TV Recaps: 11 Highlights From the Week Ending July 16, 2010

So You Think You Can Dance recap: Dropping like flies
Oh, Ashley, we hardly knew ye. Seriously, we did hardly know you. Because from day one, the So You Think You Can Dance team seemed intent on keeping [this week]'s eliminated contestant a mystery. — Kate Ward

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Big Brother recap: Mystery dissolved
After finding out her neck was on the line, Annie did what any grown woman (of 13 years old) would do and stomped, pouted, whined, blamed another girl for her situation, and even served herself some ice cream. — Sandra Gonzalez

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Top Chef recap: Love is in the air
We saw Angelo's crush on Tamesha fleshed out a bit more last night, but he really just looked like a man with a white van, if you catch my drift. Calculated power play? Probably. But this is also the guy who sexually characterizes his food, so anything goes. — Archana Ram

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The ESPY Awards: Mark Wahlberg, not quite a slam dunk
Regarding the merging of entertainers and athletes (Chris Bosh and model Marissa Miller looked absolutely terrified of one another), Meyers said it best: ''This is where sports and entertainment come together; it's like a Kardashian sister's bedroom.'' — Emily Exton

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Psych season premiere: Shaw is part Chinese... now
I'm all for seeing more of Corbin Bernsen on the show, but his new job as liaison for the police department (which means he gets to choose when to hire Shawn and Gus as consultants), has him wearing suits. I prefer Henry in casual wear. Discuss. — Mandi Bierly

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The Hills series finale: The joke's on us, apparently
The sunny California sky was merely a curtain, Kristin's street merely a set. The towncar stopped, she got out, and the crew emerged. Haters rejoice! It was all fake. Whoa, did The Hills just get smart? — Emily Exton

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The Bachelorette recap: Home runs
This information excited me, as it was the first major tidbit I've gotten about her since this show started — yeah yeah, she's ready for love and she favors off-the-shoulder tops, but beyond that I don't feel like I ever hear about her. It's all stories about the dudes' touching relationships with their mothers and battles with asbestos poisoning. — Jennifer Armstrong

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey recap: Get me outta here!
Given what we know now, this was a low blow from Danielle that obviously pushed Teresa's hot button, but I will say this, and you can hold me to it: Danielle was the victim of the fight. — Emily Exton

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Doctor Who recap: Upstairs, downstairs results in downward spiral
A mere 11 episodes in to the new companions adventures, it seemed unrealistic that she'd have such mastery of the time machines control panel, although I suppose her intermittent but unconvincing screams were supposed to signal some sort of discomfort with her solo flight. — Michael Slezak

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Deadliest Catch recap: An emotional goodbye to Capt. Phil Harris
You want to know why fans have been sobbing through the episodes leading up to Phil's death — it's because as much as we thought we related to men who do a job that 99.9 percent of us will never do, we knew they were a breed of their own. When Phil's story went from the Bering Sea to a hospital room, it packed the punch of a hero falling, of a comedian who suddenly starts to cry. And all at once, we really could relate to him and his boys — especially his boys. — Mandi Bierly

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True Blood recap: Wolf parade
But then he faltered again. He told her to look at her life since he's entered it. He's only brought her pain. She said that wasn't true. (He also brought her orgasms.) — Mandi Bierly

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