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  1. Ok, so the number theory seemed to be dropped for this week's episode but they FOUND A BOBBY DAZZLER! Which may be interesting to look at once all of the corrosion is cleaned off of it. And when Rick and crew was going down into that shaft - all I could think of was "how the f much is all this costing?" The History Chanel must have very deep pockets. As to all of the fuss over the well - rolling eyes here. And if chance if something starts to look like they maybe are close to finding "something", just watch the Canadian/Novia Scotia gov't put a stop to it (while asking for permits out the whazoo).
  2. Yeah, he was married to Tea Leoni for many years; it was a shame as they seemed to have been a nice couple. And if there are any Duchovny fans out there, check out a movie he made in the early 90s called "The Rapture". It it a very good but little seen movie also starring Mimi Rogers. Re the episode, I had no idea so many eastern European Jews wound up in England, although my father's mother and her siblings were all raised in England and their parents were originally from Vilna, Lithuania. These were very well educated intellectual people who had money, and I have no idea why they moved to England. They didn't live in London but somewhere in Lincolnshire. When my grandmother married my grandfather (whose people also came from Lithuania, but my grandfather was raised in New York City), her entire family (parents and siblings) came with her to New York. My father used to say that his father had made his first million when he married my grandmother as that was what her dowry was. My father was basically ethnically Jewish but culturally not. His mother later became a Christian Scientist of all things. And about Jews who moved to a place like Palestine instead of the US or England, there was actually an early Zionist movement that started in the late 1800s and the goal was to set up a Jewish Homeland in what was then part of the Ottoman Empire. My father's paternal grandfather was a Zionist and took a boat over to Jerusalem at the age of 97 (died in 1928) and died and is buried there. He must be rolling in his grave with so Goyim descendants such as myself and some 3rd cousins who were rather shocked to find out they had some Jewish ancestry (they had been raised to be very anti-Semitic).
  3. The "pure fiction" to me is that there is currently only 2 Licensed/Legal Recreational dispensaries in NYC (which includes Brooklyn, where East New York is located). There are many illegal dispensaries, which the city has not apparently been cracking down on. The show made it seem as the rash of robberies were all done on Legal dispensaries. It would've made more sense to me if it were illegal dispensaries as there are many more of them than the legal ones, but then it wouldn't have been the inside job of the guy working for the City or State agency (I forget the details) who could tip off the heist team. But it is correct that banks and credit card companies don't want to deal with legal dispensaries because of the federal laws. We are about 60 years into this idiotic "war on drugs" and you'd think we'd be beyond this stupidity by now. There are some very good books out there about the history of (what is now illegal) drug use and how we got to be in the current situation. Prohibition didn't work with alcohol and it hasn't worked with drugs. As the saying goes about the definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I will now climb off the soapbox.
  4. This was a good episode even though as far as legal pot dispensaries go it was pure fiction. Its a tragedy how many people in this country were put in jail for minor marijuana busts (and for just possession, not even dealing it). Times have changed - at least in some states - but not everybody's attitude has. Killian is this show's poster boy for so much of what we think as white man- sorry- to- see- the old days go- thinking. He is narrow minded and a bully and because he is a cop, thinks he can get away with stuff. I loved it when Regina called him out for locking up the chef - in which he was totally trying to sabotage the man's efforts to "go straight" and I almost cheered at the tv when his girlfriend called him out and said that she no longer wanted to be with him. I'm sure that their separation will be temporary and somewhere along the line Killian will be partially redeemed but at the moment, it's good to savor his comeuppance. Does anybody else think that the police chief (Jimmy Smits) will wind up in a romance with the political consultant? She might want to try and run him for mayor but I can't see him agreeing to do that. And as far as romance, it was odd that Regina suddenly left when things were getting hot and heavy. Obviously our woman has some issues. And I still have the feeling that the undercover guy she is kinda/sorta dating is wearing a red shirt. I hope that I'm wrong, but for a guy who seems to still be an undercover guy in the drug business, it seems a little too obvious that he has a close friendship with a female cop.
  5. Guess you haven't been watching in years - LOL. They've been at this Knights Templar thing for quite a few years now. Rick and the young guys jetted off to Portugal, and if I recall, there has also been trips to Scotland and maybe England as well - all looking for clues re the KT and Oak Island. These Templar Fact Finding mission trips must make some good tax write-offs for a European vacation. And here I was watching slack jawed and thinking that they really had some kind of a viable theory for once. In my defense, I was downing my 2nd glass of wine and watching at 10 pm on the DVR.
