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I wouldn't be happy with this anyway, but especially at this time of such high antisemitism it's disturbing that they made such a point of making the murderous kid and his family so Jewish for no apparent plot-related reason. When they did something similar on Law and Order years ago, having the parents send the kid to Israel, it was an important plot point. Here though it was just another way of highlighting hey, these rich folks who paid off the DA to protect their kid are Jewish. Really gross and uncool, FBI:MW.
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On 5/19/2023 at 1:34 PM, statsgirl said:
I didn't miss Meredith The Sun at all. While I have become inured to Meredith (and Bailey, Maggie etc.) making brilliant discoveries out of nowhere, the show portrayed Alzheimer's research and research funding in an overly simplistic way for the drahmah. To put out the idea that The Sun is now going to find the cure for Alzheimer's now is unfair to people who had dealing with it in their own lives and praying for a cure for themselves or their loved ones.
I rolled my eyes a little at the idea that Meredith in isolation discovered this but other than that it is a real thing that the plaque theory may be wrong and that therefore the treatment research has been misdirected because of that. So I like that that info may get out there more.
(I similarly liked spelling out those reasons for Jules to be angry even if he did save Maxine’s life, and how it’s not okay to go against a DNR/DNI, and if Teddy did have a heart attack as others mentioned raising awareness of different symptoms for women.)
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On 5/19/2023 at 10:50 AM, DonnaMae said:
Dr. Archer's son thinks his father is romantically involved with Dr. Asher, and he himself has developed a crush on her. He's probably sitting at a bar consoling himself with booze,
Not just thinks his father is involved with her, but also TOLD his father he was interested, and then had his father discourage him, which I'm thinking he then thought about differently once he saw them together looking all involved. So I think he relapsed also, in ways that would also mean no kidney.
(Also related to the kidney, it wasn't just a privacy violation but a huge violation of transplant ethics overall to tell Archer his son was a match. One reason to never do that is that the potential donor has a right to back out, and claiming they weren't a match is one way to do that. If his son ended up deciding against donating now, thinking his father was deliberately steering him away from this woman he's interested in but without owning up to seeing her himself, and says he wasn't a match as a way of getting out of it, that's now a whole big issue that wouldn't have been there if not for that violation. But then when did ethics or the law ever stop these people from doing what they want I guess.)-
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12 hours ago, Danielg342 said:
Once again the writers, in an ever apparent need to be "clever", or "artistic", or "unexpected" or whatever superlative you want to use, have contrived the story's events and its characters to get the plot to do what they want them to do, instead of letting the events and the characters organically lead the writers on their journey.
The investigator character introduced in this episode is a prime example of that. She- literally- comes out of nowhere and, also out of nowhere, declares that she is the entire reason why Freddy's case is backlogged in the courts and that if Bode would just admit to running a drug ring inside of Three Rock (an allegation that also comes out of nowhere because she has literally no evidence of that), Freddy can walk out a free man.
It's really just insulting to the viewers to toss in such stupid stuff. Stuff that not only comes from nowhere but also bears no resemblance to the way the world works. Her allegation is that Bode's running a drug ring with Freddy as his right-hand man, and that's why Freddy's case is tied up. But somehow if Bode confesses, Freddy gets off scot-free? Bode says yes indeed I have been running a drug ring here, everyone knows Freddy's his bud so much so that they're able to stop his actual innocence case, but all of a sudden Freddy's fine? And the public defender outside has nothing to say about any of this? And Manny who two minutes earlier heard Bode say he won't say he did something he didn't do, he won't lie to his friends and family like that, isn't going to speak up right then about how somehow in the intervening minutes where Bode was alone with this investigator boom, he totally changes his story? And also somehow that's exactly at the same time Freddy gets out? Nope, no red flags there at all.
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Dude, there’s a reason you had a public defender available. You were told you were allowed that representation. Do you really think she’d have said what she did if the public defender was there? That she’d have been so clear that she was pressuring you to say it was you no matter what?
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Just now, Linda956 said:
Good Lord, what happened to David McCallum? He hasn't been on NCIS since the beginning of the season, but he doesn't appear well. I know he'll be 90 this year, but he seems to have aged significantly in the past few months and his speech is quite slurred, almost as if he's been ill. I hope he's a;right. I've been a few of his since Man From U.N.C.L.E.
I was shocked at that also.
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6 hours ago, possibilities said:
I wonder if the call from HQ was because Sharon called in the AWOL prisoners, so now there will be an investigation of the camp. Even though the missing folks were found, doing a job and not having escaped, it's true that nobody runs the place with any kind of oversight, they had no idea where they were or what was happening, and it's actually a legitimate problem.
I don’t think it was from HQ; she said it was but then they showed the caller ID saying Luke Leone, which is her BIL, right?
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On 5/5/2023 at 1:23 AM, Door County Cherry said:
I also didn't get why she was trying to claim Lily was lying. They only know Lily told Aaron because of the text, which is evidence he at least believed his girlfriend's father was beating her.
That bugged me so much here. There were other stupid things throughout (why on earth would you promise your kid you'd keep things secret when literally you're asking for info for the murder you're investigating??), but this was the most impossible to wave away. The text was the evidence in the first place. And her father wasn't the one who discovered it; he just recognized it was her phone number. Even if they never knew who'd sent it they'd have had the evidence from the kid's phone that he knew of the retreat statements.
