November 2015

11/26/2015

Happy Holidays!


Hey, happy holidays from edgerambles.blogspot.com! Even if you don't celebrate them, I think that all people can enjoy this time of year. I mean, except for college students. Y'know, because finals are coming up...

There's just something so refreshing about this time of year. It's a time of year to start planing to go on a new different path. It's that one time of year that red and green actually looks good together in outfits. I'm just kidding about that last part. There's a reason why ugly sweaters are a thing.

 In terms of my blog, I think that there's going to be a lot more blog posts in December. I have some plans for what to do. I even have some of the posts queued up. See, I have at least .2% of my life together. 

I've been watching Desperate Housewives. I just finished season 2. And Bree is my favorite. I don't really care for Susan. Marc, just come kill me now, because I have no taste.

I haven't been feeling the best, but hopefully things get better. I've just felt really stressed out lately. It feels like when I get one thing done, 5 new things pop up to remind me that I need to learn how to deal with the world better. Seriously, why does every single college assignment have to be assigned in December? It's like, "Hey, Brianna. We know this is going to be a rough time, so here's every. single. assignment we didn't get through in the given timespan."

I'm just really excited for all the food I get to eat today. You know, after I go to sleep for a few hours. And maybe cry for a few minutes when I see how much work there is. Inhumane. I don't know how James Franco did 62 credit hours or some shit in a semester. But James Franco needs to learn how to take a selfie that doesn't make me feel like I'm hanging out with my alcoholic uncle.

I just want to cry and sleep. And maybe get all my assignments for school done. Actually, I'd rather do the second thing first.

For all the people out there who probably won't have a good holiday because of their family, I'd like to introduce Aunt Helga. Here on edgerambles.blogspot.com, we make fun of Aunt Helga. Feel free to pin all of your anger on Aunt Helga.

That took me an embarrassing amount of time.

Let's just all curl up with some noodles and not think about finals, okay?

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends!

11/22/2015

5 Reasons to Watch Misfits


I'm writing this blog post not because I want views (and please, I know this won't get nearly enough views unlike my HTGAWM recaps) but because I imagine there is someone like me who never heard of this show and is seriously missing out.

Please ignore my Buzzfeed way of writing. I've been a mess.

5.) Simon and Alisha. 

There were a few different couples in this show that were adorable, but Simon and Alisha are The Couple. They're the fictional couple you watch their best moments on YouTube years after finishing the show completely. Yeah, it ends in heartbreak, but what kind of person would I be if I told you to watch for the boring couples?



4.) The Hilariousness of Series 5. 

Unpopular opinion, but I actually didn't mind the cast change throughout the series. Yeah, okay, Finn fucking sucked and I would rather take a bullet than say that Finn was anywhere as interesting as Simon. 

Anyways, Series/Season 5 was hilarious. It was a perfect wrap up to the entire show. And most of it was due to the fact that we had Alisha and that one bartender with the magic penis who I always forget his damn name. Yes, I did just write magic penis. And yes, actually watching the show would help make that statement make more sense.



3.) The Characters and Their Powers.

So after The Storm, the characters all gain powers. And once you realize what these powers mean in regards to the characters, it kind of stings at times.

Simon gains the power of invisibility because he was shy and other people ignored him, because other people fucking sucked. Kelly gained the power of telepathy because she cared too much of what other people would think of her. 

And.... now I'm heartbroken. Here, have happy unrelated image.



2.) The Snark.

Every single character in this show took a college course in Bitchy Remarks 1070. Every. Single. One. And it's glorious.


(Bonus: a lot of those deep Tumblr quotes you find on depressing black and white blogs are from this show. After you watch it and know that the context of the gif is from when Kelly punched a Hitler who came back to life or something)

1.) "Coz I'm a Fooking Rocket Scientist!"

11/20/2015

How To Get Away With Murder Midseason Finale 2x09- "What Have We Done?" (also known as ANXIETY.)


Last episode, right after a bunch of people got laid, (because apparently everyone in the show loves to have I'm so happy to be alive! sex 24/7) we found out Catherine is a big ol' tall liar. Except, y'know, Amy Okuda is probably actually short. Google doesn't have any clue what her height is, so I'm going to tweet her. Hopefully she responses in time so I can inform the Internet how tall she is. 

