Law and Order - Recap & Review - Selfish

Law and Order: SVU
Selfish

Original Air Date: April 28, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the episode starts out with a ripped from the headlines story that is uncomfortably similar to the Caylee Anthony tragedy. Hilary Duff guest stars as Ashlee Walker, the young mother of baby Sierra who claims she left her baby with a babysitter. Her mother (guest star Gail O’Grady) goes to the Special Victims Unit when she hasn’t seen her granddaughter in days and doesn’t believe the babysitter story.

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Hell’s Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Twelve

Hell’s Kitchen
Day Twelve

Original Air Date: April 23, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, Gordon starts by cooking three dishes and makes the remaining chefs choose their favorite. Then, he gives them thirty minutes to recreate the dish, without being told the ingredients. There’s always a catch whenever you taste a dish Gordon makes. Sneaky Ben tries to hide the correct liquor and Andrea looks at what everyone else is doing. It comes down to Danny and Paula and Gordon has a hard time choosing the winner.

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Hell's Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Eleven

Hell’s Kitchen
Day Eleven

Original Air Date: April 16, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, Gordon scares the chefs by making them believe he’s kicking everyone out. Surprise, surprise, it’s just time to go check out Borgata in Atlantic City, N.J., where they will work if they win. After being shown the big, empty space of possibilities, they go to dinner with the Borgata chefs. A few minutes in, Robert gets up from the table and leaves. None of the other chefs know it at the time but he’s having a great deal of chest pain and sees the medic. He’s advised to go to the hospital as he might have had a heart attack. Oh, no, Robert!

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Hell's Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Ten

Hell’s Kitchen
“Day Ten”

Original Air Date: April 9, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, Gordon gets right down to business and starts by asking the chefs to pick who is the weakest. Paula picks Andrea and Danny chooses Ben. They have to defend why they should stay in Hell’s Kitchen and after, Gordon makes them both take off their jackets. They think they’re going straight home, do not collect a restaurant and $250,000 but Gordon hands them new jackets. And now, we’ve entered into the individual challenge part of the competition.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter

Trust Me
You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter

Original Air Date: April 7, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

In the first part of the last two episodes of the season, Sarah and Mason fly to L.A. to shoot her Dove commercial. Conner is acting like he’s handling his break up with Mason better than would be expected but, as my friend said, “He looks like he had a day.”

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Law & Order - Recap & Review - Baggage

Law and Order: SVU
Baggage

Original Air Date: April 7, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, Stabler and Fin investigate a serial murderer and rapist who tortures his victims. Detective Moran (Delroy Lindo) from the Major Crimes Unit shows up, claiming this is his case and that he works alone. Stabler’s never one to back down and works the case with Moran and Fin.

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Supernatural - Recap & Review - The Monster At The End Of This Book

Supernatural
“The Monster at the End of This Book”

Original Air Date: April 2, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the Winchesters discover a guy named Chuck has been writing books that contain exactly what’s happened to them since the beginning of the show. Yes, even Bugs is a book. The new, unpublished books contain everything since No Rest For The Wicked, including what’s going to happen in the future. Naturally, Sam and Dean investigate and rush to keep the newest chapter from happening.

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Hell's Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Nine

Hell’s Kitchen
“Day Nine”

Original Air Date: April 2, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the contestants have to prepare dishes and then decide together, which one dish will represent the whole team. Oh, yes, it’s full of conflict and controversy. Andrea’s dish is sent forward for the red team and Carol quickly expresses that if she leaves the piece of crab shell on the plate, Gordon will rip it apart. Andrea doesn’t listen to her and guess what? Gordon rips it apart. In fact, he hates the entire dish. On the blue side, Ben’s dish doesn’t fare much better so Gordon picks Paula and Danny to be the new representatives. Both dishes go over well but he can only pick one.

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Law & Order - Recap & Review - Hell

Law and Order: SVU
“Hell”

Original Air Date: March 31, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, a young girl, Miriam, is found by a homeless man with her throat slit. The detectives find out through a doctor’s exam that she’s had a history of sexual violence. She can’t speak but when they ask her to draw a picture of who did it to her, she draws a picture of the devil. The case leads the detectives into the world of children who are forced to be soldiers in Uganda.

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Hell's Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Eight

Hell’s Kitchen
“Day Eight”

Original Air Date: March 26, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week starts out with the always entertaining taste test, where we find out who has been smoking far too much to know their chicken from their beef. Andrea takes an early lead with thinking filet mignon was liver but Robert and Giovanni both really strike out. Robert’s favorite food is apparently black truffles and not only is he unable to identify it, he says he hates the taste! The final round is to name ingredients in minestrone soup, just by tasting it. I love it when they do that!

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One Tree Hill - Recap & Review - Searching For A Former Clarity

One Tree Hill
“Searching For A Former Clarity”

Original Air Date: March 23, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Okay, so first up, in the real world, I have to comment on the bizarre videos that have popped up on the internet with Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton both mostly saying the CW doesn’t want them back next year. What’s the most strange to me is that this whole season seemed to have been gearing toward the big old this is the last season but it seems like the CW picked it up for another season. Where will they take the show in season seven? Will Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton be in it? Will anyone? I don’t have answers for those questions today but I’ll keep you updated. For now, I do have the details as to what went down in this week’s episode.

