sweetandsour

I'm not surprised Luke is leaving since he had some time off last year after he had a baby. With where the show films, it's just not the same at all as being an FBI or FBI:Most Wanted cast member with a family. I don't always like Scott, but he is 100% the leader of the team. I don't buy anyone else on the current team stepping into his spot (or Jamie Kellett, for that matter, if she had stayed). The only person we've seen so far that I would accept as the team leader is Katrin Jaeger, and she's obviously not coming back as a regular. I would prefer that Smitty takes over than Vo getting another promotion magically. I would also accept Remi Scott from FBI:Most Wanted moving overseas to lead the Fly Team, so I could enjoy Most Wanted more and then stop watching International altogether, bwahahah.

Maggie and OA are in pursuit. "There's too many people around. This could go sideways really fast. Let's just get closer before we arrest him," Maggie says. What! Here in FBI-land, we yell, "FBI! Freeze!" when 200+ feet away from the suspect, allowing almost 100% certainty that the suspect will escape. This writer must be new. Like, new-new. Tiff acknowledges she needs professional help after last week's total meltdown of appropriate FBI conduct. So that's something. Although I'm not sure she would have gotten help after the blown op itself, or if she only did because of the unpleasantness with the wife of her obvious best friend in the world, Hobbs. I like the reality of Scola and Nina's New York home, i.e. that it's cozy and small. They are dressing Maggie like Missy might be pregnant again? I don't mean that as a negative comment on her appearance at all. I think she looks great and I've gotten past the hump of accepting her bangs. It's just the telltale baggier button-ups.

I believe it was after Tim and Brian White talked their way into Ray's mom's house and found Ray there. They were all talking in the kitchen after not having seen each other in so long, and Ray made a point of saying how old they'd gotten, and then a bit later in the conversation, lobbed some variant of "damn, you really have gotten so old!" echo at Brian's character specifically. It was kind of strange in how untrue it is, but maybe that's just part of kooky murderer Ray?

Sam and Jay, you just got Jammed! Congratulations, Jay, those were some real Leslie Knope moves you pulled to get rid of Jon Glaser. Carol's adjustment period seems to be focused only on being dead, being a ghost, and dwelling in the B&B now. I don't think I've heard her say anything about her life - Jerry, Laura, little Pete, missing donut holes, nothing. So how is she going to get her outstanding closure so she gets sucked off? No way she is a permanent ghost. I don't think they'll bring this storyline back, but I wouldn't mind if Elias can come back from hell and took her with him this time. Maybe they'll write her need for closure on something that finally humanizes her and then we can bid adieu.

WALT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I saw Malcolm David Kelley's name in the opening credits, I was like, "ooh," but then he played a mostly throwaway character, so whatever. I hope the therapist is not in cahoots with Bridget Regan. I don't know if she disclosed she tapes her sessions, or if there is something more nefarious going on. It is so dumb that The Rookie feels so compelled to have constant arch-nemeses that they are resorting to paying Bridget to keep popping up like this. However, the therapist is clearly evil for letting Smitty park himself in her waiting room near the other patients. I also don't care for this "The Rookie: The Terminal List" arc they have for Tim. And why the multiple digs at how old Brian White looks now, when he has physically aged the least out of any of the men on this show. If that's the joke, it's not working.

I wasn't expecting to see Kamar, either. I actually thought another thing they would use the time jump for was having a new head coach at Coastal California. Then I saw him and at first glance, I thought they did a similar CGI thing they did with Adan Canto on "The Cleaning Lady." (Oh man, RIP to both of these beloved gentlemen.) But then he kept speaking and they kept showing him not from a distance and I was like, "no, that is Kamar," and I got so sad. They didn't seem to have a dedication card at the end, so I assume (without checking imdb) that he will appear again at least once more, then find some way to write him out. I will brace myself. If they recast the character, I think they could pop David Fumero in there (as Coach Mr. Montes is Asher's most significant relationship outside of the vortex), but I haven't heard anything about recasting. Otherwise, I was kind of underwhelmed with the premiere, but I also don't think the show is consistently successful executing big drama (lives on the line, etc.) or needs it. Nice to see Coop rapping again!

There's been a lot of talk about how much this show has strayed from the original concept of a Rookie, and I'll tell you something else this show is not a Rookie at - employing stupid gimmicks that fall flat! I was surprised they didn't give Bailey a bigger role in their escape, since she is well-established to be good at everything, and I mean everything. Speaking of, didn't she bake Nolan an entire cake once while he was out jogging? And not a box cake frosted from a can - a real cake. So why did their wedding cake suck so hard? Even if it's because Bailey didn't do everything herself and her delegates messed up, she was still supervising. My theory is the writers' room breaks silly story arcs, and then the assigned writer pumps out the draft script. The head writer and producers read the script, slam it down on the table, and declare, "Not silly enough! Make it sillier!!!!" This iterative process continues it reaches the escalating threshold of silliness dictated for the season.

I guess the show held back in 2 ways this episode - They didn't bring that documentary crew back to capture the wedding and hijinks, and for Alexi Hawley to make an appearance on the 100th episode. Bailey is not the one who ran some guy out the window (???) to save Celina. Sigh. This was rough. There is a target audience who loved it, but I am on an island (a well-populated one, I presume) not caring for it. Wedding vows do not as a rule make me tear up, but a lot of tv couples will get me feeling something. Not these two! I was just like, "when is this going to be over, these words are not penetrating at all." Bridget Regan's lawyer character is a clone or a hologram because she cannot be this busy and this omnipresent in this LAPD station's lives. I really like Bridget, but this Monica character, meh. Does Alexi Hawley hate redheads? Was his long-time childhood bully a redhead? I am capable of saying something nice, so - everyone looked good in their wedding attire.