  6. I did not see the twist coming about Max's Professor being the murderer; figured that maybe the actress was playing him in some way but hadn't pegged him for the bad guy. Guess the show is going to keep trying with the Max/Clara pairing. Why do they always have to shove the romance down our throats in these Mystery detective shows? Every time I see "Clara" all I can think about is how she looks like a young Jessica Lange. And there also seems to be so little chemistry between the actors who play Max and Clara - I can see them as friends or brother and sister but I don't feel any heat there; the relationship feels more of the mind than anything else. As with all of this stuff, YMMV. I felt so bad for Oskar at the end. Why did that woman come on to him when she wasn't entirely "free" to do so and not tell him about her situation. Really crappy - especially since she had Oskar over to her apartment and he was getting attached to her daughter. The season ends with the positive for Max & Clara and a disappointed heart for Oscar. Hopefully, the show gets renewed and we'll see what happens next.
  7. Enjoyable episode and like the rest of you, I loved how everybody worked together. I also love the idea of Eliza working for Nash as the head of the main agency. And good for Nash for offering her the job and realizing how good a detective she is. Honestly, I'd rather see Eliza end up with Nash, because as swoony as William is, she would not ultimately be happy with him if he insisted that she live her life as a conventional Victorian wife and mother. My guess is that if the show continues, we will be seeing William changing how he looks at Eliza and grow to accept her for who she is and make his peace to where if he wants HER, he is going to get the whole package and on her terms.
  8. Mixed feelings about this episode. Showcased Gary Cole as an actor (good) and I really liked the guy who played his former partner, and the actor who played the bad guy was very good as well. The story kept my interest but I hated that they showed Parker as a Jekyll/Hyde. I don't buy for a minute that a man who has been a good team leader and all around likeable easy-going sort of guy all of a sudden turns into this driven, nasty, ready-to-go-rogue asshole. So all of the interesting hobbies of bird watching, piano playing, treating the team to delicious pastries was all just trying to tamp down his guilt about accidently shooting his partner? Baloney. I guess that I have to keep telling myself that this is just another comic book TV show and not real life, but NCIS no. Please just stop with all the angst ridden backstories.
  9. I was wondering how a lawyer like him can actually look at himself in the mirror. Guess that all that matters is winning for your client. Wonder what the jurors who acquitted her thought when and if they saw that confession video. Talk about being played...
  10. 150 percent in agreement here. But if you leave out the treasure part you basically have a show that would be more along the lines of something on PBS like "Nova" or "Secrets of The Dead" , except that those shows are interesting as opposed to the snore-zone of "Oak Island". If anybody here also watches "Beyond Oak Island", they had some episodes on other mysteries and it looks as if next season is going to be another goose hunt in looking for sunken treasure in Lake Michigan. Personally, I would have rather them went with the guys searching for the Wydah shipwreck off of Cape Cod, but those guys are actually finding stuff so no endless "we may have found treasure" in that. And the "I vote for Gary..." - I almost peed my pants laughing so hard!
  11. Unfortunately, many abusers are good manipulators who are able to be charming and kind when it suits them. Also, the early abuse starts out in very subtle ways in almost a test of whether or not the woman will stay or dump him. Very few abusers are going to hit a woman across the face on the second date. Most of these guys seem to have an inner radar on who is going to put up with it. And it's also well known that a woman's life is in the most danger from an abuser when she decides to leave him.
  12. I felt engaged by this episode but felt that they started to make it more obvious that Nurse was evil (and this just wasn't Danny's paranoia) with the steak dinner incident. Danny had obvious emotional issues which were going on before his mother died. I think that his issues helped seal his doom so to speak as he would act so angry and almost irrational that it became easy for others to think that he was nuts. Like maybe if he had been less explosive, he could have talked his friend into getting the oatmeal tested, instead of frightening her. This episode reminded me of the old saying, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean 'they' are not out to get you". And finally, is this just me, but it seems that I'm seeing more and more acting that has so much hand and arm movement and exaggerated facial expressions that it makes me think of Pixar style animation (which I really dislike). It's like human actors are mimicking animation aimed at 5 year olds. Either that or directors and actors have been watching lots of silent movies and somebody thinks that lots of body movement is a cool way to get your point across.
  13. I'm finding that I don't miss "The Duke" at all. Now that he's back (and looks like Arabella's got him), I'm not looking forward to the drama and soap opera. Agree 100% with Mermaid above.
