Damon Salvatore might actively attempt to get people to hate him, but that dude's not fooling anyone. Sure, on last night's episode of "The Vampire Diaries," Elena quipped to the vamp, "I've accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities." But that doesn't mean it's true. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite of true.

Damon saved the day, and he did so because deep down he cares for his brother and he cares for others (especially others whose names rhyme with Schmelena). Sure, he might do that in a self-serving manner, but those are definitely some redeeming qualities. Incidentally, he's also smoking hot and hilarious. Those two might be of the "less important redeeming qualities" category, but dammit, they should still count. Read More...

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The cast of "Glee" has had an exciting past few days, to say the very least. From gracing the cover of Rolling Stone to performing at the White House for the First Family, the students and staff of McKinley High School continued to take over the world as they paid Oprah a visit on her show today. Packed with devoted "Gleeks" in the audience, they were treated to the cast's (wearing their red outfits, something of a staple for them lately) goose bump-y rendition of Queen's "Somebody to Love." I'd argue that they sounded their best yet (Cory Montheith especially stepped up his game...cause, c'mon it's Oprah!)

I can't remember a time when Oprah has had her guests sing before she actually talked to them, but when she finally sat down with the cast (well, most of them, anyway) there was a whole lot of gushing going on. The hostess gave her trademark yelling/singing introductions to the cast, including Matthew Morrison, for whom she chimed, "Mr. Schuester is here!" Matt's response? "Oprah Winfrey is here!"

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Couples, couples everywhere! But no one’s having fun. Liam and Naomi, Silver and Teddy, Adrianna and Gia, Dixon and ... Ivy? Yup, the friends caved under the pressure of being single amongst couples and teamed up for a “pretend relationship.”

Of all the relationships West Bev is producing lately, theirs might be the best. D and I ate burgers and actually kissed, while Teddy ran around trying to prove how well he knew Silver by buying her faux diamonds and Flaubert and Liam faced expulsion when he attacked the teacher Naomi told him sexually harassed her. Oh, and Adrianna freaked about going public with Gia. Give me a burger with Dixon and Ivy over any of the “real relationships” any day.

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After seeing so many lingering issues involving our misguided pack of Portland-ites resolved last week, it was about time to break out some fresh problems.

With less than 14 days to plan her wedding, Cate was focused on the most important bridal tasks, like clicking refresh on her eVite page and rummaging through her mother’s attic for “something old.” Everyone knows secrets live in attics, so of course she discovers long lost birthday cards from her estranged father. Cate’s mom (who I distinctly remember being labeled an alcoholic, yet appears to be a fully functioning adult who drinks little more than a glass of wine with her daughter and looks pretty fantastic for her age) lets it spill that her Dad was not all of the awful things she said he was for the past 16 plus years, but the really, the story is … Cate! Wait!

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The writers of "The Vampire Diaries" really made up for last week's lack of Jeremy/Anna action with an episode that focused heavily on those two crazy kids. I missed them in the last episode, especially since this week's story culminated in an INSANE REVEAL that I didn't see coming ... in the slightest bit. Like, if I were to think about some crazy s--t that Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec were gonna pull, I would obviously do a terrible job since their plot twists probably even make soap opera writers think, "OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" I never saw this one coming — at least not so early on in Jeremy's evolution as a character.

So, Jeremy got hip to the fact that Anna's a vampire. That's not terribly shocking — the little guy's pretty smart and was bound to eventually catch on to the fact that something is very, very different about Mystic Falls and the company he keeps. But instead of thinking about the VERY SUSPICIOUS OLDER-LOOKING MEN his sister hangs around with, he immediately went to the cute, mysterious girl who helped him with his homework. (Yeah, yeah, she's the one who told him about the vampires, but still.)

