Nag Those Grandparents!

Ciao and welcome back! I am in the midst of catching up on all the happenings while I was away but it is a little hard to concentrate on things non-political. Thus, I need to take this time to remind all of you with grandparents in Florida how important it is to influence their vote. I'll let Sarah Silverman explain:

Ciao

I'm off to Italy for the next week and a half where I plan to unplug and enjoy a little sun and scenery. Ciao:



Please tune back in on September 29th - there's a new television season just starting up for us to hash and the upcoming New York Film Festival. There will also be more dance discussion in October as the City Center fall ballet season heats up.

In the meantime, catch up on all your outstanding TV from last season, keep up to date on your films and we can all hit the ground running together! If you want to suggest any topics for discussion, feel free to write in to hjensen@gmail.com.

Fringe - You Lost Me at Rapidly Growing Baby

Um, WTF Fringe? What kind of messed up idea was that? I'm all up for something wacky and different but what kind of sick writers do you employ? I'm not so sure I'm going to be able to hang in if this is the kind of thing we get every week. Consider yourself on notice.

Heroes Returns - Oy.

So I began watching Heroes when it first started with the thought that it could be a lot of fun and it's pretty much let me down ever since. Last season was a complete disaster when the writers didn't seem to know what to do with the characters and the story. I can picture one saying, "let's shoot him only he won't really be dead!" and another saying, "we already did that with two of the other characters in the same episode but why not? Third time's a charm." Um, not very charming no.

So it is with a mix of car-crash-gawking-type interest and dread that I set my DVR last night to record Monday's two-hour season premiere. I feel I wisely chose not to record the one-hour build-up to the season premiere - two hours is more than enough (FYI, the blah-blah intro is at 8 and the actual show is from 9-11). I'm not sure I will even be able to make it through the two hours but I am willing to at least give it a try. The new season is called Villains which is a bit confusing since I thought every season revolved around bad guys. Nevertheless, I'll see where the writers plan to lead us before I quit. Just please make the show more about Hiro (as pictured, the only reason why I've lasted with the show this long) and much, much less about Maya and maybe I'll hang in there a bit longer.

Is anyone actually excited about the Heroes premiere? Anyone want to defend its season 2 ramblings? Feel free to do so here.

The Home that Ruth Built

There is a big difference between a house and a home. A home is a comforting place filled with memories (both good and bad), a place that may be a little raggy around the edges (and not have too many corporate boxes) but is still a place that you love. You can build a big, shiny new building with imposing stone walls and glittering gold letters but for now it is only a new house. So it was with love and a bit of sadness that I went last night to say goodbye to the home of the Yankees, the original Yankee Stadium.

It is self-evident that many amazing things have taken place at Yankee Stadium and I need not recount them all. There are also many personal memories Yankee fans will cherish from Yankee Stadium. For me, I will always remember the 2000 AL Championship game where the Yankees won the championship knowing they would face the Mets in the World Series. David Justice hit a home run into the right field upper deck just rows in front of where I sat - I screamed so long and so loud that I lost my voice for days. Unfortunately, I will also always remember the fateful Game 7 of the 2004 AL Championship where the Red Sox managed to take the championship crown - the crowd was so sad that we all started comforting each other - one big, supportive family.

There are also little anecdotes - ask my Uncle Stevie to tell you about my demand that the NYPD be summoned to deal with a pigeon stuck between two seats. I'm always happy to tell you about the time some friends and I watched the Yankees play for 16 innings until 1am on a Wednesday only to lose in the end. These anecdotes, and many others, made Yankee Stadium a place where I felt at home with the team and with my fellow fans.

Most importantly, Yankee Stadium is a place where I could feel at home with my family. My dad was a Yankee fan my whole life but when my sister and I were girls he never took us to Yankee games, never talked to us about the games he watched on TV. In law school and college, my sister and I began to get swept up with the Yankees on our own and slowly, my dad and uncle who had been attending games together finally merged with my sister and me until we began to go to the games at the stadium all together. My family has no problem finding things to talk about but now the Yankees is just one more thing we all have in common and can enjoy together. So it was only appropriate that we came together to say goodbye to the home of the Yankees. Thank you Yankee Stadium for creating this picture and I look forward to pitching in to make your new house a home.

