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Honestly the show desperately needs to give Kate a storyline that isn’t about her weight or her motherhood, both of which are interrelated. The other Pearson siblings are given the opportunity to have careers and interests that have nothing to do with their gender, not to mention more character depth and complexity. Kate, though, is 1) a wife and mother, and 2) morbidly obese, and that’s about all there is to her. At the very least the writers are aware enough to know that Kate trying to sabotage Toby’s healthy life choices is a bad thing and something to apologize for, but all the same they should understand that “Kate does awful thing out of resentment for her husband’s healthy lifestyle, then realizes she’s being a dick and apologizes” doesn’t make her look terribly sympathetic.

This would be pretty shitty on the part of the show. Mass Media being culturally conservative, women are kind of expected to want kids, so Zoe being a child free woman who actually is portrayed fairly and isn’t treated as “Oh, you’ll change your mind” for a relationship or her ticking biological clock is actually kind of groundbreaking. Normally if you’re a woman in media and you don’t want kids you’re either a hardcore tomboy or otherwise out of the norm and aberrant. I figured her inclusion in this episode, besides serving to fuel Kevin’s midlife crisis, was to provide a sense of closure for that relationship and seal off any possibility of it coming back.

I like Donal even though I hated that his character became Sarah Shahi's love interest in Life Season 2 (I also hated that they cranked up the sex appeal with Shahi's character to 11 in Season 2).

I like Cassidy too. It's nice having a female character, especially one who is a love interest, who has some experience and wear and tear, instead of being yet another in a long line of 30 something glammed up generic Hollywood Female Professionals. And her background as a veteran seems refreshingly authentic (Jim LaPorta, the show's military advisor, is a USMC infantry veteran turned journalist covering defense/military issues). While their hookup is probably a little ill-advised at this moment, given that both are in pretty unstable states and are also dealing with substance abuse issues, I can see them working out. And it would be pretty refreshing to see an actress in her 40s play the role of a major love interest for what is basically the romantic lead of the show by default (since everyone else has been pretty monogamous throughout).

This is... not true. You have it flipped. It kind of strains my suspension of disbelief that those kids didn’t go all “Aw puppy!” when Eddie did his little flop. The action, again, was pretty terrible.

She recently had a kid with her husband, which could explain it. The spy thing was... pretty dumb, but par for the course for a procedural like 5-0. If the spy was as competent as they made her out to be she'd have vanished instead of continuing to pursue her target after the cops got involved, or been recalled by her masters. But the show needs a climax so she becomes target fixated to the point that she draws on said target while law enforcement is literally behind her. There is a 200% chance that Danny is going to end up on Twitter as some creepy 40 year old man who goes to the park to ogle coeds doing yoga.

Not to mention that she’s not anywhere where she, as a discharged Marine coming off of a tour of duty in a combat zone, would necessarily want to make herself “look better”. From female soldiers and marines on Military Twitter a lot of them just don’t bother with that much makeup when deployed overseas, and Cassidy was a FET member working in a combat zone and not a desk clerk in a garrison. She’s not going to an AA meeting to pick up guys or make friends, even if she has still unintentionally managed to do so in Kevin. Contrast a show like Chicago PD where female cops are engaging in firefights with perfectly styled, flowing hair getting in their eyes.

More dumb stuff: Why would Army CID, which is exactly what it sounds on the tin, be involved in providing close protection for a civilian federal protectee? How does a state Executive (the Governor) exert any influence over federal law enforcement (Army CID) who have arrested and are holding a person within federal jurisdiction (Quinn is a soldier)?

They probably could have solved it by comparing the serial numbers of the bills Liu took pictures of being dug out of the ground to the bills found in her apartment, but I think I’m putting more thought into it than the writers did. Pretty sure Danno has officially passed over into creepy old man territory for perving on coeds at the park. At the very least if you’re going to go to a public space to ogle attractive women decades your junior don’t be so obvious about it. And for heaven’s sake don’t literally point at the hot chicks.

Yeah, risk factors are just that, risk factors. They're not necessarily causal factors, although a modifiable risk factor such as obesity or (the rather unfortunately named) geriatric pregnancy can be causal to an extent when it comes to congenital disease. Health is something that varies from person to person after all, and each individual's body, and the bodies of the offspring that they grow and birth, is different in ways that aren't completely understood. Also, going back through this, it's weird how many people (even in the press) are calling Cassidy "Army chick" or "soldier" when it's made clear several times that she's a Marine. There's 1) the fact that the Sergeant that escorts her refers to one of his riflemen as a "Marine", 2) that she calls her superior "Gunny" aka "Gunnery Sergeant" which is a Marine rank and not an Army one, 3) her undress uniform for when she returns home is a Marine one, , and it 4) has a GIGANTIC EAGLE, GLOBE, AND ANCHOR on the cap. Guess you really do have to spell everything out on broadcast TV.

