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We believe it was the great Sheryl Crow who once remarked that L.A. ain’t no country club. In this week’s episode, written by local playwright Brendan Gall (with cameos from Toronto comedians Chris Locke, Rebecca Kohler and Aaron Eves, no less), every character faced the challenge of how to act on their impulses, especially the self-destructive ones. More deets on who did the nasty and with whom after the jump.
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We’re still recovering from the insanity of last night’s elimination: Adam chooses to stay! Joe decides to go! (For reality show contestants, these guys have an awful lot of say over their fates, don’t you think?) It was a dramatic cap to an episode full of scheming, alliances and a whole lot of man-on-man sniffing. Who came out on top? Who reprimanded our man Jeff? (Hint: rhymes with Devin O’Peary.) All the answers are in our TV brief after the jump.
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It’s February, which means Valentine’s Day is coming—which means some of us will be lonely (crying) and some of us will be sharing a meal and a bed with a loved one. American singles with nothing to do but watch movies on television were excited to find out that Time Warner Cable will be offering a Ryan Gosling On Demand service for the month of February. Everything Ryan Gosling has ever appeared in (or at least every movie—there’s no word of Breaker High being on offer) will be in this catalogue, and it’ll be priced from $1.99 to $4.99. A really lonely night could end up costing someone around $100, but Canadians won’t have to worry about frivolous spending, because Rogers hasn’t made the equally genius decision to ride Gozzy’s coattails.
(Images: TV, clip art; Ryan Gosling, screen grab from Crazy, Stupid, Love)
• Geniuses at Time Warner Cable Offering ‘Ryan Gosling On Demand’ [Jezebel]
Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays: besides seriously lacking sex this week, Mitch McDeere gets closer to breaking from his mostly pristine image—exactly what we’ve been waiting for. Mitch gets a little cranky when he’s being interrogated for murder, ’cause what’s a litigator to do without his motley crew (including his brother, who keeps stumbling upon evidence to help Mitch solve cases) and late-night mystery-solving dinners? An honest man would ride it out, but Mitch just gets angry. More on the worst week of his life after the jump.
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Tobias (never-nude) and Lindsay from Arrested Development (Image: screengrabs)
After years of rumours, delays and vague announcements, it’s been confirmed that the entire original cast of Arrested Development will reunite for its return next year. Plans to continue the beloved but ratings-deficient sitcom have been brewing since its cancellation in 2006, but they were put on hold while the cast members were rounded up. The final holdout was Brampton boy Michael Cera, who was presumably too busy playing ever more hip incarnations of his nebbish George Michael character in Juno and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. But writer Dean Lorey announced on his blog this weekend that the original cast—everyone from Will Arnett to Jessica Walter—has been assembled and the next season of the series will be shooting this year (it’ll air on Netflix in 2013). We’re guessing Cera finally realized he’d made a huge mistake.
This week’s episode of Redemption Inc. was an emotional rollercoaster. The ex-cons pulled together to sell 50/50 tickets for charity (hurrah!), but two of them also pulled muscles in a pathetic display of athletic incompetence (boo!). We saw more of Sam without a shirt on (bizarre, but enjoyable), and we also saw more of the saccharine, nice Kevin O’Leary (seriously, what’s the deal, Kevin?). We unpack all the action—including Adam’s scandalous end-of-episode confession—after the jump.
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It seems like by now we should probably have found something that bothers us about Mitch McDeere. But despite last week’s secrets and this week’s murder charge (remember that guy who threw himself over the balcony in episode one? Evidently, if you flee after a man throws himself off a balcony, it’ll seem like you killed him), it seems that Mitch, with his good looks and gentle demeanor (we know, right? Gentle, even with a mob boss who wants to kill him—ladies, he’s taken), is every man’s nemesis and every young litigator’s shining beacon of hope. While we’re lost in his dreamy, arrogance-free gaze, there’s the matter of his boorish brother Ray to wrap our heads around. Our take on Ray, Mitch’s black sheep brother, and how you can use desk sex to get what you want in our TV brief after the jump.
