Supergirl: Guest-star related scoop and more on the season 2 premiere (Episode 2x01 "The Adventures of Supergirl") from Entertainment Weekly's Natalie Abrams

Here's some scoop on Supergirl from Entertainment Weekly's Natalie Abrams' The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 9/23/16.

How was Supergirl? — Donna
The season 2 premiere is definitely a fun mix of comedy and action, along with a pretty surprising exchange between Kara and James. I can’t say more, but I can’t tell you that Brenda Strong joins the Supergirl cast in a recurring role — and she makes quite the first impression in the season 2 premiere.

Link to the full article:Spoiler Room: Scoop on Agents of SHIELD, Grey's Anatomy, The Flash and more | EW.com

The 100: Clarke and the Ice Queen related scoop and more from Entertainment Weekly's Natalie Abrams

Here's some scoop on The 100 from Entertainment Weekly's Natalie Abrams' The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 2/5/16.

Any scoop on Clarke and The Ice Queen? And I’ll take anything Clexa. — Purple Monkey
Believe me when I say that Arkadia becoming the 13th clan of Earth will not sit well with everyone, leading to a showdown between Clarke and the Ice Queen that turns… I can’t quite say bloody, but you’ll understand more when you see it. Basically, that encounter forces Lexa’s hand when it comes to Clarke — and you will not be able to breathe during that scene. Good luck!

Link to the full article:Spoiler Room: Scoop on S.H.I.E.L.D., Hawaii Five-0, Once Upon a Time and more | EW.com

The 100: Spoilers from Entertainment Weekly's Natalie Abrams

Here's some scoop on The 100 from Entertainment Weekly's Natalie Abrams' The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 1/22/16.

Anything The 100, especially Clexa! — Carol  
Hmm, there are a couple things that surprised me about the coming episodes: Roan’s identity and what he wants with Clarke. Who actually trapped the Arkers with those logs. Just how important Mount Weather is. And the fact that, despite being called the Ice Queen, Brenda Strong’s character is the polar (heh heh) opposite of this. As for Clexa, look closer at this GIF.

Link to the full article:Spoiler Room: Arrow, Blacklist, Castle and more TV spoilers | EW.com

Dallas: "After the Fire" Promo (Promo for second half of Season 3)

Here's the "After the Fire" promo for the second half of season 3 of Dallas. It looks like the second half of the season is going to beyond awesome. :)

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: This has got to be the best episode yet of the series (My thoughts on episode 2x06 “Blame Game”)

As I said in my review of the first four episodes (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”), I truly believe that Dallas has been lucky enough to avoid suffering a dreaded sophomore slump like Revenge has been suffering from this season, and this episode once again reinforced that belief for me. This is definitely the best episode yet of the season, and perhaps the best episode of the series at this point. As far as I’m concerned, this episode only had one little flaw, which I found very forgivable. 

 

Since I only have one very minor issue with the episode, I’m just going to mention it now and get it out of the way. The only issue that I have with the episode is the fact that this episode features a continuity flaw in the scene where J.R.’s assistant is showing him how to use what looks like an iPad or a Surface when they already showed J.R. using a tablet to look at Elena’s loan agreement with Sue Ellen in episode 2x03 “Sins of The Father” and they also showed J.R. using a tablet again later on in that same episode in order to look through articles that have been published about him in the media over the years . I read somewhere that they were going to use some deleted scenes from the first season in order to help give the character J.R. a sense of closure before he died. If I had to guess, the scene where his assistant was showing him how to use his tablet was a deleted scene from last season that was used in order to allow J.R. and Bobby to have a nice moment with each other when J.R. keeps messaging Bobby on his computer and emails him a link to a funny video featuring a dog.