I've been thinking all week who shot Annalise. I'm willing to take the chance and say that the person who killed Emily Sinclair (or St Clair..) is Asher. I came to this conclusion because he is one of the only people who had that much interaction with her throughout the season. Perhaps the person who shot Annalise was Michaela. I know that's probably way off, and maybe I should be completely ashamed, but I think that having Connor or Wes shoot Annalise is too obvious. Plus, the latter already got their chance to murder someone. I think we're going to make every character in the show a murderer before allowing there to be repeat offenders. 

I also think that Michaela is the reason they're all there in the first place, because why the fuck not. 

And.... I was wrong about some things!

The Underdogs:
Annalise: 'Kay. She gets this genius plan to help Asher get away with his first murder (because baby children new to the murder game need a bit of help) and most of the episode she's on her phone calling people and telling Asher that Wes and the Accomplices killed Sam. Until the last five minutes, when she asks people to kill her to make it look like a crime scene, because Annalise takes her job way too seriously.


  • She goes directly to her least fave, Connor, to shoot her. This is where I started making weird mouth noises, in which words like, "no!" and, "Don't!" could possibly have been made out. She tried to purposefully piss him off by saying that she's going to ruin his and his boyfriend's life, and even be the reason Oliver could go to jail. Michaela starts screaming for him not to do it, standing in between the two, so eventually Connor puts that gun down and leaves. 
  • Then Annalise goes out of her way to tell her 3rd favorite that she's going to ruin her academic career. Michaela didn't shoot her. 
  • Annalise goes to Laurel, which means that she's now the 2nd favorite. Laurel tears up and says that they should all go to prison. Maybe she isn't the beautiful murderous butterfly that we thought she was, which rules out her and Frank becoming a murderous duo. 
  • But then, oh Christ, Annalise tells Wes about Rebecca. Remember Rebecca? That girl that's like the rebellious puppy your family gets and the puppy pisses on everything and chews on everything. Then 'someone' accidentally kills the puppy and your mom tells you that the puppy ran away. But then you find out that the puppy got ran over and you grow up with an intense hatred of your mom you let unleash after you turn 18. Except Wes found out how long afterwards? So he didn't let his hatred age like a fine wine, and he took matters in his own hands and shot her in the stomach.
Bonnie: Sometimes , Bonnie scares the hell out of me. She just casually comes up to the car where Asher hit Emily and calmly tells him that she'll help him. You know what? I was always trying to determine what character is How to Get Away with Murder's version of Huck from Scandal. I tried to guess between Phillip and Frank. But you know who is the most like Huck? Bonnie. 


Nate: He starts off the episode being accused of changing Phillip's files with the schizophrenic person's files by Emily. He gets fired because he yells at Emily for her ignorance that if you fuck with Annalise and Company, you will die. And guess what happened? Emily died. And Wes called him, because you know what? It's not Annalise and Wes. It's Nate and Wes. Do whatever you want with that mental picture as you please, because I no longer want it.


Frank: Frank just casually takes Catherine and y'know, kind of smothers her and makes her ingest some of Nia's pills. Don't worry, she's not dead! However, Frank looks dead inside while he's doing this all. He basically is the definition of the phrase, "Been there, done that," and I don't know how to feel about it. 


The (new) Murder Five (but still technically only 2/5 are actually murderers... as far as we know):

Connor: Connor wasn't too fond of the idea that they would make it look like a crime scene. You know, because now he is living the domestic life and his totally normal cinnamon roll of a boyfriend would not appreciate if he shot his professor. The professor that he doesn't think is that intimidating. He leaves the mansion after refusing to shoot Annalise. The last moment we see with him is him looking off into the distance, when he's probably reflecting on what the fuck went wrong with his life.


Michaela: Okay, this episode made me feel really bad for Michaela. In all of the previous flashforwards, she didn't look so upset. So I thought that maybe she kind of, y'know, accepted that this was her, uh, destiny. But nope, she pretty much had to watch her friend almost shoot the woman who told her that it was totally okay to believe that the guy she liked was innocent. She had to watch her friend almost shoot the woman who she aspired to be like. And she stood directly in front of him. And I was making my weird mouth noises, because as you all know, Michaela and Connor hold a special place in my heart. 


Laurel: She starts off the episode by being an art critic towards Catherine's creepy paintings. She tried to decide what to do with the gun, but ultimately, Murder Night 2.0 isn't about her. Maybe Murder Night 3.0 will be her night. Anyways, in the final seconds, I was totally expecting for the girl to just shoot Annalise for bringing up her dad. But instead she gets a little bit teary-eyed and says that maybe they should all go to jail for all the sick bullshit they get put through. Which made me a little bit emo, because I want to find good in these fictional characters and have them have alright lives. You know, like the fact Wes has had a rough life and he might have watched his mom kill himself, or the fact that Connor knows that people don't see the good in him and he's probably been referred to as a slut more times than he wants to be, or the fact that Laurel wants to become a lawyer to help the poor (even though she doesn't need the money), and Michaela, the girl from a shitty place who used academics to get herself where she needed to be. 




