Wilson has a patient, Tucker, that has been cancer free for five years since Wilson gave him the diagnosis of six months to live. They celebrate together by going hunting. After Wilson nearly gets his head blown off by an errant bullet, Tucker experiences paralysis of his arm. Wilson thinks he gets the diagnosis correct, and it’s not cancer. House (Hugh Laurie) believes it is cancer. They even make a $100 bet as to whom is right. Not surprisingly, House wins.

Meanwhile, Cuddy is searching for a house with Lucas, the private investigator that House hired last season. House isn’t a huge fan of Lucas anymore. It brings a whole new depth to the House/Cuddy drama. There is obvious sexual tension between them that neither will recognize openly. I just wish they would get it on already.

Seeing Wilson struggle is not fun. This episode that was supposed to give us more insight into Wilson just made me sad. He has so much to deal with and in the end, many of his patients die. Maybe that is why he is so weak in his own personal life as opposed to how strong he has to be in his professional life. Still, as we learn more about Wilson, my love for him will only grow stronger.

In this episode, House and his team are treating a down on his luck physicist. At one point he was the youngest graduate from MIT and had written three books. Now he is working driving a delivery truck. It was on one of those deliveries that he began to feel ill and ended up with House.

Meanwhile, the team has to adjust to working together again, but with Chase thrown in the mix. Each wonders why the other decided to join the team. Chase has to deal with Cameron leaving him due to his choice to decide to stay on the team. But of course Cameron had to leave, the dynamic of the show means only one hot woman can be part of the team at any given time and they have Olivia Wilde now to fill that position and honestly, she is more fun than Cameron.

I am glad that Taub and Thirteen are back on the show working for House. I am up in the air about Chase being part of the team again. I’m sorry that he and Cameron broke up because then maybe he would have gone to Chicago with her. But as always, I will forever be in love with House and nobody who is on or off the team will change my mind.

This week House is working on a male adult film star with pulsating eye pain. He collapses to his knees when the camera lights are set on him. He later develops arm pain, nosebleeds, and a rash on his inner thigh. Then they find worms in his liver, his lungs fill with fluid, and he pees blood. As always, the team has to go through multiple potential diagnoses in order to find out what is truly wrong with him.

Meanwhile, Chase (Jesse Spencer) and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) decide that they need to leave the team and the hospital in order to make a fresh start with their lives. At the same time, House gets his medical license back and it puts him back in charge, leaving Foreman (Omar Epps) as his only doctor. Foreman calls in a favor and gets Chase and Cameron to work on the case with him.

House first goes back to try and get Taub to come back to the team. Then he visits Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) at her home to try and get her to come back. Neither wants the position, at least they try to tell themselves they don’t want it. It is like a tease to House viewers. Obviously they will come back to the team or why would they have them on the show in the first place?

In the end, Chase, Taub, and Thirteen all tell House they want to be part of the team.

This week’s House tried to differentiate between moral and immoral. Is the porn star immoral? It is up to the audience to judge. At the same time, we are left trying to decide on our own who we want to be on House’s team. Do we really want Taub and Thirteen back or Chase and Cameron to stay? At least Foreman is a constant and House changed things up a bit in order to keep us interested in the show.

In the early years of her acting career, Marcia became a staple on soap operas. She starred in such shows as The Edge of Night, Knots Landing, and One life to Live.

Her career really took off when she was cast as Dr. Kimberly Shaw on the hit series Melrose Place. Her character started off as a little disturbed, but after six years on the television show, her character had turned psychotic. Marcia had to pull from the inner depths of her acting ability in order to play one of the roles of a lifetime.

After Melrose Place, in 1997, Marcia took some time off from major television series and guest starred on such television shows as Seinfeld. At the same time she studied for her Master’s Degree in Psychology at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

She spent a single year on the hit television show Everwood before she was offered the role of a life time as Bree Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives (2004). Marcia plays the woman trying to be the perfect housewife, constantly baking, cleaning, and taking care of her family. Her image is more important to her than anything and this can get her into some trouble. She has helped make Desperate Housewives one of the premier shows in America.

Along with Desperate Housewives, Marcia Cross has received nominations for such awards as the Emmy, Golden Globe, Golden Satellite Award, and the Television Critics’ Association Award. In 2005 she won the Screen Actors Guild Award.

The best thing to happen to Marcia is possibly the marriage to her husband, Tom Mahoney and the birth of twin daughters Savannah and Eden on February 20, 2007.

Jordan, a 16 year old girl, goes to a concert and ends up spending the night with the band or so she says. The next morning her ankle is extremely swollen. Her other appendages follow. It is up to House (Hugh Laurie), Foreman (Omar Epps), Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), and Chase (Jesse Spencer) to accurately diagnose her. It is increasingly difficult with a patient that seems to lie about everything.

House, Cuddy, and Wilson leave to attend a pharmacology convention. House hopes to get closer to Cuddy during the conference. Wilson is giving a seminar based on a paper he has written in which he admits to euthanasia. House refuses to let this happen and drugs Wilson in order to prevent him from ruining his career.

