Mary's Recipes Week 18

 Happy Easter Week. Here's Mary with her Easter Basket from this year.  She grabbed the peanuts and chips first thing :)

 

 

 

DOA On TV 3 29 26

 

The Rookie   Spy Games

The crew unite to protect Bailey who returns to Los Angeles to try to trap the mercenaries who are now out to eliminate her after she simply knocked on an unmarked door at the Pentagon.   It’s the LAPD’s finest vs high caliber spies in an intense episode.

 

Paradise   Final Countdown

In the penultimate episode for season two, Gabriela appears to take down Jane, while Jeremy and cohorts start damaging the oxygen tanks for the city so the doors will be forced open and people can “choose” life in the bunker or the surface.   Does Jeremy even know at this point there is a massive crowd outside wanting to get in?  I can’t recall.

The Council, seemingly abandoned by Samantha, decides to lock down the bunker against the hordes outside.

Samantha, after meeting Link whose real name is Dylan and who shares her dead son’s date of birth, floats way, way down to a bunker level that contains a room where she greets Alex.

As we see in an early scene with the President getting a bunker tour, the twin events of locking down the bunker and the automatic openings of doors to the outside if oxygen levels get too low together spell disaster.  A disaster we see playing out as the episode ends.

Tomorrow (3/30) the finale airs, and we see if there’s some sort of time travel/time mucking about taking place.  We see if Alex is a computer or the still living scientist Alex, kept in some tank or hooked up to wires running everything, although she was thought to be dead in an earlier episode.  Because Samantha puts on what looks like a radiation protection coat as she steps into the room, I’m guessing person not computer.

 

High Potential    Turn, Up the Heat

Morgan has links from the past to street artists, aka graffiti artists, one of whom is killed and left hanging from the side of a very unusually structured building.  

 

Will Trent   I Hear It Now, I Was Good

Will recovers from his spider bites supported by Angie’s friendship.  We learn Ulster’s daughter Adelaide was treated horribly by her mother in ways that even shock the memory of James Ulster who follows Will around.

In a truly weird scene, Will channels Ulster when talking to an Ulster acolyte, scaring and thrilling the acolyte.

 

Doc    Orientation

On the way to Katie’s college orientation, Amy and Michael and Katie stop at a campground Amy doesn’t remember, but the other two want to visit just briefly.   Off the trail quite a bit, they come upon a cabin with a young man unconscious and bleeding.  They bring him inside to try to warm him up while Katie tries to get back to the car and in range of a call for help.  They don’t figure out till almost too late he wasn’t alone and there’s an injured girl out in the woods alone.

There are some super sweet scenes of Amy and Michael when they were Katie’s age and had just met.

 

Best Medicine   Mind Your Own Buboes

What seems like a flu outbreak might really be the plague visiting Port Wenn.  A petting zoo owner with no scruples has wild animals from other countries who may be carriers of the plague that infests the doctors office and of course the Salty Breeze is on lockdown as well because a man is there who bought a fox from the petting zoo lady is the source of the plague.

 

The Pitt  6:00pm

The night shift is starting to arrive and get up to speed on working analog.  It’s possible the computers may come back up now that another hospital has paid their ransom.  Everyone is cracking from the tension of the day as more Fourth of July related injuries start to come in.   Dana and Robbie have a big confrontation.  

With three more episodes, what happens next?  Another large event that keeps everyone at work, or people stay and do their charting?  Robbie leaves on his trip and we see three episodes of the night shift? Interesting.

 

School Spirits Seasons 2 and 3

I just love this show, and am glad it just got a season four announcement.  It remains a good mystery/supernatural horror  lite series.  They have new takes on the afterlife each season.  Great characters.

 

Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole

New to Netflix, this is a dramatization of Nesbo’s fifth Harry Hole book The Devil’s Star.  I’ve watched the first three episodes.  My book group last month read The Killing Moon, most recent in the series, with Harry in a somewhat different place in his career, yet also he’s the same flawed man.

There’s just something about the Harry’s character.  He’s brilliant, can be funny, most of his colleagues like and admire him, yet they can’t tolerate his drinking problem which in the Devil’s Star has him deep in it’s grips.  You know he can come out of his stupor, he often goes cold turkey, you can’t help rooting for him, even when he lets everyone down.

The story is intense and violent,  and there’s a serial killer, neither of which I can usually stand, but the storytelling and characters and music just pull you in.

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus for 3 28 26

 It felt like a Rebus Week, so here we are.  This isn't really me, but it seemed clever.  Click to enlarge. The Answer will will be out Saturday April 4, 2026 at 7 am.

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 3 21 26 Fallen Phrase

 Here's your Fallen Phrase Answer, a line from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.  I know it fondly (the story) from the old Bing Crosby movie, and still have not read the book.  It's available on Project Gutenberg. 