Asher: After Emily pushed his dad to suicide by releasing information to the press, he takes matters into his own hands and gains entrance into the Murder Club by backing up into her with his car. Wait, was I actually right about something on this show? Holy shit. This makes it twice now, and oh my god, both times were with Asher! I have Asher Senses! Of course, the kid is a bit traumatized, but it'll all get better from here! Or worse. Whatever.



Wes: He didn't play that big of a part this murder night 2.0 at first. He just kind of stood around awkwardly while almost everyone else danced around like ballerinas on crack to make it seem like the whole Emily thing was an accident. Then Annalise told him that she killed his girlfriend, so obviously that pissed him off and he took the gun and shot her where it hurt. That's right, ladies and gentleman, (and anyone in between, or even none of the above) Wes Gibbins didn't even shoot his professor in the leg. He aimed for something more serious. 



Then we get to the flashback from 10 years ago. After Wes shot Annalise, you can hear Annalise whispering, "Christophe," and it's fucking frightening because you know there's going to be some terrible stuff that's going to end in a cliffhanger. 

So Tiny Baby Child Wes is sitting down being asked questions about his mom. He asks if his mom is dead. Then the camera pans out and you see Annalise (with braids nevertheless) and Eve. Eve asks what they've done, and Annalise looks... remorseful. 


Hapstall Case of Happenings:

Emily Sinclair (or St Clair.. I am never going to learn it, lbr): Bringing up a man's dead wife is a gross thing. However, Bonnie bringing her dead body to the mansion is a new kind of fucked up. RIP Emily. Although lbr nobody on this show rests in peace. Just pieces.  Congrats on being the only character on the show that died before getting a sex scene. 


Catherine: Okay, so Frank gets her and makes her pass out. And of course, Annalise pins everything on her, because who else better to pin it on? If you're not there for .5 seconds, murder will be pinned on you. That's what I've learned from How to Get Away With Murder. That's why I stay in all of my classes and never skip a day, because what if one of my fellow classmates get murdered? #StayInSchool (or in Catherine's case, #StayHome)

Caleb: There's a lot I would do for my siblings. But nope, trying to hide a gun is too far. F-O-L-G-E-R-S. Then Michaela plans to livetext (it's like liveblogging... just... texting....) the whole thing for him. Of course, you probably can't send hey babe... my professor asked me to kill her.... over text.

 
Phillip: He goes around trying to meet up with Catherine, but I guess we won't know what happens until February 11th. 



Quote of the Night: Connor to Laurel, "Who thought we would be the last ones on the screw the client list?" 


Anyways, HTGAWM comes back February 11th. I know, I'll be dying too. I'll probably post my (terrible) theories throughout the break. 




11/13/2015

How To Get Away With Murder 2x08- "Hi, I'm Phillip" RECAP (also known as the episode where everyone got laid and were lying about everything)


Last episode, we had received not enough of Michaela Pratt. Also, Eve came back and apparently, she knows that there's something about Wes that went on between him and Annalise. We still don't know what it is yet, but it's the reason Annalise has been protecting him to the literal- and metaphorical- grave. Annalise told Asher about Bonnie's past, and Bonnie found out. Bonnie then told Annalise she wanted her to die, which was a bit extreme. Also, Oliver met Phillip (the cousin of the adopted murder siblings) and it doesn't look so good. It looks like Bonnie

Speaking of Oliver, I almost got to watch The King and I the other day, which the actor who plays Oliver is in. But do you know how expensive New York is? I would have not had any money for anything else if I did it. So I'm sad I spent all my money on this ugly scarf that just gets uglier the more I stare at it. Kind of like a Halloween pumpkin you enter in on of those lame town pumpkin festivals you try to convince yourself every single year it has some meaning and entertainment value to it. 


The Flashfoward: Connor is in the mansion with Laurel, Wes, and Michaela. They're yelling at each other, and Bonnie comes in all Paris Geller style. She tells Connor that it was all his idea, and that if he doesn't learn how to quaporate that he'll be the next dead body in the house. Wes gives the gun to Bonnie. Then, at the end of the episode, we see Catherine in a car with Phillip. You know, the boy she swore she had noooooooooo clue existed.


