LOST Season Finale: The Good, The Bad and The WTF?!

LOST doesn’t return with new episodes until January 2009, but I think last night’s season finale provided enough questions and answers to keep people interested and speculating until then. Something tells me that LOST won’t be falling from our pop culture radar despite it’s long hiatus.

I’m completely overwhelmed as to where to start. The past? The present? The future? It would probably be more interesting if I could tell one from the other. But I can’t. I’m too confused. I wish Juliet would share some of that Dharma Rum because I could sure used some right about now. Oh it’s only 7am? My bad. I’ll wait until at least 8:45am to start drinking.

Before we get into to what exactly went down last night (besides the helicopter), I must say that while I truly enjoyed the two hour experience of last night’s LOST, I think I was a left a little underwhelmed. That being said, I think last year’s season finale set the bar so high that I may have been expecting a bit too much. Where last year’s finale turned the entire show upside down, last night’s episode served to answer some pretty important questions while setting us up for a new storyline when the show returns next year. I guess that’s what a good season finale is supposed to do. But this is LOST so I was expecting the unexpected (oh wait, that’s BIG BROTHER…dang).

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Rest in Peace Harvey Korman

I just heard the news of the passing of legendary comedian, Harvey Korman. Korman was best known for his time as a main player on THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW but was also well remembered for his many roles including that in BLAZING SADDLES.

My family watched a lot of THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW when I was younger and watching Korman and Tim Conway crack up on screen during the show is one of my earliest TV memories. He will be missed.

A Sneak Peek at Tonight’s LOST Season Finale

Just can’t wait until tonight’s 2-hour season finale of LOST? Yeah, me neither. For people like you and me who are all about immediate gratification, here are a bunch of sneak peek videos from tonight’s episodes. Let the speculation run wild. (You know we’ll be wrong anyway).

What to Watch…Thursday, May 29, 2008

Set the TiVo’s people because we’ve got a battle royale going on tonight. Well, that’s probably overstating it a bit. I mean I love SYTYCD (as you might have heard) but really, it’s all about the 2-hour LOST season finale. I’m hearing great things about tonight’s episode and I’ll be posting sneak preview clips in just a few minutes. But for now, check out what’s worth watching tonight.

So You Think You Can Dance | 8pm on Fox
The fourth round of auditions continue tonight. I’m not sure exactly what cities they are hitting tonight but I think Washington, DC is one of them. What a treat. I didn’t realize we had another new episode tonight. Vegas…we’re coming for you.

Lost | 9pm on ABC | 2-hour Season Finale
“There’s No Place Like Home”
As the fourth season comes to a close, the face-off continues between the survivors and the freighter people, and the Oceanic 6 find themselves ever closer to rescue. (If you missed the first part of “There’s No Place Like Home”, ABC is reairing it tonight at 8pm)

Last Comic Standing | 8:30pm on NBC
The search for jokesters continues, as Angela Kinsey and Oscar Nuñez, both from “The Office,” go scouting for comedians in Los Angeles. Also: Neil Flynn and Alfonso Ribeiro recruit funny folks in Houston.

Keep on Dancing…More SYTYCD Auditions

With another audition episode out of the way, we are one step closer to Vegas. Last night the show was in Salt Lake City and Dallas - both strong dance cities. Salt Lake alone sent 42 dancers off the Vegas. Crazy! And based on the quality of dancers we’ve seen thus far I think it’s going to be one hell of a season on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE.

Once we get to Vegas we’ll be talking a bit more about some of the dancers. But for now, here’s just a few that stood out for me last night.

Chelsie Hightower - I’m not a big fan of the sob stories. I find them manipulating and unnecessary on a show of this caliber. Am I suppose to have sympathy for a family who lost everything including “several cars”? Come on now. But it’s reality TV and I must endure. If I’m going to have to sit through the melodrama I expect to see some good dancing, and that’s just what I got from Chelsie Hightower. Actually I thought I saw some great dancing. Despite being a bit too orange, Chelsie was gorgeous and really sexy. She has a lot of natural talent and a ton of charisma. Unlike some of the other women who went went further than they should based on their looks alone, I think Chelsie showed real promise. See you in Vegas, Chelsie.

Gev Manoukian - One of my favorite dancers of the night was ice skating B-Boy dancer Gev Manoukian. One of the best things about this show is that people who have auditioned in the past and didn’t make it through take the words and wisdom of the judges and use that to make themselves better, more well rounded dancers. And that’s exactly what Gev did after being rejected two seasons ago. He took dance lessons and learned how to incorporate many styles into his core of breakdancing. His interpretation of the music was fantastic as was his overall movement. I thought Gev was one of the most versatile dancers we’ve seen thus far. Looking forward to seeing what this kid can do in Vegas.

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My Friends are Shy

You’ll have to excuse this random non-TV related post. See some of my friends are hams…big time attention whores (yes, Julie Burke I’m talking to you). Every time there’s a funny picture or video of us doing random stuff they think I should post it to the site. But you all don’t care. I get that. Why would you? But they wanted to get on the site, and hence the reason for this ‘Ode to GMMR’ video.

Sorry for the self-indulgence but if I post this maybe they won’t pester me. And I guess in turn, I’m giving you a way to get on GMMR. I’m shameless like that. If someone is going to make a video showing their love for the site you know I’ll post it. Ha ha

With that….my friends: Rob, Julie, Mark, Ray and that’s Steph doing the drive by on the beach in Nevis (after many, many drinks).

Upfront Memories ‘08 - Dancing with the Stars of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

“When you wish upon a star…”

I’m not a dancer…at all. But give me enough of the Captain and coke, or in this case some booze filled concoction dreamt up by the kind people over at Fox, and I’ll be the first one on the dance floor. And that’s just what happened a few weeks ago at the Fox Upfront party in NYC.

Now let me set the scene. I’m sitting in the back of theater, ground level at the NY City Center listening to Kevin Reilly talk about the upcoming Fall season. But in the back of my head I’m thinking, ‘please stop talking to so I can go to the after party and meet Pacey’. Reilly is wrapping up, and I’m readying my purse when I hear the word “dance”. Wait, this is Fox. Home of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Is perhaps Sabra there? Maybe Benji. Yes they are! And along with them are Lacey, Ivan, Stanislav, Nick, Anya, Lacey, Hok, and Ryan. Hold my hat, my favorite SYTYCDaners are on the stage. I quickly whip out my Flip camera and try to capture their routine while simultaneously trying not to burst a blood vessel in my head caused my unnatural excitement.

Fast forward to the Fox after party. Stars everywhere you look. But my mission (after meeting the aforementioned Pacey aka Joshua Jackson) was to find my dancers. While on my search, I bumped into the gorgeous Cat Deeley whom I got to chat with for a few minutes (and yes she just as fabulous as you imagine her to be.) She mentioned that her “beebies” were going to be stopping by the party. And just minutes later I started spotting them milling about.

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