Sigmagirl

I’m with you. I like Season Five, but Vacancy is the weakest entry.

After he turned on Lena I would hope he realized that she had engineered the whole thing, and gotten her the help she needed. Maybe he set up a trust for them. Or am I being an optimist?

I always felt sorry for Charlene. She was cheating on Adlai but she had mental and emotional problems that were not her fault, and Lena exploited and provoked them while looking like the “Red Cross.”

Elizabeth Marvel, the actress who played Jenny Hendry/Wendy Bowman also played the art forger Sylvia Moon in “Art,” Season 1 Episode 2.

Or we have subtitling and Google. ?

It’s the song Goren is half-singing, half-muttering when he’s pretending to deliver advertising flyers, dressed basically like a hobo. “Don’t Bet Your Money on the Shanghai,” an 1861 minstrel song by Stephen Foster. It’s meant to be sung by a white performer in blackface, making fun of black people and their supposed attributes. From Wikipedia: “Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, and happy-go-lucky.” In addition, the song itself is about cockfighting, a cruel “sport” that is banned in many places.

Yeah, it sucks. I’m out of town so I can’t watch at all, so that’s even worse.

I think the most sympathetic killer is one who was never prosecuted — Frank Lowell from “Malignant,” the grieving widower who helped his wife commit suicide because her diluted cancer drugs weren’t working. Goren & Eames wouldn’t give him up to Carver.

Doreen in “Magnificat” is the most sympathetic to me. She intends to blow herself up with her four sons, which seems detestable, but learning about her husband’s treatment of her makes me want to kick his ass to the moon.

I guess I just don’t feel anything for the girls. I like when the bad guy is either sympathetic or totally despicable. I didn’t find them that compelling.

Funny, that’s one of my least favorite episodes, though it does have flashes of brilliance, especially Bobby in his black T-shirt and the detectives making lunch for the little girl (tofu bologna ?) “Do you want to nibble on some niblets?” But now I think I have to go back and watch the deleted scene. Poor me!

I watched it too. I continue to wonder why she was dating the doctor in the first place. If she was a gold digger, she would have accepted the statue. She surely could have found richer, younger, and better-looking men. The only thing I can think of is that she inveigled him into getting involved with the claim that Sophie’s dad had molested her, but I’m not sure the timeline is right.

Yeah, they just cut that scene so they could sell more commercials. Now, the other day (whenever) I was watching “Baggage” and they bleeped when Eames said “titty bar.” So that they thought was offensive.

Well all right!

In real life, if this had happened, Bobby would have had to testify about interviewing the witness using sign language, and the defense attorney would have asked “And are you a certified sign language interpreter, Detective Goren?” and he either would have had to say “yes,” which is just too much to believe, or “no,” at which the judge would say “Case dismissed.” Chung-CHUNG.

I was watching “Homo Homini Lupis” today and I noticed that in the scene where Bobby and Alex are talking to Lucas Colter in the interrogation room, trying to get him to reveal the name of the loan shark, Bobby’s fifth shirt button is undone. It’s covered by his tie except when he bends over the table. Now I can’t stop watching it. ??

Yeah, I loved the little song and dance. I want to know where he got the clothes. Is that what he wears when he’s sitting around his apartment, drinking fancy wine and reading abnormal psychology? ?

I agree that Zainer did himself in by getting cocky. I think if he’d kept his mouth shut and had a better lawyer he’d have gotten off. But so often is the case when under the influence of Bobby G.

Once again we watch “Enemy Within,” wherein nurse Rick Zainer is convicted of manslaughter mainly on the evidence of a sheet carrying the apparent evidence that he had had sex with Kit Sternman, widow of a banker killed in a fire, and with the banker’s son Edward, who is gay. The detectives charge that Zainer had sex with Edward to obtain his semen, which he put on the sheet to frame Edward for sleeping with his stepmother. Does it never occur to anyone that these two people could have had sex, or masturbated, in this sheet at different times? All Zainer would have had to do would have asked them to prove that the DNA got there at the same time and he’d have gotten off, I think. I’m no lawyer, but am I onto something here?

Is Father Dan a ghost now?

Agreed. It probably depends on who owns ION. They don’t know the difference between profanity, obscenity, and vulgarity, so they just go with the lowest common denominator.

They also cut Goren’s line about Lisa Voight “pissing all over herself with excitement” at Dr. Kelmer’s attentions. I guess “pissing” is just as bad as “prick.”

Yes, that would have been very funny. Probably hard to work into the plot, but they could have passed each other in the visiting area and looked at each other as "perfect strangers." ?

"Badge" was on yesterday, the one in which Terry Randolph (Viola Davis) dresses down Goren about his spending habits: his clothes, his dating, his cleaning lady, his expensive hobbies (the last two of which we have no evidence at all: The only thing I can think of on which he spends money for himself might be his vintage car). But I've been watching all the stuff he buys for his cases, and he can't possibly be getting reimbursed for: In "Tuxedo Hill," he buys a box of expensive imported Dover mints, "the Rolls-Royce of mints"; in "Want" he buys duplicate copies of John Tagman's soft-core porn to get an idea of Tagman's pathology; in "See Me" he buys an ophthalmologist's instrument to demonstrate how Dr. Dysart temporarily blinded his victim; in "Cold Comfort" he buys duplicate surgical instruments to show how Senator Kittridge's brain was removed. These last two he probably could have borrowed, but I'm pretty sure he says "we bought" them. I'm sure you all can provide many more examples. No way is Goren putting in expense vouchers for mints and porn DVDs. I think that instead of having "expensive hobbies," his hobby is studying expensive things. He always knows the value of every watch (in "Maledictus" he knows the vintage of the Rolex the sheriff is wearing and that it was a custom order); of every piece of jewelry (in "D.A.W." he recognizes the French designer of the antique ring and can appraise it from seeing a picture of a victim wearing it); in "Probability" the value of a dining room set; and in "Consumed" he knows those lamps are real Murano glass, even though Beth Landau insists they are knockoffs. I'm not going to count the Sussman pickles he buys in "Shandeh" or the pricey figs from "Fico di Capo." ;-) Comments?

I think I read somewhere that Lou Taylor Pucci just wasn't available.