  14. I'm going to play semi-Devil's Advocate here and mention that Cindy's grandfather may have nixed her mother accepting a singing scholarship as he figured it would lead to a career on stage which he probably viewed as being half a notch above prostitution. Most of us now have an admiration for talented singers and entertainers, but back in the bad old days, many of the women who supported themselves in that line of work, really did wind up having to pay their bills by way of being "kept" women or having numerous male "sponsors". Read a biography about Sarah Bernhardt - who was an internationally celebrated actress - and it will give you an idea of what life was like for women entertainers. There was also the attitude back then of women who were educated or too career minded might have trouble finding a husband. Even in Upper class American society, education was discouraged for women as it might make them less marriageable and more restless. And I kind of wonder if it hasn't been Cindy Lauper's own experience in the notoriously misogynistic world of the music industry that has also colored her outlook and added to her bitterness, but at least she tries to make a difference with her activism - I applaud her for that.
  15. This was an interesting episode. Danny Trejo has had an interesting life. The only other famous people I could think of who spent any real time in jail who turned their lives around were the Country singers Merle Haggard and David Allan Coe. And yes, I wish that we were given more info about why Danny Trejo didn't have much contact with his mother (who looked very beautiful from her photo). I wonder if his parents were even married? I have been listening to Cindy Lauper since the 80s when her hit album came out and will say that I had no idea that she was half-Italian. I also had no idea that she was raised in Queens (always assumed The Bronx, with that accent - which I feel is largely put-on). Her parents divorced when she was very young, and apparently her mother remarried and divorced again, so Cindy probably didn't have much in the way of good male role-models while growing up (especially from her comments). And on a shallow note, for a woman who is pushing 70, she has got gorgeous skin and looks great in general.
  16. This show is basically an action comic book. Its all about lots of blazing guns and explosions. There is very little logic to many of the stories. I consider it light entertainment when I don't want to think too much or get pissed off how the so-called "good guys" are presented as heartless assholes who use and abuse people to win (Dick Wolf shows, I'm speaking about you). At least in NCIS World you know the "good" guys are really good and they will eventually come out in the end. To me the saving grace is how likeable the actors are, even when the show itself is ridiculous. Yes! This has been totally bugging me since the start of Kenzie and Deeks taking in Rosa (I don't know if she is a foster child or if they actually adopted her). From the way they talk and act, it is like she is a little girl and not a 16 year old. It is an insult to the audience's intelligence and it amazes me how the actors can say these lines straight faced.
  17. I think that the husband was guilty (for pretty much all of the reasons given by the prosecution) but I don't think they had enough evidence to be "beyond a reasonable doubt". There didn't seem to be anything new from what they had in 1982 and if they thought they had enough evidence now, they should have charged him then. It still boggles my mind how somebody could put an axe into his wife's head and leave his child alone with her mother's body for 8 hours and also go to work and be in meetings and deal with other work stuff and act as if nothing was wrong. And to also go on with his life for the next 40 years as if he didn't commit a horrible murder. And you wonder what happened with this guy mentally to make him "snap" like that. There wasn't the usual spousal murder stuff like an affair, insurance policies, tons of money/assets to be split. And his ex-wives didn't seem to have a bunch of nasty stuff to say about him and his daughter seemed to adore him. This was a very odd case. The more I watch shows like this, the even less I understand my fellow humans.
  18. Am I confused but wasn't it Niecy's grandmother that had a marriage of convenience and not her mother? And I'm forgetting how many children the grandmother had and if they all had the same father.
  19. They were young and pretty and there were four of them and they were living in a "safe" small town where pretty much the worse crime is probably stupid stuff done by drunk college kids. It plays on the fear of parents who already have anxiety about their kids leaving the nest, and it's like if your kid isn't safe in a place like Moscow, Idaho, where can they ever be safe? I also think it has something to do with how young people today keep putting themselves out there on TiK Tok and other apps. It like when Andy Warhol said that "in the future, everybody will have 15 minutes of fame". The first thing I think of is yeah, put yourself out there where every obsessive psycho can see you and pretty quickly find out who you are and where you live. But young people being who they are and being raised in the world of social media don't look like it that way. It's rotten that missing and/or murdered Women of Color don't receive as much attention. And part of that might be racial and part of it might be because many of these victims aren't living in "safe" areas or in "safe" situations. Also not traversing America in a van and putting the adventures on You Tube. A young Black woman is murdered by a jealous boyfriend with a machete - oh well. Might get a few days mention in the NY Daily News but nothing to see here on National TV unless they are doing a story on domestic violence.
