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My guess is that the viewers are NOT supposed to like Rina. She's being shown as a conniver and as somebody who mainly cares about her own ambition. Isobel SHOULD have been given Rina's job but wasn't and it was probably because Rina knows how to suck up to the right people and manipulate a situation to her advantage. Isobel has been shown as a straight shooter who really cares about justice. My guess is that the end game here is that the Rina and Jubal relationship is going to cause trouble and Rina is either going to be promoted up the ladder or or get a shalacking on the way down. Rina is the villain who is there to cause internal FBI drama (and get the viewers booing) and maybe a stand-in for the assholes we have met in real life who get undeserved promotions and take credit from the people around them. Thats why I think she will eventually get her comeuppance.

Finally got around to watching this episode - this show is not "must see tv" in my living room. Is there anybody we can root for in this show? People just behave so badly and so stupidly I'm just shaking my head through the entire episode. I'm just hoping that Harris wiped off the gun like he was wiping off the car, because it didn't appear that he had gloves on when he was shown pointing it behind the diner. And his ex-partner did give him some good advice about the pharmacist and to dig deeper to where the drugs were coming from. The sex scene at the motel - who the hell thinks up this shit? It was good for a sick laugh until both the john and Isaac were beaten. I hope that the john lives and doesn't accuse Isaac of doing that or setting him up. And yeah, why the hell doesn't Isaac just buy a freakin bus ticket and just sell himself in LA. He could probably get into the porn industry and make better money than rolling johns at truck stops. Billy's mother showed herself to be a real bitch. Lee has acted stupidly and cheating on her husband with Billy sure wasn't the right thing to do but did she really deserve THAT? And the husband seemed so nice but he packed his bag and drove off without so much even asking Lee what her side of the story was. So are we to believe that he is really a possessive asshole who just views Lee as another thing that he owns and is that to make us more sympathetic to her sleeping with Billy? And speaking of Billy - there is a guy with a self-destructive streak a mile long. He is going to be subjected to every type of debasement there is in prison. He is reminding me of somebody out of a de Sade novel. This whole show is making me think of de Sade, but the question is, who is being tortured - the characters or the viewers?

at Aghst: I don't think anything about this series is making much sense. It's like on the surface you can buy the premise of the greedy real estate developer instigating a slaughter to buy land for cheap but yeah, your argument against that makes much more sense. And again the sons - they are not Hungarian, from what we've seen, neither of the parents seems racist - I just hope there is a twist we didn't see coming because so far it's made from whole cloth. I think that Baptiste turned and left when he saw his wife was because she seemed so happy sitting there and chatting away with another lady. Either her happiness bummed him out or he felt that his being there would just bum her out.

It seemed like a couple of seconds was missing from the chase scene but I got the impression that Will maybe tripped and fell, because I doubt if gimpy Baptiste could have caught him otherwise. And how many movie/tv scenes have we seen where the character is having some kind of mental trauma or catharsis and runs to the bathroom and starts going full out Vidal Sassoon on themselves? And they always look really good instead of the mess most of us would make of ourselves doing that.

I also thought she was on one of those 80s Soap Opera shows like Falcon Crest, because I remember reading about her back then and how she was Jayne Mansfield's daughter. And this episode had me rolling my eyes. Yeah, 40 years ago a 16 year dating a 21 year old guy was not a big thing. My 64 year old self laughs thinking about a 21 year old as "an older man". I'm sure that if you asked 20 women currently between the ages 55 and 65 how old they were when they lost their virginity, I bet the ages of 16 and 17 would come up quite a lot. This whole "Me Too" I'm a VICTIM! crap is swinging so far in that direction that it's going to wind up swinging way too far back in the other. And what I really don't understand in my old-fogey-ness is how young women today seem to revel in showing off as much skin as possible (so many party dresses remind me of colored ace bandages) and it's all this "celebration" of being lustful and eye popping vulgarity even on the Grammys (what was that song - "WAP"?) yet when it comes to teenagers and sex it's like the culture has lost its mind. Teenage girls having sex - people are like running down the halls screaming in terror. I. Just. Dont. Get It.

I'm enjoying this season so much better than the last few years of NCIS. I'm really liking Parker and it looks like his catch phrase is going to be "I can eat". He seems to like food. The case of the week was good and I could actually buy Judy being Delilah's mom. There was a similarity in looks and I can see a very free-wheeling mother having a daughter who is more "controlled". McGee was great in the peacemaker role. He seems like a "Dad" type of guy in so many ways. He's not going to come in with guns blazing but if the roof is coming down and the living room is flooding, he's the guy you want there. And the writers are still making Torres something of an immature jerk. The actor seems to be a guy with a sense of humor and when they let that come out in Torres, he can become endearing rather than a PITA.

I enjoyed this episode. I'm really liking Gary Cole as the Team Leader (though I agree that at times he sounds like a dead ringer for Mark Harmon). As for making Torres such a pouty, angry, well, "dick", I read yesterday that the actor will probably be leaving the show. He is apparently supposed to be in a new CBS comedy show. I liked Torres up until this season. They started making him over the top with Bishop and dialed it up with Gibbs. I guess that the writers are looking for a way to exit him out.

