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Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 9

In Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 8, Jen and William continued their bickering, as it became more obvious they were never going to not hate each other. I’m so over both of them at this point. In a (lame) twist, John and Natalie were sent packing without even being given the chance to defend themselves in the elimination room.

William discusses the money and wanting to win. The only problem with him actually caring about winning is that Hell has not yet frozen over.

The beauties will study animals and insects. The geeks will study how to be a flare bartender. Sam’s upset that he’s not the bartender. Jasmine hates bugs. While studying with Shay, they freak out over a bug flying around them.

Beauties are up first. Roaches, giant millipedes, snakes, toads, grubs, spiders, and scorpions are revealed. Jasmine, who hates all bugs, and Shay, who’s afraid of spiders, go crazy before the challenge even begins. They must put the animals in the terrarium matching their scientific names. Mike reveals they must do this without any protective gear, not even gloves, and that the animals might nip at them a bit. The girls are completely grossed out. Sam seems unconcerned. Gee, what a surprise, another challenge that unfairly favors Sam. Jasmine runs away from Shay just walking past her with the snake, let alone actually being able to pick one up herself. Shay’s performing very well despite her fear. Jasmine is hopeless and takes 8 minutes just to pick up a toad. Sam has no clue what he’s doing, but he’s touched a lot grosser things and is having no problems filling the cages with what may or may not be the correct animals, which is messing with the girls because they’re scared he’s beating them easily. Jen’s strategy is to let the animals pick their own cases.

Sam – 7 of 7, with 5 correct
Shay – 7 of 7, with 1 correct
Jen – 5 of 7, with 1 correct
Jasmine – 3 of 7, with 0 correct

Following the challenge, Jasmine, who I’d argue did the best regardless of what the results may have been, continues to be upset when they get back to the mansion. David’s there to support her, and they make brownies together.

Jen wants William to dress better for the challenge, but he resists her attempts to help. Sam, meanwhile, is turned off by William’s cockiness as he performs. Joshua, however, takes Shay’s advice, including hairspray and tanning spray. Jasmine dresses Dave up but says she’s not a good drink critic because she’ll drink anything.

The geeks will be judged on bartending style and flare. And actually being able to make a drink may count for something. Joshua makes a big mess. Nicole does the same trick over and over again. William tries not to scare people but does well otherwise. David’s entertaining, which combined with his confidence is enough for the win. William’s upset that Dave won based on his personality, which is probably true.

Shay gets emotional because of how surprisingly close she’s gotten to Joshua. William and Jen still hate each other, but she says she’d stop someone if she saw them kicking him on the ground. Progress. When they get into the elimination room, Shay and Joshua hug, while William and Jen can only muster a handshake.

Jen gets her first question right, as does Shay. Jen gets her second question right, as does Shay. William gets his first question right, but Joshua misses his. William gets his second question right, eliminating Joshua and Shay. The old married couple is finally gone, but she’s already making plans to go to him and tell him how to dress.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Survivor: China Episode 9

In Survivor: China episode 8, we saw yet another genius plan get flushed down the drain, as the group opted to kick out Jean-Robert instead of the highly dangerous James, doing so in a manner that allowed James to know he better watch his back.

Since he’s got two idols and a great shot at winning immunity, James isn’t particularly concerned, but he’s more likely to use those idols given the chance.

Courtney’s excited to have Jean-Robert gone. Hopefully now she can stop obsessing about him and start obsessing about someone else.

Not surprisingly, Denise is even more upset at her old tribe, as nobody decided to tell her that plans for the last tribal council. Any time someone’s intentionally left out of the loop like this, they become a big risk to flip.

Courtney’s getting closer and closer to Frosti, and she’s already proved her allegiance to her old tribe is not of a great deal of importance to her. They’re getting scared, and they should be. Courtney’s been a very emotional player thus far.

Reward challenge is a balancing act, where players will balance balls on drums. The reward is an overnight dinner cruise down a river. Peih-Gee and Erik are captains. Peih-Gee chooses James, who picks Todd, who picks Denise. Erik chooses Frosti, who picks Amanda, who picks Courtney. Erik’s group gets off to an early lead, scoring their first point before the other group even gets past the starting gate. Frosti and Erik are essentially a two man team and take a 2-0 lead, followed by a third point for the win.

