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If you go look at the actor's imdb pics you can definitely see it. He has the same sort of lopsided smirk.

Just got round to watching. This was fun. Those border patrol agents are the WORST shots ever. Funny that the guy they cast as 18-ish Cole looked nothing like SWS back in the American Pie days. ETA: Hmmm, he kinda sorta does in some of his imdb pictures, but didn't really look like him to me here!

Still like Cole, still like SWS and if DW is hellbent on leaving and hates everybody and everything, he's still able to turn in a good performance and have great chemistry with SWS, but this was a pretty badly-written ep. Sad as I thought Ep 10 was one of the best. Weirdly confusing plot filled with coincidences and crack secret agent Cole FORGETS TO LOCK HIS DOORS???!!!!!! The places he's been, that shit will get you KILLED. Or worse Roger Jr. I could believe leaves his door unlocked by accident but not Cole. Also ew, Roger. Skidmarks? Who says things like that to their kids?! And they all LAUGHED? They would have been like WTF, dad?! That is NASTY. And weird. Drunk Trish was fun though. Cole and DEA moving a little fast and generically for my liking, but maybe they want to get it wrapped up before season ends. Gotta say, I did prefer him with ML though - the man has chemistry with everyone and the DEA actress sells it, but the emotional connection isn't quite the same. If show ends when season ends, pls to give SWS another show with same character, Fox. Thx. I still wish he was Magnum.

I also like how she keeps walking through the water with her long, flowing, nipple-revealing robes dragging in it. Like, I know you're a siren/mermaid/whatever but isn't that uncomfortably damp? The bit where Cal was staring out to sea (which she also does a lot) and Adrielle sloshes up to her through the surf and walks round her in circles going all "Cahl MahkTeeyur, waht has brawt yu bak to zis tahn thaht haaas no luurve fuhr yu? We shahl fahnd aht!" and then just walks off while Cal just stares at her was also extremely funny. Like, haven't sirens/mermaids/whatever heard of personal space? I didn't know there was a Freeform siren show too - a lot of people I know in the industry were trying to get a mermaid/siren show off the ground during the YA fantasy boom in the 2000's (after vampires and werewolves were done to death, sirens were pretty much the only mythical creature left with enough brand recognition) but nobody could figure out how to get it right. Based on this, I think they still haven't!

My overall impression of this show is that it is like porn with all the actual porn cut out of it except that people in porn are usually better at acting than the people in this. It's hard to pick my favorite piece of terribleness here but I did enjoy how in the second episode, Elsa Pataky told her Minion Dude "Cahl MahkTeeeyur eez bahk een tawn. Ah wahnt yu tu sedooose hehr." and he went to the bar and acted like Pepe le Pew and Cal asked him how he could stand the mosquitoes in the tidelands he said "I do not mind ze mosquitoes. I like to be sucked." while wiggling his eyebrows. It is also a bold acting choice on Elsa's part to make her character speak with an exaggerated Yuropeeeahn aksont, especially given that she doesn't sound anything like that in real life. Speaking of Elsa's Minion Dude, Augie seems to be really, really, creepily interested in the idea of his sister having sex with the guy. He's brought it up about 5 times in 3 episodes, like when the guy was in front of their truck and he was like "He's right there if you want to bang him!" Like, simmer down with the weird voyeuristy incesty vibes there, Auggie.

It was a flashback :) Cole is 11 in the scenes with her. Louise is only about 6 years older than SWS. Very vaguely related trivia; Jennifer Coolidge who played SWS's mother in the American Pie films is only 15 years older than him.

Is anyone discussing this show? It is so wildly, outrageously, incredibly terrible in every possible way. I highly recommend it!

