- Apparently Adam Martinez is actually semi-famous, as sad as that is... He's a UFC referee, or was at the time of the show. There's a lot of stuff on some UFC forums making fun of him, especially how scrawny he is. Sadly there seems to be only praise re: his wife, who is moderately hot despite how unbelievably crazy she is.
Unfair. - MTV is now showing daily episodes of Degrassi (no worries, there will be more Degrassi coverage this fall) as well as the movie.
Really?
Yeah, everyone knows they gave up on their namesake years ago, but at least it was still original crap. Now they're just using whatever they find in the box of tapes in the Viacom studios?
Where's the 16 and Pregnant? What about the My Super Sweet 16? Don't they realize that the only people who watch Degrassi are either well under their obvious target demographic of 16 year old girls, or just have a medical condition that prevents them from diverting their eyes?
They shouldn't be trying to capitalize on my handicap.
I think there's a lawsuit in there somewhere...
Showing posts with label Lifetime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lifetime. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A couple updates...
I just found some new information regarding two of my previous posts:
Monday, August 24, 2009
Drop Dead Diva- another gem from Lifetime
Since Degrassi is between seasons, I've been satisfying my inner masochist with this quality new show on Lifetime.
Drop Dead Diva is about a completely shallow 20-something model who is killed while putting on makeup in the car, and upon her death finds out that she has committed absolutely no good OR bad deeds. Now don't ask me how that is even possible, since she's, you know, done stuff, and had relationships with people... Anyway, she messes with their computers (naturally) and accidentally sends herself into "a recently vacated vessel"- the body of a fat lawyer who was basically a saint and died while trying to talk someone down from a hostage situation.
So in summary, the woman who was super nice and did lots of pro bono work and good deeds died, while the shallow woman who had never done a SINGLE good deed got to keep living. A great message for all, I'm sure.
Now I know some people will say "But the other woman got to go to heaven sooner! That's what we all want!" But at the very least, consider that all her loved ones lost her that day- she was replaced with a personality that wasn't even remotely the same- but none of them were given the opportunity to grieve. They never got a chance to say goodbye, because they never even realized she died. Clearly she could never tell any of them the truth, because there's no way to convince the lawyer's friends that she didn't just go crazy from getting shot.
On the other hand, she has lots of information about the model's life- things that no one else could know about, things that she could use to convince her own friends that she really is the model. Just bigger and smarter.
And when it comes down to it, that's what the show is actually about. The model's boyfriend was fixin' to propose before she died. Now she wants to tell him the truth, but she's afraid she's too fat for him to love her anymore.
In all honesty, she's probably right. After all, he wasn't dating the model for her smarts, and we've already determined she wasn't a good person. (In fact she probably didn't have much of a personality to speak of at all.)
So what the whole show really revolves around is her wanting to tell her boyfriend that she's still alive, because once she does it, they have nowhere to go.
This also means that in all of their previews, they show her telling him, in one way or another, and also - as it turns out - that she never actually does it in the show. They show her saying the words once - she's talking into a mirror. The next time - she was just imagining what it would be like.
LOL how clever!
Oh did I mention that aforementioned boyfriend just got a job in the very same law office where Lawyer works?
So meanwhile, Boyfriend has been getting friendly with the only "thin" female lawyer in the office. I'll call her "Ho" for convenience. In the most recent episode, immediately before she imagines telling Boyfriend the truth, he tells her that since her death, he's been seeing Model in other women, especially Ho. She inexplicably doesn't tell him right then, even though she fully intended to, and still planned on telling him in the near future - it didn't seem like an issue of courage.
Of course when she goes to confess it all later, Boyfriend and Ho are making out in his office.
Class-y
And yet, I am unable to stop watching.
I should probably see a doctor. Maybe there's some medication I can take.
Drop Dead Diva is about a completely shallow 20-something model who is killed while putting on makeup in the car, and upon her death finds out that she has committed absolutely no good OR bad deeds. Now don't ask me how that is even possible, since she's, you know, done stuff, and had relationships with people... Anyway, she messes with their computers (naturally) and accidentally sends herself into "a recently vacated vessel"- the body of a fat lawyer who was basically a saint and died while trying to talk someone down from a hostage situation.
So in summary, the woman who was super nice and did lots of pro bono work and good deeds died, while the shallow woman who had never done a SINGLE good deed got to keep living. A great message for all, I'm sure.
Now I know some people will say "But the other woman got to go to heaven sooner! That's what we all want!" But at the very least, consider that all her loved ones lost her that day- she was replaced with a personality that wasn't even remotely the same- but none of them were given the opportunity to grieve. They never got a chance to say goodbye, because they never even realized she died. Clearly she could never tell any of them the truth, because there's no way to convince the lawyer's friends that she didn't just go crazy from getting shot.
On the other hand, she has lots of information about the model's life- things that no one else could know about, things that she could use to convince her own friends that she really is the model. Just bigger and smarter.
And when it comes down to it, that's what the show is actually about. The model's boyfriend was fixin' to propose before she died. Now she wants to tell him the truth, but she's afraid she's too fat for him to love her anymore.
In all honesty, she's probably right. After all, he wasn't dating the model for her smarts, and we've already determined she wasn't a good person. (In fact she probably didn't have much of a personality to speak of at all.)
So what the whole show really revolves around is her wanting to tell her boyfriend that she's still alive, because once she does it, they have nowhere to go.
This also means that in all of their previews, they show her telling him, in one way or another, and also - as it turns out - that she never actually does it in the show. They show her saying the words once - she's talking into a mirror. The next time - she was just imagining what it would be like.