The present: Bonnie hates everyone and everything while everyone else runs off trying to save Caleb and Catherine from going to jail. At the end, everyone has sex except for Asher, Bonnie, Catherine, and Wes. You know how you know people are doing well on this show? They get laid. Sex and Lying, catch it on ABC at 10 PM Thursdays!



The Underdogs: 
Annalise: This show uses Viola Davis's talent to the best they can. From letting her take a selfie perfectly on the first try (lmao how unrealistic- you need to take at least 30 to find the ones you want to present. It's like an art gallery! You don't take the only one you have. You debate for hours on which piece you want to flaunt around the world) and then her mischievous, manipulative ways.

Frank: Frank didn't like not being the favorite elf this episode. Especially when the only other elf had a substitute for the day. So he gives up $50,000 to help win Catherine and Caleb's case so he can be a favorite again. His face during the scene kills me.

Sidenote: Why is every single person's kitchen in this show so dark? Don't you need to see the food? Fuck y'all and your darkly lit kitchens.

P.P.S- I don't know why everyone on Tumblr hates Frank because he's 'problematic'. You're watching a show about fucking murder. Keep your dumb Tumblr bullshit away from me, because honestly, he's fucking hilarious.


Bonnie: The episode starts with Bonnie in the shower crying. That's literally all that we see of her. You know what the similarity of this episode vs Gilmore Girls was? We didn't have enough of Liza Weil.

Nate: You know, I'm glad this show is using Billy Brown to their advantage. I mean, some of that advantage is to show off his insane 20-pack during sex scenes, to which I say how? But this season, he's way more involved in everything. I still don't know what quite to think of him, but I sometimes feel like a bad person while remembering that he switched someone diagnosed with schizophrenia's file with Phillip's to save the day. So he's officially labelled the underdog this episode, because I don't know where else to put the poor guy.


Wes and the Accomplices (and Asher... and Oliver): 

Wes: We still don't know why Annalise would rather die than let this kid go to jail, but I'm expecting it'll come around the episode that they hired a child actor to play the part of Young Wes. I still can't say that he's done anything particularly worthy of the troops of people who hate him to back off. However, he did admit that he should probably just have gone to jail for murdering Sam, which made me feel a little bad for him.  I mean, come on, that's pretty emotional! And there's the whole one of the only characters that didn't get laid this episode thing.


Michaela: Michaela is basically the queen here, and she owns a fraction of my heart. I don't know how anyone can still hold grudges against this poor girl. First, she tries to find DNA samples to see if Phillip was lying about the uterus he came out of or the sperm he was created from. Then, later on, she gets laid for the first time in like, four episodes. And you know what? It was really romantic. Without all the murders, drugs, lies, and all sorts of other shit going on, it's like a romantic comedy between Michaela and Caleb! Just cut out 80% of the shit that goes on in her life, and the incest and murder charges with Caleb. I'm glad the babe got what she wanted, but I just want to trust him.



Also, high-five to the person who decided that Michaela needed to wear that sweater.





Oliver (and Connor so I don't have to repeat many things): So Oliver isn't in as much danger as we thought. Connor was relieved to know his boyfriend just went to go talk about World of Warcraft with a fucking suspect. You know, me and a friend of mine were talking about what video games the characters would play, and we did mention Oliver would probably know more about WoW than me. I think the reason why we love Oliver so much is because he's very relatable for many of us. He has a boring job and wants more excitement in his life.

I'm glad Oliver is safe (I mean, until Annalise knows about the sex on her desk thing- I have a feeling she'll be happy about it) but I feel as if the people who got really worked up over this were a bit disappointed. I predicted that Phillip was the Huck of How To Get Away with Murder, so I'm a bit disappointed and yet, at the same time, relieved.

Also, now we know that Oliver is into kinky things. Yeah, they had sex on Annalise Keating's desk at school. So next time we see the classroom and Annalise runs her hands over that desk, we can all have a laugh while our minds flashback to Connor licking the guy's foot.





Laurel: Laurel was a substitute for Bonnie this episode. At the very end, she got laid. Yeah, that basically sums up everything that happened with the girl.




Doucheface: Doucheface wants us to retire his nickname. He's also worried about Paris Geller, so I'm expecting her to break up with him over the phone like she did to her other boyfriend on Gilmore Girls.

