Toastkitten

Kelly and Dauphine,

Thanks for humoring me. I’m sure no one else really cares. Here is a brief recap** if you are unspoiled do not read any further **

The premier was strangely lacking in grandeur. Compared to all the reshuffling and new sets they threw at us during the 2hr premier of LAST season, ep 1 of season 5 was much less spectacular. I am very, very, very sad that agent V is dead. I almost got teary eyed during the hospital scene – very sweet and sad. But then again, I was laughing pretty hard at all the shots of JG where they are desperately trying to hide her big-ol-belly! I mean, come on - Pashmina draped over her out stretched arm, big hand bags, shots of Syd running stupidly beside a moving train, and running through a cornfield on the way to Santa Barbara (because, you know, next to Kansas, it's really coastal California that has all the corn!). They did A LOT of dumb stuff to conceal the belly. The plot, with a fat lot of new details about agent V’s dad, was a bit hard to follow. Plus, Angela was nowhere to be found and that was very disappointing. I was hoping that we could see more of her this season taking charge and dealing with Sloane...

Things I liked - MV speaking French with JG was very cute. Also, I thought Marshall had some funny lines. Jack rocked in all his scenes and, as I mentioned before, the hospital scene was quite touching. Dauphine, the French actress was ok but she really didn't have a very big scene. Hope she gets more interesting stuff to do in future. So, I'm still a fan (because I'm hopeless) but it was probably the least exciting premier they've had. The first show of Season 4 was a lot more fun.

Overall grade = C+.