What I like about that scene is that on the surface it looks like a nice moment between J.R. and Bobby where J.R. is just trying to cheer him up that also gives the viewers a chance to like J.R. despite all of the bad or questionable things that he’s done over the years. However, it ends up being revealed later on in the episode that it was J.R.’s way of pulling one of his very last schemes, because the email of the video apparently included a computer virus, which erased the Cloud Drive from last season when Bobby tried to show Sue Ellen what was on it. That moment also seems very telling of how Bobby feels about J.R., in my opinion. Bobby obviously wanted to see it as his brother doing something nice to try and cheer him up, but instead it ended up being a part of one of J.R.’s schemes. Since I thought it was a nice moment that also ended up being revealed as another one of J.R.’s many tricks and schemes, I’m willing to let that whole whole continuity error go.

  

Personally, I thought that this episode was absolutely crazy, and I mean that in the best way possible. The part of the episode where Vicente and his men took John Ross, Pamela, Christopher, Elena, Bobby and Sue Ellen hostage in Bobby and Ann’s house reminded me a lot of the season three episode of Desperate Housewives “Bang” where Lynette and several of the other characters were held hostage in a super market. To this day, that episode continues to be one of my top all-time favorite episodes of Desperate Housewives.

Dallas: Wow! It must really suck to be Ann Ewing right now (My thoughts on episode 2x05 “Trial and Error”)

As I said in my review for the first four episodes of the season (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”) I’ve actually been enjoying season two of Dallas more than I loved the first season, which was an awful lot, and that continues to be the case with this episode. This was definitely the best episode yet of season two in a lot of ways. Although, there were a few things about the episode that I found somewhat disappointing, they are only fairly minor complaints, which I’ll get to later.

One of the reasons why I’ve been enjoying season two even more than I enjoyed season one is that I feel the writers have really been doing a lot of the things that I wish they had done in season one. One of them being that I really wanted the writers to give the viewers just a little bit more information about Ann’s past so I could better understand her behavior at times, and they’ve really delivered when it comes to that aspect of the season. While the writers had already revealed some more details about Ann’s past in the first four episodes of the season, this episode really delve deep into Ann’s backstory and finally answered a lot of the questions that I’ve had about Ann, such as how Sue Ellen and Ann met each other and became friends. They apparently met when Ann did volunteer work for one of the foundations that Sue Ellen started for battered and abused women.

Ann also mentioned that she grew up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money and never went to college, which is something Judith had apparently given her a hard time about when she was married to Harris. It sounds like Harris did treat her very well and was very generous with her when they first met. It was only after Judith met Ann and started to interfere in Ann and Harris’ marriage that the relationship between Ann and Harris took a turn for the worse. Apparently, Ann had been diagnosed with post partum depression after Emma was born, and she admitted that she’d taken more pills than she should have the day Harris kidnapped Emma at the fair. She also described herself as being a very awkward girl when she was growing up, saying that her mother had actually taken her to see doctors in order to see if they could find a way to make her stop growing. I can’t help, but wonder if that line was some kind of dig from the writers about the fact that Brenda Strong is really tall.

I have to say that I thought Brenda Strong’s acting in this episode was fantastic, especially when Ann was being questioned on the stand. I’ve always thought that Brenda was a great actress. She did a great job playing the role of Sue Ellen Mischke on Seinfeld, and she always did a fantastic job of narrating Desperate Housewives as Mary Alice Young, but I’ve been especially enjoying her work on Dallas. If you ask me, she should definitely consider submitting this episode for Emmy consideration. 

One thing that really surprised me about this episode was how quickly the whole thing with Ann confessing to being the one who shot Harris, as well as being tried and convicted unfolded all in the same episode. I know that some people were wondering if the writers and producers combined footage from several different episodes to make one episode in order to accommodate having to write Larry Hagman/J.R.’s death into the show on fairly short notice, but I don’t think that’s the case here. If they had combined several different episodes worth of footage to make up the episode, I’m pretty sure that the episode would have credited more writers then they usually do for an episode, as well as list two directors in the credits. I suppose it’s possible that they could have combined two or more episodes that just happened to all be written and directed by the same people, but I don’t think that’s the case here, especially since the producers previously said that Larry Hagman had filmed six episodes for season two before he died, and the episode that’s airing this week is apparently Larry Hagman’s final episode. For whatever reason, it looks like the writers decided to jump ahead one month about ten minutes into the episode so they get right to having Ann’s trial.