Are you enjoying True Blood?

I just can't make up my mind. I do like some of the characters (Anna Paquin's Sookie, Lois Smith's grandmother, Sookie's best friend Tara, the vampire Bill) but I'm not sure the story is to my tastes. I'm not much of a vampire story girl (I had to be really pleaded into watching Buffy) and the whole vampire rule bit (I can travel superfast but I can't turn into a bat) is boring to me. Let's hope it becomes less of a story about vampires per se and more of a twisted love story - that would be much more interesting.

P.S. The best bit in the show thus far is the magazine headline which proclaims Angelina Jolie has adopted a vampire baby. I don't know what that says about the rest of the show but let me know what you think.

Mad Women

I am still enjoying nearly all of Mad Men (although my heart is breaking for Joan) but I just can't abide by January Jones' distraught Betsy. I know that her character is supposed to be naive but her pouty, petulant child act just made me want to reach through the TV and slap her. That is, slap January Jones' performance, not the behavior of the character. There are many rich ways in which to play the wronged spouse but I think January Jones just spent time working on her pouty face and left it at that ("you embarrassed me!" , "you embarrassed me!" , "you embarrassed me!" ) . Let's hope she keeps Don out of the house so we don't have to spend so much time with her. In my opinion, the show would be better for it.

Coen Brothers Caper

So I did indeed make it to Burn After Reading on Sunday morning (it's only $6 before noon). Dustin Hoffman may have been there as well - at least I saw him shuffling around the lobby before the show.

The movie certainly had its entertaining moments, particularly in my view, the performance of Brad Pitt as a clueless gym trainer. His consistently dumbfounded expression perfectly matched the clueless-sounding delivery of his line - it was the one character that kept me laughing. I also enjoyed John Malkovich's angry ex-CIA analyst although his schtick got a bit repetitive by the end. Honorable mention to George Clooney although I couldn't help but feel that he had his "Coen Brothers face" on for the film - the same one he has used in O Brother Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. It's a very funny face but a bit tired.

The story took its way down some twists and turns, some of which were completely unnecessary. I know the Coen Brothers can be very violent, even in their comedies (Fargo) but there was a bit too much violence for this kind of a film. I won't give any plot points away but there are some things that seem to just drop out of nowhere. They are all neatly and humorously summed up by David Raasche and J.K. Simmons though so I still walked out laughing. All in all, not the Coen Brothers best film but there are certainly worse ways to spend an hour and a half, particularly for $6.

Equus AKA Naked Harry Potter play

Equus is a very strange, dark, complex play which to me had a mixed message about the dangers and thrills of irrational, religious fanaticism. I was not familiar with the play before and I'm not exactly sure what the playwright is trying to say but I certainly was interested in hearing Richard Griffiths, in the role of the psychiatrist, lay out the issues and explain his confusion. Griffiths is so good at mixing the real emotional issues with humor and seeing him on the stage is always a delight. I hope he will keep coming back to Broadway!

But that's not why you're reading this post about the play. Nor is it why people came. As my friend Antonio pointed out, the audience was heavily dominated by teenage girls and gay men and with good reason. The play is definitely being sold as starring Daniel Radcliffe, as is made clear by the image in the poster pictured, rather than Richard Griffiths, the theatrical veteran, who is featured in nearly every scene of the play. That spin is bringing in Radcliffe's fans but in my opinion, at a detriment to the performance of the play. Radcliffe certainly does a fine job in the role, his portrayal of the troubled teen drew me further in to the story and the issues at its heart. However, at the end of the day, the story revolves around a boy's sexual/religious obsession with horses, an issue that is not entirely appropriate or accessible for Radcliffe's core fan base. The teenage girls in the audience kept laughing in odd places out of shock and nervousness and the father of two teenage girls seated next to me could not stop squirming. The shock of course reaches its peak at the end of the play when yes, Radcliffe goes full frontal but the tension and impact within the play is again diminished by the rise of nervous giggles. So if you can find a way to see the play surrounded only be serious theatergoers I would recommend it.

One last warning - the play also features six very well-built men as the horses. Their costumes are wonderful - brown bodysuits combined with bright metal masks and high-heeled hoof shoes. However, when the horses on stage are actually that sexy, it makes it even harder to decipher the message of the play.

