Another Sunday, another True Blood. I was hoping to have a glowing review to write, and I know you were hoping to read one. Let this be your warning: You may not find it here.
Oh, and also, there are spoilers ahead.
The episode opens in Sookie’s house. As predicted, Bill storms over to lay the smack down on Eric, who is busy kanoodling Sookie in the living room.
Sookie stops Eric from killing Bill in a really anti-climactic fight, by explaining that Bill is his King. So what does Bill do? Captures Eric of course, turning a deaf ear to Sookie’s protests. Eric may be a danger to everyone, according to His Highness, because he may be under the control of necromancers. The great, green monster of jealousy has finally reared its ugly head. Sookie was missing for over a year and comes back only to shack up with his arch enemy. Ouch. No wonder he kicked her off his property. I don’t know which of them I feel sorrier for.
Eric is thrown in a cell with Pam, who’s looking more and more like Two Face. She pleads with him to remember, to be the Eric she’s been with for over a hundred years. Eric vehemently declares that he wants no part in the things that he’s done, he doesn’t want to remember them. And good thing. He used to be a giant toolbox.
Vince is back in good spirits in this episode, but his whole story in this episode about getting his script for the dog and miners is kind of second fiddle to the rest of the guys stories in this episode.
Drama brings Andrew Dice Clay in for representation by E, since the two of them work together on Johnny Bananas. There is the worry that the show will not do very well with test audiences but once the numbers come back Johnny Bananas is going live in three weeks. After hearing this Dice Clay tries to talk Drama into trying to taking charge and demanding more for their participation in the show. Drama of course is not hard to sway.
Ari is of course still obsessed with getting back with his wife and Lloyd brings him some not so welcome news about a restaraunt Mrs. Ari is frequenting. Ari is visibly pissed because he can’t get over the fact that his wife is possibly and probably dating a “f–king waiter.” His words, not mine so don’t lash out at me wait staff world.
I thought the most interesting part of the episode was Eric and Sloan’s interactions. They’re kind of at each other’s throats until Eric goes to pick the rest of his things up at her place. After getting his watch back the inevitable happens: They bang.
Then they go their separate ways. But by the end of the episode Sloan calls hims back and it seems like E is hopeful they will get back together until Sloan drops the bombshell: That she is moving to New York and effictively out of his life. In my opinion, just get it over with so he can move on to better things. Even though Sloan is about the hottest chick on the show.
The episode was good and I award it 4 out of 5 bears. It seems like the good episodes always fly by way too fast and I sincerely wish that Entourage was more than a half hour long because then almost every episode would be good. Hopefully next week keeps up with the good vibes from this episode.
Oh boy, this episode already has a problem for Larry with another person moving into his office complex where he works and the guy’s name is Dino and he likes to be called Big Dog and refers to himself in the third person. After Larry allows him to use a cabinet in the shared kitchen… it’s just not going to work out.
Larry also has a new girlfriend. A hostess at the restaraunt where he and Jeff eat and she’s smoking hot. I love the show how Larry can constantly still get hot women after Cheryl is out of the picture. Heidi (Rebecca Creskoff – Hung), the hostess girlfriend is the one who sends the smiley face through text and leaves him one last one after they break up that gives the episode it’s title.
Inevitably, Dino takes up two cabinets at the office kitchen and crams all of Larry’s stuff into one cabinet. Larry’s office life seems to be falling apart without Antoinette there due to her father being in the hospital.
It was a great thing to see Michael Gross in this episode as Larry’s dermatologist, whom he uses as an excuse for being late to lunch with Richard Lewis. Then when Larry goes to him next Richard Lewis and people he has referred have all cancelled their appointments. This episode was a perfect example of Larry weaving a web of lies and excuses that eventually catch up with, Jeff once more getting caught in the middle as well.
The episode did take a little while to pick up but towards the end it was just downright hilarious. The best scene of the episode was when Larry and Big Dog have a yelling match and criticize each others food supplies. I give the episode a 2.5 out of 5, an average episode at best.
Larry David Do’s and Don’ts in this episode
Do: -Talk during making out.
-Date the hostess at a place where you eat.
Don’t: -Hug another guy cheek to cheek.
-Text a smiley face
-Share cabinets at a shared office kitchen
-Say sorry about someone’s death after two years. There’s a sorry window people!
Now, just as I get attached to the show, I start surfing the web to find out that Robert Sheehan is leaving the show. Sheehan plays my favorite character on the show – Nathan, the motormouth a-hole who is often at the center of the show’s most comedic moments…
This comes from an April 11th Article over at Den of Geek:
It was revealed last night amongst the many stories emerging from Kapow! Comic Con in London that Robert Sheehan will be leaving the BAFTA-winning Misfits. The news was confirmed by the show’s producer, Petra Fried, who said that the character Nathan would not be returning for series three. Arguably the show’s most popular character, Nathan is to make his exit via an online short that will also introduce new character, Rudy.
Now, as mentioned above, it’s unclear how this will affect the future of the show, but Misfits will move forward and we’ll just have to see how Nathan’s replacement – Rudy – will work out. I hope they don’t try to make him like Nathan, as a copy of the character would only mark failure and likely alienate fans.
