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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.

I know they must be contractually obligated, but "you can follow along in the scorebox" and you'd be out before the first hour is over.

What’s this new Say Yes to the Dress with Tan France on after the “regular” one?

Dear NBC Director, do NOT do a facial closeup at the start of the program then switch late to a long shot because it took you forever to switch. You got better at switching by the end of the last group but it was still annoying as all get out. Amber looked like a bundle of "get me out of here" in all the backstage shots so I wasn't surprised. But I was glad she rallied. And I will stand by my opinion that with all the Janet Jackson songs she could have chosen, that was NOT IT. She could have skated to "Control" and rocked the house. Or "What Have You Done for Me Lately." Alyssa just charms me and she somehow sells that dreary SP song. As for her free, I love MacArthur Park as a song and it's gotten better over the year but that ending still isn't right. She should have taken the "there will be another dream for me" interlude and sold the hell out of it and made it a highlight. They keep selling it as fun disco when they could have played into her comeback ::steps down from song choice soap box:: I hope she does well in the free. I still don't understand what she's done to her front teeth though. Or how that SP dress stays on. Every time Isabeau takes off, I think she's going to pitch forward on her face. I can't believe her coaches haven't stopped her from that. That said, love the outfit and the program. What was with all the blonde? Tara was really blonde and Kaori Sakamoto with her new blonde looks. I think I've missed a trend.

I was expecting this starting about a hour after the event was reported. Cop side was quite well done - the drones and the cameras, Detective Yee calling the shots, very effective. But the law side…Nolan was a disaster. Finally, he gets all the pieces handed to him, so he is not going to back down. You’d think, after all these eps of everyone’s personal drama, Nolan’s dad would have figured into this somehow. Riley mentions Shaw waiting in the ER for 11 hours and Brady says “that’s the game” - perfect ER vet response. But I hated that non-ending.

I love origami but the crane fold always did me in, because I was looking at a book and that part where you make a pocket fold does not really translate to drawings of how to do it. Seeing it "live," yeah, I could have rocked that one. I still don't get what was up with the nails on that ninja challenge, and them just bouncing off the target. I wouldn't have stayed around for more than 20 attempts, though. If I hadn't gotten it in 5, out. Happy for Scott and Lori (because older team - and he still loses to Jonathan in the obnoxious guy sweepstakes) and the gamer guys - are they carrying one backpack and switching? I got involved in watching what everyone was carrying around this time. Maybe because yeah, 90 minutes was a bit long for this one. Also how did Vegas Guy in black get away with black when everyone else has both team members in their color, I wonder? Do they penalize?

I wondered why we never saw the guy again

To quote Homer Simpson, d'oh. Thanks for the information - I had forgotten that, obviously. Still, it seems crazy that the show that used to give us almost no information about its crew is now routinely building eps around everyone's personal lives, and this time, it was dueling trauma. Yes, please. Unless we're building up to everyone quitting en masse at the end of the season. For someone whose default personality seems to be "oh, not this again," Nolan is now into it with Shaw, Maroun, and Baxter. Didn't he also cross Riley and Brady? I mean, McCoy, Cutter or Stone crosswise with people, sure. But Nolan really seems like a getalong kind of guy. Yes. It's bad enough that the criminals are dumb - I am always baffled by these people coming home with bloody shoes and just leaving them in the house. I mean, get to the door, put it all in a garbage bag, get some new shoes on, and go ditch the evidence in a garbage dumpster blocks from your house. But Price and Maroun seem to spend most of their time onscreen losing motions, getting caught flatfooted by court testimony and being upset that they don't have a winning case.

I was wondering - was that the brother who was arguing with him about their dad? I have to say I was on Shaw’s side and that whole crowd should have shut up about 10 years for that miserable circumstantial case. Also, okay, so, the actor had the stalker in, his assistant in, the boy band guy in - spoilers for an old movie I’m glad Baxter finally told them to make a deal. And yay for Detective Shi Undercover. I wish Nolan had told the ex-wife that his “Personal Drama” was outweighed by another cast member’s.

Okay, of people who lived anyway - I think worst is Borgia, then Claire, then Green and Logan - I'll put poor Ed third because going out about to be convicted of murder...wow. I thought it was a lousy way to write him out but I did like Lupo and Bernard in this one. I did love Ed's apartment. My headcanon is that Logan, Curtis and Green were at Anita's party in the original finale, we just didn't see them on camera. I will not be taking questions at this time.

The fox was absolutely adorable. Anyone else hear someone saying that the new toy set was lead? Tristan used to annoy me but he's beginning to find his way and I'm liking the new version. Several posters had mentioned the ship way back so I was waiting for that anvil, now you've got me with the Singapore anvil. I also agree on the phone call - not only that they had it at all but they held on while Tristan ran to get Mrs Hall. Too much watching MASH where it's always hard to get a phone call at all, and that's ten years later without the whole world at war.