*ABC's Revenge - Defiantly Served*

Ok 1 episode in and I am a little bit addicted.  Gotta say I wasn't expecting to be, especially as I usually dislike the main actress Emily Van Camp, however it has proven to be a nice guilty pleasure, and better yet its like ABC crossed with the CW.

First off I guess I didn't know much about the show before going into it because I had no idea that the revenge  was from something that happened to her family when she was little, which makes it so much more interesting.  I am uber excited to see how Jack/Amanda develops, I'm really hoping he discovers her a couple of episodes in.  I am a little confused as to where the finances (Daniel) murder is going to happen, midseason or season finale.  Since its a first season, and the didn't have a full season order when they went into making the show, I'm guessing they had it prepared for midseason.

The Grayson family, first off Conrad is a douche can he be killed off, we know Daniel dies before him because he is at the engagement party in the pilot, wait one sec all the big players were which means its going to take a lot of episodes for anyone to truly be revenged on, hmmm.  I cant wait to learn all of Victoria's little dirty secrets like the one we learned at the end of the episode.  The daughter seems irrelevant for now so I will make more of a decision on her later on as the show progresses.

Emily/Amanda what shall we call her Amily? Emanda? I gunna go with Amily tis prettier.  So we have the childhood crush with Jack, the potential romance (which we know becomes an engagement) with Daniel, some weird flirting with Nolan.  Personally after the pilot I am rooting for Jack, although Daniel is a hottie, and her reaction to his death leads me to think she does develop actual feelings for him.  Maybe Amily and Nolan conspire to kill Daniel and she backs out but he continues with the plan, no its gotta be the girl Daniel killed  in the car crash's family coming back for their revenge.

The Porter family, you can tell we will be rooting for them all the way through to come out of financial struggles, to get the girl, they are defiantly the family who deserve happiness, the opposite of the Grayson's, maybe Daddy Porter was good friends with Amily's father and ends up helping her out?

See one episode in and I already have about a gazillion questions, guess I better get catching up so I can answer myself!

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*Suburgatory - Easy A In TV Form*

Finally got round to watching ABC's new comedy Suburgatory and I am thinking that i might just watch all the episodes Iv'e missed in one because its that good.  Think Emma Stone in Easy A taken out of her comfort zone and placed into well the suburbs of NYC!  And that's what this show is!

Ok it helps that the leading girl Tessa played by Jane Levy  kinda looks like Emma Stone and has the same coolness factor probably as her but that's probably what they were going for when they were casting this show.  Tessa is just very New York in her attitude, e.g. I have been brought up to be an individual why should I change myself to fit in, and of course I agree completely with this attitude so i really love this character, and kinda would like to be as cool as her.

What i love most about this show possibly though is how ever cliché about the people in the suburbs is heightened to a scary stepfordness.  Cheryl Hines is hilarious as Dallas, she reminds me a little bit of Amy Pholer in Mean Girls as lead mean girl Regina's mum, probably not as desperate but defiantly as fake.  Her daughter Dalia (is the right way its spelt, not sure) is just so bland boring and robot like that she had me kinda in stitches, or maybe it was the fact in the most monotone way possible that she says exactly what she like.  Imagine Cordelia Chase constantly glued to a mobile phone and not learning how to make expressions in her voice, i assume that's how we would get Dalia

George played by Jeremy Sisto is going to have it hard, single man quite attractive, he will be eaten up by all the single ladies, and well the married ones probably too.  This of course is going to make for some excellent comedy.  At first I was a little concerned about Sisto in a comedy I have only really seen him in Six Feet Under and that's so far from comedy in unreal, and his character in that had Bipolar I think, if not sorry its been a while since i watched it.  However I am pleasantly surprised by this lighter role he has taken on.

So I am off to watch more of this series and I think you all should to! :D

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A Double Bill of *How I Met Your Mother* Followed by New Faces on *Castle*, My Mondays are Back!