Once the ‘Online Farewell’ episode airs we’ll be sure to let everyone know. No release date has been announced thus far…
We write a lot of articles here at Grizzly Bomb about TV shows, movies, comics… pretty much anything and everything entertainment related. But it’s always coming from our perspective, our point of view. So it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you the newest feature at GB, where we will take it to another level, and see it from a different perspective. Where he head… Inside The Grizzly Studio.
For the past few weeks I’ve been showing you one of my new favorite things, Avengers Assemble: The Series. You can check out some of the episodes here, here and here. Season 2 recently premiered over at avengersassembletheseries.com, and it was hilarious. Some of the cast were gracious enough to talk with us about the series and Season 2, which is where we’ll start off today.
I wanted to like this movie so much more than I did, but it just wasn’t happening. Not to say I hated it, but it definitely could have used some work. That being said, let’s get to the premise of the whole tale.
Basically this fella wakes up with no memory of…. anything really. This movie probably set the record for the most times that the phrase “I don’t know” was used. One of the things he doesn’t remember is the metal bracelet on his wrist. This bracelet, as we know from the trailers, has the awesome ability to deal out seemingly endless ass whoopings to both aliens and humans alike.
He makes his way to the town of Absolution, a little place run by the Cattle Boss Woodrow Dolarhyde and his imbecile son Percy. Percy doesn’t really run anything, he’s just a downright turd who bullies everyone in the town because of who his father is. Our mystery man as it turns out is really Jake Lonergan, a wanted man for numerous crimes. After he is taken captive by the local law enforcement is when the real fun begins, because that’s when the aliens arrive. Their attack results in Dolarhyde’s dumb ass son, and many other townspeople being taken captive by the invaders, with Jake’s bracelet activating in proximity to their ships. He manages to shoot one down and the wounded pilot is their ticket to finding the captives that were taken.
The group to go after the alien and their people consists primarily of Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), Jake (Daniel Craig) and Ella (Olivia Wilde) who is a rather mysterious woman with a very keen interest in Jake’s past and missing memory. The tag-along company includes a Bartender named Doc who’s wife was taken, one of Dolarhyde’s cattle hands, and a preacher. Doc is played by an always excellent Sam Rockwell, and serves as a bit of comic relief as the man not accustomed to gun play or combat. Meacham the preacher is played by veteran of the screen Clancy Brown, who is a favorite actor of mine. Aside from Pet Semetary 2, Shawshank Redemption and the HBO series Carnivàle, this was the first extended role he’s had in a movie in a very long time, and it was good to see him in it.
I won’t explain anymore about the plot of the movie, so as to not give away any spoilers. The movie suffered from the many amnesia flashback scenes that Daniel Craig had. To me, the whole amnesia aspect only served the purpose of finding an excuse to put the wrist blaster onto Daniel Craig. If you look at it from a standpoint of trying to add depth to Daniel Craig’s character Jake it failed miserably. I like Daniel Craig and think he did a great job in the movie, but his character was just a shell that I really could have cared less about.
“No my name is not Indiana F–king Jones! It’s a different hat!”
Even though Dolarhyde’s son was a complete nincompoop, I still felt more sympathetic towards him because of his past as a soldier and depth of care for his son’s well being. That being said, Harrison Ford did a great job in the role of Woodrow Dolarhyde playing his usual gruff and stern self, but this time with a twinge of crazy to it. As the movie went on I liked him more and more, especially towards the end when he starts to take charge. There was a particularly touching scene with him and a dying somebody. (You’ll know what I’m talking about when it happens in the movie.)
Hell, Even Ella’s background was far more interesting than Jake’s once you find out what it is, but like I said I won’t spoil it for you guys. Needless to say Olivia Wilde was a great actress once more, while also managing to be one of the hottest women on the planet.
Kudos to her!
The aliens themselves were kind of one dimensional, but I did enjoy them. They were definitely scary enough and kind of reminded me of the Independence Day invaders the way their set of little arms emerged from inside of their large outer body. Some people though (Doc Kronner) only thought of our little disgusting friend Kuato from Total Recall.
GO KUATO! IT’S YOUR BERFDAY!
One thing that I did not enjoy about the aliens was their main reason for being on Earth. Most people would be fine with it I guess, but I just cringed when I found out. I was actually hoping that the aliens were going to have a translator of some sort so as to have some sort of communication with the humans, but they still worked fine as the more primal type of aliens who just like to kick primitive human ass.
“Come on 007. Haven’t you ever shot a wrist blaster? It’s like this!”
I wish Jon Favreau all the luck in the world, but I’m starting to think he may have just got lucky with Iron Man. Iron Man 2 wasn’t that great of a movie, and Cowboys and Aliens was just a step above that. His movies – though shot beautifully – are suffering from something I can’t quite pinpoint. Perhaps the writers (Orci and Kurtzman) were still a bit rusty from writing the piece of shit we call a movie Revenge of the Fallen. So maybe it’s really their fault.
Either way I give the movie a 2 out of 5 bears. Great presentation and cast, but it fell flat on story and utilization of the material. It could have been so much more, because it took out all of the bad from the graphic novel aesthetically, but the story from the graphic novel would have better suited the movie.
Another Sunday, another True Blood. I was hoping to have a glowing review to write, and I know you were hoping to read one. Let this be your warning: You may not find it here.
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