It was Wednesday and I forgot to post ;) Revenge

Revenge - I confess I had a hard time picturing sweet Amy (Everwood) or even dubious and then nice Rebecca (Brothers&Sisters) playing such a revengeful Amanda, oppsie my mistake Emily Thorne, but Emily VanCamp is doing it pretty well, and let me add with a lot of grace. The title for the series is pretty straight forward , it's about revenge, what we still don't know exactly what was the cause for her fathers ruin, but we do know Emily will bring down one by one that helped ruin her fathers and her life.

This week episode was full of revenge as expected and as we could see that Emily is not afraid to spend as much money as needed to get what she wants, and once again Victoria didn't get her way, but we also got to see Emily's Amanda side a bit, well every time she is with Jack and Sammy (smart dog) she goes back to her roots and it's the only time when she is not plotting.

However I can't figure out what happened to Jack so he would attack Daniel on the pilot Engagement Party. I wonder??

Tuesday pick's

So following yesterday theme, here are some overviews about series aired on Tuesday, well the ones I watch at least ;)

Glee - I couldn't be happier by the "coming back to it's roots" , cos I love the musical performances but I was missing the heart on the series, and nothing better than character development and arcs for it. This is exactly what they are hoping to deliver this season, with new additions such Marti Noxon and Ali Adler to the creative staff I have no doubts they will succeed.

The season already started well, explaining why some character wouldn't appear anymore, adding others, bringing old arcs back ( Quinn's Baby, Rachel's Mom) and putting Rachel and Kurt in my favorite scene by the duo, both crying inside a car when they realize that there are performers better than them.

For this week, it seems we are going to have the best episode ever with an awesome performance by Heather Morris, I can't wait.

New Girl - Another new series, however this one I really didn't know much about it, except Zooey

Deschanel was the big name on it, however it's on just after Glee, which made me stay tuned. Glad I did, it's funny , cute and light.

A girl brakes up with her boyfriend and moves in with 3 guys she never met, and well then you have to watch to see in which kinda of situations they end up. Cool thing Max Greenfield (Veronica Mars) and Jake M. Johnson (No Strings Attached ) are in it too. =)

Ringer - It didn't really need much to convince me to watch, come on Sarah Michelle Gellar playing two twin sisters, with a lot of mystery and unresolved issues. Ok have I mention SMG back to TV thing, cos I think that was pretty much enough to convince any Buffy fan as me to give the new show a try.

So the pilot was a bit confusing, a lot to explain in a short time, but I think the major points were covered and well to understand both sisters I believe I/ we have to stick around to understand their choices better. Anyway it's for sure intriguing.

New Seasons/ It's Monday

Ok so most of the new seasons started already, unfortunately no Chuck YET, so I thought I should take this blog out of its misery and post something. So bellow you will find quick reviews/opinions of some of the series Im watching at the moment: Castle, Gossip Girl, Hart Of Dixie, Glee, New Girl, Ringer,Revenge, The Big Bang Theory, The Vampire Diaries. Grey's Anatomy and Fringe.

Today let's stick to the Monday ones ;)

Castle - ok we all knew that Beckett wouldn't die (come on leading lady), so that was no surprise, but what we didn't know was how she would react and come back after Castle " I Love you" , clearly she decided to go with the classic "I don't remember anything that happened during the shooting", but by the end we know that she remembers everything and doesn't know what to do, so... the pretending and hello therapy.

On the second episode , a kinda of funny comic book inspired episode, where Kate and Castle get to be a bit more comfortable around their new boss (ok not really,but learning how she rolls), but deliver a nice chemistry while resolving the murder in question, and seeing themselves kinda of represented in the reporter trying to protect the super heroine he loves.

Let's not forget that Castle is not dealing so well with the idea of Alexis to leave early to Stanford, and we can always count on Martha for great laughs .

Gossip Girl - honestly is just the same old same, Serena does well in something she

didn't expect, Dan is a train wreck because of a girl ( surprisingly is not Serena this time, it seems to be Blair,weird?right?!). Blair, well is plotting and seems to be having one of her many fairy tales. Chuck decided to go kinda reckless, and Nate, ow well he always bored me. I have no idea why, but for some reason I still watch it and still have a tiny very thin hope that it will go back to its roots, or at least finds a good arc for this season.

Hart Of Dixie - New series starring Rachel Bilson as Zoe Hart a very determined new doctor from New York, who has her plans derailed and end up in a small city at the South with half of a practice given to her by a mysterious men, who by the end is reveled as her father. I absolutely loved the pilot, thought it was completely adorable and had a lot of heart, some funny moments that you can always count when you put someone from a big city in a small town and a touch of Everwood, which I really miss.

"Chuck vs The Cliffhanger"

ok so now that the buzz has passed and I watched, well I lost the count of how many times I watched "Chuck vs The Cliffhanger", writing time.

The thing is, writing a season finale without knowing if the series is going to get renewed must be quite tricky, specially if has a loyal fan base as Chuck has, you need to make an ending that if by unfortunate reasons you get canceled you won't leave the fans disappointed and if you are renewed you still give them something to cling till the series return in September.

