Friday, October 9, 2015

How to Get Away with Murder Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Negligent Slut-Shaming

We learned all about a sexual position known as “The Octopus” on How to Get Away with Murder Season 2 Episode 3.


But that wasn’t all!



Questions were very much raised during the hour concerning the show’s main (and incestuous?!?) clients, Caleb and Catherine Hapstall, while we also learned that Nate and Wes may be in cahoots.



Awkward! Shocking! Confusing!


The Case of the Week centered on a sex-party proprietor accused of murdering a client with whom she was in love.


After discovering that this woman caused her lover to have a heart attack in order to expose their affair to his wife, Annalise lets loose with one of our favorite rants ever.


She calls her client a “negligent slut” and slams her for “giving those of us who really like sex a bad name.”


In the end, though, Annalise does get her client off. Because she’s just that good at her job.



We then move to a tabloid photo of Caleb and Catherine that raises the possibility that they act like far more than siblings at times. But they deny it.


The housekeeper was the one who leaked the picture and she insists it’s true… while also insisting they did kill their parents.


Elsewhere, parallel scenes reveal that Annalise nearly has sex with Nate (after he kills a rat in her basement) and with Nate (whose job she’s gotten back with the Philadelphia police department).


Neither boning happens, however, which takes us to seeing that Wes has paid a visit to Nate and that the men are working together. For reasons unknown.


“Why did they do it?” we see a wounded Annalise ask in this week’s flash forward.


Also in this week’s flash forward: The Keating Four flee the shooting scene and end up hitching a ride with Nate.


Elsewhere this week, while we look forward to How to Get Away with Murder Season 2 Episode 4:


  • Connor and Oliver are back to having sex.

  • Laurel takes up Frank on his offer to get to know him better, plying Bonnie with alcohol to get intel in the process.

  • Wes and Levi agree to team up in order to discover what happened to Rebecca, while Levi keeps up his seduction of Michaela.

  • Asher swipes Annalise’s memo recorder and and gives it to St. Clair, but she says his work for her is still not complete.

Take a look ahead at what’s on tap next Thursday and remember to visit TV Fanatic if you need to watch How to Get Away with Murder online:


Jessa Duggary Baby Bump Photo: 36 Weeks & Counting!

Jessa Duggar and husband Ben Seewald will be a family of three in no time. November 1 is right around the corner, and she is ready to pop!



The soon-to-be mom of one (Jessa Duggar having twins has made for a lot of good rumors, but by all accounts it’s one) shared a new bump photo.


“36 weeks 4 days,” Jessa captioned the image on Instagram.



In the black and white shot, the former 19 Kids and Counting star wears a sweater and poses in front of a mirror, smiling and caressing her child.


(See her baby bump throughout 2015 in the gallery below.)


Beyond her self-documented pregnancy, Jessa and Jill Dillard are returning to TLC for a set of specials, at least two of which will air this year.


The network infamously canceled the conservative, devoutly religious family’s hit reality show following the Josh Duggar molestation scandal.


Weeks later it was revealed during the Ashley Madison hacking scandal that Josh had an account and used it to cheat on wife Anna Duggar.


Jill and Jessa, both among Josh’s child molestation victims, had emerged as the breakout stars of 19 Kids and Counting in recent seasons.


Without a doubt, the sisters and their respective spouses had years of TV fame ahead of them before Josh torpedoed the family business.


Now they’re getting a chance to return, however, at least for a brief period. If the specials are a hit, might a Jill and Jessa spinoff happen after all?


Scandal Season 5 Episode 3 Recap: Mellie"s Revenge

Fitz and Mellie did all they could to save face on Scandal Season 5 Episode 3.


Or to save their marriage, at least, as far as the public is concerned.



The President and First Lady sat down for a television interview after Olivia’s confession to close last week’s installment, telling the country that their relationship is fine and Liv is merely a friend.



Away from the camera, however, Mellie has a small meltdown over Olivia’s admission and then switches into full-scale war mode.


