Sunday, November 3, 2024

DOA On TV: November 3, 2024

 





NCIS: Origins

In episode four, All’s Not Lost  a school teacher’s home has been entered by an assailant who shoots her.   The 12 year old girl who lived with her is missing, presumed kidnapped by the killer.   Was the teacher the target or the girl, whose father is serving overseas?

Once again Lala tries to intervene to keep Gibbs from working a case. She feels Gibbs will be undone trying to rescue the child when he had been able to do nothing to save his own child.


It turns out Gibbs is more motivated than anyone, and he finds her while the team is out looking in the woods.  Despite efforts from Lala and the Office Manager (?) Mary Jo to talk to Mildred about the killer, did she see him, can she describe him, the girl shuts down their efforts.

When Gibbs steps in, completely comfortable taking to a little girl in just the way a father would know how to approach a tough topic, she feels safe enough to help him with a description using a flip book with different facial features in it.

Unfortunately, the killer finds the girl and a tense fight ensues in a dark basement, with the girl hiding under the steps.

Lots of heartbreaking moments for Gibbs in this episode.

Only Murders In The Building

In the finale of this season My Best Friend’s Wedding the murderer is revealed.  Interestingly, the trick of how the killer shot from the west wing of the building, then made his way over to clean up and hide Sazz’s  body is solved.  The killer was her stunt protégé who could easily scrabble along a ledge nobody noticed all along.

Charles and Oliver bravely want to break into Dudenoff’s apartment to rescue Mabel using the same path. They do, taking a shorter route.  The two of them on the ledge is pure slapstick comedy.


 

All is wrapped up, Oliver and Loretta get married, though she’s off to New Zealand for a new show.

Tossed in at the last is the victim of season five, seemingly dead in a fountain of wine (?).

 

Survivor

People may complain about advantages, but they can be great.  While everyone is dozing, Sol finds a hidden advantage at the reward feast.  He is on a team who is safe from tribal.  The advantage asks him to give the advantage to someone on the team which will be going to tribal.  Rachel is the recipient, and she can use it to leave tribal safely and not vote or be voted on (she was the one going), or she can block a vote.  She only reads aloud the part at tribal that allows her to leave.

Brilliantly, this leaves the Tuku tribe members stunned and at a loss, because they all had plans that included Rachel, the only non Tuku in the group.  They scrambled quickly, and voted out Tiyana, the stewardess who had just emotionally spoken about how important it was for her to make the jury, which she did not.

During the entire process Sol gave an award winning performance, looking and sounding surprised and astounded by this turn of events.



 

Matlock

With episode four The Rabbit and the Hawk, Matty figures out who in the law firm was responsible for hiding opioid information for a big pharmaceutical company.  The guilty party pulls off a particularly dirty move that affects the current case for Olympia and company.  Then he goes golfing, happy with his work.



Matty now has to find a way to prove what he did.

 

The Great British Baking Show

Featuring an Autumn theme, with pies and cakes using traditional fall ingredients.  What spectacular work for all of the bakers, but my beloved Nelly went home. Though her showstopper looked great, the flavors proved to be very much disliked by the judges.

Illiyin's cake.




Saturday, November 2, 2024

DOA's Saturday Puzzles: When The Moon Hatched, A Word Find Answer Key

 I hope you found all of the words!





DOA's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus for 11/2/24

 Happy Saturday, the temps are supposed to crawl back up a bit today so more leaf raking can be done.  We really needed the rain on Thursday, but it messes up my leaf raking, making it wet and heavy and likely to soak my lawn bags before they can be recycled.  Whine, whine.

I'm using the Rebus Club for this one because the Festisite Rebus maker wouldn't turn a word into a picture for me.  




Friday, November 1, 2024

Five Things Friday November 1, 2024

 November at last! I could only find four things in my archives yesterday while contemplating this post, and then the day got away from me.  We had 16 Trick or Treaters thanks to the torrential rains and swirling snow and cold temps. What a way to wind up October.


One: Athough I’ve always been an Ace Reader, my math skills barely exist.  Mr DOA and Google do all my math for me.



Two:  Many speak fondly of Scholastic Book Fairs (as well they should), but there was also The Weekly Reader, a fun little newspaper that provided a break in school routines.  I don’t recall there being scary clowns on them, but ….



Three: Didn’t you just love going to the park and swinging so high you felt like you were flying?



Four: With Halloween still fresh, here’s another reason to wish Woolworths was still around.


Five:  How to make any small space cozy and useful 101.