ER CRASH

The show starts with Neela doing a ride along with John Stamo, the paramedic. I have so many things I could say about that, but I'll hold back. Anyway, Neela says hi to her old friends at the hospital after dropping off a patient. We learn that to punish Ray for his nasty habbit of bedding prepubescent girls (as if the ass kicking he got last week wasn't enough) Neela has kicked him out of the apartment. Not really sure what that does to make him stop, but she's able to convince him to do dishes and help keep the place clean when he comes back. As they talk they see his crazy ex girlfriend, 14 year old Zoe, at the front desk. STALKER! Neela tries to get rid of her, but just like the STD she's being treated for, she's sorta hard to get rid of. She follows Ray around most of the night, insisting that she's still his girlfriend, even making him a mix CD, awe, how romantic.

Speaking of sex, we flash to me waking up in bed next to Luka. Oh wait, that was ABBY, yes Abby. Whoa, I just had to take my jacket off, I just got a hot flash. She seems a bit confused and almost not happy to have woken up with Luka next to her. The girl has issues. He makes her breakfast, or it might be dinner because they've slept the whole day away. Must have been up most of the night.

Back at the hospital Dr. Pratt is taking care of a crotchety old man who is refusing to take his heart medicine because it's too expensive. The man's wife is waiting outside and tells Pratt how much she loves Crotchety. The man agrees to treatment to make his wife happy, now that's love.

Sam is trying to deal with her new found managerial skills and is down two nurses thanks to Nurse Manager Eve, who's on her way out of the door. To make matters worse, a big fat white Bruce Lee named Kobayashi comes in and quickly passes out. He must have had a run in with Kaiser Soze. Sam wises up and calls in Haleh to help with the traumas. She says she'll deal with Eve. Eve comes back later and sees Haleh there. Finally Sam stands up for her and says that Haleh is a wonderful nurse and they were getting slammed. Eve agrees and tells her good job. Nice, I can't imagine ER without Haleh.

Meanwhile, John Stamos is still hitting on Neela, until he realizes that she really does have a boyfriend, and he's in Iraq trying not to get his head blown off. John (I don't know what his name is on the show, how about Hottie Paramadi, HP for short) HP still flirts, and it looks like Neela likes it. He plays the whole, "get in and then I'll drive away joke". It's cute. They stop off for coffee between patients and seem to be enjoying their time.

Pratt puts Crotchety in a chopper to fly him to another hospital. Never a good idea to put someone in a flying vehicle on this show (RIP Dr. Ramano). Anyway, Pratt stands on the roof watching the helicopter fly away and BAM he sees an airplane blow up in the night sky and fall to the ground. Abby and Luka hear the rumbling (of the plane) and wonder what's going on. Neela and HP are lucky enough to see the actual explosion. All very exciting.

You know it's gonna get good when the music starts getting intense. Of course the traumas are coming to County, it's chaos. Pratt and Ray argue over who gets to go out on the call for doctors on the scene and Pratt wins. Although after last years house party deck collapse episode with Ray I'd want him there. Man that was a good episode.

Back at the scene HP and Neela go around triaging people. Looks like most of the people hurt are people already on the ground. The plane has hit cars and apartment buildings, so everything is on fire. They find lots of people, some of them too gone to save or already dead. Suddenly, Serena Williams shows up, I didn't know there was a tournament this week in Chic- Oh wait, her son is missing and she needs help. HP runs into the burning building to find the little tyke with Neela yelling after him not to go.

Pratt shows up and is working on people as well. He finds a man that was actually on the plane and is stuck in the seat. He works on him until they find an even more severe patient, a man who was on the ground and got hit by debris. He's still pinned under it and is having heart pains. I mean, a plane just fell on him, so I'm not surprised. The man's heart stops but Pratt gets it started again.

Over with Neela, Serena gets tired of waiting for HP to come out with her son and leaves her daughter there and runs into the building. Neela yells for her and to the other rescuers and runs in after Serena. Right after she runs into the building it explodes, very Days of Our Lives. Please let HP be okay. Pratt hears Neela run in and is concerned, telling the paramedic that his friend is in there. He's got more things to worry about as the man's heart fails again. He begins compressions and the man wakes up, even though his heart isn't pumping itself. They jump into an ambulance to get him to County ASAP to give him drugs to restart his heart. Pratt's still concerned about Neela, but needs to go.

Neela is safe, although surrounded by fire and falling debris. She sees HP who is treating Serena a few floors below. He tells her to get out but instead she runs to the top floor to save Serena's son. She gets the little boy but is trapped in the building. Fortunately for her she's rescued by firefighters and is ushered out. Unfortunately HP was badly injured and lies on the ground. Neela works on him and is forced to open him up there on the ground to stop his liver from bleeding. Not before HP asks her if she would go out with him if she didn't have a boyfriend. This woman's a doctor so she's obviously smart, she says yes and this makes HP happy. I mean as happy as a man can be while lying near death with a resident about to open up his belly in the middle of the road.