The double bill of How i Met Your Mother took us back to that finale moment with  Barney standing their being the groom and also gave us another few teases as to who the bride could be.  On Castle it started off with the aftermath of the funeral shooting, we all knew Kate would survive but what we didn't know is what she would remember and how it would impact her.

How I Met Your Mother - 7x01 The Best Man & 7x02 The Naked Truth

The first hour of HIMYM was all really about Punchy's wedding and Marshall and Lily telling the rest of the gang their news.   Ted was best man at Punchy's wedding and scared to give a toast as he managed to break down at all the other weddings whilst giving the toast and thanks to Punchy had become somewhat of a you tube hit in Finland.  This does scare me sometimes thinking that people could have videoed me and in some other country I am a hit.  However the gang pointed out that this year he hasn't been left at the alter (Stella), he hasn't lost his job in fact he is on the cover of New York Magazine.  Unfortunately when it came to bragging about this to everyone at the wedding their news was better, to Marshall, because they each had families, which leads Ted to serial dating,  usiing the magazine at newspaper stands as a pick up line.  After dating two women successfully Ted was going to carry it on until seeing how much of a fool Barney was willing to be for love, it reminded Ted exactly why he was a sucker for love.  So in the end instead of inviting one of his new conquests to this big architecture ball he takes Robin but end up seeing a very old fling there, it was the return of Victoria/Buttercup from Seaosn 1. 

Onto Marshall and Lilly, I gotta say I kinda love Marshall drunk in both of the opening episodes we see for the better term of it wasted.  In the wedding episode he gets drunk to hide the fact that Lilly is pregnant and well ends up outing the brides pregnancy as well, funny times.  In the 2nd episode his new potential boss (played by the awesomely funny Martin Short) explains they will have to do an internet search and background check but if it all pans out well he has the job.  Which leads them to discovering videos on-line of Marshall in collage as Beercules, and then to try to get the video taken down he ends up doing an updated version just for his new potential boss, who incidentally loved it and hires him anyway.

Robin and Barney had a very seductive dance at the wedding confirming to Lily and Robin that there was still chemistry between the two of them, unfortunately though Barney has all eyes for Nora at the minute.  After disgusting Nora with all his pick up stories he decides to wait in the diner until he gets his second date with her, which works out indeed.

Castle - 4x01 Rise

Castle pick up right where we left off in the finale, Kate gets rushed into hospital after being shot in the chest and Esposito and Ryan promise to catch the shooter. Castle4 and Kate's boyfriend Josh who is also one for the doctors at the hospital come to blows ad Josh blames Castle for Kate being shot.  When Kate wakes up the next day Castle goes to see her and she asks him for some time, I knew here straight away she wasn't gunna call him for months, but I thought It was because she's still angry at him for taking her out of the aeroplane hanger, not because she's not ready to deal.  Kate tells Castle that she cant remember anything form the moment she was shot, which of course is when Castle told her he loves her.

Time passes on, 3 months from what I think they said and Kate is back to the precinct, where she meets the news boss Captain Victora Gates (Iron Gates) who has come from IA (Internal Affairs) so does everything exactly by the book, you know straight away thought that this means she is gunna get caught up in something nasty and that the team are going to have to go well against the book to help her.  Iron Gates we find out has got rid of Castle and has been keeping a close eye on her detectives, she has also shut down the shooting case on Kate as there were no new leads.  Of course this tremendously peeves Kate off and leads her to find Castle apologise and well sneak around the new boss ladies back to continues investigating her shooting, Roy's death and her mothers death, oh I see this ending well, not.   I'm kinda hoping that the continue with this conspiracy case like they have been the past 3 seasons, not making it a big deal until a big lead turns up for one episode.  Or maybe they can solve this conspiracy or at least why her mother was murdered by the end of this season and get Kate and Castle together. 

This première episode was more about introductions and  well getting back to old ways, the murder of the episode was nothing interesting in itself, it lead Kate to question her ability a little bit but that was cleared up by the end. I am not saying it was a bad episode at all because I really enjoyed it, just means I am excited for the rest of the season! I see next episode brings back the humours Castle:

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