I think that part of the previews may be a dream sequence. Assuming that Wayans really is the holy terror everyone keeps claiming he is and he truly did strongarm/manipulate/whatever TPTB into firing CC, it is rather ironic because having done so, he and Murtaugh are now both fully eclipsed by CC's replacement. As far as I'm concerned, this is now officially The SWS Show/The Wesley Cole Adventure Hour. I stopped watching LW at the end of the first season but recently caught a couple of CC episodes I hadn't seen from S2 and the show felt totally different to how it does now, like a genuine two-hander that balanced the viewer interest between Riggs and Murtaugh. NOW it feels like all the Murtaugh stories are dull and repetitive and/or could be storylines rejected by the Brady Bunch writers in 1971 for being too stupid. Meanwhile, even when it gets a little cheesy, Cole's stuff - especially as played by SWS - is so infinitely more interesting that I find myself wanting to fast-forward through the Murtaugh scenes to get to the next part of Cole. If this show gets canned, they NEED to give Cole his own spinoff. I enjoy him so much more than ANY of the current or recent crop of action heroes. Having slogged through Amazon's over-blown, over-rated, dull, preachy, mopey, generic Jack Ryan as dully played by John Krasinski (who I like in other roles) and being unable to sit through more than the pilot of the humor/excitement/interest-free Condor with whiny Max Irons, I would far, far, FAR rather have more of SWS in The Cole Show than another season of either of those. It sounds really trite to say this, but in a world of cookie-cutter, dark, brooding, tortured Batmanish action heroes, he stands out because he's just so freaking nice and happy and tries really hard and even when he gets it wrong or it all goes wrong and blows up in his face, he doesn't give up and tries to fix it and is simply so darned likable. As well as being a badass with a past. It will be interesting to see if they do move him out of the hotel (assuming the show lasts that long) because it's really hard for someone like that who's lived out of a suitcase and spent his whole life running all over the world to actually settle and put down roots in one place. It's daunting and incredibly hard to adjust to the idea that you aren't going to up and move on again. I could easily see him buying a house* in an attempt to give Maya security and then living in it with no furniture. *assuming a single cop on a cop's salary can afford to buy a house in LA in 2018! I said this before on here, but the Magnum producers really, really missed a casting trick. Everything Jay Hernandez tries to do as Thomas Magnum and fails at, SWS does effortlessly - and then some. Also; shut up, Trish. I still love your actress but seriously, your son is a screwup and even if he was being neurotic and stupid about the party, Roger had a perfect right to be angry with him about the flight and the timeshare stuff. Especially after he dropped out of college, then wanted to go into the coffee business then dropped that for a get-rich-quick scheme. And he messed up his passport. And IIRC he got caught in a stolen car or something at one point in an earlier season? At 18 I booked international flights, got myself to the airport on the right time/day without messing up and I knew not to buy into a Ponzi scheme with my life savings. And I hadn't even grown up in a streetwise town like LA with a cop for a father! RJ needs to get his ass straightened out or the writers need to stop writing him so dumb. If Rianna is Marsha, He's Jan! Note to anyone who is interested in old British TV, Louise Lombard who played Cole's mom was one of the stars of the 1991-4 BBC Series The House of Eliott about two sisters running a fashion house in London in the 1920's. It was a big success at the time and was the last major BBC drama series to be shot on videotape using a multi-camera setup before they moved to single-camera and film.

I could not possibly agree more. It is nothing short of mind-blowing that this is the guy from Dude, Where's My Car? Cole should be the most generic character ever and yet SWS manages to pull new things out of him. And yes, if this gets canned (which I hope it doesn't) he needs his own show stat. I bailed on the godawful Magnum reboot after one episode and he would have made a FAR better Thomas Magnum than Jay Hernandez does. That was a LOT of earth that Murtaugh shoveled very fast. All by himself. Without even The Gute to help him.

Hmmmm, that was... interestingly fucked up. I have been deeply unimpressed with every new show of 2018 regardless of where it comes from except this one which was... intriguing in a lot of ways. Penn and Elizabeth were both very good this week. I was impressed at the vein on his forehead when he yelled at Paco and it's interesting to compare Joe to Dan Humphrey (who would probably come in and buy books at Joe's bookstore just to be pretentious) and his relationship with Serena on Gossip Girl (which I did not think was healthy and did not want them to end up together.) Chekhov's smoking McGuffin jar of piss aside, there are still plenty of loose ends Joe has left lying around. The girlfriend he dumped last episode for example, who obviously suspects something. Plus Paco knows all. And now we have less of a smoking gun and more of a smoking Candace. See you next season, Bunny.

Beck. Is. So. Awful. You have a whole toxic relationship with a guy WHO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT and who you do not bother to find out anything about, you break up with him because you decide he's clingy/stalky and you don't want to be "suffocated," then he gets into another relationship and you decide you want him back to use as an emotional crutch because your writing sucks again so you go after him and sleep with him in spite of his nice girlfriend. In fact you are so self-absorbed that it's a revelation when said angry now-ex-girlfriend points out that he had another previous girlfriend. I could almost hear Beck's thoughts in that scene as the gears in her mind suddenly ground into action in a way they never have before as she found herself actually thinking about some other people. "OMG, she's right... there was Candace. And he did cheat on Karen with ME. I... I wonder what actually happened to Candace? Whatever it was, I wonder if it could happen to me? Hmmm, I should find out because if I do, that might then reveal a whole bunch of other things I can make be about me." Seriously, the writers are doing an amazing job of creating Beck in such a way that I do not feel even slightly bad that she's dating a psycho who might kill her. That said, in the last scene Karen's behavior and dialog did feel like it kinda come out of nowhere. This was the first episode where I felt a bit of the writing was a little off. The boat sex was, uh, furtive. And lucky that this huge tourist destination boat was suddenly empty.