“Oh look, it’s the girl who can’t close her legs…or her mouth,” she (awesomely) tells Olivia the first time she sees her in the White House.


Enter Cyrus, who plots and schemes with Mellie and then learns the First Lady’s true goal.


“I want the Oval,” she (again, awesomely) says.



Elsewhere, Quinn and Huck were taken aback by Olivia’s admission, yet they still set out to help their boss. But Jake? Not so much.


He goes for the vodka instead, though he does later tell Olivia he’ll be right over after she calls, expressing regret over her “Yes.”


Then there’s Abby. She confronts Olivia over all her lying, to which Olivia says she was merely trying to protect Abby.


“You didn’t want to tell me because you didn’t think I’d be good enough at my job to handle it…did you?” Abby explodes at one point.


But fences are mended between these two before the hour is over.


Back to Cyrus: he tells Fitz and Olivia that the former must support Mellie’s bid for the Presidency, while Olivia must stay on the sidelines.


They agree, though Mellie later screams at Cyrus that she wants more and Cyrus then gets turned down when asking Fitz for his old job back.


In the final scene, which has us dying for Scandal Season 5 Episode 4 to get here, Jake pays Rowan a visit in prison and asking about that mysterious fire at the Louvre.


“And Nero fiddled while Rome burned,” Rowan cryptically says, making a reference to Mama Pope.


Oh yes! Bring her back on!



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Thursday, October 8, 2015

The Originals Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: Yes, Sires

What’s past is prologue. So William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest.


If this is the case, however, the past for Klaus Mikaelson may be the prologue to a very dangerous future, based on The Originals Season 3 Episode 1 at least.



After closing one chapter in May, this CW drama opened up a brand new one on Thursday night.



Yes, there were still loose ends to tie up from Season 2, namely the fact that Davina is Queen Regent (and having her power challenged by older queens in the Quarter) and also that Hayley is once again under the werewolf curse.


The latter proved to be a problem after a company named Kingmakers Inc. bought up all the land in the bayou and hired independent contractors to kill as many wolves as they could find.


Once Elijah came across these contractors, he dispatched of them in classic Elijah fashion.


But he also found a truckload of dead wolves and wondered if one of them is Hayley.


We know it is not because Davina used some kind of spell to summon Hayley and tell her she must do something for her because she can see her daughter.


Elsewhere, we met a detective named Will Kinney who sometimes uses Vincent to help with cases that appear supernatural.


He also called on Cami (who has been serving as Klaus’ actual psychologist) during the premiere to figure out what’s going on with victims that appears to have been killed by a vampire.


But this was the meant of The Originals Season 3 Episode 1:


  • Via flashback, we see that the Mikaelsons (Finn, Kol, Elijah, Klaus and Claire Holt as Rebekah) decide to go undercover as a royal type of family in order to live a “normal” life soon after they are turned.

  • They keep an underling named Lucien alive in order to help them with this guise and he proves to be very useful in offering the family advice on how to lie and how to live in an upper class society.

  • Fast forward many centuries and Lucien shows up in New Orleans. It’s clear right away that he’s a vampire and that Klaus turned him.

  • He warns Klaus that vampires around the world are feuding and they’ve realized that the best way to do away with their rivals is by killing the Original that sired them… because this would take down the entire line. He also hints that there’s some White Oak remaining.

  • After using his psychic to prove his point that trouble is ahead, Lucien claims to be on Klaus’ side. His life is tied to Klaus, after all.

  • But we close the episode by seeing that Lucian is behind Kingmakers Inc.

  • We also cut to a scene in some distant land, where a woman is so disturbed by the news she receives in a letter that she kills the servant who brought it to her.

  • This woman is named Aurora. We met her in the flashback when Klaus and company were undercover, with Lucien saying she a beauty they should stay away from.

So, in other words… WTF?!?


It’s safe to say we’ll learn a lot more about Aurora and Lucien and this pending danger on The Originals Season 3 Episode 2.



And it’s VERY safe to say we’ll be tuning in to see where this new storyline goes from here.


Will you?!?