Columbo

Homicide life on the street really dipped in quality after the first two seasons when they had mined almost everything from the book. Though the acting remained stellar.

It's kind of interesting watching Rey in nearly every episode so far roughly handle suspects and witnesses because you can see that Briscoe and especially Van Buren have their careers flash before their eyes every time Curtis shove a drug dealer up against a wall. No way they want another Logan incident. Though I wonder what they would think of someone like Stabler from SVU who would actually beat up perps. And in Bitter Fruit the mother shooting the kidnapper and murderer of her daughter during the arraignment is still shocking even though I knew it was about to happen. I think because all the other arraignments are so mundane that I don't take much notice of them, so when something out of the ordinary happens during that time I can't help but be a little surprised. Though I wonder if it would have been better story speaking if she wasn't involved in her daughter's kidnapping. Just have her be a grieving parent out for revenge.

True, he could have been.

Wait, was the victim racist?

In season 6 they've just reintroduced the death penalty. Was that a reflection of the times? Were many people put to death during that period in New York compared to the show?

It's interesting watching the cases unfold with the limited amount of time available in terms of getting across information to us, the audience. Because obviously we'd miss some subtle and more nuanced aspects. I think there was no way they would be able to convict Crossley unless new evidence came to light. Also the rage episode with it's black rage defence was probably the worst episode of the season. Very insulting.

Logan has always seemed fine with authority figures though.

But Logan should have been used to looking bad. He knew the score when it came to court stuff. Plus homophobia never had been a trigger point for Logan before.

There seemed to be a lack of passion in this season. Too many of the cases just seemed a bit dull to me. It was nice to rewatch Jack's first season. Tbh it's not obvious but I did sense a sort of closeness between Claire and Jack that suggested something more than work colleagues. When I first watched this season I had no idea that Claire and Jack were sleeping together. Because I was just watching it for the cases. But re-watching the show I could see how it could be possible that those two were in a relationship. Though I thought Jack worked much better with Jamie or Abby in terms of a professional relationship than he did with Claire. My favourite episode of the season was the one where Jack had to go up against his old lawyer friend. At the end when the lawyer was convicted it made me wonder if Jack, along with mourning the fate of someone he knew, was thinking whether he'd have done the same thing if he was in the defence lawyers position. There seemed to be a lot of similarities between them. The confidence, a sense of wanting to win so badly they can't see the forest for the trees. Maybe Jack was thinking he'd probably get too involved in the Mafia too if he was in his friend's position. Mike Logan's exit doesn't really make sense to me. Like I know why he left, because you can't just punch somebody. But the lead up to the punch was interesting because I could see no motivation for the assault. Sure, the politician was awful, but Logan as a police officer would have dealt with the scum of the city. And he hadn't been punching them. So for him to just hit the politician just seemed a bit out of place. Bad faith makes more sense as a leaving episode for Logan. I could see him leaving from the events of the episode more clearly than the finale of season 5.

It took me until this rewatch of the show to realise that Extended Family was partly based on Woody Allen.

I actually think it makes sense that Old Friends was shown after Sanctuary. To me it seemed that Ben's zealously in putting Janney's character in jail to force her to testify wouldn't have happened if the events in Sanctuary hadn't occurred. It was like he was making sure that justice wouldn't escape him again. As for Sanctuary, to me it loses its power because the episode went out of its way to show that Mr Berger didn't deserve to go to jail for running over the kid. Which makes the riot and the protest seem not as effective. I wonder if the episode would have been more powerful to me if they had Mr Berger do something criminal like a murder towards someone of the African American community but they couldn't charge him or his case gets declared a mistrial. Something where you could at least understand the riots and the murder.

Yeah, right to counsel

Just finished watching season 3. All episodes pretty good. - favourite episode was the one of the dodgy lawyer setting up her client. Lots of twists there. - it annoyed me that everyone believed Susan Boyd from the episode Animal Instinct without ever doing any real further digging into her claims. Though the ending is a classic.

I just watched that episode. I think his appearance on the stand plus Stone's closing remarks probably made the jury vote guilty.

I enjoyed the three parter because it's always good when they come across a competent defence attorney.

Sanctuary is an overrated episode that descends into a lot of farcical shouting. It's probably Shambala Green's worst appearance.

Well partly it was the cruel way he was killed, and partly it was the performance of Noth and the actress who played the wife.

- I disliked when the show did controversial issue based episodes. It always seemed to be so dull and uninteresting to me. I much prefer the simple murder episodes. Or rather the ones that seem simple but then they dig further (usually the da office when the police feel pressured to get a result) they find a much more complex answer. - aftershock is a weird episode. I guess this must have been Dick Wolf's way of throwing his performers a bone after over a hundred episodes of saying variations of the same kind of lines over and over again. But I don't care enough about the characters to care about this episode. I don't care that Claire and Jack are sleeping together. Unless it somehow affects the case they are working on for a particular episode. - The death of Max Greevy was to me the most shocking part of the series.

Amazing to think Glee was such a cultural phenomenon during that first season (primarily based on that pilot performance of Don't Stop Believing). Remember that concert they did? I enjoyed the first three seasons for the flawed messes they were, but after they won Nationals I didn't really bother to watch the rest of it because there didn't seem to be any point. I hope someday there's a proper behind the scenes look on that show. The fact that Ryan Murphy basically seems to be working with established actors and actresses after his glee days is very interesting to me.

Why does Pam get so much hate?

What I liked, well maybe more found fascinating about the episode Prince Of Darkness is not just the stomach dropping final line, but the constant roadblocks put upon by a criminal organisation who were willing to do anything to protect themselves. When powerful instutions such as law and order can do nothing against such evil, it can be quite frightening. Also I'm confused about Conspiracy. Was the ending implying that Marcus Tate was killed by his own bodyguard?

I like Monty Python's flying Circus but whilst I can rewatch certain sketches of theirs forever I never had the urge to rewatch any of their episodes. There was a big drop off in quality when Cleese left imo.

I was floored at the lengths Jim went to in Florida to prevent Dwight from being fired.

Oh thank you. I had heard a little bit about the behind the scenes stuff. I think I remember a quote from Pierce saying in a way it was good that he managed to get the Bond later because it enabled him to become more matured or something like that.

Watched the series for the first time on DVD last year. I found it enjoyable. Pierce and Stephanie had great chemistry together. Watching Pierce as Remington Steele made me think he'd have done well in a Roger Moore era type of Bond movie. The whole being wry at how corny the situation was rather than his more serious Bond that he portrayed in the 90s. Funnily enough although the show clearly became better after season 1, I thought Pierce's performance in the first season was his best. The whole con man slowly but surely charming his way into Laura's life whilst also discovering he has a knack for this detective business. But whilst Bernice was ok, the constant negativity from Murphy towards Remington was just too much. Like fair enough if it was subtly done and the basis of the envy was because Murphy felt that Remington didn't deserve to be in the private detective business. But it was so over the top that it was ridiculous, and I may be wrong about this but it seemed Murphy's envy of Remington seemed more because he had feelings for Laura, feelings that Laura clearly didn't reciprocate. So he saw the chemistry between Laura and Remington which caused a rather negative attitude in him and in turn made the first season rather meh in a way. The second season with the introduction of Doris Roberts as Mildred Krebs with her more positive attitude towards Remington made the series much more light hearted and enjoyable to watch. Though I wasn't that fond of season 5. Something was missing, not sure what. I'll have to rewatch the show again.