Dallas: Revenge might be having a sophomore slump, but four episodes in; this show is soaring higher than ever before (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”)

Before Dallas premiered on TNT back in June of 2012, I found myself thinking that this show in combination with ABC’s Revenge would be able to quench my constant craving for nighttime soap operas, and together they both did during their first seasons. However, as many people, both TV critics and viewers, have been saying, Revenge is having a major sophomore slump both creatively and in the ratings department.

In the case of TNT’s Dallas, however, it’s been able to avoid suffering the dreaded sophomore slump on the creative end of things. It’s true the ratings are down this season, but I’ve read a lot of comments online from people who are saying that they believe that the ratings being down has more to do with the fact that this season is airing during the regular TV season, meaning it has more competition to deal with from broadcast networks, whereas the first season aired during the summer with less competition. Brenda Strong addressed this in a recent interview that I read, and it sounds like TNT wants to branch out and start airing more shows during the regular season. According to her, it sounds like TNT is hoping to have Dallas pioneer that effort and expected the ratings for the second season to be lower since it’s airing during the regular TV season. Since she said that, I’m not too terribly worried for the time being that the show won’t be renewed for a third season. Perhaps they will renew it for a third season and simply decide to only air the show during the summer in future, but I’m not sure what the TNT network executives are thinking about the show’s ratings though.

As much as I loved the first season, I have to say that I think the second season has been even better in a lot of ways so far. For starters, none of the episodes have felt like filler episodes so far, which is always a good thing for TV shows if you ask me. There also isn’t the repetitive back and forth scheming regarding the future of Southfork like there was last season where John Ross and J.R. would have the upper hand one episode, and then Christopher and Bobby would have the upper hand the following episode, which often made me feel like the storyline wasn’t moving forward all that much. That was the main thing that made several of the season one episodes felt like filler to me. When it comes to season two, however, each episode has felt like it’s progressing the storylines and have all been full of excitement so far. Season two has also featured several very interesting storyline developments. My favorite storyline development would be the fact that John Ross and Pamela/Rebecca, have formed a business agreement as a part of a plan to get some of Christopher’s shares in Ewing Energy shares and have also become romantically involved with each other in the process, which I’ll talk about some more in a moment.

Dallas: Episode 2x04 "False Confessions" Promo (HD)

Here's the promo for next week's episode, episode 2x04 "False Confessions". It looks like this is going to be another awesome episode. :)

Dallas (TNT Series): Strap yourselves in, everybody, because you’re in for one wild ride (My thoughts on season 1)

With the season two premiere of TNT’s Dallas quickly approaching, I decided to write a review of the show’s first season as a whole, so I went back and watched season one two times. In this post I’m going to talk about the season one episodes, as well as each of the characters and the character development they went through throughout the season. Let me begin by saying that this is a biased prospective that’s based solely on the TNT series since I’ve only seen the first episode of the original series. I’m not looking to get into any kind of pissing match with other fans of the show, especially fans of the original series since I’m sure a few of my opinions regarding the character Bobby won’t be very popular with some of them. That being said here are my thoughts on season one.

I have to say that I think the show got off to a very good start right from the very beginning. I loved the first two episodes of the series that made up the two-hour series premiere event. Dallas definitely started off in a very shocking manner with Bobby finding out that he had stomach cancer. I always think that it’s important for TV shows to get off to a grand start, and the scene at the beginning of the episode where Bobby finds out that he has cancer definitely helped the show do that.