Back at County Luka and Abby have shown up to help out. Luka and Dr. Clemente have very different opinions on how to run traumas and butts heads nearly every time they're in a scene together. Pratt shows up as well with his heart patient who is still wide awake while people pump on his chest. They call his girlfriend and his family who join them at the hospital. By now the man has a tube in his throat and can't talk, but he's able to see everyone that's shown up. His family asks Pratt and Ray if there's anything else they can do to get the man's heart going again, and they say no. The man realizes he's going to die and in probably one of the most touching moments so far this season, reaches out and touches Pratt's hands as he does compressions. Pratt asks the man if he wants him to stop and he nods yes. Pratt stops and the man dies. Sam tells Pratt that the man was lucky because he was able to say good bye to all of those people that loved him.

At the hospital Luka and Abby are working on the one surviving airline passenger. He stops breathing and they pull out a tooth from his throat, saving him. He's so relieved with his newfound life that he says he's going to call off his wedding. Abby thinks he might be acting a bit rash, but he doesn't, since he thinks he's gay anyway.

Once Neela gets back to the hospital with HP everyone is impressed that she was able to open him up in the field. Abby learns that Serena has died and Neela goes to the kids. Pratt and Ray see her and are relieved she's okay. Pumped up by the experience, Neela wants to go back out to the scene to continue to help. Abby doesn't think this is a good idea since Neela inhaled a lot of smoke and may have burnt lungs. Ouch.

Meanwhile, Dr. Clemente is on the phone with the mystery woman he's been talking to since he first got to County a few weeks ago and tells her to stop calling and go back to her husband. Interesting. Clemente wants to have a sit down with Luka, but Luka just leaves and says they'll talk in the morning. We then have an awkward moment between Luka and Abby out in the ambulance bay. All good emotional moments happen there. I'm crossing my fingers that she doesn't mess this up again. She tells him that the night before was "nice", I'm sure something every guy wants to hear. Luka tells her that she's always been the one person he can count on, and that the friendship (yikes) means a lot to him. Of course when she repeats what he just said to him, he seems to not be okay with the whole just friends thing. So they do the classic, 'oh we'll be better off' speech and decide to just remain friends. I'd be a bit more comfortable with this arrangement if it was friends with benefits, but unfortunately, Abby doesn't think like I do.

Neela finally gets home after a long day of crash victims. By now I'm thinking she's gonna collapse or something. Instead she looks behind her and getting out of the cab is none other than Gallant!!! Man, I've been waiting for him to come back forever. They hug in the street as cars honk around them. A great moment.

SURVIVE THIS

Survivor's one of those shows I have such high hopes for and it either delivers or fails miserably. Tonight's show was actually worth watching and there was finally some strategy. FINALLY.

During the recap we're reminded that Gary found the six inch immunity idol and saved himself from certain doom. We're also reminded that Judd's a liar and a drunk. As the magic eight make their way back to the camp after voting poor Bobby Jon out, we again see how paranoid Jamie is. In his infinite wisdom he decides to get mad at Cindy, because she's not mad at Gary for voting for her last council. Hey, as long as no one is mad at him he's okay. Everyone talks again about how annoying Jamie is, but seem to forget that they can VOTE HIM OUT.

Moving on to the next day and the reward challenge. The team learns that they'll be divided into two teams of four, and then paired off by ropes in twos. The groups of two must then wade through knee deep mud and an obstacle course to retrieve jugs of corn, then bring it back and load up a larger jug until completely filled. The two people roped take turns within their group of four. I really hope that makes sense, it really didn't to me until halfway through the game. I must be a bit slow on the uptake tonight, I think I need more protein. Jamie and Rafe/Cindy and Lydia are sailing through with Jamie/Rafe bolting through. Judd and Gary/Dani and Stephanie are holding their own, but a bit behind. That's until Cindy/Lydia take their turn. Poor short Lydia is just about waist deep in the mud and has to crawl over the mat and tag out to a very irritated Jamie and an encouraging Rafe. Unfortunately, that slows them down enough for Dani and Stephanie to get the last needed corn and win the challenge with Judd and Gary. Jamie yells at Cindy and Lydia to finish which is just stupid, why expend anymore calories than you need to, you're only gonna be eating corn and maybe a minnow or something when you get back to camp.

For reward Dani, Stephanie, Gary and Judd are whisked away by helicopter (mud and all) to a private residence where they can shower, swim, and wait, Judd takes his clothes off to make sure he gets his undercarriage real good. Doesn't this place have an inside shower? The girls are in the pool laughing and staring, which is never a good sign for a man.

Later, they gorge themselves on what looks like mostly jalapeno poppers and shrimp, which I actually had for dinner, how weird. I notice the champagne and worry that Judd might be falling drunk into the pool later. I kinda want that to happen because this installment could use a boost right about now. As they continue to wreak havoc on their intestines, Gary starts to strategize with Judd and Stephanie. He thinks, hey, we won reward with them, so they'll have to not vote for us, right? RIGHT? We'll just have to see. Judd says he likes Gary and Dani, but realizes he has to vote Gary out anyway, it was their plan, and lord knows Judd never lies. Later they hunker down for the night in beds, real beds, with sheets and pillows. Gary sleeps with the girls and Judd gets his own bed. I'm starting to think that maybe he did drink, remember what happened last time he drank, and didn't remember puking in the shelter. Yeah, good thinkin' Gar.