The Godfather Makes Me Crave Italian Food

Not that food is a prominent feature in the film but you just have to wash it down with a little pizza/pasta!

I went to see the movie on Saturday at the Film Forum which is showing the original film this week, Godfather Part II next week and then the combined double feature for the brave the following week. The Godfather is one of those films I know I've seen, one I can certainly quote but one I never feel like I truly paid attention to or experienced. The film always seemed to me to belong in the province of "straight-man" flicks (as Meg Ryan says in You've Got Mail, what is with men and the Godfather?) but I'm always game to check out a "classic." Seeing it in the movie theater where I really had to pay attention was an interesting treat. I certainly enjoyed the movie more than I ever have but I still wasn't carried away to Godfather worship. It is the quintessential, original mafia film but I think in the days of the Sopranos the message has been so saturated in our culture that it just can't have the same impact anymore. Al Pacino is pretty bad-ass though. And I do appreciate an excuse to eat Italian. Maybe I'll have to check out Part II as well.

Exactly what happened

This is exactly what I think happened. Thanks to these fine folks for putting it together and thanks to Antonio for pointing it out:

Don't Judge a Film by its Director (the Reverse)?

I looove the Coen Brothers' films, particularly the ones with a comedic edge (although No Country for Old Men is an amazing achievement, I definitely prefer the laughs in Fargo). Yet I have now seen a number of bad reviews of Burn After Reading (including EW and the New Yorker, two of my reliable sources). So the question is, do I go see it this weekend anyway?

The answer has to be yes (particularly since I also looooove George Clooney) but I'm trying to steel myself to be disappointed. I still can't really believe that with that cast (Brad Pitt, Frances McDorman, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton in addition to George), the Coen Brothers could make a film I could dislike. Hell, I even liked Intolerable Cruelty, so I'm thinking the odds I like Burn After Reading may still be in the Coen Brothers' favor. Either way, you'll be the first to know what I think!

Breaking New York Dance News

How did Alexei Ratmansky end up becoming the ABT resident choreographer rather than the new NYCB resident choreographer?!? I thought NYCB had it in the bag but apparently they didn't like his time table although Ratmansky doesn't seem to be allowed to talk about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/arts/dance/11danc.html. It's as if the Mets came out of nowhere and poached a player the Yankees had their eye on - very interesting. Oh well, hopefully NYCB will find another young choreographer to champion and I will just simply take in Ratmansky's new works at City Center rather than the State theater. Either way, welcome to New York Alexei!

Project Runway Hits Rock Bottom

Yes ladies and gentlemen, that photo (from bravotv.com) is the WINNING garment from last night's mish-mosh avant garde/hey baby what's your sign challenge. And yes, it was indeed chosen as the winner in the dark (of the Rose planetarium) because no one could have possibly chosen it as the winner after seeing it in the light. I would say that I generally like Jerell but this garment was just a frickin' mess. An arrow through her head? I'm a Sagittarius but I would never fete it by stealing Steve Martin's old gag.

Luckily for Jerell, no one had a clue what they were doing last night, not even my favorite Leanne who is getting a bit repetitive with her black circles (although I approve of the scorpion exoskeleton idea - it just needed a bit more sting). I would even go so far as to say that last night's runway show was the worst I have ever seen on Project Runway (although I admit that I did not see every episode of the first couple seasons). The fact that all of the designers were sooo confident in their horrible skills just turned the episode into a tragedy - how on earth could Kenley think that her dress, with recycled ideas, having no relation to her sign could be the best? I'm a lawyer so I'm all for arguing your point of view but there are moments where you need to just hang back and take the criticism with grace, Kenley. And Blayne's garment was just beyond description - as much as I like his entertaining presence on the show, he was falling way out of his league and needed to go. Even Terri, who I thought should have won some of the earlier challenges, had completely lost her way and her manners and so I'm not disappointed that she took an exit as well.

I'm hoping that the third-person loving Suede falls next - he doesn't have any vision and the third person way of talking is just getting on my last nerve. One small point though - since he keeps saying Suede thinks this"and Suede wanted to portray that, shouldn't he have referred to him and Jerry as "they" rather than "we"? I guess a foolish consistency really is the hobgoblin of little minds.