That being said, I did find the whole thing with Bobby having stomach cancer to be relatively pointless as the season continued. Aside from Bobby being diagnosed with stomach cancer being the motivation for him wanting to sell the Southfork ranch, Bobby having cancer didn’t really add much to the show. For example, aside from the doctor telling Bobby about oral chemo therapy pills that he could take to treat the cancer, having him double over in pain numerous times throughout the first episode and telling Ann how his cancer diagnosis was one of the reasons why he wanted to sell Southfork, they didn’t really do anything too significant with Bobby’s cancer storyline until episode 1x09 “Family Business”. The writers definitely could have done a lot more with that storyline than they did, and in the end that storyline just came across as being wasted potential in my opinion.

What I have to say next is one of the things that I’m guessing some fans will have a problem with, but as the season continued I found myself hating Bobby more and more to the point where I was hoping that he would die of complications from the cancer. Only this time, the writers wouldn’t miraculously bring Bobby back from the dead by having the whole storyline be a dream like the writers of the original series did with season nine, A.K.A. “The Dream Season”. The main reason why I hate the character Bobby so much is because I feel like he’s just so self-righteous and arrogant, which led me to be happy whenever J.R. and John Ross managed to one-up him, even if it was only momentarily before Bobby once again got the upper hand. Bobby also almost always seemed to be angry about something, and both the character and the way that Patrick Duffy played the part simply came across as being two intense for my taste most of the time. If Patrick Duffy were to decide to leave the series at some point, I honestly wouldn’t miss him one bit, because Bobby is definitely my least favorite character on the show. Although, considering the fact that he’s one of the characters that serves as a link to the original series, I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon, especially considering the fact that Larry Hagman just recently passed away.

Scandal: Casting related scoop from Zap2it's Carina Adly MacKenzie

Here's some scoop on Scandal from Carina Adly MacKenzie's Monday Kickstart column for the week of 10/8/12.

"Scandal": So, you've heard that "Everwood" alumni Tom Amandes and Brenda Strong are guest-starring on an upcoming episode as a governor and his wife. Their specific details of their reason for coming to Olivia Pope are, like pretty much everything else in Shondaland, under lock and key. But their case will shed some more light on the political world of the show.

Link to the full article:10 Spoilers: A ‘Gossip Girl’ ethics issue and a fan favorite returns to ‘90210’ (again) - Zap2it

Dallas: Wow! Things really are heating up on this show! (My thoughts on episode 1x07 Collateral Damage)

Let me begin by saying that I’m really falling in love with this show more and more, which I think is great, because after absolutely loving the first two episodes that made up the two-hour series premiere event, I was rather disappointed by episode 1x03 “The Price You Pay” and episode 1x04 “The Last Hurrah”, and watching those episodes really made me wonder if this show was going to be able to keep my interest in the long-term sense. However, starting with episode 1x05 “Truth and Consequences” I feel like the drama and the action on the show really got amped up and started to become more interesting with each passing episode. I feel like episode 1x05 “Truth and Consequences” was where TNT’s Dallas became the show that I was hoping that it would be before it started, but I have to say that the level of enjoyment that I got from watching this episode exceeded the level of enjoyment that I got from watching episode 1x05 “Truth and Consequences”.

In my mind, this was the most exciting and most intense episode yet of the show. It really had me on the edge of my seat, and when I got done watch this episode the first time, it really left me wondering wants going to be happening next, which as someone who watches a lot TV shows, I think that’s a very good thing for a TV show to be able to do. After watching this episode, there’s no doubt in my mind that I’m officially addicted to this show.

After watching this episode, I’m officially declaring that John Ross is my favorite character on show from the younger generation and Christopher and Bobby are officially my least favorite characters on the show. I hate how smug and self-righteous they were in this episode, and just how self-righteous they are in general. The whole thing between John Ross wanting to drill for oil on Southfork Ranch, but Christopher and Bobby being hell-bent on stopping him continued in this episode. Christopher informed John Ross that he and Bobby owned the mineral rights to Southfork and without the mineral rights he can’t drill for oil on Southfork. I personally have mixed feelings about this ongoing storyline. On the one hand, I’m really enjoying watching John Ross scheme and plot to be able to drill for oil, especially when J.R.’s helping him. However, in this episode John Ross was basically forced to deal with the situation with Christopher and Bobby on his own since J.R.’s still out of town on business and he’s not ready to go back to Dallas. He was also still having to deal those businessmen that he owes oil to since he was running out of time to pay them, which is why he’s so desperate to start drilling for oil.