Cameron thinks that Chase is having an affair because he is spending a lot of time away from her. We know this is because of his guilt over killing the dictator. Cameron confronts Chase and he admits to having killed Dibala.

House solves the case while he is at the convention. Another day, another case.

It seems House can do anything from anywhere. He can diagnose patients without even needing to be there in person. He is a Superman of the medical world. Everyone needs a weekly dose of House.

House finally started after the Angels beat the Yankees in the eleventh inning. I thought it would never end! But yay for the Yankees getting their butt kicked!

House begins with an epic chase where the cops can’t catch the crook because of his monkey-like abilities. One of the cops lands in the hospital after attempting to jump between the roofs of two buildings. Apparently he has a death wish. Or, technically, he thinks he is going to die anyway so he is ok to take the risk.

The cop is seen in the ER by Cameron and he explains that his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all died of non-genetic heart failure just after they turned 40 years old. Since it is his birthday in a week and he will be 40, he assumes he will be dropping dead even though no doctors have found any conditions with his heart. Cameron offers House’s (Hugh Laurie) services saying if anyone can find a problem, then House can. Well, that’s why we watch the show, right?

So, House cannot find anything wrong with the patient’s heart and sends him home. Four hours later, he is found dead in his laundry room. Foreman (Omar Epps) orders the autopsy and when House and Foreman are doing the autopsy, the patient wakes up. The ensuing screams from House and Foreman are one of the best bits on House ever.

Meanwhile, House thinks he is hallucinating again and hearing voices. He even goes so far as to quit once again. It turns out that the whispering is Wilson talking to Amber before he goes to bed at night.

House finally discovers that the patient has an aneurysm that will eventually stop his heart just like it did his father’s, grandfather’s, and great-grandfather’s. Thanks to this discovery, the ensuing brain surgery saves the patient’s life and the life of his son who also receives the same brain surgery.

Once again, House saves the patient and all without his medical license. Aside from the autopsy scene, House was pretty generic. But even generic House is good House!

The past five seasons of Nip/Tuck have been a roller coaster for the doctors of McNamara/Troy and their loved ones. When it seems as if something good may happen, a bomb is dropped into their lives. At the end of last season, we saw Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) heading out for his honeymoon with Liz, who he married only because he thought he was dying, only to get the news that his cancer was in remission. Sean (Dylan Walsh) had a rather eventful year that seemed to be getting better at the end of the season with his new girlfriend, Teddy (Rose McGowan). One can only guess what will happen to these men in the upcoming year.

The episode is told in documentary style. It concerns mostly the monetary troubles of McNamara/Troy and the individual doctors. Apparently plastic surgery isn’t booming during the current economy. Sean is paying for Julia and his children in New York as well as the expenses of Teddy as his girlfriend while Christian is going through a divorce with Liz who wants half of everything he owns.

In an effort to bring up their financial situation, they bring on a third doctor (Mario Lopez) that has an expertise in vaginal rejuvenation. The doctors decide this is the way to go and even use Kimber to film their own infomercial to air on television in the early hours of the morning.

Matt decides that he wants to be a mime for a living. After this fails he unwittingly finds himself robbing a small coffee shop with a fake, plastic gun. Uh oh. Matt screws up seriously once again, but at least he will be able to pay his half of the rent.

Teddy gets down on one knee and proposes to Sean after promising him that she would sign a prenuptial agreement. Sean agrees and says he would never ask her to do that. Silly Sean.

The episode ends with Sean finally deciding to take a sleeping pill in order to get a night of sleep. In the morning, Teddy can’t wake him and she runs screaming for Christian.

It seems that the men of Nip/Tuck are in for some serious storms this season, as is to be expected from the show that we viewers have grown to love. Maybe we get some sort of twisted satisfaction out of their obvious dilemmas, but at the same time I think we secretly hope that something, anything good will happen to the good doctors.

Last night was the final night where three chefs were reduced down to the final winner of Hell’s Kitchen! Left to battle it out were Dave, Ariel, and Kevin; each with his or her own special talents. Each has also overcome pitfalls along the way. Nobody has come through this huge challenge with a spotless record, so it is difficult to tell at this point who will be the winner and become head chef at Araxi in Whistler, British Columbia.

The challenge had the chefs putting together dishes from different parts of the world. Ariel chose Chinese, Kevin chooses Mexican, and Dave was left with Indian. Although he has never cooked Indian food before, Dave wins the challenge with his pork tenderloin.

At dinner service, each chef must take a turn at running the kitchen and putting the food together for the diners. Chef Ramsay will be grading them on how well they recognize the good food from the bad food and how well they are able to lead the kitchen.

Based on this dinner service, one chef must be sent home, only to narrowly miss the chance to be in the Hell’s Kitchen finale. Sadly, Ariel must be sent packing, leaving Dave and Kevin to compete to become the head chef at Araxi.

