New series' abound at this time of year and last night's novelty was the US import, Invasion; a tale of storms, the military, and some very scary jellyfish. The first three episodes were everything English audiences have come to expect from American drama - slick, well-written and good-looking - and, in addition, there were some gory and spooky elements making it more like The X-Files than The OC. The tale thus far is compelling, so why won't this emptiness leave me alone? Is it because I am sure that, in the end, the glacial alien host Lisa Sheridan will either expunge herself of foreign bodies and become the mommy she was always destined to be? Or will she make the ultimate sacrifice and somehow destroy the mother alien who is infesting her form, thus making a pseudoChrist-like sacrifice in order to save mankind a la Sigourney (but isn't it normally a man who does that? What a thrilling intervention!)? Whatever the case, I feel this is another US series that will pull me along and then collapse like a souffle of cliches, and perhaps, this time, I just can't be bothered.
But you all know what I can be bothered with -CBB!! Is anyone else falling for the simple charms of Chantelle? The true dynamics of the house are starting to emerge now, after the celebrity love-in of the first few days. It's FA-ree-a who interests me. She has taken the role of Elizabeth in BB2 and made herself indispensable to the house via her cooking and cleaning. This is a useful tactic to fall under the Nominations radar, stay in the compound and maximise your earning potential. Yet, she also seems to have an overinflated sense of how famous she actually is. During last night's task, when the celebrities had to arrange themselves in order of fame, Faria headed straight for the number 7 spot, slap bang in the middle. Is she having a laugh? Even Chantelle, who is already more famous than her and hasn't had to shag any bald Scandinavians, suggested that she might like to place herself a little further down the line, mispronouncing her name in the process! Her 'earth mother' strategem has not gone unnoticed by 'Team America' either (Dennis and Traci) who seem to have put a plaster over the wounds of the past to unite against the English nutters they've been banged up with. Dennis......hmmmmmm. He surely is a splendid creature, but is there a malevolence lurking beneath his wonderful facade? He's always mumbling something about somebody to someone-or-other and I don't trust him. That's not to say that I wouldn't like to see if it's possible to climb him, though........
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I hope someone services Dennis soon. My nan reckons he'll get fed up with Jodie and Chantelle and bum-rape Preston.
I reckon Jodie will give it up before he has to violate anyone. Preston has got a purty mouth though...
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