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The adults were clamoring for the limelight in this week’s “90210,” so we’ll give 'em a little love. Liam caught his d-bag stepdad sucking face with a woman who was not Liam’s mom, Deb’s yoga teacher finally made a move on her, Dixon’s mom was kind of likable until she got all factiod-y with “Jealousy is the number killer of relationships.” Principal-Dad swung by to say a line, and, oh! There is a new teacher at West Bev: Mr. Cannon, faculty advisor to The Blaze.

As only Naomi can, the teen welcomed the teacher by mocking his miserly educator’s salary, yet Cannon had something going in his favor that other teachers at West Bev don’t: he didn’t sleep with her sister. So Cannon showed a spine and kicked Naomi off The Blaze.

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It's Tuesday, "Life Expectees," and time to recap the adventures of our favorite foster child and her dysfunctional cohorts. A torrential rain storm hit Portland last night, knocking out powerlines and slowing plotlines, reminding me why I started watching this show in the first place. The show took on a "Lost"-like quality (stay with me!), as weeks of erratic behavior were accounted for and questions were answered.

Question: Why would Baze date Cate's (awful) sister?

Answer: She teaches yoga in an "I'd Tap That" tee-shirt, eats faux-nuts (!!???!!), forces her red-string beliefs on others, moves her personal belongings into Baze's apartment way too fast and imposes on his roomies. Bottomline: Abby sucks. But Lux saw Baze hook-up with Abby and he wants to prove to his daughter that he is not a one-night-stand kind of dad. So he sticks it out and tries to make a relationship where a relationship should never have been made. Seeing the error in his logic of dating his daughter's aunt, Baze ends it with Abby.

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If you were evil vampire Damon Salvatore and you just found out that the woman you love hadn't been trapped in a tomb for the past 200 years as you had previously thought but was instead free and totally able to reconnect with you at any time during those two centuries (just go with it), how would you handle it? I personally would've gone on a killing spree, but I guess drowning your sorrows in booze and women like Damon did on last night's episode of "The Vampire Diaries" is a viable alternative.

Damon handled the news of Katherine's safety remarkably well (for him) by drinking lots of scotch and having a vampire orgy with some college girls in lingerie, compelling them to let him bite them and presumably have sex (though we hope he didn't have to compel them to do that -- Damon is no legit sexual predator), then returning them to their dorm rooms. Whatever works, right?

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With Naomi deeply entrenched in her role as gossip reporter for The Blaze, this week at West Bev seemed less eventful. That’s not to say there wasn’t a fair share of spying, stalking and auto theft, but drama isn’t quite the same without Naomi’s stick in the pot.

As we saw at the very end of last week, Dixon’s mom has reappeared from thin air, or Phoenix, with a hollow offer to stay “at the hotel down the road,” so of course, a virtual stranger with a history of feeding her son tacos for 89 days (yeah, I know, weird), is invited to stay. Mother and son struggle to get to know each other until over a plate of tortilla chips (again, weird, they were just plain chips, no cheese, no guac, no salsa, did anyone else notice this!?) at the local sports bar Mom says those three magical words that always make everything better: I Online Gamble. Dixon can’t get home fast enough to log onto bythebookie.com. It’s a shame his car was stolen because something tells me he could really use it in a few months to pay off some debts.

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Just a reminder to all you “Life Unexpectees” out there: Lux is 15-years-old. Fifteen years old! I say this because, this week, it is very easy to forget that a girl who regularly stays at her boyfriends apartment, refers to her parents by their first names, constantly throws their failures and mistakes in their faces and who barters her love and good behavior in exchange for a job for her boyfriend, is only 15.

Likewise, it is difficult to remember that Cate and Baze (and Abbie for that matter) are not 15. What father offers to stop sleeping with his daughter’s aunt if she stops sneaking out to sleep with her boyfriend? What woman thinks it’s a good idea to sleep with her sister’s baby daddy? What mother shows up at her daughter’s deliquent boyfriends’ apartment, not to drag her home by her hair, but to see if she can offer him a job? (She can’t, btw, because even being the “star” of a Portland radio morning show does not cancel out the fact that Bug didn’t finish high school. Moral of the story" stay in school!)

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