Hey, kids — in case you didn’t see the “Next week on One Tree Hill” promo after this week’s episode, next Monday’s episode will be the big USO gig that Peyton and her bro have magically pulled together in two weeks’ time. (Really — you thought it took time and effort to pull off a large-scale outdoor concert? Ha …)
By Elaine B All the action in “Sí, se puede” (a nice election week tie in, sí?) left me feeling a bit drained. In this case, ” Yes we can” means that Miguel turned out to be a perfect sidekick, even game for taking out white supremacist Clemson Galt. Naming Clemson, who is already in a maximum-security prison, as his next victim, Dexter hoped to dissuade Miguel from wanting to engage in some male bonding over a killing table. Unfortunately for Dex, Prado is an adrenaline junkie who figures out a way to get the swastika-tatted Clem out of prison […]
Posted by: haro1d First of all, if you’re reading this blog and you’re old enough to vote, I hope you’ve cast your ballot already. If not, get out there and make a difference! Lucas would expect it of you! Another slow night on OTH. To recap: The episode opens with Brooke having it out with Sam over the ruination of last week’s party at Brooke’s store. Brooke is getting a taste of what it’s like to do tough-love parenting. (Pretty weird when you think that Brooke is supposed to be what — 22 or 23? — and Sam is 15. […]
By Elaine B A caveman walking the beach in the comic strip B.C. saw a clam walk from one pile of shells to another. “Clams have legs!” the caveman proclaimed. In the next window, in a dialogue balloon, one of the clams said, “Now we have to kill him.” What follows is a series of clam-attempted homicides that Dexter would likely find terribly amusing. But there is nothing amusing about the situation our antihero finds himself in now. By the end of episode five, Dexter is aware that Prado had set him up by pointing him to a killer who […]
Posted by: haro1d Like last week’s episode, last night’s OTH was essentially a filler, with a little bit of drama in the closing moments. Here’s the play-by-play, for those of you who need it: Slamball is on, and Nate is barely hanging in. He gets crunched and crushed all over the place, and Haley is getting worried. Jamie is thrilled and nervous, but not too worried that he can’t comment about his future sex life. “Mommy says I’m too young to date, but Daddy says it’s time,” he says. Peyton introduces herself to Sam at the game, and Sam remarks […]
By Elaine B First off, hooray to Showtime for realizing what a gem they have with this series and renewing it for another two years! This kind of support is always welcome by series writers because they know they keep a few loose ends at the close of the season, and long-range planning is always good whether you are plotting murder or merely murderous plots. That being said, do you ever get the feeling that you are going to wind up really, really disappointed in this season of Dexter? Not because of anything that has happened so far, but because […]
Posted by SH A woman is dumped out of a van into the street by two people wearing HAZMAT suits. She stumbles into a local diner, and her disheveled, disoriented state causes her waiter to call the local lawman. The woman gets distressed, then everyone’s eyes start bleeding and her head explodes. Just another day at the office for Olivia, Walter and Peter. The incident is traced back to the unbelievably high amount of radiation emanating from the woman’s body. Peter likens it to everyone who was in its path being cooked in a microwave. You know, like that scene […]
If you’ve been watching this space, you might recall my I mentioning, last week, that I might have a few words with Daphne Zuniga, who plays Victoria Davis — Brooke’s mom — on OTH. Zuniga is set to play another role, that of a con artist in the American frontier West, for Hallmark Channel‘s Mail Order Bride (premiering Nov. 8). But as part of our general discussion, we did get a few questions in about Brooke’s mother-and-nemesis, Victoria. It’s often said that it’s more fun to play the villain than the good guy or gal. Would you say that that’s […]
Posted by: haro1d Sometimes, in a series, a filler episode is necessary. I’m not sure if it was just me, but last night’s filler OTH episode seemed overflowing with relatively inconsequential scenes. After the hyperdramatic first part of the season, with all of the slayings and stalkings, it’s probably good to have a couple of OTH episodes with only minor tragedies. Really, though — was it just me, or did it seem like the individual scenes were really short last night on OTH? I could barely keep up writing down what was going on, which never happens. But I digress. […]
Posted by: haro1d Despite all of the drama in their lives, the good fortune just never ends for those kids in Tree Hill. Word is that James Van Der Beek of Dawson’s Creek fame will be swinging through Tree Hill to offer Lucas a movie deal for one of his books. But the real news here at The Slippery Slope NEVER ENDS (I suppose I should introduce my web-requisite acronym: OTH: TSSNE) is that rather than talk to any of the nicety-nice-nice characters from OTH, look here soon for our conversation with Daphne Zuniga, who plays downright cold Victoria Davis […]
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