I’m sure he doesn’t mind, but it’s really not fair to him, and it’s really pathetic of her to run back to the guy she wouldn’t sleep with for over a year after the guy she did sleep with turns out to be a little more of a bad boy than her bread-basket conservative upbringing could stomach.
Blech. Anyway…
BONUS:
A little more info on the upcoming series, Agents of SHIELD, from the one and only, the inspiration of it all, Clark Gregg, aka Agent Coulson!
Up next:
Recaps from Sunday and Monday’s new shows!
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