Well, I don't think I had any "who the fuck is Stan?" moments during season 4, so that is a win in True Detective world. I will need to rewatch the finale. Maybe the whole series, which is only 6 episodes, but I found myself drifting to some other distraction like my phone throughout almost every episode. That is a "me" problem and not necessarily a reflection of the show. But maybe I will appreciate it all more if I give it a second watch. Navarro's suicide would have been unambiguous if she went to the hole where she poured Julia's ashes and walked or dove in. I would prefer to think she's still out there. She walked out to the ocean the way Julia did, to have one more moment with her, but she chose to go off the grid and give up being in law enforcement after that. Poor Qaavik.

The opening credits for the premiere are depressing. I really hope Kenny and Alex are happy about their recurring status and it allows them to do other things they want to do. I think Shemar and the producers keep openly referring to this as "if this is really our last season," like ratings and (my guess) maybe the impact of the strike on this year's pilots might keep SWAT on the air, but I do not want a second season with this pared down team. I don't know if ratings will take a hit because of the departures. I like everyone who's left, but it's incomplete to me and not a good sign of what's going on with the allotted budget. The obvious guess for how Street's storyline ends is he leaves to be with Chris, and maybe they leave LA altogether, like maybe Chris wants to set up another safehouse in another state and Street is happy to go with her. I don't know about Luca - but I feel like they might write him going to San Diego to be with his real-life daughter, like maybe he ends up dating her mom and decides this is the commitment he wants but has always had trouble making in the past. Neither character has to leave LA necessarily, but it would be weird to write two die-hards off the SWAT team at the same time while saying they stayed in the area.

So many ridiculous, truly LOL things in this episode, but the one that made me laugh the hardest was - "I'm so happy for you." HAHAHAHA. The delivery on that line. HAHAHAHA. Hopefully Bode kept that prison needle and thread so he can stitch up his broken heart. I like Bode's cellmate, though. He has the kind of chill that I wish more characters on this show had.

LOL all day long. I laughed so hard so many times during the last two episodes. I laughed the way people laugh at Vin Diesel in the XXX movies. I chortled, guys. I chortled big time. At least the t-rex looked better than that horrible rafting/alligator-crocodile scene from episode 5. What a stupid waste of the first 5 episodes, just to cram in so much that they skipped scenes altogether, taping them together with a line of dialogue ("we helped Petra escape") or none at all. Like how did anyone ever know how to find anyone???? Yet people kept reuniting at different places and times. What in tarnation! The other La Breans lined up to go through the 2021 aurora when Veronica was going through it, too. Some went through before her. Then she and Lucas took their sweet time until she went through. Meanwhile, they showed a line of other La Breans still queued up, no one going through until Veronica did. No sense of urgency for an aurora that could disappear at any time. This show was so convoluted from beginning to end that I can't even begin to try to make connections. Maya Schmidt is the shittiest Big Bad this year, I think. And I have no idea what her relationship with Grandpappy Harris was - were they parallel villains? Did they both work for Reisander? Was Grandpappy on his own? Did he break away from Reisander? I refuse to rewatch the show to determine what I can pull together and what was just unaccounted for. They didn't have any time for Judah, the recurring grouch with the curly hair and glasses, to make one last whiny complaint. Please tell me he is not invited to 2021 La Breans weekly brunch. Josh and Riley will 100% break up within 6 months. Sam finally remembered he has another kid. Eve took so long to meet up with her family because she stopped at Drybar to get a blowout.

I don't have time to leave a longer response right now, but I just have to say - I know barely any time has passed since the Tsalal corpiscle (not even a week, right?) - but man. If there was a team-up with Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, and the staff of "Alaska Daily," they would get layers upon layers of answers. Despite the lack of detective work between Danvers, Navarro, and elder Prior and without forcing younger Prior to neglect his family. It would take some time, but it would get done. Also, this show absolutely does not deserve to be nominated for any awards for Hair and Makeup. Not because the hair and makeup they've done has been bad, but because of the seemingly conscious decision of I have to assume Issa Lopez to have zero sign of Navarro's beatdown in episode 5. I gave them some benefit of the doubt last episode because Navarro had her beanie on and I thought, "maybe that's covering the serious cuts," even though there was very little swelling and bruising shown. But in episode 5, Navarro looks totally normal even without the beanie. People have tiny whiteheads that make longer and more obvious appearances than Navarro's fight wounds.

Josh Segarra (Manny) also played Voight's son in "Chicago PD." He had a shady criminal past and for a while, it was ambiguous as to whether he really had turned over a new leaf or he was still the same person he had previously been. Not exactly a villain in a strict sense, but if you'd seen that, it would leave an impression of "is he a bad guy? ..." I really do not want to vilify the district people after we already vilified Draymond last year. And season 1 clearly showed corruption at the district level in terms of how Ava got her job and fucked Gregory over. I would prefer to have them shown as well-meaning but unable to execute due to lack of experience and knowledge. With pops here and there of them doing something truly helpful because they can't always be useless.

I just never understand why Severide and Stella never talk about the time she went to Boston for Girls on Fire and kept extending her stay with little to no communication to Severide. Or anyone else, for that matter. I feel like I remember even Boden was like, "Wtf? When is she coming back? She's not talking to me, either." I get it's a problem that Severide went away for arson and didn't communicate with Stella. And then he doesn't seem to have adequately explained to Stella why he was so radio silent. But why is it like Stella doing something similar (first) never happened? I am loving Rome Flynn on the show. Also am very happy that Carver is getting average amount of screen time and storylines now. Last season was so Carver-heavy it seemed like they were positioning him to be the new male lead. (While overestimating how much the audience wants that.) I honestly am so surprised they still have the actor as a recurring guest star based on how much they featured him last year.