All My Shadows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HhDAKuROEA LOL! I remember this girl got a lot of heat here for doing Baby One More Time because some dumb ass parents thought it promoted domestic violence...I can't even. Adele and Amy would be too awesome.

Esther appears towards the very end of season two along with (random) Ernie Hudson. They factor into the Michael Tyrone voooodoooo story. I think we were supposed to see that Field's position in life wasn't necessarily of his own choice but part of the path given to him by more overbearing figures in his life, namely Titus. IIRC, his father was a more kindly man, and had he been alive, I think Field's life would have been much different. Still, I was Team Constance all the way through season one simply because of Field's constant lies. In season two, there are definitely moments where you realize that Field doesn't hate Constance or even dislike her a whole lot. They've known each other for years, so he likes her. He just sometimes resents the lack of control he has on his own life and takes it out on her. One of my favorite side comments was in the Christmas episode where he snarkily, but with total sincerity, wishes her a Merry Christmas. I would have loved to see them transition to a love/hate friendship had the show continued. Constance, sadly, never lived up to her bitchy potential in the show's short run. Her biggest scheme was faking the divorce and then faking the paralysis. Given a few more seasons, I'm sure she would have gotten herself together and struck out on her own instead of relying just on Daddy's money. IIRC, Constance never learns that Lute-Mae is her mother. I never got to see the last couple of episodes, so she might have found out then. It pretty much remained a secret between Claude and Lute-Mae through the first season. Eudora found out the truth while they were all keeping vigil at hospital following the hurricane and Constance's fall at Lute-Mae's. She overheard Claude and Lute-Mae talking about it in the chapel in one of those GREAT soapy reveals -- Claude and Lute-Mae had this big conversation about it in the darkly lit chapel, and as they leave the room, Eudora steps out of the shadows. I need to watch the episodes on YouTube while I can, lord knows how long they'll stay up. If Warner can put The Yellow Rose out on the power Cybill Shepherd, then they can certainly capitalize on Mark Harmon and Morgan, especially considering they're the actual stars (not like plastering Johnny Depp's face on the final season of 21 Jump Street).

*shocked they let you do Rehab* I want her to make a comeback, too. I always want the drugged out/screwed up ones to come back and prove that the talent is still in there, it's just buried hard times. I feel for Amy though because Adele has basically come in and picked up where she left off, so she'd have to really define who Amy Winehouse is again and get herself out there. And the next time they try to make her go to rehab, her ass needs to say "'kay, 'kay, 'kay..."

I totally agree. "Rehab" was my SH!T all through the summer before my senior year of high school. I'd always act out the video whenever it came on MTV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LTPRJqt2z4

That's less country and more southern rock, but maybe it's just me. I do like it, though, and I like it when she just sings her sh!t without all the extra stuff.

I just found out about James Pritchett's death

That sounds good! I can work with that. I've always imagined him returning with someone and not alone. I hope they don't force some ridiculous relationship drama there. Just let him come back, do whatever, then go back with his rich boyfriend to a good life.

At least PL looks better than I was expecting, still has that slight twinkle in his eye. Do we know anymore about Todd's return yet? I'll have to at least watch clips of my boy

Eww, I hope not. I'm a month behind and I just watched the episode where Patrick called her his "favorite girl," and I kind of smiled inside at their sort of father/daughter relationship. The show needs to not go there.

Sons and Daughters has tons of episodes on YouTube. I've watched the first couple of episodes and it's very interesting, but it's definitely like the other glamor sof the era in that the beginning is quite humdrum.

"The Hamptons" seems all but forgotten...I'd love to see some clips. Here is some very random news: http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Yellow-Rose-The-Complete-Series/15136

Selfish is pretty awesome.

Chris Fountain was so, so pretty on Hollyoaks circa 2006-2007. Now he just looks tired and sad.

I'm gonna need "Seal It with a Kiss" to be the next single. Like...right now.

