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Actually, the original Perry took on pro bono cases and low paying clients all the time. He could afford it because of all the wealthy clients he had, but he would take on kids and old ladies and other poor clients for the coins they had in their wallets or a painting by the client. It was an odd mash of corporate and criminal defense law. New Perry had to turn to civil cases because he didn't have the wealthy corporate clients to keep his practice going.

Danielg342 was too kind, IMHO, by giving this episode a C. Bpde aside, t he situation at the prison was ridiculous, even by Fire Country standards. As Danielg342 noted, why weren't SWAT teams or guards from other prisons sent in to evacuate the prisoners? Why didn't half the staff show up for work that day? All the medical staff fled? Seriously? With a fire closing in on them, the prisoners fight among themselves and start fires in the prison rather than let themselves get evacuated. Of course, once again Bode is the hero, talking the Fire hotshot captain into doing the right thing.

Guess not many people are enjoying this show as much as I am. I'm mostly fond of the characters -- many ex-pats -- in this small French town and their relationships. It's in the best tradition of cozy mysteries. I'm not a big fan of the older British couple -- Jeremy and his wife Judith - but Jeremy had a wonderful line in the episode where Dura, a rock start from the '70s - comes out of retirement to record at their chateau. Jeremy explains several times, that when he met Dura many years ago, Dura mistook him for Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and sure enough, a younger Jeremy (Robin Askwith) looks very much like a young Jones.

Ep. 16.04 - Promising Young Ladies If was good to see Nina again, although I thought the way she and the other women teased George in front of Effie was awful. Effie is an angel the way she dealt with the women and George's past. They are a great couple. Good to see Julia getting back to her medical practice, small as it was as part of the episode. Besides missing Watts, I'd love to see Margaret Brackenreid.

The "donor had a bad reaction to the anesthesia" was hard to believe. Wouldn't a donor for a major operation go through all kinds of pre-op checks, including whether he had a problem with anasthesia? For that matter, right before the surgery Jake's mother trying to talk him out of going through with the donation was hardly the time to have that talk. I hope Jake is never going to need a colonoscopy.

He did tour Canada, but unfortunately for Murdock Mysteries, the tour was in 1882 and season 1 of Murdock didn't start until 1895. You're right. It would have been a doozy.

The Write Stuff, Season 16 Episode 3 I like episodes with real people and with recurring characters, so it was fun to see famous authors like Kipling and Edith Wharton turn up here and for Lucy Maud Montgomery pretending she didn't know George. Another fun recurring concept is when George makes suggestions that inventors or writers or others use, like the rear view mirror (to Ford?) or helping Lucy or Bean with ideas for their stories.

That's what Laura told Arthur, but we know that Max didn't kill himself because he was upset, but because Laura had poisoned him, and that she needed the head built for logging in. And Laura and Max remained married because their divorce papers were never signed.

True, but you have to admit that Angela is one of the more unlikely Mayflower descendants to appear on this show. And she appeared rather flummoxed finding out that she was a Mayflower descendant, so "how does that make you feel" in this case didn't seem out of place.

Glad to finally see Season 16 Episodes 1 & 2 in the U.S. on Ovation. Poor Watts. The guy can't get a break. (Other than the pleasure of New York bagels.) I was glad to see Brackenreid come through for Watts and the fellows in Greenwich Village. I feel as if my head is on a swivel trying to follow which way Violet Hart's character is going to turn next. Glad to see George finally getting married. Julia serving the baked potatoes was a hoot. William reading "The Wizard of Oz" to Susannah was lovely.

This FIRE episode was a bit more serious than their usual episodes, but there was still lots of humor. Humor doesn't necessarily translate to hilarious. This is a modern sit-com, not a stand-up routine. Or Green Acres.

To be fair. Google is a great place to search for abbreviations.

Excellent recap by Chicago Redshirt. This is an excellent concept for a show, but the writing is full of holes. "In 2023, it seems like there would be infinite ways to break the story apart that the three were at the warehouse handling a "work emergency" prior to Lamar and David's "confession." For the first thing, what sort of work emergency was it? Why did it require the three of them? Were any of the other 20 people who report to Kendall aware of the nature of the work emergency, or involved in fixing it? Didn't anybody see Kendall and Lamar dip out in the middle of the work day? Wouldn't they have been caught on any number of cameras between the warehouse and the park? Wouldn't the GPS on their phones show that they weren't at the warehouse?" I wondered why they didn't look into that, too. Seems it wouldn't have been that hard to show that there wasn't a "work emergency." Also, didn't a woman in a house near the park see the three men before she turned away? Why bother to show her in the window if she did't see the men? She didn't have to identify them; just state that she saw THREE men, not just the father. If the premise of the show is that people often get convicted because of shoddy work by police and defense lawyers, the producers are doing a great job.