Doucheface finds a wire in the pen. Of course, they use it to their advantage and pretend as if there was a gun in the Hapstall mansion. Which, of course, ends up with Emily getting a search warrant on the place.



The Hapstalls (and Jessups... and Sinclairs... or St Clairs....):


Catherine and Caleb: This episode, watching these two was like playing a handheld water game. You had to listen to Caleb saying he wanted a plea deal of 30 years so his sister got none, and then listen to Catherine almost take a plea deal of 10. You know, listening to them talk about how much they know about lawyers annoy the hell out of me, because if they really knew that much, they'd know that Annalise very rarely loses a case. Sure, you may later be involved in a completely different murder, but at least you won that first case, and plus the second case for the other murder won't even have you as a good suspect! At least Annalise won this case!



Anyways, the theme song for these two probably aren't really the Folger's commercial jingle. I mean, I won't let it go, so they probably at the very least have awkwardly groped each other a couple of times while watching America's Funniest Home Videos which is still really fucking gross. Their song is more like the, "Why you always lyin'" song, because Catherine is a big, dirty liar. She acted like she didn't know Phillip, but after seeing her in the flashforward, we know that isn't fucking true.



Phillip: So Phillip isn't as dangerous as we thought. Not yet, anyways. What this show taught me is that everyone can become a murderer (or an accessory) with time and after you just happen to fuck the wrong person. But he still wanted to tell the police, which of course sucked for Annalise. Anddddd... then we found out Phillip was a product of incest. God damn, that must have been such an ego boost for the actor who plays him.

Emily: Unfortunately, I don't think the writers here at edgerambles.blogspot.com are going to give too much of a shit when this girl is dead and gone. Stop calling the actress that plays her ugly, though, fuckheads. Seriously, how fucking immature can your stupid asses get? And this is coming from the person who does this for most of the day.




Quote of the Week: "My junk just inverted having to listen to your whiny ass." -Frank Delfino to Asher Millstone, 11/12/15

Honorable mention:

"You taste like my sauce." -Frank Delfino to Laurel Castillo, 11/12/15

11/11/2015

South of Nowhere Full Review


So here it is. The last South of Nowhere post on my blog.

To start off, I should mention the numbers for each season. Yeah, if you read my episode-by-episode recaps, you can tell when I started getting bored to tears.

7- Season One
7.5- Season Two

6- Season Three

Season one was actually not terrible. The ridiculous production (and the fact that I could have very easily done a count of mics in shots were a bit tiring) was the main reason I can't give this a very high score. Also, the fact that some characters never really had a personality other than the people they slept with was annoying. And then there's the fact that just about every single episode had a '______ here is bad!!!' theme. I get it, it's meant for teens. I just want the message to be subtle and last for more than an episode.

Season two was better. Yeah, this is the season where possibly the most annoying character got spit out into the series, but still, there was so much good in it. Such as Chelsea and Clay. And Spencer.

Season three? Oh, boy! Okay, first off, did they dump the camera (and the cameraman) they had in the second season in the river? Also, why did Aiden and Ashley ever get back together? Why was there a focus on the fame aspect of the show? I started watching the show for an adopted son and a daughter confused about her sexuality. Not about these two sisters who became famous and how, "Oh woe is me I'm no longer famous!"

Okay, the ending of the show wasn't that bad. It was a pretty fulfilling episode. Our favorite couples got together. Blah blah blah.

There were points (especially at season three) where I wanted to stop watching. The fact that the show switched from being this show about a girl confused about her sexuality to a show about how these two sisters yet again managed to fuck up being famous was annoying. I just wanted to end it, so I will admit I rushed the last few episodes. I'm probably never going to rewatch it, but I think I'll always feel that pain when I just really wanted Ashley and Spencer to finally kiss whenever someone mentions this show.

I only ended up liking a few characters. I ended up disliking Ashley because of the whole fame storyline. Glen wasn't as bad as I thought he was going to be. Aiden bored me. Kyla had no redeeming qualities. Chelsea is still precious and so's Spencer. Mom and Dad of Spencer and Glen (and the late Clay) turned out a bit better than I expected. Although I wanted a really fucked up divorce between the parents that ended horribly. I know, horrible. 

I'm sad that Clay wasn't on for the rest of the series. I'm glad that the actor realized the fault in his views after leaving the show and grew, though. And even if that meant Clay had to go, I guess it was for the better.