  20. It's kind of a weird thing how we now have a story arc about a bad cop (police brutality) and the show pretty much hand-waved away the thing about Killian stealing what was supposed to be a $30K baseball bat from a restaurant. Since it turned out that the bat was a cheap tourist souvenir thing, it's like it is now okay that he stole it? No ramifications from it and I guess that it's better for him to commit theft than his girlfriend asking her rich Daddy for the money to buy the bar? Speaking of the bad cop - I give kudos to the casting person who found the actor to play the union rep. That actor has a face and demeanor that should be pictured in the dictionary next to the word "skeevy". I wonder if Pat Lynch watches this show? He's probably enough of an ego maniac where he would think the portray flattering.
  21. 48 Hours, Dateline, and 20/20 are all covering this story because there is such massive national interest in it. There may not be much to tell us that hasn't already been covered in an evening news show or online but its all about the ratings. I watched both 48 Hours and Dateline and knew that there wasn't much they could tell us but I wanted to see each show's "take" on the story. Frankly, I really hope that the police got their man in this case. The evidence is mostly circumstantial but it seems to be a drip, drip, drip in that it adds up to pointing the finger at this guy. And I'm afraid that his lawyer is going to use all the national publicity and interest about this case to argue that there is no way he can get a fair trial basically anywhere. Since I'm among friends here, I'm going to put in my two cents as a person who has been reading about "True Crime" for over 50 years (I was weaned on the Sunday NY Daily News Justice Story, and was given a multi volume True Crime "encyclopedia" when I was 15 as a gift). I'm going to guess that our killer became obsessed with one of the blond girls and started stalking her. I don't think she was a "random" victim but I think that the other people killed were collateral damage. I believe it was on Dateline that it was mentioned that the killer probably didn't expect to have a large young man staying at the house and he probably killed him and his girlfriend first. Supposedly, the two blond friends were in the same room, so if he planned to kill one girl, he had to kill the other. The witness girl who saw him was probably spared because the killer was probably wrapped up in thinking that he'd better get the hell out of there fast. My guess is that he was able to dispatch all four victims so quickly was that it was 4 am and the victims were sleeping and had probably also had been drinking so maybe their responses would be much slower than if everybody had been stone cold sober and awake at noon. If only one of the young women had been killed, it would have of course shocked the town but maybe not have made national news. I think that the killer was planning on one murder and circumstances turned it into four. Would the killer have gone on to murder other people if he had gotten away with this crime? I don't know - he was supposedly interested in the BTK Serial Killer - but I believe that the bottom line here was an obsession with one girl. I just hope they got the right guy and he gets put away for life.
  22. So far, I've watched the first two parts. To me this is just mindless comic book stuff - lots of things exploding and at the end, the good guys win and all is right with the world until the next episode. I watch NCIS and also NCIS LA (but mainly due to inertia on Sunday nights until it became a habit). Gave Hawaii 3 episodes and kind of gave up on it (my other half really disliked it). Not a fan of cross-over episodes but this is what we were given. NCIS will probably get renewed. LA should get the axe - it can be an ok show but gets stupid with all the personal romance stuff. Since I don't watch Hawaii, I won't venture a guess there. Part of what gets shows like these canned is the expense in making them. And my personal opinion of the lead actress is that she can't act and doesn't have a lot of person charisma, but that might be subjective.
  23. Watched Ep 1 last night and enjoyed it although found the ending very abrupt. Looks like Max has moved out of Mom & Dad's house and now has his own place. Kind of startled by all of the white interiors - was that a new decorating trend in Vienna at that time period? Also the fashion designer's dresses would have been considered very outre to say the least at that time. I kept thinking her clothing reminded me of something that Elizabeth Taylor wore during her fat period. Artistic Caftans. The French fashion designer Paul Poiret is credited today as the designer who "liberated" women from corsets. His pre-Twenties dresses may look odd to us now (probably looked odder back then) but not as odd as the tv designer's dresses. I guess that the "medicine" she is using is inspiring her fashion sense. And yeah, it's hard to watch Max and not think of the actor's dual role in "Magpie Murders".
  24. An okay episode. Arkady is always good for a laugh. The woman who played Mira looked so familiar - anybody know who that actress was?
  25. I agree but I guess they felt the need to be first in line as a True Crime TV Show. I think they were very respectful to the victims and talked about them more than the accused. Maybe they have to be careful about how much they say about Kohberger so his legal team doesn't scream that he can't get a fair trail and from what the show said towards the end, it seems that a bunch of stuff that the police have in evidence has been sealed, so maybe the show is not allowed to bring much up.
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