I've never understood the need NCIS has to show mutilated bodies and to give us up close views of autopsies. Yuck.

This show keeps getting compared to Columbo, but I see many other shows, too. We have The Fugitive, where the protagonist is on the run, being chased and working at a series of low paying jobs to avoid detection. Then, like Jessica Fletcher, murders seem to follow Charlie wherever she goes, then to be solved by her amateur detecting. As for the ridicuous arm strength that would have been necessary for Judith Light to climb the trellis, you just need to have a "willing suspension of disbelief" and enjoy the storyline.

Made no sense for Sharon and Vince to turn around with their b'day cake when they saw Bode with his two friends. Why not join them? They didn't come across Bode and Gabriella shacking up in the fire department office. Can people just come up to the prison camp and visit any time? Someone seems to visit Bode every week after hours. When Jake and Bode started having their argument in front of the woman strapped to the tree, Mrs. Buckboard and I started laughing. Here they go again having this week's inappropriate personal conversation in the middle of a dangerous situation. If that was me tied to the tree with an approaching firestorm, I'd yell "Shut the f--K up and save your arguing until after you free me."

It's a Southern California thing. In the north, we say 280 or 101, not the 280 or the 101. That's how you can tell someone is from SoCal. And yes, NCIS has never cared much about geographic accuracy, like when Parker kept driving back and forth to Philadelphia as if it were a suburb of D.C., instead of around 150 miles.

Exactly, Mermaid Under. While it is interesting -- and important -- to find out someone you thought was a relative isn't in fact your biological relative, when you've been raised all your life by someone, don't they deserve some credit in raising you? Does a biological great-great-grandfather whose line you never knew about have more impact than the grandfather who raised you?

Ms Lark, they're saying that it might be back on CW because 1) it's less expensive to buy the Canadian show than an original CW production and 2) the new owners might be going after an older audience. Also, it would help if they had a better time slot. This year they were opposite NFL football.

This show has grown on me. The final episode of Season one certainly has left us with cliff hangers - except that Daniel has gotten custody of the dog and a partnership. Not a bad ending for him. I hope Season 2 (and 3) will get picked up in the U.S. so we can have some answers to the cliffhangers. I hope Abby and Maggie reconcile. Why did Frank cheat on Abigail when she was about to move back in with him and the kids? Harry is a jerk. It's hard to see what makes him a successful family law lawyer, when he is a so pitiful with relationships. Hope to see more of the office manager and her partner.

Tell Mr. Johnson the story was written for Montgomery Ward's annual Christmas book giveaway, not to sell a specific item. I had some trouble printing out the link for "Robert L. May and the Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," so here are some excerpts: "Throughout the 1930s the Montgomery Ward Company had been buying coloring books, which they gave away to customers during the holiday season. This promotion was extremely successful, but it was also becoming extremely expensive. So in 1939, the advertising department decided to take a different approach: they would create their own promotional item to give away. On their staff was 34-year-old Robert L. May, who was well known among his peers for the limericks and children’s stories he loved to write. In 1939, 2.4 million copies of Rudolph were distributed at Montgomery Ward’s stores to happy holiday shoppers. By 1946, even with paper shortages during the war years, more than six million copies of the Rudolph booklet had been distributed and Montgomery Ward had a bona fide sensation. May created Rudolph at the behest and under the employment of Montgomery Ward Company, thus the company held full and sole proprietorship of Rudolph. Back in 1939, when May created Rudolph, his wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness and ultimately died, leaving May, not only widowed, but with horrendous medical debts, as well. In 1946, the company gave Rudolph’s copyright to May. Thus, Rudolph’s creator finally had sole ownership of his creation."

So, were we supposed to think that Manny kept the fancy watch that Bode handed to him and he was going to use it to pay off his debt, but when he saw that his convict team were all going to get sent back to prison for stealing it, he dropped the watch in the debris and the women found it? Sharon a little high was pretty funny. Very smart move, Bode. You want to keep out of trouble so you can get early release, so you have sex with a female convict? What could go wrong?

I hope we'll see more of Denise's parents. Loved them, although I was hoping her father would be played by Overton (a Living Single reference.) A favorite line: Connor says to Denise: "I dated your sister. I could have been your brother-in-law." And Denise responds: "You ARE my brother-in-law," which seems to befuddle Connor. Hopefully, by the time the actress who plays Sarah returns from "the school play in Sacramento," she will no longer have to hide her real life pregnancy behind pillows and laundry baskets.

I tried. I yelled at the TV, "Don't turn your back on him!" -- but she didn't listen.

I think they said Thora was a victim of domestic violence from Shuggie on more than one occasion. And Thora worked at -- or had some other connection to -- the bakery where Shuggie's body was found. (The cop saw that in a plaque on the shelf.)