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Hell’s Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Seven

Hell’s Kitchen
Day Seven

Original Air Date: Mar 19, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


Another week, another day in Hell’s Kitchen. This week, the first challenge has the contestants creating small dishes from leftovers. Giovanni gets moved to the ladies’ team and the first round starts off well, with both teams winning a point. L.A. and Lacey’s dishes get trashed by Gordon while Robert, Andrea, Ben and Giovanni fare very well. It comes down to a very tough final round between Giovanni and Ben. Giovanni wins the challenge for the red team but Gordon also praises Ben on his dish.

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Supernatural - Recap & Review - On The Head Of A Pin

Supernatural
“On The Head of a Pin”

Original Air Date: March 19, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Oh, boy. We had quite the episode this week. Castiel, now constantly referred to as Cass, asks Dean to use his skills he learned in Hell and get Alastair to tell him what the plan is and how they’re killing angels. And here we go. Cass puts up a super badass devil’s trap to keep Alastair from escaping and Dean gets to work. I thought I’d have more of a problem seeing Dean torture Alastair but based on the fact that it’s Alastair, it didn’t really bother me. Also, it was pretty tame, a bit of holy water, some stabbing. The syringe of holy water was a nice touch. Alastair provokes Dean by mentioning how he tortured John in Hell and couldn’t break him.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Ballerina

Law and Order: SVU
Ballerina

Original Air Date: Mar 17, 2000

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, the detectives investigate the murder of a dancer and eventually, the murder of her murderer. Confused yet? Carol Burnett guest stars as Birdie Sulloway, a former dancer and star who lives with her nephew, Chet, played by Matthew Lillard. Things start going downhill when her newest husband ends up dead.

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Trust Me - Recap & Review - What's The Rush?

Trust Me
“What’s The Rush?”

Original Air Date: March 17, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, we get a double dose of Trust Me and I, for one, like it. The first episode introduces us to Diane Cooper, head of marketing for Hydrenaline, an energy drink of the Red Bull variety. At their first meeting, she’s flirting with Mason as if her life depends on it. After the meeting, Mason brings this up to Conner, who barely looks up from his phone to tell Mason he doesn’t think she was. The surprising thing is not how Conner can be so oblivious but how okay the two of them are, considering last week’s major blowout. That’s Conner and Mason for you though. Somehow, they fight like sworn enemies and then brush it off.

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One Tree Hill - Recap & Review - You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three Tonight

One Tree Hill
“You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three Tonight”

Original Air Date: March 16, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week’s episode got split up into five different parts, separated with a black title screen. Lucas and Peyton have trouble with the baby, Millie and Mouth say their final goodbyes, Nathan and Haley spend their anniversary together, Julian spooks Brooke and Dan, Deb and Jamie all spend an evening together.

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Hell’s Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Six

Hell’s Kitchen
Day Six

Original Air Date: Mar 12, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, the contestants are up against a bar mitzvah. I can’t understand why you would want such a big event to happen at Hell’s Kitchen, knowing all that tends to go wrong there but the birthday boy, Max, seems all for it. The first challenge consists of each team making his three favorite foods: a cheeseburger, brisket and chicken soup. The women lose thanks to Carol, who insists on putting bleu cheese on the burger.

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Supernatural - Recap & Review - Death Takes A Holiday

Supernatural
“Death Takes A Holiday”

Original Air Date: March 12, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

The after effects of the fight in “Sex and Violence” are still oh so present this week. Sam gets word of a job in Wyoming where people who should be dead are still walking, including a guy who got shot in the chest. Dean asks Sam if he wants him to go too or if he’ll just hold him back. Yikes.

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Law And Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Lead

Law and Order: SVU
“Lead”

Original Air Date: March 10, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the episode starts out at trial, where a pediatrician is convicted on four counts of molesting teenage boys. The doctor soon ends up very, very dead, shot in the knee and bludgeoned with a golf club to the point where there’s blood spatter everywhere. Blame gets pointed everywhere, from the hospital that may or may not have known about him molesting patients to the patients themselves and their parents. This episode also marks the long-awaited return of a familiar face.

Five Notable Things About This Week’s Episode:

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Hell's Kitchen - Recap & Review - Day Five

Hell’s Kitchen
“Day Five”

Original Air Date: March 5, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the contestants must spend $100 and create three Asian fusion dishes to be judged by both Gordon and the editor of epicurious.com. The men start off well, winning the first dish but it all quickly falls apart. J doesn’t even know what one of the dishes is named, calling it, “Beef…” Yeah. Beef. The women win the second and third dishes and win the challenge. Lacey, now on the men’s team, throws a fit and whines nonstop. She even threatens to go home. Quit threatening to leave, Lacey. Just go.

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