The chefs must now turn Hell’s Kitchen into their own restaurants. They are each given half of the restaurant to decorate in their own style. They must also come up with their own menus. They must lead their kitchen which is full of previous Hell’s Kitchen competitors that will be working for them.

At this point I didn’t know who I was rooting for to win. Kevin has been the most consistent throughout the season, but Dave has been killing it while only using one arm and dealing with a lot of pain. Kevin seems like he is ready to take on the head chef position at Araxi. Dave still seems a little young, but this can also work to his advantage.

And the winner is (drum roll, please) Dave!

House fans are left a little uncertain at this point in the season. Will the old team of Foreman (Omar Epps), Chase (Jesse Spencer), and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) be brought back together under the direction of House (Hugh Laurie)? Will the new team of Foreman, Taub, and Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) be reassembled? Will an entirely new team be brought in to work with House and Foreman? The answers to these questions could lead to what we can expect from House this season.

At the beginning of this episode, it is the old team that is put together to solve the problem of a teenage boy that needs to be diagnosed. The young teen is the son of a very wealthy businessman is presenting lots of symptoms that have remained unsolved by seventeen previous doctors. He gets it into his head that because he is so wealthy, karma is biting him in the back end by making his child suffer. The diagnosis is an incurable disease. The father even goes so far as to give all of his money away in order to change his karma. As soon as he does, House gets an epiphany and cures the boy. Surprise!

Meanwhile, the team must also present a case regarding President Dibala from the episode last week where Chase killed the patient due to political reasoning. They must scramble to get their story straight for when they need to present the case.

Also while all this is going on, there is an ongoing discussion as to whether Thirteen will rejoin the team. House says he doesn’t want her, when he really does. Foreman thinks they can’t work together with him in the position of power. Wilson thinks she is good for House and good for the team.

It was nice to see House back to its original form of solving a case, even with everything else that was going on as well. Personally, I hope Thirteen does come back to the team. She brings a no nonsense attitude and she’s really great to look at, even from a heterosexual female vantage point. Yes, she may throw things off a bit, but it would all work out in the end, it always does. And if it starts to go south, then House can always change things up!

An African President (James Earl Jones), who is known for the genocide of his own people, begins to cough up blood. The team has to figure out of this was an attempted assassination or if he is sick for some other reason.

House rejoins the team. While he still doesn’t have his medical license, Foreman is still in charge. It seems that Cuddy is prepared to have House come back as the head of diagnostics. Foreman is less than thrilled with his own demotion and even tries to hire Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) back. He claims to have fired her because they couldn’t work together with his being in charge and now that he will not be in charge, he wants her back. She declines. This is fine by me. I like the old team back together again.

Meanwhile, the team struggles with the moral dilemma of possibly saving a man that is held accountable for the deaths of so many innocent people. Foreman holds true to his beliefs in the diagnosis. It turns out that it doesn’t matter because he dies while in their care.

It is nice to see House back to his somewhat normal self. It is also nice to see the old team back together again. While House has been great the past two seasons, it was as if something was amiss. Throw in a controversial case that gets everyone thinking along with James Earl Jones, and it is a recipe for success. This is the first episode of House in a long time that felt truly right.

Until next week, here’s another web exclusive clip for your House fix:

Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins is bringing together fourteen of the regularly seen cast members from past Real World and Road Rules seasons and challenges past that have won a previous season of Real World/Road Rules and fourteen challengers  that have never won in a challenge before.

Host T.J. Lavin is back for another season. For the first time ever, each person will have his own individual bank account that will be added to at the end of every challenge and those people will forfeit their money to the winning player if they are sent into the ruins and lose. This should be an interesting season.

Of course, everyone seems to know each other’s personal lives and everyone has something to say about someone else. Nobody likes Wes except for Kelly Anne, who he is dating. Tonya is already trashed and flashing her boobs at anyone who will look. Wes and Johanna are having a serious conversation about their relationship. Everybody is getting drunk and having a grand party like only these people can.

MTV focuses so much on the drama between the castmates that the viewer is left wondering if they will ever even get to the challenge.

Finally! The cast mates are actually going to compete for some money. There is a platform suspended above the water and a rope to which everyone is tethered. Everyone must climb over their teammates and up the rope to ring a gong before the next person can go. It is truly brutal to have them climbing over one another in this fashion and people are getting stepped on and kicked in the face. But whatever works to win the challenge. The champions win the challenge and get to choose who will participate in the ruins challenge.

It’s Tonya from the champions versus Diem from the challengers and Wes from the champions versus Chet from the challengers. Each person must build a bamboo ladder and climb it to the top before the other person in order to win the challenge. The men go first and Wes wins thus holding onto the money in his personal bank account and sending Chet home. The girls compete and Tonya wins which means she gets to keep her money and sends Diem home.

