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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.

Maggie was also concealing from Ben the fact that she was still seeing and spending time with her ex. So not only was she having an emotional affair, or close enough to one, she was lying about it because she knew how Ben would feel about it. I don't think she chose to come clean later, either. She got caught after-the-fact - she never told Ben she was with her ex in his car when they were hit and she had to receive medical treatment. I think someone in the hospital made an off-hand comment to Ben that tipped him off. So no duh he decided he can't trust her and/or his feelings for her have been too negatively impacted. It's fair that she doesn't want to talk about him with co-workers or hear about how great he is, but ultimately, it's the consequences of her own actions. I love Luke Mitchell (Ripley), so that biases me towards being patient for the show to make him more likable/balanced. I really hope his primary purpose is not to inject regular conflict. The premiere gave me Dr. Abrams and his withering self, so I'm happy. Who on earth is improving the 2.0 software??? Yeah yeah, Crockett said he had fixed the problems, but he only knows the medicine part of it. No way is he hands-on coding anything, nor is Jack Dayton still paying technical people to support 2.0.

Agreed, this episode flowed much better. Was it clunk-free? No. But it was better. JLM as Alec is always cool as a cucumber, but I really appreciated seeing it in the courtroom That setting really highlighted how professional he is. He was steady steady steady when most people would be very aggravated. Psychology in a court/legal setting is something we see portrayed a lot, so that was also less clunky. Although the more organic feeling was also definitely due to the fact that the assistants were not shoehorned in. Even when they were (being on hold with the investment company for 2 hours), it was quick in passing and nothing labored. Clearly this show was made low-budget in Canada, and although it's doing "well" now with no competition, I have to imagine that NBC isn't banking on it faring just as well in a normal broadcast season. If they renew for season 2, I hope they make better use of the budget by writing out the ex-wife and one (or both) or the assistants. Find 1-2 more characters that work and are actually interesting. Sara Canning as the DA in the pilot, perhaps? ... MJW's character irritated me at first, but he came around. Crossover power of "The Raptor" (from when he was on The Resident) will do that.

Welp, what a conventionally satisfying ending to reveal that Reddington was Gossip Girl this whole time. Using his international analog network of spies to uncover and report secrets about all of the cool kids at school before shutting it down and flying away with his bull horns. And then Cooper said, "if you think about it (Red being Gossip Girl), it's like a love letter to all of us." Ressler finally "got his man" through typical crackerjack law enforcement work on his part. Doesn't search the entire property, goes to the market only because someone else told him to, and once there, makes the rounds by himself, knowing he doesn't speak Spanish and not even trying to use online/app translators as he fumbles around with a decades old picture and saying "hombre?" to everyone he passes. Nope, he doesn't ask the local police for an officer assist. The task force members all scatter to the wind. Dembe goes back to the arts and meets the next great love of his life. Ressler applies to local police departments and finds himself testing on the low end of all skill sets. He is mainly used only in undercover operations that require someone with "handsome hair." He does stay sober and also meets a wonderful lady, mostly so he can stop thinking of Liz as the love of his life, barf. Cooper writes a memoir disguised as 100% pure fiction about his working and personal relationships with Reddington. It becomes a best-seller. Agnes never gets mentally old enough to read it, as she continues to act like an 8-year-old in perpetuity, calling Cooper "Pops" and Charlene "Mooms" through adulthood. XOXO!

Coming back to say that I rewatched the finale tonight and even knowing how it ended, or maybe because I knew how it ended, I cried at the end. Gorgeous song at the end and during the credits - and wow, it is by Katelyn Tarver!, Drew's sister who has her own separate music career. (No nepo sister here.) Super loved that right after the final words of the show (by Cary), the song plays, "What makes a life good? If you know, can you tell me?" While I 100% believe Cary and Brooke will continue to have their ups and downs, and they still are who they are at the core, they have a much, much stronger grasp now on what makes a life good. I shall close by once again championing more David Lascher on tv! Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Edited: To fix auto-correct on Katelyn Tarver's name

Don't have enough time to formulate all my thoughts, but - First I must say how much I loved that Mackenzie's brother was played by David Lascher! (Ted McGriff from "Hey Dude" as well as many network TV movies back in the 90s that I loved.) Please, I need more David Lascher on my screen!! Also loved when Lance showed up outside of the news van, he was wearing Crocs. Hahahahah. I don't know if he's ever worn them before, but I thought it was funny after his initial season 1 focus on all of his sneaker ideas. I definitely loved that Curtis was honest about his boundaries and that he stood up for his friends. So often you see situations where it's clear to everyone else, "you don't have an in-law problem, you have a spouse problem" when the spouse doesn't stand up for the other person or have appropriate boundaries. And Curtis did not fall into that when it came to his friends and whether it was OK to bring Cary into the mix. I also loved that Lance had a chance to share a little bit about his nursing experiences and Brooke for real listened. "I just say 'Hello Sharon' and then succinctly say what I am thinking." or whatever that line was. Haha! I will miss you, show. But Lance, I will miss you most of all. I did not recognize by sight, but the first gentlemen told his friends they worked together on "Emily Overruled," that Dana Delany show during which Cary pulled a Pleasantville. I think the guy who called out to him reminded us that he played the judge. I don't really have any feelings about this reference, but it was nice that the connection with these people came from one of Cary's "lesser" recent parts that he probably mentally discarded because it wasn't big enough.

