"Judge, Jury, Executioner" Air Date 3-4-12
If I was tied up and being beaten, while being asked about the other people I run with. I don't think the first story I would tell the people who were worried about my friends, was about how we found some survivors and raped the girls while making the father watch. I think I would go with more "they were normal people who took me in" and less "rapey rapey.
Talk about a moral dilemma. If you kill the kid you instantly become no better than what you fear, but if you let him live you could be spelling doom for your entire civilization. It's interesting Randell has become Ben Linus from Lost. If any of the characters watched Lost I would think the decision on what to do would get a lot easier.
You would think Lori would do a better job of watching her kid. The only reason they are even at the farm is Carl was shot when she let him go away from her, and the only other kid has just turned up as a zombie. I don't think I know one single mother on the planet who would let their kid out of their sights after that, let alone have no idea that they are off playing in the zombie infested woods.
I liked the sentiment of the scene where Hershel gives Glenn his pocket watch. It was nice from an "i approve of you and you have my blessing" standpoint, but it seemed a little too soon. Glenn and Maggie are in this on again off again relationship, even if Hershel did like Glenn you would think he would wait until they were on steadier ground before giving him a family heirloom.
If all zombies do is live to eat and are next to brainless in their actions, wouldn't the swamp zombie have fallen over to try and get at Carl? Either face first into the water when Carl was across the river, or most definitely backwards at the knees when Carl was behind him.
Great job Carl, not only did you free the walker but you lost the gun, now there is a zombie with a gun walking around. That's all the camp needs.
Does sending Carl inside the tent really accomplish anything? It's not like he got sent to his room that is a floor away with doors and walls in between him and you. He's two feet away behind a thin piece of plastic.
The final scene of this episode was as shocking and intense as anything the sow has ever done and might be one of the most emotional scenes of any show this year. But I do have a couple of bones to pick with it. If the zombies skulls are so soft that you can stick a knife straight into it, would their fingers really be strong enough to rip open someones stomach? Also if both of the walkers hands were that low down on his stomach wouldn't Dale have been able to push it off of him. It also bothered me that they let Dale die thinking they had killed Randell, it wouldn't have hurt them at all to tell Dale they let him live, even if they still end up killing him.
I might get into some spoilers from the comics, so if you don't want to know what is may happen skip down to the next show, but before that let me say if you liked Dale check out the comics he was always one of my favorite characters in the book and he lasts a lot longer in the book.
Well that was the biggest change from the comics yet. It was shocking not only because he lives so much longer in the books but because of the impact that he has on so many of the other characters. In the books Andrea is still a wreck over losing him and seems to go on living just to honor him. If they never fall in love like they did in the books it completely changes her whole character. The last few issues I read she didn't want to go out and meet anyone new because she felt it was dishonoring what she had with Dale. It also takes away some of the importance of the Winnebago. As strange as it may sound I was really saddened when the Winnebago gets destroyed in the books, it had become a character in its own right and now in the show I feel it could become just another vehicle. If I were Steven Yeun who plays Glenn I'd be worried about my safety because it's obvious they have thrown the comic right out the window.
"Bust Me Right In the Head with It" Air Date 3-4-12
I don't know if I hold the border patrol in the same regards that I hold the Marines. One of them and I won't say which one tends to be closer to the Barney Fife of law enforcement.
The teams are putting too much emphasis on getting to the mat first making them a target. If I have found anything to be true on the amazing race, being a good team will only get you targeted after all of the teams that no one likes have gone home. Who ever gets the opportunity to handicap another team almost always uses it to burden the team they like the least not the team that is the biggest threat.
For as big of a deal as they were making it out to be at the airport, I was expecting the delay to be eight or ten hours not two. There have been numerous times on the race when vehicles the teams have had to use have departed with a greater window than two hours.
Usually in the detour one option seems harder to accomplish but safer, and the other option is psychically easier to do, but riskier to undertake. Neither of the choices this week seemed like the easier or safer bet. But I think I would have gone with the harp just to be inside and out of the heat.
Hey look, it's an actual clue box. I guess they didn't get rid of them after all. That makes me wonder why they used the saddle bags for the first few legs of the race.
The border patrol seemed to fly through just about everything this week and are way out in front. Too bad that almost guarantees that the first thing that will happen next week will involve waiting for some place to open and that will allow all the other teams to catch up.
It's awful early in the race to have used the express pass, especially when you consider they drove all the way to the other part of the detour before deciding to use it. Why wouldn't you at least try the harp challenge to see how it is before just giving up and using the pass.
Bopper always seems too busy talking to the camera to actually do what ever he is supposed to be doing.
For as difficult as that roadblock seemed you would think they would have had more benches there for teams to wait out their penalties on.
It seemed that the bottles they had to balance on their heads were stage bottles made out of sugar. Half of the teams couldn't even get them onto their heads without the bottle breaking. If they weren't fake bottles and they were actually made out of glass, wouldn't it be dangerous to make the contestants lay down on their stomachs in broken glass.