Some people think that The Real World/Road Rules Challenge is overdone and sometimes I am inclined to agree. However, this episode, being the very first episode of the season, brought the drama that I have grown to love. I want to know who hates each other. I want to see fighting. I want to see the cast get drunk and make fools of themselves. And yes, I want to know who is hooking up. I don’t care if we are eighteen seasons into the series. I watched the first season and I will watch the one hundredth season.

House

In the beginning of the episode, we are watching a video game simulation. The creator of the video game begins to have burning sensation and pain in his hands. That is what puts him in the emergency room.

Meanwhile, House is speaking with Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) and Foreman (Omar Epps). He quits. That’s it. He just up and quits! Unbelievable! But anyway, before House can even get out of the building, Foreman asks to become the head of diagnostics. Apparently, while House was gone, the team was disbanded. But Cuddy gives him the position and the team is brought back together once again.

House attends a cooking class with Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) in order to give his mind and body something new to concentrate on. Cuddy visits him at home while he is cooking with another member of the class. She wants to know if she is the reason why he quit. He lets her know that she is definitely one of the reasons why he chose to leave.

As for the patient, the team goes through several potential diagnoses. The patient has his own theories and even brings in the help of other doctors and offers a reward to the person that can diagnose him correctly.It turns out that one of the people responding to the case is the one to solve it and neither Foreman or Thirteen figured it out on their own. It turns out that it was House that solved the problem.

Foreman and Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) are having trouble working together with his new position as her boss and are disagreeing about the potential diagnosis. Taub (Peter Jacobson) quits because he received an offer from another hospital. Foreman fires Thirteen.

The name of the show is House. I want to see House do what he does best. I do not need to see him at home and cooking. I want to see him at the hospital, leading his team, and working with patients. However, I have also grown attached to House and I want him to lead the best possible life. I don’t want to see him back on the Vicodin. Thank goodness next week House will be back, but will he be the same?

Brothers and Sisters is back for a fourth season. The Walker family had a difficult time last year, even with the happy welcoming of a new baby. It seems that very little goes right for this large family and I think viewers are hoping that something will go right for this lovable family in this upcoming season.

The Walker family is getting ready to celebrate the engagement of Justin (Dave Annable) and Rebecca (Emily VanCamp). Nora (Sally Field) has a sense of foreboding which is clearly the car accident that Justin and Rebecca nearly have within the first few minutes of the episode.

Kitty (Calista Flockhart) and Robert (Rob Lowe) are trying to work things out after Kitty had an emotional affair last season and they almost split up for good. It is obvious though that things are still strained between them. Are they trying to work things out for love or for what the repercussions would be for Robert’s political life?

Kevin (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty (Luke Macfarlane) are looking into having a baby of their own using a donor egg and a separate surrogate mother to carry the baby. However, Scotty is having issue with how much it is going to cost to have the procedure done. But it turns out he is really having second thoughts about them having a baby at all.

While all of this is going on, Kitty is feeling tired all the time. She claims it is an illness she and her son, Evan are passing back and forth or perhaps it is allergies. But when it doesn’t go away, she gets a blood test taken. She has en enlarged lymph node that the doctor wants to test. We are left hearing the doctor say it is not good news, but nothing more.

Well, things seemed to be going well for the Walker family in this first episode. Then they throw in the whole sickness scare. Obviously, there needs to be some drama in the family drama and Brothers and Sisters seems to find a decent balance with this episode. Hopefully, this will continue throughout the season.

If you’re totally lost you can catch up on all the Walker family haps through this “starter kit”:

The women of Desperate Housewives are back for a sixth season. At the end of last season,we saw that Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and Tom are expecting twins, Orson is blackmailing Bree (Marcia Cross) while she is contemplating sleeping with Carl, Susan (Teri Hatcher) and MJ escape from Dave who dies in the car crash, and Mike Delfino is getting married again. But to whom?

This question is answered right away when we see Susan in her beautiful wedding gown. Thank goodness! It has always been obvious that they were meant to be together and all the scenes between him and Katherine (Dana Delaney) were almost too painful to watch.

Wisteria Lane gets a new resident with the Bolen family. Angie Bolen (Drea de Matteo), her husband and son Danny are joining the families of Wisteria Lane in the house where Mary-Alice shot herself. There is definitely something off about the family, as is with all the families that move onto Wisteria Lane. It appears to be something with the son, and his penchant for young women.

Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) and Carlos have taken in Carlos’ niece, Anna. She is proving to be a lot of trouble. She wants to dress like a hooker and goes to bars. One of the best scenes in a long time shows Gabby going to the bar, hopping on stage, and asking the crowd to look for Anna and point her out. At first she gets boos, but after threatening to call the cops, the crowd lifts Anna up in the air and to the stage (see first clip, above). Go Gabby! This whole situation is exactly what Gabby needed to sign the papers to become Anna’s legal guardian. She promises to be hard on Anna and watch her like a hawk. However, it is obvious that she is doing it out of love. Very touching.

