RECAP: Lost - "Across the Sea"

It's incredible to me how far downhill this show has gone. Yes, the third season was god-awful, but I felt like the show redeemed itself with the fourth and fifth seasons. This sixth season, however, with very few exceptions, has been absolutely horrendous. The plot is crawling along at a snail's pace, with sporadic episodes in which so much happens it's impossible to get the full impact (last week's episode was a perfect example). It's gotten so bad, in fact, that even when the show finally answers some of the huge questions that it has set up (as this week's episode did), they are robbed of their significance by the knowledge of how awful the show has become. This week we finally learned the background of Jacob and the Man in Black, but aside from revealing this information the episode was not very good at all, and so it took away from the satisfaction of finally getting some goddamn answers from this show. After the jump I've got the full recap.

RECAP: The Amazing Race - "Huger Than Huge"

Well, it's finally over. After 12 legs, The Amazing Race 16 overcame the relatively low standards that it has been setting all season long and actually presented us with a really entertaining season finale. We saw screw-ups, meltdowns, and more asinine behaviour (mostly from one team in particular), as well as some great teamwork and a final dramatic showdown that had been building for a long time. After the jump I'll reveal the winners and give the full recap.

Internet Goodness: Lost - CSI Miami Edition

I don't know if anything I could say would do this picture justice. You'll have to click it to see it full-size. Enjoy:

RECAP: Lost - "The Candidate"

With only three episodes left, Lost is currently scrambling to wrap up as many of its loose ends as it possibly can in the time it has. The finale has been extended by half an hour in order to give them more time to do this, but the fact that they've written themselves into a situation that can't possibly be adequately resolved in three episodes (despite the fact that they've known for like 3 goddamn years exactly how much time they had left) means that a lot of the resolutions that we're going to see are going to be pretty sloppy. And that's exactly how I'd describe this week's episode: sloppy. Yes, it moved the plot along, but it resolved a number of storylines in completely unsatisfactory ways. After the jump I've got the full recap.

Internet Goodness: The Best GIF Ever?

Listen, I've seen a lot of wild things in my life, but this wins at everything:

Good Lord. There are no words.

Internet Goodness: The Best Movie Ever?

I swear to God, they could make a movie of Danny Trejo making a ham sandwich and it would probably still be the best film of the year. This is the (unofficial?) trailer for Machete, the new film from Robert Rodriguez based on the trailer shown in Grindhouse.

Seriously. They just fucked with the wrong Mexican.

RECAP: The Amazing Race: "They Don't Even Understand Their Own Language"

Well, this recap is 3 days late, but between moving and starting a new job, I haven't had much time for blogging. Hopefully now that things have settled down a bit I can get back to posting on a regular basis (I've got quite a bit of Internet Goodness for you all, which will start to appear over the next few days). I was wrong about this week being the finale of The Amazing Race (which is a pretty big screwup for someone who professes to blog about TV, so I apologize). Next week is the last episode; I'm not sure if they're going to do a 2-hour finale this year or not (I know, I'm a veritable wellspring of useful information). This week's episode had its moments, from hilarious interactions with locals to meltdowns from two different teams, but for some reason it still doesn't feel like the Race is almost over. I don't know if it's just because the season has been somewhat lame, but I'm just not as into the show as I've been in previous seasons. Hopefully the finale next week will do something to redeem this. Read on for the full recap.