DROP DEAD DIVA: Queen of Mean

Happy August, Drop Dead Diva fans! I don’t know about you, but I was glad to see a return to a more light-hearted episode for Jane. The past few episodes showed her as feeling like a third wheel or entangled in her family’s issues, so it was great to see her more confident, even if she was dealing with Ellie Tannen, the ‘Queen of Mean’, (played by guest star Cybill Shepherd). Jane uses Deb’s innate fashion sense to score Tannen as a client, to Parker’s pleasure. But Tannen has a nearly impossible request: to stop a tell-all inflammatory biography of her from being published. Jane, using Stacy’s advice, tells her “It won’t be a problem.”

Jane also takes Stacy’s personal advice and invites Hank the bailiff to a dinner party they are throwing, in the hopes that Jane will begin dating again. Since Original Jane and Hank got along so well, Stacy is convinced that Hank is a great place for New Jane to start.

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WAREHOUSE 13 Recap: Age Before Beauty

“Age Before Beauty” felt a little darker to me than the other episodes this season, particularly with respect to how the changed ages resulted in death for the victims. Yikes.

This week’s case finds Pete and Myka in a little Miss Congeniality-type situation. The fashion world is losing some of its most beautiful models – to old age. Immediate and indescribable old age. Years are being literally stolen from the women, and it’s up to the team to go undercover to figure out what is happening.

The perfect way to do so? Vamp up the va-va-voom with Myka in a little red dress, and ¡andele!, we’ve got ourselves a model! All she has to do is look great and boss Pete around.

Sounds good to me.

Oh except for the part when Myka turned into an octogenarian. Um, creepy!

The team discovered that a 1930’s photographer, Man Ray, had a camera with artifact properties but it was never found. They find the photographer (who’d winked at Myka at the catwalk) and realize that the camera doesn’t just steal youthfulness, it also transfers it to another person. Or as Artie put it, ‘peddling a second chance at life’. It was a little unclear to me how exactly taking a picture of the photographer restored Myka’s youth, but we’ll just go with the writers on that one.

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WAREHOUSE 13: Beyond Our Control

Eddie McClintock once mentioned that WAREHOUSE 13 is a show that is right for right now. I agree with him. People want to laugh and escape a bit, and I think season two of Warehouse 13 has been perfectly eccentric and fun.

In a world where even the local news meshes tragedies with pop culture scandals, it’s great to be able to tune our Farnsworths one hour a week and enjoy the company of Pete, Myka, Artie, Claudia, Leena and Mrs. F.

This episode, “Beyond Our Control”, was another great blend of intrigue (How the heck did that same guy from different time periods keep showing up in town?), character development (potential romantic interest for Claudia, anyone?), and fun (“Are you hit?!” “No, but I think my underwear are shot…”).

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GMMR Chats with DROP DEAD DIVA’s Guardian Angel, Ben Feldman

Hey DROP DEAD DIVA fans! GIVE ME MY REMOTE recently got the chance to chat with your favorite guardian angel turned administrative assistant, Fred, played by the charming and adorable, Ben Feldman.

Why is Ben drawn to “food, booze & music”? Why does he thinks a show is better in season two than season one?  And what does he think about Fred and Jane’s romantic future.

Hi Ben. How are you?

Ben: I’m good. I love the name of your website.

Oh, thank you! It’s definitely a site where fans come together and express their love of TV shows, and DROP DEAD DIVA is one of them, so we were really excited to talk to you today. Congrats on being named a series regular. Fans were pretty upset when it looked like Fred’s character might be on the way out in season one.

Ben: Oh…they weren’t outraged. They were just confused (laughs). No, I’m very, very lucky and super excited that I’ve been so openly and warmly welcomed into this cool family. I’m just really happy to be here.

Someone on our site once mentioned that Fred and Jane actually make the nicest couple. They bicker sometimes, but they get along so well. Do you think the two might ever pair up, romantically?