The next morning when they wake up, they're greeted by forty five different flavors of Folgers coffee. Okay, maybe there weren't that many, but enough to make me wonder where they keep those in the store, because I've never seen all of those. Maybe at Trader Joes. Anyway, while they're sitting around in their thin blue robes, Lou, the owner of the house, brings them a present. Videos from home, finally. First up is Judd, his cute daughter cooking on the grill and his wife (surprisingly pretty) get everyone teary eyed. Next is Dani, and for such a pretty girl, the only person she's excited to see is her dog. Sweet, but kinda sad too. Stephanie's family says hi, yeah whatever, and Gary's kids bring him to near sobs.

Once back at camp they bring the rejected four some coffee. Cindy's overjoyed because she loves coffee. Yeah, I like coffee too but would really prefer some food for these people at this point. I guess it's the thought that counts. Jamie, who's still paranoid, wants to "play" a game with Rafe. This we learn from Rafe is Jamie's secret code for, "I'm still paranoid and want to make sure you're still on my side because I know you won't lie to me." They start playing some ancient Mayan game with corn and a stick, seems captivating, and Rafe assures Jamie that he won't vote for him. He doesn't promise him, since it's never good to promise anyone anything in the game of Survivor, but he does say he'll think about it. Eh, good enough.

Finally it's time for the immunity challenge which is, guess what, an obstacle course. This time each tribe member will wear a belt attached to a rope by a metal ring. They have to traverse the course by going around and through wooden posts. Of course this is made more difficult for taller people like Gary and Dani, and idiots like Judd, who once it starts, never makes it past the first three feet. The top four, Cindy, Rafe, Stephanie and Jamie, then do the second half, more of the same rope trick, this time on a jungle gym type contraption. At this point I really don't care who wins, Gary's going home tonight anyway. His only chance was to win this. Rafe wins the challenge and soon points out that he's won two and come in second on the other one, so now people see him as a threat. No one else seems to realize this though.

Back at camp Jamie is guess what, paranoid. I guess he has a bit to be paranoid about since he's the only other likely choice. Judd reassures him that he has nothing to worry about and hey, he might get one vote tonight, but that'd be it. Rafe and Lydia talk and play the leaf game and are joined by Stephanie. Rafe's leaning toward voting for Jamie, but we know how this goes. He's all talk and no action. Lydia says that she's been with Jamie this whole time, so she doesn't feel right voting him out. They decide on something, but we're not sure what it is.

Finally we're at tribal council and we get our first look at the newly clean Bobby Jon. Not bad, not bad at all. Probst asks everyone about bonding, and wonders if Judd has bonded with Gary and Dani. He says that of course he has, and gives some speech about Gary being his hero and such. But hey, this game isn't about heroes, it's about saving your own ass, so Judd tells Probst that this will be a hard vote for him. They go to vote and of course we see Judd and Jamie's Gary vote, and Gary's Jamie vote. Probst reads the results, Gary, Gary, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie! JAMIE! JAMIE!!!! BAM! No one saw that coming, not Jamie and certainly not Judd. Jamie handles his ousting with dignity, yelling "BLINDSIDED! Nice. Now that's how you vote somebody out". Yes, yes it is.

First primetimetvblog blog (blog blog, is there an echo?)

In celebration of the first blog here on primetimetvblog I'm just gonna thank you all for reading. All one or two of you who accidently Googled this and my mom, I appreciate it. Oh, and feel free to give me suggestions for another name for the blog. I just had the idea a few hours ago and this is what I've been able to come up with. Anyway, on this blog I'll be recapping a lot of my favorite shows, and maybe some that you don't even watch, like Alias and Battlestar Galactica. If you have small children, who can read, you may want to have them stay clear, I'm going to be using big girl words like ratings and cancelations.
The shows I'll be covering during my stay at this blog are...

Desperate Housewives (that's until I get sick of wishing death for Susan),
Grey's Anatomy (I just love this show)
Prison Break (Oz without the gay sex and cursing, at least on screen)
Amazing Race: Family Edition (who knew America could be so fun, I sure didn't)
Nip/Tuck (bring back the old Christian and crazy sex!!!)
Real World: Austin (or as I like to call it, Real World: Wes is a big dumb ass)
Supernatural (do I even care what this show is about? Jensen and Jared are enough for me)
LOST (the best show on tv)
Alias(is it wrong that I have a small girl crush on Jennifer Garner?)
Survivor (I try not to watch Mark Burnett shows b/c he only casts dumb black people, and by that I mean when he casts a black person, they're usually dumb, and by that I mean most black people aren't dumb, like me, I'm not dumb)
ER (gotten a bit sad in the last year or so, but I'm still loyal)
Battlestar Galactica (the most underappreciated, best show no one is watching)

I also reserve the right to review any show that I happen upon and want to make fun of. Oh, and when the seasons end or new shows come on, I'll take those bitches on too.