TV Comments and Spoilers

[kybearfuzz]

Monday nights have been rough TV-wise for me. Both "Being Human" and "RuPaul's Drag Race" come on at the same time. I DVR both, but usually can only get one in before heading to bed. Last night was the series finale of "Being Human" and a double-header of "RuPaul's Drag Race," which just made it that much harder. I've watched both now and both were exceptionally good. I put my comments behind the spoiler cuts for those who haven't had a chance to watch them yet. You've been warned.


Being Human Finale

Lately, it seems that when shows end, they try to come up with either an ambiguous ending or something oddly bittersweet, usually ending with someone popular dying. At least some shows get an ending, which is always better than having it just canceled with no resolution at all. The recent conclusion of "How I Met Your Mother" has come under some scrutiny as one of the worst, but I didn't think it was so bad.

I had my own predictions of how "Being Human" was going to end. And, no pun intended, but I was dead right with the end result, if not with the how. Sally the ghost sacrifices herself to change her love, hunky vampire Aidan, into one of the living. While this works in making him human, it's a temporary relief as Aidan is over 200 years old and his organ quickly start failing. He nearly gets a new vampire to change him back, but is stopped by werewolf Josh.

Married werewolves Josh and Nora spend as much time as they can with Aidan, who accidentally lets it slip that Nora is preggers. To save Josh from being possibly killed, Aidan confronts the last "big bad" solo, the demon linked to their old home. After the demon nearly kills him, Aidan burns down the house at the last minute, killing him and the demon.

Josh and Nora come to the old house just in time to see an ambulance removing a covered body from the charred remains. They enter the house in tears, losing both Aidan and their old home in one sweep. Once inside they encounter a familiar voice, Aidan as a ghost. They joke about for a moment before Aidan's door to eternity appears. He says his goodbyes and enters the door to find Sally waiting for him.

The last scene has Josh and Nora some time later, awakening in a field from a dream where they, Aiden and Sally were spending a great afternoon in the old house. They look around and find their two children, named Aidan and Sally, nearby. A happy family, they laugh and play as the screen goes black.

It's the happy ending I like. Aidan and Sally together in eternity. Josh, Nora, and their family happy together. Everything resolved and complete.



RuPaul's Drag Race Double-Header

The first episode was the commercial challenge, followed by the stand-up challenge in the next episode.

The commercial challenge was kind of a dud, but the comedy challenge was spectacular, both in the good comedians and the really bad ones.

My personal favorite, Bianca Del Rio, was hands-down the funniest and won the challenge without breaking a sweat. I would pay money to see her do stand-up. Seriously, she should have a Comedy Central special at the very least.

Drama queen LaGanja Estranja got sent packing, which was fine with me. Her spineless whiny bitch routine was old several episodes ago. She wants to be the center of attention and being booted definitely got her screen time. If she put as much effort into her drag as she does coiffing her out-of-drag hair, she might have stayed longer.


Okay, time for bed here.

Comments

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

Now I remember… Bianca Del Rio was one of the comedians in One Night Standup: Dragtastic II for LogoTV a few years back. Some vids here:

http://www.logotv.com/video/one-night-stand-up-dragtastic-ii/1655638/playlist.jhtml

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, handsome. I'll be watching that tonight.

And I found a YouTube video of Bianca Del Rio doing a show in Sacramento that was hilarious.

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

Some of the "comedy" routines were jaw-droppingly bad, but the show's heavy-handed editing really revealed itself. One of the break montages wanted us to think that one girl's senior citizen joke had fallen on deaf ears when in fact it seemed to go over well. I know the show's editing is a frequent subject of criticism, but even I'm rather appalled when it becomes so transparent.

Glad to see the week's elimination. Those runway splits routines were SO over, and now she is too!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I felt bad for the ones whose routines were so awful. Really. I get almost embarrassed for them. I was a bit surprised because a couple of them seem very funny actually, but their stand-up just tanked.

The editing is surprising, isn't it? I know when they preview right before a commercial break, usually before judges' critiques, they often edit it to look like they are giving bad news to one queen, when it's actually directed at another. It's supposed to be just surprising misdirection, but the editing does paint a different picture of how the show might be running.

And OMG... so happy she's gone. All that crying, all that whining about it being her moment, all that "you called me out" based on her f-up perception of reality, it just went from drama to damaging to tedious. I still have the hour of "untucked" to watch tonight, but bye-bye, ma-ma...

[dendren.livejournal.com]

Now that Being Human is over, you should try out Orphan Black, if you aren't already. We started watching it this weekend and I'm loving it!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I'll add it to my summertime viewing list. I've heard it's a really good show. :)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

it's BBC America so the season is short and easily digestible. I've gotten to like having so many shows that are just 10-12 episodes. They used to annoy me but I'm finally getting used to it. I just hate that it's so long between seasons on these types of shows usually.