Ben: You know, it’s weird, because I hear people say that every once in awhile, and it’s weird to me. I feel like Brooke (Elliott, Jane) and I…and I would imagine Fred and Jane, look at each other like brother and sister. So when people say that, I’m always kind of taken aback for a second. I don’t know why it ended up being like that. I guess it’s because we didn’t really being with that sort of a relationship. We jumped straight into guardian and…gaurdee, or whatever she would be called, and so now at this point, it just feels like it would be super weird. But maybe we could make it work. That’s like season six.

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WAREHOUSE 13 Recap: Mild Mannered

Was anyone else smiling from pretty much start to finish? I’m going to go ahead and say it has a lot to do with Pete Lattimer, which I guess means it has a lot to do with Eddie McClintock. The show just has so much heart, and this episode really embodied that. Speaking of embodied things…let’s start talking about that!

Pete and Myka spend most of this episode in Detroit, where “mild mannered” Sheldon has come into possession of an artifact that gives him super-powers. He decides to take it upon himself to rid his neighborhood of evil doings, particularly anything that might cause danger to the woman he loves, Loretta (Jewel Staite, who with Sheldon’s Sean Maher, played in GMMR fave Firefly!). But like all artifacts on the show, the capacity for greatness runs parallel with potential for incredible danger. I liked that Sheldon is a GOOD person, not someone bad who is trying to take advantage of an artifact’s power. I also really thought his relationship with Loretta was very sweet. Sweet probably isn’t the word to describe the way he apprehends robbers and vandals by tossing them out of tall storied buildings, however, and that is where Pete and Myka come in. With the help of Claudia, they determine that it’s Sheldon’s super-suit that is the artifact, belonging to the famed comic book character, Iron Shadow.

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DROP DEAD DIVA Recap: Senti-mental

Hey Drop Dead Diva pals! Sorry I missed the last episode. A lot went on, and I want to touch on a few quick points. It seemed like things were finally in sync for Tony and Jane, until his new job offer placed him in DC. They broke up amicably enough, I suppose, and I think I may have been more upset than either of them. Jane capped off the episode with a nightcap with Grayson, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

Meanwhile, Parker and Kim physically admitted their feelings for one another, but not before Fred got caught gossiping about them with Parker’s assistant. And Grayson, who had been seriously contemplating selling the house he and Deb had bought for their life together, decides not to. And the case in that episode was great, too…with Jane defending Edward, Teri’s nephew, against deportation. Feel free to comment below about that episode as well as this week’s! Let’s get right to that one!

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Warehouse 13 Season Two Premiere Review- Time Will Tell

Boom goes the dynamite, WAREHOUSE 13 fans! What is UP?! It has been SO long since we’ve had new episodes. I didn’t think this summer season was EVER going to come. But here it is! And wasn’t the premiere great? First of all, I loved that season two picked up immediately where season one left off. Season one left us with many questions, and I wanted them answered. But I didn’t want to be TOLD them…I wanted to see what happened.

And right away, we got…more questions.

Haha, but I guess that was to be expected, right? First of all, how the heck did Artie transpose into the flesh with Myka and Pete? And was Mrs. Fredericks the one who was killed? And…who was the person in the gray robe that Leena passed to MacPherson?

So yes, there were more questions, but what made that okay was that Pete, Myka and even Artie were completely…themselves, right away. Within the first few minutes, I felt like I was right back into the warehouse, with all of its quirks and smiling at Pete’s antics (and love of….comic books) and Myka’s love of libraries. GMMR’s Marisa Roffman talked with Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly (Pete & Myka) and what I liked best about that interview (You can read that, and a little recap of the end of last season here…) is that they reinforced the idea that they aren’t interested in creating a ‘will they or won’t they’ romantic tension and are very satisfied with the brother/sister dynamic that is set up. Warehouse 13 is definitely a show with family as a root theme, and this episode reinforced that. And, along the way it managed to answer some of the questions it posed.

