I'm still not over it.

I hate to tell ya'll this, but I have writers block. I'm having a hard time trying to write posts of substance and wit. Help a girl out and throw some ideas my way please.


Today is Thursday which means it's been 3 full days since The Killing was on tv, and I gotta say that I'm still angry. A co-worker stopped by my desk last night to say that she had heard things around the office (shiiiiiiiiit), that she read the blog (double shiiiiiiiiit) and that she heard I hated the Killing (okay...I'll give you that one).  She whole heartily disagreed with my assessment of the show.  She actually LIKED the whole season and will return for season 2, so congrats AMC...you retained one viewer.  As she pointed out, this was supposed to be the un-cop, cop show.  We were supposed to dig deep into the story and into the characters to find out the real them.  Sounds a little too hippie for me.  We were given one question on day one: "who killed rosie larson?"  That's all anyone wanted to know.  Who killed this little bitch?  The writer, now taking heat like you wouldn't believe for her stupid story lines and her poor writing skills, reminds us that she never promised the answer to the question.  She never said she would wrap the story line up in a little bow.  But what you have to remember about The Killing is this is a remake of a very popular Danish tv show.  And guess what...the Danish answered the question.  Because they knew it would be rude to lure your audience in and then basically kick them in the throat, calling them stupid.

As I sat at a dinner last night, congressmen droning on in the background, I started to think through the show and wonder if said colleague might be right.  Maybe I wasn't supposed to get so involved.  Maybe I should have paid more attention to the struggle of losing a child, of losing a friend...the relationships that come with that.  But then I stopped hallucinating and started to become angry again.  Let's start with the night Rosie disappeared.
10:00pm - Rosie leaves the dance alone while her supposed bff is getting gang banged in the basement.
10:30pm - She arrives at Bennet Ahmad's house to return the Koran? Random.  He wasn't there however and was let in by Mohammed.  BUT wasn't Rosie covered in chemicals that are found in Bennet's house?  If she was just returning a book, how would those chemicals end up all over her and under her nails?
11:00pm - Rosie leaves Bennet's to head to ferry to the random indian casino.
11:45pm - Last ferry leaves allegedly with Rosie on board. She's seen in the ATM camera.
Now let me ask you a question....why would homegirl take the LAST ferry out with no way back to the main land?  She obviously was being picked up by someone or staying overnight. Maybe she met a gentleman caller? And she seriously couldn't find an ATM closer to her house to deposit money?  She was running all over Seattle with loads of cash?
4:00am - Richmond arrives home wet....cancels his escort service account.
The time line doesn't even make sense. Didn't the opening scene with Rosie show the sky with some light?  Like right before sunrise? Making it what...5-6am?  Richmond would have been drying off at that point. IDK.

Let's now start on the story lines that make me angry:
*The whole high school part.  We never see Jasper, Chris or Sterling after the first 2 episodes. While I don't mind not seeing the boys, I think its odd we never see Sterling.
*Sterling's alleged nose bleed.  No fucking way that little child bled that much out of her NOSE.
*The random custodian who threw himself out of a window because he saw some kids getting it on.  Weird.
*The campaign cars. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does.  It's a goddamn MAYORAL race.
*Gwen and her ugly face.  Who cares if her father is a Senator?  There was no reason for that.
*The indian burial ground.
*The terrorist sub-plot and genitalia mutilation.
*Reggie - who we never really get a good back story on, who up and leaves with her boat.
*Why does Richmond, who is from upper middle class Connecticut, care so much about under privileged Seattle kids playing basketball?
*Richmond's dead wife.  Did she take off from that party because she knew of his indiscretions? 
*AHHHH - the one that drives me the most crazy: Aunt Terry, the whore, and Jasper's hot father.

I'm just so over it....I really need to rid this show from my brain.

So bless my co-workers heart.  I admire your courage to stand up and go against the grain. However, you are wrong, the actors stink and the show is horrible. XOXO

Bunny

thirteen weeks of .... nothing. nothing at all.

