Pretty Little Liars Review: The Doctor Is Out

In my recap of last week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars I mistakenly said that this week would bring the summer season finale but it turns out the recent ads counting down the episodes haven’t included the summer season finale in their counting so that episode actually hits next week. Oops. I guess they got me all riled up for nothing.

Anyway though, things got off to a quick start this week with Emily on the run after being asked by A to send Aria’s mom a pic of Aria and Mr. Fitz kissing. In a burst of confused panic she just starts sprinting around the woods but ends up at Dr. Sullivan’s office ready to tell her everything only to find the other three girls there already. Together they tell Dr. Sullivan about A and what he/she has been doing to them but they leave out everything about Blind Jenna, which is obviously a pretty crucial part of the story.

Meanwhile, Toby spots Jenna and Garrett being mysterious and intimate again at Jason’s house and then the girls spot Jenna having a distraught phone call at school. But Little Miss Can’t See gets even more moody after Dr. Sullivan comes to the high school and gives a speech about fighting back against cyber bullies. I guess it struck a little too close to home…hmmm…

I have to be honest that I immediately feared for Dr. Sullivan when the girls told her about A and sure enough, she starts getting creepy phone calls of a recording taken from her session with the girls and the police (Garrett) are no help whatsoever. She then spends the night looking at case files of Alison’s murder and somehow figures out who A is! More on that later…

Over at Aria’s house, mom and dad are in massive disagreement about how to handle Mike’s apparent depression. Dad thinks medication should be involved while mom thinks more patience should be taken before that step. The gentle approach doesn’t do her much good though when she attempts to take away his computer and his forced resistance injures her wrist. She vows not to tell her husband about this knowing that he will wig out, so eventually Aria has a sweet moment with Mike and he seems to come around to accepting help. Here’s hoping!

Hannah’s feud with future step sister, Kate (Natalie Hall), continued this week at a pre-wedding party for their parents and got even dirtier than before. Literally. Kate got Hannah drunk enough to blow chunks all over the bride’s expensive wedding gown. Hannah’s dad flies into a bit of a rage over it and basically dismisses her but luckily his totally awesome mother (Betty Buckley) is there to comfort and even root on Hannah a little bit. Turns out, this aging southern bell isn’t into the idea of her son getting remarried. Should be interesting to see next week if either her or Hannah make it to the wedding at all.

After her initial freakout at the beginning of this episode, Emily spent the most of this episode sulking around but then without warning ends up on a date a girl named Maya (Bianca Lawson) who was a major character last season! It all seemed very sudden but they sure seemed to reconnect very quickly so kudos, Emily. Get yourself some lovin’!

And finally we have Spencer who interrupts a steamy makeout session with Toby to investigate some shadows in the windows of the DiLaurentis house. Lo and behold the person who comes stumbling out is her very own father – Bad Daddy – who instantly gets pissed off and starts a screaming match with Spencer and Toby. The lovestruck teens run away but Spencer eventually goes home to confront her father once again. Bad Daddy reveals a surprising amount of dirt about a will that he illegally changed to give Jason his grandmother’s inheritance instead of just Alison. Spencer wonders why Bad Daddy would do such a thing and assumes that the DiLaurentis family must have something on him…what could it be though?

I mentioned earlier that Dr. Sullivan figured out the identity of A and summoned all of the girls to her office for the reveal. Well, we all knew where this was going…Dr. Sullivan is missing (probably dead) by the time the girls get there and they all get an ominous text from A that says, “The doctor is out.”

With luck, next week’s finale will bring some answers or depth to the proceedings. I think we have reached a point where A’s games are becoming more of an obnoxious ploy with no end in sight. At some point this enemy needs to be given a face and a method to his/her madness in order to stay threatening. The sneaky trickster act is about to wear thin and I hope the show is able to step it up in style.

Pretty Little Liars Season 2, Episode 11: “I Must Confess” (originally aired August 23, 2011)

Pretty Little Liars airs Tuesdays at 8/7c.

Images courtesy of ABC Family.

Hell’s Kitchen Review: Ramsay’s Diary – Entry 5

August 22nd, 2011

Dear Diary,

Another week, another sodding two nights of Hell’s Kitchen. I’d like to say that the chefs are getting better with every service, but unfortunately I have been sacked with the worst crew of degenerates this side of a soup kitchen. The best thing to do for them was to go back to basics, so I decided to resurrect an old classic challenge this week: the blind taste test. It started off disastrous, with Carrie and Tommy tasting anchovies and calling it salmon, and went downhill fast. Carrots, egg yolk, mango…a fucking glass of water would have stumped them. Elizabeth was so terrified of the exercise that when she positioned herself at the table, it looked like she was having a shit. In a surprising twist, the challenge came down to a tie breaker. The taste test? Sour cream. Red team was able to pull out a win and they were treated to lunch in the Hollywood Hills via horseback. Meanwhile, the Blue team prepped both kitchens for steakhouse night.

Tonight saw Hell’s Kitchen dramatically overbooked, so there were two full services – one with the Red team serving and Blue team cooking, then vice versa. The service fell apart before it even began. Tommy completely stopped communicating and moved like molasses despite making uncooked appetizers which should have flown out to the dining room. On top of that, Natalie sent out plate after plate of overcooked meat. I mean, Christ! A steakhouse menu should be so simple! After an hour and a half of misery,the Blue kitchen shut down with five tickets still in the queue and a host of pissed off customers.

Tommy did fare much better out front during the Red team’s kitchen shift. I literally pounded my head through the counter trying to figure out the scrawl that was on his illegible ticket. It was like reading Cantonese jotted down by a drunk Mexican. In the actual kitchen, Carrie derailed the pace of Red team by slowing down her garnish station and in the end, neither team finished their service. This is by far the worst that any group of chefs have performed at this stage in this competition and when Jennifer and Elise decided to have a fucking row right in front of me after service, I decided that no team deserved to win. The first night’s elimination saw Carrie and Tommy on the block; Tommy is inept, but Carrie showed no signs of improvement and she left the kitchen.