We see Artie at the bedside of hospitalized Mrs. F, and he has a flash or vision of her telling him to search for Claudia and her brother Joshua. Artie leaves Pete and Myka to search the warehouse for any clues or traces MacPherson may have left. When they start in the bronzing room, they see that the bronzer had two manual entries; one was the de-bronzing of MacPherson himself, and the other (the mysterious robed person)…was H.G. Wells.

That reveal raised a few eyebrows, including mine and Pete’s. But further research shows that a historical Wells’ home had been broken into with nothing stolen. This leads Pete to have a vibe about going to London and Myka goes along with it.

The theme of family is continued when we see Claudia chatting online with Joshua who is then interrupted by one of his employers. It’s not a surprise when the employer is revealed to be MacPherson.

Meanwhile, Pete & Myka have arrived in London to find Wells and see if ‘he’ is up to no good. One of the trends I didn’t like last season was the way Pete was kind of presented as a bumbling idiot. After all, the show’s premise revolves around the idea that he and Myka are top agents and being assigned to the warehouse is a promotion (even if they didn’t see it that way). So when he busted into the dramatic presentation with the HG Wells impersonator, spouting off accusations, I was annoyed.

Myka is also slightly annoyed, but she deals, and she has bigger Pete issues, in that he is continually attracted to a British tourist whom he makes out with in the entrance of the Wells home. But what news does Myka have for him? HG Wells is a woman, of course. But by that time, Pete has figured that out for himself, because she has turned his Tesla gun against him. What did you think of that plot point that Wells is a woman? It worked for me.

Wells is there to get back the ‘Impercepter Vest’ , and she is tag-teaming with MacPherson because once she has the vest, they can quickly and ‘imperceptively’ penetrate the Escher vault in the warehouse, where all the belongings of bronzed persons are stored. Sidenote: Remember last year when we talked about how the bronzing seemed to be kind of inhumane, and that lent a dark quality to the warehouse? I liked how that was reinforced in this episode, when Pete & Myka found out that people who are bronzed are capable of thought. I liked that Pete asked Artie if HE knew that, and it was interesting to me that Artie said yes.

You know how sometimes, you see something happening on a show, and your first thought it…I can’t believe this is happening, but when you really take a second thought, you realize, ‘this is totally plausible’? Um…Mrs. F. choking Leena to death was simultaneously shocking and yet completely in character. Didn’t you think so? I certainly appreciated that Leena was brought back to life almost immediately, but I’m just saying, I totally bought into the idea that Mrs. F could kill like that.

The rest of the team manages to get back to the warehouse fast enough to trick MacPherson, but when Wells joins them quickly, she has her own plan. She breaks MacPherson’s beads, which we know means his imminent death. I know he’s a bad guy and all, but I was kind of bummed that he’s dead, if only because he has been an excellent villain.

I liked that the ‘artifact’ for this week was both Wells AND the Impercepter Vest, and I think it’s safe to assume that Wells is our new villain, and I have to admit that she makes a good one.

All in all, the season two premiere did a great job of re-introducing us to each character (including the warehouse), creating an interesting case, and reinforcing the underlying theme of family. All of this, combined with the bickering between Claudia and Leena, Artie giving Claudia the handheld communicator and the shared smiles between Pete & Myka proved to me that the writers are clear on what they want to accomplish this season, and I’m more excited now that I’ve seen the episode than before it started.

The best line of the night actually came from MacPherson, “Welcome to the future; let’s change it, shall we?” So…welcome to season two of Warehouse 13. Let’s watch together, shall we?!

Be sure to comment below! Let me know what you thought of this episode and what you’ve been up to this summer so far!

Sarah (Seels) writes for GMMR for BONES, WAREHOUSE 13 and DROP DEAD DIVA. She is also the owner of blog projects 100DaysofBones and BonesTheory. You can follow her on Twitter at @SarahInPrint

DROP DEAD DIVA: The Long Road to Napa

Derma-guac could be huge. That is one lesson we learned from this episode of Drop Dead Diva. Another lesson might be not to purchase the exact same watch for your wife, your other wife, and your future wife, and a third might be to know that a sealed unused pregnancy test does not actually mean a woman is pregnant. A lot of lessons going on in this episode.

