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On 11/27/2023 at 2:03 PM, DMK said:
I did a rewatch a couple years ago, I ended up not hating the characters’ personal lives storylines as much as I did the first time around. It really ended up not eating as much time as I had thought previously, or maybe I’m just more patient in my agedness and wisdom than I used to be.
For the most part I agree. Scotty got a bit more focus than I would have liked. I was more interested in Kat Miller and her daughter. The only Lily story I really hated was the "You must forgive your father who left you with an alcoholic, neglectful mother and made NO effort to save you or your sister".
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On 11/5/2023 at 1:58 PM, Bastet said:
I appreciate it, but no thank you. I hate most cop shows because they normalize and even celebrate police misconduct, so I only watch the exceptions. Without a Trace was very much not one, plus I didn't care for any of the characters other than Marianne Jean-Baptise's, so I have no interest in giving it a third try; the second shot was more than it deserved.
This show didn't have clean hands on that front, but was a lesser offender than most -- Scotty was pretty much the only one who did awful shit and got away with it. I'd have never watched it if not for the music and the whole flashback format, because it's quite repetitive and the personal storylines all suck, but those closing montages are seriously powerful meditations on the impact of violence. They'd put someone in cuffs and all I'd think about is how the case is going to fall apart once the arrestee secures legal representation, but then I'd completely let that go as I got caught up in the demonstration of how many lives were permanently altered by one horrible choice -- the victim, obviously, but also their loved ones, the killer, the killer's loved ones, witnesses, etc.
I think one of the reasons this feels less like copagenda than other procedurals is that the whole premise of the show is that the cops screwed up the first time. Oh, sure there were the occasional cases where the victim was believed to just be a missing person, but most of the cases were cold because the cops just missed things. It was also pretty realistic about what kind of victims get overlooked, poor people, marginalized people, and victims of powerful people.
Yes, I was sure that the cases would fall apart once a lawyer got involved and most of them would never have been solved it the murderer had just kept their mouth shut and not confessed, because there usually wasn't a lot of actual evidence left. I didn't mind the suspension of disbelief at the result because the final montages are so damned moving and so well done. Plus the show cared about the victims, not the murderers or how the cops diligently solved the case of a person with a picture on a white board. We saw the victims and their killers as fully rounded people. That doesn't happen in most police dramas.
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5 hours ago, andromeda331 said:
Yeah, they were really pushing them together. I wonder if they hired her without auditioning her with the cast. She really had no chemistry with anyone there. Not the main cast or the guest stars.
I will say, I think that was supposed to be part of the storyline. How no one on the squad trusted her and then they would grow to. It's hard to judge with so few episodes. I do agree that a romance with Scotty would have been a big mistake, but again, the back story seemed to be that she had been involved in a sexual harassment case before, so a seeming romance with Scotty could have been a plot point to deal with sexual harassment issues.
I had seen her in other things and she was fine as an actress. She didn't blow me away or anything, but she did a good job. She has gone on record that Moonves continued to tank her career. She would get a part, including on a daytime shows (she won 4 daytime emmys, so she isn't a BAD actress) then suddenly would be fired. Co-stars always said she wasn't hard to work with, so the "she was difficult" excuse is unlikely to be true. They said she was professional, on time, knew her lines, wasn't a diva. In 2018 she retired from acting, but has returned now that Moonves has retired. She would be told a part was written with her in mind then told not to audition.
I do love Traci Thoms on the show. She was a great addition. I just can't judge what Sarah Brown would have done if given the chance.
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22 hours ago, ripple596 said:
The Roku App is free and has all the episodes.
You also don't need a Roku to use the App. Also, Rokus can be really inexpensive, so you don't have to subscribe to HBO Max. I like the Roku interface for my TV.
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3 hours ago, mythoughtis said:
The Hubbard Oh 45 year old case… I’m immediately annoyed because Kelly and Tanya think it was rare to get divorced in 1977. Really? It didn’t seem all that unusual to me in 1977.