Peih-Gee and James get into an argument over their group’s pitiful performance at the reward challenge. She realizes this probably isn’t the smartest way to stay in the game.

Todd says the four people he gets along best with are off on a boat. Interesting observation considering that group only consists of one of his close allies, Amanda. On the reward, all of the four get along really well, so it would make for an interesting alliance. However, Frosti’s not thinking that way. He’s afraid of Erik.

Completely unrelated to the game, Amanda seems to have made a rather unfortunate swimsuit choice. She’s got a blur covering her throughout much of the episode.

The immunity challenge is a memory game. They will have symbols in front of them that they must get in the correct order. It’s a temptation immunity. People can sit out and instead eat burgers, fries, and drinks. Courtney’s eating (good), as are Todd (who’s probably the safest of the bunch), James (I’d go for it if I were him, just to save the hidden ones, unless he really is feeling completely safe despite the three votes last time), and Denise (who knows she’s not safe with these people). Peih-Gee, Frosti, Erik, and the person taking the bullet for her team, Amanda, will participate in the challenge. Erik’s first out. Amanda is out in the next round. Peih-Gee wins immunity. Easy target’s off the options list. Now it’s time to scramble.

Erik and Frosti think they’re the targets tonight. Frosti’s obviously willing to sell Erik out to save himself. I’d think they would have the pull to be able to at least try to get something together on their own and take out someone else. Todd’s afraid of Erik being such a nice guy, but he’s also concerned that Frosti continues to be one of the top performers in both physical and mental challenges. Todd wants to try to convince Courtney to vote out Frosti. Nobody thinks she’ll do it, so he suggests maybe they should get rid of Courtney instead.

James is as comfortable as he let on and doesn’t use his hidden idol.

Votes:
Frosti
Erik
Frosti
Frosti
Frosti
Frosti

Frosti has been voted off the island. While I do think the plot to get rid of James should have been raised again, Frosti has proved to be one of the biggest threats there, so his boot does make sense. Do you think they made the right choice?

But it’s not over yet. They have more business to attend to at tribal council. Whatever that means, we’ll find out next time.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: China episode 10 It’s Been Real and It’s Been Fun, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

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Crowned Cast/Schedule Revealed

Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants will premiere December 12 at 9/8c on The CW, following the season finale of America’s Next Top Model 9. The show will then assume Top Model’s current time slot.

Mother/Daughter Names and Hometowns:

Ada & Christian: Dallas, TX

Andrea & Amanda: Albuquerque, NM

Angela: Orange Park, FL & Tenia: New York, NY

Annette & Alana: Hayworth, CA

Brenda & Heather: Parkersburg, WV

Gina: Ft. Worth, TX & Hollis: New York, NY

Jill: Wilmington, DE & Nicole: Newark, DE

Melinda & Rachelle: Chandler, AZ

Moya & Jenileigh: Duarte, CA

Pamela & Felicia: Tonawanda, NY

Patty: Orlando, FL & Laura: Nashville, TN

Bionic Woman Episode 7

In Bionic Woman Episode 6, Jaime and Tom pretended to be married, which rekindled the romance they were trying to pretend they didn’t have.

Jaime’s too busy flirting with Tom to notice the guy she’s after has shown up. He gets in his car and drives off, but it’s still not fast enough to get away from her. She runs, jumps in front of him, causes an accident, and grabs the case she was after.

Becca wants to cook for Tom, who Jaime insists is not her boyfriend.

Antonio is concerned about Jaime’s cell phone chatting with Tom and the exposure risk it created due to the messiness of her mission being accomplished.

They’re after a rifle that can see 3.5 miles, which was used in attempt to take out President Rudan, a ruthless oppressive dictator, who they want to protect because the evil they know is better than the one they don’t.

Jaime’s not enjoying or getting anything out of her therapy sessions with Ruth. Shocker.

