Five Drinks Into Survivor Season 29: Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episodes 11 and 12

Tom's Take:

These two episodes were pretty meh, but they really set up a finale where I think anything can happen.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 10

Tom's Take:

Wow...

What a move.

Too bad it failed.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur

Tom's Take:

Wow...

What a move.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episodes 7 and 8

Tom's Take:

These two episodes in the merge were awesome! All season long, Jeremy and Josh were set up as the two power players of the season, and over these last two episodes this pair clashed in a furious battle that in all likelihood decided the winner. Now let's delve into why Jeremy came out on top!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 6

Tom's Take:

And we've got our last pre-merge episode out of the way. And we've got an interesting merge coming, so let's break down where we're at coming into it.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 5

Tom's Take:

We've got a tribe swap episode, which gave us a very interesting dynamic for these couple of pre-merge episodes. Some people benefited greatly from the swap, while others were put into a much weaker position.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 4

Tom's Take:

We finally got a change up this week with the Hunahpu finally going to tribal council. We got a GREAT one episode arc with Drew's downfall,

Five Drinks Into Reality TV Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Week 3

Tom's Take:

The entire John Rocker saga played out this week and it was...honestly kind of ho hum. I didn't love anything really about this episode, and I'm starting to worry that the editors are really giving the winner away, which if true means this season is going to be real boring. Here's hoping I'm wrong about that.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Week 2

Tom's Take:


Week Two ends with some gameplay going terribly, and the unlocking of the John Rocker character on the season. Spoiler alert, I give his arc two or three episodes at most. It has been hinted at too strongly that he does NOT make the merge, for him to actually make it.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood vs. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur

Tom's Take:


Welcome back to Survivor! We've got another season underway, and I'm very very excited. These newbies are interesting for the most part, and I think we're going to have several future allstars on our hands, and an interesting season in the short term. I'm also very interested to see Blood v. Water play out without having returning players to twist it around.

The only weakness to this season, is that I think it is built to have way too much crying, which will get boring after a while. But until it does, let us get into the new cast!

Five Drinks Into Big Brother 16: Winner!

Tom's Take:

Congratulations to the winner of Big Brother 16.

Derrick played a flawless game, and I have compared it to a no hitter, since he was never nominated all season. He was just two jury votes and an HOH win from a perfect game in my opinion, which is closer than anyone has ever gotten. His gameplay this season is the top of any player's ever played. Even better than Dr. Will or Dan's games. This puts Derrick at #3 in my overall Big Brother Player Power Rankings, as Dan and Dr. Will are set aside due to their body of work.

Great job Derrick!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Game and Show Week 11-13

Tom's Take:

I'm going to just combine the last three weeks of boredom into one big post, because maybe that'll be exciting?

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Week 10 Game and Show

Tom's Take:

Cody was HOH so it was another snore week. No one's position has really changed, so I'm not really going to both making new summaries.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 9

Tom's Take:

And we've got our buyback! Nicole is back in the house, and while this will affect pretty much nothing in the house other than making this rather boring season go longer, it is our top story on the night.

Oh and Twitter's favorite, Zach Attack is gone. He will be missed for his antics, although he was not a particularly good player. I wish Twitter would accept the game as it is, but since I'm barely even paying attention to the show any more, I guess I can't really blame them.

Five Drinks Into Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 8

Tom's Take:

For some ungodly reason the Big Brother producers decided to keep the 2 HOH twist going. The result is that instead of there being a big power flip this week and exciting gameplay, we got the sad story of Christine being pathetic and backstabbing her friend. Big Brother has ruined my view of women as strong and confident and instead made me into a firm DISbeliever in the possibility of feminism ever working. Girls...you can't keep letting these guys roll all over you. Anyways, we lost Nicole this week and the status quo remained the status quo. Snore.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Week 6 and 7 Game and Show

Tom's Take:

We had a great week in the BB house, with a bunch of gameplay, waffling, a double eviction.

And our first big boot!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 5

Tom's Take:

The Bomb Squad is done, and the Detonators is pathetic. Team America is broken. With alliances falling left and right, there's room for a serious power house to take control.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 4

Tom's Take:

Another boring week as the status quo remained unchanged. I hate the 2 HOH twist, as it limits gameplay, and I'm ready for the house alliance to split apart. Come on people, make a move!

