12catcrazy

Unfortunately, they write for what they perceive the audience wants, and in this case they must think that the audience doesn't want "Father Brown". It seems that more and more of these PBS imported shows are sexing it up with as much as they can get away with on American PBS stations. The shows seem to be popular enough to keep renewing them, so I guess they're giving the audience what it wants (in this case, young handsome Vicars who hop into plenty of ladies' beds with no thought to their church teachings in that time period).

Good intro for the new Vicar. And this old lady has to say that the actor playing him has got to be one of most handsome men I've ever laid eyes on! It would be so nice to keep him drama-free and without a bunch of bed hopping but this being Grantchester, I doubt if that is going to be the case. The scene with Esme, Kathy, and Mrs C was kind of stupid considering that Kathy was wearing more lipstick than her daughter. I get it that they are setting up Mrs C to return to the vicarage but there could have been other things to get on Esme's case about and it just made the adults look stupid. Geordie is almost moony about the new Vicar - yeah, he has "a thing" alright. And another Yay for Leonard, and I'm hoping that he doesn't have a bunch of drama in his life this season (but the teaser for next week seems to hint otherwise).

Are you talking about the calf? That was awful and truly unpleasant to watch. The team talks about microwaves, but I also wonder if there are biologically based things making this happen such as bacteria being carried by vectors like insects (think diseases such as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Plague). As far as microwaves, isn't there speculation that is what has affected people (in some cases very badly affected in life changing ways) in the American Embassy in Cuba? 60 Minutes recently did a story on this and how people are also being targeted in other countries. If in fact, it was microwave energy that sickened the calf, I'd say the team would be in danger as well.

This show has grown on me, as has the characters of Professor T and his mother; I find myself even liking the secretary. Unfortunately, I'm starting to dislike the young female cop, and am downright hating the blond boss (Brand?). For the life of me, I don't understand why Prof T is throwing himself under the bus to save her hide, and she is selfish enough to let him do it, unless she has an ace up her sleeve that the show hasn't yet revealed to us. I'm trying not to take this show too seriously, but it gets me to thinking how the NCIS shows seemed to always have very likable characters (and actors) who you root for even when they are written into stupid stories, but this show has okay cases of the week but the way the cops are written (and acted) doesn't make it easy to really like them. Without Professor T, you might as well shut down the local police department.

Will's last episode was a good one. I liked the actor and I even liked Bonnie, but once Will got married, it was time for him to go because the writers could no longer make him tortured, or jumping in and out of women's beds. I think the showrunners feel that they need a bachelor vicar so the female audience can fantasize over him (which doesn't feel right when you have a happily married family man). I wonder if the writers would have had Will marry Bonnie if the actor hadn't said he wanted to leave the show? The goodbyes were kind of over-the-top. You'd think that Will and Bonnie were going to the moon rather than to another part of England. Letter writing was a thing in the early 60s, and I'm sure that visits were also possible, so it was kind of eye-rolling. The case of the week was a good one. The young single mother keeping the baby seemed unrealistic unless she had family to go back to. The aunt was a piece of work and I found it hard to believe that she actually wanted a baby to raise as her own - it would have made more sense if she was going to broker a black-market adoption for a rich couple and that is why she wanted her niece's baby. On the surface anyway, it worked out in the end.

Check under D.I. Ray

I still don't really get the phony money and pawn receipts, but when Feathers opened her bag while waiting for the bus, she had a bunch of what I presume was stolen stuff (pearls and other jewelry) in it. So I am under the impression, that while she wasn't the murderer, she was the thief who followed people home and stole their jewelry.

This is a good show and I'm glad that its back. Ray seems depressed at her new apartment, and who can blame her after what she went through last season. Still early, but my bet is on the murdered man's daughter as being the Big Bad. She seems to have bigger cojones than her brother and I think that she was probably angry that her brother was going to be the heir to the pawn shop/loansharking empire. Of course she's going to try and put the suspicion on the new comers who want to be the top crime dogs. So two birds with one stone - start a "war" - let both sides take each other out and then she can step in. And watch me be wrong...

This has certainly gotten weird with The Cone! This has brought my interest back to the show. Makes one wonder though if these guys have blundered onto some top secret military stuff OR are being led down the primrose path of disinformation and misdirection to prevent them from finding secret military stuff.