Tom comes over for dinner. They should have gotten their stories straight beforehand, as they’re not answering anything the same. Then again, Becca already knows Jaime’s lying to her. During dinner, Jaime gets called and pulled away for work. Tom sticks around, though, which can’t be not awkward. He eventually offers to take them out for dinner at a restaurant next week, then he gets called away as well.

Jaime spots a sniper, who starts shooting but doesn’t connect with his target. Antonio wants to get the president out of the country, but he refuses to cooperate. Tom shows up and questions why Jaime’s there without any protection or a gun. He and Antonio continue the little tiff they have with each other.

Ruth gets a plant for her office. Apparently that’s supposed to make Jaime comfortable being psychoanalyzed.

Becca really likes Tom, who’s a lot better than the losers Jaime normally dates.

Antonio goes on a mission by himself and tells Nathan to just let Jaime sleep. So of course Nathan calls Jaime and tells her to get down there. As she’s leaving, she finds two people spying on her, who tell her she’s going to have to ask Tom if she wants to know why. When she arrives on the scene, she finds out Antonio’s been communicating with the assassin. Not sure what to do, she goes to Jonas.

Tom’s excuse for having Jaime followed is that he officially told the CIA she’s his girlfriend, which requires an investigation.

In dealing with the Antonio’s desire to assist the shooter, Jonas feeds him false information. This doesn’t go over as well as they’d hoped, and Antonio pulls a gun on Jaime when they get to the race track. He says he’s not working with the assassin, but he does know her. He’s trying to talk her out of it, but he can’t take her down because she’s saved his life more than once. The problem now is that they’ve been fed false information and don’t know where the president actually will be.

Jaime hears a gun and jumps up on the building where it is. She can’t stop the shot but does prevent it from actually hitting anyone. The shooter wants revenge for all the wrong the president’s done. She pulls a gun on Jaime for getting in her way. Jaime tells Antonio to take the shot, but he resists. When a shot’s fired at Jaime, though, he takes the bullet himself, then does end up taking the shot after that. She’s the one who broke his heart, which Jaime’s been prying about to try to figure out why he is the way he is.

Antonio later dies in the ambulance, which leads Jaime to believe she’s not cut out for this.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Bionic Woman episode 8, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Kid Nation Episode 9

In Kid Nation Episode 8, the town got fed up with being bored and had a talent show, blue district girls started to get as lazy as those in other districts, and Divad continued to believe she was worthy of a gold star but nobody else was.

I hadn’t realized this before Laurel mentioned it. 4 of the people who have gotten gold stars are from green district.

The pioneers have a suggestion: mix up the districts. I don’t see what good it would do. I do get Zach’s argument that yellow district could use older people, though. The two oldest council members hate the idea; the other two are willing to give it a shot.

Emily has no interest in doing any work. She says it’s because she hates her district.

Anjay wants not Taylor but someone like Taylor, Emily, primarily because he thinks he needs to prove himself. Zach says his district is just a bunch of girls, including the boys. Anjay wants to break up Blaine and Greg. Laurel doesn’t want to split up her very strong district. The town hates the idea.

Guylan tells his district he needs intellectual people. He invites Nathan (ex-blue) to the district. Anjay invites Emily (ex-red) as planned. Zach takes Blaine (ex-blue). Dumb idea. Greg’s more upset than Blaine, who’s happy to be out of Greg’s shadow. Laurel sticks to her guns and keeps green district the same. The town doesn’t like this.

Red district, as a whole, is upset with Nathan coming over to their team. They make it clear they don’t like him. He says he was happy with blue district but at least seems to be willing to give it a try. At their religious ceremony, Mike realizes he’s a hypocrite for not accepting Nathan just because he’s different. He apologizes and starts to patch things up.

Greg’s back to being an asshat like he was the first few episodes. Now he’s just looking for a fight. Olivia, who hates Anjay even more since he so easily beat her in the election, joins in on the attack.

Laurel says it’s too bad if people don’t like her decision and their own leaders should have stood up for them, too.

The showdown is a rock pulling challenge. Whoever crosses first wins, but in order to get reward, they must get a total of at least one ton. Yellow district’s got some muscle now, and Blaine takes over for them. His buddy Greg’s in control for his team. Blue district easily crosses the line first to become the upper class. Yellow are the merchant class. Green takes third, followed by red in last.

