Days of Our Lives: JOHN AND ABIGAIL FOUND?? Promo (Week of August 5 through August 9)

Here's a promo for next week's episodes of Days of Our Lives (August 5 through August 9). It looks like a lot of awesome things are going to be happening on Days of Our Lives next week! I'm really excited to see that AnnaLynne McCord's storyline on the show will finally be moving forward next week! 😀

Dallas: Didn’t anyone ever tell you that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, John Ross? (My thoughts on episode 3x06 “Like Father, Like Son)

Right off the bat, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. The biggest highlight of this episode for me personally would be all of the scenes featuring John Ross, who spent the episode desperately trying to keep the Arctic lease deal alive by scheming with various people throughout the course of the episode. His primary strategy was to suggest to Christopher, Bobby, Pamela and Sue Ellen that they take Ewing Global public. He originally got the idea from an old friend of his, Hunter McKay, and Nicolas, who both told him that they became rich by originally buying controlling interest in a company, so John Ross set out to do the same thing. He thought that he had managed to get enough support from Nicolas, Pamela and Sue Ellen, but when the time came to vote Sue Ellen voted against taking the company public, so his plan ultimately failed.

If that wasn’t enough trouble for John Ross to deal with, Sue Ellen continued to tell John Ross that he was acting just like J.R. by cheating on Pamela with Emma and his secretary Candice, but he made it clear to her that there was nothing going with Candice. Candice did try to make a move on John Ross at one point in the episode though, but he rejected her advances. Throughout the episode he repeatedly told Sue Ellen that he’s not J.R., but personally his attempts to convince her that he’s not just like J.R. were about as convincing as Jim Parsons’ attempt to convince everybody that he’s not Sheldon when he was hosting Saturday Night Live, which weren’t even the tiniest bit convincing. After all, in his opening monologue he talked a lot about how he’s nothing like his character on The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper. He even sang a song about how he’s not Sheldon, where the lyrics consisted primarily of him singing “I’m not that guy” over and over, only to act just like Sheldon in pretty much every sketch that he appeared in throughout the episode. I’m now convinced that Jim Parsons is pretty much just being himself when he’s playing Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, which in my mind shows that despite all of the awards that he’s either won or been nominated for, he has a very limited range in terms of his acting ability. That really makes me wonder what will happen with Jim Parsons’ acting career once The Big Bang Theory eventually ends, but I digress.

Speaking of bad acting and characters that annoy the hell out of me, while I’m willing to admit that for the past several episodes Christopher hadn’t been annoying me nearly as much as he did last season, he unfortunately found a whole new way to annoy the hell out of me that didn’t even involve him talking or threatening to have someone sent to jail in this episode. Towards the beginning of the episode, Bobby told John Ross that he was giving his shares in Ewing Global to Christopher, because now that he’s serving as the interim Texas railroad commissioner regulations dictate that he can’t own any shares in a company. What made Christopher so annoying in that scene is the way that he stood in the background with an incredibly obnoxious smirk on his face the entire time Bobby was telling John Ross this.

Dallas (TNT Series): Good news, Everybody! The Ewings are back, and they are more scandalous than ever before (My thoughts on episode 3x01 “The Return”)

Right off the bat, I’d like to say that I found the season three premiere somewhat challenging to review. That’s not because I thought the season premiere was bad, it’s actually a very good episode in my opinion. What makes this episode particularly challenging for me to review is the fact that I feel like this episode was primarily providing exposition for season three instead of simply diving right into the action and having the show hit the ground running like the writers did with the season two premiere.

I don’t view that as a bad thing at all though. My main complaint with the season two premiere was actually that even for a show that typically moves at a pretty fast pace, the season two premiere seemed to move too quickly for its own good, especially when it comes to how they handled the reveal of Ann’s secret and how it effected Sue Ellen’s life as well. Because the writers seemed to be moving really fast with the events that took place in the season two premiere, as a viewer I felt like I wasn’t being given a chance to take everything in and process what was happening from an emotional standpoint, which was a little frustrating at times and was one of the contributing factors in terms of why I found the reveal of Ann’s secret so underwhelming and disappointing. There was also the fact that Ann’s secret was simply just rather lame. However, Brenda Strong’s acting in that episode as well as season two as a whole definitely helped make up for the lameness regarding the details of Ann’s past that were revealed last season, but I digress.