Probably for the best. Peach was 100% Mean Girl but she was right that nobody wants to read "Shitty Poems About My Father Who I Tell Everyone Is Dead But Who Isn't Vol. 27"

I know her friend(?) just died, but I love how Beck is so narcissistic and self-involved that she's just had a whole relationship run from meet-cute to break up and she hasn't realized that she knows absolutely nothing abut her boyfriend, his family, his background or seemingly ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL. After Joe slept with the new neighbor, was that her phone he was looking at? So she's been looking through Beck's social media? She worked at a yoga studio as an instructor and got fired for falling asleep while teaching a class.

I literally just googled "does urine contain DNA". Thanks, show.

I was worried about this too but they pulled it all off really well. Usually when the "overprotective" parent complains about something the wacky parent does, it's written as an overreaction. Cole let Maya wander into a morgue, see him talk down a jumper, told her about the little boy who was killed, then wound her up in the Emergency Room. I think Nat was pretty justified in freaking out (especially since she was already concerned about how the night would go!) She came across as a fair and understandably nervous mom. Maggie Lawson's line delivery helped enormously too, especially "She told me she accidentally wandered into the morgue. You told her about a DEAD KID?!" That whole scene between her and SWS was just really well played by both of them. That 2-second hurt look that SWS flashes across his face when she says "I should never have agreed to let you watch her" is not something I would ever have imagined the guy who played Stiffler could do back in 2000. Maya was pretty chill about the morgue and the head injury and the war stories though. Maybe she takes after her father.

Seriously, Cole is so much more likable than Riggs. I didn't even mind when they laid it on THICK with his daughter or even when he rescued a little boy and slid down a cable one-handed using his belt while his daughter just happened to be passing by. It's luck, right? Murtaugh's father-in-law story felt a bit like something out of The Flintstones by comparison. Keesha Sharp really is an amazing pro though, she makes the most on-the-nose dialog sound 100% believable. If Wayans wants to take off, give SWS the show and find him someone else to play off of.

I think it's pretty much this. Joe doesn't really know anything about Beck, he's just built her into his perfect fantasy woman in his mind, based on their one interaction in the bookstore. When she "disappoints" him one time too many, things will likely get very bad very quickly. This, of course, is because Joe is an introverted psychopath. As to why Peach, who is rich, hot and could get pretty much anyone she wants is interested in Beck, I have no idea.

Me either. Couldn't they figure something out where Murtaugh gets assigned to some sort of special nationwide investigative unit or the Justice Department or whatever and goes on extended trips and pops back in to guest star in like 3 episodes a season or something? Like Farrah Fawcett when she quit Charlie's Angels 8 million years ago. That way Trish can stay.

Sad but true. I mentioned this over in the Lethal Weapon forum, but the character they brought in on LW to replace Clayne Crawford/Riggs is quite similar to Magnum in a lot of ways, except Seann William Scott is great. The difference in charisma level and performances are shocking. Given that LW will probably end this season, I wish he and Hernandez had each been cast in the other's roles.

In the tradition of that old soap All My Children, maybe they should retitle this show All My Stalkers.

I am also blown away by how good SWS is. He manages to take a bunch of tired old character tropes and put a new spin on them. The popsicle "torture" scene could have been pure cheese but instead I watched that sequence thinking "Damn, he could carry this show by himself". And I like that his character is upbeat (or at least puts on a happy face). I am so over mopey dark dudes anchoring every show. Having just watched the godawful Magnum PI reboot, I can't help thinking that SWS would have made a FAR better Magnum than Jay Hernandez.

One Ferrari (which was likely already totaled since it wasn't moving when it got shot up). The 328 was either CGI or some sort of mockup or a combo. Either way they got the rear engine cover wrong. When it flies off the car, it's flat. Ferrari 328 engine covers are not flat, they encompass part of the rear buttresses. This was so very lame. Unfortunately I really don't think Jay Hernandez has the sort of charisma to carry a show like this and the whole thing felt so very generic. He had more chemistry with the dogs than with Perdita Weeks. And those voice overs... Ugh!

This was a fun watch, but so predictable and, what would the word be, I guess perfunctory. It could have been so much better plotted. It felt like a lot of what was on screen was just filling in time and doing nothing much to advance Jack & co's attempts to stop Suleyman. For example, they may as well not have bothered rescuing Hanin and her kids at all. After they went to all the trouble of finding and extracting them, the only info she can give them is where Suleyman is and the layout of the house, then her kid inadvertently tips him off that they're in America so he escapes, knowing the Americans are about to attack him - and that gives him the perfect opportunity to let them "rescue" the hostages and get the Ebola into the US. Hope season two is better written.

Uh, so Sophia/Rosa arrives at the scheduled time - wouldn't she go find the guy who was supposed to actually smuggle them over the border (since he was going to smuggle her too) and he would tell her what happened?

Yes, that was Katherine LaNasa as Sally, who we all thought Lenny Cohen had killed after Max double-crossed her when she wanted to run of with him.