After elimination I hoped to put the fear of God, or more specifically Gordo, into them by threatening to close Hell’s Kitchen permanently this year if they didn’t get their shit together. I had one more Hail Mary: to send them all to BLT in New York to see the prize restaurant firsthand. If that wasn’t going to light a fire under their asses, I don’t know what would. Before the restaurant tour, I sent them off on a cuisine tour in the heart of Alphabet City. Italian, Chinese, French, Greek, Mexican, Jamaican, Indian, they had it all. The returning challenge gave the chefs the opportunity to show what they learned from the food tour and cook their best ethnic dish. I allowed them a bit of fun in which a giant slot machine chose the ingredients and cuisine each chef would be cooking because, at this point, they all need a little luck on their side.

I wanted to find someone special to judge this challenge, someone who knows food and international cuisine like the back of his hand. Someone who was the leader in all aspects of a restaurant and not just a kitchen, a chef with a brilliant palate. It was with this criteria that I picked myself to judge the dishes. And because Fox is paying my bills, I set the judging up in a “king of the hill” style competition. In another astonishing tie, it came down to Jennifer and Will, but Jennifer managed to pull out the win. The prize for the ladies was a trip to the beach where they went for a bit of Zorbing, whatever the fuck that is.

At that night’s dinner service, Tommy continued to fuck up, this time on something as simple as onion rings, but I should have guessed since last night he couldn’t even plate ahi tuna in less than thirty minutes. Elizabeth also had major appetizer issues and completely broke down. My bullshit detector all but exploded when Elise suddenly blamed Tommy’s preparation on the Beef Wellingtons for the reason they were coming out like piles of pastry-covered donkey shit and I felt the urge to call Elise out on her bullshit. Of course she was lying and couldn’t get over herself. Natalie, meanwhile, completely wrecked the fish station, ruining service for Blue team. Once again, no team won the night.

For this elimination round the teams nominated Natalie and Elise. I still could not believe that Elise had the audacity to blame Tommy for her shitty service, but despite that, I could not overlook the fact that Natalie simply cannot cook something as straightforward as a piece of fish, so Natalie had to go. She just plain wasn’t ready. I must say, I don’t know how much more I can take of Elise. If I get one more note from the network telling me to keep her around, I am going to put my head through a wall. Maybe then I’ll be able to get some peace and fucking quiet.

Season 9, Episodes 10 & 11: “8 Chefs Compete/7 Chefs Compete” (originally aired August 22, 2011)

Try and stand the heat in Hell’s Kitchen, Mondays at 8/7c on FOX

For another take on this episode, read “Blindsided By Tastings and Challenges” by Desiree Neall.

Images courtesy of FOX

True Blood Review: Sookeh You Must Choose

With only three episodes left till the end of season four (has the summer really flown by that quickly?) the different storylines are finally beginning to come together. In a nutshell, Sookie loves both Eric and Bill, so when the witches harm the vampires she fights on their side. Then you have Tara, Lafayette, and Jesus who get involved with the witches because Jesus is a brujo and Lafayette is a medium, like Marnie who is now possessed by Antonia. Holly gets pulled in because she’s a Wiccan; meanwhile she’s also starting to like Sheriff Andy Bellefleur. Andy is still hooked on V and has Jason covering his addiction from everyone else. Jason has feelings for Jessica, who broke up with Hoyt because of general unhappiness with their relationship and her own burgeoning feelings for Jason. Terry and Arlene are staying with Andy in the Bellefleur family home where Lafayette comes to abduct baby Mikey from the last episode because he’s possessed by the spirit of a woman named Mavis who believes Mikey is her son. Lafayette/Mavis goes to Hoyt’s house because in her time, it had been her house with Andy’s gun and Mikey. Jesus comes as Lafayette/Mavis is holed up in Hoyt’s house with Jason, Andy, Terry, and Arlene outside to try and resolve the situation. Hoyt asks Jason to take a box of Jess’s stuff back to her and unable to control their hormones, Jess and Jason engage in some love making in the back of his truck. Alcide, who was unable to stop himself from coming to Sookie’s aid, is in the process of taking her back to her house when Bill comes and snatches her from him and uses his vampire speed to beat him to the house. Sookie drinks Bill’s blood and heals from the gunshot. Alcide then gets fed up with Sookie’s determined actions to interact with vampires and says he’s done. He tells Marcus that he’s ready to move up the pack because it’s what Debbie Wants. Debbie, who looks psycho from finding out that Alcide lied to her, starts doing V again. She goes and offers friendship to Sookie and asks if there’s anything she can do, because she’s doing it for Alcide. Sookie asks for her help to infiltrate Moon Goddess Emporium where she learns Marnie/Antonia wants to use Eric to kill Bill at the Festival of Tolerance event. Marcus asks for Alcide to stand by him as he plans on telling Sam to stay away from Luna. Instead Tommy shifts into Sam and takes the beating for his brother. Alcide intercedes and stops the weres from killing Tommy. Luna and Sam take Emma camping to get away from their troubles for a little while. The two shifters finally consummate their relationship.

I’m glad that the evil baby storyline is finally concluded, as Jesus is able to exorcise Mavis once they are able to find her real child’s bones. Now we can get back to how Jesus and Lafayette are going to help with the psycho witch spirit. Fiona Shaw may have some competition in who can play a better possessed human.

It was also nice of Tommy to try and redeem himself by writing Sam a goodbye note and then taking on Marcus instead. Though that probably made things worse overall, you get an A for effort.

The Bill-Sookie-Eric love triangle takes a not so unexpected shift as Sookie, in her dream world decides to take in not one, but two vampire lovers. Her subconscious tells her that she must choose between Eric and Bill but she decides that she loves them both and is throwing away her preconceived good girl notions of having to pick only one. Ahh isn’t this the classic quandary of so many damsels in distress with two men pining for her (ahem Elena)? But that is just fantasy and I think she’ll still have to choose. Eric and Bill though were looking their best in the fantasy with the sheriff in his Rick Owens leather jacket and black tank and the king in the military-style jacket he wore when we first met him back in season one. Well doesn’t that go to show that Sookie loves the Bill the she knew from before? Perhaps not the Bill she knows now…but I digress.

Tara still can’t catch a break. Now she’s being held prisoner with Holly and the others. The lesson should be that anyone wielding great power is corruptible. In fact, those with the best intentions are the ones to watch out for because they believe whatever they are doing is right. When she catches Sookie inside Moon Goddess Emporium, she does the right thing and let’s Sookie know that she’s going to let her go. Sookie rushes off to the Festival of Tolerance event just in time for the mayhem to start with Marnie controlling three other Louisiana Vampire sheriffs. She orders them to start killing and makes a huge spectacle of holding up Bill’s security team with their insides on the outside. How Nan Flannigan and the PR team of the AVL is going to fix it this time will be nothing short of a miracle.

