6 posts tagged “television”

Sean says...

Stefan and I have been fans of television show Brothers and Sisters, but the on-again/off-again romance between  brother Kevin Walker (Welsh actor Matthew Rhys) and Scotty Wandell (Luke MacFarlane) has always been great fun. The relationship between these two has been so real, as much as tv can make it.  They actually flirt, date, fight, break-up, make-up, and becomes friends.  Their love builds as the seasons went on and it all pays off tonight!  It's great to see real gay characters who also have complex issues unto themselves on tv. We are looking forward to tonight's wedding of these two crazy boys on ABC at 10pm EST/9pm CST/10pm PST!  This is the first gay wedding of two series regulars on U.S. TV!  Here are a few scenes to tell you their story over the last two seasons.

First though is the best proposal on television... I think they stole from my proposal to Stefan here (wink)!  You will melt when after Kevin asks Scotty to marry him (which they can only be domestic partnerships in California where they fictionally live), Scotty retorts "...because I changed the lightbulbs?" Sigh.

Clip #1 shows us Kevin and Scotty meeting for the first time and flirting. The chemistry between the actors (Rhys is straight and MacFarlane is gay) is very obvious and fun! 

Clip #2 are some additonal scenes of Kevin and Scotty in Season 1 flirting, going out on their official first date, and sharing a first kiss.  The scene after their kiss (minute 2:52) is especially telling if you watch this and their proposal back to back.   

Clip #3 is their breakup after two months of dating. They had some adventures but eventually the arrogance of Kevin and the strong pride of Scotty came to a head over money issues (Kevin has some and Scotty is waiter) and they come to an end in Season 1. Many thought this was the end to this story too... but wow what a break-up scene!

Clip #4 teases us with a possible reunion of our lovebirds but alas Kevin was seeing a closeted soap star and wasn't really ready to be with Scotty yet. 

Clip #5 brings the 3rd coming of Scotty into Kevin's life (to huge cheers on our part!)!!!!! Kevin is seeing Jason McAllister (Rob Lowe's character's brother) at this time, so Scotty and he agree to be only friends.

Clip #5, #6, #7 and #8 shows Kevin and Scotty post-Jason. Kevin & Jason broke up because Jason moved to Malaysia as a missionary but Kevin said he would wait for him. Jason pretty much ignored Kevin and Kevin was torn as to whether he should break up or not. Scotty in the meantime needed a place to live in a hurry, so Kevin let his friend move in. Long story short (too late), Kevin breaks up with Jason (Eric Winter - who went off to be on Viva Laughlin! and the Moonlight) and Scotty and he cobble together a relationship. My favorite parts are with the actors alone here. They really show a great chemistry and you can see how they really care for each other even when fighting. You know in your heart they will make up and do it really sweetly.   

 

 

Clip #9 is the last scene that shows how in love Kevin is with Scotty and vice versa... the drunk karaoke! This is my second favorite scene next to the proposal.  

 

 

Sean says...

Well I finally watched a second episode of Grey's Anatomy after swearing NOT to ever watch another episode again after recovering from last seasons horror of both the Ferry Boat Disaster incident, Isaiah Washington's homophobic comments and messy "firing", and Kate Walsh leaving for her own show Private Practice (which sucks but I still love Dr Addison Montgomery!)  And you know what? I loved the episode!  Out of it came the best quote that tells me Grey's is back to great writing... oh and please forgive my soap opera type attitude about this show that I loved and then grew angry at in Season 3!

Dr Callie Torres (Sarah Ramirez) - worried now that Addison has told her that her relationship with Dr Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith) seemed on the verge of being lesbian in nature - notices Dr Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Dr Christina Yang (Sandra Oh) goofing around at lunch. Callie barrels in and asks the twosome if anyone though that were more like a couple than friends... Meredith does not miss a beat, and unleashes the quote of the MONTH!

"No, because we screw boys like whores on tequila."

No exclamation point, not pretense. Plain, simple, and (if you watch the show) oh so true!

It's so nice to have my "story" back... happy sigh... thank you Mikelle for talking me back into it!

Sean says...