Blue: 480 pounds
Yellow: 460 pounds
Green: 420 pounds
Red: 485 pounds
Total: 1845 pounds

As had been supected, blue took a light load considering they’re the strongest district. Yellow pulled what could be expected of them. I’m not so sure the goal of 2000 pounds was particularly well thought out, as it doesn’t appear it was even possible. Guylan suggests that green was mostly concerned about upper class, which offends Sophia. Considering how far ahead blue was the whole time, this seems like a baseless accusation, though it wouldn’t surprise me if some people were indeed at least trying to get a class higher than what they would have gotten otherwise. She swore at him, and other people said they’d say the same. He gets really upset by this. She later apologizes, which he appreciates but says he wouldn’t run for town council again.

The reward they didn’t win was a choice between beds for everyone or a kid lounge that couldn’t fit everyone.

Hunter gets up early every morning and works while everybody (except Nathan) is sleeping.

Blaine goes around and gets his district working. They’re all sleeping, and he tells them that’s why they’re known as the lazy district. Yellow’s starting to get upset with Zach, who’s getting more of an attitude as time goes by.

Emily, who had been lazy with her old district, is showing some signs of improvement.

Taylor’s friend Randi is upset and wants to leave. As he was on a previous episode, Greg was around to cheer her up, talking to her, carrying her to bed, and tucking her in.

Morgan nominates Blaine, who people are a lot more impressed with now that he’s on his own, for the gold star. Sophia nominates Hunter. The rest of the town is split between those two.

Anjay wonders why he didn’t give Greg away and keep Blaine because Blaine’s behaving so much better.

Randi’s the next one to decide she wants to leave due to homesickness. Taylor blames Zach for this. Huh?

Blaine is awarded the gold star. I’d think it would have made more sense if they picked Hunter and let Blaine sweat it out for another week, but he does seem to be doing a great job now that he’s with yellow district. He’s the only person who approves of the job the council is doing. Most people are upset, including Laurel’s formerly very loyal green district. Everybody’s ready for another election.

DK, Blaine, and Greg throw their hats into the ring. Sophia says “Oh my god. We’re all gonna die.” Michael wants to run against Laurel.

What do you think? Is the town council doing a bad job, or is the town just whining too much?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Kid Nation episode 10 Let Me Talk, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 8

In Heroes Season 2 Episode 7, Peter found himself in a time where the virus that Suresh is so against administering has wiped out most of the world’s population. Hiro made his way back to the present, as did Kensei (as Adam).

Peter doesn’t know any Adam, who says it must be the Haitian’s fault. When he has a flashback about his brother, we see what happened to Nathan and the long haired Peter after they took off to the sky at the end of season 1.

DL’s alive. He just barely escaped being killed by the bullet.

At Alejandro’s wedding, Maya finds his new bride having a fling with her alleged ex. He threatens her, and she kills them both with her new power. Upon going outside, she realizes the rest of the people at the wedding are dead, too.

Peter brings Nathan into the hospital to be treated for the wounds he sustained while he was about to explode. As he’s walking away, Elle and Bob show up, and she uses her powers to knock him out. Bob tells Peter he’s an old friend of his parents. They’ve temporarily disabled his powers.

Bob’s taking care of DL’s medical bills and wants to help Niki get rid of Jessica, with the catch being she must leave her family and enter the program.

Elle cuts Peter’s hair. She did a surprisingly good job. Then she gives him pills she calls Haitian pills.

Here’s where Adam comes in. He says hi to Peter from the next room.

Three months ago…

Micah wants to be a vigilante and pick up police radio calls. DL tells him he wants to be a hero but with the new job he’s got. Niki just dumps the pills she’s got down the drain.

Adam’s got a spot on assessment of Peter, who now thinks he’s dangerous and is willing to be left in there locked up forever. Peter doesn’t want anything to do with Adam but after a month, he does finally give him his name.

Two months ago…

Peter wants to know Elle’s story, since it’s been two months and he doesn’t know anything. He thinks she just wants to be in control. She’s willing to tell, and it’s not pretty. Following some destructive behavior in her childhood, she’s been locked up in that building for 16 years, isolated from the world. Adam advises to keep his distance from her.