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Jill, Julia, Kim and Steph (Image: Four Weddings Canada)
What’s a husband-bride? It’s a husband who stands in as a contestant after his wife has come down with a bit of food poisoning, an invention courtesy of Four Weddings Canada. The outcome is hilarious, and hilarity is something this week’s episode desperately needed. If the HB hadn’t been present, this edition would’ve been the most saccharine to date. Sorry, brides, but you all thought everything was lovely? Everything? And you know why you loved all of the dresses? Because you all basically had the same one. Get over yourselves. Find out why this week’s husband-bride, Matthew, was amazing and see who measured off the charts on our Bitch-O-Meter after the jump.
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The conniving has begun and alliances are forming, which means Redemption Inc. is really heating up (and, presumably, that these ex-cons got to watch Survivor in the slammer)! Along with the cunning tactics, this week’s episode included a giant dog suit, the suspension of Joseph’s bathroom privileges and a remarkably subdued Kevin O’Leary (come on, man! Chew someone’s head off—not Jeff’s). Who opted out of the scheming? When did Kevin O’Leary grow a heart? We tackle these burning questions in our TV brief after the jump.
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Fame seekers and rose purveyors rejoice—CityTV has announced that The Bachelor is coming to Canada. The reality series won’t air until next fall, but producers have already put out the call for video auditions from Canadians who’d like to be the next Jillian Harris or Justin Rego. The show will have a “Canadian spin,” according to a press release, so we’re preparing ourselves for the stereotypes to come (a hockey-themed date is basically inevitable). Naysayers may see The Bachelor as the ultimate expression of our culture’s obsession with celebrity, but we have to admit a certain fondness for the expensive-looking girls next door that populate the show. They’re crazy, of course, but we admire their willingness to believe—despite all evidence to the contrary—that it’s all going to end in true love. Aw, bless. Crazy enough to fight for a relationship that most certainly won’t work out? Fill out the online application »
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Quick: name a Canadian Idol winner. Unless you’re one of those people who fell for Kalan Porter’s curls or Ryan Malcolm’s glasses, chances are you can’t. Over its six-year run, Idol produced a lot of tears, drama and vocal histrionics, but no bona fide stars. Former contestant Sebastian Pigott may be the exception that proves the rule, having become a hot property despite never making it to the winner’s circle.
Imagine being married to Mitch McDeere. Sure, your husband’s one handsome litigator, but his years spent hiding in witness protection and living in fear of impending death has got to take its toll on a person. Abby McDeere deserves a medal, but in episode 3, she gets morning sex instead. Sex, abandonment and the first real sign of why we’re supposed to even care about these characters in our TV brief after the jump.
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Huria, Samantha, Jessica and Rafela (Image: Four Weddings Canada)
This week’s episode pairs stodgy classical wedding ceremonies from 29-year-old Rafela and 35-year-old Samantha (who the producers portray as an infant trapped in a grown woman’s body) with cultural unions, like 28-year-old Huria’s Afghani celebration and 27-year-old Jessica’s Jewish-Indian ceremony. Some of the brides are culturally insensitive, but the narrator breaks the tension with one of his now-classic sex jokes. Find out who is a stone-cold bitch and who is allegedly “getting stuffed” in our TV brief after the jump.
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What a week on Redemption Inc.! There was a pair of split pants, a video bio with a shirtless ex-con and two grown men nearly coming to blows over whether a sundae bar ought to include gummy bears (the answer is obviously yes). Kevin O’Leary was once again fairly absent (which we still can’t fully comprehend, because this is his show), and a comic narrator even made light of one former convict’s past criminal life (how charming!). Read all about it in our TV brief after the jump.
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The suspense is palpable on this week’s Run, Mitch McDeere, Run The Firm, as we’re introduced to Brian, a tortured young man who admits to Mitch that he accidentally hit his girlfriend, Amy, with his car and stashed her body at a lake house (what an opening—but sadly, it wasn’t this lake house). Our TV brief and our Objections and Order in the Court checklist after the jump.
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