You'd think. In Ohio you couldn't get a no fault divorce until 1974 and even then, there were hoops to jump through. The parties had to come to a complete agreement, or live apart for a specified period of time. So in 1977, a lot of people would have been under the impression that divorce was hard, and therefore unusual and there was a stigma against it.
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For being so upset because the victim was "one of our own" the police really did a half a**ed job of the investigation. They didn't look at the guy's cell phone data and the case wasn't that old. They obviously didn't talk to all the witnesses. Heck, they didn't even go a great job on the autopsy. This is one I really felt shouldn't have been unsolved.
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The People's Court and Judge Mathis Cancelled After Decades on Daytime TV
It's the end of an era.
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The entire series is also on the Roku Channel. You don't need to have a Roku to watch, either. It's streaming, so you can choose when to watch.
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On 9/19/2022 at 4:57 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:
2018 rerun "Dog Attack Anger"
Case 1- Plaintiff Mr. Friedman and daughter, claim defendant's lab ran out of defendant's garage and attacked their dog, defendant Arthur Gurtman really doesn't care. Plaintiffs want $5,000 for vet bills.
Plaintiff daughter was walking Beagle Sweetie, 13-year-old, leashed and on sidewalk, and Labrador ran out and pushed Sweetie into the street, kept attacking and biting the poor Beagle. Plaintiff daughter (24 years-old), says she's the only one that did anything (defendant's daughter was 15, and did nothing). Then when defendant came out, he denied the dog was injured, took the Beagle inside his house, and plaintiff took dog to vet, and then emergency vet.
Poor Sweetie died about 10 days later. Lab was given back to shelter it came from, and I bet another family member adopted the dog on the spot. Defendant denies he picked up Beagle, went inside his house, slamming the door in plaintiff daughter's face. Defendant paid just about $1800, and says he can't pay more. Bills added up to $6800, and $5,000 with the 1,800 payments.
How nice of JM to say the 15 year-old who let the Lab out is not reponsible, and plaintiff daughter's freezing at first was just as bad.
JM uses the excuse that Sweetie was older, and sick, and blames the other condition on the dog's death. JM lets defendant loser off the hook. So, now plaintiffs owe $5,000 but due to defendant's negligence they will owe the bill, and have no dog. I agree with plaintiff wife, defendant says he got rid of Lab, but who knows. Also, defendant admits the Lab was dog aggressive. I bet the shelter (Oyster Bay) adopted that dog out again. I dislike JM right now, she actually said spending more than the dog was worth on vet bills was a waste.
After thinking about this case, I guess JM thought since the attack victim was older, the plaintiffs should have just let her bleed out, or die of infection because she wasn't worth saving? That's pretty much what JM said. The defendant knew his dog was dog aggressive, since the dog was from a rescue then I'm guessing it came with an attack history. JM and the defendant's attitudes were despicable. And JM claiming the defendant's daughter doing nothing, was the same as plaintiff daughter momentarily freezing was exactly the same was also despicable.
The thing is, the defendant was right legally, dogs are property and you can't sue for more than the dog is worth, just like you can't sue for repairs over the value of a car. If he had paid nothing, I think JM would have given the plaintiffs most, if not all, of their vet bills as punitive damages. The reason most dog bite cases get money is because the defendants don't know their rights and don't claim that all they owe is the price of the dog. I admit, I would have dinged the guy because the Lab was dog aggressive, but the thing is, the man wouldn't have been the one on the hook, the daughter would have and I don't think JM wanted to make her feel any worse than she already did. It was a weird, close case with a defendant who knew what he was doing. JM tried to get the plaintiffs to say they wouldn't have continued treatment for their dog if they hadn't known the defendant wouldn't make good, because then they would have had a case for relying on his word to pay.
I'm sitting here with my sweet 9 year old beagle next to me, so I relate to the plaintiffs. JM's hands were tied by the law.