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/86/pg86-images.html 

 

 

 

Mary's Recipes Week 17

 Mary at Easter, obviously in a year with nice temperatures :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Release Tuesday 3-24-26

 I don’t always get new books on New Release Tuesday, but I love when I do.

DOA On TV : The Rookie, Paradise, Will Trent, High Potential, War Machine, School Spirits

 

The Rookie   Aftermath

Lucy is still traumatized from having had to kill a crazed toxicologist.  Though given desk duty, she defies orders and is out on solo patrol.   She's first on the scene of a dangerous mob hit, but acquits herself well.   Wesley is outmaneuvered by two serial killers and a rival for the District Attorney's office.

Paradise   Jane

Good thing I pre-wrote this on paper so I could excise a few remarks.   I had no curiosity about psychopath Jane Driscoll, an assassin with no redeeming qualities.  I really wish three episodes of an eight episode season had not focused on characters we don't know and care about.  Luckily there was a bit of forward motion for Xavier, as Gary the Mailman ignites the bomb they plan to explode as a distraction early hoping to kill Xavier.  Xavier is stunned by a blast, but gets away, and Teri runs through the crowd towards him.   Jeremy enlists the aid of the architect of the bunker in making an escape.  Presley endangers Sinatra's daughter by luring her into the politics of the bunker.

Will Trent   He Lives

Someone in the writers room loves James Ulster's serial killer, because Will can't get him out of his head.  Also, it appears Ulster had fans who wrote him in prison, and he's written them back, though two months dead.  They are doing some copycat killings for their hero, though it turns out Ulster had a child who he sent his diaries to, so all his thoughts and techniques are available to another generation.

One such killing gets the GBD and Will's attention, as the victim's name is Antonio Miranda, Will's uncles name.  Fearing for his uncle he goes to Puerto Rico to find and protect his uncle, but Ulster's heir is a few steps ahead.

High Potential   Pie In The Sky

Morgan and crew investigate the murder of a beloved astronaut who was killed by a pie in the face containing nerve agents.  Nice moments as Morgan's son mourns a hero and gets a souvenir from the spaceman's journeys.

War Machine

New on Netflix, this is my kind of movie!  I'm going to go ahead and use the terms rock em' sock em' action.  In my youth, I used to watch war movies on tv all the time, likely lots of John Wayne stuff, but anything with shiny new recruits getting run through the trenches in training and coming out combat weathered and tough, I loved that. 

Here ,we have Alan Ritchison's Army Ranger recruit meaning to prove something to himself, and to go the distance in honor of his brother, who dreamed of the two of them being Rangers.  He's a little older than most and keeps to himself.  Doesn't want to be the team leader but is forced by his Training Officers to do just that.

The group has 24 hours to avoid being detected by "enemy" troops and they've a series of goals. The first is to find a downed aircraft and destroy it so the enemy can't get its tech.  When they find the aircraft, it doesn't look anything like they imagined, but they attach their charges and back up to let them explode.  

Here begins the rock em' sock em' action part.  Oops. The craft they were supposed to find is a little farther away, but they've attached charges to and have activated an alien war machine.   It reacts right away, unfolding to stand and attack and follow them through the wilderness, tracking them relentlessly and implacably to wipe them all out.   Every time they think they've lost the thing, their compasses go wild and it's on them again.   Too good.

School Spirits  Season One

This show has been on my radar for awhile, because I like ghosts, and mysteries.  Maddie Nears is dead and not happy about it. She can't recall her death, and doesn't know who killed her.  There are other ghosts residing in Split River High School, some having been there as long as 60 years.  Everyone else knows exactly how they died.   Trapped on the school grounds, Maddie has to somehow find her killer, and there are plenty of suspects.

Luckily, unlike any of the other ghosts, she is able to talk to her still living best friend Simon.  With his help and the help of a few others along the way, this spooky show is great fun.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Fallen Phrase for 3 21 26

 Welcome, Fallen Phrase Fans.  I hope you enjoy this week's puzzle.  Look for the answer key Saturday March 28 at 7 am.

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the Garbled Proverbs 3 14 26

 

I hope you liked these!  Sometimes a few wise words are just the thing.

 

Wetter mate that fever       Better late than never

Paint peart newer son pair lads      Faint heart never won fair lady

I switch is dime raves mine     A stitch in time saves nine

So nets if goof mews      No news is good news

Won’t budge I took my ids covet     Don’t judge a book by its cover

 

Mary's Recipes Week 17

 Hearty fare this week except for the Fish Batter.   This week's picture is Mary at a picnic we took her to at a local park.  She loves picnics as much as I do, unlike her son, the NOPicnicsForME  Mr. DOA.