Rambler

"Uh oh, someone's been writing to the hospital director about the murders I've been committing and now the FBI are here investigating. Do you know what would be an absolutely brilliant idea? Instead of changing my identity and moving to a different hospital like I did before, I think I'll just kill some more patients while the FBI is hyper-focused on this case." Of all the brilliant serial killers out there, this guy definitely wasn't one of them.

It gave off a little too much of an ugly American vibe for my taste. "Oh you're angry that we are operating in your country without telling you first? Then you must be corrupt, because any cop not on the take would be happy that the almighty FBI broke into your countryman's home and started harassing him solely on the basis that he was seen on social media with our fugitive." Punching unarmed suspects in the face is something I expect from the creators of Blue Bloods or Hawaii 5-O, not from the creator of Law and Order. Oh well, it was the first episode. Hopefully they will tone it down for the rest of the season.

Crosby, ya big lunkhead, don't you know basic police procedure? When confronting an armed suspect who has just fled the scene, you are supposed to have your gun out and pointed at him. I don't care if he was your best friend, let alone someone "I barely knew". And LaCroix, it was Jubal who ordered Maggie to contact Crosby directly. If you have to yell at someone, go take it up with Jubal. Team Most Wanted not starting out the new season strongly.

The show ended too soon. I wanted to see the look on Le Mec's face when he found out he wouldn't be getting any pastries. The other guy in Lucifer's little therapy group was Dr. Linda's journalist ex-husband from way back in season 3. In that episode, he learned about the concept of hell loops and maybe earned some brownie points for helping to catch the serial killer at the end, yet he is still stuck in hell after 40 years x 1 day on earth = 1000 years in hell or whatever the conversion rate is, I forget. It seems like Dr. Lucifer's therapy sessions might not be going as well as he had hoped.

I feel like a lot of parents who died suddenly and left young children behind would feel the same amount of guilt that Dan did. Are they are all then rotting away in hell? And Dan had the advantage of having a half-angel carry him back to earth and somehow luck into finding a way to jump into a living person's body so he could talk to his daughter and finally get to heaven. What are the other souls like his supposed to do?

If you read Ella's board, you could see she was speculating on what kind of supernatural being Dan could be. Under Dan, she wrote: Werewolf? Vampire? Centaur? I was wondering what on earth would make her believe that Dan was a Centaur, when I realized she had probably heard Lucifer call him a horse's ass plenty of times.

OK everybody stay calm, but if missing socks are a sign that the Apocalypse is coming, then going by my sock drawer it might be right around the corner 😬

Sylvie suddenly being able to enchant an all-powerful giant smoke monster felt a little too deus ex machina for my tastes. If they had to do it that way, I wish they had a little scene of her enchanting it like they did with C-20. I could picture Sylvie sitting in a bistro sipping umbrella drinks with the smoke monster and it’s getting brain freezes where the smoke actually freezes.

To me this was the most boring season of Top Chef yet. My major complaints: No sous chefs. I know that sous chefs have a snowballs chance in hell of winning, but I like to root for the underdogs. Besides there's usually an exec chef or two who looks down their nose at the sous chefs and it always funny when they get that angry look on their face when a sous chef does better than they did. No mise en place. They haven't had a decent mise en place challenge in years. I'm not talking about the mise en place where all the chefs are prepping at the same time, but the relay race one, where you have the chefs on the sidelines cheering each other on while making snide comments in the talking heads about the chefs doing poorly. That is the challenge I most look forward to every year, but this year it was just "OK divide into teams, here's your ingredients and you have however many minutes to cook" like just about every other challenge in the season. Booooring. They just flipped a coin to determine the teams for restaurant wars. I much prefer it when you have two captains who pick their own teams. There is a strategy involved as to whether you are going to pick a strong chef first or someone who is going to be a decent FOH. I think the recent trend is to pick a strong FOH first and I would have liked to see if that trend continued. Also if you had a strong captain in charge, he or she might have reigned in Dawn's waffling and maybe made it a closer competition than the blowout it was. There was just an overall lack of gamesmanship in this season. For example, the challenge to write out recipes that the judges then had to cook. As the winner of the quickfire, they should have let Dawn choose which chefs would pair up with which judge. Is she going to try to screw with her other competitors by assigning a judge that would be most incompatible with their own style of cooking? Nah, just give her an extra 15 minutes of prep time which never came up again. I guess TPTB wanted to get away from the nastiness between chefs of earlier seasons, but IMO they've gone too far in the opposite direction. Through editing and the design of the challenges, they just removed any sense that these chefs were competing against each other for a quarter of a million dollar prize. Lastly I knew Gabe had won this thing weeks before the final episode. How did I know? They kept repeating that talking head of his saying the he wanted to be the first Mexican Top Chef. When they keep hitting you over the head with that, you know they are showing you it for a reason. I remember they did a similar thing during Mei Lin's season. I kept quiet about it because I didn't want to spoil it for others and also I was LMAO at all the people moaning about how it was a sure thing that Dawn was going to win cuz reasons.