How did you like it? I have to say that of the three so far this year, it’s probably my least favorite. Even though it was REALLY great to see David Sutcliffe back on TV, the rest of the episode didn’t feel quite right to me. But as Jane said, no one likes to come in third. Speaking of Jane, I think her actions and reactions were what threw me off the most during this week’s ep. But more on that later.

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DROP DEAD DIVA: Back from the Dead

Drop Dead Diva fans, you rock the house! I loved all your comments last week, and I am glad to know the show has a home here on the site.

The episode was kind of serious, didn’t you think? Once again, there were two cases running parallel throughout the hour. Jane represented a woman who wished to keep her missing son Daniel (Chad Lowe) from being presumed dead. The opposition is the son’s widow, who has re-married and wishes for her new husband (one of Dan’s former friends) to adopt the son she had with Dan. It gets complicated when Daniel re-appears, alive and interested in getting his life back, and at the very least, his son. What I really liked about this case was that there wasn’t really a villain. DDD can be kind of black and white in the whole good vs. evil thing, but this case had many more gray areas, with real, honest people not looking to get rich quick or screw someone over, and that is just so much more true to life (I hope). It was impossible to choose a side. Underneath all of that was Jane’s complete ability to understand what Dan was feeling. I loved when Dan described his life as not being gone, but like in a museum. Able to be seen, but not touched. Heartbreaking.

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DROP DEAD DIVA Season Premiere: Would I Lie to You

Hey, hey, hey Drop Dead Diva fans! So glad we have a chance to officially talk about this show here on GMMR!

How did you like the season two premiere? I thought it was a pretty good starting off point for what looks like a good summer. Let’s get right to talking about it…

First of all, can we just set up a basic understanding for this season that when we say “Jane”, we really mean “Deb/new Jane”? I think that is the general idea of how the show seems to be dealing with it, don’t you? I’ll say “Old Jane” or “Deb” if I mean either of those two characters.

Last season ended with Jane (while facing disbarment) quitting her job as a lawyer, but happy with her decision. She was also going to go ahead and forget about co-worker (and Deb’s fiancée) Grayson and move on…with boyfriend Tony. But to her surprise (and mine), Old Jane’s husband Ethan showed up at the door.

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BONES Season Finale: The Beginning in the End

Before I turn things over to Seels, I just wanted to take a moment to thank her for her wonderful coverage of BONES on behalf of GiveMeMyRemote.com.  Every week her recaps facilitate fantastic conversations with the BONES community here on GMMR.  At the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about for me.  So thank you Seels, and thank you BONES fans for a wonderful season.  See you back here next year. — Kath (GMMR)

Now, over to Seels.

I can’t believe season five is over. I feel like we were JUST live chatting during the premiere, gasping when Booth said, “I’ve got you, baby.” This has been one crazy ride from that point till now, and BONES fans, you have rocked all season long. Other TV shows wish they had as loyal of fans as BONES does. There is a lot to discuss, so let’s get to it. For one thing, B&B. And for another, HOARDERS! AH…but also…

Freaking. Daisy.

THE CASE:

I really liked this case! The victim is found when his remains & his third floor apartment fall into the apartment below his. The victim, Tim Murphy, was a level five hoarder, with piles of papers and ‘garbage’ as some people called it, not to mention bugs of all kinds, snakes, fans, etc, etc. EW, but interesting, as most BONES bodies are. Booth & Brennan and the team try to sift through the mess, determining what exactly IS evidence, not to mention the exact cause of death. It’s a surprise when it’s revealed that Tim suffered what appear to be knife wounds, especially surprising when the actual cause of death is that he starved to death. So it’s up to the team to figure out why and how he was attacked to the point where he couldn’t move around his apartment enough to eat the food there. Suspects include the disgruntled, but prepared, landlord who wanted him out of the apartment, a fellow accountant he worked with for eight years in corporate accounting, and a man who wanted something Tim had, a $50,000 Fiesta-ware gnome. In the end, Brennan identifies the marks on Tim’s skull as wounds from a fan. After Hodgins and Sweets find photos of Tim and the accountant together in romantic poses, B&B interrogate her again and find out that she was trying to save him from his apartment. She shoved the fan into his face and ran, not knowing she’d killed him.

