Wednesday Night TV/Catching Up

I'll be playing around with a fancier method for hiding potential spoilers over the next couple days, but until I get that figured out, more spoiler highlighting:

• Lost: If you've ready my review of Shooter, you probably already think I'm a perv, so no harm done with me saying this: tonight's Lost episode was really hot with all the lesbian overtones. And it's hot every time it rains on Kate anyway. Good times. Not only were Kate and Juliet handcuffed together (cat fight!), Kate did quite a bit of bonding with Cassidy in the flashback.
  
  
  I've never found Kate's backstory all that interesting, but this week's story provided a nice accompaniment to the aftermath of her attempt to rescue Jack.
  Right there at the end, when they were saying goodbye, there was seriously a moment where I thought Kate was going to lean over and kiss her.
  
  Sawyer can't have been that good of a con artist, could he? You'd think two useful skills in the con game would be spotting someone else's con and getting people to like you. Still, as with just about everything involved with Hurley, it was a pretty amusing storyline. And I would happily use some Dharma generic A1 sauce, but not on pork!
  
  It's interesting to have Sawyer taking on a leader role, but with Jack, Sayid, Kate, and Juliet on the way back, they'll have to take their time if he's going to really establish himself as a leader. More importantly though, will they try to relocate the castaways to the Others' village? Protection from the smoke monster, houses with real roofs and beds, a foosball table... what's not to like?
  
  Overall story-wise, "Welcome to the wonderful world of not knowing what the hell's going on" was a great line, and we didn't learn much about anything going on this week (except that it sounds like Cassidy wasn't lying to Sawyer about having a kid... or if she was, she's really dedicated to the lie). Two new questions: where the hell did the others go, and did they leave Juliet behind to punish her or is she still working with them to infiltrate the crash survivors?
  
  This was not up to the excitement level of the best episodes of this season, but still pretty entertaining. Those who demand big answers every week probably didn't care for it, though, unless they're like me and easily distracted by Evangeline Lilly.


• South Park: Hare Club for Men, bunny Popes, Vatican ninjas, hippitus hoppitus, Bill Donohue (who I actually thought was supposed to be Karl Rove at first), a good Pope hat joke, and exploding peeps. For an episode with almost no Cartman, this was quite good. I'm not sure how many people were aware of Donohue and his shenanigans as part of the Catholic League, but let's just say I'm not a fan, so I appreciated that element.

• House: A fairly Cuddy-centric episode. With House debating a vacation, she sees a little bit of herself in a woman in her 40s having complications with her pregnancy. So she takes on the House role, ignoring most people's opinions, and successfully employing a crazy strategy.
  
  
  More Chase/Cameron relationship stuff... I'd really like to see this sort of end badly and blow up. Or at least somehow resolve soon. House doesn't do happy sweet cute love stories... or at least it shouldn't.
  
  I was thinking House's attempts to go on vacation were a mask for something along the lines of the fake cancer thing, especially when he went into the decompression chamber (I think that's what it was anyway), which I thought might've been prep for a fake medical condition or to serve some other purpose. But doing it all to get people off his back so he could park on the couch, pop vicodin, and watch the Travel Channel was just as good.
  
  Best House line: "I know you can't talk so I need you to look petrified if you consent."

Still to watch: Friday Night Lights, Bones, Jericho.