LOL how clever!
Oh did I mention that aforementioned boyfriend just got a job in the very same law office where Lawyer works?
So meanwhile, Boyfriend has been getting friendly with the only "thin" female lawyer in the office. I'll call her "Ho" for convenience. In the most recent episode, immediately before she imagines telling Boyfriend the truth, he tells her that since her death, he's been seeing Model in other women, especially Ho. She inexplicably doesn't tell him right then, even though she fully intended to, and still planned on telling him in the near future - it didn't seem like an issue of courage.
Of course when she goes to confess it all later, Boyfriend and Ho are making out in his office.
Class-y
And yet, I am unable to stop watching.
I should probably see a doctor. Maybe there's some medication I can take.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Wife Swap: Figaratto/Martinez
Thank god for the travesty that is Lifetime.
I was worried at first that they wouldn't give me any material for today. The first Wife Swap on today's lineup was an episode where one family believed they were living in medieval times, and the other believed that "all children should have to go to public school." It was worrisome because although that's clearly meeting their insanity quotient for the day, it's really not trainwrecky enough to make for a full post.
But I should have had faith.
Meet the Figaratto and Martinez families.
The Figaratto's are obsessed with karaoke. No really. I know lots of people who enjoy karaoke, and I loved having roommates who owned Rock Band and singing with them several nights a week. But I did other stuff. And it certainly never got to the point of "Well dinner's over- it's time for karaoke. Again!" And additionally, when we did the same songs over and over, it was because we had to in order to reach the next level- and it was really freaking annoying. But they didn't have that restraint; they had tons of CDs and had already spent thousands of dollars on equipment. These people were singing "La Bamba" and "Bye Bye Love" on loop and they had been for over a decade. And they were doing it completely voluntarily.
And by comparison, they were the sane ones.
That's right.
I'll start with the best part. I'm pretty sure that at one point Papa Martinez claimed that his kid spending time with Step-Mama's prized cockatoo is the same as having quality time with his parents.
/wtf
Not only was Mama Martinez a total wet blanket when it came to karaoke, but she was a freaking basket case when it came to her bird. And worst of all, she married a man with a kid, but clearly believed that since she was still so young, that his kid wasn't any of her responsibility.
Her responsibilities are limited to:
a) practicing her kickboxing at the dojo the family owns
b) romancing her husband at date nights
c) teaching her damn bird how to go potty in the trash can
The first thing she did when she saw her husband again was ask how the bird was!
Yeah, work, romance, taking care of pets...those things are all important, but when you marry a father with full custody, you're a mother. And when you're a mother, you're a mother first. Even if you're only in your 20s. Papa Martinez is absolutely not without blame though. He already had a child when he married Mama, and it was his job first to not allow someone into his child's life who refused to prioritize the kid over everything else. And what's worse, he even allowed himself to be brainwashed the same way, that the damn bird is far more sensitive and needed much more attention than his own son.
Meanwhile, the 10 year old kid is eating whatever he can find from a can. Oh, but they explain it's only "Monday - Thursday"! That's 4 nights a week! He's ten years old.
And when the son was asked what changed after the swap? "We got to do jujitsu again."
Gag me.
I was worried at first that they wouldn't give me any material for today. The first Wife Swap on today's lineup was an episode where one family believed they were living in medieval times, and the other believed that "all children should have to go to public school." It was worrisome because although that's clearly meeting their insanity quotient for the day, it's really not trainwrecky enough to make for a full post.
But I should have had faith.
Meet the Figaratto and Martinez families.
The Figaratto's are obsessed with karaoke. No really. I know lots of people who enjoy karaoke, and I loved having roommates who owned Rock Band and singing with them several nights a week. But I did other stuff. And it certainly never got to the point of "Well dinner's over- it's time for karaoke. Again!" And additionally, when we did the same songs over and over, it was because we had to in order to reach the next level- and it was really freaking annoying. But they didn't have that restraint; they had tons of CDs and had already spent thousands of dollars on equipment. These people were singing "La Bamba" and "Bye Bye Love" on loop and they had been for over a decade. And they were doing it completely voluntarily.
And by comparison, they were the sane ones.
That's right.
I'll start with the best part. I'm pretty sure that at one point Papa Martinez claimed that his kid spending time with Step-Mama's prized cockatoo is the same as having quality time with his parents.
/wtf
Not only was Mama Martinez a total wet blanket when it came to karaoke, but she was a freaking basket case when it came to her bird. And worst of all, she married a man with a kid, but clearly believed that since she was still so young, that his kid wasn't any of her responsibility.
Her responsibilities are limited to:
a) practicing her kickboxing at the dojo the family owns
b) romancing her husband at date nights
c) teaching her damn bird how to go potty in the trash can
The first thing she did when she saw her husband again was ask how the bird was!
Yeah, work, romance, taking care of pets...those things are all important, but when you marry a father with full custody, you're a mother. And when you're a mother, you're a mother first. Even if you're only in your 20s. Papa Martinez is absolutely not without blame though. He already had a child when he married Mama, and it was his job first to not allow someone into his child's life who refused to prioritize the kid over everything else. And what's worse, he even allowed himself to be brainwashed the same way, that the damn bird is far more sensitive and needed much more attention than his own son.
Meanwhile, the 10 year old kid is eating whatever he can find from a can. Oh, but they explain it's only "Monday - Thursday"! That's 4 nights a week! He's ten years old.
And when the son was asked what changed after the swap? "We got to do jujitsu again."
Gag me.
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