THE SQUINTS:

Daisy sucks. She sucks my will to live. She is evil. I have been NICE to her all season (haha, shhhhh) but not anymore. Thank God Booth feels the same as me. So does Brennan, although Brennan’s love of anthropology outweighs her disdain for Daisy. I for one felt MUCH better about Brennan going on her trip for the very fact that I want Daisy to not get an ounce of credit for anything. Freaking. Daisy. I’ve said it before; I’ll say it again. She plays lead tambourine in a band called Gormogon; that’s pretty much all you need to know about her. How DARE her tell Brennan that she holds Booth back like he holds HER back? Maybe…maybe it’s true, but whatever, Daisy. Get away from me.

Sweets on the other hand…does not suck. I LOOOOOVE that he was like “I’m not waiting for you.” I like also that he called Booth out on his affections for Brennan, and I really liked his Mr. Adventure side-kick attitude. Also, it was fun when he was ‘all squinted up’.

Cam: I liked her reaction to Daisy as well, and I really liked how she DIDN’T explain to Brennan what she meant about Brennan being irreplaceable.

Angela & Hodgins were great, both in their work and the balance of their personal life. I LOVED Angela’s dad scaring Hodgins at the crime scene. Hahahahahaha! I also loved the end scene when Angela was talking about everything changing and Hodgins was like “I’m not going to talk about that.” And I love the idea of them going to Paris for a year. The whole stealing back the car storyline didn’t do anything for me, but all in all, I liked everything else about this episode.

Booth & Brennan:

I really have no problem with Brennan wanting to go on the trip to Indonesia. Of course she was asked to be the leader. It’s a groundbreaking find. The show HAS downplayed her world-renowned anthropologist status. She’s not running away, and I believe her when she says to Angela she wants to sort some things out, that she needs a break. I believe her when she says she’s worried all the time, that Booth might get hurt on a case and she can’t prevent it, worried about her partnership with Booth and what that means. This isn’t like dating other people to make sure that another person is really the one…this is her (I hope) realizing where anthropology and her brain and Booth and their partnership, and her career and her other career, and just everything, everything she has in her life fits together. It’s the same thing that Sully told her ABOUT anthropology in season two…now it’s true of her FBI work. The work she does with the FBI and the Jeffersonian is important, but it’s not important enough to be her whole life. She has to see that, as rewarding as her careers are, both with the FBI and anywhere else in the world, that she is a person outside of those things, outside of her partnership with Booth. And THAT person is the woman, Temperance Brennan.

Likewise, Seeley Booth, the man, he has to figure out where he fits in the world. I don’t think it’s as a soldier for life, and although I really liked his FBI work in this episode, I also don’t think his life’s destiny is only to be an FBI agent only. The work he does is important, but it’s not important enough to be his whole life. What did you think about his scene with Parker? How about Parker feeling guilt that people might die because Booth wasn’t going to go back into the Army? Those Booth men…they have a lot of guilt. A lot of guilt. Parker’s growing up though, that’s for sure. We haven’t talked too much lately about Booth’s hero complex, but this episode touched on it many times. Interesting that Brennan asked him NOT to be a hero, not to be himself. To me, that was her way of asking Booth to wait for her. And Booth’s reply was to take her hand and promise to meet her in a year. Where? The place where they became the center, of course. And, say it with me…the center must hold.