(Plenty of other things bugged me in this one also, including the idea that this kid who so creepily stalked his gf and then her father was somehow sympathetic. But the above part bugged the most because I hate when they do nonsensical stuff just as a plot device.)-
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The brother seems like he wandered over from a gig as Big Bad Guy on one of the Law and Orders.
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33 minutes ago, wknt3 said:
The ending. What a hypocritical bitch Benson is. And it's not like there was even any sort of self-awareness demonstrated about what Benson demands of others versus how she is perfectly fine letting others get away with murder because of their situation in life. i mean at least Carisi seemed to actually be aware of everything and appropriately upset but knowing he can't say what everyone was thinking out loud.I was trying to figure out if that was deliberate, because it seemed far too obvious not to be. It seemed impossible that the juxtaposition of sending Velasco on a road trip to bring his friend to justice because she heard this story and suddenly that was the primary responsibility in his life, to not let his friend get away with those long ago murders (which no, didn't start in this episode, but still was a big part of it), and then that ending - how could that not be deliberate? But a deliberate decision to show her as that raging hypocrite doesn't really seem like this show.
I'm also not sure how much of a murderer Maxwell actually is supposed to be. At first, I was worried for her, because I thought he was trying to kill her by having put poison in the decanter she then had a drink from. After all, if he somehow got out of this he's better off if she's dead. And it even looked, when she stopped as she was walking away, like she'd been poisoned. I expected her to keel over. But then he choked, and I wondered if somehow she had switched their glasses. But then, when she watched him without moving, and then even more with that 911 call, I wondered if somehow she'd actually gotten him to choke somehow, although I can't figure out how that would have happened. It wouldn't have been just poisoning because the autopsy would have shown that. So I have no idea really what to think. Actual murderer? Just let him die but lied about it in such an obvious way? Something else?-
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Isn’t it a bad idea to make an entire crew of firefighters suspicious of each other? Don’t they need to rely on each other for their lives and all?
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I rolled my eyes so hard as soon as Churlish put that lime in her mouth. Really? That seems like a good idea given why you’re there?
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That was just ridiculous. There’s no way he’d have been able to try that. Or that Jack McCoy wouldn’t have known that from the start. And if somehow not then, for sure when his prosecutor became a witness. Gah.
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That was heartbreaking. And also infuriating, because if they’d had any reason to believe the police would have looked into the info she shared it all would have been avoided, but it was clear that wasn’t going to happen.
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I wish they didn’t start with that flash forward. Because as soon as Rebecca stepped up to help with the branch it was clear she was a goner. Which cheapened everything else in both her scenes and those with/about Sharon.
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I am already annoyed with this sudden cryptocurrency/money-hungry plot and the episode isn’t even half over yet.
ETA: omg. Now I am even more annoyed, because Of Course this sudden thing for OA happens to entirely coincide with their case.
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I’m really glad this episode had that little thing about Munch.
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1 hour ago, Madding crowd said:
In this show I never doubted Danny since the first incident when the dying mother said she loved to look at the sky and the nurse pulled shut the curtains as soon as the family left. In fact, I would have liked some ambiguity but it was just a horror story.
Same. And it bugged me he didn’t tell anyone about that. (so as soon as he had stomach pains I’d assumed she’d poisoned him.) Or, yeah, just in general try to make his case without freaking people out.
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I was super pissed at the dad for not questioning why she was so vehemently opposed to their switching plates.
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Jubal is really freaking annoying me with his nonstop promises that things are fine. I have no idea why his kid and ex aren’t blasting him back on that. (I’d be annoyed at this anyway, but even more so from the start when he didn’t even offer to meet them at the dr. Esp since that was *before* he got the urgent get here now message.
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6 hours ago, Artsda said:
How was the crazy girl not fired? They rewarded her?
Super Stella will no doubt live, so I won't even hope she's gone.
SpoilerThey even showed her just fine in scenes from next week. Talk about anticlimactic.
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11 minutes ago, dttruman said:
What do you think about this new defense of some kind of weird syndrome? I wonder why they avoid talking to others who might have it, even the Doctor who is a defense witness didn't say anything about others in Havana having violent tendencies. Now they are trying to bring in the CIA into this, which seems kind of lame too.
Mostly I was glad what’s his name finally lost with his ‘no I don’t want to make a deal despite your reasons for suggesting it because I know I can win this’ thing.
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I am already annoyed at this episode. My Law and Order studies have clearly taught that evidence that would have been inevitably discovered gets in. So what was with that ‘you should have gotten a warrant, the DNA’s out’ thing when they clearly would have been able to get a warrant if he’d refused (and unlike other evidence the dna obviously wasn’t going anywhere in the interim). Witness plus scratches? They’ve gotten warrants for way less. So it bugs me the dna was just out.
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I can’t get past how they didn’t bother calling 911 while the babysitter was still alive. Like, I get the terror and the urgency to find Mikayla, but to talk to her only to ask where she was, and not take the seconds to call while running around the apartment? Very uncool. At least they managed to call after she died rather than forgetting about her altogether.
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S07.E05: Who At Peace
in The Good Doctor
I hadn’t heard that song before this show, and am glad to have now. But the words were instantly recognizable as based on Unetaneh Tokef, which is part of the high holy days liturgy. Which I thought really added to that scene. (Although otherwise I hate that that happened and I really wish they let them live happily ever after. Yes, hate crimes exist, and are particularly increasing right now. But still. They didn’t need to kill him.)