Hello kiddies! Mama is back.  Again, I apologize for my absence last week.  I really do need a guest blogger to keep up appearances when I get busy. Everything went well...everyone survived and I didn't kill anyone, which is always a plus.

I missed a lot last week.  I missed recapping the NJ Housewives and Game of Thrones, I missed Lagerfeld Thursday, and I really didn't give a lot of energy to the Weiner as I should have. But in the spare time I did find a new show that I love...Million Dollar Decorator. I know there is a specific niche that watches this show, but seriously I think everyone could get into it.  If only for the money spent alone.

 But I'll get to that show later.  Let's discuss the awful, horrible, train wreck that was The Killing.  First, I want to apologize.  I want to apologize for all the people that I bullied into watching the show.  After the first hour, I couldn't imagine watching anything on Sunday night.  And I was a faithful viewer...with maybe strong opinions on how the show was headed.  Lady LaLa told me in the beginning that she was a little skeptical when she found out the writers were the same as Cold Case, a show which I couldn't stand due to the main character's hair alone.  I'd say it was around show 5 when the story line started to stray for the Killing.  Episodes 6-11 were bad if not painful.  I was the first one to say the show needed to "put up or shut up".  We needed something more.  And it seemed like maybe we were onto something at the end of the last show...with previews promising an explosive ending.

I'm not quite sure what to say about tonight's episode.  I was interested merely for the fact of ending the show.  I still don't understand Linden or what her relationship to Richmond is/was. I thought it was bizarre that she had gone to his house twice asking about suspects, but showing up at the campaign to yell in his face?  I felt like I missed an episode connecting their past lives.  She got too emotionally upset in the office scene I thought.  And her scene with Gwen it felt like jilted lovers standing on a pier, staring out into the vast ocean of black, sharing a common thread.  Oh Gwen.  The way they showed her so morose, lurking behind corners, devastated that her lover was cheating on her.  What exactly pushed her over the edge? The revelation that he liked whores, or the part where he lied to her face saying he hadn't been with them in months? Which ever one it was pushed her hard because she told the story of him coming home wet that fateful, 2 weeks later?  Why would Richmond have been wet?  He drove the car into the river and then swam out an open window? No way.  He would have tied Rosie up in the back, shut the trunk, put the car into neutral and pushed.  Linden was so desperate to believe that she didn't even see the first ridiculous lie. And I can't imagine Gwen not asking questions especially when they find a dead girl in the back of a campaign car, DEAD and drown, the same night as your creeptastic boyfriend was missing in action,

So much of the story line wasn't wrapped up, but I'm glad they visited the teacher in the hospital so we knew whether he was alive or dead.  Poor Chrissy Seaver still hadn't delivered that baby though she was due 4 episodes ago.  And wouldn't all this stress push her into labor?  I mean, what do I know.  I have no children.  Which is why I guess I stopped relating to Mitch and her sad doll routine.  Leaving those two adorable boys.  So amazingly selfish. Watch with Season 2, Aunt Terry moving into the home taking on the roll of mom and shacking with Stan.

So, what do we believe? Was it Aunt Terry,  Was it Gwen?  Was it Holder?  Was it cash money millionaire? Was it the current mayor? Holder told the lie about the pictures, but did he kill Rosie?  I would say that I was a bit confused, but as I had been watching the clock, I knew they were about to screw us.  And Bilko....poor, poor Bilko. It goes to show you that words hurt just as bad as violence, sometimes even more. If Mitch hadn't been a bitch maybe he wouldn't have been pushed over the edge. If Aunt Terry and apologized earlier and maybe showed him some of her whoreish ways, this could have been avoided.

Oh...and by the way. The Tony Soprano ending has been done AMC.  Give me something a little more original next time.....like the goddamn killer.

Question though:  The made a great deal about that damn butterfly necklace and Linden was leaving for a jet plane. Was someone wearing it and I missed it?