I don't know if everybody would assume that two men traveling and sharing expenses together were gay. And actually, anybody really thinking they were is a relatively recent thing. Even in the Victorian age, men would write their very close friends letters that today would have people thinking they were gay lovers. In some cases they probably were but in that era over-the-top flowery feelings were socially acceptable. And even Oscar Wilde didn't get into trouble until he very stupidly sued his male lover's father for criminal libel which exposed himself in such a public way that he was then made an example of what the law could do to Homosexuals.

Probably for many reasons. Don't the people in charge usually bring up stuff in the Bible against it? Sodom and Gomorrah among other things? Is there anything in the Bible about women in that regard? Also, I think it reflects on men being insecure about their masculinity. Back in the 70s I had a male friend get very puffed up about how gay men (he used a word I won't repeat here) "were an affront to [his] masculinity" and he was so highly offended by the sight of them. When my other friend and I asked him why, he couldn't tell us any kind of logical reason, just that they offended his maleness. I also think that many men enjoy the thought of two women being sexual with each other so no reason to put them in jail. And also, back in the day, women were thought to be so non-sexual that two female friends just couldn't "do that". And edited to add - everything that Sarah 103 said as well.

Another vote for wanting to know more about the Murdaugh case. And my thought's about the wife and son being murdered is that Alex Murdaugh more than likely had a hand in that (even if he didn't actually do the shooting) - he was probably counting on suspicion falling on the boating accident dead girl's family and friends which would leave him off the hook. They mentioned in passing on the show that the wife had been rumored to have spoken to a divorce attorney. So bump her off and either the son was in the wrong place at the wrong time or his idiot actions had made him too much of a liability to have around so he had to go too. As far as the housekeeper - accident or was she pushed or assaulted? People can (and do) die from falls where they hit their head but considering how Murdaugh kept the woman's insurance money rather than giving it to her sons, makes you wonder if this had been another evil deed he had thought about for gain. He really seemed to think that he was above the law and untouchable, and the housekeeper was basically a "nobody". That young man who was hit by a car - well, he was openly gay and hanging around people that he wouldn't talk to his family about. Maybe he had some drug connection to Murdaugh (or the sons) or there was a gay connection. Maybe the guy threatened to tell all to somebody.... Boy, it's like this family was made for Dateline.

I loved how Cathy said that she had two "Aunties" growing up, and one was her REAL Auntie and the other. I forget the exact words, but the other was with the real Aunt. Which I guess is implying that her Aunt had a female partner and it was just kind of accepted. It also seems that they've taken the Leonard storyline about as far as they can (and lets all hope that option 3 above is how it goes). From the previews, Leonard's replacement is Black , so that will open up the storyline to showcase all of the Racial (and racist) viewpoints of Grantchester's version of 1950s England.

Yeah weird that the Ambassador's son became a terrorist on account of a supposed girl on-line. Especially since he wasn't Hungarian and really didn't have a dog in the fight. And unless this was really a Patty Hearst situation, it really doesn't make any sense. My guess is that the person in the mask ("Gomorrah"?) is the woman politician. I thought that from the get-go with the way the voice was distorted. I really hope that the policewoman's father died of a heart attack or something "natural" as opposed to being murdered by the violent right wing thugs. I'm still not a fan of the timeline shifting and of how quickly (14 months) Baptiste became an alcoholic bum.

"Borefest" indeed. And Isaac did well on the SATs? Book smart maybe but pretty stupid - I thought the same thing about getting a bus ticket. But that maybe would have shown something like a logical thought process and we wouldn't be shown him learning how to roll truck driving johns. Because, thats you know, a job skill.

As annoying as Lindsey was, if it hadn't been for her, the murder would've remained unsolved or the ex-boyfriend would have been pinned for it. And yeah, annoying as crap when the title gave it away. As soon as you found out that she lived in a duplex and that the neighbors sold pot, well, yeah, "The Wrong Door" about says it all.

This was a good episode and Gary Cole is fitting into his role nicely. It was great seeing so much of Ducky and I'm finding that I like the new female agent as well. My only complaint is that they need to dial it back with Torres. His anger (especially at the Director) borders on insubordination.

Very good movie! I keep hoping that they will show it on TCM (they need to have a Stephen Boyd film fest).

You mean the vodka mixed with a couple of spoonfuls of colloidal silver?

The case of the week was good except for the Tiffany family drama. And rich that she chides Scola for being buttoned up and stiff but you'd think that when her father died, somebody at work would have known about it - maybe even sent a card from "the office" and flowers. Seems as they're going to start mining some Tiffany/Scola drama bullshit. On a shallow note - is Missy Peregrym pregnant again? She's wearing the baggy shirts and we're not seeing as much of her in the stories as in the past (well, pre-first baby).

