Once Upon a Time Dating

Last Sunday as I was watching the Emmys, I was actually screaming at the screen when Bryan Cranston and Jon Hamm lost “Best Actor” to Damian Lewis (Homeland). But once I saw that Homeland won “Best Actor”, “Best Actress”, and “Best Drama”, I decided to drop my Breaking Bad and Mad Men pride and give the show a shot.

Thank god I did.

Homeland is one of the best shows I’ve seen in years. It’s on par with The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, and even better than Mad Men. The plot of the show in the most basic terms possible (it’s VERY complicated), is that Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) returns home after being a prisoner of war in Iraq for eight years, and Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is a CIA agent who believes he was turned and is plotting an attack on America. The show sets Brody and Carrie up as the two heroes of the show, and you are constantly wondering whom you should be rooting for. You see Brody with his children and his wife (who started an affair with his best friend while he was presumed dead), and then you see him praying in Arabic in his garage. You aren’t sure whether Brody is brainwashed or suffering from PTSD, but most of all you aren’t sure whether Brody is a good guy or a bad guy. Carrie also suffers from schizophrenia, so you are constantly wondering whether her paranoia about Brody is warranted or just a result of her mental illness. I could go on about this show for hours, but instead you should all just stop reading right now, get the first season, and start watching.

Just make sure you block out 13 hours of your day, because you will want to watch the entire season in one sitting.

“You got me”… The three little words that ended the season finale of Breaking Bad (in the form of a flashback), and the three little words that will change everything.

Oh. My. God. I had to re-watch the ending of the finale episode multiple times in order to fully absorb the fact that Hank has realized who Walter is. The jig is up- and next season will likely be all about the chase and (probably) eventual capture of Heisenberg: Walter White.

There has been a lot of mixed reviews about the last episode. Some critics loved it and felt that it has set next season up to be the best yet, and others thought it was an easy cop out: the evidence Hank has been searching for for five seasons was found on the top of Walter’s toilet. Personally, I thought it was brilliant. The evidence was right under Hank’s nose the entire time, and he finally saw it while taking a shit. The finale was exactly what I expected in a manner that I never expected.

While I can’t wait for next season and am dying to see how this genius show will conclude, I also can’t imagine my life without Breaking Bad and am mildly depressed (no, extremely depressed) that next year will be this show’s last. How do you think it’s all going to tie up? I have so many guesses but I know none of them are right so I am just going to wait to see what the writers have come up with. I have a feeling that the evidence as to how this show will end is also right under our noses… let’s all sit on the toilet and try to figure it out.

Last night my friends and I saw For a Good Time Call (the phone sex movie you keep seeing commercials for), and let me just say it was REALLY weird. I would try to summarize the movie but I’m not even really sure what I saw. I could have seen a lesbian tale of two girls who formerly hated each other that fall in love because they both like having phone sex, or I could have seen a chick flick about two girls trying to make some extra cash who start a phone sex line. I’m really not quite sure. All I know is that my friends and I were those obnoxious girls laughing out loud in the theater, but it was impossible not to. Supposedly the girls in the movie were just friends, yet they got in a fight because one of them said I love you and the other didn’t say it back. They also stared into each other’s eyes at one point and then slept in the same bed and it was like, awkward in the morning. I actually recommend seeing this movie because it was so ridiculous that it was entertaining. If anyone understood this movie, please comment. Enjoy.

Sidenote: The girl from My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding was in this movie and it made me wish I was watching My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding.