Well damn, Lucifer is HOT!

A sentence I'd never thought I'd say.  Who else watched the Premier of Lucifer on Fox Monday night???  I watched it for two reasons.  One, it came on right after The X-Files and two, its a story about Lucifer getting tired of the BS in Hell and coming to the surface to have some fun.  Wait there is a third reason....Tom Ellis is definitely not bad to look at.  The below will be spoiler-y, you've been warned. 

With that said, I absolutely loved this show.  Usually it takes me a few episodes to really fall for a new series but not this time.  I was a smiling, giggling school girl by the end.  They honestly couldn't have picked a better person to portray Lucifer Morningstar (I laughed every time he said his full name...God given, I'm afraid).   He is witty and devilish with a touch of humanity.  The devil has feelings...that is a whole new way to look at things.

We begin with him being a prick to a police officer and its wonderful.  He can basically make people say what they are thinking...he is manipulative and its a little concerning.  But he has friends.  Like they seem like legit friends who *gasp* care about him and he *double gasp* cares for them... We see in the first few minutes how much he cares for others (I am so going to hell even typing this).  He helps a struggling actress.  She thinks she sold her soul but he assures her he just helped her by putting her in contact with the correct people (what in the what what).  Then she is BRUTALLY murdered while with him.  He recovers, ala Jack Harkness style *gasp* *suddenly alive*, and immediately wants to punish whomever killed his friend.

This puts him in the sights of a detective lady who is immune to his charms.  He has zero affect on her.  She has no desire to tell him anything and thinks him more of an annoyance, oooo I like her!  She has a kid (interesting) with another detective who is kind of a prick.  He tries to put his ex down in front of Luci and he defends his new lady friend.  It is adorable (OMG I am having feelings for a TV "bad guy"...I have issues).

So together they figure out who hired the hit-man that killed the actress.  The actual bad guy who isn't Lucifer pulls a gun on Luci.  The lady detective is panicking.  He isn't.  He isn't scared of being shot.  he'll just come back to life.  She shoots the suspect to save Lucifer and he is floored.  That man didn't suffer enough, he just DIED.  He is mad (ooooo scary devil) and says he.is.immortal!  Before it can go further the baddie isn't dead and SHOOTS our new lady friend "Ahhhhhhhhhh!".  Um excuse you, I like her!  Luci goes all vengeful devil...dude the reflection... okay THAT is horrifying!  She lives yay!  He saves her....wha...he cares....whoa.

That was basically the episode.  Obviously much more happened but that was the sum of it.  I love love loveed it!  I cannot WAIT to see more.  It looks like he becomes a consultant for the police department and our lady friend does not seem happy...*muahaha*. 

My favorite things:
Trixie liking Lucifer, even after hearing his name
Lucifer telling Trixie  "That's a hooker name."

Lucifer scaring the bully that got Trixie in trouble
Trixie seeing Lucifer at the hospital and giving him a HUGE hug and him getting all "no no no little one, I hate kids" all while uncomfortably smirking.

That stupid angel doesn't scare him one bit (seriously something is wrong with me)
He is a seducer and keeps his word (that shrink is going to have a good time)

But he is still a bit terrifying

 

Also, I love how he is blatantly honest about being Lucifer and immortal and everyone just kind of blows it off.

**NOTE** None of these gifs are mine.  I found them online but I don't know who created them.

Slimfast Vox Box

I received a Slimfast Vox Box from Influenster to try the products and review them.  These are my honest opinions.

SlimFast Advanced Nutrition - Vanilla Shake

This is supposed to be a meal replacement shake.  I tried it as a breakfast shake.  I made sure it was chilled for optimum taste.  I couldn't make it more than a few sip/gulps.  The flavor was incredibly sweet.  Way too sweet for my liking.  The taste of the vanilla seemed very fake also.  Overall it was not a good experience for me.  I refrigerated the left overs and tried them again later in the day, thinking it was just my early morning taste buds misbehaving.  But my second try went the same way.  I like the idea but I wouldn't be able to force it down.  I wouldn't try it again.

SlimFast Advanced Nutrition - Baked Crisps - Sour Cream & Onion

This is a 100 Calorie snack.  Healthy baked crisps, yes please.  But alas, these were not what I expected.  The chips were crunchy which I loved.  But they were almost too thick.  Slightly thinner would have made a wonderful difference.  The initial flavor was delightful.  It was sour cream and onion, until you swallowed.  Then there was this awful chalky aftertaste.  It was like a coating on my tongue.  I ate about 1/2 the bag before I just couldn't do it anymore.   If you are looking to get me not to snack at all, this worked.  But if I needed a little filler between meals, I'll just stick to fruit or nuts. 

SlimFast Advanced Nutrition - Drizzled Crisps - Cinnamon Bun Swirl

This is another 100 calorie snack.  Where the Baked Crisps were savory, these are sweet.  Well I would imagine they are sweet.  My husband said they were "okay" but asked me not to buy them.  I couldn't try them myself because I have a thing about Cinnamon.  I can't eat it.  Well I can eat it but only if the flavor is virtually undetectable, like in King Cake.  Otherwise, this horrible gag reflex thing happens.  Something I hate with a passion so if I know or can smell the cinnamon in things, I wont eat them.  So I wouldn't buy them but that is more of a me thing not an issue with the actual product.

I like the idea of the products that were sent to me but the textures and flavors of said products were not appealing to me.  Therefore I personally wouldn't recommend them. 

14 years later and I still love these two!!!

