Greetings! Here we are with the usual suspects. All broadcast tv shows, though I cheated in each case and watched them streaming.
NCIS Origins: Touchstones
This week's episode focuses on a break-in that finds the evidence room torn apart and 40k stolen from the safe there. The gruff Kowalski who wants everyone to use neat handwriting for all requests from the room is crushed by the trashing of his work and he has to leave and go home. It's an opportunity for background on the man who was once a priest, and also a prisoner of war. The team is given a bit more of a mystery than usual to solve. Though I love the characters on the show, the narration is starting to wear on me. I don't usually care for a voice over, anyway, but this one often threatens to put me to sleep.
Will Trent: Breathe With Me
This weeks episode feature Faith's mother Evelyn, who has an injured leg and can't be on her own at home. Faith has many issues with her mother, and though while she lets her stay, she also tells her off in no uncertain terms about feeling never good enough for her mom.
When Evelyn sees a neighbor through her binoculars being assaulted, she goes to dial Faith, but them remembers their earlier conversation. She dials 911 instead.
When Faith comes home, she finds the police all over her apartment and the place has been torn apart. Evelyn is missing.
There's a flashback to when Faith had her son as a teen, and the mother daughter relationship is a little different than Faith has been remembering.
Evelyn, a former police captain, uses her wits to try to escape. There she is, with her foot in a huge boot, in pain, doing all she can to survive.
Matlock: Crash Helmets On
Matty has decided in consultation with Edwin that facilitating the divorce between Julian and Olympia will help with her investigation. She subtly tries to undermine the two.
This week's main case is the firm taking the part of a nursing home over that of a patient who may have died of neglect. Olympia wrests the case away from Julian by appealing directly to the representative for the home. It doesn't seem like the rooting for the underdog type cases she has been taking on recently. In fact, they have little luck finding any evidence that the man was responsible.
In a second case, a man Matty had encountered on another case is being forced out of his apartment by a neighbor. Olympia lets Matty decide who handles the case, Sarah or Billy. First she tells Sarah the case is hers, then she changes her mind and gives it to Billy. I didn't follow the reasoning of it, honestly, and thought Billy was just ok in court though he won the case. I continue to think these two characters aren't being written well.
Elspeth Season Two
I'm going to catch up to the current season episodes soon. Nooo. Then I'll have to wait for each week's episode instead of happily bingeing along. The second season follows the same mystery format as last season--you see who did the crime, and then it's Elspeth figuring out all of the details and laying out the evidence. These are good mystery stories, and Elspeth always has surprises in store for everyone, particularly the killers.
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