The episode ends with a pair of hands wearing black gloves reaching out into the darkness and wrapping around Julie’s throat. It is obviously Danny, but he is not shown. Julie lies there lifeless.

Will Julie be ok and will her would-be murder get caught? What’s up with the new family on Wisteria Lane? Last season held few questions for the women of Wisteria Lane. It seems that this season they are bringing back more of that mystery. This is a great thing! Already, in one episode, Desperate Housewives has truly ingraitated itself back into my life.

Check out this behind-the-scenes Q&A with Eva Longoria and producer Mark Cherry:

In the first season of Dollhouse, we learned a lot about the dollhouse. A bunch of men and women known as “dolls” have their minds and personalities wiped and are injected with the minds and personalities of other people based on what the needs of the dollhouse and their clients are. It sounds perfectly confusing, but it really isn’t once you watch the television show for even a few minutes (watch the season one recap above).

Echo, played by Eliza Dushku, is one of the dolls. As a matter of fact, she seems to be the most used doll that they have. In this episode, she is interjected with the mind of an agent looking for a large arms dealer. Echo has been used to infiltrate the arms dealers business by marrying the arms dealer. However, she is caught in the act. As always, she is freed from her situation by the dollhouse and lives to become someone else tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Doctor Saunders, played by Amy Acker of Angel stardom, is struggling with her own identity as a doll. Last season she discovered she was previously a doll and is now the doctor of the facility. She is trying to figure out who she is and what her purpose is. It looks like this may become important during this season.

This episode of Dollhouse was all over the place. It was almost hard to follow. It contained a lot of information and yet brought us very little in excitement. I guess sometimes they need to further the plot with information, even if it leaves the episode feeling stale.

In the previous season of Ghost Whisperer, we learned that Melinda, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, and her husband Jim, played by David Conrad, conceived a baby together before Jim died in a shooting accident. We also learned that a very special book predicted that the baby would be born on her due date. This is where the new season picks up.

On her due date, Melinda and Jim go to the hospital. At one point, while Melinda is still not in actual labor, the baby’s heart rate begins to drop and the doctors must perform an emergency c-section. The baby is born and while he is not breathing at first, everything turns out ok, including Melinda’s health. So, the book actually did predict his birth. She decides to Name him Aiden Lucas.

The show then transports us five years into the future on Aiden’s birthday. It had been explained that young Aiden would be able to see ghosts just like his mother but that his powers would be much more than hers.

Jim is working as a doctor at the hospital. Delia, played by Camryn Manheim, has gone back to real estate. Eli, played by Jamie Kennedy, is still a college professor. They are all still involved with Melinda and now Aiden and they understand that Aiden is going to have special powers beyond his mother’s.

Melinda is awakened by a ghost that warns her to go check on Aiden. She finds him blue and having trouble breathing. At exactly the same time he was born, he is suddenly better, able to breathe, and his color returns to normal. This is the same ghost that has been coming to Aiden on his birthday every year and she asks him if he is ready to go with her. It turns out that she died giving birth the same night that Aiden was born.

It turns out that the ghost thinks Aiden is her son, but it is revealed that her son was adopted. She goes to find her real son and puts him into trouble because she still wants her son to be with her. Aiden saves the boy. It turns out that the adopted father cheated with the ghost and conceived the baby. This gave him parental rights and the right to a closed adoption with him and his wife without her ever having to find out about the affair.

It turns out that Aiden is an empath. He felt the ghost and her death and so he relived them with her every year at the same time.

Once again, Melinda solves the case and the ghost goes into the light. But is all well now? I doubt it. There are obviously big things to come for both Aiden and Melinda. This episode hardly touched on the special powers that Aiden may develop in his future, nor did it touch upon the book very much. What it did was solve another ghost story. It was nice to see Melinda and her son in their new life together, but overall the episode was fairly uneventful and slightly boring.

Here’s a clip previewing next week’s episode:

Supernatural comes back this week after Dean and Sam decide it would be better if they went their separate ways. Who knows what they will do while they are apart? Could this actually last or are the boys too dependent on one another? How can they fight Lucifer separately? Hopefully these questions are answered in this episode.

It looks like Dean, played by Jensen Ackles, is going to stay on his path of fighting evil wherever he may find it. At the same time, Sam, played by Jared Padalecki, is going to try and start a normal life. He finds work as a busboy and even burns all of his fake IDs.

Castiel, played by Misha Collins, comes to take Dean to Maine after a police officer is witness to the appearance of the  archangel Raphael. However, the angel has already exited his vessel before they reach him. So Dean and Castiel must perform a ritual in order to find Raphael. However, raising Castiel will kill Castiel. So, for his last night on Earth, Dean takes Castiel to a strip club. Dean and Castiel want to know where God has gone. Raphael Claims that God is dead and gives Dean and Cas have no clue where to continue there search. At least Castiel lives through the ordeal.

