I’ve been running behind watching my shows, and I think I’m
caught up. This might be a long
post. Take snack breaks when you need
to.
The Rookie
Ep 9 Fun and Games
The team investigates a couple of very different
robberies. One is totally obnoxious, as
the improv prone cast of a tv show can’t stop speaking in voices and altering
their expressions as they imitate the robbers who stole from them. Every one of them is awful in their attempts
to be clever and amusing. The second
robbery is committed by two girls and a third party who they won’t name, even
when one of the girls dies from injuries sustained in the robbery.
Ep 10 His Name was Martin
Nolan, Harper and Miles
investigate the disappearance of a toxic clean up team of 20 sent to get a
former psychiatric hospital ready for demolition. There’s no cell service in the area
(unexplained but ratchets things up).
Add in a bumbling, camera wielding Dash, a kid who has taken a liking to
Nolan, and gets a ride along.
I personally am glued to my seat in terror anytime there’s a
chase through an abandoned psychiatric hospital. The toxic cleanup team has all gone mad, and
they run through the hospital and grounds in packs chasing our heroes. They are described as zombies at one
point, but they aren’t eating anyone, so nope, not zombies. They are just incredibly fast and very
violent.
Tossed in at the end of the episode, Lucy and Celina arrive
at the facility, get separated, and Lucy fights off one of the crazies, not
seeing another creeping up behind her.
She had a violent fight with the first person, and is injured already,
so when the second person pushes a knife
towards her chest, she turns it on him in desperation and he’s killed, leaving
her battered, bruised and numbed. In
shock. Nobody seems to see how
traumatized she is, and they give her space and tell her she’ll be ok, which she
clearly isn’t.
Also! Wesley finds a client in his office at night when he’s
working late, who we've see has mental issues, who is stabbing himself repeatedly in the
leg with a large glass shard, and he needs to talk him down.
Paradise The Mailman
We see what happened with Xavier's wife Teri in the years
since the tsunamis. She’s fallen in with
a group who are in a rather small fallout shelter inside a post office. The mailman in question falls for Teri and
builds the radio she uses to try to contact Xavier. The survivors were handpicked for the skills
they can contribute, though Teri is an expert in mushrooms. Another unlikely
member is a young boy that Gary, the Mailman, saw on his route, hungry and
neglected by his drug addled parents.
Teri bonds instantly with Bean.
Gary explains to Xavier how the time has passed for the survivors, and
comes to the present day where he says a group of armed men came and took Teri
and the other members away, leaving him behind.
He can lead Xavier to the convoy where he thinks everyone was taken.
Xavier listens carefully, and plans to use a bomb to
distract/disrupt the convoy who appear to be guarding some thing so he can get
Teri back. My thought is they are
guarding Teri, Bean and the others from Gary, who shot his friend Ennis in cold
blood to keep him from telling Teri the group is friendly and going to
Colorado.
Next weeks episode is titled Jane, who is an assassin character
in the bunker I don’t like at all and don’t want to know about. Hopefully there’s more about Xavier and Gary,
and please watch your back, Xavier, Gary’s right behind you.
Best Medicine Port Wenn-ings and a Funeral
Never a dull moment in Port Wenn. It’s time for the annual
bird migration over port Wenn, and two dotty old sisters impinge on a bird
watching expedition between Martin and Louisa.
One of the two is acting very oddly, and when she flaps her wings and leaps
forward off the cliff where everyone’s
bird watching, it’s a shock. She has
left commands for a week of funeral celebrations for herself that include a reading of her
poetry. We find that Martin’s aunt has been under the thumb of the two sisters
for decades and she can hardly contain her relief that one of them is gone.
High Potential If You Come For The Queen
It’s detective Daphne’s episode as she takes the lead in an
investigation of the attempted murder of her mentor Dottie at a massage
parlor. Oof! How vulnerable is a person
under a towel with their face in some donut thing. Too creepy.
Ava is called out by online class mates for getting into a
special arts program because of her race, and Daphne offers advice there, as
she’s struggling herself with not wanting to move forward in her career, as she
thinks it will be a lifelong battle.
Will Trent You’re
Only As Sick As Your Secrets
Sorority boys are being stripped and killed, with tape over
their mouths with words like Justice and Integrity written on them. A
nicely twisted plot for this one.
Angie and Seth attend a baby preparation class with a new instructor
who shows them all the ways their babies are going to end up dead via parental carelessness,
terrifying Seth.
Scarpetta Bridge of
Time Part 1
I first read Postmortem in 1995, and it was the catalyst for
my becoming a huge mystery reader ever since then. At some point I stopped reading the series,
but purchased Autopsy when it came out and I haven’t read it yet. The Prime show is split between two time
periods, one covering the book Postmortem, the other in the present covering
the book Autopsy.
I was surprised by many character arcs in the present, I
mean yikes! Marino married to Kay’s sister Dorothy? Kay married to Wesley? Lucy mourning her dead wife by spending all
day with an AI version of her on multiple screens? Dorothy and Kay constantly fighting? Why don’t I recall Kay swearing so much?
Anyway, the mystery part was good, very intriguing that the
current case makes Scarpetta and Marino think maybe they got the wrong guy all
of those years ago. The actress
portraying Kay’s younger self is incredible.
At first I thought they used anti-aging technology on Nicole Kidman. Rose McEwen, wow.
The Pitt 4 pm
The water slide disaster wasn’t a mass casualty event, but
there is plenty going on. Dr Mohan has
an anxiety attack that she thinks might be a heart attack and Robbie has no
sympathy for her at all. Lots of people are starting
to crack under the pressure of this day.
One of the water park victims had her leg sheared off in her
accident, and of course it’s Ogilvie whose task it is to hang onto the severed
leg. He completely bumbles the job, in every way.
Dr King, back from her traumatizing deposition, finds her
sister Becca has a uterine infection from “having lots and lots of sex” causing
Mel to have the most lost look possible on her face.
Did you know a foot could be “ungloved”?
Starfleet Academy Rubincon
In the last episode of season one, Nus Braka televises and transmits a trial against the Federation represented by Nahla Ake with the judge, jury and executioner
role going to Caleb’s mother Anisha Mir.
Everyone is quite impassioned and the trial is well done, even Braka’s
childhood memory of Starfleet destroying his home planet when he was a child.
On the Athena, all the cadets are at battle stations, with instructor
Jett Reno giving them instruction, and also making them think and solve the
problems at hand, such as how to find Braka and take the wall of mines
surrounding Federation space down without exploding them.
The Doctor, who was able to integrate himself into the ship
computer and make it look like the Athena was destroyed, comes back out of the
computer warped and garbled. He has a
solution to try for the mines, but can’t speak a single sentence that makes
sense.
All in all a strong first season. It was better by far than I expected from
previews, and I’ve been entertained each week.
It has all the bones of a good Star Trek series.