Recommendation for Season 2:  Eat shit and die, AMC.  I can't imagine you retained any viewers after tonight.

XOXO,
Bunny

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID

Are you kidding me with this AMC?  Seriously?  At any moment during Sunday night's The Killing, I was expecting Sarah Michelle Gellar to jump out with a fish hook. I know what you did.  I know what you did too....and it was waste my time.

Boys and girls, lets start it off here.  Aunt Terry is a whore. Literally.  Men purchase her for sex. And while that is illegal in most states, dear auntie didn't think to mention that to the police the 100 times they asked her about the damn shoes?  Or the fact that your only niece drown, but yet you were able to concoct the story about a john trying to drown another girl.  So Jasper's father purchased her services?  If so, of course he wouldn't talk to you in 1. a public place and 2. with his wife.  This whole story line reeks and watch next week she be the killer after they took you on a 10 minute who-done-it 8 episodes too late.  Just thinking about the terrorist sub-plot makes me angry.

Stan Larson.  Poor Stan Larson. His story line broke my heart. His wife Mitch has officially gone round the bend.  She pushed and pushed for him to do something about Rosie's murderer.  She knew his past, she knew he didn't like that side of himself, yet she pushed.  And eventually you break.  And that's what Mitch did to him...she broke him.  I was happy that he finally stuck up for himself.  I said it in an earlier post that I thought Terry had a crush or something going on with Stan. Everyone shot me down on that, but look at here...who is the one picking him up from jail and posting bail.  Not his wife. As soon as they told Stan he was able to leave, I knew Terry would be waiting in the car.


*Why did they introduce Linden's baby daddy 12 episodes in to a 13 episode run?  I don't want any new characters at this point.  Just wrap this shit up and go home. That way I can forget I ever watched this shit and return to bed at a normal hour on Sunday night.
*The pool party. So I'm assuming that cash money millionare guy has "partied" with Richmond before, because he knew his taste was teenage girls?  Ew. I guess what I'm confused about is not that they didn't run background, because when someone gives you that amount of money, why bother.  In fact, are they not regulated by McCain-Feingold? Maybe he mentioned that tonight when he said he gave to the committee?  Why, if you are running for mayor, borrow money from your friend who is into underage girls.  18 and over is fine, its the young ones that will get you every time (holler Weiner).  There is just something odd to me that they had no idea who was handing over money like that or why they would hand over that much.  $5 million for a damn mayoral race? Am I on glue?
*Why was the comment about drowning pulled down off the server for the hooker-girls?  It in no way mentioned Richmond. And the "french" hooker was scared why?  How come she didn't speak up immediately when Rosie died?

If these 13 episodes line up and point the finger to Richmond...like it did in episode one...without an actual cohesive story, I am going to be one mad Bunny.  How did he end up with the campaign car that had been stolen days before? His wife was killed by a drunk driver. Did the drunk push wifey into the water where the cause of death was drowning and not accident?  It's like all the pieces could be there if everyone brings their a game to the last episode. I know I will and maybe I'll bring a little bubbly and wish this awful, stupid show Bon Voyage from my tv and dvr.

