Boob Tube: Faster, Lady Cop, Kill, Kill!

OMG. If you missed Christina Cox on last week’s Dexter, then you missed the hottest lady cop action this side of what happens in my head while I’m asleep. Like the rest of the lesbian nation, I have been enamored with Christina since her role as tomboy artist and dead sexy dyke Kim in Better Than Chocolate back in 1999. Heck, I even watched the entire season of Blood Ties on Lifetime a few years back because it was so much fun to feast my eyes upon the hotness of Christina from week to week.

And not only was she hot on Dexter, but she was GOOD! Easily the strongest installment of the show so far this season, episode four—“Dexter Takes a Holiday”—featured Cox as Officer Zoey Kruger (No relation to Freddy!), a police officer who Dexter suspects of murdering her own husband and young daughter in cold blood. In sleuthing Zoey out and discovering her to be, like himself, a sociopath and a killer, Dexter comes to grips with his own ongoing struggle to integrate himself into family life as husband and father. The end in particular was powerful stuff to watch, constituting one of the biggest character development moments for Dexter Morgan so far in the entire run of the show.

By turns flirtatious, hard as nails and downright brutal, Christina, as Zoey, ate up the screen, managing not only to hold her own against, but to steal scenes from the phenomenal Michael C. Hall—no easy task! I missed her in Defying Gravity this summer, but now I’m more determined than ever to catch that series on the internets. I guess ABC still hasn’t decided when to air the remaining five episodes that they have in the can after pulling the show off the air this fall. Doesn’t exactly bode well that there’s no new news on this more than a month after the fact, but one can hope that after her stellar performance last week, that some smartypantsed someone in the industry will take note of Cox’s awesomeness and cast her in something terrific, STAT.

We want more Christina!

Boob Tube News

BBC, FTW! I am so jealous of the Brits this week. Not only has the BBC announced recently that it’s putting together a six-part contemporary lesbian drama series, but they’re also developing a one-shot lesbian, 19^th Century costume drama about the life of Anne Lister, one of recorded history’s first openly queer women. Apparently Lister gay married her lover and everything. Holy freaking crap! I am so excited about the idea of a queer female period costume drama that I don’t quite know what to do with myself…

Material Glee: While the interwebs are still abuzz with the sounds of Gleeks everywhere rejoicing that the series has been picked up for a full season, two new Glee-related announcements rocked multiple fanverses earlier this week. First, Joss Whedon (Buffy and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog) has been announced to be directing one of the episodes late this season, and second, news broke just a few days ago that Fox has licensed Madonna’s entire song catalogue for a whole episode of Madonna tunes to air early in 2010.

To Watch For…

Sunday! Celebrity chefs Sandra Lee and Rocco DiSpirito pitch in to whip up a new home for an Illinois family who run a charity to fight hunger in their community on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, (ABC, 8 p.m.).

Monday! Claire and her Sapphically crushed out roomie find themselves in a real house of horrors during a hazing ritual for their new sorority on Heroes, (NBC, 8 p.m.). Lennie James (Jericho) guests as an old friend of Cal’s come calling in an old favor on Lie to Me, (Fox, 9 p.m.).

Tuesday! Halloween classic It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, (ABC, 8 p.m.). Courtney Cox on Letterman. Alicia Silverstone on Craig Ferguson.

Wednesday! Guest judge Natalie Portman throws the remaining cheftestants for a loop on Top Chef: Las Vegas, (Bravo, 10 p.m.). Time for a toasty holiday treat as the town settles in for a wholesome evening of witch-burning on Eastwick, (ABC, 10 p.m.). Madeline Albright on Craig Ferguson.

Thursday! A nation-wide talent search takes Liz and Jack to… Kenneth’s hometown of Stone Mountain, Georgia on 30 Rock, (NBC, 9:30 p.m.).

Friday! Summer Glau kicks off her recurring role as a Dollhouse programmer from D.C. on Dollhouse, (Fox, 9 p.m.).