{"id":31154,"date":"2012-11-06T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/face-off-finale.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:32:24","slug":"face-off-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/face-off-finale.html","title":{"rendered":"Face Off finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally got around to watching the season 3 finale of &quot;Face Off,&quot; which is Syfy&#39;s reality \/ competition show focused on SFX makeup. \u00a0It was a fun season on a show all three of us enjoy, with a generally likeable set of competitors. \u00a0I thought the two-episode finale was a bit much (I&#39;d have rather seen a single 90 minute finale if they wanted to pad in some retrospective and spectacle), but I thought the overall winner was a good pick (even if it was a popularity contest).<\/p>\n<p>(SPOILER ALERT: if you haven&#39;t seen the finale, the winner is on the front page of the site below).<\/p>\n<p>What I found a little surprising is how much overlap there is in the production. \u00a0The finale, broadcast the day before and day of Halloween, live (with voting by viewers), also include previews for season 4 which appears to already be in filming progress and will be shown starting in January.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#39;s a fun show (about the only thing I watch on Syfy), which I recommend to you when it returns.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/_cache\/images\/video.syfy.com\/syfy_video_thumbnails\/NBCU_Syfy\/113\/499\/121101_2606484_Crowning_the_Winner___Face_Off_Season_3_640x480_5486147901___CC___300x168.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/faceoff'>Face Off | Syfy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFace Off: A Syfy Original Series.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FgUnBQmx7F9' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally got around to watching the season 3 finale of &quot;Face Off,&quot; which is Syfy&#39;s reality \/ competition show focused on SFX makeup. \u00a0It was a fun season on a show all three of us enjoy, with a generally likeable set of competitors. \u00a0I thought the two-episode finale was a bit much (I&#39;d have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/face-off-finale.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Face Off finale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/28\/and-a-season-finale-4-for-arrow.html","url_meta":{"origin":31154,"position":0},"title":"And a season finale (#4) for &quot;Arrow&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-May-16 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"An episode riddled with plot holes, irrational actions, handwaving plot resolution, and characters who appear without comment then vanish without comment. 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