Best Medicine Hare Today Gone Tomorrow
Port Wenn has two charming young magicians performing at the Salty Breeze. The performance is interrupted when a rabbit pulled out of a hat bites the magician's assistant. Dr Best to the rescue to make sure all is well.
When the girl is dead the next morning Martin is kicking himself for missing something. The magician, however is as happy and cheerful and he was the day before, because he knows his wife will appear at their show in the afternoon. He was so convinced, I wondered if the "death" was somehow part of their act.
Doc S.O.S.
A girl is brought into the hospital having seizures and Amy and her team can't figure out what the cause is. As the process of elimination goes on, it's revealed exposure to her unvaccinated cousin at about age two may have given the girl a fatal disease.
The other plot point is T J, the great young doctor, is still having trouble processing becoming a father and it has triggered some behaviors that plagued him in the days when he was an Army Ranger.
Sheriff Country Ulysses
Ulysses is the book you can ask for at the local bookstore to get pages doused in the new drug called Cyclone. If you ask just right. The clerk selling the book has a sister being held by the Bulgarian cartel, and it's an opening in the case for Mickey and Boone.
Wes, kidnapped last week, turns out to be needed by the cartel to use his Marijuana growing expertise to explain why the plants in the field are yellowing and dying. It's soon obvious to Wes that the ground water is tainted. He's able to build a temporary water tower to give the plants the clean water they need. As a thanks, Wes finds a young girl in his room as his reward. It's one of the captive girls who tells him she and the others are going to escape tonight, and he agrees to help.
Another intense episode ending with a raid of the farm, but the girls and Wes are nowhere to be found.
Elspeth Consciously Unsistered
Two sisters in a musical competition are surprised when the judges only want one of them to continue. The other sister is left wondering what she will do with her life.
Fast forward to today and Winter, the sister not chosen, has a posh, successful wellness business and comfortable wealth. Summer, who became a rock star filling stadiums is now washed up. Because Summer provided the startup money for Winter's business, she now feels she can use a clause in the loan to sell Winter's business. Figure A, murder of the week.
Plot line number two: Elspeth's mom has come to town to meet Rory's fiancee and his family. Lydia makes Elspeth's blood boil, and it's easy to see why. She's constantly criticizing and snide. She has no interest in trying to find a common path for herself and Elspeth because she's just fine, nothing wrong with her at all. This is the only person I recall Elspeth not being a complete smoothie with. Poor Elspeth.
Cupertino
I dismissed this new show about two lawyers practicing in Silicon Valley as too boring to consider. It keeps popping up though as everyone's favorite new show.
Two lawyers working for the same firm find themselves led out of the building by security on the same day. Standing like two awkward sad sacks on the sidewalk with their boxes of possessions in their hands, they commiserate briefly. As Olivia enters a car waiting for her, she repeats something she overheard about him that she thought he should know.
They couldn't be different. Olivia is one year out of law school and this was a great job for her. She retreats to an evening of knitting to calm down. Michael was co-founder of the company till today, and he comes from a family law business run by his celebrity dad.
Michael proposes the two work together to sue their employer. Reluctantly Olivia agrees to try rather than be railroaded home by her parents.
The secret of the show for me is the way the two characters compliment each others skills. Also, there is a very light comedic touch that helps keep the show entertaining.
Major Crimes
I had left off mid season two for awhile, but am now in season three and it's my comfort binge show. I still love it for the characters continued from the Closer, Provenza, Flynn and Sanchez, Tao and Buzz. I've gotten used to Raydor's quiet voice and Rusty's manner.
By season three we meet Sharon's (still) husband Jack, who is an awful person, and I know she would never touch that except they have two kids. We also meet Rusty's mom who is young and pretty. She can switch between kind and loving and crazily angered in a moment. You can see how those moments where she's good to him would make him wish so powerfully that she could be like that all the time.
