90210- Babes in toyland

"Live the dream like theres no tomorrow"

One thing about 90210, it is the most un-realistic show in the world at least to the majority of people that actually watch it. Who the hell throws around a forty thousand dollar bag like its nothing? Not me. Who can buy out a whole sex shop full of stuff and give each worker a thousand bucks just to get some gig? Not me. Hell if I could do that I probably wouldn't be sitting where I am right now. Nor would I be going to school like Naomi is, I would just be paying people off to do things I've always wanted to do. Carpe diem, seize the moment and all that right?


Well for some of us money doesn't just fall out of the sky.. Well unless your Annie but she still appreciates the value of a hard earned dollar. Luckily, to add on to her wealth she is about to get herself involved with a billionaire... Unless Naomi gets to him first. Anybody say girl fight? But while Annie is figuring out what to do with her wealth, fallen pop sensation Ade and Dixon are trying to make a career and work day jobs at the same time. As hard as that is to begin with, they now have to deal with Liam's psycho girlfriend. Everyone should have just listened to Annie when she tried to get rid of her but no now its become Ade's problem. After she deliberately made Ade and Dixon miss their meeting with a movie producer she conveniently slept with him and got Liam an acting gig. Yep, thats how easy it is in Hollywood right? But why is she trying to promote her boyfriend so much when she obviously has enough manipulating skills to get what she wants herself. She doesn't need him and his sexy bod. 


Silver is probably the only one that has some legit problems on this show. She got into NYU but instead of fulfilling her dream she is going to skip school and live her life to the fullest. Which means that the day she does get tested for breast cancer it is going to be positive. Although I cannot say that I actually relate to any of these characters because their story-lines don't flow; their all so jumpy. One minute Silver is in love with Navid, next their broken up, suddenly she's dating a professor and moving away with him, next their broken up and she's in love with Navid again. These things just happen so quickly that the show doesn't have any flow and I'm basically left watching only for the amazing fashion. 


Ivy is a character I cannot understand for the life of me. Her and Silver and just so all over the place. Their these free spirits that are trying to figure out their life and it shocks me how the writers have taken out the human emotion and made it possible that Ivy as a character can move on from her marriage so quickly and painlessly that she's already on her third relationship? What happened to the photography teacher? I feel that with each episode, Ivy takes on a personality thats completely new and foreign. Overall this episode was a flop. 

Memorable Quotes

• Naomi: And my house looks like a well appointed Chuck E. Cheese.
• Naomi: I take it role playing is on your resume.
• Silver: I just want to be excited for my future.
• Doctor: And I want you to have one.
• Annie: Oh my god I let him buy me a 40 thousand dollar bag?
• Jen: Well whoever he is he sounds like a keeper.
• Dixon: You do know the phrase don't quit your day job.
• Guy: And you thought you'd look less conspicuous dressed up as a ninja?
• Naomi: The son of a bitch is married!
• Naomi: Come back tomorrow theres a sale on handcuffs. Oh I see you brought your own. 
• Millionaire: I'm not wasting my time with a guilt ridden heiress. 
• Paddington: No I said there was no Mrs. Paddington, my wife kept her maiden name.
• Liam: I want to live everyday like it could be my last.
• Silver: Why spend time planning for a future you might not even have?

Pretty Little Liars- Eye of the Beholder

"I guess goodbyes are the only perfect things we get"

We're getting closer and closer to finding out who A is, but in the meantime A is pulling out all the cards. This weeks episode allowed us to step into Vivian's life through the introduction of Duncan. Apparently, when the torture A would put her threw became to much to handle Alison would  flee Rosewood and find comfort in Duncan.  It was an interesting thing to see that there were times when Ali actually stopped being a manipulative biatch and just let her real self shine through. By getting to know more about Ali, Aria stumbled upon some useful information: Ali had figured something out at Hilton Head the days he got killed. Could it be that Ali found out who A was and that's why she got killed? Does that mean that history repeats itself and the liars are in for the same punishment? 


