DOA on TV : Sheriff Country

 

I was behind on the episodes for Sheriff Country, but caught up this weekend.  The first season of the show has been consistently good with new mysteries weekly.  

In the last set of episodes, it was a wild ride with Mickey's father Wes heading a "commune" of weed growers, making deals with Bulgarian cartels trying to edge into the area, and a deal gone wrong that makes Wes think stealing three million dollars back from the DEA via armored car robbery was a good idea.   He almost pulled it off, but he was unaware there was another local player bent on taking over all of the farms and going commercial in order to save their family business.

This player had an inside man in the DEA, who was "tying up loose ends".  Unfortunately for Mickey, she'd fallen in love with the rogue agent.

In a huge twist in the finale, Mickey's dad is released from prison to help fight the cartels closing in on Edgewater.  He's supposed to work with Mickey, who hates him now, but both are shocked to find that the head of the DEA is Mickey's mom, Wes's wife, who was supposed to have died years ago.

Pretty great stuff going into season two. 

DOA on TV April 12, 2026 Paradise, The Rookie, Doc, Best Medicine, Will Trent, Matlock, Sheriff Country, Malcolm In The Middle: Life's Unfair

 

Shows are wrapping up their seasons left and right.  I'm watching more series on broadcast TV than I have in a long time.  Luckily, in these new streaming days new shows on streaming services will be available all summer, so those of us who are TV Hounds at heart don't have to wait for fall to get new stuff to watch.

Paradise Exodus

The finale brought down the city and the mountain on top of it that hosted the Bunker.  The Bunker was a marvel of technology and life planning.  I'm sorry to see it go.  Now that big convoy and all the residents of the Bunker who escaped are just sitting on nothing but the ruins of civilization.

I felt happy for Xavier's family reunion, but poor Bean just seemed at the periphery of all the hugs and happiness.

The Rookie Tiger Bear

The murder of an English teacher who tutored students on the side is complicated by the fact that no one will admit to calling in the finding of the body.  Nolan's teen fan Dash spends time with his crook of a father.

Doc   The Big Chair

On Michael's first day as chief of internal medicine, chaos ensues as Joan comes in as a patient, causing Miller and Amy to fight over treatment options.  A nurse wants Miller removed for his manipulation of her in previous times, unaware of the deal that has been made to allow Miller to practice at Westside again.  

Best Medicine   Norway Nohow

The sister city saga continues with revelations that the ecosystem of Port Wenn will be destroyed by the interlopers from Norway.  The female representative first gives birth while in the middle of a lecture, to an extremely hairy baby who grunts, then a healthy girl she didn't know she was pregnant with several hours later.   Charles actually lies about a high placed friend who will help the town get out of the contract that has been made, saving the day.  The bully who made Charles' childhood miserable was keen on the deal and goes to the Board of Medicine to report Charles and Elaine for illegally allowing her to draw blood because of his phobia.  The season ender saves Port Wenn, but perhaps loses them the doctor they were just getting used to.

Will Trent  A Flag in the Mud

A mother holds the ER hostage until her son gets care where Will, Nico and Angie are waiting for help.  An elevator fight scene for the ages.

Matlock  The Future Is Nigh

A fascinating episode wherein the co-owner of an AI company which produces seemingly alive digital copies of the dead creates a copy of her sister that helps decide who should inherit control of the company, the sister or an unknown to everyone boyfriend. 

Sheriff Country  The Finest

I'm behind a week on this show, oops.  A mostly tense episode as the team tries to find out what happened to a school bus full of kids who left the school as usual, then disappeared, leaving the school bus exploding in flames but no sign of the kids.  It's a cross over episode with Fire Country characters, only one of whom was engaging.  

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair Ep 1

All the cast but one is back except for one.  We used to watch this show, but didn't watch it all the way to the end of its run. The previews looked really fun.  As it turned out, it was too frenetic for me to enjoy. I find that I don't like shows where the characters are constantly doing asides, talking directly to the audience.  Malcolm was way hyper.  His father was kind of repulsive.  Malcom's daughter was very over the top.

DOA On TV: Survivor, Matlock, Elspeth and Sheriff Country

 

Thanks to my regular viewing of Survivor, I see ads galore for other CBS shows, some of which I've adopted as a regular viewer.

 

Survivor 49

 

I can't resist the twists and turns and manipulations of Survivor.   I always feel that by the third day people reveal who they really are, and things get uncivilized.  What's not to like?   

There are three players still in the game I'd like to see win:  MC, Steven, and Alex.

Things might be spoiled for this season altogether with leaks revealing what two players from 49 go on to be in 50.  It isn't any of my peeps!  I'm disappointed by this, but am still watching live every week to see the drama.

 

Matlock 

 

Matlock took the world by storm last year as Matty Matlock, a 70-something lawyer worked her charms on the law offices of Jacobson Moore to secure a position so she could investigate the firm's covering up of the opioid crisis.  Her budding friendship with boss Olympia Lawrence, and her hope that Olympia wasn't guilty, made for a great first season.

In season two so far, Olympia has figured out all of Matty's lies about her past, and the two are working together to continue the investigation, but with no trust between them.  It simply isn't as much fun with them on opposite sides.  

I am finding what looks like jealousy on Edwin's part toward Olympia to be pretty funny. Neither Matty or Olympia seems to notice yet.

 

Elspeth

 

Elspeth continues to entertain, but the decision to take her friend Kaya out of the show, for the most part, and leave her floundering between detective and street cop partners in episodes isn't working so well.  Luckily her working relationship with Captain Wagner is solid.  Elspeth's wardrobe this season is state of the art.

  

 Sheriff Country

 

This is a spinoff of Fire Country, which I've never been tempted to watch.  It stars Morena Baccarin as the temporary sheriff of Edgewater County, the place she grew up.  I love that she has known every person in town since grade school, and she uses what she knows about them to help solve crimes.  There is a new crime weekly which have all been good mysteries so far.

There's a story arc about her needing to actually win an upcoming election to keep the sheriff position.  A lot of people just think she can't do the job, and that she doesn't even want the job much.   One of her deputies, Nathan Boone, has been encouraged to run against her.  He backstabs her and disobeys her direct orders time and again.  He is a good by the book detective, though, and "follows the evidence" while sheriff Mickey often follows her gut or knowledge of the town and its people.  He'd be valuable if she could trust him for a second.

Another deputy, Cassidy Campbell is loyal and solid, and takes the time to learn from Mickey Fox's twenty years as a police officer.  They make a solid team.

Less appealing to me are the family and interpersonal dramas, but its fine, that's how you come to know the characters.