After a nearly one-month hiatus, I was looking forward to seeing a brand-new episode of Desperate Housewives. Sunday night television is kind of quiet without the women of Wisteria Lane to entertain me! Unfortunately, the latest episode, called “Look Into Their Eyes and You’ll See What They Know” (god, how I hate these incredibly long and stupid ep titles!) felt like a total retread of the special 100th episode show that featured the handyman who supposedly had known the women for so long, yet had never been seen before. The only difference was that the flashbacks were now about Edie.
– I’m glad that Edie is truly dead this time. She should have bought it after the suicide attempt, but better late than never, I guess. While Edie did have some good comedic moments on the show, she has always been the odd one out, and there was really no point to her character anymore (I’m being generous in assuming that there was a point to begin with).
– The flashbacks were so manufactured and felt so false that it’s hard to generate any kind of emotion about Edie’s passing. Some of the scenes were interesting, such as the one with Mrs. McCluskey and the one with Susan. I had always wondered if Susan and Edie hated each other right off the bat or if something happened to turn them into enemies.
– Not surprised at Travers’ reaction. Edie never seemed to care about him, never talked about him, and only brought him around that one time when she wanted to use him to get to Carlos. I call B.S. about her giving up Travers for his own good. She gave him up so she could continue living her lifestyle.
Meh, I was really hoping for more from this ep after such a long hiatus. Oh, well. I guess there’s still a chance the season could finish strong.
The Zac Efron-Matthew Perry body switch comedy 17 Again earned a respectable $24.1 million to displace Hannah Montana: The Movie as the No. 1 film in the country. Hannah Montana earned just $12.7 million last week, bringing its gross to $56.1 million.
I sometimes like to watch DVDs while I’m working on my computer, and used to have a decent portable DVD player sitting on my desk for that purpose. The reason I used a portable unit instead of my computer’s DVD drive is that the portable one was 
Bones 4×20 — “The Cinderella in the Cardboard” and 4×21 — “Mayhem on the Cross” : It was a double dose of Bones this week, as one previous episode had to be delayed because of an Obama speech. I actually thought both eps were pretty good, which was a much-needed change from the last few that had me bored more often than not.
House 5×21– “Saviors”: Yay, more Cameron! I’ve always kinda liked the character, despite the seemingly rampant hatred among the mainstream House fan base. It would be great to see her back on House’s regular team, so hopefully Thirteen’s Huntington’s demise is just around the corner.
Plot summary (with possible spoilers): Paul Rudd stars as Peter Klaven, a by-the-book real estate agent who has recently gotten engaged to Zooey (played by Rashida Jones), the woman of his dreams. The only problem is that Peter has no male friends that he can ask to serve as groomsmen or as best man. He has always spent so much time cultivating relationships with women that he never developed male friendships.
I’ve never had a really good cell phone. Although there are so many cool phones on the market today, I’m pretty much stuck with the cheesy free phone that my service provider offered with the contract. It hardly does anything except make calls, which practically leaves me in the Stone Age as far as phones are concerned. But with a nice tax refund on the way, I’m thinking about treating myself to this 
Last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was called “Mosbius Designs”, and was pretty good. At least it was much better than “Murtaugh” from a couple weeks ago, which I didn’t even bother to write about. As I’ve said before, I pretty much watch this show only for the Robin/Barney interactions, so when there aren’t any, I tend not to enjoy the ep. Fortunately, there was enough movement in this particular storyline to give me hope that there will be some sort of confession/confrontation between the two before the season is over. Finally!
I like Anne Hathaway as an actress, so when I saw that she received rave reviews and an Oscar nomination for her role in the 2008 film Rachel Getting Married, I decided to check out the DVD. I was encouraged by the fact that the film as a whole received overwhelmingly positive reviews from professional critics, and by the fact that Jonathan Demme directed the project. It felt like a can’t-lose situation — but how wrong I was about that!
Easter weekend moviegoers preferred the family fun offered by Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie to everything else at the cineplex. The Miley Cyrus film based on the popular television series earned a respectable $34 million, making it the No.1 movie in America. It displaced last week’s champ Fast & Furious, which saw a precipitous dropoff from its $74 million opening. This time around, the Vin Diesel/Paul Walker buddy movie earned just $28.8 million over the weekend. It’s already well past the $100 million mark, however, and is therefore considered a success.
Plot summary (with possible spoilers): Troubled Vietnam veteran John Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone) is trying to make a living as a snake wrangler in Thailand while trying to forget the horrors he was subjected to more than 20 years ago. His life seems quiet enough, until one day when he’s approached by Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze). Burnett is a missionary/doctor who wants to get his small team inside Burma to provide much-need aid to local villagers.