Meanwhile, Sam is left out in the cold by his own choice. Some of his fellow hunters come into the bar and ask Sam to help them out with the big cluster of demons in the nearby area. Instead, he is dodging bullets from the barmaid about who he is and where he is from.When his hunting buddies return, they bring a vial of demon blood with them. While they were fighting the demons, one of them was killed, so now they want Sam to get his powers back by drinking the demon blood. Sam refuses and they force it on him. Luckily, he spits it out.

Lucifer visits Sam in his hotel room in attempt to sway Sam to become his vessel. Sam threatens to kill himself and Lucifer threatens to continually resurrect him.

This entire episode brought us nowhere and certainly didn’t answer any pending questions. It was thoroughly disappointing. Hopefully next week, the boys will get their act together and get back to fighting the good fight.

America’s Next Top Model

The girls are brought out by Miss Jay to be taught how to strut their stuff on the runway. With the exception of Brittany, Miss Jay has something negative to say about each girl. Miss Jay announces that they are having a walk-off. Obviously, this is going to somehow play out in their challenge.

The girls are brought to Malibu in order to do their first fashion show with designer Kevan Hall. The catch? The girls must walk in tandem with models that are 5’10″ and must be able to hold their own against the Amazon women. The winner of the challenge gets to be in an editorial for Seventeen magazine. Brittany wins the challenge and chooses Laura and Kara to join her in the photo shoot.

Ashley and Lulu are showing their true colors with talking constantly about the other girls, especially Bianca. Now, I am no Bianca fan myself, but she doesn’t deserve the unnecessary wrath at this point in the competition. But Bianca is not the only person on the receiving end of their negativity. Brittany and Nicole are also being talked about behind their backs.

The girls are brought to a photo shoot where they are told they need to lengthen their bodies to look taller than they are. They will be judged based on how tall they can make their bodies look. Half the girls seem to get it right while the other half struggle.

This week instead of me rooting for Bianca to go home, I am rooting for Lulu to get dropped from the competition. Plus, her picture sucked so there is a good chance.

The two girls that had the worst pictures of the week are Brittany and Lulu. Lulu is chosen because she is unable to give any tension in her body and Brittany because of the lack of her ability to elongate herself in her photo.

Yes! for the first time possibly ever, I pick the right person to go home. Lulu gets the big boot and hopefully takes the negativity out the door with her.

It is not very surprising that the first thing the men do is sit down with Suzanne and tell her they will not accept her antics nor will they accept a member of their own team throwing someone else under the bus like Suzanne has been known to do.

For the first time, Chef Ramsay shows the competing chefs Araxi, in Whistler, British Columbia. The chefs are impressed and freshly renewed in their quest to become the Araxi head chef. He has given each team 15 ingredients commonly found in Whistler in which they must create three different entrees without using the same ingredient twice. For this challenge, Chef Ramsay has brought in guest judges Sasha Cohen and Jonny Moseley. The blue team wins the challenge and is treated to a nice dinner while the losers must milk cows and clean out a pigpen.

Chef Ramsay announces that the old menus are gone and the teams must now create their own menus. Each person must have a say in the menu. The patrons of Hell’s Kitchen will have to choose between the two menus.

Neither team is able to keep it together during dinner service. Chef Ramsay shuts down the kitchens early. Each team must nominate one person from their team for elimination. The red team chooses Sabrina while the blue team chooses Van, both nominees are chosen for their inability to cook halibut correctly. Chef Ramsay choose Sabrina to go home.

The challenge sees the chefs having to cook one of Chef Ramsay’s signature dishes. The winners of the challenge are Dave and Suzanne and they are sent to Chef Ramsay’s restaurant in L.A. to be fed by previous Hell’s Kitchen winner, Christina.

The group is finally out together in one kitchen as the black team. Van starts sweating in the food and Suzanne can’t count correctly. Sadly, Tennille is getting compliments from Chef Ramsay. After even more screw ups, Chef Ramsay and Scott leave the kitchen. The chefs keep at it anyway and send out the food on their own. When he returns, he forces Suzanne, Van, and Ariel out of the kitchen.

Dave, Kevin, and Tennille choose to send Suzanne and Ariel to the chopping block. However, Big Mouth Tennille disagrees and wants to send Van up rather than Ariel. That is the first smart thing I have heard her say!

So, who goes home? Van is finally sent home after being on the chopping block for the third time. Good call, Chef Ramsay! If it couldn’t be Tennille then Van is second best.

House M.D.

House is told he is free to leave the institution at any time, but if he wants to ever practice medicine again, he needs to go to long term care in order to get the recommendation from the head doctor. He threatens to make the ward living hell for the staff until he gets his letter and can leave. It is actually quite amusing watching House as he screws with the other patients, even when my heart goes out to the manorexic and the woman who tried to kill herself.

House must alter his position when his scheming almost gets another patient killed. He must actually connect with people and learn to trust other people. He accepts his fate that he must comply with the doctor and his plan on getting House to open up.

The episode culminates when House helps two catatonic patients speak again with one simple gesture on his part. It is a truly touching moment, especially when one of the patients is allowed to be released from the hospital.