Sadly the bottle balancing would have been the perfect challenge for the clowns.
It took the FBI and country boys half an hour longer to do the roadblock than it took Brenden & Rachael and the Jersey boys.
When the marine and his wife were finally able to check in Phil told them that is was the first time a team hadn't completed a challenge and had stayed in the race. Umm Phil, Boston Rob just called from the meat challenge in Argentina, he says HI!
Did Carrie and Stacy complete the bottle challenge or did the producers completely cut out any airing of their penalty?
The twins took so long doing the harp all the people in the background stopped playing music. It reminded me of when Luke took so long drinking the tea.
For as long and as hard of a leg as this one was I thought this was going to be a non-elimination leg.
"Valentine's Day" Air Date 2-14-12
I was just about to say Jess hasn't been as dorkly awkward as she used to be, but then she tried to pick up that guy in the bar and ended up choking on his cherry after not being able to get it out of the glass.
I would totally date a girl that randomly does a Mae West impression. I would also date a girl that can name their favorite Marx Brothers movie ( that last part has no real bearing on the show, it's just a heads up for all the single ladies who might be reading this).
The entire part of the show that takes place in the guy from True Bloods house was funny, but in particular where Schmidt was worried about youths in the neighborhood and Jess called him Officer Krupke.
Clark Duke is another guy that should be on a show. I don't think he could carry a show but he would be great in the best friend role.
"Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend" Air Date 2-14-12
I found most of the scenes where Burt and Virginia were trying out new hobbies to be very funny. It's good to see that the show will let them remain loser idiots and show things like this as to how they remain in the position that they are in.
Frank has just the right amount of creepiness, any more and he would be too creepy any less and his character would be as funny.
I laughed at both the scene where they were playing paintball and when Burt was being a French waiter.
Wyatt's line about not seeing such bad puck handling since Pedro on Real World San Fransisco took a second to sink in but was pretty funny.
In the background you can see that the GED they got is hanging on the fridge. i always like it when a show is continuously building on what has happened in previous episodes, even if it is such a little thing as a piece of paper on the refrigerator.
I liked that Burt and Virginia used things they learned earlier in the hobby montage in the end to help jimmy. I didn't even realize it until after the episode was over and I was watching something else and there was a commercial for a Debby Boone CD, and it clicked that early in the episode they were in a Debby Boone fan club and at the end they were singing her song.
It was a sweet start to their relationship and over all one of the better episodes of the show. The only thing that I found lacking was the level of interaction with Hope. The whole premise of the show is how raising Hope has made their lives different and better and the last few episodes she has really been more of an afterthought.
"Late Night; Date Night" Air Date 3-4-12
Tiffany put a hat on instead o doing her hair before they went to the late night diner. I found that to be amusing.
No one seems to be taking any notes on how to prepare the food. One of these times thats going to bite them in the butt.
I like that they had to replicate two portions of the same dish and then create their own side dish. Doing two portions takes it up to the next level but does so at the right increment, and creating their own side is the best way yet they have worked in the contestants doing their own thing while still learning from the chefs.
For the most part this episode bored me, I don't know if its the cast or the challenges or the slight changes to how things are done, but I found last season to be far more entertaining.
"Cut Ties" Air Date 1-24-12
The last show that used language in a similar manner, where it was about what the character didn't say as much as it was about what they said was Deadwood.
This show does a great job of mixing episodic plots in with the serial plots, which is how I think life would really be in the Marshals. At any minute some big thing could go down and call you off of the case you have been working on. Most shows that do this are not able to make it work the way Justified does.
I was going to say something about the chief threatening the killer and how gun powder works and would disprove his story, but then I decided that the chief was bluffing and it didn't really matter.
It's nice to see some of the background characters step up and take more of a lead role in the show. Both the chief and the black girl are usually nothing more than set dressing and it's nice to see them get fleshed out a little more.
Another new bad guy? This show just keeps piling it on and as long as they continue to do such a great job with the bad guys it will always be a good thing. the only complaint I have is the actor who plays Mr. Limehouse was wearing fake teeth and it was very apparent that the top teeth were fake because the bottom teeth were so perfect and white.
The only other thing that bothered me in this episode was it was a little far fetched that the killer was able to get in contact with the people who wanted the girl dead, negotiate the correct amount of money that he needed, get to where he was, and get them to give him the money before they got the girl, all before any one noticed the Marshall was dead.
Recording 3-11-12:
The Simpsons
The Amazing Race
Once Upon a Time
Bob's Burgers
Family Guy
The Walking Dead
Eastbound & Down
Californication
Shameless
Worst Cooks in America
House of Lies
Life's Too Short
Restaurant Stakeout
Breakout Kings
well there goes all the room I freed up on my TiVo. I need some of these shows to start airing reruns.
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