Time to check in on what’s still routinely popping up each week on the TiVo.

LOST

I found this season a lot stronger than season three which a much more rewarding pace than season two, but I can not help noticing that the primary questions we’ve answered so far this season have been ones that were invested this season: Who’s boat is it? Who’s the mole on the boat? Who are the six? My fear is that we are rapidly getting to a change-over point where the writers focus more on the story of the Six and the island becomes the flashbacks, having never addressed a lot of long-lingering questions.

GOSSIP GIRL

Every week now, thanks to Selena. I am fairly confident that the mystery gossip blogger is Chuck. My evidence is that just as Clark Kent always seemed to be missing when Superman arrived, Chuck always seems to be around whenever something gets blogged. The front page of the site (shown at the beginning of the episode was the post “Where is Chuck Bass?”). Who, in the blog’s audience of catty little girls, would care about where some senior boy is? No, it must be the same narcissistic boy doing the posts. You know who should care where Chuck Bass is? His teachers. Do any of these kids go to school? They talk about being in schools and planning for college, but we have yet to see a classroom or an instructor.

ROCK OF LOVE II

And you were probably thinking I should have been embarrassed writing about Gossip Girl. Poison was one of my favorite hair-bands when I was in sixth grade, so I’ve been a Bret fan for a long time, but I am starting to lose faith in his ability to find himself the right girl. It looks like Bret it going to prioritize a rocker with a big rack over a girl who would be good for him, which may just be setting his lovelife up to fail (and force the need to make a Rock of Love III). In my opinion the best choice was just kicked off, Jessica, but there is still hope, because the best choice for Bret still remains: Ambre. She has taken care of every stupid girl in the house when they get drunk or have a meltdown; the other two remaining, the groupies, have done the getting drunk and breaking down and fighting with everyone that moves. Wouldn’t Bret do better to choose the caregiver who will hold his hair back instead of two groupies that will draw him into a drunken brawl? Maybe I just don’t get the rock ‘n roll lifestyle.

JOHN ADAMS

Selena thinks everyone has a favorite period in history. Hers is the Tudor dynasty, which is why she gets all excited for The Other Boleyn Girl and The Tudors. For me, it’s Revolutionary America, so I am completely absorbed in this mini-series of HBO. The acting is fantastic, (Laura Linney is a great Abigail Adams) and it would be enjoyable just focusing on John and his family, but the story is broad enough to follow them through the major events of history and that is such an enjoyable ride. So great!