Toby made his way back to Rosewood and brought with him a lot of tension and awkwardness. Spencer had to cope with the fact that she pretty much lost the love of her life to her worst enemy, Jenna and we were left wondering what had gotten into Toby? We understand Jenna's been through a lot but this alliance was the last thing anyone needed. Actually, it only adds on to the confusion. If Jenna isn't A than who is? Up until yesterdays episode all signs were positive that Jenna could have been A. This week in a  horrific mimic of that fire that took away Jenna's sight, A tried killing Jenna for what? And then framing possibly Garett, by placing his badge at the scene of the crime. This is actually brilliant thinking on A's part because Garett is a weak link and would have perfect reason to want revenge on Jenna, the girl that broke his heart. But lets not forget Garett now has a connection with Melissa, which in theory could be that basis of my argument: Melissa is A. Although technically Mona had just enough anger bottled up inside to want to get revenge on Jenna for stealing away Toby from her. Then theres also the possibility that Jason did it. The list just goes on and on. 

We did learn one thing. Allison was actually at Rosewood a lot earlier than the girls thought and from the clues it seems she might have went to a Rosewood concert the day of her death. What connection does that have to her murder? No idea. Did she run into Ian and Melissa and Melissa got so jealous she killed Ali? One thing for certain is everyone is damn good at keeping secrets in Rosewood. And speaking of secrets is Maya still alive or did A kidnap her and is he now writing emails as Maya to make sure that nobody comes looking for her????? 


As for the other relationships in Rosewood, they were basically non-existant. Well besides for the on-going flirting between doctor Ren and Spencer. Nothing like a doctor to get your mind off of your ex right? And As much as Aria and Ezra are fighting to stay together their loosing the spark they once had. Aria is too pre-occupied getting into planes with random strangers and trying to solve the mystery of Alison and A and Ezra... well he's Ezra. We thought that Aria's mom was on her daughters side for a split second only for those hopes to be crushed by the realization that all she want's to do is help her daughter let go of Ezra without pushing her away. And although it was pretty awesome that Ezra decided to stop getting pushed around by Aria's parents and stand up for himself, I can't help but this thats just going to make them hate him more. All we know for sure is that when A is revealed Aria can find comfort in Ezra's arms cause he is not going to take that teaching job. 


Memorable Quotes

• Jenna: I bet even a lie would sound good in that accent.
• Duncan: Was I in love with her? I could have been if someone hadn't gotten in the way.
• Mr. Montgomery: Well I think you made a mistake.
• Ezra: Possibly. But its not the mistake you think I'm making.
• Ezra: Its like this Byron. You think I'm the kind of man that would take this way out and I know I'm not. 
• Spencer: And than I came home and I found you lurking in the hydrangeas. 
• Ren: So I hate to break this too you but you have a very complicated life. 
• Spencer: Is that your medical opinion?
• Ren: Yes.
• Spencer: The condition is hereditary so their not much I can do about it I'm afraid.
• Ren: Fate keeps shoving us into the same path.
• Spencer: Don't confuse fate with just really bad luck. 

One Tree Hill- A Rush of Blood to the Head

One Tree Hill has become literally the most depressing show on air. I just cannot handle how much the writers are willing to screw up these peoples lives. No one on that show is happy. Not one single soul. Haley is still looking for Nathan and its heartbreaking to watch a woman look for her missing husband and no one seems to care. Like she said "its yesterdays news." And when she threw a tantrum at the police station she should have punched the officer who has the nerve to stand there and calm her down, knowing damn well where Nathan is. The only good result from this is that we get to see some familiar faces making their way back to Tree Hill. Last week we welcomed back Lucas, this week we welcome back Deb. But as Dan embraces his ex wife and risks his life in order to find his son and rescue him from the Serbian mafia, we see that redemption is totally possible and his book/T.V show didn't go completely to waste. 


One thing I don't understand is why Brooke won't call the cops and tell them that she is being harassed by an ex-con? I mean they will obviously do something to help her. Sure, everyone has the freedom to eat at whatever restaurant they want but this guy is clearer disturbed. He is stalking her down, he is watching her through the windows and its only a matter of time before he attacks her and this time, the outcome could be much worse. 


The biggest shocker had to have been with Clay, who has been trying to block out the fact that he had a baby with Sarah. Conveniently, that baby is cute little Logan. How could anyone not want that to be their child? This means that Clay has a lot of growing up to do and that starts by admittance and acceptance but I think with Quinn by his side he could definitely man up and be the father Logan needs. Which coincidentally means that Quinn will become a mother at the same time her ex-husband David (who is no longer rendezvousing with her sister Taylor) will become a father with Miss Lauren. Yes, Miss Lauren. Although I'll admit it was too funny seeing Skills tweak about possibly finding out he is the father of her baby. You know Tree Hill really is a small town. 