I dunno. Does this show have enough imagination to show us a flashback and not have it be true? I thought from the get-go that it was something like Billy told Lee - that Billy stupidly went into that building looking to even the score with the ex-cop and things got out of hand and Isaac stepped in and killed the ex-cop. Billy is exactly the sort of idiot who goes looking for trouble when it hasn't found him first. And this ex-girlfriend of his is being painted as just a big of an idiot, risking her future with this stupid fling (or whatever it is). If you're going to watch a tv show about a bunch of losers, you want at least one of them to root for. Right now, Grace seems the best bet, but between her and her husband, you can see why Billy turned out the way he did.

So this woman killed her husband, because rather than face the music that he find out about her embezzlement, she figures that she'd be a rich widow? I also wanted to know more about her first marriage. She's not the only woman to ditch a spouse for what she sees as a higher level on the financial ladder, but having her kids be the ones to tell him??? That is just beyond so many things... And I wonder what the victim's kids thought about their father dumping their mother for Lori. The show didn't get into any of THAT, just how wonderful the blended family was. What always makes me shake my head though, is seeing these people who are so materially well-off and have beautiful homes, and seem to have lots of vacation time and money, and who don't seem to really want for anything (or wonder how they're going to pay their cable bill this month) and yet "they" are so unhappy as to commit murder. Shows like Dateline and 48 Hours are filled with these folks.

I might be wrong, but didn't she also have a daughter in addition to the two sons? And she has a husband - that kind of unending grief in a loved one can be really tough to live with. I really hope that she and her ex-husband are in therapy because losing two children (especially one to murder) would bring almost anybody to their knees. I once read an interview with someone - I don't remember if is was a "medium" or a person who had a near death experience, but he said that the newly deceased was shown their life from birth to death, and they had to feel the pain and see the consequences of when they did harm to other people. You can take this kind of stuff with a grain of salt but if it's true, you can only hope if the soul does another go-around it will be a better person. This probably would offer very little comfort to James' parents but Homicide Howie is going to be feeling an awful lot of anguish.

I've got to agree with just about everything said from the rest of you. Sad all the way around. I was saying while watching it that I wouldn't be surprised if the murdered guy's mother wound up divorced again. I guess that I don't understand this NEED by so many people to bury their loved one's remains. The person is gone from this plane of existence and to me, the bones (or whatever is left) isn't what is important but honoring the spirt is. In this case it seems that both the murdered person's parents are so focused on "bringing him home" that they are caught up in this endless loop of obsession and it makes you wonder how they are living their lives. The murderer was caught, he had a dishonest confession (but at least said that he committed the murder). And yeah, the young girl AND her family accepting "Homicide Howie" really is a WTF head scratcher. For one, this young woman has now yoked herself to a man who is a sociopath and will be spending some time in jail. If he is actually in jail for 10 years, I'll be surprised (no way is he going to do the entire sentence). And most people don't seem to come out of jail for the better. Just weird and you have to wonder what the hell the parents are thinking if not the teenager "in luv". And it was really a shame that the guy who was already in jail who I agree probably had a bigger part in the murder than he was admitting to, didn't agree to help the police find the remains much sooner. I guess that the "law" against snitching means more than actually doing the right thing. A two hours of really depressing watching.

Yeah they could. We could be hearing "Dueling Banjos" as the background music.

I'm still not feeling that there is anybody in this show that I can root for other than maybe, possibly, Grace and Dell, and that's even stretching it. Billy is one of these losers who is going to find trouble (or trouble find him) no matter what. Does it bother him that his ex-girlfriend is now married with a much better life than he can give her? Nope. Anybody want to bet that she's going to wind up pregnant by him? And for a newly married woman, she doesn't seem to love her husband all that much. The allure of an old flame is understandable but it doesn't mean that you actually have to act on it. Especially when it might totally fuck up the very nice life you now have after escaping that hell hole pit of a town. Dell's revelation. Looks like his guilt is playing out by him moving to this ring of PA Hell. Yeah, ok, so you want to escape your evil fellow cops in Pittsburgh but you come to this place.... because? And frankly, the writers should have come up with a better crime than bringing a child molester to vigilante justice. I'm not saying that murdering the molester was the right thing to do, but police do things of the everyday more mundane variety like planting evidence on innocent people or the type of things that brought about the BLM movement. I dunno. Mare of Easttown was engaging tv - this is a slog. I'll keep watching to see it through, but it's not a show I'd recommend to anybody.

This was a tough one. I think that what finally leaned it in Kit's direction of being the murderer was two things: that Cal was so badly beaten (something a woman was very unlikely to do) and that Pam and the neighbor had been taken out to the car (dead weight is pretty damn heavy) to dispose of them. I like the idea that maybe Kit thought the cops would think that Pam and the neighbor were having an affair and that they killed Cal and then tried to escape. Only thing is, why wind up in a field in the middle of nowhere and have the car catch fire with you still in it? My impression of Kit is that he is another egotistical asshole who thinks that he's the smartest guy in the room. And yes, I wish that Dateline would have told us why the police had cleared Joan of being part of this. I never considered that the victims' son and his aunt planted that evidence - I thought that maybe Joan did to make sure that Kit was convicted, but it probably makes more sense that the son and his aunt planted it. We watch these shows and always think that the loved ones of the victims are always so squeaky clean, but that might not be the case.