It kind of amazed me that anybody would fall for this guy's scam; especially in a place like L.A. You'd think that when movie people are looking for actresses, they place a call to an agency or run an ad - not try and pick up a woman at a mall. And even if the woman was intrigued, you'd hope that she would be at least savvy enough to ask for the guy's business card and arrange a meeting through his office. And it made my blood boil also that some jury of morons let this bastard go after he assaulted the woman in the hotel room. Granted that this happened 20 years ago and before the era of "Me Too" and there were probably people on that jury who had the attitude that if the woman went up to the hotel room with the guy then she was tacitly implying that she went there for sex. God only knows how many vicious creeps get away with sexual assault because of this mindset. Don't even get me started on that lawyer. I hope that if he has any daughters, they don't meet up with any psychos like Victor.

Absolutely idiot plot twist to have the kidnappers' father turn up alive and then to really stick us with the eye-rolling 'O Henry moment, they kill off both of the sons (as their dying mother gets to watch it on live video?). Re Dante - I read an interview with the actor (who is currently in a Broadway play) that he isn't leaving the show but depending on how long his Broadway part lasts he might be missing from some episodes. He also said that the producers want to "open up the show" and hinted that some of the action is going to take place in L.A. So my friends, my guess is that the main plots are going to be more big blow 'em up type of stuff and any small scale "equalizing" will be left to Aunt Vi and Dee. And speaking of Dee - I am still scratching my head how she thought that being in the military "helps" people in the way that she wants to help. She'd be better off going into social work, psychology (better yet, get the MD like her Dad and become a psychiatrist), nursing, or any number of other professions where she could make a real difference in people's lives. Mel and M.E.L. - yeah, they'll both be back.

This is starting to be almost as boring as "Oak Island". All the weird GPS stuff is intriguing but you'd think that somebody military would want to know about this considering how much defense relies on accurate GPS. You'd also think that defense in other countries like Russia, China, and Iran would also want to know how some mysterious force is totally blowing the team's GPS data. I don't know what to make of the Dire Wolf stuff. UFO Magazine used to have articles on Cryptozoology focusing on stories of people seeing either extinct animals or creatures such as Big Foot in areas that had a lot of UFO activity. The team keeps going on about "portals" - maybe they are going to posit that Dire Wolves from 35,000 years ago are entering present time through portals.

Since the grandmother with custody seems to be keeping the children away from their murdered mother's family, she is probably also brainwashing them that her darling son is innocent of any murder or wrongdoing. These kids are going to grow up believing that their father has been unjustly accused of murder and that "the system" denied them their father. If I'm remembering correctly, Tiffany was going to give her husband the house but that she was really the family breadwinner and he couldn't pay his bills without her. Was there any life insurance involved? And about the sordid strip club scene - call me old and out of touch but I find that American culture has degraded to where it seems as if everything is for the lowest common denominator. It really hit me over the head a few years ago when the Grammy awards had a couple of female singing (?) stars (one of whom was an ex-stripper) perform a song that made me do a double-take in how lewd both the performance and the song were. Yeah, and ok, people were clutching their pearls over Elvis Presley in 1957 and there have been older generations saying that the world was going to hell in a hand basket since forever, but man, what was considered to be "the gutter" when I was young seems to be what some people aspire to today.

The two sisters seem to have come from a very dysfunctional family. The older sister got the hell out of there as fast as she could and the younger one became the caretaker and yet another keeper of secrets. So far it also looks as if she is following in her mother's path of having an unhelpful husband and two very different daughters. Maybe the older daughter is supposed to be more like her father in the way that her life revolves around her job and she sticks her head in the sand. Yet she also seems more practical and "take charge" where her sister seems more emotional. This show is obviously more about the sisters and their relationship, and the story of their mother and her friends on the Isle of Man is just the catalyst to get the sisters back to talking with one another and exploring their relationship. The other people aren't really important in this story (although I'd like to know much more about them). I think that the stuff that happened with dear departed Mom is also going to be the spark that incites the two sisters to make changes in their own lives. And I have to laugh that Of Course the guy driving the cab had been an educated guy formerly in "Finance" and decided to chuck that life, as opposed to some yokel who is driving a cab because he can't do anything else for a living. Any bets that older sis is going to look at her shallow life of having affairs with married men and opt for the hipster-ish cabbie instead?