Honestly, I’m also starting to find this storyline a little repetitive in terms of Bobby and Christopher constantly trying to prevent John Ross from drilling on Southfork. I get that this is a drama and that there needs to be conflict, but I personally would like to see someone get the upper hand for extended period of time on the show and not for just one episode, preferably John Ross and J.R. Bobby and Christopher are extremely arrogant, self-righteous and annoying, and I think they need to be knock down a few pegs. I hate that Bobby thinks that he has the right to have John Ross thrown off Southfork. Like I said before, I don’t know a lot about the original show, but if this was the real world I don’t think that Bobby would be allowed to kick John Ross off the family property just because he doesn’t like him.

In addition to dealing with John Ross trying to get the mineral rights to drill on Southfork, Bobby also had to deal with Ann’s ex-husband, Harris Ryland, who had him arrested for assault. For anyone who missed last week’s episode, Bobby showed up at Harris’ office and attacked him for bothering Ann. Harris apparently told Bobby’s lawyer that he would drop the charges if Bobby simply apologized to him for attacking to him, which Bobby initially refused to do, even though his lawyer told him that Harris has a lot of influence with a lot of people that he could use to make the situation worse if he didn’t just apologize to Harris. However, Bobby eventually changed his mind and apologized to him after he saw how upset Ann was.

They’ve made it pretty clear that Ann has a secret that Harris knows about because he gave Bobby a file that contained information on her past, which I’m guessing is why she was really on edge throughout the episode. It’s obvious for a number of reasons that her secret involves a child in some way. At one point in the episode she was talking to Bobby on the phone, telling him that she was in line to buy something at Neiman’s when she was actually sitting on a park bench watching a little girl play in the park. I’m wondering if the little girl was hers’ and that she gave her up for adoption or the child in the park simply reminded her of her daughter. At the end of the episode Bobby told Ann that he didn’t want to read what was in the file and that he would wait for her to tell him whatever’s bothering her herself when she’s ready to, so he threw the file in the fire that was burning in the fireplace. They should a close-up of a picture from the file as it burned, and the picture was a picture of Ann holding what looked like a little girl, so I think it’s pretty safe to say that her secret involves a child.

Personally, I think it’s funny that Brenda Strong just got done playing Mary Alice for eight years on Desperate Housewives, which began with Mary Alice killing herself because she had a secret that ended up being about a child, and her first acting job after Desperate Housewives is playing Bobby Ewing’s new wife, Ann, who has a secret that obviously involves a child. They’ve already established that Ann is pretty handy with guns, so everybody should probably keep an eye on her make sure she doesn’t go off and blow her brains out like Mary Alice did.

I feel like this episode really gave John Ross a lot of humanity as a character, and it really made me want to root for him and Elena to get together when I watched their scenes together. Elena obviously cares a lot about him, because she offered to give him some of the oil from Mrs. Henderson’s land so he can pay the people he owes oil to. He initially turned down her offer, but she eventually convinced him to let her help him. John Ross obviously cares about her given the way he reacted when Veronica Martinez called him, telling him that she was holding Elena hostage and was threatening to hurt her. John Ross seemed pretty distraught when he showed up at Veronica’s place to save Elena, only to discover that she had only told him that she was holding Elena hostage, because she knew that he would come if he thought Elena was in danger.

It was nice to see more of Lucy in this episode and not just for thirty seconds like they did in the other episodes that Charlene Tilton has appeared in so far. John Ross had lunch with her to ask her for help with getting the rights to drill on Southfork. Unfortunately, Lucy told him she wouldn’t help him and told Bobby that John Ross had asked her for help, which is what prompted Bobby to threaten to have John Ross thrown off Southfork. Even though they showed her for more than thirty seconds in this episode, I’d still like to see more of Lucy. Charlene Tilton must be pretty desperate for cash if she’s willing to appear in each episode that she’s been in for what feels like just thirty seconds of screen time.