I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID,
XO
BUNNY

better late than never

I tried. Seriously kids, I tried.  I dutifully stopped by the gym (thanks Dutchess for the motivation), sweated out my leftover tan from this weekend (ya'll I looked GOOD) and rushed home to watch some tv.  Ok...I may have stopped by Chipotle for a delicious treat that completely negated my workout, but whatever.  Honey badger don't care.  I jumped on the couch, reached for the remote and pulled up the first show in the que....The Killing, ready for the redeeming episode that people have been whispering about in my ear all day.  And I have to say, not bad AMC.  I kind of see it now.  I see where this road is headed though I'm not quite sure where the hell you took us for the last 5 episodes...teachers, and terrorists, and beatings oh my! Let's pound out some bullets here:
*When Stan walked in the house with those bloody hands, he knew what he had done was wrong.  The moment got to him. For days people had been around him, egging him on with questions on why the possible killer was still teaching. But I thought it was kind that he called 911 (ok...it would have been kinder if you hadn't bashed his head into a rock).
*Belko. Oh Belko.  That scene broke my heart. Born to a woman obviously a lot later in life as she said she thought she was ending menopause when out he came.  Her special boy (yuck). Stan probably saw this kid and took him under his wing.  I get his affection for the family and for the home - neither of which he really had...especially when mom was shacking with every man in Seattle.
*Boy cop was sure of himself this episode.  He knew what he was looking for and was making nice with girl cop, who still doesn't have her miserable life together. And on that subject,
*Your friend, Boat Lady (Reg I think?), tells you that your son is acting out.  He did A, B, and C.  He is screaming for help.  Girl cop doesn't punish the kid.  Nope, she wakes him up and takes him to a classless joint on the side of the road.  Good parenting.  Oh...and then to come home and find your ex-but-not-really-your-ex boyfriend sitting outside your door, begging you to come back despite your many issues, you can't.  You have to follow this case thru.  I did find it interesting that he said something about sitting in front of white walls every day.  Has she been in a psych ward?
*After 10 days they finally figure out where Rosie went.  Atlantic City.  Well, ok...not really...but close.  Some off shore Indian gambling casino. Random. 
*After 10 days they find a picture of Rosie with the Mayoral candidate with the mostest - Skeezeball Richmond. Just like Bill and Monica sans the beret.
*Did anyone think it was weird that girl cop went to Richmond's house?  She could have called.  I don't know...maybe she felt it needed a face to face.  But her and that scotch...reminded me of my friend Ballou and his McCallans...one sip and its gone.


I'm interested to see where this is headed for the first time in awhile. I have the sister in my head as the killer. There is just something off with her. And if they don't give me more on the situation with her and Jasper's dad, I'm going to be angry.  There has to be something there.

Game of Thrones
This too, was a good episode.  I've said it before and I'll say it again....I hate Mayor Carcetti or whatever his name is on this show.  I think he only knows how to play backstabbing boy bitches. I'm not quite sure I was fully awake for the whole episode - so let me know if I missed something I need to know:
*Ned finally figured out that the eyeliner boy, Prince Joffery, is a product of incest and not King Robert's true heir.
*A pig killed the king.  However, the king's hand is a Lanister?  I missed that.  And do they think he is the one who set the king up to die?
*I didn't really understand the Jamie/father talk.  Dad seems to want Tyrion back, but I didn't understand what he was saying to Jamie.  I was too distracted with him carving up the cow/horse/sheep/whatever it was.
*I also didn't follow anything that happened at the wall.  A horse came back belonging to John Snow's uncle?

After watching Jersey Housewives, I decided that I would not spend the time talking about it.  I just can't bring myself to do it.  Even when T says things like "comein" for cumin, or "ingredientsts" or "fabulicious". T made a ridiculous amount of money this year, so I guess she can pronounce it however she likes. Nothing really happened this episode.  The battle continues to rage on between the siblings...though I'm surprised that gorgonzola joe (as he will further be known because he is cheesy and moldy) can think of anything else other than sex. Ya'll its been 4 whole days since he banged it out.  FOUR WHOLE DAYS.  The horror!  As his children pimento, ravioli and linguine almost drown in the bathtub because he wants his wife to pay attention to him! Joe need sex.  Give me it now.  He's like a gelled up caveman.  Ugh.  Makes me want to take a bath in purell.

I need to go get the thought of gorgonzola joe out of my head...

XOXO,
It's your girl B

the only killing going on here is this show on my nerves

Um...okay...well...sure I guess. If that's where you want to take the show AMC - down the drain - then yeah, let's continue on that course. Dear readers and devoted watchers of The Killing, I am here to say that the only thing on this miserable show that's been killed is the writing and the viewership. How in the world does it create such hype in its first weeks and a true fan base when coming down the tracks is a giant pile of crap...horse shit if you will. I just don't get it.