Since its nearly the end of season four, I’d say that I’ve been pretty satisfied with everything largely because I’ve been waiting to see Eric and Sookie finally get together. This season feels like an introduction to a whole new world where Bill is king and most characters have done some growing up. With the death of Sophie Anne and Russell Edgington out of the picture (at least for now), the landscape of vampire politics and leadership has certainly changed and I’m sure we will find out more about the mysterious “Authority” within the AVL. Disappointingly there hasn’t been much development on Tara’s life outside of Bon Temps or much screen time given to Pam. The Jason-Jessica-Hoyt triangle was definitely unexpected yet interesting, but what happened to the werepanthers? On second thought I’m not sure I want to know. The Mickens are gone for good and Sam has a good woman with him, albeit with a lot of baggage. Arlene can finally rest easy that the ghost of Rene isn’t haunting her child and I really love Arlene and Terry together. Finally, Eric and Sookie. Yes, they are worth mentioning twice because seeing their relationship blossom made the whole season worth it to this viewer.

True Blood Season 4 Episode 9: Let’s Get Out of Here (Originally Aired August 21, 2011)

Images Courtesy of HBO

 

The Playboy Club: Interview with Naturi Naughton

It’s that time again. It’s fall season schedule picking time, and this year NBC is set to bring you a breed of woman like you’ve never known before. So dust off your TiVo, check up on that On Demand, and dig up that VCR you buried months (years?) ago, because starting this September a new kind of female will have you twitching your tail. Ladies and gentlemen, the Bunnies have arrived.

On September 19th The Playboy Club is coming to NBC. Based on the legendary Playboy Clubs launched in the 1960s, The Playboy Club takes us to a world of glamour, old school mob drama, and of course those famous Bunny Ears that make this world go ‘round. The Playboy Club gives us a look at the strong and savvy women behind those Bunny Ears who, by corseting up and standing tall, manage to challenge the times and culture that seek to hold them back. Poptimal.com recently had the chance to talk with Naturi Naughton who portrays the “chocolate” Bunny, Brenda, a woman seeking to be the first African-American Playmate. In our interview, Naughton talked about female empowerment, traveling back in time, and putting on those iconic Bunny suits.

Keshaunta Moton for Poptimal.com: So you play Bunny Brenda on The Playboy Club.
Naturi Naughton: I do. I’m really excited. I enjoy the character and I enjoy the show. I’m having a really good time.

Poptimal.com: What first attracted you to this role?
Naughton: When I read the script initially I was just kind of excited about the idea of it being in the ’60s, about the first original Playboy Club. This particular role, Brenda, was really attractive because she was very strong and opinionated in the times of the ’60s. It’s rare to come across a woman, especially an African-American woman who knows what she wants and is going to fight against what the social mores [norms?] tell her what to do and what to be. I like the fact that this character, Brenda, she knew what she wanted out of life and she wasn’t willing to compromise just because society says so.

Poptimal.com: Is that something that you feel you have in connection with Brenda?
Naughton: I have some similarities. Brenda is very showy, she loves to stand out and perform. I’m definitely a person who loves to perform and get out there. She’s very honest. And she’s a keep-it-real kind of woman, and so am I. So I definitely connect with that side. And her ambition; my character is very ambitious. I’m the same way. My whole life I’ve always had strong ambitions to be in this business and follow my dreams so I definitely connect with her in that way.

Poptimal.com: Can you tell us more about the show and your fellow cast mates?
Naughton: Our show is about The Playboy Club in Chicago and we’re actually shooting in Chicago. There’s a ton of great people, actresses and actors, in there. I love working with my girls, Laura Benanti, Amber Heard, Leah Renee, and Jenna Dewan. I am having a blast. Jennifer Lewis is also in the show and I’ve worked with [her] in Hairspray on Broadway before so we already kind of knew each other and had a connection. I think the cast, which also includes Eddie Cibrian, Wes Ramsey, has so many great people that really, really get it. The girls [and I] have really bonded. We have Bunny gatherings together, we go get our nails and feet [done] and do girly things together. We spend time learning about each other. We really don’t have to fake it up on camera. At the end of the day, we have become friends and we have bonded and we really respect each other. So when we’re on set that just comes out naturally.

Poptimal.com: That’s good to hear, because a lot of times with TV shows…
Naughton: It goes a whole different way. We’re at the beginning, but we’re definitely starting on the right foot.

Poptimal.com: You said a couple times, the show takes place in the ’60s. How does it feel to time travel?
Naughton: I love it. I’ve done a few things that are in different eras and I think I just have a thing for the 60s, I guess. I love being able to go back in time, for some reasons – the stuff that I get to wear in the show. The big hair and the fun period makeup, I love the clothes and the costumes, the Bunny suits. To time travel and go back to a nostalgic time when there was good music and a band that performs and being at the club, I feel like I’m excited by it. I love it.

Poptimal.com: There’s been a bit of negative press about the show, saying, for example, that it objectifies women. What do you think about the press you guys have been getting before the show even airs?
Naughton: You can always expect someone to have a negative opinion when doing anything controversial; when doing anything that’s different and going against the grain, I guess. Basically what I think is that those people should watch the show, if they choose, and they might be pleasantly surprised. I feel like the people who say it objectifies women really don’t understand what we’re presenting… It’s not about putting women down, if anything it’s about bringing women to the forefront and showing how powerful they can be. Just because they’re Bunnies doesn’t mean they’re degrading themselves. These women are in control of their lives and that to me is something people should watch.

Poptimal.com: What do you find most intriguing about the show?
Naughton: The Bunnies and the amazing iconic Bunny suits. Also the whole mobster crime aspect, there’s definitely a story line [here]. Chicago is a place where anything can happen, there’s some underground crime mobsters happening in our storyline where you’ll really feel like you’re a part of this world and that is really intriguing, finding out that aspect in Chicago. It’s not all glamorous and pretty, there’s definitely a dark side. And I like that too.

Poptimal.com: You got to wear the ears correct?
Naughton: Yes, we’re wearing the whole get-up: the ears, the tail, the collar with the bowtie tucked in, and the bunny suit which is satin. I wear yellow and sometimes soft pink. So my bunny suit is like a beautiful yellow color and then on other days we switch and I wear a soft pink bunny suit and it is gorgeous. Once you put it on, as a woman you really feel so confident and sexy and in control. It’s really cool. Tight as hell though.