The show was groundbreaking for the time. I mean, this show kind of feels like a building block to Faking It. Now on Faking It, there's an intersex character, a bisexual character, a lesbian character, a gay one.... I don't even remember how many members of the LGBT+ community there is on that show.

I'm glad that this series changed a lot of girls' lives that were confused about their sexuality. That's such a beautiful thing that creators get to experience (that I would love to experience).

And you know what? That's what matters to you. The series changed your life, so I'll let you rejoice in the fact you had it.




South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x16


This is it. The last episode. I'll have a separate blog post to really go in-depth scheduled after this one.

The good:

  • Chelsea is going to Paris! 
  • I love all the moments with Chelsea and Glen's parents. Even if Chelsea doesn't want Glen to go to Paris, I'm glad they can still be friends. 
  • Shawn's quote, "If we stop growing, we die." How beautiful. 
  • Glen isn't going to Paris, but you know what? Chelsea and him are going to make it. He's going to go to college. 
  • "Yeah, you assumed. But why didn't you just ask me?" OH MY GOD. IF THEY JUST REALIZED THIS EARLIER SPENCER AND ASHLEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER SOONER. NO BULLSHIT. 
  • Aw, the video for graduation. I like how it frames how beautiful Spencer's mother's character development has gone. 
  • Our OTPs are endgame. 
    • Spencer is going to UCLA! Ashley and Spencer are moving in together!
The bad:
  • STILL the shaky camera stuff. Why is it so bad this season?!
  • Okay, so you're telling me that Ashley, a famous girl, is going to be upset that Spencer might go to Boston for school? Don't you have money?
  • Carmen kissing Ashley. Really, bitch, really? 
  • So Kyla just casually mentions she is going to marry Aiden? Gross. They're not even together. Or had sex. 
  • So are Kyla and Aiden going to get married? 
  • The NOTP is endgame too. 
  • I can't believe that there was an actual moment where Spencer gets that bracelet from Ashley with Spashley on it. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x15


The good:

  •  It's a good thing Aiden is okay after the accident. I mean, considering Levi isn't going to be, Matt Cohen needs a bit of a pick-me-up with the characters he portrays. 
  • Spencer's dad telling her that she shouldn't hang out with Carmen. Good. 
The bad:
  • THIS IS A JUMPCUT. So many jumpcuts. Awful. 
  • Carmen still sucks. I don't care. You don't abuse people. 
  • I can't believe that Ashley and Madison still hate each other. 
  • Uh, trigger warning for suicidal thoughts. Aiden thinks about jumping this episode. 
  • I still hate the 'sisters become famous' storyline. And I always will. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x14


The good:

  •  Chelsea has such a cute room. And she tells off Glen for outing their relationship. 
  • Shawn telling Chelsea that she better not put Paris off for a guy. 






The ridiculous:
  • The camera shaking.
  • Okay, so Kyla goes from spoiled, and then in just a few episodes, she feels compassionate about helping the homeless? OKAY. 
  • Carmen comes back this episode. Dumb. Just dumb. Ridiculous.
  • The outfits that Ashley wears are just... 2005. 
  • Kyla.... inviting Carmen... in.... and inviting her to stay....
  • Uh, I don't know who crashed on that motorcycle. Aiden? 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x13


Okay, remember Aiden's girlfriend obsessed with UCLA and broke up with him in the last episode? The actress who played her was also in The L Word. Guess who? Nicki Fucking Stevens. I am dead. Thanks for pointing this out, TV Tropes.

The good:

  • The episode starts off with Chelsea and Glen making out. You know, I was kind of expecting this, but I just didn't want to say anything because I felt like at the same time, it wouldn't happen. But it happened and it's great. Chelsea has made Glen into a good person.
  • Shawn is back! He brought flowers! 
  • Shawn, "I didn't know there was assigned seats." [dramatic music plays] I'M CRINGING AND LAUGHING
The ridiculous:
  • Unfortunately, Chelsea gets a call from Shawn. Oh... uh... fuck... 
  • The camerawork on this episode really, really sucks. Jesus fuck. It's not like we're watching an animal documentary. 
  • Glen is heartbroken she doesn't want more. 
  • Everything with Kyla and Aiden bores me. 
  • So people on this show didn't even think about the jumpcut thing with the Kyla video? God damn it, Shawn, you needed to stick around on this show. They needed you and your brains. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x12


The good:

