TV round up

So it’s Thursday, January 23, 2014 and I have been having one of the most horrifically paper work infused weeks I have ever encountered in my book keeping career, it’s as if the heavens have opened and vomited an acid rain of forms on the cube of doom.  Still I promised I would eek out a blog entry and by god here it is…

First off, can I just say that Face Off is crap this season.  I know that it always starts off rough to weed out some of the weaker players but, if you are going to do a group challenge kick all the members of the group off.  I know that sounds harsh but whenever it’s a group effort, despite what the contestants say they were or were not responsible for they tend to throw the one that worked hardest off.

Such is the case of poor, sweet Bethany.  Let me back up and tell you what happened in the episode that leads us to this week’s exit.  The challenge is to create an alien life form displays a decoded message from a crop circle, they range from “the ice caps are melting” to “gravity shifting.”  This is a team of two build and the preselected partners get to work trying to cohesively build their outer space inhabitant.

Straight out of the gate Cat and Matt are shooting each other in the face with an abstract idea that leads to an “elephant man” looking caul that Matt assures will look good with the final paint.  Cat is less than trusting of the moronic Matt… (Can you tell I already do not like this guy?) She seems to find every opportunity to ask and point out, sometimes even challenge his very animalistic sculpt, but in the end does little to prevent it from happening.  In the end, their “our sun is dying” alien, just seemed to die in paint application. 

Daren and Tanner begin work on, what I will forever refer to as, melted bubble gum face.  These guys have a serious love of gelatin molding this season which I cannot say I truly understand given that foam based medium makes for a nice application, unless it’s for a differing texture but even still don’t make it in pepto pink!  The twosome begin crafting hands for their melting ice cap monster piece and it seems to be a process with some nice back and forth.

George and Bethany move it right along with a great ebb and flow of dialogue and you think there is no way these two are going into bottom look.  That is until the caul breaks, George’s fault, by the way, and he panics.  Bethany reassures him it will be alright and begins work on a respirator piece which was pretty cool… Too bad poor Bethany didn’t put that much effort into the face mold.

Grahm and Chloe have a rocky start to their gravity shift creature.  Grahm who was happy about his pre chosen partner started to regret it when suddenly, he found himself doing a majority of the heavy lifting as Chloe struggled to find inspiration for accessories.  Eventually, after trying every process known to man, and I think some known only to squirrels, she decides to foam mold her weight accessories… what a freakin shock.  Chloe… I love your hair, but did dye affect your brain?

Niko and Corrine have, what looks like to me, a dried out clay monster alien for their running out of water theme.  Now at first you’re looking at this thing, you think well that’s not that elaborate.  Then you go ahead and look a little closer at the cracks in the caul and the detailing of the chest.  It’s a film ready look in my opinion, not however I was not routing for these guys at all during the sculpt of the creature or at the first look.

     Rashad and Tyler put together a toad man.  No really it’s an oversized toad with tons of bright colors that will rape your retina.   Seriously whoever mixed that yellow should either be commended or chastised, my feelings flop from one moment to the next.  Still they made a creature that I could see in a funny alien parody or a sci-fi original movie so good show guys.

The last look was Tess and Daniel.  For some reason I liked this makeup.  The creature was to be overrun with disease, the pair went with spores.  They covered him in various mushrooms and mold.  It was really very beautifully done.  The face had a hint of sadness and you really got a clear sense that he was definitely in distress.

In the end as I said we said good bye to Bethany for her mediocre face and championed Corrine as the winner for her work on the dried out clay looking piece.  I’m bored… 

The next show on my line up was Psych but, it was just a remake of a previous episode, they changed the killer, added a few nuances and a heartfelt moment between Shawn and “pap spencer.”  In the film they spent my hour making fun of remakes and lawyer movies and honestly, unless you really think you miss 2006… you can skip this DVR special… Watch the musical again… Trust me.

Finally the goods… We are fast approaching the end of an era on American Horror Story.  Coven, which has been an absolute joy for me to watch seems to be going to hell, quite literally actually. 

We start off with an explanation of the seven wonders and there is a little mini video of each one before the classic opening credits.  These are silent movie spoofs, but still a lot of fun, until we arrive on Fiona and Queeny who are discussing the supremacy and how the seven wonders are to be tested in a few days’ time.  Marie Lavotte and Misty are still missing, Zoe and her “guard dog” are still at Epcot and Madison is still a twat.  So pretty much it’s business as usual, except that the seven wonders can kill you.  Surprise bitches, errr witches…

Queeny goes looking for Marie Lavotte in Hell and meets the Cajon Devil, Papa.  What is her hell like?  A freakin chicken shack, leave it to the cast member who weighs over 300 pounds to pick a chicken shack.  Papa explains that hell is made up of the worst times in your life… So basically, your going back to high school.  After a brief discussion Queeny points out that Marie is in breach of contract and therefore both she and Kathy Bates’s character are in breach of contract and can now be damned.  The devil is all but gleeful to understand this.  Before you can say bobs your uncle the two are in their own lovely little hell.  Kathy is to spend eternity watching Marie torture her daughter, and Marie must torture a soul who has done her no wrong, turning her into the monster she had been fighting her whole life.  Nice little twist there.

Back at the house Misty is saved from the crypt and Zoe returns with her beau to find that once again Fiona plans to kill off the coven to protect herself from the taking of the supremacy.  The teen witches prepare for war only to find that thanks to a tip from a blind woman the axe man has turned Fiona to gator crap.

After shuffling loose the mortal coil of the axe man the witches now prepare for the seven wonders next week!