This is mean and I have plenty of legitimate criticisms of this show, but the finale really highlighted for me how ridiculous Max looks in clothes. I don't care for him out of clothes, either, but his pumped-up proportions are so strange and clothes only highlight how his silhouette is not a real person's silhouette. It's like a Popeye cartoon silhouette but worse. Seeing him at the parole hearing was like, oof. Speaking of cartoons, all of the villains on this show are cartoon characters in all the bad ways. I assume that they only showed part of the conversation with the state's attorney. Bode insisted that Sleeper is the drug dealer, but he's got so many connections and machinations that he keeps getting away with it. But he offers or accepts an offer to go undercover and the fake front is that he confessed to "being the bad dude" and goes back to prison. No one else in his life can know he's UC so it has to look real and everyone has to react like it's real. Sleeper's got eyes everywhere! Bode is shown crying in his cell because he's sorry he hurt the people he loves, not because he's actually staring down the barrel of staying in prison long-term. So Bode spends x number of episodes in s2 gathering enough intel and evidence to bring down Sleeper and probably his whole inside network. He doesn't have to do it to get paroled, but it was how he got Freddy out ASAP (super believable, that was) and how he "saves" Three Rock and other prisoners from the poison that is Sleeper. This of course also allows Bode to be SuperBode the Martyr who knows best and knows all. Then he gets paroled and his UC work to bust Sleeper helps him overcome some of the normal administrative obstacles to working for Cal Fire faster than if he was a standard parolee and Cal Fire nepo-baby nugget. He has to mend most of his relationships because of the lies he told and let people believe so he could go UC. Bring on a few more episodes of stupid soap opera BS during live rescues instead of, you know, rescuing people. Ultimately it comes out that blond neighbor ex-girlfriend who is now dating Jake has a baby that could be Bode's. Bode's peace with Gabriella last about 2 seconds before this revelation. It turns out he's not the father, though, because the other guy ex-girlfriend was sleeping with back then ... is Sleeper! Oh nos!!!!! Sleeper rears his ugly head again, and Bode really goes above and beyond to crush Sleeper once and for all because now it's in the name of a child! And SuperBode will always champion the children and do what's best for the innocent little babes! Now can I have my WGA card?

Maggie basically did the same thing last episode that the NYPD detective did this episode. She was super exasperated when her sister told her about her friend's missing boyfriend. IIRC, Maggie's reaction of "you know I can't just use FBI resources to look into him" was basically "not my circus, not my monkeys" with the resulting implication of "welp, whatever happened to him isn't my problem, I have other work I need to do." Yes, that kind of missing person situation and the Katie Ryan missing person situation are normally NYPD's domain. But Maggie sure didn't care about a human being's purported disappearance until the missing boyfriend played into an FBI case. Maggie has no self-awareness to realize this, or to realize she was so harsh on the detective because she saw her sister in Katie Ryan, or to acknowledge she stigmatizes addict/recovery the way she assumed the detective did. I mean, she literally did it last episode. She was so dismissive and irritated about the missing boyfriend because of the addict/recovery context of her sister and her sister's friend. I know people generally didn't like Nestor, the arrogant guy she was dating a few seasons ago (Josh Segarra), but really, they have a lot in common.

Yes, I also noticed Nina showing quite a bit when in profile view. If I were to guess, she looked 4-5 months along? It wasn't an "ate a lot at the buffet food baby" situation. She was noticeably pregnant. I knew instantly that Remy was going to be a douche bag to Scola from their very first interaction and Remy's poor attempts at cool-guy humor. Btw, in a different episode of Most Wanted recently, Remy called his team, "little homies." At least that was ridiculously stupid. Calling Scola "kid" was just pompous. In the FBI franchise, it's a rule that if your character gets a main storyline, you will 100% be written as an idiot or jerk. To see that in this episode was not surprising. But it wasn't as bad as what they wrote for OA during his ritzy condo - oh nos! - his crypto crashed! episode.

Finally finished this episode after falling asleep during two prior attempts. Count me in on finding this kid extremely annoying. And lo and behold, he was played by the show creator's son. Obviously the actor is not the same person as the character, but I felt even more annoyed after confirming this nepo baby on imdb. The meh-ness of this show is perfectly encapsulated in the flat voiceover delivery they play at the beginning of every episode. "Honey, all those things are true, they're just, you know." "What?" "True lies." I'm sure Steve Howey can do much better than that, but this is the version they used?? After last week's amusement with The Wolf, this week's episode fell off a damn cliff.

If you're Captain Raymond Holt, you carry around a checkbook to buy groceries. But then you also think any music sung in English is rock music, and any smile longer than 1.5 seconds is a con man's ruse. I love Andy Favreau and dislike the Pierce character, but it's kind of fun to see him play a jerk. It takes 10 episodes for the show to remember Mateo exists as more than a background extra. I need to watch the bus rescue again - when Mateo and Paul are trying to transport Dan, slip on the blood, and fall all over each other, I am pretty sure Mateo says, "It's in my ass" or "what's in my ass?" Was that in the script and what is that referring to? Was it an intentional ad-lib or unintentional because the actor was falling? Owen is so annoying. I think the writers think they keep giving him female characters who put him in his place, but look at him keep going like the most irritating Energizer Bunny.

I bet the people who work on the show are shocked, too. They seemed to wrap up the situation with "Keith" and signal Danno - er, Jason - moving on from his over-attachment to his "old" family like it would be OK to end the show there. This show was shockingly terrible. I can't believe Nikki will live another season to unprofessionally promise that "we get our babies back, that's what we do." I can only imagine all of the unprofessional things the entire cast of characters will do in the workplace next year.