A pleasant enough offering this week on ‘BMDS’ … but why do the writers insist on making Will Sasso’s character look so inane?

We technically already have a review on this hour-long special from a year ago, but I couldn’t end the year (nor the 6th season) without one last look at our favorite gang to love/avoid in real life.

The Thursday night time slot is being very nice to this show. Congratulations go out to ‘The Big Bang Theory’ on Golden Globe nominations for Best Television Series (comedy or musical) and Jim Parsons for his Best TV Actor in a Comedy or Musical. Bazinga!

A double elimination challenge raises the stakes a little, but so does cooking for some of the best chefs in New York … in their own restaurants.

Rivalry week comes to Dillon, Texas, as the Lions face the Panthers in what has become an annual showdown that no one can miss.

Family members arrive to help out with a reward challenge, but Chase lays all of his cards on the table when he wins the reward. Then Fabio goes and screws it all up by winning immunity and Jane learns her place in the tribe pecking order.

Not Russell! Not Russell! I’m as happy as a little girl. But between the scowl I sustained during the entire finale (expecting him to win) and this miserable deep freeze I’m stuck in; I’m asking Santa for extra expensive and plentiful moisturizer this year.