Awards!

Books

Best Book Read of 2011: The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognonni

Best Book Published of 2011: Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Best Book Cover Published in 2011: Frost by Marianna Baer

Best Guilty Pleasure Book of 2011: Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade

Best Book Character Read in 2011: Male:  Peeta from the Hunger Games

                                                       Female: Sophie from Hex Hall

Best Couple Read in 2011: Kate and Vincent from Die for Me

Breakout Author of 2011:  Lauren Oliver

Best Writing Style of 2011: Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

Worst Book 2011: Griffin Rising by Darby Karchut

Worst Writing Style in 2011: Pearl Jo Knowles

Worst Cover of 2011: Hopeless Christiantic by David A. Santos

Most Annoying Character in 2011: Gwendolyn “Dough” Reilly from Starstruck

Most Annoying Couple in 2011: Kona/Kai and Tempest from Tempest Rising

Dream Catcher Award: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Movie

Best Movie Watched in 2011: Silence of the Lambs

Best Movie Premiered in 2011: Super-8

Best Short Watched in 2011: God of Love

Best Movie Poster: Melancholia

Best Actor/Character: Joseph Gordon-Levitt from 50/50

Best Actress/Character: Kirsten Dunst from Melancholia

Best Director: J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg with Super-8

Best Movie Based on a Book: Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2

Best Animated Movie: Winnie the Pooh

Most Anticipated movie that was a letdown: In Time

Most Anticipated movie that lived up to its expectations: The Artist

Worst Movie 2011: Hanna

Worst Movie Poster: Dolphin Tale

Worst Movie Based on a Book: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Worst Character/Actor: Alex Pettyfer from I Am Number Four

Worst Character/Actress: Marion Cotillard in Midnight in Paris

North Star Award: 50/50

Music

Best Single of 2011: A Thousand Years by Christina Perri

Best Album of 2011: Ceremonials by Florence + the Machine

Most Catchy Song of 2011: Friday by Rebecca Black

Best Artist 2010: Girl: Adele

                          Boy: Michele Bublé

Best Band: Florence + the Machine

Breakout Artist: Jessie J

Musical Guilty Pleasure: Two Door Cinema Club

Best Music Video:  Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) by Katy Perry

Best Lip Syncer: Hot Chelle Rae

Worst Single 2010: Mr. Know-It-All by Kelly Clarkson

Worst Artist: Rihanna

Worst Music Video: I’m Sexy and I Know It

ShoreWhisperer Award: Mumford & Sons

Television

Best Show: Teen Wolf

Best New Show: New Girl

Best Episode: Wolfsbane – Teen Wolf

Best TV:  Actor: Dylan O’Brian – Teen Wolf

               Actress: Jill Wagner – Teen Wolf

Best Onscreen Couple: Alicott (Alison and Scott) – Teen Wolf

Best Duo: Nick and Monroe from Grimm

Best Reality Show: Big Brother

Show that jumped the shark: Two and a Half Men

Most likely to jump the shark: Glee

Worst Show: Charlie’s Angels

Worst Episode: Extraordinary Merry Christmas - Glee

Worst Onscreen Couple: Sue and Cooter - Glee

Worst Cop Show: Blue Bloods

Worst Reality Show: The X-Factor

Living Destiny Award: Teen Wolf

Random

Best Random:  5 Second Films

Worst Random: Fan-Fiction

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Charlie's Angels - ABC

The Gist
Kate Prince, Eve French and Abby Sampson aren't saints.  A dirty cop, a car thief and a cat burglar, respectively, they all tangled with the law and lost.  And then they were given a second chance.  Charlie Townsend runs a detective agency in Miami, Florida, and he employs these three girls to work for him.  Talented, smart and gorgeous, they are a force to be reckoned with as they take down crime with the help of John Bosley, a computer hacker-turned-detective.  The four of them lay down the law under the orders of their always mysterious and never seen boss Charlie, and help people who have nowhere else to turn.  They're angels.

What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Number of Seasons: 1 (7 episodes)
In a growing trend within the entertainment world to not be able to think of new or original concepts, this show is a remake of the old 1970's show Charlie's Angels.  Yes, the one with Farrah Fawcett.  The idea for the show is actually a good one.  Three girls gone bad who get a chance to go good again, and then kick butt and fight crime.  I know I wanted to be a crime fighting super spy when I was little, and part of me still does.  Unfortunately, this show does not live up to any expectations of anything.  At all.  In fact, it was cancelled after only seven episodes aired, it got such bad ratings.  The plot was pretty good, but like I said, it was a remake of an already-made show.  There's nothing original going on there, just the same thing that happened in the 70's, made with people who are considered attractive by today's standards, as opposed to the standards of the 70's.  Same old, same old.  The acting is sub-par at best.  I feel cliched saying that, but it's also true.  The actresses are all very pretty, but none of them are very deep.  They're better at standing and looking dramatic than they are at fighting.  There was one episode where one of the angels got beat on for a good three minutes, then just miraculously made a comeback and took the guy down.  That's realistic and believable.  Not really at all.  Also, the guy who plays Bosley?  Well, he's not a bad actor, but he's nothing like the real Bosley.  The original John Bosley was a rather large white man, who looked nerdy and awkward.  This John Bosely is a mildly attractive, young, hispanic guy.  He just isn't Bosley.  They cast him because he was good-looking, not because he fits the character.  He's the best actor on the show, but he shouldn't be on it.  Minka Kelly isn't a bad actor either, but her character is a little weird.  She was introduced in the first episode as the replacement to an 'angel' that is in only the first two minutes.  It's an awkward transition.

None of the plot lines are very exciting.  They aren't exactly boring, but there isn't anything that grabs the attention.  I've gotten up and left to make tea in the middle of an episode.  It just doesn't matter.  If a show claims to be an action-spy-type show, I expect something riveting.  I don't expect something that can serve as background noise to my tea-making.  It was also semi-predictable, and any show that can be even remotely predicted isn't fun.  The bad guy was obvious, or the action and fate of the characters was evident.  Dull.  Lame.  Don't care at all.  Charlie maintained his ever-present and very important mysteriousness, but it tried to bring his personal life into the show by plugging his family into the plot.  It didn't work at all.  I don't want to know about Charlie's life, because he isn't supposed to be a well-known or relatable character.  He is supposed to be removed, aloof almost, never showing his face or doing anything other than conversing with the angels and Bosley about cases, and congratulating them on a job well done.  No contact.  And yet, he's stuck right in there.  NO.  Not acceptable.  If you're going to remake a show, it has to at least try to follow the original version, and it absolutely HAS to get the details right.  This one just doesn't.  Details seem to be something lost on the current world of entertainment, and I'm so tired of it.  Please, get your head out of general concepts and remakes for two seconds and focus on expanding and deepening your ideas.  Of course, that won't happen.  I was born into an era of an entertainment holocaust, and while some people are going down swinging, most are just dying.  I'm so sick of it.  Ick.

This is not a good show.  I watched six of seven episodes, and I wasn't sure how much more I could take.  The characters were trying to develop, but it wasn't working.  None of the little details were working.  It all mixed up and spat back out some very poor television.  It's a good thing those actors are pretty.

Real Teen Rating ~ D: If there's absolutely nothing else for you to do...then maybe...

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