American Idol Recap: Finale

Is it just me or is this show getting longer every year?  I really don’t mean the individual episodes, but the time from the start of the show until the finale.  Of course, the individual episodes seem to be getting longer as well, and though I know it will make me seem like Scrooge, I really don’t need Idol Gives Back either – way too much of my time is wasted by this show already.  If they want to give back, just give back and don’t make such a big production about it.  Who are you, Jerry Lewis?

Regardless, the finale was set last week after Melinda Doolittle was sent packing.  Now we are down to two.  After Blake and Jordin do their bits, and we have another few hours of performances, we can write off another season of Idol.

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Season 1 Premiere: On the Lot

At least partially because we have a son who enjoys creating his own movies, we tuned in to watch On the Lot, a new offering from Fox.  After seeing their numbers, it appears we might have been the only ones watching.

The premise of the show is relatively simple.  Like any other performance-based reality show, the contestants present their offerings and hope to be the last one standing.  The difference here is that the contestants are actually not the performers – they are directing them.  These contestants want to make movies.

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Noah points a gun at Molly, because as well a know, he has come to find the tracking system to save Claire, despite what he may say to the contrary about helping everyone.  Meanwhile, Mohinder points a gun at Noah.  This stalemate of sorts is only broken up when Parkman shows up and sees Molly.  Or she sees him.  Whatever the case, that seems to solve it for now.

Across town, Hiro continues to talk to his father, Kaito, and then Hiro leaves and teleports to Isaac Mendez’ loft in order to rescue Ando.  However, Sylar made it there first, and is painting the fight between himself and Peter.  Recognizing Hiro, Sylar challenges him to move faster than he can, and is surprised when Hiro teleports across the room and rescues Ando, quickly disappearing before Sylar can get them.  It’s a safe bet that this piques Sylar’s interest.

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The Sopranos Recap: The Second Coming

As the final season of The Sopranos is winding down, it is turning into less of the show that rocked television and more of something you would see on Lifetime, or daytime television like maybe Dr. Phil or Oprah.  At this point, I really just hope it ends soon.  Maybe one of the guys will come whack me and put me out of my misery.

Meadow lets the family know that she is no longer going to medical school, but instead is going to law school.  All-in-all, that is not a bad thing.  I mean having a doctor around is good, because they can patch you up.  But generally when someone is whacked, there is no coming back.  On the other hand, having a lawyer in the family is going to be a bigger help.

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Jim is celebrating a milestone.  Rather, everyone else is celebrating Jim’s milestone.  He is turning fifty.  Yet for some reason, he is not a celebratory mood, and though Jim definitely has his moments where he is a bit of a sourpuss (to put it mildly), and it can be understood that he may not want to admit he is getting old – or at least older – no one really gets why he is so grumpy about it all.

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Dirty Jobs Recap: Well Digger

Groundskeeper.  Mike joins the groundskeeping crew for the Bowie Baysox, a AA minor league team at Prince Georges Stadium in Maryland.  The normal crew consists of one guy, so normally another person would have doubled the crew.  But Mike is not a normal guy.  It might have cut it in half (or more).

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Lost Recap: Greatest Hits

As the beach-dwelling survivors continue to plan their ambush of The Others, another plan is in the works to try and get them off the island.  It seems that Sayid, who I think I will start calling The Onion as he has so many layers to him, has managed to retrieve a set of blueprints for another Dharma station, this one called The Looking Glass.

It seems that The Looking Glass is an underwater station that is underwater somewhere off the beach, but perhaps more importantly, it broadcasts a signal that keeps the island from being found.  That means if they can turn off the signal, the island might be able to be found, and they can be rescued.  Now to figure out how to find the station, swim down to it, turn off the signal, get back, initiate the ambush…

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Am I the only one who thinks that Heroes is getting really strange?  Besides my wife, I mean.  The whole idea is interesting and all, but they really have to cut down on the cast of characters or I think I’m going to need to hire an assistant to keep up.  Or maybe I’ll just have to not keep up.  That might be easier.  And cheaper.

In any case, Hiro and Ando are back.  Which is to say that they are now in the present, because they were in the future.  Since they have no idea what they are doing, they turn to The Comic, which tells them… nothing.  So we get to see what everyone else is doing instead.

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American Idol Recap: Top 3

The Top 4 show saw LaKisha Jones go home last week.  Quite frankly, it could have been just about anyone, because the contestants singing songs by Barry Gibb were all pretty bad.  We can hope that they get better this week.

As is typical, the final three get to sing three songs – one chosen by the judges, one by the producers and one by themselves.  That means we could see just about anything.

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Wayne has decided that the best way to show his wife how it is to live with someone who has a drug problem is simply to show her.  So he snorts some of the crank (left behind by Chunky) so that she can see how it is having to live with an addict.  Now a drug addict may not be the best person to look up to, but one thing you can say about them is that they have at least built up a bit of tolerance.

Someone who does not have a drug problem generally will have no such skill at dealing with drugs, and so Wayne spends a good deal of the time being generally useless.  To everyone.  It is a shame, really, because Dale has managed to find his way to Eden Falls, which is one of the times when Wayne could be really useful.

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