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Right, the two-part opener for season 3, dealing with the immediate aftermath of Kate's murder. I liked Pancho Demmings (Gerald). Met him at an NCIS convention, and he was great.

I think the only time Show got this right was back in season 1, when Ari shot Gerald in the shoulder. When next we saw him at the beginning of season 2, he was picking up a prescription for his far from healed injury. Gerald (Gerard?) never did return to the series.

So, does Nielsen have a LIVE - 7 rating? A massive arctic hurricane shocks the fleet with high winds and big waves. An unstable stack threatens to capsize the Saga. As the captains rush to pull and set pots before harbor, Wild Bill risks driving straight into the storm to snatch his quota. I'm beginning to think this "early premiere" of "next week's episode" Is A Thing.

Just watched this today and I think the deal with Prax's & Amos' different suit experiences is: Prax's air hose was disconnected from (knocked out of, I think) the wall, while Amos deliberately detached his hose from his suit and it retracted into the wall. Amos did the controlled disconnect; Prax was just one step better than a severed hose, as it seems that since the hose was still attached to his suit it was also open to the surrounding vacuum - he had an uncontrollable suit breach, and couldn't reach behind him to pull the hose out or connect it back to the wall.

Red Letters are Good Friday Agreement - a reference even I get.... Yeah, it is still very good in my opinion. The mid-episode climax (the tag to the original episode 3) made me glad that we get two parts at a time; the end of this episode leaves me wishing I didn't have to wait a week for the conclusion but also glad that it isn't dragging out any longer than three weeks for us. I look forward to season 3 too.

Shhhhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, but Secrets & Lies is now available on the CBS website. If you have All Access, it will be up for awhile, if you don't it may be expiring this weekend. Or not, the expiration dates on this show are weird.

I so totally agree about Emergency. It was way cool in the day, and taught the country about paramedics (a legacy of Vietnam), but when I had a chance for a series re-watch a few years ago, I had to bail. The call-outs were still good (better than Chicago Fire, where only the call-outs are any damn good), but the filler was garbage (a better quality of garbage than Chicago Fire, but that is an incredibly low bar). And for some reason that never made any sense to me they changed the theme music, by cutting out that brassy music track altogether and just having the voice-overs (more accurately described as voice-unders). If someone would edit a mashup of just the call-outs, say season by season, I would watch the hell out of that.

Or they could be ending with the seventh book, which I believe finishes New Year's Eve 1799. The last five books were much more Next Gen.

Guess what. As a flooding collision void threatens to sink him, Keith fights to keep the Wizard afloat; a missing boat part leaves Jake stranded at sea; Sig gets ready to pass the torch to Edgar, but brotherly tension arises when he can't give up the reins. I love the Discovery website.

She didn't kill someone (two someones) who were just having sex with her husband. She killed two men who were having homosexual sex with her homosexual (or functionally bisexual) husband. At the time of Jimmy's murder, sodomy had only been legal in the UK for about 8 years. The rage of being betrayed, plus the rage of being betrayed by other men, plus her untreated postpartum depression (or psychosis) added up to criminal attacks. The attitudes and actions of her husband and her doctors (according to her husband) were consistent with the times. Presentism leads us to forget that our default expectations are not how people always were.

Since she attacked both of them when they were in flagrante delicto, literally and metaphorically with their pants down, and she wielded blunt instruments with physical as well as emotional fury, no, she had the ability.

Apparently they haven't started filming it yet, which makes it iffy on beginning in August in the UK as the first two series did. At any rate, if it airs in the UK in the fall, then it would probably start here next January. Otherwise, all dates slip roughly equally....

The son who visited her at the end, solely so he could do whatever minor cruelty was left (i.e. move her water out of her reach), had earlier in the "safe house" they went to to get away from the press denounced her as evil.... I totally bought that he genuinely believed she had done it, and he was genuinely revolted and infuriated. She was in a state where, as they noted, she could not assist in her own defense, so his small cruelties were all he could do, as she no longer seemed to recognize or understand anyone. Of course, in that state, she would also no longer understand what this hatred was all about, so the BMW son ain't much better then his ma....

Either way his Navy career is effectively ended - there was an article a week or so ago pointing out he'd lose at least a million in accumulated pension and benefits if he became VA chief.... But this kind of publicity (and it's a large enough number of consistent complaints that Tester is taking it seriously - Tester has never seemed to be the kind of guy who will score points for politics) should finish him in the WH, and I suspect the Navy will be strongly encouraging him to retire. As to how Obama & Bush had a high regard for him - he's not going to be careless with his principal patient, and apparently he does have a magical "bedside", as in patient interaction, manner. Finding out that the doctor who is treating you so well may have been occasionally drunk while doing so should be a pisser. I wrote this guy off with that absurd medical "report" of T's health. It was Sean Spicer all over again, except much more telegenic. It's TTS - Trump Taint Syndrome.

This nasty state of affairs is explaining a lot about what has been so freaking off with season 2. A change of writers explains how we went from the awesome pokes at / tributes to the original movies (there was at least one movie callback in every episode) to this rather wooden season 2. Riggs & Murtaugh are not the friends / brothers that they were before. And if Wayons is the more important (as in higher paid) "star", then that explains why Murtaugh continues to be a gomer - Wayans must think it works well. For me, a large part of what made season 1 great was the character interaction, both in the named characters and the backgrounders, especially the precinct cops, who were scripted and staged like the precinct cops in the movies - familiar faces and characters (the scene where Trish comes storming in, and the cops, who were interacting around a piece of business that was Murtaugh-driven, spotted her and immediately went back to work, not quite hands-in-pockets and innocent whistling, but that sort of thing - I really loved that). And beyond absentee management, I read somewhere neither lead currently has an agent - so no one to step in and take over the personnel problem management. It's a shame. I've reached the point where I don't care if it is renewed or not, because the show I came for ended at the end of season 1.