Poptimal.com: It’s uncomfortable?
Naughton: Definitely not comfortable. Definitely you’re sacrificing. At the end of the day you don’t get in the bunny suit because you know you’re going to be lounging around. It’s not comfortable; you’ve got to deal with it. It’s like the old school corsets, it’s tight, very constricting. You really can’t even sit in the bunny suit. It’s hard to sit there, but when you see how it comes out and you look at yourself on film, it’s like, “alright ladies, beauty is pain.”

Poptimal.com: Yeah, it’s been like that for a while. Did you guys go to the Playboy Mansion?
Naughton: We did. Hugh Hefner invited us for a Playboy Club screening party. He was so charming and so sweet to us. We got a chance to get a tour of the entire house and grounds. The Playboy mansion was absolutely amazing. It was really historical and cool just to be in the actual place where a lot of things went down. But I loved it and we had a good time; it was great.

Poptimal.com: You said putting on bunny suit was uncomfortable but helped you get into the role. What other ways help you get into character?
Naughton: I do a ton of research which I did before we started shooting the pilot. I got books, DVDs, something called Bunny Ears DVD which is a documentary showcasing all the women who were original, former bunnies. They talk about what their experiences were and you learned so much from hearing about the women who lived through it. So I watched documentaries, I read books. One book is called 50 Years of the Playboy Bunny. That was a really interesting book. Doing a lot of research on your own just seeing what it was like in the time that we’re in and actually get bunny training with one of the original bunnies, Pat Lacey. We all learned how to stand like a bunny, how to serve like a bunny did. Learned how a bunny would sit, if she did, a bunny perch. We really did a lot of work. I’m always about researching anything that I can when it comes to playing a role like this.

Poptimal.com: The show films in Chicago, how are you enjoying it?
Naughton: I love it, it’s a great city. It’s so beautiful here and now that it’s summer time, there are all these festivals and great things you can do. I really like Chicago; I’ve fallen in love with the atmosphere. There’s so much history in this city, the architecture’s beautiful. I think it’s a great city. And the food- oh my goodness. That’s one of the things Chicago’s famous for and they definitely live up to their reputation of having great food. I go to so many different restaurants and I’m amazed at how delicious the food is so I’m loving Chicago right now.

More from Naturi Naughton….

Favorite part of being a bunny:
“My favorite part of being a bunny is probably wearing my bunny suit and my bunny ears. It’s the best thing in the world, it feels like I’m so tall and I feel sexy, I feel beautiful. I love wearing the bunny suit.”

Battle of the Bunnies (Playboy, Easter, Bugs, and Rabbit):
“Playboy, at the top. And I love Bugs Bunny. I would definitely put him in second. Easter bunny comes third, and then the bunny rabbit.”

Fun time on set:
“I work all 18 hour days sometimes, so it’s when I’m offset that I get to have fun. I love going to the movies, I love hanging out with the girls. We do a lot of fun things, go out to eat. I like game nights, I love to have friends over and play games and watch whatever.”

From 3LW to Playboy Club:
I grew up a lot being in a girl group and going through different things. It forces you to grow up really fast. I learned from all my experiences, I definitely made the transition from doing a Broadway show… doing Broadway prepares you for anything and everything. I became a stronger actress, a stronger singer, a stronger performer live because of doing Hairspray. So I have to give a lot of credit for that. And then branching out into movies… now transitioning into my first TV series, it’s a blessing. I look at every opportunity that has lead me to being a series regular in a TV show which is something that I’m proud of and very excited to embark on a whole new journey. So every piece of the puzzle prepared me for what’s next.

And if you want to know what’s next, check out Naughton in the new series The Playboy Club, arriving September 19th at 10/9c on NBC.

Images courtesy of Jon McKee and John Russo/NBC.

Hell’s Kitchen Review: Blindsided By Tastings and Challenges

Now that the red team has lost Jamie to last week’s elimination, the team has dwindled down to Jennifer and three of the red team’s more incompetent chefs. Jennifer has a solid shot at winning the competition but, between the bickering super duo that is Elise and Carrie and the perpetual wallflower Elizabeth, the rest of the red team looks pretty doomed and it seems to be the blue team’s game right now.

Everyone’s favorite Hell’s Kitchen challenge, the blind taste test, finally reared its ugly head and the teams went up against each other to prove who had the superior taste buds. Spoiler alert- nearly none of them can tell the difference between a potato and piece of meat. I get it, your surroundings are certainly not the same when you’re blind folded but it’s beyond me when chefs aspiring to work under The Great Ramsay can’t identify a carrot. Each team member had to blindly taste four foods, each correct answer worth one point, and most of the competing chefs were lucky if they could squeeze out one point each. However, it was Elise who surprised the red team with an impressive three points, leading the team to another challenge victory. While the bitter blue team was left to prep and peel the skins off of a two-hundred pound grape delivery while enduring endless grape related Tommy jokes, the red team let out their inner cowgirls with a horseback riding trip high into the Hollywood Hills for a gourmet luncheon. The wine was a-flowin’ evidently as Elise and Carrie strolled back into Hell’s Kitchen arm-in-arm, but the two soon sobered up and, realizing what they had done, were at each other’s throats by bedtime.

Chef Ramsay traded in the traditional dinner service for a more unique one where the chefs could show off their customer service skills. One team attempted to cook for the dinner service while the other team took orders and served in the dining room. Once their ninety minute time was up, the teams got to switch and start all over again. Despite the small mishaps like Elise’s sucky order ticket writing, it was the blue team that suffered relentlessly through the first service. Natalie slowed down The Blues by overcooking her steaks more than once and then setting her stove top on fire. I really like Natalie but the girl has been going downhill fast lately. It took over an hour to get just the appetizers out and by the end there was no time left to get all of the entrees to the perturbed and hungry patrons. That’s a bit embarrassing but red team would soon join them in their defeat. While Tommy frittered his time away in the dining room writing illegible tickets and bouncing around the room, Elise and Carrie continuously screwed The Reds with raw sea bass and burnt garnishes. When the ten minute mark was announced, the red team couldn’t get it together and once again let down the dining room with unfinished service tickets. The unsatisfactory performance meant it was time for someone to go. Tommy was nominated by the blue team but it didn’t matter. Carrie and Elise’s little BFF party was finally broken up (hallelujah!) and Carrie had to give up her chef jacket.

