Small Talk: Behavioral Gabbing Unit

[Gramto6]

Late to the party here:

Congrats @idiotwaltz on the new nephew!!

So sorry about your job @Bookish Jen. Glad that you are set financially for a while. It certainly makes the transition easier. Hope you find a new job as soon as you are ready.

[Mislav]

Sorry to hear about that, BookishJen. I hope everything is well now. I wish you the best!

And congrats, @IDIOTWALTZ!

Edited October 30, 2022 by Mislav

[idiotwaltz]

On 10/26/2022 at 12:53 AM, Bookish Jen said:

Congratulations on the new nephew idiotwaltz. Nathaniel is a lovely and classic name. I like it.

I have some bad news. I lost my job a few weeks ago. The company I was working for lost 11 clients and two sources of funding so they had to lay off some people, one of them being me. My boss actually cried when she was told she had to get rid of me.

Money isn't a huge concern right now. I do have quite a bit saved up. And I contacted a temp agency I've worked with before, and they're looking for some temp work for me in the interim.

However, having time off gave me a chance to clean and organize my apartment a bit, go to the gym more often, walk around my neighborhood, and read lots of good books!

Sorry to hear about your job @Bookish Jen but I hope this is the universe’s way to lead you to bigger and better opportunities. 
 

On the topic of good books, I’ve been listening to Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver on Audible. It’s a retelling of David Copperfield in southwest Virginia and I really like it so far! 
 

Hope everyone is keeping well. 

[Mislav]

Happy Halloween! I wish you the best.

Edited October 31, 2022 by Mislav

[Snazzy Daisy]

Criminal Minds’ Matthew Gray Gubler to Star in Einstein Pilot for CBS

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Based on the German dramedy of the same name, Einstein — which hails from Monk creator Andy Breckman and executive producer Randy Zisk — focuses on Albert Einstein’s “brilliant but directionless” great-grandson. Per the official logline, Lew “spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve her most puzzling cases.”

 

[Lebanna]

4 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

Criminal Minds’ Matthew Gray Gubler to Star in Einstein Pilot for CBS

 

From what I have seen of the original German show, the character is incredibly similar - Wintenberg reels off statistics about everything, solves crimes with math and weird pieces of knowledge, notices details that others miss.

Oh yes, and he’s doomed to die of a genetic disease he’s inherited.

And he steals drugs constantly because he has an illness but also seems pretty addicted to most things. So that’s kind of a connection as well.

The main difference in the two characters is that Wintenberg horndogs on everyone he meets all the time and Reid quit the drugs and wasn’t necessarily going to catch the genetic doom thing.

But I can really see why they thought this might work, since they were never going to just make ‘Criminal Minds: Reid’.

[Danielg342]

9 hours ago, Lebanna said:

I can really see why they thought this might work, since they were never going to just make ‘Criminal Minds: Reid’.

I could also understand why, perhaps, Matthew Gray Gubler himself wouldn't want to do "Criminal Minds: Reid". Very few actors want to play the same role forever.

Though I really feel that Gubler's going down the same path that his former castmate, Shemar Moore, did with S.W.A.T. Einstein feels like CM:Reid anyway, just like S.W.A.T. is pretty much "Derek Morgan with his own TV series".

Don't get me wrong- this is not a criticism. A lot will depend on the execution, but as much as I felt that Morgan had a lot left unexplored that is now being realized on S.W.A.T., Reid too left a lot unexplored from CM that could be similarly mined on a show centred around him.

Einstein has the opportunity to shine interesting new lights on Reid as a character and explore that character in ways that CM either wouldn't or couldn't explore themselves. The "playboy" part might be the most interesting new angle on Reid, though it's something that fits the character more than I think people may realize. Yeah, CM loved to portray Reid as an awkward geek who had trouble with the ladies, but, aside from that "fish out of water" sequence in "52 Pickup", Reid's supposed failings with women seemed more an informed trait than one that was really established.

It was also contradictory from what we saw on screen. Outside of the nightclub, Reid seemed to have no problems at all meeting women, and, once he got his confidence, he met the nightclub bartender too.