Sigh. This series started out with promise. All I can say is if this is the best these writers can do, maybe we should have AI writing TV shows. I mean, really, Dante's father having a secret child with another woman - what an original concept. Maybe these writers are the same ones who wrote NCIS - New Orleans and figured that they'd do a bit of script recycling. Its a shame that such a good cast is working in a show that is inane crap interspersed with lots of things that go boom, but it appears that is what the viewing audience wants to watch on Sunday nights as per the ratings. I'd like to say that I'm out, but since my other half kind of likes this show, I'll continue to watch and bitch about it. At least the hair, clothes, and makeup are on point which is more than can be said about most of the other action TV shows.

At first I thought that the deceased mother went in search of a child that she had out of wedlock - I was surprised to find out that she was an adopted child and went in search of her bio-family. I'm wondering about the shirts in the drawer and think that they will be part of something not as obvious as a male lover. It will be interesting to see what the relationship between the mother and the Stockard Channing character was. Some of you are recounting about being adopted and looking for birth families. My younger sister and I were kind of on a different side of that when we found out that our mother had been married previously and had 3 children with her first husband. We didn't find this out until after she had died, and her youngest daughter from that marriage found my aunt and through her, me. Talk about some heavy crap rocking one's world! And then a few years after that, my father told me that he and my mother had never been legally married, as she had never actually been divorced from her husband! So whatever they "reveal" on this show will not be any real shock to this viewer.

I don't think she was "stripped" - I think she handed it back on her own.

One of the things that really got me was how this person was supposed to be a woman of the cloth yet in some way rationalized that it was okay what happened to the unfairly accused post-masters. People lost everything they had - including their good names and reputations - yet she went along with it. The whole damn bunch of the upper echelon of the post office should be sued over this terrible miscarriage of justice.

I don't think there are any shortage of cases where one person killed multiple people (an especially shocking one for you younger people - look up Richard Speck). And I hope that more and more cold cases are cracked using DNA. Amazing how the guilty party in this case was the last of the brothers tested because he had led such a squeaky clean life. It's weird how a person can rape and murder two people and then go on with their life as if they had never done anything wrong. I'm glad that he was finally caught.

My blood was boiling while watching this episode. The one poor guy being put in jail really had me enraged. I'm hoping that these people whose lives and finances were destroyed by the post office and their software get some kind of justice by the end of this show.

The "Justice for Joy" episode really bothered me. That poor woman was murdered by that psycho over a lousy $20 pot deal and the police investigating her murder were told to back off from the scumbag because he was an informer? Good God, unless he was an informant on some multi-million dollar cartel sting, it seems that Joy's life was valued at zero by that police force. And unfortunately, I can believe that April was scared of her ex-husband for years. She probably got the crap kicked out of her by him on more than one occasion and knowing that he could kill her friend and burn down her house, she could easily think that he had nothing to lose if he killed her too. It wouldn't surprise me that maybe he was so murderous towards Joy because maybe she had told April to get the hell away from this guy. There has to be more to the murder/house burning than just the pot deal, although from reading the newspaper everyday, people are killed for a lot less.

Ok, so did anybody watch the case about Jane Dorotik? This is the first that I've seen anything about this case (I wasn't watching true crime TV 20 years ago). From what they showed here, it appears that she became the victim of bad police work.

I think that CBS has found that shows that aren't non-stop gun fights/explosions/people getting the shit kicked out of them have a viewership in the dreaded over 50 Female category and for some strange reason advertisers don't like or want us. And I'm getting to the point where I'm fed up to here with violent stupidity and want to spend more of my viewing time watching PBS or TCM and to hell with network TV AND their advertisers for shoving this crap down our throats. The original premise of this show was a good one and I thought that Robyn was over and done with the CIA and that doesn't seem to be the case now. And yeah, I thought that Fisk was gonna buy the farm when he was on the call with Robyn, but maybe that will be next week's episode unless Donal Logue has a long contract with this show.

I think that Naomi Watts looked more like CZ when she (Naomi) was young. I found Chloe hard to believe as CZ as well. Of all the swans portrayed, I think that CZ Guest was the only one of the women "to the manor born", though the families of Babe Paley and Lee Bouvier certainly were wannabes (and groomed their daughters to marry rich).

Well Christie, I peaked at your spoiler and I can say Thank You for saving my companion and me from wasting 5 more hours of our lives. We sat through episode 1 and neither of us could see the appeal of these people. It was like really badly done Somerset Maugham (and at least his writing had a sense of humor). I actually laughed when I read your spoiler. I just hope that the poor woman we saw him married to in Episode 1 got a happy ending.