December 13-December 17

The only show on this week is 16&Pregnant. That doesnt give me a lot to write about.
*Megan has a hard time getting her gamer boyfriend to help her out with just about anything.

My other fave shows are returning...

• House: January 17th
• Glee: February 6th
• OTH: January 25th
• American Idol: January 19th-20th
• Secret Life of the American Teenager: Sometime in January. (As much as I hate this show, I have to watch to see what happens. It's like a car crash!)

Thanksgiving Week Previews

House: Science and faith are called into question when a patient is admitted to the hospital following his reenactment of the Crucifixion. The patient, Ramon Silva, refuses to undergo the prescribed treatment, and the team learns that after his daughter's cancer was cured, he pledged an oath of self-sacrifice to God. With little time to save Ramon's life, the team struggles to understand his reasoning and seemingly extreme religious convictions, but eventually learn that faith is not an argument.

Glee: Carole and Burt are getting married! Also, Sue's Nazi hunting mother returns home to pay a surprise visit to her daughter.

OTH: No new episode. But, they did get picked up for a full season!

ANTM: This week ANTM is doing a recap of all the most memorable moments so far this season. This is good for me since I have missed just about every episode due to work. Next week is the finale!

Friday Night Lights: I will also be home in time to watch this as well. I have to say, FNL is one of my favorite shows. Watching it reminds me how much I love the atmosphere that comes with a good football team and I hate that I have missed so much of it. There is no information anywhere on the web because it's exclusively on DirecTV right now. But, that means no commercials for me :)

I will actually be home in time to watch all of these so I will have a busy couple days posting their recaps. Thankfully, we break for the holidays tomorrow so I will have more time that I usually do.

November 15-19 Previews

House: After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for symptoms closely linked to smallpox. When the Center for Disease Control's Dr. Dave Broda institutes a lockdown on the hospital and suspends House's team's ability to diagnose, Masters grows suspicious of Broda's motives and becomes convinced that the patient is suffering from a different disease. The girl's father soon experiences similar symptoms, and House is forced to make a precarious decision that puts his own life in jeopardy.

Glee: Gwenyth Paltrow makes a guest appearance as Holly Holiday when Mr. Schue takes a sick day.

OTH: Thanksgiving ep. The gang gathers at Nathan and Haley's house for the holiday.

16&Pregnant: Markai is our mom this week. From the looks of the preview, there are some serious trust issues going on.

ANTM: The final 4 girls meet one-on-one with Vogue Italia's editor-in-chief, Franca Sozzani and the girls are challenged to pose with emotion through movement. Double elimination this week!

November 1-5 Overview

House: No new episode due to the World Series Game 5.

Glee: No New episode. Why? I don't know either.

OTH: Finally a new episode! Julian's mom shows up to help Brooke plan the wedding and it just turns into a hot mess. Nathan is struggling with his new job (which I don't know what it's supposed to be) and Haley's counseling abilities are challenged. Skills comes home with a new friend from LA and Julian is on the hunt for a best man. I'm so happy! I don't have to work tonight so I'll actually get to watch this!

16&Pregnant: Our mom-to-be this week is Felicia. From the looks of it, this will be a more interesting episode than last week. She has a lot of pressure put on her by her mom to do well in school because no one in her family has graduated from high school. Baby daddy's name is Alex and he doesn't look like he cares a whole lot about either one of them.

ANTM: The girls are on the move to Italy! Upon arrival they will do a photo shoot on gondolas and visit their first Italian Fashion House, Missoni.

Friday Night Lights: Coach finds out not everyone is pleased by the Lions' strong showing in the season opener; Vince's newfound football stardom comes with perks; Luke faces consequences for his aggressive play.

October 25-29 Previews

House: Amber Tamblyn joins House for a multi-episode arc as Martha Masters, a brilliant but inexperienced third-year medical student whom Cuddy forces House to hire as a female team member in Thirteen's absence. In the midst of a tight senatorial re-election race, the New Jersey incumbent's campaign manager mysteriously falls ill with liver failure and temporary paralysis. After a surprising campaign announcement is made by the incumbent, House and the team look to the candidate to find clues about the patient's condition. Meanwhile, Foreman learns that Taub has a past connection to Masters, and in an effort to save his patient's life, House must make a critical decision that may compromise his relationship with Cuddy.

Glee: It's finally here! The Rocky Horror Glee Show!! Will gets the club to do a production of RH for the annual fall/winter play and in an attempt to woo Emma because it is her favorite movie. Finn and Rachel will be playing Brad and Janet, Kurt is Riff-Raff and everyone thought John Stamos was going to be Dr. Frank N. Furter but Mercedes will be playing him instead. Little dissappointed in this but I don't make all the decisions.

OTH: My favorite show is taking the week off. Probably so that it doesn't have to compete for viewers with Glee.

16&Pregnant: The new season opens up with Brooke from Texas who likes to race cars and she met her baby daddy at the track. They are living together at her house and things look like they will be super dramatic with these two.