Sig embarks on a daring midnight mission to shake his rivals; the Cornelia Marie pays the price for a rotten alliance, and an injured deckhand could force the boat in early; Keith gets big news from his doctor on a mystery illness. Once again, Disco has put the episode up early here.

IIRC it is the apartment that the Keanes had before the attack, it is the place where they were attacked, and Ian Garvey was there during the attack which is how Liz was finally able to identify him, I'm pretty sure he and his crew know where Liz lives.

It's Masterpiece. Downton Abbey was notorious for having different edits for the US & the UK, neither of which included all of the other. Sometimes they apparently cut out some bits for the tender sensibilities (i.e. excessively Puritan heritage) of the US market. I think all we're losing is the time for the extra opening title sequence, and possibly the first end credit roll - Masterpiece seems to make its own end credits. (Red Letters on this episode are Reg Varney, who apparently was the lead on a very popular britcom called On The Buses, and some spin-off movies, and his career never really recovered from that success. For me he has a Hey It's That Guy face.) I suppose somewhere in the episode there was a reference, but I'm unfamiliar with the source material.... Anyways, when you take what was two standalone (or at least separate) episodes and put them together, I call it a smashing. Or a smooshing, if it's especially smeary. In a series like Unforgotten it works because the episodes are meant to be a linear arc. I've seen it done on other series (none of the names come to mind) where they decided to show two parts on the same night, and they pretend it was always one episode, but if the writing and directing credits are different, it wasn't. Also, this was broadcast on ITV, which does commercials and therefore like us has 44 minute "hour-long" episodes. So we get a smashed-up 88 or 89 minutes (depends also on how much Alan Cummings has to say). I overthink this stuff.

What just finished on Masterpiece was series 1, broadcast in six episodes in the UK in Oct & Nov 2015, and squashed to three 90 minute episodes for Masterpiece (what I think of as the Rebecca Eaton treatment). What is coming up on Masterpiece for the next three weeks is series 2, six episodes originally broadcast in Jan & Feb 2017, squashed to three 90 minute episodes for Masterpiece. Series 3 is the same format, started filming this past February, and will probably broadcast next winter and possibly hit Masterpiece early next year.

I think ABC is trying with Deception. In my experience when ABC pays for a series that they wind up hating they kill it with a Saturday schedule for Saturdays no one watches TV (John Barrowman's Sing Your Face Off, burned off at two episodes per Saturday for a three week period starting on May 31), or if they put on a series that commits the sin of not being top ten after the first program, they yank it and get weird with the scheduling (The Assets, starring Jodie Whittaker and Harriet Walter, aired Thursdays Jan 2 & 9, was pulled and re-scheduled to Saturdays in June (21 & 28), pulled again and re-scheduled to Sundays Jul 27 & Aug 3, two episodes each day at 4 & 5 pm in the afternoon!) Granted, Sing Your Face Off was kind of amusing but not really good, and The Assets was a program that didn't begin to live up to the promise of the story (the hunt for the mole that turned out to be Aldrich Ames) because they couldn't resist putting in some schmaltz, in spite of having Whittaker and Walter and other good Brit casting acting their assets off. With these shows ABC led me to believe that they would never give a new show a decent shot unless it was pre-loaded (Bachelor-ish fakery), re-boot pandering (Roseanne Barr), or Shonda-land (that Romeo & Juliet thing was a silken mess, and apparently so obviously bad ABC Wouldn't Even). So, Deception has a thirteen episode first season, they've actually scheduled to air all of it before Memorial Day (a very good sign), the actor playing the Black brothers should be getting a double salary, (and if at some point the brothers switch places, a trope I hope they avoid, he'll be playing four parts instead of two, so quadruple for that), and finally, Vinnie Jones. Show has a chance.

Wild Bill risks it all on a new bait and fish strategy hoping it will pay off big. Sean & Casey forge an alliance, but when one strikes crab, will he betray it? A dangerous mistake jeopardizes Jake's offload. The Cornelia Marie is whipped by weather. I'm posting this because for the third week in a row Disco is doing an early premiere of the new episode. And check the site out on Tuesday; the last two weeks The Bait (the "live" episode) has posted early too. Apparently these are "Live" to tape.

I only noticed tonight that the red letters are back. Part 1 is Cervantes. Part 2 is Remembrance of the Daleks.

She's not a regular, she is (infrequently this year) recurring. She was in last week's episode. The character is now an ATF agent, based out of Glendale. And yes, that's a hella long drive, especially when calculated by time to drive there instead of actual miles, which is how I always figured driving time when I visited LA.

Rachel claimed it was the book was captured in the wild. In reality considering how widely distributed these copies seem to be, I sense a targeted advance copy release.

Because Andy doesn't go out any more, and Johnathan officially retired. Really, he retired. They talked about it all last season and had an episode (#1320) titled "Hillstrand's Last Catch", followed three weeks later by "Johnathan Hillstrand Legacy" (#1323). He left. But none of these guys stay retired, apparently he is still fishing, and apparently he would like to come back.