NCIS Origins There was no new episode this week. The 14th episode will be airing Monday the 24th. Then there's a bit more skipping. Although the show is renewed for season 2, this season only has 18 episodes, and there aren't enough to show one each week. There's an odd bit of scheduling!
Will Trent Mariachi Shelley's Frankenstein
I was completely wrong, the brother in law didn't kill anyone. He turned out to be hiding his drug use from everyone though, which made him continue to look suspicious when the lights went out and he was creeping around.
A huge storm takes out the power in the building. Angie and Will get awkwardly stuck in an elevator, then there's blood dripping down on them. Angie gets a boost from Will and she sees her witness is dead on top of the elevator. Once the brother in law is cleared, there's another stabbing, so everyone knows the real killer is in the building. It's cat and mouse in the dark in a very intense episode.
Some side characters are featured, such as the coroner who has to try to help the girl with multiple stab wounds. Though he was a surgical resident, he didn't take that path after a tragedy in the operating room.
The girl who is stabbed has, unknown to her, a mariachi band waiting to play to celebrate her birthday.
Excellent episode.
Elspeth Foiled Again
A new college admissions officer is found dead in a fencing practice room, cause of death : cat hair.
Leave it to Elspeth to latch on to mild mannered educational consultant Lawrence Grey, whose students were suddenly getting turned down for admission to the admissions officer's college.
I must know if Carrie Preston did her own fencing. It was so much fun, her against Matthew Broderick.
Teddy, Elspeth's son makes an appearance, and he allows her to meet his boyfriend Roy. Roy is much too nice and lets her quiz him for 90 minutes.
Kaya has her classwork complete so she can apply to become a detective.
Matlock This Is That Moment
Olympia and Julian take opposite sides of a custody case, and their own divorce troubles keep popping out in the court room.
The case brings Matty right back to her own court appearance where she's taking custody of her grandson Alfie from her daughter Ellie who is a drug addict. Past Matty is so full of righteous anger against her daughter, and in the present she's seeing that case with new eyes.
She asks Edwin if he blames her for Ellie's death (it happened right after the hearing, after Ellie begged her not to take Alfie) , and Edwin says sometimes. You can keep nothing from Matty, she finds the correspondence Edwin says he lost from potentially Alfie's father. It's a sad episode all around.
Watson and House
I had forgotten for last weeks post I had watched the first episode of Watson, which I hoped to like. I liked the idea of a clinic treating rare disorders, and like Watson and his aide Shinwell Johnson as characters, but the three young doctors and the clinic and the administrator were just off putting, so I decided to not watch more.
Oddly, this week, I was combing through the various services to find something to watch, when I came across House. My husband and son both watched the show and really liked it, so I finally took a look. I watched the pilot, then another episode.
The setup is way close to Watson. House is this brilliant diagnostician. He has three young assistants to bounce ideas off off. There's a hospital administrator he clashes with, trying to do as little work as possible. He only wants cases that interest him, apparently.
In this case, House is a rude, nasty piece of work. He tosses ideas out for what may be wrong with a patient (the first one had a tapeworm in her brain, the second patient is suffering somehow from a measles virus from childhood), his assistants test for the diagnosed illness but also treat it to see if it works. Holy sheet.
The cases are fascinating, the assistants in this case are great, the administrator is ace at her job, she just needs to get House to do his job.
I won't be watching House, though, with such a piece of work as a main character.
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