Gossip Girl 3x10

You know I have to do this ... “you know you love me, xo xo, Gossip Girl”! Teehee! Oh, c’mon, you know you want to hear what happens the morning after Dan’s fearless threesome! Talk about awkward. Or not. It depends. Dan’s all up in the clouds about it, Nate’s the buzz kill, but then Vanessa bumps into them ... and the awkwardness begins! Not to mention Olivia has to swallow before she can pretend not to mind that Dan and Vanessa are going to a Morrissey concert together... And let’s not forget that Vanessa and Olivia are still roommates up at NYU ... more awkwardness ... We’re totally freaking out, aren’t we?

That snotty, jealous Olivia snatches Dan away from his concert with Vanessa, to go to a cabaret writing thing, so he can apply to whatever, some writing program, I guess, and Blair gets involved, too, because she still wants to find a crowd to reign over ... Dan wants to save the day by asking Vanessa to jump aboard also ... and now their making a satirical adaptation of Snow White based on the lyrics of Lady Gaga, starring Olivia, written by Dan, produced by Blair, and directed by Vanessa ... this couldn’t go wronger!!! Meanwhile, Jenny sure doesn’t mind showing a handsome young European around town, whose father’s an ambassador, and he is ... well, a drug dealer! And Jenny’s totally thrilled. When Chuck comes to rescue his stepsister he tells the guy, “Dude, I’m Chuck Bass. You Europeans must know what that means.” Ahahaha! The plot involving Serena working at young congressman Tripp’s office is pretty darn silly. I won’t waste even more of your time on it.

Gossip Girl 3x09

Couture Crime Queen Jenny is reigning supreme at Constance all-girls school, and that means ignoring her brother Eric, but is she ready to face the challenge of her social debut in New York prep school cosa nostra? And wouldn’t it be an incredible storyline if Eric turns out to be the better person by offering her to help? Will everything fall into place for Jenny from the block? What we really need, naturally, is for Blair to throw everything into confusion, because she doesn’t have a life since graduating from high school. Then Eric turns all sourpuss, too. So, when it comes to Jenny’s escort at the ball, everything falls to pieces! Who’s going to save the day? Oh, my, and I haven’t even told you about Dan, Olivia and Vanessa. Hotness!

Gossip Girl 3x08

Previously on Gossip Girl, “I’m sorry I lied to you, but I only did it because I love you!” Wow! When ever does that fly right? Only when you’re rich & fabulous on the Upper East Side! Serena now has to “pretend” to be dating Hollywood actor Patrick Whatsisface, so that Dan and Olivia can finally go public as an item. Poor S. Hahaha! Things with Blair and Chuck are on the mend now that he’s finally opened his speakeasy. Blair and Serena are still BFFs hating each other’s guts ... and in the end it’s Chuck who has to be noble about it and make S see B is acting like a bitch because she misses her BFF! Oh, to be scandalously rich & fabulous on the UES! Heehee!

Dollhouse 2x04

We return to the Dollhouse and a year ago sweet Sierra (the ever so fabulous Dichen Lachman) was known as Priya Tsetang, a free-spirited artist who unwittingly caught the attention of some head honcho inside the Rossum Company. He bought her paintings and arranged an exhibit, but when she refused his advances, he had her committed to the Dollhouse against her will so that he could finally have his little Doll. When charming Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) finds out about the repeated engagements this guy’s been arranging with Sierra (and then manner in which he got her into the Dollhouse), he calls him “a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer” in his face! Hahaha! Of course, she’s been guilty of hiring out one of the male Dolls once in a while... But beneath the pot calling the kettle black, there’s actual depth in this episode. I’m not taking about some profound philosophical revelations, but this one is bleak and disturbing.

Gossip Girl 3x07

It’s Halloween on the Upper East Side and the Gossip Girl crew is hovering like specters around town! Chuck still wants to make a deal, open a club, and strike a profit before he turns twenty-one – and he hopes no one will spoil it for him ... again ... certainly not Blair. But Blair being the busybody that she is ... hmmm... Serena tells her to back off and trust him. Dan’s love life continues to get messed up when he watches the six-hour DVD of Olivia making vampire love like a fiend; and it doesn’t get any better when for publicity she wants to go to the opening party of Chuck’s speakeasy with her pretend Hollywood boyfriend rather than with Dan. Also we finally learn what Jenny’s been up to now that she rules supreme as Queen Bee (diva) at the all-girls Constance Billard School. Talk about the Witching Hour!

Dollhouse 2x03

This new Dollhouse episode starts out really weird and dark and disturbed. I can’t even describe it. Doctor Saunders (a/k/a Whiskey) is gone missing. There’s nothing this week about former operative Madeline, nor about the political campaign against the mysterious medical corporation Rossum that runs the Dollhouse. But a new patient arrives after being hit by a car, but even Topher (the boy genius who imprints Actuals for their engagements) has ethical problems waking this guy up from his coma, when he discovers the patient has the brain of a serial killer. Uhuh.

The patient’s uncle (yet another Battlestar Gallactica veteran) is apparently close to the Rossum Corporation, but I missed that part. They mind-dump the nephew’s brain on Victor, who’s then accidentally let loose on the streets of L.A. (not that anyone would know or care) and now boy genius has to come up with a method to mind-swipe Victor remotely. (This, we who’ve seen episode “Epitaph One” know, is the beginning of the Apocalypse...) That means Victor will become a mindless robot wandering in Hollywood (not that anyone would know or care) ... Except that Topher’s attempt causes a power failure at the lab...

On her part, Echo is starting to recollect more and more of her past missions, although not much of the time when she was still Caroline. This time she becomes Kiki, a college student, who figures she take Medieval Lit, rather than Advanced Eval and skip Intro to Eval, or whatever, because how hard can it be? but maybe she should never have taken this course, but really this Chauncy guy he doesn’t even know how to spell! Heehee! Seeing that I am (well, was) a college professor, I find that very funny :-) Kiki comes to the professor’s office, reads some Chaucer, dances and flirts ... and then stabs a knife in his neck as she glitches just when Topher caused that power failure at the lab... Now Kiki and Victor have swapped minds, so she has become the serial killer on a rampage, and he’s become a mindless twerp in some L.A. club! Hahahaha! What fun!

Gossip Girl 3x06

Let’s return to the scandalous lives of the Upper East Side elite! Gossip Girl here! Blair bluddy Waldorf still wants to rule NYU like the Queen B she was in high school, while Brooklynite Vanessa is stealing the spotlight with her social and environmental awareness. Fellow Brooklynite Dan is back to dating Hollywood movie star Olivia, but will she be ready to meet the parents? Nate Archibald has an idea how to save Carter Baizen from the clutches of the Buckleys. Except that it involves Serena van der Woodsen playing poker. There’s always so much fun to be had – rather shallow and fairly meaningless, but fun nonetheless. Oh, and the New York backdrops! What a miracle!