In the midst of all this, House has found romance with a married woman and even has sex with her in the hospital. When he learns she is moving, he is devastated. It is this realization that leads the doctor to finally agreeing to write his letter and release House from his confines.

This entire episode was different than viewers are accustomed to seeing, but it was nice to see more into House’s mind and to see him open up. But how will this change him and the character we have grown to love? Hopefully House doesn’t get too in touch with his emotions or dealing with them because then we will lose him forever.

Castiel lays out his plans to find God since God has left Heaven. He believes it must be God that will smite Lucifer this time around.

Bobby gets a call from another hunter, Rufus, saying he needs help in River Pass, Colorado, and since Bobby can’t even walk, he sends Sam and Dean in to try and help fight off the demons that have taken over the town. Surprisingly, they find Ellen and a small batch of survivors hiding in a building. Her daughter, Jo, and Rufus are somewhere in the town, missing.

Sam and Dean leave the survivors to go out and get guns and salt to fight off the demons and try to make a run for it. While Sam is getting the salt, he encounters what appears to be two demons but when he cuts into them with the special demon killing knife, he encounters only blood. They didn’t appear human, but they weren’t demons either.

Sam and Ellen head out to find the demons and instead are attacked by Rufus and Jo. Ellen gets away, but they capture Sam. Rufus and Jo seem to think that Ellen and Sam are demons and even try to exorcise Sam. Meanwhile, Rufus and Jo’s eyes both looked black like they were demons themselves.

What the hell is going on here? Is anybody actually a demon?

Dean figures it all out. Smart and hot. Good for him.

It is one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse: War. He has turned the members of the town against each other; making everyone believe the other people are demons when nobody is actually possessed. War is using the ring on his finger to make everyone hallucinate.

Sam and Dean catch up with War and cut off his ring, finger and all. Then he disappears in his Red Mustang, leaving Sam and Dean to clean up the mess in the town.

Sam and Dean have a heart to heart about their trust issues regarding Sam and his drinking of demon blood in the past. Really, Sam? You started the Apocalypse. Should Dean trust you? This will likely further be explored in future episodes.

Sam suggests that he should no longer be hunting and that he and Dean should go their separate ways. Dean agress. No way! Their whole dynamic is what makes this show what it is and so this is unlikely to last very long. Until then, we will have to watch their lives as separate entities. It shouldn’t last too long. The station does need the ratings after all.

This season, Wilhelmina Models is offering the winner a modeling contract. This change supposedly occurred because Wilhelmina is known for taking in models of all shapes and sizes, including those of shorter stature. The girls are sent to meet Sean Patterson, President of Wilhelmina Models. They are put into interviews right away and grilled about why they want to be a model, what they know about the fashion industry, and forced to walk. Some girls fail (like Lulu not being able to name a single fashion photographer even with Nigel barker in the same room) and other girls like Courtney manage to walk on a broken foot.

Sean Patterson and Nigel tell the girls that there is one of them that is not meant to be a Wilhelmina model and that she will be immediately leaving the competition. Meanwhile, I’m screaming “Bianca” in my head. It turns out that doe-eyed Rachel, who couldn’t perform a song on command, is asked to pack her bags and leave due to her lack of personality.

The girls are brought into a small room and told they must take a perfect photo in one shot. Suddenly, Tyra enters and turns into a superhero alter ego, Supersmize (smize = smiling with your eyes). She teaches the girls to smile with their eyes by thinking of something that makes them smile.

Luckily, Tyra gets out of costume to judge the challenge. The girls are paired against one another and forced to smile with their eyes. The winning girls get to go to dinner with Sean Patterson from Wilhelmina Models. The losing girls are forced to act as kitchen staff for the evening.

The next day, the girls are brought to Santa Anita Park for their photo shoot. The girls are asked to pose nude on a horse with a jockey. Surprisingly, none of the girls have a problem with the nudity or the horses and only Bianca has a problem with her blonde hair!

The girls are brought in to their second judging. Lauren Conrad, of The Hills fame, is the guest judge. Half the girls manage to bring in a great picture and the other half fail miserably. There is no in-between. It is difficult to tell just who the judges are going to choose for the bottom two.

It turns out that Courtney is chosen for the bottom two for sabotaging herself and looking angry in her photo. Bianca is also chosen for the second week pretty much because she looks like a transvestite gone terribly wrong and the fact that all she does is whine. Sadly, it is Courtney who is dropped from the competition. Maybe Bianca will learn something about keeping her big mouth shut. One can hope.

Maryann, the Maenad, is planning her wedding to her God by sacrificing Sam. First, she forces Sookie to get dressed up as her Maid of Honor. She knows that by forcing Sookie into this position, Sam will be forced to come and try to protect Sookie from Maryann.

Our suspicions are confirmed that Sookie is definitely not entirely human since Maryann cannot place any control over her. Perhaps her powers extend beyond the simple reading of minds.