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On 2/22/2022 at 5:19 PM, PsychoKlown said:
Plaintiff was an attractive woman. Why JM had the hutspah to ask her her age is beyond me. Not appropriate. Nope.
Oh come on! JM already knew! I'm sure it was in the filing somewhere. We know both sides file statements ahead of time. As a certified Little Old Lady, myself (not in my 90s, but still), I can guarantee the plaintiff decided to throw the Little Old Lady card on the table. She made damned sure the "I'm legally blind card" got played too. JM let her have her 15 minutes of fame and get a chance to be primped on national TV.
I was a little surprised that the contractor wasn't allowed to correct their work, but the defendant talked about not being able to get the right spline quickly, so that could have factored into the decision. Really I wouldn't want to not be able to open my windows if I was told "we can't get to it for 3 weeks". I wish, if that were the case, it had been made clearer, but that was part of what I gleaned from the case.
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On 2/3/2022 at 4:53 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:
Sorry, but it's not right to penalize the plaintiff because he cheated on his teen girlfriend. So for doing over $1,000 worth of damage, she gets away by paying $350.
He wasn't penalized for cheating. His agents accepted her $350 and called it even. Then he didn't do anything for a year meaning he acted as though it was fine. The defendant had no reason to think she owed anything more. If he had come back right away and said he wanted more, he probably would have gotten it, but to wait for a year and then spring it on her isn't fair and so he lost.
I don't understand why new GF's father suddenly decided to get involved and threaten the defendant, the new GF went whining to daddy for some reason. The defendant is well out of the relationship because the dude is NOT worth it.
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On 1/31/2022 at 8:32 PM, AngelaHunter said:
I don't know why JM didn't at least subtract the cost of the cleaning from the judgment.
I think they didn't mention that he didn't pay the fee. Or they said they waived it as a good faith gesture and she took that at face value.
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Tia just posted on Facebook, it looks like shooting is starting up again.
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I watch Pitbulls and Parolees over on Animal Planet and I follow Tia Marie Torres on Facebook. She says that the switch to Discovery+ has a lot of shows in limbo. P&P hasn't filmed since December, hasn't been canceled, and hasn't been given any word on when or if filming will start again. She said the P&P was doing well ratings wise, but the Discovery/ other channel mergers had everything up in the air. I can't find anything saying Chopped is canceled. So maybe between the Discovery merger and launching new Chopped series, OG Chopped is in limbo. Or they are holding episodes for some reason.
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26 minutes ago, Maverick said:
They've been filming since covid so they shouldn't run out of episodes. There's no schedule for upcoming episodes so maybe it's done. Food Network doesn't really cancel shows, they just stop producing them without any comment. Cutthroat Kitchen just disappeared one week and wasn't heard from again.
Maybe, but Chopped is pretty popular, and they have commissioned 2 spinoffs for Discovery+. It's possible they cancelled the Mothership, but there have been no notice about it and reruns are going strong.
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1 hour ago, mlp said:
This is Tuesday and there's no Chopped listed for tonight. Is the cataclysm upon us?
Not listed at 9:00 next week either, according to my DVR guide. Maybe they ran out of new episodes and are putting up series that still have new ones?
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15 hours ago, Black Knight said:
Musicians, like other creators, have every right to be paid for their work. But it seems like in these kinds of situations where there isn't a lot of money to be made at all, it would make more sense to change the compensation from a flat fee to a percentage of the total pot. Then they get something instead of nothing...in other words, if I were a musician I'd rather have the DVDs for this old show be released and get some money for it than not have the DVDs be released at all and thus get nothing. It's not like it encroaches into their other revenue streams - if I want to listen to a song I'm going to stream it or play it on my iPod, not put in a Cold Case DVD, find the episode, navigate to the point in it the song plays...
But the DVDs market has tanked anyway, thanks to streaming, and it's very unlikely to rebound, so it's basically moot now.
