Author: sg-dub

Scene: sg-dub with baby-dub in arm, dinner on the stove, phone rings in the house. “Hey, sg-dub, it’s EdHill. Can you handle the Project Runway recap this week?” “Sure, I’ll try – why, what’s up?” “Well, you know me; I’m going all Greg Brady this week with 2 hot dates per night through the weekend [...]

I love it. I mention it every week and it seems the Surreal Life editors play it up more and more each successive episode. What is “It?” “It” is the opening “Yawntage” seen every week to open the show. Now that we can say with confidence that this season is by far the most uneventful [...]

TVgasm recently celebrated our 2000th post and I’d guess that about 1600 of them are recaps. Of those 1600, I am going to whip my balls out onto the table and state that I believe the latest episode of Prison Break is one of the most complex and difficult shows ever recapped here. Wait – [...]

The last time we saw our favorite seven people we don’t care about, they were preparing for their very own 10 minute talk shows. VH1 made us wait a WHOLE WEEK to see the finalized efforts of the Surreal Life gang. I don’t know about you, but I had a rough time sleeping leading up [...]

FOX is doing viewers a disservice by airing Prison Break and “24″ back to back. They are creating a Zombie Nation; that is, watching these two shows makes viewers so frantic and frazzled, no one is able to get to sleep until 2 or 3 AM every Monday night. If and when these guys ever [...]

Not for the first time, The Surreal Life opened with a stirring montage of coffee making, nail painting, sleeping, and George Jefferson yawning. I am now convinced that the show’s editors, upon realizing at the end of filming that this season was a real bore, thought it would be funny to start each show alluding [...]

Last week offered a bit of a respite from the frantic nervousness of the typical Prison Break episode. That tranquil feeling continued for about 2 minutes this week as we revisited Michael and his little science fair project in Warden Pope’s office. I’m so glad the show didn’t “forget” the Popsicle stick Taj Mahal – [...]

The trailers for this week’s Surreal Life 6 episode promised excitement and conflict. Heck, after the first few shows, I was downright giddy for some crazy hijinks. Conversely, the trailers also showed a sleeping Sherman Hemsley. Sigh, when a show advertises that it puts one of it’s leading cast members to sleep, imagine what it’s [...]

So how the hell did Lincoln get so professionally set up? And how did Michael decide to tattoo his whole torso? And how did Dr. Sara Tancredi end up at Fox River Prison? And what made lovable Sucre commit armed robbery? And what was T-Bag like outside the slammer? And how did the corpse have [...]

There was one throwaway line in this week’s Surreal Life that sums up the overall tone and feeling of the entire episode: Tawny Kitaen made some unfunny comment to the mayor of San Luis Obispo about his son which prompted the mayor to dourly respond, “My son passed away 15 years ago.” Ouch. Ouch indeed. [...]

Oh. My. God. Lincoln is totally going to fry! He was strapped down in the antiquated electric chair and the witnesses (Michael, Veronica, Dr. Tancredi, and 3 members of the press) took their places behind the glass. The drips from the wet sponge placed on Lincoln’s head was mixing with his beads of sweat. Warden [...]

I’m conflicted. About midway through last season’s Surreal Life I vowed never to watch the show again – having tasted my own bile too many times as a result of watching the vile media whoring of Omarosa and Janice Dickenson. Now, after my recapping duties superceded my better judgment, I’m thoroughly bored watching the most [...]

A true Patriot

It’s just about 2 AM but my (and EdHill’s) entire home state is celebrating yet another victory by my alma mater’s basketball team. They like to make it adventurous, that’s for sure. And since my bracket was crap at this time a week ago, and since I’ve been enjoying a few beers, and since I [...]

It’s amazing how time flies when you are a new parent. At the risk of sounding cliché, it seems like only yesterday Prison Break and I went on nearly concurrent hiatus. The show is back and so am I, for as long as I can handle it at least. Since it’s been so damn long [...]

Early Sunday evening, after I enjoyed a few pops with EdHill at my favorite local watering hole watching my Uconn Huskies advance to the Sweet 16, I ate some dinner and dozed off in my comfy living room chair. A few hours later I was awoken by the plaintive wails of my 2-month old son, [...]

Prison Break fans, we’re almost there. FOX will deign to begin showing new episodes again on Monday, March 20th. In anticipation, I thought it would be a good idea to refresh our collective memory and catch up with some of the cast and story. For those of you who missed the first half season of [...]

Just when you were wondering when and if I’d return from my hiatus… And, just when you were beginning to ask yourselves, “What would it take to tear sg-dub away from his new baby to finally write something on TVGasm again?” Well, here I am and I have your answer: Butter guzzling, y’all. The woman [...]

For those of you obsessives who seem to pick up on subtleties so subtle that I didn’t know I was writing them, this “announcement” will not come as a surprise. Others may be surprised, but the vast majority of you won’t give a crap. I, the humble sg-dub, am going on TVgasm hiatus for an [...]

Sigh. Here’s the deal… I watched the last episode of Project Runway back when it aired originally, on December 21st. That same night, Martha Stewart’s wondrous “Apprentice” finale aired and I made the difficult Sophie’s Choice to do the Martha recap first. I was up against the clock, as I was slated to go away [...]