  • The episode starts with Ashley kicking Kyla out. Which I like, because I find Kyla irrelevant as fuck. At least the fuckboys in this show had some purpose and had time to develop and change. 
  • Sometimes, the actress that portrays Ashley has a problem with line delivery. This is not one of those episodes.
  • Glen is going to take the SAT! He wants to go to college! Because of Chelsea! Chelsea is the source of all good! 
  • Chelsea and Glen bonding. This is how you make me like a character I didn't like. Make them bond with the character I like. And later on in the episode, they kiss. Which is cute, because he's no longer a fuckboy. He's a good person now, because the death of Clay and Chelsea made him a better person. 
The ridiculous:
  • I can't even bring myself to feel sympathy for Kyla. I don't care if she got kicked out because of some viral video. She's just a really flat character and I must put my blame on her for being a flat character. 
  • This Alice Pieszecki lookalike hitting on Spencer. Girl, go find Dana. 
  • Shaky camera syndrome. AWFUL.
  • Spencer kissing Alice Pieszecki lookalike. Then Alice turning her down after hitting on her repeatedly. What the fuck. Honestly, I'm glad I'll be over with this show soon.
  • Oh yeah, the music in that scene cutting out for some other music to cut back to that same scene, then the same music playing again. 
  • Also, I thought that Spencer and Ashley were still together? 
  • -50 for the cheap camera zooms. 
  • The fact they highlighted Aiden's rejection from that one college. Really, couldn't you have just paused it and not made it like one of those creepy serial killer documentaries? 
  • Ridiculousness between Aiden and his girlfriend. 
  • Then Aiden goes to Kyla. Why can't people ever act normal? Why can't they keep their romantic bullshit in their head when they're upset?

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x11


The good:

  •  Aiden, Glen, and Glen's dad bonding time! Yeah, I don't care too much about it, but it's just so much better than listening to Kyla's track to being (in)famous.
  • Ashley is about to murder the one girl who flirts with Spencer. And it's beautiful. 
  • I'm so, so glad that we haven't forgotten Clay. If the show just stopped mentioning him, I would be so upset. 
The bad:
  • Every single thing about the 'famous' plotline. I can't deal with it. It's so boring and typical and I hate it. 
  • They returned to the home video recording style this episode. NOOOOOOO. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x10


Well, we're almost to the end, guys.

The good:

  •  Spencer's 18th birthday episode! And her girlfriend wakes her up with breakfast in bed! And her grandma is coming over!
  • I'm glad Glen actually sometimes does the right thing now. He got Chelsea to go back into the competition for the memorial. 
  • CHELSEA WON!!
  • Spencer's mom telling Grandma that she's doing good for herself. 

The ridiculous:
  •  I hate Kyla's boyfriend more than Kyla.
  • Grandma is racist. Never mind. Don't care. And homophobic.
  • Every single thing about Ashley's and Kyla's careers, 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x09



The good:
  • Aiden is trying to support Chelsea to make a memorial for Clay and the other 3 students that died in King High's shooting. Which is sad, yet sweet. Kind of like finishing a TV series. Except nobody died in the RL. 
  • I'm glad Aiden has found a friend in Spencer's dad.



The why?:

  • Why do they always give Ashley the most ridiculous outfits?
  • I can never take people singing on this show seriously. Ever. 
  • Why does Aiden get all the girls? Seriously, I don't understand. 
  • Kyla. Her entire character. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x08


The suffering this show has caused me is unbelievable.



  • Aiden has PTSD. It's really sad. I mean, out of all the characters that were affected by Clay being shot, it's one thing that I never really thought of as an after-effect. 
  • At least we got to see Chelsea this episode. She is the human form of sunshine. 
  • Ashley and Spencer's mom bonding. 
  • Spencer and her mom finally getting along at pride. 
  • Our OTP (the one that isn't half-dead) had sex. 
The ridiculous
  • Why is everyone getting famous? First it was Kyla and Ashley, then Madison......
    • There's so much back and forth with Spencer's mom. It's just annoying. 
    • Kyla. Kyla is annoying. And poorly-written. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x06


The ridiculous:


  • Watching the above scene with the music may result in you thinking you're watching animal sex on animal planet. Calm down, it's just horny teens. 
  • Oh, yeah, Aiden and Chelsea have sex right after that.
  • Kyla totally okay with shooting softcore porn. 
  • I'm kind of... predicting bad things to happen to Chelsea's baby. You know, after they brought it up. I just know. 
  • And you know what? Something did. 
  • Carmen trying to convince Spencer to let her stay. GTFO. 
So, Chelsea's baby didn't make the airbag incident. What the fuck is this? Grey's Anatomy? THERE ARE NO TEARS IN MY EYES, JUST SAND AND SADNESS!