That said, I think Cody made the right move.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 3

Tom's Take:

Devin as HOH was fun. Devin leaving was pretty dull.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Week Two Game and Show Week 2

Tom's Take:

What an amazing week of Big Brother. Thank you BB Gods for giving us a Devin HOH.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Game and Show Week 1

Tom's Take:

And we've got our first week of gameplay, and I am LOVING this cast. We've got several decent gamers as well as many simply awful players.

I am not a fan of the two HOH twist, as I think it obstructs players from making moves or being able to reasonably plan ahead which makes gametalk frustrating and often pointless, and so far Team America has been a flop, but again, none of that deters from this season for me, because I LOVE this cast.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother 16 Cast Preview

Tom's Take:

So based on thirty seconds of looking at these HG's let's make wild predictions on how the next 90 days will play out with them.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Discussing Tony's Win

Tom's Take:

I would like to apologize for how late this is in coming. I got really bogged down there for a while, and didn't get a chance to review the last few episodes of Survivor. So since the finale is long gone and we all know who won already, I think I'll just dedicate this post to dissecting this great season of Survivor as a whole.

First of congratulations to Team TV for winning the season. You earned it, although I was rooting for Woo to make the right decision there at the end, Tony was a great winner.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada 2 Game and Show Final 3 Weeks

Tom's Take:

I am emotionally devastated by that finale since Neda came so close to winning, only to be cut off from the end in such a brutal way. But moving past that, I have to respect Jon for making that move because it won him the game. Jon was a great player this season, I ranked him as the second best going into these last few weeks, and he took out the actual best player, so he fully deserved his win.

Congratulation Jon Pardy.

Big Brother Canada Finale Review Postponed

The BBCAN Finale Was too heartbreaking for me to review right away. I'll go over the final 5 at a later date, maybe in the weeks leading up to Big Brother 16.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada Game and Show Weeks 9 and 10

Tom's Take:

Neda has assumed the throne and is in the driver's seat for the rest of the season. The only real questions remaining is whether Jon and Neda will make it to the end together, or whether Neda will cut Jon. But first let's discuss how Neda completely destroyed the last hope of the Gremlins, and then how Adel failed to split up the power duo with the last chance anyone will ever get to do so.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 Episode 11 "Chaos is My Friend"

Tom's Take: 



What is Tony doing? He's making great TV that's what.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 Episode 10 BB "Sitting In My Spy Shack"

Tom's Take: 

Trish is actually playing a really good game, I wish I didn't hate her so much, and could actually root for her.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 9 "Bag of Tricks"

Tom's Take: 

Oh Tony. So much fun.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 8 "Mad Treasure Hunt"

Tom's Take: 

A pretty boring episode with a predictable boot as the new alliance stuck together to just take out Morgan, but there was a mad scramble for the HII.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada Game and Show Week 8

Tom's Take:

A great week of gameplay. Jon wins HOH and despite it probably being better just to play it safe and split up the Gremlins, he makes a move on Arlie only to have it countered by Allison's secret veto, but then he and Neda managed to counter that by getting the Gremlins to believe they were fine and to remove Arlie for them. It was a great week of the game.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada 2 Game and Show Weeks 6 and 7

Tom's Take:

Two weeks worth of gameplay all in one, and the two sides of the house clashed, and one side the Sloppy Seconds came out on top, pretty much crushing the strongest members of the First Five, and leaving only two small gremlins left in the wake of the devastation.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada Game and Show Week 5

Tom's Take:

The House divided this week and it is very fun to see how it will all play out. For now it seems like everyone is either on Team Jon or Team Kenny heading into an HOH that is perfect for drawing alliance lines out.

Five Drinks Into Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 7 "Head of the Snake"

Tom's Take: 

What a great merge episode. We had some terrible moves by multiple people, but man it was fun to watch.

Five Drinks Into TV: How I Met Your Mother Final Season Final Episode

Tom’s Take:

So I am incredibly furious with how this show ended.

Let’s go over what the series finale did wrong.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada Game and Show Week 4

Tom's Take:

So Sabrina was HOH this week....wait a minute....

Oh yeah, I guess technically Rachelle was.

I think we lost a lot of potential in Ika, but the game moves on, and I'm excited to see how the game plays out, especially after Canada has it's chance to take a crack at the First Five Alliance.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 6 "We Found Our Zombies"

Tom's Take: So the Appari went with Morgan, Sarah, and Jeremiah over Alexis which is sad. Also, we got a quit which always sucks. And a tribe raid! Tony continues to play super hard, and it looks like both new tribes are planning on sticking together next week when we hit the merge?

