david gideon

Curious Caterer sure had some short segments. I think one was actually under 8 minutes between commercial breaks. The storyline reminded me of a 'Mystery Woman' movie where a singing group that was big years earlier are going to have a big reunion and one of them gets murdered. Pretty sure I've seen the electrocution angle used more than once to kill off a musician when he grabbed the mike..

The scenery was a familiar (to me) Vancouver filming spot. Primeval New World filmed there, as did any number of Hallmark movies and season two of Exorcist. Unfortunately neither the librarian nor the police chief apparently realized that when someone confesses to a crime, even if it's to a civilian, that's an exception to the hearsay rule and not only is it admissible, it's enough for a conviction.

I liked it too, and was pleased they used a real newspaper and its logo instead of making one up. But if they want to make people think they're in a US city, they shouldn't shoot in front of a building that says 'Business Centre'.

Do they usually have four teams competing in the finale? Or is the finale a combination of what was planned to be two episodes, with one team getting eliminated along the way? Phil's mention to one of the teams about 'the next leg' didn't sound like he was talking about the finale to me, but maybe I misheard or misunderstood. Anyhow the sooner it's over the better. Not my favorite season.

I don't think the way TAR handled the team separation screw-up made the show look good at all. No wonder they weren't eager to air it.

I thought they spent an awful lot of time with the hang-gliding open. And they ran the full intro complete with all the team names, which helped fill more time (gotta find that extra 30m somewhere). But the jump-rope at the end made the episode.

I feel the same way. Maybe because I know it's an earlier race, and 60m episodes have been padded out to 90m each.

I was hoping Rob would say, just once, 'The Randomizer is on the prowl', which would be a callback to 'Greed' Fox's first big-money primetime game show. Greed's Terminator would choose a contestant in a similar manner to the Randomizer, as Chuck Woolery would declare 'The Terminator is on the prowl...'.

I don't like the way Maddie's storyline is going in ep 5. Partly because I like the character, but also because it's kind of a cliché. I'm hoping they go somewhere unexpected with it, or just get it over with quickly.

I love the show but ep 1-2 had credibility problems, as noted above with just three people searching when they could have had hundreds. Also, when Harry spotted the solar panel that was powering the coffin camera, why not look for the wire that runs to the camera? AFRAIK there has to be one. I'm glad Maddie is back on the job in ep 3-4 (from the preview, haven't watched yet).

My favorite team got eliminated, but they appeared rather somber in an interview clip earlier in the episode so I was kinda prepared for it.

Supposedly this was the first episode filmed (after the pilot I presume). I don't blame them for delaying it. How many times can Charlie suffer life-threatening injuries and still crawl her way out of a deep hidey-hole? Overall an unpleasant episode, but more to the point they're starting to give Charlie the physical invulnerability of Sylvester the cat.

When I saw Patrick Labyorteaux's name in the opening, I expected another appearance by JAG officer Bud Roberts. But Bud never showed up. Apparently Patrick was playing a different role, Olev Kozlov, a Russian gangster type. I had no clue it was Patrick behind that beard.

Don't care for the cliffhangers either. Alex Wagner is no Anderson Cooper. She's too happy and smiley. She needs to be more serious and wry like Coop. One of the players looked familiar to me; I'm sure she's not really DIchen Lachman ('Dollhouse', 'Agents of SHIELD') but that's who I see every time Avori is on the screen.

I watched the third season episodes. I thought the first two were really good: kept me guessing with all the plot twists. #3 had a more serious tone: a serial killer with a connection to Dodds. It was OK but I was ahead of the detectives at one or two points. I'm looking forward to the next batch (why only three a year?!?).