In terms of my thoughts on the season three premiere itself, I found it refreshing that the writers really used the entire season premiere to move forward from the events of the season two finale and set things up for season three. One of the things that I was really glad to see was the fact that the writers specifically established how much time had passed since the events of the season finale unlike the season two premiere where they played fast and loose with how they handled the passage of time. For example, Ewing Energies was completely up and running and yet Pamela was no longer visibly pregnant. However, I just wrote off the whole thing with Pamela not looking pregnant for roughly the first third of the season as something the writers did since John Ross and Pamela had several romantic scenes during that portion of the season. However, while they did a mini time jump in this episode, they did start out the episode by picking up right where they left off with John Ross and Emma meeting with each other at a hotel so that Emma could give John Ross some files that belonged to Harris, followed by them having sex. After the theme song, the show jumped ahead twelve hours.

Dallas: TNT Sets Season 3 Premiere Date and Announces Split Season-TVLine

According to TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich, season 3 of TNT's Dallas will premiere on February 23, 2014. Season 3 will also be split into two separate halves. Season 3 will also feature what Executive Producer Michael Robins calls “the biggest Southfork wedding yet!”. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on the scheduling for Dallas' split third season:

As first unofficially announced by cast member Josh Henderson back in July, Dallas‘ coming run will be split into two halves — an opening run of eight episodes, and then seven more come summer — with each batch serving up its own cliffhanger, showrunner Cynthia Cidre told TVGM.

Cast additions for Season 3 include 90210‘s AnnaLynne McCord (playing a tomboy-ish ranch hand love interest for Jesse Metcalfe’s Christopher) and Camp alum Juan Pablo Di Pace (in the series regular role of self-made billionaire businessman Nicolas Trevino.

Link to the full article:‘Dallas’ Season 3 Premiere Date — Split Season Starts Feb. 24 2014 - TVLine



My thoughts: While I'm very excited for season 3 of Dallas to start, I have to admit that I'm not very happy about the fact that TNT is splitting season 3 into two separate halves. It always bugs me when cable networks air seasons of a show in two separate halves considering the fact that seasons for most shows on cable TV networks typically only consist of 13 to 16 episodes. I might not mind cable networks doing that if the seasons had 22 to 24 episodes each season, but I just think it's stupid when cable networks air seasons of TV shows in two separate halves when their seasons are usually shorter than that. Personally, I think that cable networks should air the entire season of a TV show all at once with the exception of maybe one or two short breaks between episodes like broadcast TV networks do. That being said, I'm really excited for season 3, and I'm really anxious to see who's getting married on the show next season.

Dallas: Season 3 brings AnnaLynne McCord to Southfork-Zap2it

According to Zap2it's Rick Porter, AnnaLynne McCord has been cast in a recurring guest-star role in Dallas' upcoming third season. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on McCord's role:

McCord has landed a recurring part on Season 3 of the TNT series as Heather, a single mother and ranch hand at Southfork. She's more than capable of handling her job, but when her "troubled" ex-husband comes back into the picture, she turns to Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) for help.

"Dallas" being "Dallas" and Christopher being Christopher, he also becomes romantically involved with Heather.

Link to the full article:‘Dallas’ Season 3 brings AnnaLynne McCord to Southfork - Zap2it



My thoughts: I've been a huge fan of AnnaLynne McCord's ever since she was on 90210, and I've always thought that she was one of the most enjoyable things about the show, so I'm thrilled that she has gotten a new acting job so soon after 90210's run has ended. Although, I have to admit that I often felt like her character, Naomi Clark, came across as a second rate version of Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl. I don't think that's her fault though. She always did a great job on 90210, even when the writing for her character was rather lackluster.