Sure if you write for TV eventually, I imagine, this is a requirement and must get easier with time, but I still find quite challenging, and we do see many not so lucky series leaving our screens without a proper ending because whoever wrote had the good faith that they would probably last one more season or simply wouldn't be cancelled just yet, or writes a complete rushed pile of events that if the series hadn't been canceled we just know wouldn't happen that soon.

Thanks to NBC and Chuck fans campaigns this didn't happen to Chuck, I do think S4 finale would have worked pretty well if it was the series finale, ok I would be biting my nails cos I would be so mad that I didn't get to see how Morgan would deal with the Intersect and how Chuck would feel about it!! but lucky things happen to this little show and I won't have to imagine those things, but actually see them on the series 5th and final season. I know bittersweet, right?!!

(*if you don't need a recap, skip to the end of the big block bellow)

Now this is what happened… Sarah became Vivian Volkoff target = she was poisoned by the Norseman, Chuck does everything he can to save her even go against the CIA,but General Beckman does help a bit, Chuck kidnaps Volkoff from the CIA agent Clyde Decker that even makes Casey go pale, and we know Casey doesn't go pale easily, little problem with the plan was that he assumed he was kidnapping Volkoff, grrrrrr think again, you remember Volkoff was a personality intersect kinda of thing, which means when no intersect , he is back to his original self Hartley Winterbottom , awkward scientist, but that will do, they make an antidote that buys Sarah more time, so while Ellie,Devon and Morgan take care of her, Chuck, Mama B,Casey, Hartley are going to Moscow, but not just yet, they get captured and Chuck has the Intersect suppressed, Clyde ties to turn Casey, but no way he manages to escape and go behind Castle bullet proof doors to rescue the rest of his team and give blank identities to Chuck if everything works out,so he and Sarah can start a new life, Hartley and Chuck go to Moscow, but ex Volkoff not so confident as he used to be and bails on Chuck, which leaves him alone having to be plain honest to Vivian, while that Sarah is not doing so well and did I mention that Devon was just his awesome self and knocked a CIA agent before Morgan could choose between sweep the leg and magnet, anyway back to Moscow Chuck is pleading to Vivian when Hartley walks in, thanks to his extremely helpful employees, so Chuck and Hartley bargain with Vivian, then fly back to Burbank, Clyde not letting Chuck inside the hospital, CAT squad joins Mama B and Casey, to support Chuck, but Clyde focused on the wrong thing and doesn't see the Russians approaching, fight won, Chuck runs till Sarah's room and gives Ellie the new antidote. CUT. While all that happened we had flashbacks of Chuck and Sarah rehearsing their vows together, aren't they sweet but we just see Sarah's vows.CUT. wedding time, oh now wake, oh ho, wedding, tricky sign, a very quick but extremely sweet ceremony that had everybody tearing even Casey, and Chuck vows to Sarah a mix of emotional+funny,just perfect for our spy couple, busy Morgan as he is a sort of minister,best men, then driver, surprise Winterbottom call, awesome wedding gift.CUT. bummed Jeff and Lester, worried Big Mike, because the store was sold, dig deep and Chuck has a little screen encounter with Clyde giving a powerful speech, our unemployed 4 spies meet, Chuck and Sarah tell what they got as a wedding present from Hartley = Volkoff 's fortune, so hello private agency, Buy More as cover and oppssie someone forgot some cool spy shades alone, beard saw,beard used, beard fell and hey guys " I know Kong Fu", yes Morgan just got uploaded with the Intersect .CUT.

(recap finished here)

So basically a lot happened, and I was always of the opinion that I preferred the wedding to happen on the season 5 cos for me it felt rushed to have it on season 4, and by saying that, it doesn't mean I didn't like the wedding, come on it was completely adorable and sweet, just picture perfect for those two and way more conventional that I even expected a Chuck wedding to be, but we ended up with a very fast wedding, we got to see very little, and hey ain't a wedding crazy here, but once you watched those 2 during the entire series, you kinda want them to give that super moment more attention, and no flashbacks on top of the few wedding scenes we have. Point made. Best part of Chuck vows :"That our kids are gonna be like little super heroes ,with little capes and stuff like that"

Overall the episode was a great mix, not action packed but high stakes, run against time, funny moments, cool motorcycle, great lines, the value of friendship/family, which for me makes a great Chuck episode and very human, the guy is doing everything he possibly can to save the love of his life, even when he gets ,his best chance to save her, out of him (intersect) , and if you stop and think hey for the first time he was actually in a mission without the Intersect or a safety net and was extremely successful, Chuck became a spy on his own and I honestly hope to see more of that on season 5, and even if they put the intersect back on him, that he has the chance before that to show that he can be a spy just as good with or without the intersect, ok he might need some fight training without the intersect, but hey every spy gets that so is just fair for Chuck to finally get one, and hey its funny scenes guaranteed.

And if you ask me, my favorite scenes of Chuck vs The Cliffhanger = Chuck and Sarah vows rehearsal in PJ's, NightHawk , Russians, so many Russians, Chuck vows and Sarah's vows, she was so honest and open ;)

Things I missed: more General Beckman, I still can't believe she didn't get invited to the wedding, and I can't believe I'll say this but, I missed Jeff and Lester, they had such a big part on Ellie and Devon wedding and none on Chuck and Sarah.

hopefully I'll write soon!! ;)