Chef Ramsay started off the next episode with a rightly harsh speech on how nobody was ready to win the competition and didn’t deserve to enjoy the once in a lifetime chance at running BLT Steak in New York. Of course, it was all a precursor to more fun and games on Hell’s Kitchen and the chefs were all being flown to NY the next morning to get a face to face introduction to the prized restaurant and to once again motivate the competing chefs. The contestants then had one of the best days yet in the competition with a food tasting tour of the city, experiencing cuisines such as Italian, Mexican, and Greek. Unfortunately, only a few of the chefs paid attention to the food tour which meant they’re on to the Hell’s Kitchen game. Once they returned home, a giant slot machine was there to greet them with their next challenge. Each team member had a chance to try their luck with the slots and, rather than a big cash payout, they were given the ingredients and type of ethnic cuisine they had to cook up. Instead of the usual point system during the judging of each dish, Ramsay spiced things up once again with a more competitive game of King of the Hill. Tommy’s Indian dish was the first to go up and did quite well, putting him at the top of the contest. After that, it was one knock down after another, which was great because it meant each chef was cooking up to their potential and Ramsay wouldn’t have to have a royal freak attack. It was Jennifer who pushed Will off of the throne at the end with her Greek dish and for the fourth challenge in a row, The Reds won. The blue team is starting to notice a new trend, losing, and sulked the rest of the day over dinner prep while the ladies spent their day “zorbing” in giant inflatable balls at the beach. Yes, zorbing.

When dinner service started, the real fun began. People were yelling, freaking out, throwing each other under the bus, and it couldn’t have been more entertaining. Let’s start with Liz and her sudden panic attack at the thought of running the fish station. She’s basically blended into the background up until this point and all of the sudden had an unexplainable spaz attack. Sure, it didn’t help that everyone was yelling at her but it was time to get with the program already- this wasn’t her first day! Natalie’s downward spiral continued as well when she served up raw sea bass time after time. With Ramsay’s back turned for mere moments, blue team sea bass started leaving the kitchen only to be returned by numerous tables and let’s just say Gordon was slightly miffed. The blue team continued to pass off crappy food as gourmet cuisine several times but it was the red team’s Elise who really took the cake when it came to sending up hideous food. While Tommy had prepped the beef Wellingtons for both kitchens earlier in the day, Elise was the one to score them and, when she scored them too deep and they came out looking like someone had already eaten and digested them, she had showed no qualms about blaming Tommy to save her own ass. BIG mistake since you know you can’t get away with anything in Hell’s Kitchen. Chef Ramsay knew the deal and made Elise physically take the Wellingtons to Tommy and confront him where she was only met with equal confrontation. Oh, silly Elise and her shenanigans. All the red team mayhem eventually gets Liz and Elise kicked out, leaving Jennifer to fend for herself. Luckily, she’s confident and also had Chef Ramsay to aid her. Since neither team obviously aced the dinner service, both teams had to nominate one person for elimination. Elise made her way to the guillotine once more but it was the blue team’s Natalie who was forced to finally go home.

 

Season 9, Episode 7&8: 7 Chefs Compete, 8 Chefs Compete (originally aired August 22, 2011)

Click here for a look at this episode from Chef Ramsay’s perspective courtesy of Keith Kuramoto.

Images courtesy of FOX.

Breaking Bad Review: Knock, Knock

The title of this week’s Breaking Bad alludes to multiple characters being “cornered” into making decisions regarding the next phase of their involvement in the series’ deepening drug saga. As the season’s slow burn trajectory continues to simmer, however, it becomes clear it’s how each person reacts to their respective transitions that marks the episode as an important stepping stone in the show’s narrative arc.

The aftermath of Walt’s drunken diatribe at Hank and Marie’s is directly addressed, as Skyler greets both he and his hungover afternoon haze with calculated concern. After putting together the pieces of Walt’s cryptic tirade from the night before, Skyler has figured out that Walt must be the real “genius” Gale merely copied and is thus in danger of assassination himself.  Skyler then expresses her belief that Walt harbors a subconscious desire to get caught and is dropping hints to Hank as the only way he feels he can stop this runaway train. Although her theory clearly hits home, what Skyler hasn’t fully grasped, unfortunately, is the sheer magnitude of Walt’s metastasizing ego and the false sense of elitism it’s given him. When Skyler offers the option of giving the police their story of a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher desperate to provide for his family, Walt launches into a terrifying soliloquy far more Mr. Soprano than Mr. Wizard, tersely educating Skyler on the fact that he isn’t IN danger, he IS the danger. “Who is it you think you see?” Walt squints, indignant. “A guy opens his door and gets shot, is that what you think of me? No. I am the one who knocks,” he barks, before the quiver of his lower lip reveals the pre-Heisenberg Walt who’s terrified of his own transformation and the dark corners to which it’s taken him. By the time the dust surrounding his impromptu Scarface reenactment subsides and he’s ready to apologize, however, Skyler has already fled to a far away corner (or four) of her own.

The underlying implications of Walt’s outburst are challenged throughout the episode, particularly when he meets with a disgruntled Bogdan, eager to let Walt know with as much passive-aggressive condescension as possible that he doesn’t think he has what it takes to be a leader, or a car wash owner. “Being the boss is tough,” Bogdan emphasizes, his signature eyebrows arched with smug skepticism. “Do you think you’re ready?” Their exchange is so simple in construct yet so leaden with foreshadowing duality it seems impossible for Walt to miss the parallels between Bogdan’s jabs and their relation to his own potential as a drug kingpin. However, as he forces Bogdan to leave behind his framed first dollar (“As is,” Walt mockingly chides) only to immediately spend it at a soda machine, it seems as though Walt’s field of vision has a narrower scope than such insight would require.

While most of Breaking Bad has explored the chasm between Walt the reluctant criminal and Heisenberg the emotionless meth lord, “Cornered” toes the line in favor of the latter as Walt’s behavior begins to morph closer to the delusional, sociopathic tendencies present in the kind of thugs who outsmarted Gus’ cronies in the episode’s riveting opener. Like “Bullet Points,” we’re immediately immersed inside a Los Pollos Hermanos refrigeration truck, brimming with cartons of “fry batter” ready for transport. Instead of Mike shivering inside with an itchy trigger finger, this time a duo of sharpshooters are ready to spring on the thieves sent to hijack the truck’s prized cargo. Unlike last week’s doomed louts, however, this particular cartel crew has evidently come prepared. When they corner Gus’ gunmen inside the truck and pump exhaust fumes inside, they exhibit no emotion besides mild boredom and self-congratulation as they munch on the executed driver’s lunch, waiting for the carbon monoxide to work its magic.