I think guest-starring on Dallas will be the perfect opportunity for AnnaLynne to break away from playing characters that come across as spoiled rich girls and hopefully it will show people what she's really capable of as an actress. Based on the description of the character that she'll be playing on Dallas, her character sounds really interesting, and it sounds like her character will be a radical departure from playing Naomi on 90210. The only thing about this news that I'm not excited about is the fact that she'll be playing a love interest for Christopher, who is definitely the most unlikeable and annoying character on the show. Plus, I've always felt sorry for any actor or actress that has to work with Jesse Metcalfe, because he's a terrible actor and his acting seems to have only gotten worse over time, while AnnaLynne really grew an actress throughout the course of 90210's run.  Regardless of that, I still think that guest-starring on Dallas is an amazing opportunity for her. That being said, I was already beyond excited for season 3 of Dallas, but this news has made me get even more excited for season 3 to start.

90210: Grab some tissues, everybody, because it’s time to say goodbye to TV’s most famous zip code (My thoughts on the series finale: Episode 5x22 “We All Fall Down”)

After taking a couple weeks to reflect on the series finale, I have to say that it definitely turned out a lot better than I was expecting it to be. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but then again the producers weren’t exactly given much warning by the network that 90210 wasn’t going to be renewed for a sixth and final season. Plus, it sounds like most of what ended up being the series finale had already been filmed by the time they found out that the show was canceled, so the producers did the best they could given the circumstances. If I haven’t already made it clear in my previous reviews for 90210, I’ve always been somewhat willing to cut the show some slack given the number of times the show changed showrunners over the years, which is something that started way back when the show was merely in the development stage.

That being said, I definitely think the writers should have seen the writing on the wall and planned this episode as an episode that could serve as a season finale if the show were to have been renewed for a sixth season, but at the same time give the viewers enough closure if the show were to be canceled, which is what ended up being the case. For the most part, I’m okay with how things ended for most of the characters. The thing that I’m happiest about is the fact that the series ended with Liam and Annie not only getting back together, but also getting engaged. Personally, I would have liked the series to have ended with them getting married, but having them get engaged at the end of the series is definitely the next best thing. The other thing that I’m very happy about is the fact that the series ended with Adrianna and Navid getting back together, which if I’m being honest isn’t something that I viewed as being one of my biggest hopes for the end of the series until a few episodes ago when Adrianna and Navid once again hooked up.

As for the things that disappointed me about the finale, one the things that I found a little disappointing is the fact Adrianna and Navid spent most of the episode buried under a pile of rubble from the explosion in the previous episode waiting to be rescued. However, the episode began with Adrianna being the only who was trapped under all the debris, but once Navid realized that she was still in the room where the roof essentially collapsed on her and that it would be a while before the rescue workers would be able to see if she was okay, he went to find her on his own.

Navid found Adrianna, and in typical 90210 fashion, she was okay with the exception of her leg suffering from a minor injury. Although, they both ended up becoming trapped in some of the debris after the debris shifted, which led to them talking about their relationship. Adrianna initially told Navid that she views him as being the guy that she’s meant to spend the rest of her life with, and that she wanted to take things slow this time around, which Navid agreed was a good idea. However, after they found out that there was a gas leak, she said that she didn’t want to take things slow if they survived their current predicament. Navid once again instantly agreed with Adrianna saying that they would get a place right away and not waste any more time. Good, god! Is the word “slow” even in the writers’ vocabulary? Are they at all familiar with the concept of taking things slowly? They’ve always done everything way too quickly on this show, especially when it comes to the pacing of relationships and storylines in general, and that’s definitely always been one of the show’s biggest flaws. Perhaps nobody ever told the writers about the expression “Slow and steady wins the race”.

90210: Episode 5x22 "We All Fall Down" Promo (HD) (Series Finale)

Here's a promo for next week's series finale, episode 5x22 "We All Fall Down". It looks like this is going to be a very emotional episode. I'm feeling really sad about 90210 ending. :(

90210: Are the writers even trying to have things make sense on this show any more? (My thoughts on episode 5x19 “The Empire State Strikes Back”)

Let me start off by saying that I apologize for taking so long to get this review written and posted. I had to work quite a bit this week, and I also had a lot of other projects that I was working on throughout the week. I’m going to try my absolute best to get my reviews for the remaining episodes of the series written and posted before the episode following it airs; that being said, here are my thoughts on this episode.

After thoroughly enjoying the previous episode, I have to say that I found this episode rather dull, and I frequently found my attention wandering as I was watching it. To be fair though, this episode wasn’t even close to being as boring as the first nine episodes of Gossip Girl’s final season were, and I still stand by my opinion that 90210’s final season is better than Gossip Girl’s final season was. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that everything about this episode was boring, because it definitely had some good things about it, and admittedly this episode has grown on me after having watched it several more times.

For starters, I would say that I found Annie’s storyline to be the most interesting storyline in this episode. The episode picked up right where the previous episode ended, which would be Patrick showing up at Annie and Liam’s house in order to confront her about her book. Patrick was furious with Annie for writing a book that was inspired by their relationship, and he was worried that people, namely his wife, would figure out that he was the inspiration for the character Patterson. Apparently, his wife’s book club was reading Undressed, and he told Annie that his wife would divorce him and take a lot of his money if she found out about his relationship with Annie. Before Patrick left Annie and Liam’s place, he threatened to hurt her family if she went on Entertainment Tonight for an interview with Nancy O’Dell in order to publically reveal that she is Author X, but Annie simply shrugged off his threats.

I have to say that I thought Patrick’s reaction to this whole situation was beyond dumb. After all, Annie didn’t use his real name in the book, and his wife never even met Annie, so how would she know that most of the book was inspired by Annie’s life? He never even told Annie that he was married. Besides, it’s not like he’s the only person on earth named Patrick. I just don’t understand how the writers expect viewers to believe that his wife would automatically realize that Patrick was the inspiration for the character Paterson in Undressed. Although, this is 90210 where 98% of the writing for the show is absolutely ridiculous and contrived, so I suppose she could figure things out by reading Annie’s book.

Annie finally came clean to Dixon about the fact that she is Author X and that she paid for his rehab by briefly working as an escort. Dixon was initially furious with Annie, but he forgave her for working as an escort to pay for his rehab treatment and not telling him about it by the end of the episode. Annie also ended up going on Entertainment Tonight for an interview with Nancy O’Dell and revealed that she was Author X like she said was going to.

90210: Wow! It really sucks to be…well…pretty much everybody on this show right now (My thoughts on episode 5x18 "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Call Girl")

It’s been a while since I’ve written any reviews for 90210, and that’s partly because I found the past several episodes rather boring, but it’s mainly because I’ve been getting a ton of traffic for my posts related to the show New Girl, so I decided to focus on that show for a while. Plus, I’ve been working on a couple more long-term and elaborate posts for other shows as well as some writing not related to my blog. Anyway, given the fact that there are only a few episodes left of the series, I’ve decided to get back to writing reviews for the show every week; that being said, here are my thoughts on this episode.

I have to say that my thoughts on this episode as well as the past several episodes have been very mixed. They’ve also caused me to once again think a lot about why I like 90210 more than Gossip Girl, but at the same time I’ve also been thinking about some things that I think both the writers and the cast of Gossip Girl did a better job of compared to the cast and crew of 90210.

One thing that I’ve almost never been able to stop doing whenever I’m watching 90210 would be that I’ve constantly found myself comparing the character Naomi to Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, and this would definitely be example of something that I liked more about Gossip Girl. Both Naomi and Blair are similar to each other in terms of the type of the character that they are: the “bitch” of the show, who’s rich, ambitious and is constantly seeking to elevate their social status. Don’t get me wrong, I like Naomi and I think that AnnaLynne McCord is one of the stronger actresses from the cast of 90210. However, I definitely like Blair more than Naomi, and I like Leighton Meester more than AnnaLynne when it comes to their acting.