What I don't get is if she is a trained FBI agent, why is she running away in a blind panic from the son? The dude had all the menacing presence of a baby panda. This show was doomed from the start. Probably most of the audience who first tuned in were expecting a Criminal Minds type show where Clarice would match wits with a serial killer of the week. The first couple of episodes kind of gave the vibe of that was where the show was going. Unfortunately after that they did a complete 180 in tone and made a long drawn out story arc about an evil pharma company. Do that and a large chunk of your serial killer of the week audience is going to start to tune out. They probably should have just done a case of the week show with the bad pharma storyline running in the background along with maybe the racism in the FBI story arc. Get rid of the Catherine and corrupt father/psychobabble storylines which were a waste of time. Conclude the evil pharma story with a two parter at the end and maybe you live for another season.

I also loved the Filet o Fish when I was a kid with the one caveat being that they put waay too much tartar sauce on the thing. Had to use the wrapper to try and scrape off some of the sauce. I haven't eaten one in years, do they still put that giant glob of tartar sauce on it? Jaime was too nice for her own good. If she was behind on her own preparations, she should have just told Dawn that she was in the weeds and couldn't help her. Dawn probably would have crashed and burned and Jaime might still be in the competition. There is $250,000 dollars at stake and you are in the final four, just go ahead and stick the knife in and you wouldn't even be seen as the bad guy unless you twirled your mustache in a talking head later (which I would absolutely love). I don't know if it's the editing, but the lack of competitiveness between the chefs is making this season boring to me. I miss the days of Spike and his Machiavellian scheming.

I feel that when you pair the chef who has won the most challenges with a past Tournament of Champions winner, it becomes rather obvious who is going to win the quickfire. I just wish they had done this quickfire when they had an even number of chefs left.

I wonder what the purpose is for having to verify everything you ever said? I know if it was me, most of the time I would be saying "I don't remember saying that" as I looked through the papers. I wonder what happens if you say "Nope I never said that". Why do I get the funny feeling that I will never get an answer to these very important questions?

So all the Angels were willing to obliterate Amenadiel and the Angel of Righteousness just to make the vote unanimous? And that wasn't even for sure going to make Michael the next God. I mean I can see where an Angel of Righteousness could rub some people the wrong way, but Amenadiel? Wow Angels suck. Although I did like the Angel that kept changing sides. Was she the Angel of Indecision? Maybe they can keep her around for comic relief next season. Is there a Jesus Christ in this universe? I would think he would be a better choice to be the next God then those two Bozos. Missed Opportunity Dept: They should have had the final battle at Angels Stadium, not the Coliseum.

OMG whoever makes Dove bars now has to make a chocolate horse just so I can take my wife to a restaurant and say "Honey, I want a Dove Horse!"

I was kinda confused as to why Adriana would confess to the murder in the first place. Also they didn't give a motive as to why the boyfriend would want to rob the house and then frame Adriana. Maybe stick in something like he was tired of hearing her complaining that he left the toilet seat up all the time? Yeah I could totally see something like that...

Kudos to the random FBI guy who loaded the handcuffed congressman into the SUV. He seemed like the only FBI agent around who was taking the pandemic seriously by wearing a mask.

