Hello and welcome to everyone's favorite soon-to-be on Olympic hiatus, overprotective parent bashing play-by-play tv show review:

I'm gonna make this part short:  First, because, once again, Fear Itself is going on hiatus (Olympics this time), this will be the last liveblog til its return post-Olympics.  Second, if you're curious how I feel about those six movies I mentioned in a blog a few days ago, I haven't watched any yet.  Been busy.  Third, I havent seen much response on other sites about Community.  One thing I did see though, bashed it's lack of gore.  If you're so jaded in horror that you NEED gore to elicit a response, PLEEEASE get out more.

Oh I think I'm forgetting something....oh yeah....this.  YEP. AGAIN.  THIRD TIME.  This time New Year's Day was the worst show of the week.  I'm going to come out and say it.  Their description of the ep was more graphic than the ep itself.  Plus, apparently according to them, zombies don't belong on network tv.  Oh...and BLOOD doesn't either.  They BASHED that blood was on the walls.  ITS A HORROR SHOW YOU IDIOTS.  STOP ASKING IT TO BE SOMETHING IT ISNT.  Oh and, btw, it took them 7 EPISODES to actually fully rate it as not suitable for children.  Seriously, get a freaking life.

See that?  I wouldnt be able to get so angry if all my red blood cells werent replenished.    And on that note, off we go:

0958PM:  A) Thank god Last Comic Standing is ending, B) I want the olympics to be here then over, C) Tonight it's Skin and Bones by Larry Fessenden, director of indie hit The Last Winter.

1002PM:  This is the western-y one.  And this episode also has been pretty danged boring so far.

1003PM:  So we went with the "non-scary" open, eh?  I think it worked better last week.

1005PM:  Interesting.  I have no thoughts on these ads.  I mean, I already bashed that verizon ad last week, and the others werent particularly great.

1006PM:  OW OW OW OW OW.  WHY WHY WHY AM I SEEING A TRAILER FOR SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2?  WRONG AUDIENCE PEOPLE.

1007PM:  Ok, I understand he looked pretty gnarly.  Looks a bit like Ron Perlman actually.  Which he isnt but which is interesting since Perlman was in The Last Winter.

1009PM:  "Doug Jones"?  Is that the Doug Jones I think it is?  Are we in the presence of Abe Sapien?

1010PM:  Two kinda slow building eps in a row isnt necessarily a good idea.......and where the hell's any music whatsoever?

1011PM:  IT IS DOUG JONES!  AWESOME!

1012PM:  Niiiiiice.

1014PM:  Really really dont care about the olympics and all its commercialization.

1014PM 2:  I'm not sure if Pineapple Express is going to be amazingly hilarious or amazingly awful.

1016PM:  The opening ceremonies are the ONLY thing I'm gonna watch prolly related to the Olympics

1018PM:  Theres something really messed up about only seeing Doug Jones's head.

1019PM:  The head's almost animatronic geez.

1020PM:  I'm getting the strange feeling that this episode will have precisely one good thing in it.  Doug Jones.  He's sure been great thus far.  But not much else has.

1021PM:  Really?  You're referencing the wendigo?  How ironic.  Since FESSENDEN DIRECTED A MOVIE CALLED THAT.

1022PM:  Eddie the Indian's not terrible either, I should note that.

1023PM:  The fingertips are a very nice touch, makeup wise.

1024PM:  All right, we're halfway in and this isnt remotely exciting.  Doug Jones is basiclaly the ONLY worthwhile thing in this.

1025PM:  These moments of vigor are great, but they are way way too few and far between for such a length of show.

1026PM:  Apparently we did not learn from Darren Lynn the lessons about using the damn quick cuts eh?  Just once or twice or three times isnt so awful though.  Brings The Ring to mind.

1027PM:  Mirrors will be very good.  And probably get a great release.  That's my thought.  Midnight Meat Train on the other hand, if you believe the horror sites, has been unjustly banished to BUDGET THEATERS.  They're like purposely shooting a perfectly good movie in the foot and its just depressing.  If you can find it, it comes out tomorrow.