This does not seem to be the best year for Chase. After he lost his super hot girlfriend Alex, he got drafted to the Navy only to get arrested for possibly murder? As Chase got into the police car, his face was covered in splattered blood after he beat Chuck's dad for harming his wife and son. It was nice to see Chase in such a parental role over Chuck but why did the writers have to make it so extreme. A simple call to the cops would have worked just fine. Now Chuck might never forgive him and his life is pretty much over with. The cops should have arrested the guy that was beating on his family and not the guy protecting them, but the world is not a fair place. There is too much violence, mischief and hate going on in Tree Hill. 

Revenge- Scandal

"Tragedy and scandal it seems, have a unique way of changing peoples priorities"

After a thrilling episode of Revenge we are left speechless until April to find out whether Jack or Daniel will be saved. Like Emily was told, both of her lovers cannot be saved;one must go down. But who will it be? Takeda took matters into his own hands when he realized Emily was loosing grasp on the situation.  Has she gotten to the point that she really loves Daniel or is she still trying to sabotage his life and ruin the Grayson's?


In the wedding party chaos, Takeda's one mission was to get Emily back on track with getting her revenge. After killing Tyler and knocking Daniel out Takeda framed Daniel for the murder, but my I'm wondering how does this help Emily? Sure the family is hurting right now but she obviously had other plans didn't she? Although Daniel was suspicious of her I'm pretty sure she was good at convincing Daniel of her innocence. Now Daniel is rotting in jail but it is clear that there was a third party involved and who hates the Grayson's more than Amanda, whose become the  number one target. In my opinion this is a much bigger problem because once the cops start digging for Amanda they could quickly find out that Emily is not really who she says she is. Also, does this mean that Amanda is possibly already  dead? Did Takeda take care of that loose end as well? 


Most of this is really Nolan's fault because he should have told Emily that he was working with Takeda and that Takeda was planning a Daniel Grayson takedown. Unfortunately, we can't be mad at sweet Nolan who really is stuck in the middle of this mess.... so is Jack actually. Jack is willing to cover up for Amanda who basically dragged him into everything only to disappear and leave him to take the blame for the murder that night. Is this what Takeda wanted? But out of bad things always comes something good. Victoria and Conrad seem to be getting along and realizing that in they might just have to tough it out with each other forever.  Ashley is also getting her 5 minutes of fame as  the spokesperson for the Grayson's and she is actually the one that leaked all those pictures to the press. Why work for a family that you despise only to climb up the food chain? Like they say, don't bite the hand that feeds you Ashley. You might be targeting the Grayson's in a tragic and low point in their life, but lets not forget their experts at framing people and destroying their lives. Can you blame her though... We all just crave a little attention.


Memorable Quotes

• Emily: My fathers false imprisonment taught me that in a crisis you quickly find out who your real friends are. Tragedy and scandal it seems, have a unique way of changing peoples priorities. 
• David: What about love? Can you live without that?
• Judge: In my courtroom justice has no price tag.
• Emily: Adversity creates unexpected alliances, but treaties of this nature seldom form with an equality of power. 

Ringer- P.S You're an Idiot

"Your having twins..."

Ringer is slowly turning up the heat... and I like it. After what seemed to be like a badly plotted cry for attention from Juliet we learn that her mother was actually the mastermind behind a pathetic money sucking scheme. Suddenly Juliet's becomes the victim that got tangled up in some divorced parent drama. Her mother planned everything in order to take money from the father... everyone else involved was collateral damage. She pretended to have a relationship with the teacher only to steal the $3 million dollars he made executing her plot and threatening him with a video exposing him as a con-artist that took advantage of his rich student. When Tessa was close to exposing them, she took care of it by literally putting the girl in a-coma and stealing her money. Basically everyone got played and ended up broke in the end while Catherine walked away filthy rich.  Classy... A role model mother for sure. It won't be long before Juliet caves and tells her father about the fraud. She's going to see that he is having money issues and that his firm is getting run to the ground and than what?