While Walt may not have reached this level of disassociated psychosis just yet, he takes one step closer, and makes one of Bogdan’s predictions come true, when he convinces three of the laundromat’s workers to help him finish his cleaning duties in the lab. Initially dubious, the trio is allured with the promise of mucho dinero and follows Walt downstairs where they do his job and he proceeds to tip his cup of coffee to the omnipotent surveillance, leaning back and putting up his feet in self-satisfaction exactly how Bogdan imagined. When Tyrus informs Walt that the women will be promptly deported back to Honduras at the hand of an unamused Gus, Walt seems truly shocked as though it honestly hadn’t occurred to him that bringing outsiders into the lab would result in dire consequences for his innocent recruits. “Tell Gus he can blame me,” he blathers. “He does,” Tyrus spits. Oh.

Walt’s ignorance of how his metamorphosis is affecting others isn’t more evident than in his deteriorating relationship with Jesse. As Mike becomes more of a mentor figure in Jesse’s life, Walt only continues to perpetuate the wedge being driven between him and the partner he’s fought so hard to protect. With Jesse being beckoned away from the lab at a moment’s notice, Walt presents the possibility that the entire situation, including the “robbery” Jesse thwarted the week before, is a set-up designed to turn our heroes against each other. Although Jesse refuses to believe his newfound drive is based on false pretenses, his disgust when Walt punctuates his theory with a stupefying “This is all about me!” is met with empirical empathy from viewers – at least this one. As Jesse walks away, his words “everyone needs a backup” still hang in the air, but fall on deaf ears. Walt may have a partner in crime, but Heisenberg operates in a separate corner all his own.

Jesse’s distance between his work at the lab with Walt and buddy cop routine with Mike, meanwhile, grows wider as he continues to prove Gus right. “I like to think I can see something in people,” Gus claims when Jesse asks him why he was picked as Mike’s right-hand man. Despite their underhanded intent, Mike and Gus do seem genuinely pleased with Jesse’s contribution, particularly after the episode’s best scene depicts him using his street smarts to weasel his way inside a meth den not unlike what his own house looked like mere days before. By distracting the first blue-ribbon tweaker with the task of digging a never-ending hole in the front yard and clocking the other out cold, Mike is able to swoop in and apprehend the carton of product the cartel left behind, along with the cryptic note Ready to talk? scrawled on the lid in Spanish. And Walt thinks it’s all about him?

After Skyler’s self-searching trip to Four Corners leads her back to Albuquerque in spite of multiple signals pointing her elsewhere, she’s greeted with the sight of Jr.’s brand-new Dodge Challenger glistening in the driveway. As Walt sheepishly defends himself, saying he should be able to get his son the car he wants, Skyler fires the impenetrable point that such a purchase directly contradicts their entire façade. What will the neighbors think? The IRS? Walt may claim that everything he does is in an effort to protect the family, but as his self-centered decisions corner others into dangerous situations, she’s faced with no choice but to “protect this family from the man who protects this family.”

“Cornered” represents a turning point in Breaking Bad’s fourth season, in which Walt appears to be closer to a complete breakdown of character than Jesse, whose downward spiral anchored the first several episodes. Now that Jesse has begun crawling his way back to redemption, the second half of the season is left to see how deep of a hole Walt is going to dig for himself.

Do you think Walt and Jesse’s relationship is permanently damaged? Do Gus and Mike really value Jesse’s new role in the business? Does Walt have what it takes to be “the boss?” Has Hank already figured it all out? Do you hope Walt Jr. is forced to drive Skyler’s station wagon to school? Post your thoughts in the comments section below!

Season 4, Episode 6: Cornered (originally aired August 21, 2011)

Don’t miss Breaking Bad Sundays at 10/9c on AMC.

Photographs courtesy of AMC/Ursula Coyote.

 

The Real Housewives of New Jersey Review: Bring on The Knuckleheads

This week we pick up right where we left off with Ashley’s family drama. As you recall, last week, Ashley basically called Jacqueline irresponsible and a loser for having Ashley at a young age. RHONJ viewers across the land collectively gasped at Ashley’s idiocy. It’s the last straw for Jacqueline as she storms out of brunch and claims to be done with her daughter. I don’t blame her. Ashley is a lost cause (one has to wonder if having tv cameras film your life has anything to do with it, hmmm…but I digress). I get that 20-somethings normally can’t see much farther than themselves, but Ashley takes the cake. As you can tell, no love lost here for someone who thinks she is entitled to everything, especially when you’ve got it as good as she does. But that’s Ashley Holmes for you.

After Jacqueline storms off, Matt tries to talk some sense into his daughter but she’s having none of it. He then practically carries Ashley over to Jacqueline so she can apologize. Jacqueline wants nothing to do with the apology because it’s as fake as Teresa’s tan. Thanks, but no thanks.

Cut to Ashley being interviewed and telling us that Jacqueline is the one always playing the victim card and that her mom has the mind of a teenager. It’s time to fling my remote at Ashley’s forehead. It’s unreal how out of touch and ungrateful this kid is. Yeah, yeah I get that there might be some emotional trauma coming from a divorced household and feeling like a disappointment much of the time but here’s my advice on the former: You’re 20 now, get over it. On the latter, you won’t feel like a disappointment if you aren’t one.

Writing about Ashley makes me irritable so let me switch gears. This week was Cousin Kathy’s Middle Eastern tasting party where all the ladies are supposed to channel their inner goddess. Rich Wakile had the jab of the week when he complimented his wife’s cooking while simultaneously insinuating that Teresa steals recipes for her cookbooks. Low blow but these days, Teresa could use a dose of her own medicine. What she could also use is a few months worth of basic tutoring – case in point; Teresa complains about the cold “Norwegian” coming through Franklin Lakes. Lord, it’s a Nor’easter, you nut. At any rate, all the ladies come over for food and merriment and everything goes fine until Teresa decides to be a rude – she criticizes Kathy’s food, the party and she gets into it with Melissa. It must be tiring always looking for a fight, Tre. Put the claws away.

