Best Medicine
I missed the new show Best Medicine in last week's write up. I have heard of the British origin show Doc Martin, but have never seen it. I saw a few previews for the American version and it seemed worth a watch.
Dr Best is a former surgeon who has developed a fear of the sight of blood after a traumatic case. He's been forced to leave Boston, and applies to be the doctor for the small town of Port Wenn. He spent summers here as a boy and feels it may be a place for him to practice.
Best is a curmudgeon, he's rude, insensitive, but he's a determined doctor when it comes to helping his patients. There's a certain vulnerable charm to him.
I've huge problems with the receptionist Elaine who spends no time doing her actual job because she's always streaming content from her desk. Note this picture with all of the patients doing a contest involving marshmallows for her feed. Dr. Best and I find this situation to be impossible.
There's also a dog that appears to be a stray who finds his way into the clinic constantly. The little guy needs some love but he just gets yelled at or ignored.
I dunno. The original Doc Martin, Martin Clunes will be on the next episode. I'll watch that but am not sure about more.
Fallout S 2 Ep 5 The Wrangler
I have to comment that I can't quite tell who the Wrangler of the episode's title is. Robert House? Cooper Howard? The Ghoul? Hank Maclean? Maybe all of them.
Most of the episode went to Lucy and the Ghoul, separated briefly while he went to a hotel/bar and she went to find Addictol which would remove her dependence on drugs. At the store, she found all of the prices had been recently marked up. She didn't have the money she needed. Bad Lucy decided to sneak in a back door and steal the Addictol, and she grabbed a Power Fist she liked the looks of while she was at it.
The "owner" came upon her as she was leaving and challenged her. She came back with droll comments about a naked man in a trash can behind her who might have been the actual owner. The man before her was a huge man, who was clearly wedged into the smaller mans clothes and shoes. The absurdity of his killing the owner, stealing his store, raising prices, and jamming himself into the smaller man's clothes is why Fallout is so crazy and appealing. When the killer shop owner goes for a gun, Lucy warns him not to shoot at her because she'll fire a maiming shot. He does, she does, he dies from the bullet. No room in those tight clothes for a bullet.
When she finds the Ghoul in his room, she's confronted by the Snake Oil Salesman, Hank's first successful mind control victim. He's dressed in a nice shirt and tie, but loses none of his completely bonkers personality. His message is from Hank. He wants Lucy to go home to Vault 33 where she will be safe. In return, the Ghouls wife and daughter will remain safe in their cryopods at Vault Tec Las Vegas.
Lucy, who has just gotten used to befriending a ghoul can't believe that The Ghoul would fall for what must be a trick. The Ghoul, though, tells her she was always his bargaining chip, and this is the bargain. He shoots her with a tranquilizer dart and says she'll wake up happy at home. She passes out but pops back up and shoots him with the Power Fist as he stands by the window. He falls out and is impaled on a huge post sticking up from the ground. Passing out once more, she sees her father for a moment calling her sugar bomb.
Norm reaches the Vault Tec Offices nearest to his vault with the Buds. They're horrified their workplace is full of parched corpses and a roach farm owned by none other than season one's Ma June. Boy I like that character. Norm learns from Claudia that Bud's boss Barbara Howard had all the vault information in her office. In the office, Norms hacks into her computer and looks up Future Enterprise Ventures, to see if he can find what the experiments on Vault 32 and 33 were. He finds that F. E. V. is the real experiment, meaning Forced Evolutionary Virus . Unfortunately, Bud's sandwich guy Randy has overheard Norm and Claudia talking and he comes in and chokes Norm.
In a large flashback session, Cooper reaches the Lucky 38 with Barb and while she talks to Robco representatives, Coop follows Hank MacLean who has a silver small suitcase chained to his wrist. This, I thought, must be what Steph was asking Betty to get from Vault 31. My thought is he has the F. E. V . or it's formula in the case. I saw speculation on Reddit it may be the Cold Fusion, though, which we know ended up in the Enclave. And there was additional speculation that Barb's cryopod is empty as she was a double agent for the Enclave, which I like a lot. Also that Janey is all grown up and we will meet her that way at some point.
There's a tense scene between Cooper and the real Robert House, who Coop remembers as the guy from the toilet. House starts off all calm and in control, but as he spews mathematical theories about what causes the end of the world, he goes right of the rails and ends up babbling at Coop that maybe he's the one who ends everything.
This messes Cooper up, of course, and he leaves and drinks everything he can grab, ending with a ride on the casino's bronco type bomb.
Star Trek Starfleet Academy Ep 1 Kids These Days and Ep 2 Beta Test
I was cautious about watching this new series, because the promos made it look terrible. To my delight, I enjoyed both opening episodes, and really like many of the new characters.
Episode one introduced Nahla Ake, a Starfleet Officer on a remote planet passing judgement on a mother and a pirate who helped her find food for herself and her six year old son. A Starfleet Officer died during the theft and the sentence was harsh. The mother would be sent to a rehabilitation facility, leaving her son alone and orphaned. Ake tried to comfort the boy, but he was clever and escaped custody.
Fifteen years later, the boy is discovered at a detention facility. Ake has been looking for him all these years. Stricken by guilt over the trial and it's consequences, she left Starfleet, but now is going to re-join and be chancellor of the Academy. She wants the boy, Caleb, to come back with her and join the Academy, promising she will help find his mother. Reluctantly he agrees, beginning an interesting relationship between the two.
The journey back to Earth and San Francisco where the Academy is located is fraught with danger, giving Caleb and the other new recruits time to shine.
Episode Two Beta Test shows more of the operations at the Academy, and seems to re-introduce the Betazoids to Starfleet. There was an event called The Burn which I know nothing of, that apparently brought Starfleet to its knees (?) and destroyed the relationship Betazed had with them. Must have happened in Discovery which I never watched.
The ambassador and his two teen children travel to Earth to test the idea of a re-alliance. His daughter Tarima, a completely charming young woman, finds Caleb to be of interest.
The show has good Trek roots, I'm liking many of the characters. I think it will be good.
The Seven Dials Mystery Episode 1
This is an Agatha Christie adaptation. Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent feels she has the world at her fingertips, till the day after a party at her home. The man she intends to marry is found dead in his bed with alarm clocks going off all around him. Another friend whom she's asked for help ends up shot in the road on the way to London. It's out in the middle of nowhere, on the sort of road with hedgerows lining it and making it extremely narrow. She's trying to make her way to Scotland Yard, instead, there she is, listening to his last words, "Seven Dials".
I thought the episode was a little slow, but I think I'll watch it again before watching the next two. It's a three part series.
