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Hate the Jamie/Eddie "romance." Hate. It. Eddie's junior high persona bugs the living daylights out of me and the writers are making Jamie look like a complete idiot. Wrecking the wedding over jealousy about something stupid and trivial was just beyond the pale. It took me a while to warm to Baeza because I really liked Danny's original partner, but she's won me over especially since she's started acting more like his equal instead of his subordinate. And it's gotten to the point where my favorite story lines are the ones with Erin and Anthony so I missed that this week. So glad Steve Schirripa has become a regular.

They used to do the same thing with the old Streets of San Francisco show. It drove me crazy, too. They'd show the detectives driving in a certain part of town and they'd turn a corner and immediately be in a completely different part of town half an hour away. Nooooo! When I'd watch it with my mom when visiting her on the East Coast and would start complaining about it, she'd tell me to shut up and just watch the show. LOL!

Ugh. Eddie. No. Just no. Stop trying to make this romance happen.

Why are people referring to Erin's investigator as Michael? His name is Anthony. And, yes, please stop trying to make Jamie and Eddie happen. I can barely stand Eddie, who acts like an immature junior high student with a crush half the time. Ugh. And Danny continues to be a horse's ass.

As an attorney, I agree. She has an independent ethical and professional duty to JUSTICE, regardless of what the DA and her immediate supervisor want her to do for POLITICAL reasons. As an attorney, you are never simply an "employee" who follows orders regardless of what they are. You always have an independent ethical standard you have to adhere to.

I'm loving Anthony, too. Great addition to the cast. He and Erin make a good team and I think his interactions with her makes HER more interesting.

So I'm not the only one who's finding all the screeching and carrying on TOO MUCH! Some of the women in particular have voices that could shatter glass even when they're NOT shrieking. I may not be able to stick it out this season. I can barely focus on the tasks for all CONSTANT screaming and Drama Queen antics. And I just can't with Blair. Fortunately, I'm sure she will be gone soon. Show, please bring back teams of normal people.

Sigh. I want to go back to a cast made up of normal people.

Frank is in Bay Ridge, which is in Brooklyn. It's Danny who is in Staten Island. The house that they show for the exterior of Frank's house is really in Bay Ridge. I don't know where the house they use for the exteriors of Danny's is, but I'll bet it's not really over on Staten Island.

Steve Schirripa is really from Brooklyn - Bensonhurst - so he definitely brings the right vibe.

I like her hot former investigator,too, but I'm really enjoying Steve "Bobby Baccala" Schirippa a lot. I hope he's there for the long haul. He and Erin had good chemistry and a good working relationship. The Eddie stuff with her grabbing the keys to keep Jamie from responding to an "officer down" call - Ugh! I'd refuse to ever work with her again. Although Jamie smoothed it over he was clearly NOT amused and I think he knows that regardless of trying to "make nice" afterwards, he can't trust her judgment anymore. I hope her detective ambitions are paving the way for a graceful transition of her off the show - or at least in a reduce role and not Jamie's partner.

She's immature and whiny and her "crush" on Jamie comes off as very "junior high." Jamie needs someone smarter, more thoughtful, and more professional as both a work partner and a life partner. Eddie's just an annoying adolescent. Even her banter is lame and juvenile. Not a well-written character. Move her to another precinct.

Some random observations/questions. In the first episode we saw Adam wandering around alone before he was assaulted and put on the railroad tracks by the locals. We're later told it's because he's a "half-caste" and peasants ostracize such folks and blame them for things like crop failures (though that didn't keep them out of jobs with the Indian Railways and things like nursing ... but I digress). This all apparently takes place pretty close to Simla, which is nowhere near (understatement) Madras and Tamil Nadu, where Adam and his mother came from (and how they, and his grandfather, managed THAT is another mystery - not a cheap or easy rail journey for a bunch of untouchable peasants), so how would the villagers know he was a "half-caste"? There's nothing in his appearance that would suggest that. Did his mother announce it to a bunch of strangers before leaving Adam to his own devices? Was she hanging around in/near the village where he was assaulted and if so, why? And how did Adam's mother find out where Dougie and Leena took him after they rescued him? Was she skulking behind them as they brought him back to the mission school? And if so, why didn't SHE remove him from the railroad tracks? Mr. Sood's tea plantation: there are NO tea plantations near Simla, nor were there any nearby in the 1930s. The nearest one is in the Kangra Valley, which is HOURS away even by modern transportation. Why did the creators of this series feel the need to make him, inaccurately, a tea planter instead of just a large landowner or some other very successful kind of Indian? This kind of gratuitous inaccuracy bugs me to death. Does anyone else think the wisteria on Ralph's South-of-France-looking mansion looks totally fake? Was the production budget too small for more realistic looking vegetation? The soapiness of the writing and the general loathsomeness of most of the characters in this series has reduced me to more or less hate-watching for the pleasure of snarking. I will probably keep watching, however, because I apparently have a high tolerance for crap, as evidenced by the fact that I watched season after season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. I'd watch a show about his family, with all the Britishers relegated to roles as background annoyances.

That was pretty much my reaction, too. I can hardly tell you how annoying I found the way the trial was handled. I'm a lawyer and I'm used to rolling my eyes at legal stuff on TV, but this was really beyond the pale. Having the prosecutor argue with the witnesses and fling accusations at the defendant, instead of just asking question (even if cleverly worded questions) just made me want to scream. And the fact that the fancy British prosecutor brought in from Delhi (ridiculous in itself) referred to the case as a "high-profile murder" had me guffawing. The death, even by violence, of an unknown untouchable woman without known family in the area would probably not have even been investigated by the police in the 1930s And if the matter did go to trial, it would have been a jury trial, because jury trials were standard in India until the 1950's, certainly in criminal cases. So this most certainly would have been a jury trial in real life, and more likely than not, in the 1930's the prosecutor would have been an Indian lawyer and the JUDGE would have been British. And don't even get me started on the crappy way the evidence was handled in absurd trial, as a number of others have already commented on. Ugh..

The file just relates to a government investigation and the only reason it's "confidential" is that it's embarrassing to the Raj and potentially inflammatory of anti-British feeling because if it got out it would expose abuses by Merrick, a government official. Earlier you said Guy had no more business reading this file than Merrick had reading Susan's psychiatric file, but I disagree. Susan's file contains personal information about her revealed and obtained under circumstances where she had a right and expectation of confidentiality. Medical ethics prohibits its disclosure. Merrick wants her confidential information so he can use it to manipulate her. Neither Merrick nor Hari should have any expectation of privacy about the investigation into the rape, Merrick's treatment of the arrestees (who were the wrong guys), his targeting of Hari for his own warped personal reasons, and the cynical misuse of the Defence of India laws to keep them incarcerated without trial. I don't see Rowan's revealing evidence of this kind of corruption to Guy, or Guy's reading of the file disclosing the corruption, as an abuse of power at all.