Lots of catchup. Highlights for spoilers:
- Bones: I like seeing Booth's shrink back. Their scenes together are always nice. I do not like seeing Agent Multitalented back. But it kinda seemed like Meredith Monroe was completely underused.
Meredith Monroe kinda looked like Cameron Richardson here. I never watched The Creek, but MM's nice looking and not a bad actress at all, so it seems like a waste to just have her on for three seconds.
- Friday Night Lights: Damn, this show is good. Everyone's pushing all-in this week. Smash and the rest of the black players put their futures on the line for their walkout, Saracen puts a lot of money up to try to get Julie back, and Street's ready to dump his education for quad rugby and a G.E.D. Plus the whole season's out there hanging in the balance - the JV squad shows up to try to fill in for the walked out guys, and if they have to play, the upcoming playoff game will be a joke.
A couple really great scenes. Coach asks Tami for her advise as far as firing Mac, as guidance counselor, as his wife, and as his friend. Riggins swallows his pride and tells Smash that the team needs his leadership, and Smash throwing Mac's white players/leadership comments back in his face. And Mac handing in his resignation... he seems to look racist sympathetic all at once, which is hard to pull off.
The whole situation plays out in shades of gray. If you know a guy is a good man and he's truly sorry for his mistake, do you punish him for a big mistake? Is it worth sticking to your guns over one guy if it might mean your education? Plus the game ended in victory, but in the worst possible way. Mac gets a shot at semi-redemption when he chases off the cops who want to blame Smash for the whole incident. So they win and move on, but it's not like everything is wrapped up in a neat little package.
Oh, and Landry hitting on Tyra was kinda hilarious, as was his "look them in the eyes, not in the rack" comment.
- Knights of Prosperity: Yikes. The whole montage of attempts to get into the club was supposed to be funny, but it was devoid of laughs. Esperanza's ex, drug lord Enrico (played by Bobby Cannavale from Third Watch), had a couple good lines, but that was about it. As much as I like the cast, the show is really struggling to make me laugh. And with the Mick Jagger thing seemingly wrapped up, I think this would've been a good place to end, but I think it's going to keep limping along for the rest of the season. I might be done with it, though, I'm not sure.
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent: I feel like the intros to this show have really changed of late. It used to be the eerie music would slowly swell as they showed a series of disjunct scenes leading up to a body being discovered, and the scenes would be clues to the eventual solution of the mystery. But last week we had the "Under Pressure" montage cutting between the Aaron Burr/Hamilton reenactment and the sniper, this week we get a guy plugging a CD dissolving into a Tupac/Biggie-style rap murder. Fab Five Freddy played the rapper though, which is kinda cool.
The mid-episode murder felt much more like how the show used to work. The first person shot of murderer, the music coming up, all that. I realize that the whole "talking to the cops gets you killed" thing was crucial to the plot, but I feel like they way overemphasized it. Between the undercover guy, the DJ, the white rap mogul guy, and the guy they confronted in his apartment... I mean, we get it already.
I'm still not entirely sold on Julianne Nicholson though. I liked her on Conviction ok, but I buy her as the cute girl, but the tough cop with the boy's haircut (I'm not 100% sure, but I think they're trying to go with a lesbian angle with her... she had a lesbian mechanic hit on her earlier this year in front of Logan which she ignored, but did she ignore it cause she's straight, cause she wasn't interested, or cause it was in front of Logan?).My least favorite part of the episode was the killer getting shivved at the end, though. Meh.
No comments:
Post a Comment