Adam gives Peter some more truth. They’re not trying to cure him. They’re just trying to keep him locked up, like Adam has been for 30 years.

Angela asks Heidi to keep secret that Nathan’s supposedly got a mental health disorder.

Niki thinks she can handle her newest personality, Gina, which she invented when she went to LA when she was younger. Doesn’t look like it.

Bob denies Peter’s request to see his family, which leads him to the truth. Adam says he’s not really dangerous… he can save the world. And that’s why he’s locked up.

DL, now a fireman, runs through fire to save a little girl. Micah’s proud he really is a hero.

Peter finds out he can walk through walls, and he grabs Adam and takes off.

Maya’s been tracked down by her brother, along with a cop. So of course she kills the cop. While trying to calm her down, Alejandro figures out how to use his powers.

While she’s away, Niki heads to a club and picks up a guy. DL shows up and hits the guy. As they’re leaving, the guy shoots DL. That explains what happened to him.

Three weeks ago…

At the funeral, Niki decides to get some help and leaves Micah with Nana.

Adam’s blood can save Nathan. He and Peter go there, and he puts some blood in the IV. His skin starts to heal immediately. Adam gives Peter a plane ticket and plans to meet in Montreal. Elle and the Haitian want a piece of Peter, though. She shocks him, and the Haitian chases after him, cornering him where he was found in episode 1, then removing his memory, telling him to go start a new life.

Peter now remembers everything. It’s time to save the world.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 2 episode 9 Cautionary Tales, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

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The Bachelor 11 Episode 8

In The Bachelor 11 episode 7, Brad narrowed down his choices to the final two: Jenni and DeAnna. We’ll find out who the winner is next week, but this week, the women tell all.

We start off with all the cattiness, of which there was no shortage. First up is a montage of people calling others bitches, and of course you can’t do one of those without featuring DeAnna and McCarten. Then there’s Solisa being a tramp.

Jade says she loved everybody… except DeAnna and McCarten. McCarten said they were just more forward/mature. She whines that people were hateful behind her back, but they let her know they couldn’t stand her to her face as well. She appreciates that they wasted so much energy on her.

As if we didn’t spend way too much time on this the first time, it’s now time to relive Hillary’s drama queen exit. She says they should have served her PMS medication or something, and that she just missed the really obvious signs that he just wanted to be friends. She wishes he kept her for one more week and did the hometown date before deciding (would have saved him from Bettina’s family).

Speaking of Bettina, we next take a look at her journey on the show, starting with his initial reaction and no doubt the reason he actually took her to the final three, his immediate physical attraction to probably the best looking woman on this season. Then we look at the worst family visit in the history of family visits, where her entire family hated him because a good looking self-made millionaire isn’t good enough for their little girl who never should have divorced her first husband in the first place. She defends saying her date with him was boring, which I never really understood the need to make it such a big deal to begin with. I suppose that this is a game after all, though. She says that, after watching the show, she’s surprised she even got a rose after the hometown dates. Then she turns this around and says she was turned off by him because of his behavior on that date (huh?). She says he was defensive. Rightfully so.

A member of the studio audience asks what I was wondering: whether Bettina’s hometown date upset Hillary. She responds yes and that her family only wants her to be happy, not caring whether someone owns bars or graduated from college.

Sheena’s up next. She didn’t expect to be eliminated when she was and was devastated by it.

Now it’s Chad’s time to finish up his 15 minutes of fame. I thought the twist was rather lame myself, even if it was amusing to watch. He still likes Sheena, more now than he did before.

Hillary tells Brad she wishes he were a little more up front about them being just friends. I can see where she would think he was dancing around it, even if it was still pretty obvious. He tells her he still cares for her… as a friend.

Bettina asks why the heck he gave her a rose after being so judged by her family. He says it was just about her, not them.

America gets to help choose the next bachelor, by going to ABC’s website or by calling 1-866-739-3150 to suggest someone.

To close off the night, we get a look at the journeys of the two finalists, who he’s been close to since the beginning.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Bachelor 11 episode 9, which airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.

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