I had a good cry

So I am ALMOST caught up on television. Tonight I watched:
America’s Next Top Model, Kid Nation, Survivor, and Gossip Girl and here are their recaps:

America’s Next Top Model:
In the words of LB THE BITCH IS GONE HAHA. Karma is a bitch and so is Bianca. The challenge this week was for the girls to go into a mall in Shanghai and accessorize their wardrobe. Bianca being the biatch that she is decides to pretty much sabotage Jennas chance by telling her to waste time and go across the street *and there was nothing there!!* I would have slapped her. Well Karma is a bitch and Jenna won the challenge. But LB you are right Jennas attitude is getting on my nerves!! Why is it that Jaslene’s Cover Girl commercials are so awful and then the Drew Barrymore one that always follows is AHmazing. I don’t get it. The girls do a pretty cool photo shoot — shot by Tyra — on the great wall. Then they take a group photo which I think is a great way to compare them and really the only person who didn’t stand out for me was Bianca and I’m really glad that they decided to get rid of her — the other three clearly deserved to continue. I will leave you with this Bianca quote that sums up her time on the show. “I wasn’t thinking about the other girls — I was thinking about Bianca”. sigh. Season Finale next week

Kid Nation:
Ok so I know not a lot of people watch this show but I found myself bawling my eyes out at this episode. These kids!! Ok so lets start at the very beginning (a very good place to start…) Sophia is still the sheriff and the council leaves town to go look for Indians and leaves her in charge, much to the dismay of the other kids. Turns out Sophia is a great leader and all of the kids really respect her. Unlike the council and specifically Greg the asshole, who Taylor hopes DIES while he is on his trip, a little harsh beauty queen. While the council is on the way to see the Native American Indians (what is the proper term?) we get this amazing quote: “It looks like an igloo — no dude it’s a teepee”. HA Kids. Alex and Jared our two intellectual kids go on their own adventure and come across some pretty wicked bones “Think of it as an anatomy class” DUDE there is no way these kids had an anatomy class – aren’t they in like 2nd grade!? On the way out Jared (carrying a giant pelvis bone) proclaims “Pelvis has left the building….I know it’s corny” HAHAH Love him. The council is asking the leaders of the tribe they visit for advice and in the meantime the rest of the town competes in a challenge. The win the reward and the two options are a giant rock plaque signifying their time at bonanza *starting to tear up* or hot air balloon rides where they can look back on their time there from above. Hard decision and it’s all up to sheriff sophia — who picks the Hot Air Balloon rides. I’m surprised more kids aren’t afraid to go on these — maybe it’s because it looks like they only lifted a few feet into the air ahaha. The council comes back and it’s time to decide who should get the gold star. Most people are voting for Migle (one of the girls they were calling Paris & Nicole before– I mean really?) Alex the cute 9 year old genius, or Jared the weirdo smart 11 year old. Then we see Zach the former council leader who is so good with his words and his leadership that you forget he is only ten years old. He asks the council to consider him for the gold star — which is clearly very hard for him as he starts to cry — while asshole Greg starts laughing at him! Kids can be so cruel. Zach leaves and decides that it is completely disrespectful of the council to laugh at him when he is pouring his heart out to them, so he confronts them about it. Greg puts on a total front and says that he respects him and he didn’t mean to laugh which is total bullshit and DK totally calls him out on it. This Greg kid needs a good ass whooping. At the town council meeting the gold star goes to Alex and he is completely shocked which makes his win all the better. The moment that got me all teared up and i literally starting bawling my eyes out was when the kids had a campfire at the end of the episode. They are all sitting around the fire and trying to decide if they are excited to go home or sad to be leaving their friends. Then Anjay who was an original council member says thru tears “this is the only place i’ve ever fit in”. It’s just heartbreaking and real and it just makes me wish that this show taught these kids to be tolerant of other children and people from all over and to not judge one another. Great Episode.

Survivor:
P.G. wants to stir some things up and that is how the episode starts. The reward challenge is a giant maze and OH NO. GREAT I’m already bawling my eyes out from Kid Nation and now I find out it’s the family member episode of Survivor. I don’t even know these people but I always cry my eyes out at the family episode. In a “could it be another Johnny Fairplay” moment we find out that Todd’s sister has a miscarriage. First of all Todd is not that stupid to do that trick again — he’s a huge fan of the game and he knows that everyone will be thinking that. Secondly this is his sister and her child that we are talking about, it’s not something that I think someone would joke about. And we find out later in the episode that it was indeed completely truthful. Denise wins and decides to bring Amanda & Todd on her reward, which includes their family members. May I also say that holy crap Amanda and her sister look exactly alike — as do Todd and his sister. Immunity challenge which could have easily been won by Amanda or Todd was won by PG AGAIN ugh. Denise is totally the swing vote tonight and she decides to stick with her original tribe and they vote out cutey Erik. (PS what in the hell was with that awful tribal music right as they were all walking in!?). Only two episodes left!

Gossip Girl:
LB was right! This was a great episode! First question is uhhh I thought Deb balls were only a Southern thing. I am from the North East and I have NEVER heard of this happening at all — can anyone else confirm? haha. But then again this is a Josh Schwartz show and we know he had a Deb episode on his other amazing show. The OC. sigh RIP.
Nate wants B back aww and she sewed a button with a heart onto his sleeve back in the day so cute. Jenny is a total biatch to her mom! When did she become so materialistic? S’s gma is in town for the Deb Ball and she surprise surprise she is going to die. (or is she?) Loved the reference from Chuck on “Shes just not that into you”. We find out that the gma is quite a little biatch as she trys to buy off the Humphrey family so that Dan won’t escort S to the Deb Ball. (She wants Carter to escort her instead — turns out his real name is Sebastian and I think that is a way better name then Carter for this show — don’t you think?). Turns out not only did she try to buy off the Humphreys — the reason that S’s mom broke things off with Rufus is because if she didn’t gma would take away her inheritance. WHAT. Dan goes to S and tells her about the gma — which she totally doesn’t believe — which is understandable, I mean this is her family. S totally stands up to her mom and mom agrees and goes to talk to Dan about how he is a great guy and should totally go rescue her at the Deb Ball — which he does yeah!! S stands up to gma and we find out shes not really dying. WOW. Chuck is sad that B and Nate are getting back together and we end with Apologize from One Republic (the should have used the original version not the cheesey one with Timbaland). In case anyone else is wondering the band performing at the Deb ball is “The Pierces” and I thought they totally rocked — kinda reminded me of Rosin Murphy. Here is a video:

Tomorrow — Friday Night Lights, and recaps from Dirty Sexy Money & Project Rnwa