Really, more women seemed to throw themselves at Reid on CM than any other character on the show, even the more "manly" men like Morgan and Rossi.

So it doesn't seem to be a stretch at all for Reid to be a partier, especially if we're talking about a more mature Reid who is now more comfortable in his own skin.

We'll see how it goes. We'll also see who they cast as Reid's love interest the detective that Einstein helps out on cases. I don't think there are any shortage of options- the obvious ones with star power would be Aubrey Plaza and Rachel Leigh Cook, with Amber Heard perhaps having an outside chance if she wants to use the role to revive her career and if CBS believes she's earned that chance. Then there's Beth Riesgraf, who probably had the best romantic chemistry of anyone with Reid on CM. Lastly you have actresses like Courtney Ford (Austin) and Emily Churchill (Dorian Loker), lower profile choices who were also Reid's love interests.

Then there's Candace Burr Scholz, who played a character on CM named Einstein and also shared screen time with Reid and Morgan. I remember CBS trying to position Dylan Einstein as a potential romantic partner for Reid but I'm not sure it really had any legs.

Of course, CBS could also hire someone completely new, and there's a good chance they'd do that because it would allow them to get someone younger (and you know how Hollywood likes its women to be young) and perhaps maximize the star power and/or the chemistry.

If CBS does go with someone Reid was paired with before, my preference would be Riesgraf, since Maeve/Reid should have been explored far more than it was on CM. It'd also follow in Shemar's footsteps, since Shemar also brought the woman who played his girlfriend on CM- Rochelle Aytes- to S.W.A.T. to play his girlfriend (and eventually wife and mother to his kid) on that show.

Though if I really had my way...I've said it before and I'll say it again. Zoe Hawkes had so much missed potential and unexplored depth that the character deserves to come back in some way, and Einstein seems up her alley. I don't know if Amy Davidson and Gubler have any chemistry together but Hawkes and Reid as characters would appear to fit.

I know, I'm probably going against the popular choice here, but that's what I hope for.

We'll see how it all shakes out. I'm looking forward to it.

Edited October 4 by Danielg342

[Lebanna]

10 hours ago, Danielg342 said:

Einstein has the opportunity to shine interesting new lights on Reid as a character and explore that character in ways that CM either wouldn't or couldn't explore themselves. The "playboy" part might be the most interesting new angle on Reid, though it's something that fits the character more than I think people may realize. Yeah, CM loved to portray Reid as an awkward geek who had trouble with the ladies, but, aside from that "fish out of water" sequence in "52 Pickup", Reid's supposed failings with women seemed more an informed trait than one that was really established.

It was also contradictory from what we saw on screen. Outside of the nightclub, Reid seemed to have no problems at all meeting women, and, once he got his confidence, he met the nightclub bartender too.

Really, more women seemed to throw themselves at Reid on CM than any other character on the show, even the more "manly" men like Morgan and Rossi.

So it doesn't seem to be a stretch at all for Reid to be a partier, especially if we're talking about a more mature Reid who is now more comfortable in his own skin.

I was thinking today that the character in the original show was basically what you’d get if you crossed Reid with Benjamin Hawkeye Pierce from ‘M A S H’ and then stuck that character into ‘The Mentalist’/‘Castle’.

And the out of control hair, skinny outfits, leather satchel and general body language was all very Reid.

I mean, tragic, logical, clever, high, silly and horny? It could work.

Edited October 4 by Lebanna

[iRarelyWatchTV36]

On one hand, with this news, it sucks that Reid will never appear again on CM - unless its a tiny cameo at the end of this CM; Evolution series.

But on the other hand, it'll be interesting see MGG headline a different series while playing a character that - by descriptions - won't be too extremely radically different than the Reid persona we knew him as for 15 years, only with a very increased libido & confidence in dealing with women he's interested in.

Of course, this news might turn into nothing at all in the end.  Not all pilots (& series) are picked up by the networks.  Hope it is does turn into a success, but who really knows.

Edited October 10 by iRarelyWatchTV36