Down to three regular shows now that the Great British Baking show is done. Survivor will be doing two episodes in the next two weeks, then it's just NCIS Origins and Matlock. There are lots of shows coming on that I plan to watch:
Star Wars Skeleton Crew on Disney Plus which is described as a throwback to 80s movies featuring kids having adventures like ET and Goonies. My son likes it, so it must be good.
Black Doves on Netflix with Keira Knightly as a spy.
The Agency on Showtime/Paramount is another spy thriller.
The Six Triple Eight on Netflix, a story of the only all women, all black batallion in WWII. Though it had a theatrical release, it will stream on December 20. There has been a trend in historical fiction featuring women in World War 2, and I love the stories, and can't wait to see this one.
NCIS Origins: Sick as our Secrets
It's Randy's story tonight as a Navy priest John Larkin is shot in the confessional. It might be that the wrong victim was killed, because Larkin subbed in for "Father Bobby" a hard drinking, swearing kind of priest who was visiting a parishioner.
Randy and Gibbs end on a protective detail, sequestering with the priest in a cheap motel room while the rest of the team tries to find the killer. Randy apparently volunteers for protective details all the time, so he shows up with guns, ammo, supplies. He's in a different mode altogether. He's sharp, but extremely on edge.
When the lights go out in the motel, he's in overdrive, and goes out into the hallway alone, taking out both attackers, one he chokes till the man passes out. Rough Randy has arrived.
In a conversation with Father Bobby, he confesses that he wasn't able to do a protective detail, and the man who subbed for him was shot and killed. Now he lives with guilt, particularly because the man had a small child just like Randy, and now that child is alone.
Gibbs has the smallest role in this week's episode he's had so far. He's my favorite so I missed his way of seeing things, and his innocence of the world of crime he's entered.
Survivor
Operation Italy, baby. Andy, having gone from weeping that nobody liked him and wouldn't cheer when he opened coconuts betrayed his "Underdog Five Alliance" to work with Genevieve the Snake and Bumbling Sam. There is a fake idol, the Three doing some fake acting to make everyone think Snakey has the idol. Why does everyone have beads out there to create fake idols with?
The other standout section is Teeny going on and on about not being asked to go the food reward. I've seen nothing where she should feel so empowered that Sam's now a dead man (not her words) because he didn't recognize she should have gone.
Operation Italy worked, and Caroline went home since the main target, Rachel, won immunity.
There's a two hour episode next week.
Matlock Belly of the Beast
Matty is in on the pharma cases now, and gets a shot working on a case defending Welbrexa against a young woman with a streaming audience.
The girl was on a pharmaceutical trial from which she got kidney disease. Welbrexa's doctor insists that Jessie never reported any symptoms at all, and thus the company can't be held responsible for her time in the trial and the alleged results.
Matty is in the meeting and tries her sympathetic techniques on the girl, but they don't work. The girl has been recording the meeting and she brings her phone up to film everyone, telling her followers she's being scammed. Luckily Matty covers her face with a folder, as she doesn't want to be exposed.
Subsequent efforts to settle the case with the girl result in more social media exposure and Matty and Julian are taken off the team by the law firm's CEO.
With Edwin and her grandson in Florida for the holidays, Matty is alone and has to cross an ethical line for herself. Does she find a way to defeat the girl and ruin her life as her daughter's was ruined, or does she let the girl win and the firm flounders?
Matty is nervous throughout and wears a bracelet made by her daughter, which breaks at one point. She listens to an old voicemail of her daughter calling to say she's clean, and she's pregnant.
It breaks Matty's heart, but she finds a way to controvert the girl's evidence concerning the doctor and a colleague, and the firm wins the case.
Honestly, Kathy Bates is just such an extraordinary actress.
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