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Adrienne talks about an upcoming HHI that uses her apartment as the backdrop for the house hunters’ interview segments: One outfit, multiple days

I think Price and Shaw should go open a law practice together because they are surrounded by co-workers who think it’s fine and dandy to violate the rules and canons and leave them to pick up the pieces. Our luck, Price will leave and Maroun will move up to first chair or continue as second to some other poor EADA. She is absolutely insufferable. Not that the rest of it was much better. How did those parents get there from Iowa to meet the roommate when the cops had just showed up to talk to her? How did Shaw and Riley miss the doorman? Why is Brady interrogating everyone? Why do we have to keep seeing the murder? Why didn’t Nolan even attempt to argue inevitable discovery? There is absolutely no energy or snap to these scenes. I watched a season 20 ep the other day (“Brazil” with the researcher who gets shot not for climate change but child custody) and the pacing and performances are night and day different. The writing is much better and the performances are livelier too - there is not a joke or even an arch comment to be had by this new group. Riley’s line about social media was the only attempt. It’s not helped by how flat and dark everything looks - the new processing and color correction makes everything look brown. Or maybe it’s my TV...

Puts the whole thing with his dad and the other brother earlier this year into a way different light, too. Speaking of things seen in a different light…that would explain all the rulings against him too. Poor Shaw & Riley - I think they’re a good team but they need remedial training in how to not have to foot chase every suspect. Re: Maroun and the season ending trailer of doom…is it the Serena exit or the Logan one? (not sure what the ADA equivalent of Staten Island is).

If Maroun goes, make it like Murphy Brown’s secretaries for second chair. Watching the older L&Os versus current, this show desperately needs to be a little more wry - it’s lost so much personality. Would be a fun guest shot opportunity.

Shaw and Riley had lots of backup when they didn’t need it and then none in their shootout and finding of Breaking Bad East, when they needed it. Yes, guys, great idea to go investigate the sketchy containers at the dock at midnight without even one uniform. I have to join the chorus of Maroun needs to go, and I’m not that big a fan of the rest of the DA’s office. How we’ve cycled through everyone else and not at least her is a mystery

Ray Stewart (Mr Driscoll) just turned 92.

Kevin Whately gets an OBE: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8nj76pex3o

Loved the dancing roadblock, and good for the gamers for catching back up

Feta is sheep’s milk cheese so I’d say yes. Now as to whether there were 102 year old grandmothers involved…

Re-watching Morse after Endeavour is really weird. DeBryn and Morse’s relationship doesn’t track with knowing each other for years. But really off is Strange and Morse’s relationship. It often seems like they started working together as boss/subordinate, not that they knew each other for years, were roommates, and the alleged love of Morse’s life ended up married to him. It’s just crazy. Although the casting of young Strange matches old really well.

They paid a lot of money for the prop?

This is the first L&O I can remember without the “in the criminal justice system.” I actually liked Brady tonight, so good job Benson making me override my preexisting hostility! They took way too long to realize Gomez was bad. They never cleared the priest, did they? Places to not go in L&O - Hudson University and bathrooms.

My family had a VW Dasher (one of the 1st water cooled VWs and a HORRIBLE car - same time as the first Rabbits) and you shifted up and over for Reverse. So at every stoplight, my parents would ease off the brake, never sure if they were in 1st or Reverse. That was our last manual car. I had flashbacks… The sheep looking into the camera like The Office when Jonathan yelled something at Ana was comedy gold. Jonathan getting stuck in the mud was even better, complete with him holding the board he wanted Ana to drive on at an angle. I’m sure the villagers are still talking about the whole thing. ‘Loved the guy at the hay just lying in the grass and weighing guy was fun too. And the dancers with those fantastic costumes.

First, Riley, no one in Miami is dressing like your daughter when it’s cold. They’d be in a hoodie, shorts and flip flops, or at least they are in my part of Florida. They wouldn’t be wearing that drab outfit, no wonder she didn’t want to wear it. But the main offender was the whole prosecutor’s office, which needs to be fired. Baxter’s multiple conflicts of interest, Maroun’s eye rolling moralizing (I was thinking she’d find out the guy wasn’t a SEAL or something), and then Nolan’s performance. I was hoping they’d let Maroun cross that awful dad, since she obviously triggered him, but that’s a Cutter move and Nolan doesn’t have the go for the jugular instinct. Instead Nolan just folds like a cheap suit and now those two girls get terrible lives. I missed Olivet or Skoda and what the hell was that other therapist doing, telling them how it all went down? This ep was a mess.

I’m interested to see the Galaxy Quest tribute (that’s what it has to be, right?) and happy that we get Scotty again.