Brenda’s Back!!

Brenda Barrett is back on General Hospital!  They have been publicizing this like crazy. I stand in line at the food store and it is all over the covers on the soap magazines near the registers.  There are millions of commercials about Brenda’s return and her men.  Yesterday instead of the regular ABC soaps, they played three reruns of pivotal Brenda and her men episodes.  In between the episodes, there were commercials and interviews of the actors talking about Brenda’s return. 

And yet!! And yet… today, the day of Brenda’s much hyped return, they spend the entire episode showing a mystery woman but not showing her face.  As if there is any big mystery as to who this woman could be.  Of course it’s Brenda! Who else would it be?  It’s one thing if you are trying to surprise people.  Then I can see that the big reveal at the end when they announced Brenda Barrett’s name and finally show the mystery woman’s face being warranted.  But really? I’ve been hearing about Brenda’s return for AGES now and I’m not even one of those huge devoted soap fans.  I DVR the damn show and fast forward through about 75% of it every day! Who was this big reveal for?  Are there people dumb enough to think that it wasn’t Brenda?  Or where there people sitting at home thinking that they just know this mystery woman would be Brenda and then patting themselves on the back when it’s revealed?

Sometimes I question my own sanity for still watching this crap.

“I knew you were likely to take a wife”

How is it that even though I’ve seen the episode of Friends where Monica and Chandler get engaged multiple times and yet I still start crying everytime Chandler walks into the apartment and it’s all lit up with candles and Monica says, “you wanted it to be a surprise” and Joey gives Chandler a look and closes the door.  Without fail,  you could show me just that snippet of the episode and I would cry as if I was getting engaged. 

I love when she starts crying and says, “There’s a reason girls don’t do this.” And he gets down on his knee and says he’ll do it. Oh my gosh, gets me every time. 

Maybe it’s because I’m PMSing.  That could also explain the two ice cream sandwiches I’ve eaten today!

The Hills

I am obsessed with bad tv.  A lot of it. I watch that stupid Secret Life of the American Teenager show on ABC Family where the acting is so wooden and ridiculous that even tweens don’t think it’s interesting.  And yet I still do.  And not ironically.  I don’t watch to mock.  I watch because I enjoy it.

The Hills comes back April 27th.  And they’ve posted a trailer. I’m not going to bother to repost the trailer.  If you’re like me and actually care, you’ve already seen it.  If you’re not like me and don’t care, you probably wouldn’t watch it anyway. 

For those of you have seen it – poor Heidi.  I mean, seriously.  Poor Heidi.  True, her fame-whorishness brought it all on herself.  But have you seen her face?  There is a scene in the preview where she is asking her mother if she looks pretty.  And her mom can’t answer the question.  Because Heidi took her naturally pretty face and made it into something so plastic and so painful looking that you can hardly look at her seriously.

Why would you do that to yourself?  Did she really have that little self-esteem?  She was cute! She was perky! Sure, she was kind of vapid but it wasn’t all bad.  She was famous for being Lauren’s friend and she had a fairly big storyline. Why did she have to become such a bitch? Just to get noticed more?  And the plastic surgery is just terrible!  I can’t understand how she looks at herself in the mirror and thinks that this is better. 

But I’ll be tuning in to see…