Before the episode started last night, my husband and I were talking about how we like The Mentalist better. That annoys me, because generally speaking, I don’t like cop procedurals, and I don’t want to reward the networks (especially CBS) for repackaging the same show over and over. In theory, I love the [...]
Twists and turns abounded in this week’s episode of the Christian Slater spy show. The world of Janus was expanded for our eyes. Some revelations we could see coming. Others were more surprising. And just when it felt like they were loosening a few knots, taking some pressure off…the screws were [...]
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Watching this week’s episode of Life on Mars, I felt like I was being handed all these puzzle pieces, and my mind started trying to put them all together. Every week there’s a new piece to the puzzle. But it’s not like Lost, where there’s ten thousand pieces and a hundred questions asked [...]
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There is suspension of disbelief, and then there is ridiculousness.
Suspension of Disbelief: That a guy can have a computer fed into his brain that, when triggered, reveals stuff no one else knows.
Ridiculousness: That everyone this guy and his team have ever come in contact with is suddenly associated with spy stuff (Sarah’s high [...]
Take a pretty basic storyline, break it into pieces marked by the point of view of each different person involved, and edge it with a few intriguing references, and you’ve got a pretty damned good episode.
The main storyline doesn’t have much meat to it. John gets stupid and brings Cromartie after him, putting Riley [...]
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