This week Teresa and Joe make a visit to their attorney who tells them Joe is still on the hook for $260,000 to his ex-business partner but that Teresa was cleared of any wrong. According to Teresa, the lesson to be learned from all this is to deny and lie because telling the truth doesn’t equal victory. We went from a teachable moment to a dreadful one. Tre, I can only hope your daughters reject all of mommy’s little life lessons, because they are ridiculous! The eyebrow-raising moment of the week was when Teresa said her Jewish friends told her they would’ve left Joe had he put them through all this. I’m not sure why her Jewish friends were singled out but I attribute it to the hamster in Teresa’s brain taking a snack break.

We conclude this week’s episode with one last look at Ashley – she tells Jacqueline and Chris she’s moving to California. Inevitably, it doesn’t take long for Ashley and Jacqueline to get into it. It all ends with Chris finally kicking Ashley out of the house. I would’ve clapped but that there’s something so sad about the whole situation. Here’s to hoping their family can pick up the pieces over time.

 

Season 3, Episode 14: Belly Up & Up (originally aired August 21, 2011)

Images courtesy of Bravo TV.

Conan the Barbarian Review: So Bad, the Credits are Burning

Sometimes the most frustrating experience of watching a movie can be when you realize how much just one more draft of the script could’ve really helped the final product. You can see glimmers of a better film hidden in the story, and a few uneasy elements that could be reworked into something grander. But sometimes a movie is just crap. This week, that movie is Conan the Barbarian.

From director Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Friday the 13^th remakes) and a trio of writers whose biggest credits include Dylan Dog and a Halloween sequel, Conan the Barbarian tells the origin of Robert E. Howard’s pulp hero while aiming to set up a new franchise.

Set in the pre-Christian Hyborian Age, the story, not a retread of either Schwarzenegger film from the 80s, follows Conan (Jason Momoa, Game of Thrones), a Cimmerian who starts a quest to avenge the murder of his father by the warlord Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang, Avatar). Khalar happens to be on a quest of his own to re-forge an ancient mask and fill it with the fabled “pure blood” so that he can resurrect his murdered wife and become something of a god. Along the way, Conan becomes the captor/reluctant protector of Tamara (Rachel Nichols, GI Joe), who may hold the secret Zym seeks, and runs afoul of Zym’s witch daughter Marique (Rose McGowan).

From the minute the voiceover started at the beginning, detailing the past events that set up the mask macguffin, I already felt kind of silly for dragging my friend to it. It only goes downhill from there. The R rating is easily earned in the first 20 minutes when an eager young Conan (Leo Howard) seeks to earn a place among the warriors and impress his father, played by genre staple Ron Pearlman. Several beheadings and slaughters later, we flash forward and catch up with a now adult Conan and join the aforementioned quest.

Momoa does his best to breakthrough for big screen audiences, and he’s a fully capable action star. I could see a Dwayne Johnson-esque career in his future, minus all the Disney family films. Lang and Nichols both have tragically little to do with their screen time, though the latter doesn’t end up wearing a ridiculous starfish crown near the climax and manages to try and build some dramatic tension all on her own. I’ve always thought of Nichols as an underutilized talent, ever since her stint on Alias, and wish she’d land a role that lets her stretch a little.

McGowan, whose performance I was most looking forward to, wears crazy like runway couture, but is also victim to lack of development that sidelines her, her steel claws, and strange hairdo for most of the picture. Still, her disturbing relationship with her father is one of the creative highpoints of the script, particularly since the role was written originally for a male. One minute, he’s knocking her across the room, while the next morning they’re waking up in bed together. I won’t even go into the disposable henchmen and their roles.

The chief problem I think I have with this movie is there’s both too much and too little happening all at once. We don’t really get to spend adequate time developing any of the characters. There are monsters that pop up, probably just for the sake of giving Momoa something to slay, which wouldn’t be so bad if I cared whether or not he lost. His character’s not really built up as a hero, antihero, or crusader. Zym’s wife is an afterthought, only mentioned briefly near the end of the film, and probably gets more empathy on screen than Zym himself. Creepy as it may sound, I wish they’d pushed the envelope a little farther with the Electra complex between Marique and Zym. While the concept was chilling, she seems a little too quick to help to get her mother back. The real loser with screen time is Nichols, who really is the metaphorical object everyone seems to need.

Somewhere near the middle I felt like a hostage going through Stockholm syndrome, trying desperately to find something to like just so I could make it through with a positive. But, it’s just not there. It’s so bad, the credits literally smolder and burn as if to wash all memory of the experience away. I wouldn’t hold my breath for Conan 2 anytime soon.

Images courtesy of Simon Varsano and Lionsgate

Hell’s Kitchen Review: Ramsay’s Diary – Entry 4

August 15, 2011

Dear Diary,

Gordo here. The team at Fox were nice enough to grant me a brief reprieve from the chuckleheads inside Hell’s Kitchen and only ask that I open the kitchen one night this week, thank Christ. And yet even with that, it was not enough to keep red and blue heads above water. Today’s cooking challenge presented food as a seductive aphrodisiac when used in the right ways. I’m not saying I’m as much a cocksman as a Scotsman but– well, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Never have I cooked for a lady and my pants weren’t off within 7 seconds of first bite. Jennifer offered up an equally “delightful” vision, suggesting that she “knows a way to make the boxers come off.” After I collected myself from that mental image, I tried to impress upon the cooks that romance and food go hand in hand, which is why I gave them an hour to each make one stunning dessert. Tommy stood out in preparation…as being the most scatterbrained and lost amongst the crew.

The special guest judges were to rate each dish between one and three stars and of course, Tommy’s sticky buns looked about as dreadful as he did preparing them: undercooked, bland, worthy of one star. Carrie did her best to convince the judges that her dish was the one to beat, suggesting that it “may be sexy in your mouth.” Unfortunately, it only tasted like someone finished in my mouth. Holy shit, one star. When all was said and done, it was up to Jennifer to knock it out of the park and get a perfect score with her banana flambé and lo and behold, she did. Though that is faint praise to say the very least, since most of the desserts looked about as appetizing as a plated dollop of rancid baby food, particularly with Elise, who looked to have made a dessert for 10, some kind of custard in a giant wine glass. It was a disgusting disaster. But when all was said and done, the ladies won and with it, a trip to Vegas. But because I couldn’t make the reward too stunning, I arranged for ex-geriatric nude prostate therapy specialist Holly Madison stop by the suite to say hello.