But seems like Catherine isn't the only deceptive person in this town. Sadly, we see a separation of upper and lower class and their priorities. Although Malcolm and Bridget are living the good life now, they used to be poor addicts. Yet they were still honest people compared to the filthy rich liars and criminals in Siobhan's life. Andrew, a decent all around family guy, has been running a ponzi scheme and no, no matter how much we want to believe it was Olivia's doing, the idea was all Andrew's.  We encounter people and we realize that using drugs is just as bad as using people in order to get rich. The only difference is that with drugs your hurting yourself mostly but when your involved in fraud and all that, your hurting everyone else in order to enrich your own life. Thats also made very clear as Bridget places and the pieces of the puzzle together and Andrew finally tells her the truth. You can see that although she has hit the lowest of lows in her previous life, dealing with someone like Andrew is not something she will tolerate. Money ruins people. Its better to be poor and happy than rich and messed up. 

Now that Henry is onto Bridget how long will it be before everyone else figures it out?  Will Bridget come clean to escape the wrath of Andrew and Olivia, who from next weeks previews, are clearly willing to go to any extreme to keep "Siobhan" from exposing them. And what will the real Siobhan do. After planning a perfect life with Henry she finds out that she's pregnant with twins... Andrews twins. Will she come back from the dead and tell Andrew the truth or will she stick by Henry's side. With everyone meddling in everyones business its only a matter of time till all the secrets are exposed. Personally, I am still irked by the fact that I don't fully understand Siobhan's agenda. She is hiding away in Paris because she wants to ruin Martin and Charles and get money from Andrew (seems like his wives have that in common) but by giving all that information to Bridget she kind of shot herself in the toe. And going back to episode one, who was the guy that wanted to kill Bridget... Did we forget about him? Are we suppose to ignore that her own sister might have wanted to kill her? 

Whatever the case might be, truth or lie, Bridget seems to make the whole family and relationship with Andrew and Juliet work much better than Siobhan ever could. And while we are so vested in the corrupt schemes of the Manhattan socialites are we suppose to forget about Macawi trying to find Bridget? I'm sure his people have realized she has a twin and from my interpretation of people that want revenge, if you can't find the person your looking for don't you start going after the family? It would be nice to see that story line incorporated once again. 


Memorable Quotes

• Doctor: Are you worried your husband is not the father?
• Siobhan: I'm worried he is.
• Olivia: If we paid you to gossip you'd be a millionaire.
• Catherine: You're going to stop harassing my daughter and start harassing me.
• Bridget: I want to get married to you, I just don;t want it be like last time. I want it to be like the first time.  

Pretty Little Liars- Father Knows Best

"When you love someone it's worth fighting for no matter what the odds are"

A rather disappointing episode of Pretty Little Liars this week only because I am just frustrated and the confusing clues and the lack of revelation. Its literally like solving a murder mystery... Oh wait.  From the episode we could come to the conclusion that Melissa hated Ali. She was so mad at Ali for flirting with Ian constantly that she sent her threatening text messages as A. Than when she had her chance she killed her?? With Garett's help? And now she is entertaining her pregnant self by being  A? The pieces of the puzzle just don't fit together. But what we can derive is that Melissa and Spencer's father are trying to cover their own butts and blame each other. Each ones explanation for his/her shady actions blames the other. Melissa wants Spence to believe that it was their father. The father wants Spence to believe that he is innocent and the only reason he had all the pictures of Ali is because he was doing a private investigation to see is Melissa was behind the murder. Which I guess would make sense since she was involved with Ian, who still might have had a lot to do with Ali's death that night. Both Melissa and the father have reason to want Ali dead. The father because Ali knew about his affair and was blackmailing him. Melissa because of her boyfriend. 

We area also more inclined to believe Melissa is dangerous because she was the last person to glance at that desk before the gun went missing. But who would she want to kill? She's also getting very close to Garett and they have been working together and she has been telling him too much information.. Is this on purpose? Is she trying to lure Spencer off the road of figuring out who A is. And who tempted Maya to get into a car instead of heading off to San Fran? I doubt Melissa would want to do that so were back to square one.... Who is A? Why would A want Maya? Oh the possibilities. But that leads into the case of Ali and Vivian (possibly a twin) and there seems to be no correlation between anything anymore, except that A is a superhuman villain.


Whoever was texting Ali as A back when she was still alive was doing it from the Doll Hospital. A hospital which probably delivered the dolls that threatened the liars. I can also connect this back to Melissa because the dolls were found back in Spencer's lake house. I have also realized that it would be perfect for Melissa to be A because many times when big things happen, they take place at Spencer's house. But for a pregnant lady to be doing all that work is impossible, which means she has a sidekick. One that drops phones and stalks people. Garett anyone? This duo is just way to perfect. But realistically who is Vivian? When the girls went to that doll hospital somebody thought that Aria was actually Vivian, which means that Vivian had to have had a presence in that neighborhood. The boy was also very shocked to see her which allows me to believe Vivian disappeared at the same time Alison did. Were they the same person? Twins?