ANTM: Designer Zac Posen surprises the girls at their beach house to inform them they will be wearing his fall 2010 collection during this week's runway challenge. The girls put their personality to the test when they shoot their very first commercial while wearing roller skates on the beach. Posen is also this week's guest judge.

Friday Night Lights: The (final) season premiere is Wednesday. I have heard absolutely nothing about what will be happening in this season. We'll just have to wait and see. It will air on DirecTV's 101 network at 9pm

Project Runway: It's Finale time!! The final 3 (Gretchen, Mondo and Andy) will be showing at Fashion Week and a winner will be crowned!

October 18-22 Previews

House: After a newborn experiences inexplicable breathing problems and liver failure, House and the team look at the baby's mother, Abbey's, own medical history for possible clues. When the team makes a discovery about her newborn's health, Abbey is presented with a difficult decision that could potentially affect both her baby's health and her own. Meanwhile, following Cuddy's directive, House challenges Foreman and Taub to hire a female doctor to join the team. When Cuddy asks House to babysit her daughter, both House and Wilson learn a few hard lessons in parenting.

Glee: No new episode this week :( They are teasing us so that more people will watch next week's Rocky Horror ep. Which I am super pumped for. I already requested that day off of work so I (hopefully) won't miss it. Fox.com has some pretty grand previews up if you wanna check those out. But really, who doesn't? You can see them here.

OTH: Tree Hill must be ahead of the normal world because this week, they are doing their Halloween episode. Looks like Katie come back from the dead to haunt Quinn and Clay, Mia and Haley are hosting an open mic night and Nathan is starting a new career.

Project Runway: Well I guess I was wrong. There are 2 episodes left not just one. I knew that there only being one episode left sounded weird but I wasn't sure. This week they narrow down from four contestants to three and we see what people have been working on!

ANTM: The girls head over to the Grammy Museum and the CEO of the recording company states that one of them will be chosen as the "Grammy Girl" for this year's Grammy Awards. In the photo shoot, they are to portray iconic fashion designers. Guest judge and photographer, Francesco Carrozzini.

Teen Mom: This week is the reunion with Dr. Drew.

Unplanned Parenthood (House) Overview

This week our patient was not one, but two people! Gasp! We have a mother, Abbey (played by Jennifer Grey. See DWTS, Dirty Dancing, ect.), and her new baby. The problem is that the child is having breathing problems and thus the drama ensues.

There are three main story lines in this episode.

(1) House has to babysit for Cuddy. He tries to get Wilson to do it for him so that he can go to the hospital and see what's wrong with the other baby. While they are outside arguing, Rachel (Cuddy's kid) eats a dime and trashes the living room. House doesn't tell Cuddy about the dime and sneaks her in to the hospital to do an ultrasound of Rachel's stomach to see where the dime is. In order to extend the time he has with Rachel, House messes with Wilson's radiation badge so that Cuddy will have to stay at the hospital. He gives her a laxative and after 4 hours, there's still no dime. This leads us to believe that she didn't really eat a dime, but in the very end Cuddy finds it in her diaper.

(2) The sick baby has dialated bile ducts, which leads teh team to think that it is a liver problem. They treat her for that but she doesn't get better. So, they hook her up to a blood transfusion of mom's blood and she miraculously seems healthier. As soon as they take her off the blood, she get sick again and the team decides it is a vascular malformation. Turns out its not that either. This can only mean one thing. Mom has something that she passed along to the baby. Answer: Melanoma. For some reason however, Abbey didn't feel sick at all. Turns out she also had lung cancer. Basically her cancer was treating her cancer. The team suggested they do surgery on her and start chemo on the baby so that both could live. Abbey refused and told them to just keep giving the baby her blood because it was treating her cancer. Abbey died of a pulmonary embolism later, but they had harvested enough blood to treat the baby.

(3) The hunt is still on for another doctor to replace 13. Foreman hire's someone but House fires her before even meeting her. He then instructs Taub to find a replacement. Taub starts talking to Dr. Cheng about taking the position. House is okay witht this but Taub just thinks it is all part of the game so he doesnt hire her. At the very end when he asks her to join she rejects him saying, "you acted like a child during this whole process. I hate kids."

Wish you well,

St. Ann

Massage Therapy (House) Overview

So this episode was pretty interesting. I don't remember all of the different diagnoses that they went through until they found out the truth but I'm pretty sure it was a kind of long list. The episode starts out with Margaret, our patient this week, in her house on a stormy night making dinner for her husband. Somewhere in the house a door slams shut and her husband walks in and asks her if she is alright. She then throws up and collapses on the floor in a great deal of stomach pain.

There is a new cast member this week, whose name is Kelly, that Chase hired as a replacement for 13. House has a theory that he hired her because she looks like Cameron/his mother. She isn't really qualified to be a part of the team and Foreman makes that well known. She ends up quitting at the end of the episode before House fires her.