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother Final Season "The End of the Aisle"

Tom's Take:

In the penultimate episode of HIMYM, we get some build up to the events of the finale, but it was not what I was hoping for.

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 21 "Gary Blauman"

Tom's Take:

And How I Met Your Mother managed to jump out of its’ funk and pull that off. This episode was a great one, though not necessarily a classic episode in the grand scheme of things, it was definitely one of the best of this season at least, and yes it even made me tear up a bit, although I’m not entirely sure why.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada Week 3 Game and Show

Tom's Take:

The house split between boys and girls, although really the First Five is running both sides. But ultimately the result was that Ika completely fumbled the ball on her hoh and accomplished nothing but making herself look like an idiot.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 4 "Odd One Out"

Tom's Take: Tribe Swap. Are the producers just giving the win to the Brains tribe?

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Big Brother Canada Weeks 1 and 2 Game and Show

Tom's Take:

Well we're off, and I'm back to doing another BB blog. So I've been super busy, and only started to get caught up on the feeds this weekend, although I still have trouble watching them online. But here we go, let's get into scoring these houseugests!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 4 "Our Time To Shine"

Tom's Take: Oh Brains tribe, you sucked so much you lost to a tribe throwing an immunity challenge.

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 20 "Daisy"

Tom's Take:

We're at the point where I'm regretting trying to do this blog because I have nothing really interesting to say about this episode.

Lily being pregnant again is interesting, and I guess they're going to Italy.

Huh.

Yeah, that's all.

I hope I have more energy when I get to my BBCanada blog. And yes, I am going to get to it!

Five Drinks Into Reality TV Survivor Season 28 Episode 3 "Cops R Us"

Tom's Take:

I'm sorry for the delay. Words of Radiance came out, and I was busy with work all week. Anyways this was a pretty good episode, although I'm disappointed that the editors lead me to have some false hope for how the beauty Tribe would develop.

How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 18 "Rally"

Season 9 Episode 18 “Rally"

How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 19 "Vesuvius"

Tom's Take:

I'm reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson instead of writing an in depth review.

Here's the abbreviated version.

I thought this episode sucked, and the twist is awful.

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 28 BBB Episode 1 "A Hot Girl With A Grudge"

Tom's Take:

What an amazing premiere of this season of Survivor. I absolutely love how this episode gave us a strong introduction to all the characters of the season, at least touching on all of the different characters so that we can recognize each of them, and also giving us the basic strategic situations with each of the three tribes, while also having time for some moments of pure comedy.

And some cool challenges, with an amazing comeback in the second one!

Survivor Season 28 BBB Preview

Tom's Take:

Another Season of Survivor is upon us, and I'm sorry about this preview being a bit late, but I've been busy at work. So the rankings for this season may be highly irregular.

So for starters this season has a few big twists,

for one the Hidden Immunity Idol is back to being super powered, which sucks, since whoever finds it will probably get a free ride to the final tribal.

There is an elected Tribe Leader who has to pick a weakest link to get an immunity idol clue. I will have to predict who those people are.

The tribes are divided into beauty, brains, and brawn which will play out in some interesting ways, as people will have to try to live up or down to their tribe name, which should be entertaining.

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 17 "Sunrise"

Tom's Take:

This episode definitely felt like a last season episode.

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 16 "How Your Mother Met Me"

Tom's Take:

This episode proved once and for all that they should have met the mother in the series before this final season. In that way, it was actually kind of bittersweet, seeing as how much I liked the Mother and wished she could have been in more of the series. Instead, this episode was only a one off side episode, that gave us a glimpse of what the Mother was doing the last 9 years.

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother Final Season Episode 15 "Unpause"

Tom's Take:

The Fifteenth episode of How I Met Your Mother's final season was a winner. While the last episode brought us a Slap, one of the longest running gags of the show, this one brought us Barney's job which was far more awesome. Because they managed to not actually disappoint us with solving the eternal mystery of what Barney does for a living.

And because I love it when Barney pulls a long con.

Five Drinks Into How I Met Your Mother The Final Season Episode 14 "Slappointment in Slapmarra"

Tom's Take:

So I totally lost track of the slaps somewhere along the line, because I was pretty sure this was supposed to be the final slap. Instead it wasn't, but rather what we got was a decently funny episode which took a massive detour from the major plots of the season.