My favorite scene this week had to have been Mike stepping up to Aria's dad about the whole Ezra thing. Sometimes teens really are smarter than their parents. But when parents start to realize they have a problem with A thats when things get messy. A hates when people interrupt his plans so this might mean total destruction for the parents. Worst case scenario, one of the parents dies. Best case scenario, the parents find out who A is. It could technically be Mona. She was way to eager to have Aria lie to Hannah's mother to get the parents off of A's trail. And since when do we include Mona in top secret A work? Two more episode guys.... Two more episodes and all our questions will be answered.. Hopefully. The one negative thing about this show is the abundance of characters. There is so many that each episode lacks many re-occuring characters which makes me wonder what are they up too and why do they have such an important role when we do see them next? Where's Lucas, Caleb, Toby, Jenna and Nolan??? 

Gossip Girl- The Princess Dowry

"I love you but I'm not in love with you"

For a winter finale Gossip Girl took their plot to a whole new level and each character had a distinctive storyline... Except for maybe Serena and Nate who have become rather irrelevant in the world of Blair Waldorf.

The Van der Woodsen family celebrated CiCi's wake instead of mourning it. Cici  took the family on a wild ride proving that although she has passed away she can still stir up some drama. As a woman who knew everyones secrets it is no doubt that she appointed Serena's father as the lawyer in charge of everything.  Serena's father is also the father of the real Charlie Rhodes, which means that the feud between the Rhode's sisters is about to get much more intense and this explains why Lily's sister never wanted the family to meet the real Charlie. Aside from the fact that she thinks the family is a materialistic lot she also wanted to avoid the baby mama drama. We also know why she never asked for money from the baby's father but instead chose to get the money from her daughters trust-fund, via starving actress Ivy Dickens. I truly feel bad for Charlie. One minute she finds out that she has a cousin named Serena and the next she's going to be finding out Serena is actually her step-sister. Talk about keeping a family secret.

But starving actress no more because if its one thing Ivy picked up on the Upper East Side its how to play the game better than anyone else. After she was sucked into this world, she created an alliance with the one woman who loved her unconditionally. The wonderful thing about CiCi is she apparently knew Ivy wasn't the real Charlie but that didn't stop her from giving a huge portion of her will to Ivy. Could it possibly be that she was just embarrassed at how screwed up her real family was? Did she see the authentic side of Ivy and realize that she was just a girl that lost too much and wanted something real and stable? Whatever it was CiCi saw in her it has created Ivy the monster, who basically bit the hand that fed her. After Lily took her into her home and gave her everything, she had the nerve to kick Rufus and Lily out of the their home, a home that technically was given to Ivy after CiCi's death.

Blair Waldorf is not the smartest when it comes to making choices of the heart. Her heart is confused and I think she's starting to loose it being locked up in a marriage that doesn't even exist. Whats the point of Louie even being married to her at this point when he's never with her, not even for publicity. She has already damaged the royal name by having blasts of her locking lips with Humphrey posted all over Gossip Girl. Another lesson we can take from this is never settle for second best. Sure she fell for Humphrey but thats temporary. Don't push away the person you have loved for so long for a feeling of momentary happiness. And that Dair make-out scene at the end.... YUCK. At this point, Chuck shouldn't even degrade himself to that level anymore. She will realize what she gave away soon enough.

Georgina is classic. She is the epitome of mischief and blackmailing. She is perfect at finding peoples weak spot and using it against them. But to break up a royal marriage and avoid having Blair pay the dowry seems like an impossible mission, even for Georgina. Has she made friends with the family of Monaco? Perhaps the return of a sister or better yet, a priest?  It'll be interesting to see how she keeps her promise to set Blair free and what will she want in return?

Memorable Quotes

• GG: They say we should carry our secrets to the grave but on the Upper East Side secrets are the one thing you can never bury. Even when we think we know everything about the ones we love theirs always a skeleton in the walk in closet. 
• Nate: The entire Van der Woodsen clan is pretty overwhelming on a good day.
• Nate: Are you sure you want to start world war Waldorf now?
• Ivy: Your mother knew all of my secrets and she knew all over yours too. Thats why she left me everything. 
• Georgina: I've been so good for so long. Its time for me to be bad.