When House asks her things about her past, she concocts a lie about having a past abusive relationship and that her ex-husband poisoned her dog. She says that she goes to a support group in Trenton for abuse victims on Tuesdays and that she used to be on the cycling team when she was a student at UMass. This doesn't really explain her 8 previously broken ribs and her stomach pain. None of this turns out to be true because when they check with the hospital and the university, they have no record of performing the operation and that she was ever a student there. She confesses to none of this being true after the team confronts her about it. Everything is relatively normal until she start halucinating. This leads House to the true answer. She is a schizophrenic who stopped taking her medication and is going through withdrawl. Her husband contemplates leaving her because she lied to him about her whole past.

The other underlying storyline in this episode was House's massage therapist and what Cuddy thinks about her. You see, she is a hooker that House used to sleep with but doesn't anymore because he is dating Cuddy. She isn't confortable with the "slept with" part and want him to stop seeing her. House doesn't want to because she is the only person out of the 15 different massage therapists he's seen that makes his leg feel better. In an attempt to make her feel better about it, House sends her a massage therapist who turns out to be gay and not speak a whole lot of English. This little episode forces them to face the reservations they have about their relationship and eachother.

Preview Overview October 11-15

Glee: This week's episode, the kids pair up and do duets and there is a little competition involved. The main focus is the newly formed Artie-Tina-Mike love triangle and the reappearance of Sam. Rachel and Finn throw the competition so that Sam has a better chance of wining. Based off of the information I've gathered, I think that he joins the club because of his injury.

OTH: This is going to be an interesting episode. It is the first time The CW has combined two shows into one episode type thing. I'm hoping it doesn't turn out like a Disney Channel special. OTH and Life Unexpected are coming together for music purposes. Haley books Mia a show in Portland (where Life Unexpected is set) so that she can get away from Chase (her ex-lover) and Alex (mega-slut man-stealer). Everyone is alive (including Clay and Quinn yay!) and will be attending Mia's show.

Project Runway: This week's episode will determine which 3 contestants will show at Lincoln Center in the final. This means double elimination!

House: This week's patient is a lady named Margaret who won't stop throwing up. Yum. Turns out she isn't who she says she is and the team looks into her past to help cure her. Chase hires someone to replace 13 and House doesn't give her the warmest welcome. Also, a visit from House's massage therapist forces Huddy to face the reservations in their relationship.

ANTM: The remaining models are doing group shots in motion this week. I haven't been watching so I haven't picked a girl that I want to win yet for this season. Nevertheless, there looks like there is gonna be some drama amongst the pairings and I can't wait to watch!

Wish you well,
St. Ann

Unwritten (House) Overview

I know, it's a miracle. I have something to write about that isn't Glee or OTH based. This is the first episode of House that I have watched this season and in a long time. I really don't know why I haven't been watching it this season because it's not on at the same time as anything this year. (Last year it was on at the same time as OTH. Priorities.) Anyway, on tho the overview!

This week's patient was Alice Hunter, a novelist for young adults, who writes detective fiction. The show opens up with her sitting at her desk finishing up the final pages of her newest book. She is talking with this boy named Jack (who isn't real) about how this is her last book and she isn't going to let him read it. She reaches for a small hand gun and is in the process of killing herself when she has a seizure.

The show then cuts to House and Wilson talking about how House doesn't think his and Cuddy's relationship will last long because they don't have anything in common. House then goes to conduct his first interview with Alice about why she tried to kill herself and she get defensive and tries to leave only to be put on psych hold for 36 hours.

While on their "date", House and Cuddy go to Alice's house to look for clues and end up talking with the housekeeper about her habits. House finds a can of tuna in the trash which makes him think that mercury poisoning is the reason for her seizures. When they return to the hospital, House tries to get Cuddy to perform the mercury poisoning tests because Alice has requested a female doctor. While Chase and Taub are about to administer the mercury poisoning treatment, Alice has another seizure.

It has now been established that it isn't mercury poisoning. They take her in to get an MRI to look for a tumor and the magnetic field causes the screws in her leg to super-heat and giver her 3rd degree burns on her leg. Supposedly, the screws are from a skiing accident, but really they are from a car accident.

When House goes to visit Alice, he says that if she cooperates with the tests that the staff wants to run he'll help her kill herself. He gives her a needle full of "deadly narcotics" and she shoots it into her leg. What he really gave her was a sedative and because she used it, her psych hold was extended another 24 hours.

House has a theory that Alice is really Helen from the novel and he uses the typewriter ribbon and the MRI machine to get the rest of the novel printed so he can look for clues. The new diagnosis is lupus, which doesn't really mean anything because, "It's never lupus". While House and Cuddy are on a double date with Wilson and his girlfriend, House realizes that it wasn't a skiing accident but a car accident and that the real cause of her sickness is hypothyroidism.

In the end, Alice's real name is Helen, Jack (main character of her books) was her son who died in said car accident . House lies and tells her that Jack had a brain aneurysm so that she would stop feeling guilty. Alice (Helen) has surgery to fix her hypothyroidism and all is well. House and Cuddy have a cute little moment at the end where she tells him that she doesn't want their relationship to be normal because then it would be boring.

Diagnosis: Why haven't I been watching this?!?!

Wish you well,
St. Ann