We reminded in a very odd opening scene depicting a child's room, that we are exactly where we left off last week. Girl cop and Boy cop are laying on the floor waiting for the FBI to clear them. The stuff in the room is white, pink and girly. Much like a 12 year old would have. How old is Rosie supposed to be again? IDK and it doesn't matter. Now they think she is involved in terrorism. WTF. Girl cop completely shuts out boy cop because she is sure as shit that he is a bad cop, doing illegal stuff and after getting her ass handed to her by her boss, she decides that she just has to follow him. And guess what she finds ya'll. She finds boy cop at AA. Or in his case NA. Now, what episode are we in? 8? Didn't I have that plot line wrapped up back in the 3rd episode? The money in the mailbox was for his family I said...so swap out wife for sister. And now girl cop has a new appreciation for him. Great girl cop...glad you could finally jump on board. She still cant get in touch with her fiancee, and its probably because he's out murdering small girls, but she does get in touch with his assistant - Emmie - which was a new little twist. Who the hell is Emmie? And girl cop's lack of wardrobe, makeup, and her ratty hair are making me dislike her with every passing minute.

Oh and girl cop...even though your son plays video games, I doubt he is old enough to look at graphic crime scene photos...that you just happened to look at while he was sitting behind you. And I told her that during the scene. Not my problem if she didn't hear me. But him releasing them to his friends was not cool, but one of those little bitches gave it to the press. And I think that's the most offensive crime here. You never talk to the press. Unless they are asking for autographs.

The dude running for Mayor turned dirty - SHOCKER. He and his 2 campaign aides are creeeepy and I hate that whole story line. AND, don't you think you could have shown a better character at the drunk driving hearing? The woman looked like she was sweet lil Betty Crocker. I can only imagine her back story...she apparently killed your wife after she guzzling down martinis at the Rusty Anchor looking for a sailor to take home to her uh...port. Too much?

Good for Stan for taking down Rosie's room. They have 2 other children that are going unnoticed and Stan finally took a stand. YOU GO GLEN COCO. Mom is still off the rails but we were once again reminded that we are only a week out from the murder. And when Mitch blames Stan for letting her stay that weekend...and then he blames Mitch for being to strict? Ut-oh...the blame game is going to start and it never has a happy ending.

Also - the sister, Terry, was back in this episode and was I the only one getting a strange, sexual vibe between her and Stan? Obviously it turned to fear and anger after she told him that Mitch had almost asphyxiated their remaining children. We need more info on her STAT. And where the hell is Jasper's father. I want more of him too and not just because he is handsome.

As the last minutes start wrapping up the show, we enter the Ahmad house to find Bennett speaking Somalis into his phone while his scared, pregger wife stands in the hall. Passports are coming tomorrow he says...no the cops don't know anything. Oh Bennett. They do. Because my boy hot cop is listening in as we speak. One thing that did stand out was the end scene - there is a cop car driving one way but we are obviously in the other car. So either where are we going or who was in the other car? Does anyone agree with that?

Sleepy, confused and praying for a good dream involving Josh Charles,
Bunny
XO

bonjour mon petit chous...

First - how the hell is it only tuesday? Reminds me of that great Onion article years ago: http://www.theonion.com/articles/it-only-tuesday,2304/

With the void of Lost in our lives, AMC has made a show that tries to keep you guessing. A who-dunit, if you will. I've talked briefly about The Killing, but now with my new discussion group (that's you my mon petit chous) we're going to get to the nitty gritty of this show.

Let's discuss what we know so far:

*The first images we see are a scared Rosie, running for her life through some woods near marsh land.

*Girl cop is leaving Seattle to marry her creepy boyfriend and live in California. Hot boy cop is brought in to fill her space. He is formally of the narcotics squad and we're not quite sure what he is about. He also dresses like a homeless person.

*The police are called because they find a pink sweater and an ATM card belonging to Stan Larsen (Rosie's dad). sidenote: have they talked about that atm card since? wouldn't they check purchases on the card?