And Now for some Vocabulary

This is the word of the day according to my elevator at work (and the folks at Captivate who tell my elevator what to say). I particularly enjoyed the yuppie/snobbery of the sample sentence - I guess they decided that it was the right message for people who work in skyscrapers in New York.

milquetoast
(N.) MILK’-TOHST - a meek, timid person

The milquetoast, too afraid to ask the barista out on a date, bought several cups of coffee a day.

Fringe - DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT YET

A flesh-eating virus? Why oh why did we need to see that? Mark Valley is way too pretty to just lie on a table for a whole hour with invisible skin. I'm also not quite sure I get the point of spending 88 minutes trying to save his life only to kill him in the last 5 minutes. I do like the cow though and hope it features prominently in future episodes.

What else is there to say? The acting is pretty blah (excepting of course Lance Reddick - I'm loyal to my Wire people). They ripped off one of the best sequences from Minority Report (people floating in liquid reading brain waves to see the past as opposed to the future). And please, please no more melting flesh. Next time I might be trying to eat dinner while watching.

Where is this going? Are they just going to solve little freaky, out there puzzles every week and perhaps lead up to the big mystery? Or will it all just be about the big mystery and the creepy company armless Blair Brown is working for? I'm not sure I care to find out but something tells me I will be suckered into watching next week.

A Sleepy August Action Film

My sister and I went to see Traitor on a whim yesterday. It stars Don Cheadle as a devout Muslim Sudanese-American who falls in with a Islamic terrorist group and features Guy Pearce as the FBI agent trying to track him down. Since we went in low expectations, my sister and I were both pleased to discover that the movie was well-acted, well-paced and had a lot of neat twists and turns, not all of which we saw coming. I certainly prefer this kind of intelligent, plot-driven action film to the big, blow-'em-up blockbusters which treat plot as an optional ingredient. It makes the viewer feel as if they've seen something interesting and slightly thought provoking rather than induce motion sickness. I wish more action films would similarly focus on entertaining the audience with a nicely laid out story rather than a large bang.

I also have to note the performance of Saïd Taghmaoui, a French-Morrocan actor who was very interested as Cheadle's terrorist buddy and who I have enjoyed in a number of previous films, particularly his turn as an Iraqi national guard in Three Kings (a great Iraq film). Since he has routinely been stuck with the terrorist-type roles, I'm hoping there's something different on his horizon - today's news is that Lost has cast him for Season 5!

Don't Judge a Film by its Director?

I hate every movie Darren Aronofsky has made. I find his films pretentious and headache-inducing - I once had a headache for a few days just from seeing Pi in the front row of the Angelika. So when my friend Lauren suggested we add The Wrestler (starring Mickey Rourke) to our New York Film Festival agenda, I responded with an emphatic no.

However, the folks over at EW (whom I usually trust) have seen The Wrestler at the Toronto Film Festival and are raving about it. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1716410932/bclid1768641534/bctid1784628770 Owen Glieberman particularly mentions how the film is so different from Aronofsky's earlier films because it such a realistic film. This film will certainly hit the theaters soon so I will have a chance to pay $12 to see it - that's much better than the $40 the festival is charging but can an avowed-Aronofsky hater really change her spots?

EW Lets Me Rant About The Wire

and for that I thank them! Entertainment Weekly has incorporated my submitted on-line comments about The Wire into their editorial features for a fourth time (after two prior mentions on the web site and one Must List mention in the magazine itself). Having been finally snubbed by the Emmys and walking off into the sunset, my time to rant has come to an end but I appreciate that Entertainment Weekly was such a supporter of the show and let me publicly champion the show repeatedly!

Check out my final Wire rant at http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20045108_20045120_20224211_25,00.html

The New York Film Festival is Coming!

The New York Film Festival starts on September 26th. Unfortunately, I have no VIP pass to this festival but my friend Lauren and I did acquire tickets to four films (three of which are French) so I will be able to do some festival reporting. If anyone else is going to the festival and wants to contribute some commentary, let me know!

Who's watching Skins?

Anyone? Five episodes in and I'm still really enjoying it. Last night's episode was dedicated to Sid, my favorite character, and although I was a little depressed about the crap dumped into Sid's lap in one hour, I enjoyed the somewhat optimistic ending and the appearance (finally!) of Peter Cataldo and Josie Davis as his parents. If you have not been watching, please check out the episodes on iTunes - it is definitely worth it, particularly for you Gossip Girl/90210-fan types out there.

