The Rookie Grand
Theft Aircraft
Nolan helps the FBI transport a planeload of ultra dangerous
prisoners to Los Angeles. What could go
wrong, besides a pilot paid to take the plane off course, then a crash and
dramatic pursuit of the villains through the streets of LA with our finest
chasing them down?
Paradise
Season 1 Using a
series of flashbacks and present day events, it’s revealed that the world
experienced a life ending tsunami three years ago. An underground bunker in Colorado houses
25,000 hand picked individuals who survived and now live in something of a
Paradise, where life is pleasant and structured to make people feel safe.
When the President of the United States is murdered,
everything begins to unravel, and the fragility of the world these folks now
live in is exposed.
The story focuses on Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins,
who failed to protect the President this last time, and who is determined to
find his killer. Collins is distracted
and obsessed with the fate of his wife, who was in Atlanta and did not make it
safely to the bunker.
Also in focus, the woman who made the bunker possible with
her money and brilliance Samantha
(Bradford). She hired the best
thinkers to plan and construct the bunker in secret. She’s the real power in the story, before and
after the world ends.
Season 2
Three episodes dropped this last week of season 2. Xavier has piloting skills, so he takes a
small plane and flies towards Atlanta.
He’s determined to find his wife Teri, and to see what the surface is
really like, and who may have survived.
Before we see how that plays out, the first episode shows
what happened to those who didn’t have a bunker to retreat to. Through the eyes of former med student Annie,
who holes up at Graceland, we see the panic of the world falling apart, the ash
gray skies and cold temps brought on by the destruction of most of the
world. While she initially has a
companion, that person succumbs to injuries and she’s alone.
A group of men invade the Graceland Compound, but in a post
apocalyptic first, they’re a group of good guys, nerds who are headed to
Colorado to find a bunker that’s supposed to exist, where they plan to kill
someone named Alex. Since we don’t know
anyone named Alex from season one, here’s the first mystery of season 2.
Feeling safe where she is, Annie stays behind though they
offer to let her come with them. When
she hears a plane then a crash, she decides to go investigate.
In episode two we see Xavier’s plane crashes as a result of
a storm. He’s temporarily rescued by
some children, then attacked by a man who has seen the fire from the crash.
By the time Annie arrives on the scene, Xavier has lost all
of his belongings, and is deeply wounded.
In episode three, we are back at the bunker, where things
continue to unravel. Sinatra, as
Samantha is code named, recovers from injuries.
She’s suppressing dissent and getting rid of anyone who stands in her
way. It’s revealed she has a side
project that is siphoning a great deal of power from the city.
For me, the third episode is most interesting, because I’m
invested in the city and the characters from season one, and have yet to become
attached to the surface denizens of season 2.
I’m sure that will change.
Will Trent We’re Looking For A Vampire
A pretty humorous episode in which Will and his father help
solve the mystery of a vampire killing at an old drive in. One of the employees at the drive in thinks
he is a vampire, and he dresses as one and sleeps in a coffin in his home. Will’s father can’t help making vampire
quips, while Will tries to keep things professional.
Best Medicine The
Bogfather
A body is found in a bog during a local history demonstration. Everyone in town gets DNA tested to see if
someone still in town is a relation in order to solve a potentially very old
murder.
Rizzoli and Isles Pilot
I’m just bouncing
around this week. I watched maybe half
of the pilot episode and had to stop.
One, it was a serial killer episode, and not a light hearted one, but an
extremely creepy one. Two, in walks
Billy Burke as a consulting FBI agent. I
have just finished the last season of The Closer with serial killer Philip
Stroh as an ongoing character played by Billy Burke. Nope. Too soon. Those things aside, I am sure I’ll come back
to the show, which aired in front of the Closer back in the day. How cool that night of viewing must have been.
The Pitt 2 pm
The ER goes analog. Robbie
knows all the ropes and so does Dana, but it’s a confusing system and there are
loads of problems. Santos whines she won’t
be able to chart. She finally helps the
deaf woman who has a simple but painful problem that could have been resolved
hours ago. Gross out of the week:
sewing up a woman’s tongue.
Starfleet Academy The
Life of the Stars
After Sam the photonic academy student begins to glitch out,
the Doctor and Ake take her home to see if the Kasqians can help her. They’re told no, but the Doctor suggests a
way that she could be repaired that involves her living 17 years in 2 weeks,
Starfleet time. Time is different among
the Kasqians.
At home, a special teacher is brought in to help the cadets
deal with their trauma on the Mayasaki.
They work through aspects of the play Our Town.
Matlock Collateral
The show has finally returned, with Senior waking up and
treating Julian kindly. Julian is onto
Olympia and Maddie, even tracking Maddie down to her real home where she
confronts him with her real reason for being at the law firm.
Elspeth A Hard Nut
To Crack
When a director of goth, gory stories wants to take over the
annual Nutcracker ballet, it isn’t long before he’s been cracked open in a
giant Nutcracker head which has been tampered with. Elspeth zeroes in pretty quickly on a proud
dad whose daughter was to play Clara in the ballet this year.
Scrubs (Revival) My
Return and My 2nd First Day
I never watched the original show, so I don’t know what made
me watch the first two episodes of it’s return.
Maybe I thought it sounded fun the first time but I never watched? Anyway, I think I’m watching intense medical
shows right now and that’s what I want, and bizarre fantasy sequences dropped
into the story pretty regularly isn’t for me.
Jurassic Park: Rebirth
It had all the good jump scare moments. My dogs don’t like it when I jump and shout
out while watching a show! The film
would have been much better without the insertion of the family whose small
craft was tossed over by a leviathan dinosaur.
They had minimal interaction with the main cast but at some point
everyone was supposed to sacrifice themselves for them. I liked the movie despite them.
Sheriff Country The Crucible Part 2
The show returned where they left off-with members of a
religious cult attacking the sheriff’s office to free their leader. The battle is epic. Mickey and the few people who were in the
office are under siege, making preparation for a final battle and care for an
injured Travis almost impossible.