That's exactly why I couldn't get into Nuke on ATWT after the initial hype. I get that one of the characters in the pairing is supposed to be the "main" character that the viewers most care about, but doing this kind of story based entirely on just that one person's feelings makes them look bad as hell. How much have they developed Blaine (besides the whole kissing Rachel thing that...well, apparently Kurt doesn't "believe in bisexuality" or whatever, which is fine, I like having reasons to hate TV characters, but whatever)? It's like TPTB doesn't want to spend time writing both sides of their story because that would be "too much gay," which...this is Glee, so anyone who's uncomfortable with that stopped watching a long time ago. Anyway, I'm starting to see the appeal of the show. It has a place, I think, but I can't see myself ever getting into it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzF-qqnj67c

Everyone told me I needed to watch "the kiss" because it was going to make me "fall in love with GLEE!!!" It did not.

TTWE debuts at #20

I love me some Adele. I don't know if I could listen to her voice over and over and over again an on album, though, which sounds horrible, I know, but it is what it is. I love her voice, but it's hard to explain. "Rolling in the Deep" is my sh!t, though. I love the 60s-style background singers "Yuh gunna wish yew! Nevuh evuh met me!"

Britney would have killed S&M, but I'm glad Rihanna got it. I've thoroughly enjoyed her transformation from Unfaithful-type songs to harder stuff like Rockstar 101 and S&M. I'm waiting for her to pull out a chainsaw at any minute.

I think the main reason why they never had her go after Elmo (besides time constraints - given a few more seasons, she might have gone there) was because of the Eudora/Elmo connection, and the ambiguity of whether or not Elmo was Skipper's father. That might have been just too much. Come to think of it, almost everybody's parentage on the show was quite ambiguous. We know Constance was Claude and Lute-Mae's, but then there's the Skipper/Elmo thing and they also implied that Titus was Annabelle's father when her mother came to town to learn more about the mill fire. I loved the first season more than the second (but it's been seven years since I've seen most of the show, so take it with a grain), just the combination of Field's election drama and the triangle. I wish they'd kept Christie and Alice around instead of tying Skipper to boring Alicia. Julio was cool, and I always figured that they would have had him clean up and team with Sam to serve as the town's force of good against shadier guys like Michael, Titus, and Field. So many things could have happened with FR had it been given a decent chance. I wish it had been developed for ABC and paired with Dynasty on the schedule, kinda like how Dallas carried FC through the 80s.

I love Angela's relationship with Douglas and the whole idea of Angela "begrudgingly" spending weekends with him San Francisco. That's a great depiction of a couple who were better divorced than married. How long did he stick around? I watched the miscarriage episode ("Victims") a few days ago, and yes indeed Margaret Ladd was on a roll the whole hour. She had me roped in with "How's tricks?" and I was hers for the episode. I can't believe they didn't have her credited up at the front of the show like everyone else when she was expected to carry so much of the central storyline in the first season. To me, it seems like they didn't know how bad they wanted Angela to be in the beginning. Of course they wanted a JR figure, but maybe they were reluctant about making that figure a woman. Sometimes they portray her as "rich old Aunt Angie," but then they have her coming off shadily. They set her up to be a little on the shady side in the very first episode with the whole "The responsibility of turning those dreams into reality...belongs to me" thing at the funeral (which was awesome, you just KNEW Angela was gonna be a sh!t-starter). I do like the dynamics of the Gioberti family in their house, the whole "fish out of water" thing is really developing well and naturally. I don't really mind Vicky in that context. I'm eager for season two, though, if only for Ana Alicia.

I think that's just a piece of titillating exaggeration (I've read it in various places). Mainly, she was married to Field for most of the show's run, then she had an affair with Julio throughout most of the second season. She slept with Sam and Michael, but those were only schemes to try to make Field jealous and want her back (didn't happen). No matter what, during the whole show, her eye was on Field and trying to get him back.

It's already bought lol