I think I like Steve Coogan

So I finally made it to Hamlet 2 on Saturday and while I wouldn't say it had me rolling in the aisles, I certainly did have a good time. In my opinion, the show was one long wind-up to the production of the play Hamlet 2 towards the end of the film but I think the pay-off was definitely worth it. "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" I fear will be stuck in my head for days but it certainly lived up to all my expectations.

The thing I'm still not sure about is Steve Coogan. I would say I found him funny and that I enjoyed his Hamlet 2 performance but there is a quality I can't quite put my finger on that just makes me wonder whether I am truly getting what he is trying to do. I think I got him more in Tristram Shandy (have you rented it yet?) but there is some sort of edge or coldness which makes me hesitate to say that I am a true Steve Coogan fan. I've only seen snippets of Alan Partridge and not really gotten the humor there and I attempted to watch 24 Hour Party People on my DVR the other night but was easily distracted away. I will attempt to finish 24 Hour Party People before I pass judgment but I will put myself on the record as liking Steve Coogan pending review of further material.

Anyone out there a Steve Coogan fan? Care to explain why?

I'll stick to what I know

I haven't driven a car since I got my license at 17. Thus, although I know the difference between a Cadillac and a Ford, I don't really consider myself a car expert. As a result, if you asked me to go to a car show, I would probably tell you that it's not really my thing and refrain.

I have now learned that I should apply the same reasoning to fashion shows. Obviously, I have more experience with the purchase of clothes (nudism is not for me) but I stick to the department stores and AnnTaylor Loft and thus would not consider myself a fashion expert. Nevertheless, when I was invited by a friend to attend the Tibi fashion show last night somehow I felt compelled to attend. Wrong decision.

The tent at Bryant Park was mobbed with people so excited about fashion that they were willing to wait on line two hours to get a free pair of plastic flip-flops (but they're Haviana flip-flops you might say - um, they're still little pieces of plastic). Chaos and high heels reigned - although I came armed with my newest Manolo Blahniks (OK, I know a thing or two about shoes), I abhor chaos of all sorts. Six different people gave me six different directions on where I should be, where I should line up and how I should get in to the show. After waiting on one line for over half an hour, I finally found the sign in table, only to be told that the show was full and closed and, indeed, starting. There were hundreds of skinny women in high, high heels waiting in massive lines for the show and they were only able to figure out it had begun because a live feed was sent to a big screen in the middle of the room! As I glanced at the screen, the first few models paraded down the runway and I have to say, I was not impressed with the Tibi clothes in the show. So I promptly left the tent, caught a cab and made it home in time to watch all my Sunday shows - much better.

News Story of the Day

Courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle and my friend Antonio who pointed it out:

Monday, September 8, 2008 (SF Chronicle)
Fresno man arrested in spice, sausage attacks
Associated Press


(09-08) 04:00 PDT Fresno --

Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home
of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a
sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says the suspect, 22-year-old
Antonio Vasquez of Fresno, was found hiding in a nearby field wearing only
a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks.
The victims told deputies they awoke Saturday morning to the stranger
applying spices to one of them and striking the other with an 8-inch
sausage.
Burrimond said money allegedly stolen in the burglary was recovered. The
sausage was tossed away by the fleeing suspect and eaten by a dog.

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Copyright 2008 SF Chronicle

Fall Movie Preview

Having seen the Life and Times of Harvey Milk, the Oscar-winning documentary about Harvey Milk and the events of 1978, I am really excited for this film. The acting looks incredible and I trust Gus Van Sant to handle it right. Please check out this preview and go see the film when it opens at Thanksgiving:

How is this news?

From imdb.com - only people who have never seen the greatest show ever put on television would find it newsworthy that someone would like the show. Ridiculous.


Knightley's Love For Cult Cop Show
5 September 2008 5:12 AM, PDT

British actress Keira Knightley has a surprising secret - she is obsessed with gritty TV cop show The Wire.

The Atonement star admits the only time she really treats herself is when she splashes out on DVDs - and hates watching regular television because the commercials annoy her.

And her favourite show of the moment is cult police drama The Wire, which is broadcast on America's HBO network.

