NCIS Origins
Another good episode, cementing this as a new regular show for me to watch. In Bend, Don’t Break, a man is found by the road, clearly having died somewhere else. There are plastic eggs with drugs inside near the body. The investigation leads to a nearby mall which has had thefts in a toy store and a sporting goods store which sold guns.
Gibbs goes off the rails and entraps a mall security officer in a glass elevator, trying to tie him the thefts and the murder.
On the personal front, Gibbs goes to his home to see if he can sort out the belongings of his wife and daughter, but he leaves distraught without making any progress there. His father, still staying at Gibbs’ apartment goes to Mike Franks and demands Leroy be given a desk job, as he’s not ready to be in the field.
Gibbs behavior at the mall makes Franks ask Gibbs to sit this out. That doesn’t work, does it?
I’m liking Randy even more this week, as he’s unexpectedly loyal to Gibbs. Lala is much more composed and business like this week, not adding to the people harassing Gibbs.
Only Murders in the Building
In Escape from Planet Klongo, things finally heat up with another murder, and a very funny scene where Martin and Short get to be extras on a Ron Howard film set, but break into an argument, wearing blue performance capture outfits that make them look like aliens on a small monitor nearby. Ron Howard’s cameo doesn’t disappoint.
Survivor
It’s the Merge, with the usual shenanigans about it not being the real merge until there’s been a competition to earn the new buffs. In a bit of a twist though, only the person ultimately earning individual immunity is safe, every other person can be voted out.
Thankfully Rome Cooney managed to get on everyone’s nerves in the new enlarged group. The guy just never stopped talking, lying, bragging. Out he went.
There are so many sharks this season, it should be interesting to see who falls next.
Matlock
In the episode A Guy Named Greg, Matty, it turns out, was a contracts lawyer, but never a trial lawyer. Even so, given a sympathetic relationship with the client, and the favorable impression she’s made on the jury, Matty ends up in court trying the case. The trial is about workplace sexual harassment.
Matty at first has trouble grasping that the client wasn’t able to brush the guy off, as working women did back in her day. Then she remembers Greg, and her husband does too. It turns out Matty wanted to be a trial lawyer early in her career, but it was easier to move into contract law to avoid him after an incident in the break room.
Armed with that memory, which she had suppressed, she is able to go into the courtroom and deliver a powerful argument for her client. Her character just gets better and better.
The Great British Baking Show
It’s Pastry Week on the show. Where do they get these foods? Spanokopita, a Greek dish with a spinach/feta cheese filling looked nice, but I can’t imagine it being tasty. I did like seeing the pastry attachment on a Kitchen Aid Blender, though, how slick was that? The group this time really is exceptionally talented, and the show stoppers were amazing. I feared my second favorite baker, Illiyin, had some bad luck and was one of those on the bottom, but she continues on. Nelly wore a beret this week, for luck, provided by her son.
Girl Haunts Boy
In this Netflix film, a girl named Beatrix from the 1920s takes half of a ring from a display at a museum. Outside the museum, she’s hit by a car immediately.
In the present day, Cole and his mother are moving into a Victorian style home after the unexpected death of Cole’s father. Everything is new here for Cole, particularly the discovery that the house is haunted by the ghost of a girl named Bea from the 1920s. He finds a scrapbook and an old ring in the closet in his room. Once he places the ring on his finger, he can see and talk to Bea.
She thinks she’s been dead perhaps 30 years, but it’s been a century. She is so happy to have someone to talk to, and he’s happy to introduce her to the modern world. She’s been trapped in the house unable to leave, but they find if he wears the ring, she can go out and explore the world with him.
Taking her to New York and showing her the modern world takes Cole out of his grief a bit. When he finds out it is possible to remove the curse of the ring and send her on to her fated after life, how can he say goodbye?