1031PM:  I'm beginning to get touches of Poltergeist here.  Is it just me?  That shot of everyone standing around looking up reminded me of it and the hunt for the ghosts and the cleansing of the house.

1032PM:  Eddie Bear might as well be wearing a freaking target on his chest.

1032PM 2:  Oh sure, just like Spooked, halfway in we decide to amp everything up.

1033PM:  These kids...are so damned annoying.

1034PM:  Nice angle there.  That bullhorn shadow shot.

1035PM:  Wow.  that was....ow......the acting right there was so bad it actually hurt....was his arm just separated from his body?  If so, that was nice.

1037PM:  Well I get the meaning of the title....but it is still a bit odd.

1038PM:  Doug Jones really is great for this role.  I mean the man's pretty damned skinny to begin with.

1039PM:  That music was so out of place for a second.  Again, nice quick character switch again.

1039PM 2:  Commercial placement's bothering me.  Mostly because the episode, with very few exceptions, has been so boring that I don't know where would be a good place to put them.

1040PM:  Harold and Kumar 2 was quite good.  But still a step below the original though for me.  But that's just me.  Just throwing it out there.

1041PM:  Hmm.  Rosie Perez and Seth Mcfarlane on one Tonight Show.  Anyone who's seen the ep of Family Guy about Y2K knows that might be interesting.

1042PM:  Well at least I'm not alone on this.  Apparently, Brendan Fraser is less enthusiastic/excited about his own damn movie than I am.

1045PM:  3, 2, 1.........and speaking of Helena, I know I've seen her in something else too.

1045PM 2:  And a brilliant line (I've brought dinner!) gets ruined by a terrible scream.

1046PM:  Doug Jones rules this episode.  But even he cant carry this alllll alone.

1046PM 2:  This is some of the best dialogue I've ever seen.  Specifically Doug Jones, and only Doug.

1047PM:  A) Still more great Doug Jones lines, and B)  Violence against women is kinda new in the series.  PTC'll probably get their panties in a bunch over this too.  God I wish someone would just stop them.

1048PM:  Niiiiiiice.  Yeah, thisll prolly get called out as worst on tv in a couple weeks too.  Annd the shots of the chunks clinched it.

1049PM:  OK THAT WAS A TERRIBLE COMMERCIAL PLACE.  I was just getting more into it because it was ALL JONES basically, and you gotta kill the tension.

1051PM:  Wow.  a KY commercial.  On network TV.  The times they are a-changin.

1052PM:  You really get the sense they just cut that scene right in half with that ad.  So not a good idea.

1053PM:  Hmm....the way I'm getting a domestic dispute/dysfunctionality vibe here is kinda nice.

1053PM 2:  JUST LOAD THE DAMN GUN.

1054PM:  OK, I can't totally understand him....but the thing dangling out of his mouth was nice.

1055PM:  Oh boy...violence against children.....he looks like Rupert Grint.  So apparently Ron Weasley-esque boy's gonna die now?

1057PM:  WHAT IS RULE ONE.  DONT LEAVE THE GUY UNLESS YOU KNOW HE'S DEAD.

1058PM:  SURPRISE!  IT'S A HAPPY ENDING!  WHAT A TWIST!

And so my final thoughts:  If Doug Jones was not playing the monster in this, this would probably have been the worst episode so far.  If the episode hadnt had that amazing kitchen sequence, this would probably have been the worst episode so far.  As it has both, I rank it at the same level or slightly ahead of Spooked, but definitely a large step back.  Tension was WAY too slowly built up to be effective.  Episodes have issues when I'm not pulled in by the middle of an hour show.  Again, like Spooked, maybe the possible uncut dvd release will be better.  As it is, it's worth seeing for an amazing performance by Doug Jones, but otherwise a definite low point.

And so until next time, this is Crypticpsych saying....did I mention I frigging hate the Olympics?

NOTE:  This week's liveblog is dedicated to the memory of David J. DeRosa, the father of a friend of mine who died on Friday, July 25.  He was a man I truly respected, whose sense of humor I shared, and who seemed to me to be a great father to his son.  He will be missed.