In December 2003, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick took on a science fiction sacred cow and recreated it into a TV miniseries and later a brand new cable TV series. Battlestar Galactica was resurrected from its 1978 - 1979 grave and given a new look. Many thought the "recreation" would suck and die hard fans thought it would do a disservice to the original Lorne Greene helmed show. They were wrong. The show became the most popular Sci-Fi Channel original series ever, established itself as a Peabody and Emmy winning show, and built a following that allowed it to become a major seller on the DVD market. It was never a powerhouse show that had people watching and thinking about it like say ABC's Lost, but it was a show that truly took on the idea of genocide, war, technology, and the idea of being human like no other sci-fi show before it.

This year is it's last season. I hope you will all will join me April 4th, 2008 in watching and rewatching one of the best TV shows of the last 10 years (if not 20 years!) in its final bow.

Sean and Stefan say... 

I know we have been caught up on quotes from TV shows lately, specifically Ugly Betty, but this one is surely something we've all said at one time or another!

"If you're taking me somewhere I won't need a boa, I don't want to go."

I mean if Stefan and I haven't said that a thousand times before a trip, we have said it at least hundreds!  Leave to good old Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) from Desperate Housewives to tell the truth of about appropriate travel attire. Great quote, an episode though that was swimming with jumped sharks.

Sean and Stefan say...

As the television season has gone on your McFreeds have pruned most of our TV watching down to mainly healthy doses of Ugly Betty (of course!), Dancing With The Stars, Samantha Who?, and DVR tapings of BBC America's Torchwood (a Sean guilty pleasure) and Grey's Anatomy (when in the mood). But the one show that really has us excited is Pushing Daisies - Wednesdays at 8pm EST!!

Someone on a website said one time about the show, that they would love to hold hands and skip across a field of flowers with this show. We couldn't say it any better!!!

In case you haven't seen it, Pushing Daisies is a quixotic embellishment of a show that tells the tale of Ned, The Pie Maker, who has the power to bring the dead back to life.  Unfortunately, if anything dead that he has touched must be retouched within 1 minute or something else will die in its stead of an equal value. He learned this lesson when he saved his own mother from death by anurism only to have his childhood friend Chuck's father die instantly - causing Chuck to move away. Chuck was a little girl who he had his first kiss. After a few years of being alone and making pies, Ned came across private detective Emerson Cod. Emerson subsequently learns of Ned's "talent' and they employ it in earning rewards for solving crimes across the city.  One day they stumble across the body of his childhood crush Chuck while trying to solve her murder on a cruise ship to Tahiti!  They rekindle their love for each other only to the detriment of the funeral home director. And that ladies and gentleman is where the best show about love delayed began!

As the show has continued on we have learned that it is best watched cuddling together on the couch with big smiles on our faces. It is so inventive and fun to watch. The chemistry between Lee Pace as Ned and Anna Friel as Chuck is captivating. And Chi McBride's act as Emerson, breaks up the gooeiness of the show yet punctuates it with a giggle. The additional nuttiness of the narrator, Kristen Chenoweth as Olive - waitress at Ned's restaurant The Pie Hole, and Chuck's aunts played by Broadway veterans Swoozie Kurtz and Ellen Greene make this an appointment show weekly for us!

The thing that best makes this show fun is how inventive they make the relationship between Ned and Chuck work. It truly is a statement about romance and abstinence really. They find so many ways to hold hands and kiss without actually touching it is just really sweet. The "Saranwrap Kiss" itself is truly on our list as one of the most romatic visuals ever (see below)!  Some might find it sickening but to us it is just a fun trip down the yellow brick road I guess.

But the romance may have hooked us, but what keeps us is the show's way of keeping us interested. It has the positive vibes Stefan craves. They always seem to pick large or unknown words in their dialogue that Sean loves! They thrown in an interesting yet easy mystery that always leads to a farce-like situation. They have a musical element at times which punctuates but doesn't over do the sweetness. And they manage to get some naughty bits in at the 8pm hour!

So if you haven't watched - START!  With the writer's strike, reruns aren't far away!  If you missed anything or wanted to know anything about this show check out this great website: The Pie Maker!

 

 

Sean says...

Ugly Betty has become a major favorite in the McFreed household!  Yes yes yes, we bought the Season 1 dvd (surprised not! I am sure you are all saying).  Being the sassmaster that I am, I love the bitchiness and quotability of the show... and America Ferrara's natural and lovable acting quality. Stefan, to speak for him, loves the way the show presents how being good isn't always a sappy mess... and secretly he loves the sass! (smirk)

Instead of talking about the show I thought in honor of the Season 2 premier tonight we would follow Entertainment Weekly's lead and list 15 quotes we love! Here we go in no particular order! Some of the quotes will seem out of context since the scenes set up the quote of course but we couldn't pass this up!