Tying in with the challenge theme, I decided to make tonight date night in Hell’s Kitchen with the special feature of the evening being a raw bar. And yet with such a simple inclusion, the cooks were still not capable of the simplest of tasks. Once again allowing her attitude and ego to get in the way of her work, Elise would not communicate with Carrie, at the expense of the Red kitchen. I haven’t seen this much fucking bollocks on Fox since Sons of Tucson. My babysitting continued in the Blue kitchen, where Tommy was quickly ruining scallops by seasoning them too early even after I told him not to. I would have gotten a better response out of the actual scallops. The award for Most Disgusting Misstep of the night went to Jamie, or rather, Jamie’s hair which managed to plant itself firmly into a plate of mushrooms. The mere fact that she never saw it sent me off the rails. Continuing his rampage of idiocy over in Blue, Tommy thought it would have been a right fine idea to cook the fucking entrees before we even got to the fucking appetizers. Dullard Jamie overcooked zucchini and it didn’t even seem to faze her, though I must commend her on not putting any more crinkly hairs onto the plates. Paul meanwhile assumed that the raw bar also applied to the chicken and served it up with extra salmonella. Pink carnations, maybe. Pink meat? No chance. I kicked him out along with Carrie, who couldn’t seem to bring herself to cook a proper sea bass. Also out on her ass was Elise who consistently ruined the oysters in the same stellar way that she doesn’t care for anyone other than herself. I gave her the oysters so she could eat them herself and have a nice romantic dinner for a perfect little princess. With the drama out of the Red kitchen, they were running smoother than ever, but that didn’t help them win the night, so I sent them up to pick two nominees to send to elimination.

At elimination, Red team nominated Carrie and Elise. Finally, the Red team was able to rip apart the drama within their ranks. My goodness me. It was a tough call to be sure; Elise has a huge problem with her ego and she doesn’t like taking orders and Carrie is just an absolute mess. But I decided to eliminate Jamie instead- I couldn’t go any further with her getting no response from my criticisms of her work. She was on a downward slope even before some of her DNA ended up in the appetizers. Also, the Fox brass wanted to keep the ratings up, so I felt, let’s say, “compelled” to keep the Elise/Carrie drama in the kitchen. Though I must say that I don’t know how much longer I can keep the two of them around before I completely lose my shit. Honestly, there is less drama on the promo spots of Gossip Girl, for fuck’s sake. Help me, Diary. You’re my only hope.

 

Season 9, Episode 9: 9 Chefs Compete (originally aired August 15, 2011)

For another take on this episode, read “It’s a Love-Hate Thing” by Desiree Neall.

Try and stand the heat in Hell’s Kitchen, Monday and Tuesday nights at 8/7c on FOX.

Images courtesy of FOX

Spy Kids 4 Review: I Spy You Spy, We Shouldn’t Spy This

Jessica Alba’s hotness couldn’t save Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World and neither could Joel McHale’s eyebrows. Director Robert Rodriguez really stretched the series out too thin and this is one of those movies that just shouldn’t have been made for the sake of the franchise not going completely down the drain.

The latest in the Spy Kids series boasted the concept of smell-o-vision. Audiences were handed a card which was pretty much a scratch and sniff sticker, something that’s been around since I was in elementary school. At various moments throughout the film, a number would appear and then you would rub the corresponding number on the card. The first one that appeared was for bacon and whatever I smelled was not even close to it.

Alba plays Marissa Cortez, younger sister of Gregorio Cortez (Antonio Banderas) and aunt to the original spy kids, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara). She is also a spy working for OSS (Organization of Super Spies). Incidentally, OSS was the original name of the C.I.A. but it stood for the Office of Strategic Services. Marissa retires from the spy game as she is married, pregnant, and her new family knows nothing of her life working for the OSS. Her husband Wilbur Wilson, played by Joel McHale, dreams of having his own reality show called, “Spy Hunter”, you see the irony of course since unbeknownst to him his wife is an actual spy. Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard), Wilbur’s oldest child from his first marriage, is angry with Marissa for entering their lives. Her younger brother Cecil (Mason Cook) though is more open to having Marissa in their family. Alba’s character must deal with life as a stepmom to two children, raising a toddler who can’t stop farting, and a husband who is consumed with work.

When an evil villain called the Time Keeper begins to speed up time, Marissa is called out of retirement back into action. Rebecca and Cecil are attacked by the Time Keeper’s minions and then learn about their stepmom’s previous occupation as a spy. They meet Carmen and Juni, who are now grown up and learn about the defunct spy kids division at the OSS. Rebecca and Cecil use their wits and imagination to stop the bad guys and deal with life in a blended family.

I didn’t like the latest addition to the Spy Kids series mainly because I just couldn’t get over how annoying Rebecca was. Others may not feel this way but I wanted to shake her and say stop complaining, life could be infinitely worse. But she’s a little girl who has to deal with the death of her mother and having a new person in their lives and understandably that is hard to adjust too. In comparison to the original Spy Kids, Carmen and Juni, Rebecca and Cecil just didn’t have the chemistry. With that said, Cook had some notable moments, particularly the puke bag bombs.

Jeremy Piven plays a bad guy and I’m going to refrain from writing anymore on that because it’ll give away the story, but his performance lacked the intensity that I’ve come to expect from him. Piven is most known for his role as Ari Gold on HBO’s Entourage. Admittedly it might just be hard for me to see him as anything other than an angry agent or John Cusack’s best friend in Serendipity.

The best thing about Spy Kids 4 had to be Argonaut, the talking robotic dog, voiced by Ricky Gervais. Gervais had the best lines and who doesn’t love an adorable and scruffy talking dog?

Spy Kids 4 felt flat and all over the place. I know it’s meant for kids and so the time-space continuum really didn’t need to be explained but the science fiction elements of the movie just confused me. The Time Keeper was speeding up time and when a particular place ran out, everything got frozen which is fine, but the result of time traveling just made no sense to me whatsoever. The overall message of the film was that you had to make time to spend with the people you love and that you had to keep moving forward, both good messages to share but I just couldn’t get passed the time travel bit.

Bottom line is that the kids will probably enjoy it with the numerous pranks and sibling bickering but by far it’s not the best one in the franchise.

Photos Courtesy of IMDB

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