*Rosie's parents and 2 brothers go camping. They leave on a friday, return sunday - never talking to her- but Rosie was sleeping over at Sterling's (her bff) allegedly. Now I dont know about you, but my mumma would have never let me sleep over on a school night. And I'm damn sure that my friends would NOT have provided an alibi for 3 nights, much less 3 nights where they didn't see me. I once had a friend in high school try and pull that trick on me....telling her parents she was at my house when she wasn't. Her mumma called and I sang like a bird. Ut uh. Homegirl does not play that shit.

*Rosie goes to the halloween dance at the high school (which is weird in itself), dressed like a slutty witch with a purple wig. A video taken at the school shows Rosie is not wearing her usual butterfly necklace, which is on her when she is found dead. Wig is later found in the dumpster behind school after used by Sterling to have sex with Jasper (creepy rich kid) and Chris (nasty homeless kid). Jasper and Chris are besties and apparently like to share women. Gross.

*The boys have this sex in a magical, romantic place called "the cage". It just turns you on, doesn't it. They also film this encounter. Have we not learned anything in the information age? No pictures or video tape. They are words to live by, you hear me? The cage is covered in blood - like murderous blood - but we find out its just Sterling's nose bleed. Seriously. That's what you want us to believe?

*The cage has a peephole where the pervert janitor who is amazingly named "Lyndon Johnson Gonzalez". Which I think the writers threw in for all those Kennedy conspiracy theorists. My dad is still convinced LBJ had something to do with it...but I digress.

*Boys are pulled in for questioning. Jasper's father, allegedly out of town, walks in and slaps the shit out of him. It's pretty great. Chris's mom loves him and wants him to come home, but doesn't really seemed concerned that he might be a murder suspect.

*Rosie is found in the bottom of a lake(?) in a stolen campaign car by Councilman Richmond, who is running for mayor. We've been over how I think this is bizarre how a guy running for MAYOR has campaign cars, but again, I digress. She is tied up, one shoe on, fingernails gone from fighting. She has died from drowning. The scene of her father and mother finding out will rip out your heart.

*She has a pair of expensive shoes. Still have no idea where they came from. Maybe the sister of Mitch?

*Her teacher, Bennett Ahmad, writes her letters. Were they love letters? He says they were letters of encouragement. In return, she gives him a video she took of random things. She also would take the bus out to visit him in the Seattle All-Star's program (worst named program ever).

*Bennett Ahmad is creepy and Muslim.

*Bennett's wife is a former student who is knocked up. For this reason, she cannot move anything.

*Bennett was at the dance with Rosie. He leaves around 11:30pm, but we know that his jealous wife was at the school, sitting in the car, waiting for him to come out because she didn't trust him with all those girls in skirts.

*Bennett tells the cops that he went home to refinish the hardwood floors, but the company canceled on him. Not true. Found in the house were chemicals that were found on Rosie.

*Wifey comments, as they are putting the crib together, that she was glad they put down carpet.

*Rosie apparently shows up to Bennett's house around 10:30pm to deliver a book - neither Bennett or wifey are there - and is perhaps let in by Mohammad? Is the book the Koran? Is Rosie trying to be Muslim?

*Mitch's sister looks like she had an affair with Jasper's father. When he doesn't say hi to her at the post-funeral meal, she locks herself in the bathroom and drinks herself blind while listening to Neko Case...which is exactly what I do.

*Richmond's wife was killed by a drunk driver. He also likes to have inappropriate sex, and seems to not have a clue about politics.

*Daddy Larsen used to be in the polish mob. He has a bestie - whose name we never quite know - who help the kids after Rosie's death. Feeds them, changes their sheets. Very precious but now I'm starting to question him.

*Boy cop is a former druggie/alcoholic. He has a sponsor, which we think is a cop. He has packets of money which he randomly put into a mailbox. I think its a wife and kids.

Okay...so this is just a basic recap. Start filling in the holes of what I've missed.

XOXO,
Bunny Bits