When it comes to why I like Blair more, most of it has to do with the writing. To me, Blair has much more depth as a character than Naomi does. To me, a kiddy pool has more depth than Naomi does as a character, and I think the same can be said of the storylines that Blair had throughout Gossip Girl’s run compared to Naomi’s, which often lacked depth and just came across as a lackluster variation of quite a few of Blair’s storylines. For example, the rivalries that Naomi has had throughout 90210’s run have often felt very reminiscent of not only Blair’s storylines, but sometimes Serena’s as well, but where the storylines that revolved around Naomi dealing with a rival usually suffer is the motivation behind the rivalry, which have often been rather shallow and petty, making it hard for me to care that someone was causing problems for Naomi.

The writers for Gossip Girl on the other hand often gave enough depth and proper motivation and reasons for the viewers to get invested in storylines like that. For example, there were times where Naomi’s rivalry with Holly in season four reminded me a lot of Juliet’s vendetta against Serena throughout the first half of Gossip Girl’s fourth season, which I couldn’t help but get emotionally involved in as I was watching that storyline. Sure, I pretty much spent the whole storyline cheering Juliet on as she did everything in her power to ruin Serena’s life, mainly because I hate the character Serena, but at least the writers made me feel something. When it came to Naomi’s feud with Holly, I couldn’t have cared less about it and thought that their whole rivalry was beyond lame. 

90210: Scoop on the series finale from E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos

Here's some scoop on 90210 from Kristin Dos Santos' Spoiler Chat for Friday 3/1/13.

Andy: So bummed to hear about 90210's cancellation, but what can we expect from the series finale?
A huge accident! Yes, someone will be getting into a pretty serious car wreck on the way to the airport in the soap's series-ending episode. Paramedics will be called, hospitals will be rushed to, lives will be endangered, etc.

Link to the full article:Spoiler Chat: Scoop on Glee, Scandal, New Girl, Revenge, Teen Wolf and More! | E! Online

90210: Episode 5x14 "Brother From Another Mother" Promo (HD) (ft. Wolfgang Puck)

Here's the promo for next week's episode, episode 5x14 "Brother From Another Mother". It looks like this is going to be a very interesting episode.

90210: Scoop on episode 5x20 from E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos

Here's some scoop on 90210 from Kristin Dos Santos' Spoiler Chat for Friday 1/25/13.

Jess: Got any 90210 scoop?
What do a sexy attorney, a judge and a prison security guard all have in common? No, this isn't the set-up for a punch line, it's what fans can expect to see in 90210's 20th episode of the season. Yep, seems like someone is going to the big house. Yikes!

Link to the full article:Spoiler Chat: Scoop on True Blood, Community, Teen Wolf, Girls and More! | E! Online

90210: Episode 5x11 "We're Not Not in Kansas Anymore" Promo (HD)

Here's the promo for next week's episode, episode 5x11 "We're Not Not in Kansas Anymore". I personally can't wait to see this episode. I've been really looking forward to it ever since spoilers about this episode started being released, and based on this promo, it looks like this episode is going to be great. :)

90210: Episode 5x12 "Here Comes Honey Bye Bye" Press Release (Spoilers)

Here's the press release/plot description for episode 5x12 "Here Comes Honey Bye Bye". I found this on the SpoilerTV website.
 

90210 — (9:00–10:00 p.m. ET)
“Here Comes Honey Bye Bye” (TV-14, DL) (HDTV)

NAOMI MUST MAKE A DECISION — Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) and Max (guest star Josh Zuckerman) see a marriage counselor to decide if they are going to stay married, while Teddy (Trevor Donovan) tells Silver (Jessica Stroup) he won’t ruin her chance to have a baby if she agrees to his terms. Navid (Michael Steger) uses Liam’s (Matt Lanter) celebrity status to help him get into an elite secret society and Annie (Shenae Grimes) rushes to tell Riley (guest star Riley Smith) her true feelings before he undergoes an experimental surgery. Tristan Wilds and Jessica Lowndes also star. Stuart Gillard directed the episode written by Liz Sczudlo (#512).

Link to the original article:90210 - Episode 5.12 - Here Comes Honey Bye Bye - Press Release (Spoilers)