She says, "Oh, my god, it's brilliant! I bought season one and rushed out for two and three - and I'll have to get it all. That's my extravagance: drama DVDs.

"I just don't want adverts asking me to change my furniture or to go to an island."

Am I Just Getting Older Or

does the new 90210 really, really suck? Yes, OK, literally and figuratively. I only kept flipping to it because Ridge's speech was even more distasteful but the show seemed flat, dumb and boring. I love Jessica Walter (bring Arrested Development back!) and she was doing her best but how could anyone rescue that train wreck of a show? Watching Tristan Wilds, recently of the absolute best show ever put on that box called television (you know the answer), try and struggle through Brady Bunch-like scenes about getting back at your rival school with an animal prank just made me want to cry. And watching Jennie Garth painfully have a milkshake with Shannen Doherty made me want to cry because it was so badly acted and because I am just so frickin' old! That's it - no more revived nostalgia television for me.

Michael Moore Gives Back

His new film, Slacker Uprising, which is about getting young people to vote in 2004, will be available for free download on September 23rd. Check out the trailer and then visit http://slackeruprising.com to sign up to get the free download.

Project Leanne

Two wins in a row! I'm not sure I got the jacket part of this look (at left from bravotv.com) but the dress was absolutely gorgeous and well-made. Kenley can keep crying her eyes out (how annoying was that?) but her dress was too simply made - all of the interest was in the fabric and not the design so how could they possibly choose her? And I thought Korto's dress didn't quite fit the rest of the line (from the look-book images we saw) although it was pretty funny that DVF had a commercial which featured a dress in the same fabric. Leanne's dress simply fit the assignment best while showing the most creativity and skill. So bravo Leanne - here's hoping you last on Project Runway because lord knows you'd never make it in the spy business!

And a quick farewell to Stella - she certainly didn't have the chops to make it much further but she did bring a certain amount of entertainment value to the proceedings. Best of luck in your rock 'n roll career.

The Best F**kin' News Show on Television

So I've been a little disappointed with the Daily Show's news coverage of the two conventions but last night Jon Stewart came out swinging and reminded me why this is the only show I trust for the real news. Check out the part where he catches the GOP in complete about-faces and then watch him challenge Newt Gingrich on the choice of Sarah Palin. You get 'em Jon.

Prison Break Returns!

I think I am only still watching this show because I am utterly amazed by the ways in which they can create outlandish situations and stretch the premise of the show. Nevertheless, I was still really excited to see it come back this week and glued myself to the two hour season premiere last night. The four things that struck me from the premiere:

1. How in the hell did Scofield manage to get to L.A.?!? He was last seen running through the Panamanian jungle with no money, no assistance and with federal charges on his head. Yet there he was, in a nice hotel room, putting on a slick suit and effortlessly locating Whistler and Gretchen. Um, explanation please?

2. When did everyone decide to get along so well? Sucre and Bellick are new best friends? Scofield is tolerating Mahone? They're now like a well-oiled buddy machine - it's as if Prison Break fired the more hard-boiled writers and hired the script team behind Ocean's 13.

3. As Whoopi Goldberg once said in Soapdish, "he doesn't have a head! How can I write for a guy who doesn't have a head?!?" (my mom loooves that line). Yet there was Sara, back from the dead, head perfectly attached and we were asked to believe that Lincoln only thought he saw her head in a box. Um, OK except WE ALL SAW IT TOO! Yikes.

4. Callie Thorne may not be a household name but she has the freakin' coolest job on the planet. She has been in Rescue Me (to hilarious effect), The Wire (which would be cool enough), Next Stop Wonderland (the best romantic comedy ever starring Hope Davis and my friend Sam's uncle) and now she has managed to be on Prison Break but be killed just as it looks like the show is headed completely off the rails. Awesome.

We'll see where Prison Break starts heading but right now it's a mire of plot holes, bad acting (oy Michael Rappaport) and horrible dialogue (T-Bag, starving in the desert, ate his Mexican companion cannibal style and then later, when he almost vomited from his meal, someone asked him if he had had "bad Mexican." His reply, "something like that." I winced in pain.) I don't know how much more I can take but god help me, I plan to tune in next week for more. What can I say, I'm a glutton for punishment.