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x05



The good:
  • Chelsea embracing her pregnancy. Awwww.
  • Glen calling Aiden hot. Thanks for getting over your masculinity and embracing calling other men attractive, Glen.  
The terrible:
  • The entire overdramatic nightmare where Aiden is watching Ashley pick between girls or boys. They jumped the fucking shark and then proceeded to rob it. 
  • Kyla not practicing online safety. 
  • Carmen (Spencer's new ex-girlfriend) turning out to be abusive. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x04


This show gives me secondhand embarrassment all the damn time.

The good:

  • So apparently Aiden is a 3rd generation (assuming he gets in) USC kid. 
  • You know what? I'm glad Spencer is finding someone else. Nothing against Ashley, it's just that their lives are very, very different right now. 
  • Aiden telling off Ashley for being ridiculous. But negative points for the biphobia. At least it got corrected when Ashley says, "It's not even like that!"


The embarrassment:

  • Why do we have to suffer on this show. We have to watch Aiden and Spencer kiss for like the billionth time. These are sins. 
  • The one guy who filmed Madison and him having sex. What?
  • Watching Ashley's and Kyla's storyline is actually painful. I can't deal with any of this. They're ridiculous and unrelatable. There's a lot of storylines I can't find remotely relatable, but there's at least some emotions in it. 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x03


I took a break from watching this show (Desperate Housewives.... enough said) so I practically forget everyone's names. Oops. I gotta get this series done though.

The good:

  • I like how much screentime Chelsea got in this episode. Even if some of it was depressing at first. It all turns around, though! 
  • The production of the show has gotten better. Which is good, but you know what's really fucked up for me to say? It was kind of fun to see all the random mic drops in the early episodes. 


The WTF?:

  • I always find the whole 'Kids in LA living it large' plots hilarious to laugh at. So Ashley and her sister buying a place together is just laughable and predictable and omg why am I even watching this show. 
  • Why they gotta ruin all of the emotional Clay moments with Aiden. And Kyla. And Ashley. 
  • Is Aiden trying to play his cards to get a threesome with two sisters? Nasty. 
  • Kyla's plan to overthrow all the other current celebrities (I mean... not really big names now) and become the next big thing.
  • Madison thinking that her and Spencer are BFFs all of a sudden. I mean, I guess this can be explained because she's lonely but..... 

South of Nowhere RECAP/REVIEW: 3x01 & 3x02


Just as this show was getting better and better, they just gotta kill off someone. I mean, I know what character it was, because IMDb is the true untagged spoilers of the world. But why did they do him dirty when his storyline was just getting to the nitty gritty? I know why he was written off, but still.... if he was having a problem with the gay, then why couldn't he have gotten her pregnant sooner....

The good:
  • Thank god Chelsea is still around. And she is still friends with Spencer! Where is she living, though? 
  • I like that Spencer just didn't forgive Ashley all of a sudden. I mean, if my girlfriend ignored me for 3 months while in Europe....
  • Glen: "I'm not giving up sex [to become a priest to get out of the army]" Aiden: "It's not like you're having any" 

The ridiculous:
  •  Does anyone else think that these kids go to the hospital too much? I mean, I know the mom is a doctor, but these kids end up in the hospital all the time. 
  • I find it really funny that the most similar show to this one airs on MTV and MTV came and did a true documentary about Clay's death 3 months later. 
  • Glen graduated high school? Since when? When is the last time we saw him in school? 
  • Glen enlisted in the army and then is trying to get out of the army. Really?
  • Aiden got shot in the heart and still living. I think it's Fuckboy Immunity. The good guys with morals die young. 
  • Aiden thinking that him living past being shot in the heart really means he should be with Ashley. I can't... I really can't. This is more ridiculous than Glee. 
  • Ashley getting back together with Aiden goes against her character. It's literally so OOC I'm crying. 
  • When Aiden suggests that Glen shoots off his foot so he can get out of basic training and all the army stuff. I mean... And then there's just the simple fact I'm pointing this out because Matt Cohen played Levi (Or as the people who read my recaps will know him as, Levee) on How to Get Away with Murder and the last episode he was in had him threatening to shoot someone. Coincidence? Most likely.
  • I sometimes forget that we actually lived in a world once upon a time where an American wouldn't be allowed to serve their country if they were gay. Good job for exploiting it, Glen!
  • Glen signing up for the army with a fake ID.