I've seen a lot of negative things about the Premier of the X-Files revival and I don't get it.  Yea it was a little off.  Mulder was a bit of a nutter...more so than normal but it was still good.  And as much as I love foosball I was feeling a bit stabby.  Gimme X-Files dammit!!!!  Yea yea yea good for you Panthers now get off my TV!

From this point forward it will be spoiled a bit for Episodes 1 & 2 so just a heads up.

My little geek heart exploded Sunday night!  One of my favorite sci-fi shows of ALL TIME (notice I say "one of", because I have a few favs) came back for a 6 episode tease.  I call it a tease because 6 episodes is not enough for me.  This is the FIRST TV non-couple that I was like "OMG be together already" (ya know...I shipped them).  I was 12 when it first came on TV and 21 when they took it off the air.  I watched it for 9 seasons.  I saw the movies.  I love love love Mulder and Scully.  With that said when I heard they were bringing it back I fangirled so hard my husband laughed for like 20 minutes.  It was pretty epic.  I imagine it would have been similar for fans of Classic Who when the show rebooted in 2005.

Anyways, I like the 1st episode.  Of course it wasn't classic X-Files people.  Think about it!!! They dismantled the department.  It didn't exist anymore.  So they had to come up with some cracked out way to bring Mulder and Scully back together.  It couldn't be straight up alien BS again.  They've done that and shown us the flipping aliens.  It had to go in a different direction.  Plus it was Episode 1 FFS!!!  It was an intro.  They had to get us all up to speed on what the f**k they've all been up to for FOURTEEN years (yes I know there was a movie in 2008 but its been 14 years since TV).  So we had to see Mulder out of his Mulder-ness and Scully being her awesome scientific self but without Mulder.  We had to see that they've gone their separate ways but they still CLEARLY love each other and you cannot convince me otherwise!

I seriously love that they are taking the alien BS to a new (way more disturbing) level.  We aren't being watched by aliens...well we are but its more than that.  All of these crazy things.  All of the INSANE experiments and abductions and weirdo $hit.  Its all because back when the Roswell thing happened our government took the technology and reverse engineered it.  We also took the BODY OF THE ALIEN and used its DNA.  Meaning aliens aren't abducting us for experiments...its our government.  At least a branch of it.  (like I needed more reasons to be paranoid) They take women who are pregnant and put alien DNA in them to see what happens.  They impregnate others with human/alien embryos.  They take men for...well you can guess based on the last sentence. 

Aliens might be curious about us but its the powers that be that are doing all the crazy $hit!  And when people try to out these higher powers they are "dealt with".  I mean I wasn't fond of the YouTubber (stop hitting on Scully!) but I can only imagine what happened to him. As in they die of mysterious causes, have freak accidents, or just disappear.  At the end we have our team mending the wounds a bit...speaking of their BABY that went up for adoption (ouch my heart)...and giving us the flipping smoking man.  How the f**k is he still alive?!?!?!

Episode 2 was more my classic babies.  Mulder is his clean shaven, suit wearing self.  And god damn he is still a very attractive man.  Scully hasn't aged.  No really what does Mrs. Anderson do because she looks the SAME!  This episode broke me more because of the "What If" flash backs.  What if they kept their son.  What activities would they have done together.  Just rip my heart out why don't you!!!  It also showed how much these two CLEARLY care for one another still.  They may not be together but the affection is still there.  When Mulder is in danger she is worried.  When Mulder drops on the ground in pain she is there in a second to save him.  When he says "You’re never just anything to me, Scully", I sniffled.  Damn where'd all this dust come from *cough cough*.  

What I am saying is I like it.  I think it is good.  I think people are being WAAAAAY too hard on it. Just enjoy it while you can....its only SIX episodes people!!! Oh did I mention Scully has Alien DNA...what the actual f**k?!?!?!

The Marauders - Tom Cooper

I wanted so badly to love this book.  I love reading stories about my hometown/state.  And I don't get insulted by the representation.  Although the representation in this book was pretty spot on.  With that said even with a fairly accurate depiction of life in Southeast Louisiana I didn't enjoy this book.

I kept reading reviews about how creative, funny, and well written is was.  Even on the back cover there is a quote from one of my favorite authors (Stephen King), so I thought there is no way this book can fail.  I was wrong.  For me it was uninteresting, bordering on boring and honestly the writing was just okay.    And I didn't laugh...not even a snicker.  I am not trying to be a jerk, I really just could not get into the story enough to love it, much less even like it. 

The premise is interesting.  What happens to a Louisiana still reeling from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina when the BP Oil Spill happens.  We are following the lives of shrimpers, a BP middleman who is from the area, criminals, and "drug lords".  The story just fell flat.  It would start to sort of ramp up and then, blah, nothing.  How many times do you have to say Wes blames his father for his mother's death.  How many times do I have to be told that Lindquist is a pill popping shrimper missing an arm.  How many times must we elaborate on what a waste of space Cosgrove and Hanson are.  Oh and did I mention there is all this talk of Jean Lafitte's lost "treasure".  This story is a bit all over the place. 

I won't go more into detail because I really didn't enjoy it enough to retain much detail.  And really there are quite a few details.  I hate to be so hard on a book because usually I am a very kind reader but I just can't say much nice about it.  We get a decent ending but over all the book is dark with attempts at humor that fall flat. 

I give it 2.5 stars.  Give it a try if you want, you may like it.  It just wasn't my cup of tea. 

I received this book for free from Blogging for Books to read and give my honest review.