Since they killed a Navy Captain to get the location of where the guardians lived, plus there probably wasn't going to be a state of the art medical facility to go to where they could extract the bone marrow cells, the bad guys probably figured out the answer was going to be a hard no on that one.

Invincible my ass. He should have called himself the Incredible Human Punching Bag.

The robber had already ditched the mask by the time OA spotted him running down the street. When OA called it in, he described the robber as wearing a green cap, not a mask. Although it kind of seemed like they were checking the camera footage right after the robber got away, actually some time had passed because the cab had already dropped the robber off at his destination. Jubal probably ordered them to check the surrounding cameras right after the robber got away and this was more like a report of what they had found out, although the editing made it seem like they were discovering things in real time. Since they already had downloaded the camera footage from the cab, might as well use that since the other shot was further away and sort of to the side.

I’m still struggling to figure out why they didn't simply show the photo of the restaurant owner to the guy who stole the car. Or have him sit with a sketch artist. I’m pretty sure if someone just paid me a thousand bucks to steal a car I would remember his face. Oh right, then we would miss out on all the O/A angst. Sorry Vega, but if you are undocumented you have to be especially careful to follow the law. Stealing $30 worth of food is not the same thing as sticking a candy bar in your pocket. Your deportation is on you.

One would think that since the video at food supply warehouse didn't show the body being loaded on the truck, they would check the security cameras around every stop the truck made once it left the warehouse. Someone at NCIS is getting lazy. BTW the poem is “Epitaph” by Merrit Malloy

These were two completely different situations though. What they were lecturing her on was in the Buffalo Bill case, after she found out who he was, she pursued a dangerous criminal into his basement dungeon without first calling for backup while she was still a cadet and not fully trained as a field agent. However, as Hannibal Lecter famously exposed in Silence of the Lambs, Clarice had been having nightmares about seeing lambs being slaughtered when she was little and hearing their screaming in her head. Lecter suggested that she believed by saving Catherine the nightmares would come to an end. Krendler and the others don't know about this, which is why they keep lecturing her about working as team and Clarice is having a tough time adapting. In the current case, how could Clarice anticipate that she was walking into a dangerous situation? After all, what self-respecting criminal mastermind, who can call up highly skilled assassins that can kill a witness in the middle of FBI headquarters and seemingly has connections to the highest level of the government, be doing working all day as a nurse in a dingy coma hospital? Even I had to roll my eyes at that one. I hope there is an explanation later. Again she was so hyper-focused on saving the victim in the bed that she missed evil nurse sneaking up behind her. Anyways it was the early 90's before cell phones were in wide use (I think), so she couldn't exactly whip a phone out of her purse and call for backup.

What gang of robbers are going to allow a witness to blatantly them film while they are committing a crime? Not only once, but twice. Did the "high end" jewelry store in the second heist not have cameras? Just look at the surveillance footage to see the "reporter" filming the whole thing and use that get the warrant to seize the phone. The vast majority of people will go through their entire lives without witnessing a single robbery, yet the reporter happened to be at two different robberies in a couple of days? I thought they would be going for the angle that she was being tipped off, but nope I guess we are supposed put it down to coincidence. Either that or crime has gotten so bad in New York City under Frank that you could be out for a stroll and come across a heist at any random time of the day. Why is Danny being reasonable all of sudden? Did I miss an episode where he was ordered to see a police shrink or something? Did a gypsy place a curse on him and Baez where they switched bodies? Let’s see if personality change sticks or if he goes back to being his same obnoxious self again. I suspect the latter. If a serial killer was discovered where the victims were killed in multiple states, then the FBI would immediately take over the case. I was so hoping that would happen and we would see Danny squirming to keep up his Mr. Nice Guy persona. What a wasted opportunity. They never gave a motive as to why the boyfriend was shot and the witness was allowed to live. Just drop in a line that the thug was an ex-boyfriend or wanna be boyfriend or something. Jeez the writers on this show…

Hey Professor Dum-Dum, just take the girls you rescued to the police so they can question them. They’ll believe you then. Also still waiting for the reason the lady in charge of running the women’s shelter didn’t notify the authorities.