He has no felony convictions. He was allowed to resign without charges filed. I think moving Dex to full PI is a mistake. If you’re going to do something commit to it, and if you’re making Dex a novice PI who needs to be licensed then commit to that change. Arrests =/= charged filed, nevermind conviction or plea deal made.

Yeah, slut shaming a woman, particularly a black women (albeit a fictional character) for doing something mundane as dancing while wearing a dress that more or less reaches her ankles is pretty yikes. Maybe if this was a show set in the 50s (the 1850s, that is) the pearl clutching would be warranted. But Beth wasn’t twerking or grinding up on anybody, she was doing a traditional dance. Guess we’re shaming Beth for doing a salsa, shaming Cassidy for having stress lines, and shaming Kate for being obese. Did I miss anyone?

Any time the main cast does any investigative work it throws me off. This isn’t some hick town where the SWAT team is a bunch of deputies decked out in military surplus tacticool gear and a few hundred hours of extra training. LAPD SWAT are specialized officers who do specialized work. The thing is, Southland already showed that you could split an investigative storyline with other police work (although sadly we never followed Chickie to Metro, which SWAT is a part of).

There’s a decently sized Portland Timbers (Ansel is seen wearing a Timbers shirt a few times) And Thorns fan site that’s called, of course, Stumptown Football. (Speaking of, I really hope the show starts building more on everyone in the cast being being Timbers fans, particularly Ansel).

Yeah, considering that the main thrust of her character is that she is a normal person suddenly and reluctantly caught in the orbit of a Hollywood star, with real person problems like PTSD from over a decade spent fighting in a forever war or weak finances, it’s pretty clear that Makeup is intentionally making Jennifer Morrison look relatively plain compared to the decade plus younger women that Kevin has been dating before. She’s not a “methhead”, she’s just a woman in her forties ground down by decades of wear and caught in a massive transitional period with minimal preparation and so is extremely (and understandably) stressed. Also Morrison really showed off her acting chops in this episode.

Plus she gave the hot psycho con artist an eyeful at the apartment building.

I don't think he exists in the comics. Dex in the comics is a, more or less, experienced PI.

Yep. Cassidy has real person concerns. Even her marriage broke up she lived in a household where an unexpected $1200 expense put a serious strain on her finances. Compared to that a rich Hollywood actor worrying that in a decade he’ll be put out to pasture and why stay sober must sound pretty funny.

Randall definitely fired the wrong person. He doesn't need a bro to enable him, he needs a chief of staff to keep him on track. Realistically speaking this should hurt him. He's a politician. If he wanted to spend his entire day listening to the concerns of people he should have become a social worker.

Where's a network procedural to make the case that the poor little NYPD are the victims here?

Technically not. Comics Grey is pretty clearly in love with Dex, who doesn't seem to see him that way, while Detective Tracy Hoffman in the comics is a woman and Dex's teammate from her soccer team who she may or may not have been in a relationship with but she isn't hooking up with her the way Show Dex is hooking up with show Miles Hoffman. (Also, Dex is already working as a PI when the comics begins.) I thought that flipping the "Will Grey and Dex/won't they" on its head by revealing "They did" and rolling them back to being just friends was a good move, though. I'm liking show Grey a lot better than Comics Grey, which is important given that this is a different medium where everyone's roles will probably be significantly expanded from the comics (which only have four arcs). I also don't really see it as a love triangle per se, because everything we've seen about Dex suggests that she's not ready for a relationship period.

I wouldn't hate it, but I think the show needs to spend some time expanding Hoffman's character and giving Michael Ealy more to work with before worrying about love interests.

If they were casting the unit officer role for sex appeal they wouldn’t have casted an actress in her 50s. It didn’t look like Farrington was wearing anything more than street clothes, because she’s a cool detective. And it’s not like Cortez was adverse to ramping up the sex appeal.

I hated that guy. I kept on thinking “Dude, how to you have that little sense of self preservation?” Still don’t know why they decided to have Higgins undecided on whether she wants to work with Magnum formally. Of course she’s going to say yes, this isn’t like SWAT where it’s between seasons and the actor’s contract is up. And the option of her returning to the SIS would be a lot more meaningful if we actually saw her do something for the SIS and see what she gets from playing the spy game. They could turn the episode into Burn Notice all of a sudden and have Higgins enlist Magnum et al for their assistance for once instead of the other way around. Also maybe because I’m loving Stumptown but I can’t help but think how Magnum is a terrible PI. Dude is putting himself against guys with guns without getting anyone to agree to pay him!

They mentioned in the exposition dump that the suspect 1) was tied to a number of very high profile, high value burglaries affecting rich people aka a priority target, and 2) was known to collect many semi-automatic firearms. In other words he was armed and dangerous and probably somebody that necessitated a SWAT presence to arrest.