Rebecca was dealing with the fact that she’s pregnant and Christopher was initially refusing to have anything to do with her. Elena figured out that Rebecca was pregnant after she came to her house to give her a gift basket as a way of thanking her for taking to the hospital in the previous episode, only to quickly be hit with a bout of morning sickness and throw up. Elena told Rebecca that she would keep her secret, but she ended up spilling the beans to Christopher during an argument.

Christopher was initially a total jackass when he found out that Rebecca was pregnant, and on some level I feel like he has the right to be. After all, Rebecca had been lying to him and she did send the email that led to him and Elena breaking up, but I’m thrilled that Ann really let him have it about how he spiteful and cruel he was acting. Ann lashing out at Christopher also added a little to bit her storyline in the episode as well, if you ask me. They decided to have paternity test to determine if he was indeed the father, and I don’t entirely blame him for being skeptical about whether or not he was the father. It was revealed that Christopher is indeed the father, but in a twist they also revealed that Rebecca is pregnant with twins.

While I do think the whole thing with Rebecca finding out that she was pregnant after Christopher found out that she had sent the email to Elena and left her was rather predictable, because I totally saw that coming, I wasn’t expecting Rebecca to end up being pregnant with twins. That was definitely a nice little twist. Of course with Dallas being a primetime soap opera, just because Rebecca’s pregnant now, it doesn’t mean that she won’t have a miscarriage down the road. Although, they did say that she was nine weeks along, which means she’s not too far away from going into her second trimester and people say that miscarriages usually happen in the first trimester. If I had to guess, I’m guessing that Rebecca will end up giving birth to the twins, because it would give the writers a reason to keep her around if she and Christopher don’t get back together eventually.

This episode had quite the ending, soon after John Ross left Veronica’s place he saw that Veronica had fallen from the balcony of her place and landed on his car. They didn’t show her or John Ross when she fell, so I don’t think he killed her. Although, he did seem pretty upset as he was leaving her place. If I had to guess what happened, I’m guessing that Vincente Cano killed her since they showed him or at least some other Venezuelan man at the hotel when John Ross was there. If that guy didn’t kill her, then I’m guessing she jumped off the balcony herself. After all, she’s obviously mentally instable. Things aren’t looking too good for John Ross right now though, because the cops came to Southfork and arrested him at the end of the episode.

All in all, I really do think that this was the best episode yet of Dallas. It was definitely the most action packed episode yet. The only thing that I didn’t like about this episode was just Bobby and Christopher in general. I hate those two so much. Thankfully, they didn’t bring the level of enjoyment that I got from watching this episode too much.

That being said, I give this episode a rating of an A.

Desperate Housewives: Scoop on the future of Lynette and Tom's marriage and the series finale from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Desperate Housewives from this week's (Posted on 2/21/12) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Any Desperate Housewives scoop about Lynette and Tom? Fans are getting sick of this separation; it’s gone on far too long! —Rachel
Ausiello: We cornered DH boss Marc Cherry at Sunday’s WGA Awards and gently grilled him about a possible T/L reunion. “We’ve got some interesting twists and turns [ahead],” he said, “and what I hope will be an amazing and fascinating end to their relationship.” Cherry went on to all but confirm that Brenda Strong the woman and not just the voice will be featured in the swan song, saying, “I would say that the odds of seeing [Mary Alice] on screen in the season finale are very high.”


Link to the full article:Spoilers on Glee, Good Wife, Community Body of Proof and More -- Ask Ausiello

Desperate Housewives: Episode 8x09 "Putting It Together" last scene

I love this scene. It's so creepy and sad to see Bree be driven to this point. Both Marcia Cross and Brenda Strong did an amazing job in this scene. :)