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It's like using swear words. An occasional f__k in conversation makes the point that this is a big deal, but when you sprinkle it in every third word, it doesn't have the same importance or make the same impression. The same is true with all the death and life-threatening illness. There are enough dead chief petty officers in Norfolk (case of the week) in each episode that we don't have to sit in anticipation of which character from the recurring cast will die this week. The writers should be growing our pleasure in tuning in each week, not make it seem like going to a wake for a friend.

It's hard for me to feel bad for the fish, which, after all, isn't real. I do, however, feel bad for the cat, which is being teased by the "toy" and then tortured by children holding it out of reach of the cat.

I was really thrilled to see the first episode of season 14, with OG use of famous people and Murdock inventions. Then came 14/2. Extremely disappointing. None of the plots seemed finished. It's one thing to have recurring characters who pop up from time to time, like Terence Meyers and James Pendrick, but when characters that aren't liked and we thought we'd seen the last of appear, no, no, no. The reappearances of Goldie and perhaps the kidnapper are not only unwanted, but we're left with the expectation that they will be returning yet again, since the questions that were raised remain unanswered: Is Goldie a dangerous murderer or just lonely and weird? Is the secretary really the kidnapper or her innocent sister? And killer Bobby Brackenreid? He's barely been mentioned in 10 years and now we're supposed to believe that unbeknownst to his parents the sweet young boy has turned into an obnoxious, violent young man who supposedly killed another boy? I kept expecting his father and the detectives to find out who the "real" killer was. I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if it turns out several episodes down that road that we find out Bobby wasn't the actual killer. Is the Hamilton cop covering up for someone or does he just have an active dislike for Inspector Brackenreid for some reason? ETA: Thanks to the posters who have indicated which episode they were watching. It does help.

I think this might be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's too difficult to figure out which episode is being discussed when someone says, "I really liked last night's episode." It's just my opinion that people would be more likely to post if it was clear which episode is being discussed when you have some people watching weeks or months after (or before) others. How about this? Apparently I'm not going to change any minds about individual per-episode forums. Could posters try to do this? Indicate when you post which Season and episode you are discussing? "(14/01. Murdock and the Tramp.) I enjoy episodes with real people and Murdock's far-out inventions. Was the emcee a real person?"

There only seems to be this one long thread, so I'll post my comment here. I think it would be conducive to more comments being posted if this forum was broken down by season and episode. People are seeing the show at different times in Canada and America and then other countries, so we're posting at all different times. This makes it it confusing and spoilerish to try and post about, say 14/1 -- which just started in America -- when Canadians have been seeing season 14 for two months and many others won't be seeing the shows for many more months.

Thanks, Pepper the Cat. I would assume a hospital would cover employees for drugs, but maybe you had to be there for a few months before that kicked in. But then you'd have no plot, I guess.

We're enjoying the show, even though it is hardly realistic. The nurses seem to spend more time acting as social workers than practitioners of care for their patients' medical needs. They get awfully involved in patients' personal lives. On the other hand, they seem to be acting more like doctors than nurses. When patients ask, aren't nurses expected to turn to doctors to discuss test results and potential treatment procedures with them? Question for Canadian friends: I thought your country had better coverage than in America. Wouldn't Wolf be able to get all the medicine he needs for his leukemia without having to work extra shifts?

Is the baby real or just a doll? Cute as she is, we've only seen the baby sleeping. I would be surprised if they exposed a real infant during covid times.

Getting back to Kevin's call to Randall, I wish they had spent more time on Kevin's attempt to end to their estrangement. The conversation seemed to be going well between the brothers when Randall out of the blue said he had to hang up to make another call -- RIGHT AWAY! The notion that he had to immediately make a call -- in the middle of their seemingly good conversation -- made no sense and was in fact, very disrespectful. Of course, Kevin had no idea why he was being blown off and it obviously hurt him after he had made such an effort to call his brother.

Sorry, but I don't agree with those who are calling out the actress who portrays Sara for bad acting because she grinned after being called out by the presiding judge. Seems to me she was just doing her job, acting. Judge Brenner had called her out for scamming the other judges, but it seemed to me that Brenner understood what happened even if none of the other judges did. It looked to me like little more than a wink and a warning that now that she was on to her, Sara shouldn't do it again. Sara, in response, was at first worried, but when she realized she wasn't going to be disciplined, she grinned. I think a lot of the criticism of the actors is unwarranted. Emily didn't leap on top of the table because the actress playing her craves attention. That was what the scrip said she should do. Now, if you want to start a discussion about the script writers ....