A lot of times it isn't just the musicians. The record companies are a big stumbling block to use of music. Frankly, I wish that copyright law had been amended to set up reasonable payment for rebroadcast in any form of shows using licensed music. The creators of the show used the music for their creative vision, and they should be allowed to have that vision available to the public. It will never happen and deciding a fair, reasonable rate that won't break the bank for rebroadcast would be a difficult needle to thread.
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22 hours ago, SRTouch said:
when Landlord gets his turn he casts aspersions on how MM must live in filth if she thinks tenants left place clean - something about maybe MM doesn't mind living with mold, and she probably doesn'the clean her own house enough to know what it takes - I must have missed that testimony - anyway he also thinks MM was unfair........ course after the verdict has MM all OVER that
The crack about living with mold was uncalled for, however, I took it more to mean that she hires people to clean her house so she doesn't know the elbow grease it takes to get rid of mold.
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13 hours ago, Florinaldo said:
JM called defendants "persnickety", which in this case appears to be a synonym for "acting in bad faith".
No wonder the contractor and the plaintiff eventually gave up trying to come to terms with those two insufferable cheapskates.
I think that's because of the "gap" issue. Which of course would not exist if defendants had been moderately reasonable people, able to come to an agreement with the plaintiff (or anyone else on this planet).
Yeah, my impression was the defendants either didn't care about replacing the fence, or didn't want to pay to replace it. They figured if they dragged it out log enough the plaintiff would either give up, or do what he did, pay for it himself.
I would have made them pay for half even with the gap, because their recalcitrance is what caused all the issues.
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On 7/19/2020 at 7:05 PM, ShellsandCheese said:
I really need this show on DVD! I can’t believe the music licensing rights are still such a huge issue this day and age. For those of you who have been able to watch via the Roku Channel or SMART, is the original music in the episodes? I tried watching Queer as Folk when it was on Netflix(US) and I gave up midway through season one because the music was different and awful. LOL.
Roku Channel has the original music as well. It's great being able to see these again.
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On 8/28/2020 at 5:51 PM, jilliannatalia said:
A bailiff is so incredibly relevant in the new remote format.
Maybe not, but having a job is relevant to Douglas, so I'm fine with that.
2 hours ago, BigBingerBro said:The new format is interesting but seems like overkill to me. I caught the tail end of Judge Mathis and the plexiglass, masks and social distancing was more of what I was expecting from PC. Let's see how long the Zoom stuff lasts. I don't see why Judge MM can't also be in the courtroom at least. I guess she likes being at home. (if that's were she actually was)
Judge Marilyn lives in Florida, a COVID hotspot and would have to travel to New York, where things are under pretty good control. Under NY law, she would have to quarantine in order to shoot in the court room. So, Zoom it is for the foreseeable future. I don't know where Judge Mathis lives or where the show is shot, but I'm sure quarantine restrictions play a big role in deciding how to bring these shows back.
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10 hours ago, MaKaM said:
You can't paint new pressure treated wood, the paint won't take. Probably that is why it was unfinished--they are moving too fast on the flips for it to cure enough to be painted.
I think that on THIS house the time pressure was for getting it on the show. They only showed to realtors, instead of prospective buyers, so the house wasn't on the market. Now they might just leave the wood unpainted, but with this flip I felt that things were going to be finished before they actually put the house up for sale.
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I think it partly ran out of steam due to costs. Licensing all the music had to be pretty expensive and you could tell in the later seasons. With a break of all these years, I think they could find good cases again.
Danny Pino is well known and has been on a lot of things, so bringing him back to the reboot makes a kind of sense. I didn't like his personal stories, at least near the end, the Elissa one in the early seasons was pretty good. My guess is that in the reboot, if it happens, Scottie would be more of the Stillman character, in charge of the unit, and bringing it into being a unit because of his experience in Philly. That would make him a secondary character, not the focus. Shows tend to want younger actors in the main roles and Scottie would a transition character fro the old show to the new one.
Basically, I think it could work, IF they get the music and if they get the kind of writing that they had in early seasons. They have had a rest period, so I think it could be pulled off.