1. ''Did you just gesture at me when you said Kwanzaa?" Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams)

2. ''Okay, girls. Tuck 'em back in. You're both big.'' Wilhelmina Slater breaking up an argument between Daniel Meade (Eric Mabius) and his transexual back-from-the-dead brother now sister Alexis (Alex) Meade (Rebecca Romijn)

3. ''Stop fondling my limes and do something!'' Wilhelmina Slater to her assistant Marc [Weiner] St James (Michael Urie) after he spends an inordinate amount of time fixing her a daytime cocktail instead of helping her plot and scheme.

4. "Are you the before?" Receptionist Amanda Tanen (Becki Newton) to Betty Suarez (America Ferrera) when she enters the office on her first day at Mode Magazine.

5. "I want a career I can be proud of, and a door I can close when I wanna take a nap!" Amanda to Marc commenting about wanting to replace Alexis' new male assistant Nick Pepper (Max Greenfield).

6. Fabia: "You must come to the ceremony. I won't be able to get married without my something old." Wilhelmina: "Oh, with the veins in your legs, you already have your something blue." An exchange between arch-rivals Fabia (Gina Gerhson) and Wilhelmina as they conduct Wedding Summit 2007 to decide who gets St. Patrick's Cathedral.

7. "I'm a few years away from having a duck quack off on my face." Wilhelmina to Fabia after Fabia recommends a Chinatown doctor who injects duck semen into your face to smooth out crow's feet.

8. Wilhelmina: "Kiss your loved ones goodbye and expect to come home to dead pets!"
Marc: "Schmoopy?!"  Scene were Wilhelmina announces that people will be staying late to work on the Xmas spread rewrite because it was stolen...followed by Marc's private reaction.

9. "I'll say 'boobs' again!" Betty threatening her boss Daniel impishly during a long friendly evening of avoiding the paparazzi, eating pizza, and singing karaoke after he asked her never to say that word to him.

10. "That's it! Who put the bunny in the toilet? This is not funny! Who thinks this is funny? (people raise their hands) Oh, really? Well whoever is doing this, if you think you can break me that easily, you're wrong! You can take my bunny, but you can't take my spirit!" Betty sticks up for herself after a pink bunny with a college graduation theme is kidnapped and tortured throughout the show via polaroids to her.  The true moment where Betty really made me route for her the rest of the season.

11. “Oh it’s about to get nerd nasty!” Amanda commenting on Henry Grubstick (Christopher Gorham) and Nick Pepper fighting at the medieval restaurant after Nick threw something that hit Betty and knocked her off a mechanical bull.

12. Amanda: “And now my special place is ruined!” Christina: “Oh please! Your special place was ruined years ago.” Exchange after Mode seamstress Christina McKinney (Ashley Jensen) catches Amanda sneaking out of Faye's (former and dead editor of Mode Magazine) secret dungeon. Marc and Amanda had found it and were hoping to keep it to themselves.

13. "You will be at my side at all times. You will be my seeing-eye gay."  Wilhelmina to Marc when she tells him she needs him to lead her around fashion show after her eyes becomes swollen from cosmetic surgery.

14. "Dork-es Interruptus!" Amanda after finding Betty and Henry almost kissing in the copy room at Mode.

15. "Were you saying something? Your mouth was moving and you were looking at me, but all I heard was 'blah blah blah." Amanda to Betty... a quote we all want to say too someone I bet!

Honorable Mentions:

1. "Hit me like a man you pansy!" Wilhelmina to Marc as she plots to have Marc bruise her up to convince Bradford Meade that his wife Claire Meade (Judith Light) had a hit put out on her from prison. Objective: to have Bradford divorce Claire. Result: Wilhelmina gets accidently pushed down the stairs and bruised badly... but Bradford agrees to divorce Claire as a result.

2. "Kids under 12 eat free on Sundays." Amanda in her television commercial as the main wench for the medieval themed restaraunt. Delivered in a deadpanned American accent after beginning the commercial with a British one.

UPDATE SEASON 2!!!

Wilhelmina: ''N! I don't have the energy to say 'no' anymore!'' I see this starting a trend!