TV review: Demons

On Saturday, February 6, BBC America aired the final episode of the series Demons. At a mere six episodes, the show was extremely short. Especially considering the content.

Luke Rutherford (Christian Cook) is the last of the Van Helsing men. According to Rupert Galvin (Philip Glenister), it is now his job to hunt down demons known as "half lives" and smite them. With help from Galvin, Mina Harker (Zoe Tapper), and his best friend Ruby (Holliday Grainger), he faces vampires, harpies, demons, and more.

The show started off slow, which isn't promising considering how little time the writers have to get the story out and wrap it up. There were a few really good episodes in there. I think "Smitten" was my favorite. However, the writers spent a lot of time building up to something spectacular for Luke, only to end it without giving it to us. Instead, they give us a bit of a cliff-hanger. Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that there will not be a second season so we will never get the resolution to the climax. That would be why I can't really recommend it to anyone. It just doesn't go anywhere.

On the good side, both Christian Cook and Holliday Grainger gave some good performances. I hope to see more excellent work from them in the future.

Ack! Snow!

There was a huge snowstorm Friday night into Saturday. In my area, we got somewhere around 18 inches of the stuff. I hate the snow, especially shoveling. Who needs weight loss pills when you're trying to dig your car out of a 2 foot snowbank? I really need to move somewhere with less....winter. Someplace warm and completely snowless. Well, there can be a little bit of snow, but not a lot.

No more tummy please!

For the most part, I am happy with my body. I would like to figure out a way to get stomach fat loss. It's sad, but I've never lost my 'baby pooch' from when I was pregnant. Yeah...it's been almost 8 years. Supposedly, you can't target areas to lose fat. You have to just keep working your entire body until the fat pockets go away. Blargh. That will take forever!

Hobbies

I like trying out new hobbies. Learning can be a lot of fun. I've made soap; I've done some voice acting; I've even done a little bit of cosplaying. (I really need to work my sewing skills some more!) I wish I was better at drawing though. Maybe I could design furniture or something. That might be interesting. Then again, it might be way more work than it's worth...

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards aired last night on CBS. I normally don't watch award shows, but my husband is a Lady Gaga fan and he wanted to see if she would win anything. Luckily for me, Green Day performed so that made up for having to sit through the lengthiness of an award show. (Seriously - fewer commercial breaks and just shut the hell up.)

I found most of the performances to be rather dull. Mainly because, for some reason, whoever was in charge of mixing the songs decided that the lead vocals weren't nearly as important as the background vocals or the horn sections. I spent half of Beyonce's performance going "What is she singing? I can't hear a word she's saying!" The other half was "Huh. Is she singing an Alanis song?" Green Day's performance had the potential to be amazing, but, yet again, the mixer screwed everything up. Isn't this the reason they have rehearsals?

On the awards side, I was stunned that a country music band (Zac Brown Band) won Best New Artist. They were up against some tough competition. I guess this shows that this particular award was given out on merit instead of popularity. Otherwise one of the pop girls would have been a shoo-in. I was also a little surprised that "Single Ladies" won Song of the Year. It's not really a great song. Sure, it's catchy and it gets stuck in your head, but that doesn't make it great. Ah, well, award show...popularity contest and all that.

So, as usual, I was an unimpressed with the Grammy Awards as I have ever been. Will I watch next year? I don't know. I guess we'll see what rocks the music world this year. Maybe next year will be more interesting.

A poll and more

[poll id="48"] Unfortunately, today started out awful. While the morning news claimed there were "slick spots' on the road, what they really meant was "the entire roadway is coated with ice." So, instead of being in work on time, I spent a couple of hours at my mother's house waiting for the ice to melt. At least it's gone now. I hope that it will stay this way until I get home tonight.

TV: Cougar Town

One of the new shows that I have been watching this season is Cougar Town. To be honest, I never heard about the show until my husband recorded it for me one night. The show had me laughing my butt off right from the beginning.

Here's the premise: Jules (Courtney Cox) is a recently divorced woman with a 17-year old son. With a bit of help from her best friends - Ellie (Christa Miller) and Laurie (Busy Phillips) - she tries to put a little excitement in her life and, maybe, find a good man along the way.

At first glance, it doesn't look like it would be anything spectacular. However, the writing and the cast are absolutely perfect. None of the characters are overbearing (or at least they aren't for very long) and you always feel like you are in on the joke. I know that some people are put-off by the title. Look past the words and let the laughter commence!

Coming back to the beginning

I know there have been a lot of ads on the site lately. My problem is that I feel like I've already talked about everything that I do nowadays. I don't watch a whole lot of new shows (though there are a few I could talk about) and there aren't really any awful reality shows for me to get into. Even the music I listen to has kinda stagnated. But I suppose that things that are old to me could be new to you. So that is my vow. I will post more 'real' items and less about Wholesale Insurance or diet pills. I can do this!