In the previous episode, it was revealed that the maenad could only be killed when she believed she was with her God, Dionysis. Bill brought Sam to the sacrifice location at Sookie’s house to act as the vessel and Maryann stabbed Sam in the heart. Meanwhile, Sookie started to tear down everything the maenad had built in order to get the maenad to chase after her. While she was running, Bill let Sam feed from him so he could heal. Sam turned himself into a bull and convinced Maryann that he was Dionysis incarnate. He used his horns to rip through Maryann and made her believe that she was the vessel herself. Sam returned to his normal self and ripped out Maryann’s black heart and crushed it.

The people of Bon Temps seem to be awakening from their dream. Nobody knows where they are or how they got there. This is probably lucky for them to be able to forget all the evil deeds they had done. People start questioning exactly what happened to them whether it was aliens or a gas leak.

The season ends with Jessica feasting on a trucker, Eggs trying to turn himself into Andy Balfour before Jason puts a bullet in his head, and Bill proposing to Sookie in a romantic French restaurant. Yet she can’t say yes. This is good news for all of the people out there rooting for Eric rather than Bill.

While Sookie is in the ladies room, someone sneaks up behind Bill with a silver necklace, chokes him, and drags him away just before Sookie comes running out to say, “Yes” to his proposal.

Personally, this was a let down of an episode. It lacked in the action and emotion departments. Hopefully next season will delve more into the Eric vs. Bill scenario and put Sookie into a real difficult position. And of course it will be nice to know who took Bill and where!  In the meantime I guess we can watch The Vampire Diaries on the CW network.  It appears that it will be a good addition to the vampire genre.

Supernatural

Chuck Edlund, author of Supernatural, the book series and prophet of Sam and Dean’s adventures, has a vision that the sword of Archangel Michael is on Earth and Sam and Dean must find it. If you know your Bible or even if you don’t since I am going to tell you now, it was the Archangel, Michael that originally smote Lucifer and sent him to Hell.

Bobby comes to the aid of the boys once again to help them figure out the cryptic message sent by Edlund as to how to find the sword of Michael. As it turns out, Bobby is possessed by a demon and leads Meg and her croney right to Dean. Just as Bobby is about to kill Dean, he plunges the knife into himself to exorcise the demon and save Dean. Just in time, Sam enters the room, fights with Meg while Dean kills the croney with the knife and Meg disappears.

Dean decrypts the message and after dropping Bobby at the hospital, he and Sam head to the storage space where they hope to find the Michael sword. It turns out the demons beat them there, but so did the angels that had smote the demons. They announce that they had in fact lost the sword of Michael, but now it had been found. Dean is the sword of Michael. Dean! He is the vessel of Michael. He ,must accept Michael into his body so the angels can lead the war against the demons. Unfortunately, he needs Dean’s permission to enter his body. Too bad for the angels that Dean is a mean SOB.

Just in the knick of time, Castiel shows up to save Sam and Dean. He doesn’t explain how he is there since he died at the end of last season, but he does clue us in to the fact that he is the one that out Sam and Dean onto the plane. He also brands them so that the angels can no longer find them so easily.

Lucifer calls on Nick, his chosen vessel, and asks for permission to enter his body. He chooses the form of Nick’s dead wife in order to get permission. Not so surprisingly, Nick gives his permission and becomes the vessel for Lucifer.

Supernatural ends with the boys visiting Bobby in the hospital and having a heartfelt conversation about how Sam chose Dean over his brother and feels like he can never trust him again. I think that trust is going to come into play in later episodes.

The spoiler for next week looks action packed so stay tuned!

The first hour is dedicated to getting rid of more than half the girls. Of course there are some standouts, but I refuse to try and learn their names at this point. This of course is with the exception of Amber, the self-proclaimed “Jesus Freak.” The girls are brought in to meet Miss Jay and Mr. Jay along with Tyra and have their first panel to introduce themselves. It is surprising how many of these young women have serious sob stories.

The girls must walk the runway and pose to have their pictures taken. This is where The Jay’s and Tyra choose their final 14 girls.

The 14 girls are named and I still refuse to get attached to anyone yet. I can maybe name a handful of them by sight. They arrive on Melrose in LA and surprisingly, “Jesus Freak” Amber, who was among the picked is not there. Apparently Jesus had a different path for her.

Another difference in this season of America’s Next Top Model is that as soon as the girls arrive, they are given makeovers. Surprisingly, only one girl cries and that is because they bleached her eyebrows! Come on! The makeover show is usually the best because of all the tears! Big disappointment.

The first challenge begins with the girls doing editorial photographs that bring them back to when they were just babies. Yes, they have taken baby photos of the girls and are transforming their 18 year old outfits into modern day masterpieces.

So, who gets the big boot? My personal opinion? Sundai! Sundai! Sundai! And yes I remember her name because it is spelled funny. But am I right? Nope. The big boot goes to Lisa! Who? Exactly.