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Finalewatch: 'America's Next Top Model'
Well, ladies (and Gus), the time is nigh. The time when the heavens open up, choirs of angels sing, a plume of white smoke rises and the voice of God - you thought God would sound more like Charlton Heston than Tyra Banks? silly of you - proclaims 'America's Next Top Model'.
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Finalewatch '08: 'Beauty and the Geek'
The finale of the fifth season of Beauty and the Geek was bittersweet since the show most likely won't come back, seeing how The CW didn't opt to renew it due to failing ratings. Fans of the show were disenchanted that the first few episodes tinkered with the "social experiment" formula -- instead of pairing up the beauties with the geeks to foster tolerance, this season kicked off with the beauties vying against the geeks. Not cool.
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'Reaper': Daddy issues
With just one episode to go for the season (though not the series...HUZZAH!), Reaper finally asked the question the majority of us have been asking since the beginning: What does Ben look like with his shirt off?
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'Gossip Girl': "We're the Non-Judging Breakfast Club"
After last week's "OMFG"-laden, Diet-Coke-spitting, lacquered-nail-biting episode of Gossip Girl, your faithful recapper has prepared herself for this week's fireworks with a Bellini.
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'One Tree Hill': "I hate you!"
And lo, a great cry went up across the land as this episode of One Tree Hill came to an end and the word was revealed. Blasphemy!
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'America's Next Top Model': Tyra/Tyrone
Last week, 'America's Next Top Model' defied absolutely nobody's expectations by sending home Katarzyna, the only remaining contestant with any actual potential for a modeling career.
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'Reaper': Crazy little thing called love
Tonight's episode of Reaper, "Greg, Schmeg," answers that age old question: what would happen if you gave the Sandra Bullock movie Love Potion #9 a supernatural twist?
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'Gossip Girl': "Jealousy Clashes with LL Bean Pants"
On last week's oh-so-dramatic 'Gossip Girl', fur, feathers and fingerless gloves flew as the mysterious Georgina reappeared and promptly upturned Serena's perfect little world.
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'One Tree Hill': "Weird and totally inappropriate"
One Tree Hill is all about turning adversity into opportunity this week: Broke your hand? Become a point guard! Saddled with a baby for an important business meeting? Use her as a prop!
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'Supernatural': Reach out and haunt someone
After last week's fairly fluffy fair, Supernatural is back on the serious train. With all the questions raised, one really sticks out to me: Are calls from the afterlife considered anytime minutes?
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Premierewatch: 'Farmer Wants a Wife'
Get ready for sexually stilted farm comments, citified observations, cheesy elimination ceremonies and lots of tanned shirtlessness. The Bachelor goes bucolic with the premiere of Farmer Wants a Wife.
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'America's Next Top Model': "Mama's in Charge Today"
Last week on 'America's Next Top Model', Lauren Frankenwalked her way back to the States after she and the rest of the ladies murdered la lingua Italiana in a Cover Girl commercial.
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'Reaper': Time is on my scythe
Now what I'm going to say might sound at first like a negative, but trust me, it's a positive: I wish there wasn't another episode of Reaper this season.
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'Gossip Girl': "Say You Need Me"
In Gossip Girl's triumphant return, the boys and girls of Constance Billard/St. Jude lied, stole, cheated, snuck out and turned pimp - and that was only Little J's list of sins for the week!
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Finalewatch: 'Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious'
This is it. The moment you (may) have been waiting for. We finally get to learn who made the group on The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious. Booyahkah.
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'America's Next Top Model': "I Still Think She's a Brother"
Last week, even Fatima's complete absence from the photo shoot couldn't get her eliminated from the competition, and poor Stacy-Ann succumbed to the embrace of Posing 101 one time too many.
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'Reaper': Going in circles
You know, I think it's from watching too much Lost, but I sorta kinda expected the whole "overthrow the devil" plot to last more than one episode. Oh sure, the major architect of the plot still lives, but the immediate threat to the Devil has already subsided.
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'Gossip Girl' and the battle of the Queen Bees
OMG! OMFG! The CW has been bludgeoning us over the head with these promos for the return of Gossip Girl, but the delicious build to see how Blair would retaliate for her public shunning is worth every hackneyed text abbreviation IMHO.
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'Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious': Give peace a chance
We're coming down the home stretch. It's the penultimate episode of Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious and we learn if all the girls can put aside their differences and work as a group. Don't hold your breath.
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'America's Next Top Model': "I Could Kick The $^&* Out of These Girls Anytime"
Last week on 'America's Next Top Model', it was a stupid clip show and fashionistas across the country threw half-drunk low-carb cosmos at their televisions in disgust. No? Just me? Liars.
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'Pussycat Dolls Presents: Girlicious': Rock the boat
We're down to the final half-dozen on Pussycat Dolls Presents: Girlicious. Soon, very soon, we'll find out which girls will make it into the scintillating, exciting group no one's talking about.
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'America's Next Top Model': H2Oh No You Di'int, Girl!
Last week, Dominique's crazy reasserted itself, Claire joined forces with Lauren and Whitney to battle her, and sweet little Aimee went home. And yes, for those keeping track, Stacy-Ann is still in the running.
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'Reaper': The rules come crashing down
The number 13 is often considered unlucky. But I felt lucky to have watched this, the 13th overall episode of Reaper. For all intents and purposes, the show actually started tonight, in the final five minutes, with something I've craved all along: an actual overarching plot. If everything before was setup, everything after will be payoff.
'America's Next Top Model': Bringing the Pain
Last week on 'America's Next Top Model', Marvita talked herself out of being a model but apparently didn't merit a "never-in-my -life-have-I-yelled-at-a-girl-like-this" meltdown from Miss T. Damn. Doesn't Tyra know that her particular brand of crazy is the reason we tune in?
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'Reaper': Stuck in neutral
I had one thought running through my mind all night. A thought that haunted every scene, every moment, every character interaction. A thought the rendered nearly everything else in this week's episode of Reaper null and void: "They got that place for $1200??? Sign me UP!"
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'America's Next Top Model': Vogue. Vogue.
Last week on 'America's Next Top Model', Amis bit the big one in a beef-related challenge, and Fatima aimed her blissfully illogical rage at plus-size hautie Whitney. But Tyra loves her African sob-stories like she loves being on top, and you know there is nothing Miss Tyra loves more than being on top.
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Bump and whine on 'Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious'
This week's Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious treats us to something we haven't seen in a while - a screaming match between four of the finalists. Also, one girl almost quits, one girl gets some bad news and two girls get the big boot.
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'Reaper': Bite the hand that rocks
Last time on Reaper...um, er, uh, OK, I'll admit it, I had to go and look it up. It's been roughly fifteen years since the last original episode of this little gem of a show aired, and honestly, I had to do some research in order to take over the weekly recaps here.
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'America's Next Top Model': A Big Old Beautiful Doe-Eyed Yummy Little Latino Sandwich
When we last saw our beloved bitches, they were bidding a tearless goodbye to anorexic racist Allison. This week, 'America's Next Top Model' delivers to us the one, the only, the proto-Dominque: Jaslene.
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'Beauty and the Geek' plays a numbers game
I was not at all thrilled going into this season of Beauty and the Geek mainly because of the big change.
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'The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious' - Make-unders for everyone!
Usually I'm all about make-over episodes but the ones performed on this week's The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious were about as dramatic as an episode of According to Jim
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