I glad that Lola's husband will be back in L.A.

It seems like an odd time to be doing reenactments in the middle of a pandemic. (Unless it was reenacting the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918/1919,) 🙂

Boy, there were enough red herrings in this series to hold a huge fish fry. I did think for me it was a surprise ending. How infrequently is the person on trial actually the murderer, at least on TV police procedurals? I figured until we saw the actual murder that Grace's testimony would get Jonathan convicted, but it would turn out that Franklin or Sylvia or Grace or the husband or who knows, the milkman, actually committed the murder. And then, the car chase, I really didn't know whether Jonathan would crash the car or jump, taking Henry with him.

My quibble about the show: An obviously wealthy white woman safely walking the empty streets of New York City late at night. There are more people on the streets in the few scenes shot during the day. How long would she last IRL before being robbed or worse? And to carrps, a big thank you. The pronunciation of Elena's name as if it were Eleanor has bugged my wife and me big time.

I agree with Randall and Bess that Tess shouldn't have dealt with her problem by making a video and swearing at the teacher. However, I think it would have been better for them to say, "Okay. We didn't like the way you dealt with your problem. Let's the three of us sit down and discuss what would be a better way to deal with this" rather than just yanking away her phone for 6 weeks. She was punished, but the teacher was still touching other Black kids' hair and so the problem still exists. And does the Tess's friend have a copy of the video that everyone can still access?

At some point - I imagine when this season is over - I'd love for the writers to discuss how they changed projected storylines because of their COVID and BLM coverage. It's not just a matter of adding BLM and virus stories, but dropping the way they had planned to go to get to their season 6 end plan. Would Rebecca have gone to the dementia study that was cancelled because of COVID? I suspect that would have involved storylines regarding the effect on Rebecca and on family dynamics. Will racial issues be an increasing part of Randall's relationships with the rest of his family? Typically, lots of events occur at Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year? Will we see Uncle Nicky? How will isolating and no in person schools affect Tess and Deja's dating? Will we spend more time in the past than we would have otherwise?

Or it's just a coincidence that someone with the same name is a guest at the third hotel in that chain in Cleveland that she called. Doesn't have to be connected to the conference. I was surprised she didn't call his office and check with his secretary. I guess if she had, she would have found out sooner that he no longer worked at the hospital, but it wouldn't have been as dramatic as finding out from the police and her lawyer friend.

Randall is so full of it. He's po'd that his sister never talked about his being Black when they were growing up, but now that she brings it up - when the entire COUNTRY is for the first time really having discussions about Black and white relations, his response is, you've never mentioned this before so I don't want to talk to you now. And he blames her because he never brought up how difficult it was for him growing up in a white household, because Saint Randall didn't want to upset his white siblings. BS. He and his parents tried to discuss racial issues with him, although they might not have done the best job of it. But they tried.

Remind me again where Perry's ex-wife was living. After Della and Perry attended E.B.'s funeral in San Francisco (Colma), Perry rode with some farm workers to his ex's, but I don't recall how long that ride was.

Busybody neighbor was killed several episodes back.

There were few women on the jury. It made sense in the context of the times that he pointed out that it was a woman who found Emily not guilty. Only one man -- who wasn't bribed -- apparently was a not guilty vote, so it was important to show how a woman voted. The fact that she was a professional woman, educated and working away from the home, likely had some significance in her vote. --Another (retired) lady librarian

What did the note say that the guy handed to Della? Who was Barbara?

There actually was a lot of fanfic about (Barbara Hale's) Della Street being a lesbian, based on nothing except wishful thinking.

When Vanessa and Daniel were eating pizza, Daniel used a knife and fork. Really? Is that a cultural thing or just a personal quirk of his?

Lots of "I don't gets" about this episode: 1. ...why such a big deal is being made out of Noa and Daniel meeting "before" his breakup with Vanessa. It's not as if Noa and Daniel had been dating beforehand. They had a brief conversation when they bumped into each other in the restroom. She suggested he eat the soup, not move in with her. This is a reason to kick her out of her own company? 2. ...why it was so hard to determine that Natalie (and her girlfriend) only acted in self-defense after the nasty girl graffitied her locker and sucker punched her? Natalie had been walking away. 3. ...why is Vanessa not the focus of everyone's anger instead of Noa? 4. ...why can't someone as experienced as Noa easily respond to the interviewer's questions? Surely she's had to deal with difficult questions before.