NCIS: LA

I haven't really been paying attention to this episode, but looked up just in time to see Girl-Who-Wishes-She-Were-Willow explaining, "Suddenly I'm seeing all sorts of blog sites about (Suspect Lady)! It's like someone's doing a massive upload to the net!" Which a) anyone who works with computers would not use the phrase "blog site," and b) I can suss out the meaning, but that's not what a massive upload to the net is.

Then she loaded an image, which, from drama's sake, appeared from the bottom up to slowly reveal the face, instead of top down, like, you know, every actual browser in existence.

I realize none of this is any more ridiculous than anything else on the show, but still, really???

Ru Paul's Drag Race 4x01

AMAZING. I am 100% in for the Rupocalypse this year. None of these queens are on Raja's level but who could be? I'm hoping some of the trashy nonsense and horrible fashion will go away and they'll start really showing what they can do, but in the meantime I love that this show exists. Someone needs to be a better Tyra than Tyra, and Ru is just the man for the job.

Project Runway Allstars ep 4 "Good Taste Tastes Good"

I do not understand how Michael keeps winning things! He seems like a nice guy, and he's a talented sewer, but WHY does he keep WINNING things? Then again, who was better? Rami's was awful, Kenley's was awful, Austin's was boring, and everyone else's was awful because of the time constraint. (Except Mondo. I have never hated anything Mondo has ever done, and I never will, even if it's terrible.)

Anyway, Michael's dress looked like a nightgown. No, it looked like his model woke up late, wrapped ugly sheets around herself, and ran to the runway. Bah.

White Collar 3x12

I kind of forgot to watch this show at all somewhere in the second season and then was pretty meh about getting back into it, but hey, it was on the DVR and nothing was on TV tonight. And I had forgotten: this show is utterly ridiculous, but also delightful. Ridiculightful!

Plusses:
* Matt Bomer's A++ face (why isn't he playing Superman?)
* All of the characters. Neal is fun and adorable (fundorable?), Peter is upstanding but wry, El is great, Mozzie is great, Diana is great. Everyone is great!
* Random scruffy high schooler: he was a little too orange, but was appropriately awkward and endearing.
* Surprise Elizabeth Gillies! She plays the mean girl on Victorious (which makes "mean girl" a relative phrase, they're ALL AWFUL, but she's awful intentionally) and even though I hate Victorious, I enjoy all of the cast members and so I'm pleased to see her getting work on something NON awful. Huzzah!

Anyway. Basically, after all of the "is Neal going to betray Peter???" nonsense that made me roll my eyes and lose interest, this episode was a nice palate cleanser that made me want to start watching again. Well played, White Collar.

And seriously. A++ face, Matt Bomer.

The Social Network

I hated the ad campaign for this movie so much -- the one with the creepy singing children's choir, ugh, ugh, ugh -- that it's taken me this long to getting around to watching it, despite Jesse Eisenberg being my favorite human in Hollywood. But it's actually not particularly dark or creepy or about How Our Generation Will Change The World; it's just kind of about a bunch of rich douches getting richer and douchier. I know Mark is supposed to be the protagonist and the villain of the piece -- Andrew Garfield, you put those big tragic eyes away, sir -- but frankly I thought Mark was pretty logical and Eduardo should have paid more attention to what Mark was telling him all the way through.

The acting*, the soundtrack, and the cinematography were all As Good As Advertised, though. Seriously very enjoyable.

*Except for how Justin Timberlake was always Justin Timberlake, and although he definitely gave it a really good try there were lots of scenes that just featured Justin Timberlake As Himself. Poor kid. Being in an Oscar-nominated movie might be as close as he gets to the big prize.

The Vow

"Who is this giant mumbly dude in The Vow with the big square head? WHOA, that's Channing Tatum?"

"I never know what he looks like. It's like my Jason Sudekis-Ed Helms problem. I'm pretty sure they're the same person, but one of them is in the Hangover."

"Like my Ryan Gosling-James Vanderbeek problem. In fairness, both of their names relate to ducks. How can you not know Channing Tatum; you own The Eagle."

"Right, but... didn't he used to be a dancer? Or a stripper?"

"I think that's a movie he was in."

"No, but I think also in real life he was a dancer? And then he danced in a movie? Or maybe dancer was a euphemism for something. He was a dancer. By which I mean a big ol' stripper. I'm not clear on this."

"Well, he wasn't hired for his enunciation skills."

"No, for the stripping, I think. ...are you writing this down?"