Don’t hurt your head trying to find some deeper meaning hidden in the title. There is none. Basically, I jump at any chance I get to reference Patrick Swayze movies – especially totally awesome ones. So… The Apprentice: Martha Stewart… Dawna won. Can I go home now? Actually, that seems to be just what Alexis, [...]

After the solid premiere of Project Runway, we knew the show would “stay the course” and remain strong throughout its second season. They threw a few slightly concerning elements our way last week but still managed to rise above the reality fray. Sure we were bludgeoned by product placement, but that’s so ingrained into the [...]

Ah, the waiting game. You guys are forced to play it with my recaps as of late; and the Apprenti wannabes have had to play it on both versions of the show this year. However, unlike the board/conference room clearing 4-person decimation on Trump’s show and last week’s 2-person elimination on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, [...]

Yeah, yeah I hear ya – what’s the point of recapping a show that aired two weeks ago? I don’t have an answer for that, nor do I have a legitimate excuse for why I waited two weeks. But if my inbox is any indication, there are at least a handful of you who can’t [...]

Now that Project Runway had dispensed with the selection process in, “The Road to the Runway,” (the first hour of the premiere), it was time to get cracking on the first real challenge. Typically, the designers have a very, very short window of time to conceptualize, design, create and fit their outfits. For some, the [...]

[Disclaimer: I do not know much about fashion. I will make fashion-related errors throughout this season's recaps. Corrections are welcome, but don't be a dick about it. There were too many people in the first episode to put together a seamless and funny recap. It's more informational than I usually like, but also necessary.] True [...]

Another week, another Martha Stewart Apprentice closer to the end. They are doing a live finale too – and I’m very much looking forward to that. Martha won’t be happy that her show is a failed lame-duck and she’s infamous for wearing her displeasure on her sleeve. But I’m getting ahead of myself, as that [...]

Pssst, hey! Martha Stewart Apprentice fans! The show is still on and I’m still recapping it. I just think it’s funny that a week has gone by and there’s barely been a peep about the missing recap. Yeah, I take that somewhat personally, but I’ll survive. Truth be told, I watched this show when it [...]

Hey y’all! Y’all want more Paula Deen? Sho’ y’all do! And that’s precisely why I watched Paula’s wondrous Southern Thanksgiving special from last year this week on the Food Network. I have to admit, her Thanksgiving spread wasn’t nearly as heart stopping as I’d anticipated. There was only one deep fried item (a turkey), a [...]

I’ll be honest, Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee isn’t one of my usual Food Network guilty pleasures. Maybe it’s her rushed delivery that makes me jumpy and turns me off. Perhaps it’s her obsession with something called “Tablescapes” which until watching Sandra were completely foreign to me – as they shall remain. Or, perhaps it’s [...]

Sort of a weird episode of Prison Break, wasn’t it? There really was no theme or consistent tone set. Maybe that’s because of the screwy FOX scheduling which is forcing our beloved show to take a 6 month hiatus after next week’s so-called “Fall Finale.” Who knows… The show still kicked ass and held a [...]

I won’t beat around the bush – there were two stories in the press regarding The Apprentice: Martha Stewart that completely overshadowed the show itself. Come to think of it, the debut of the new Chuck Norris home gym infomercial overshadowed Martha’s show. See, what I’m saying is, Martha’s show is not exactly getting ratings. [...]

As a service to you, dear readers, I didn’t watch this week’s episode of Prison Break until Tuesday evening. Why? Because Monday was my birthday and I wasn’t exactly in the most stable state of mind to watch the show as intently as I need to for TVgasm. Chalk that up to a few Citadelle [...]

As I’ve made mention over the last several months, I love the Food Network. I find myself watching it way more than what is probably considered normal. I can cook, sure, and I do – but I think I’d watch it regardless. I like many of the personalities for different reasons and find myself really [...]

Alot of TVgasm readers have begged for a recap of the double Trading Spouses episode that aired over the last couple weeks. I did happen to see most of each episode, but it was one of those momentous television events that stood on its own. Plus, as a devotee of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I [...]

Back on the premiere episode of The Apprentice: Martha Stewart they did something I found pretty cool; they acknowledged the original Trump version in different, funny, and cheeky ways. This week, Martha acknowledged Trump’s show in a completely annoying, boring, and insulting way: Directly copying a previous Trump Apprentice task. Yes, I know the shows [...]

The subtitle of this recap, if one existed, would be, “The Kindler, Gentler Prison Break. There was only one murder, no suggested prison rapes, no forced eyeball removal, no lopping off digits… No, instead we saw love budding all around; from Michael and Dr. Tancredi to Nick and LJ to Philly Falzone and Abruzzi to [...]

I’ve now determined the reason that Apprentice: Martha Stewart is tanking is because they’ve marketed it all wrong. NBC trumped (ahem) up Martha’s social status and perfectionist ways; instead, they should have simply gone all FOX on the show and lured viewers in with promises of adults acting like complete and total jackasses. (Well, to [...]

Damn, this was a good episode. It was also one of the meanest hours of television I’ve ever seen. If you saw it, my title alone probably caused you to squirm. If you didn’t watch the show, not only do you have no excuse, but you’re missing out on a great pun, suckers. For now, [...]