The entire episode, they were supportive of one another, AND neither one left the other. Does that make sense? I was hoping the episode wasn’t going to end with one of them watching a plane fly away, standing there lonely. Yeah…them holding hands (and not kissing…come on…please tell me I wasn’t the only one like KISS HER!) at the airport was sad, though touching, and we had better darn well see the reunion at the reflection pond, but even though they are moving in opposite physical directions on the globe, I still had the feeling that they are still together on the same path.

I really liked this episode, and I think my favorite part is the scene where it’s obvious Brennan has asked Booth to meet her so that she can tell him about Indonesia, and she calls him out about not making eye contact. Such fantastic acting from DB and ED.

What say you? Did you like this episode? If so, what was your favorite part? What was your fave episode this season? Do you think season six will start with B&B in Afghanistan and Indonesia, or will a year have passed by? AH! Talk to me, BONES pals! It’s our last chance to talk till the fall! I want you ALL to comment! Come on, now!

BONES: The Boy with the Answer

BONES lovelies, please tell me that in the exact moment Brennan said she might need more than time that we ALL knew she meant time…and space. Booth knew. I knew. We all knew, because we are so cool like that. B&B have their own little language sometimes, and we are all fluent!

What did you like about this ep? I think my favorite part was the look B&B gave one another after Angela said “This is love”.

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Emily Deschanel and Hart Hanson Talk BONES

First of all…spoiler alert. Don’t even read on if you don’t like the sweet smell of spoilers. Or is the spoiled smell of sweetness? Hard to say. But seriously…we’re talking the next two episodes of BONES (“The Boy with the Answer” and “The Beginning in the End”, respectively, airing on FOX May 13th and May 20th).

Quick note, for those reading this but not clicking the link ahead: Hart Hanson and Emily Deschanel are amazing together. It’s clear they are very fond of one another. Not a secret, or a scoop or anything, but still worth mentioning.

I’m pleased that I was able to ask two questions. And here we go…

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BONES: The Witch in the Wardrobe

Word up, BONES fans; we have a LOT to talk about! Wicca…and a WEDDING!

Did you like this episode? Personally, I thought it was one of the best ensemble episodes in BONES series history. Cheers to Kathy Reichs for writing an episode that utilized each character with great purpose! Likewise, the episode was case-driven, which always gives a good season one vibe to things. BONES had very good success with that procedural process, mixing in some quirky side characters and a dash of B&B at the end for the first couple of years, and it worked again. If Booth and Brennan’s relationship is what gets us to the table, then the cases are the bread and butter. And I guess that makes the squints a nice side salad with a spritz of vinaigrette. And now I’m hungry, haha. But please, like any of us eat when we watch this show. We know better!

THE CASE:

Although, this body wasn’t too gross, was it? It was mostly fascinating. Booth, Brennan, Angela and Hodgins are called to a crime scene where a woman’s skeleton is found in a wedding dress, in a wardrobe. But when a second and more recently deceased victim, Sherrie Bird, is discovered a few feet away and within a burnt circle, they figure the two bodies are connected in some way. This leads Booth and Brennan into the world of Wicca and witchcraft and it leads Hodgins and Angela to jail. Well, maybe not that exactly, but still…

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Series Inspiration Kathy Reichs talks BONES

Hey, BONES pals! How are things? If you are like me, you are looking forward to this week’s episode, especially because it was written by Kathy Reichs, who, as you know, created the character of Temperance Brennan.

Are any of you fans of the books? I have to say that after participating in this conference call, I think I might have to check them out.

Kathy Reichs is fascinating; that’s all there is to it. It’s really no wonder that Hart Hanson, Barry Josephson, et al, wanted to tell her stories and her story.

Also, for those of you keeping score at home, this post is spoiler free. Crazy, right? But it’s true…Ms. Reichs didn’t want to spoil anything from the episode she wrote: this week’s “The Witch in the Wardrobe” (airs Thursday, May 6th, 8 PM EST on FOX). No spoilers? I can dig it!

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