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shallownessI'm pleased to hear that Pitch Perfect is getting a sequel (same writer, might be a while).
Most of this post would have been up last night if LJ hadn't been down, so it's an extended one.
The Good Wife 4.13 The Seven Day Rule
Really good episode.
I was so happy for Alicia for her promotion, her elation was so infectious. Although as soon as the $600,000 stake was mentioned, suspicions were sown, but I fixated more on how bad an idea it was for Peter to lend her the money (surely, between still being the SA and his political run, it’s a bad idea. I also have a kneejerk response to her borrowing money from him.)
I then loved that Diane called her on sulking –because, hurt pride aside, Cary’s pragmatic attitude made more sense. But oh, Baranski’s acting, in particular, when right at the end, you could see from Diane’s face that she was ruing the lack of progress, that women like her and Alicia couldn’t get their dues in a meritocratic world, and maybe appreciating that they had hurt Alicia to do what they felt they had to for their firm.
There were lots of little details like that, like Alicia bumping into a chair in her excitement, like her letting off steam with Mattie, like Cary doing a sideways fist bump to Kalinda because they’d found something by working together, and hey, that that was thanks to Trustee Hayden. And it was a nice end (? I hope he passes the bar and comes up against them) for his doings with this messy firm, from the moment between him and Cary to his interaction with Will and Diane.
Alas, poor Eli, you don’t have a special relationship with Alicia that your new deputy can’t claim to have. Just more mileage.
As ever, David Lee was fun – see also the contrast between his cynicism and Cary being able to play human more when interacting with their client.
As a Will/Alicia shipper, I was a little saddened by this episode, but the story was so well told this ep.
Person of Interest 1.22 No Good Deed
I thought this would be the season fianle, but it wasn’t.
Lots of exposition at the beginning. The boys were a bit snippy, as Reese tried to find out more about Finch and, with the reference to social butterflies, I got to make a bird reference. And it was a bit rich of Reese to put down the NoTW and Finch for not having social lives when he doesn’t have much more of one either.
Anyway, good to have more Finch and his Machine backstory, and his turn to have a number turn personal. You got why Henry did everything he did, but could see that it wasn’t helping his survival chances as Reese did his Batman stuff and Finch worried.
I thought it was hilarious that they found a way to bug the Not!SA’s surveillance place.
Lionel being the cop listening to Henry’s monologue was great, but given that Henry put it all, mostly, together, picking up a phone was Not Smart. He still believed in the system. Bless. And then he was slow to realise who Harold was, I thought. His smartness was a bit inconsistent.
But with him out of the way, we got back to the slightly more interesting stuff, from Brent Cullen’s character creating ‘Contingency’ to Reese finding out a little more about Finch. I don’t know about people who don’t watch The Good Wife, but there was a lot of good will from me because that was Tascioni, if Tascioni lite – from what we saw, Grace was quirky enough for it to make sense that she and Harold would work. But still, the guardian angel bit and that he watched her (yes, even in the creepy surveillance world of POI, and the episode had examined the danger of knowing about the Machine so closely that it got over my usual dislike of people/women not being able to make decisions with all the information and other people/men making the decision for them). I presume she’s going to come back, hopefully in flashback so we can see how he sort of faked his own death (why didn’t Brent Cullen’s son know about that?) and in the now because that’s some epic angst to show.
And then the reveal about Alicia was nice, because she hadn’t known, and up until now, I’d thought she was running from the Machine – which she never liked – but this ep opened up that she was running from the people (older white men; and apparently only white men work for the Not!SA) using it. Ah, show.
The Mentalist 5.18 Behind the Red Curtain
AKA the one fans of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries might want to catch a few minutes of.
Grace is back and everyone is ignoring the actress’s body shape. I thought it was a shame she didn’t get to use her awesome skillz forthwith. But then, I thought this episode was in a weird order. The stuff about Lennon surely should have happened in the previous episode, which came right after Lorelai’s death. I kept wondering if I’d missed an episode. That creepy cop was creepy as he creepily killed Red John’s potential downfall. And with all that ‘Friend’ stuff, it’s clear who’s side he’s on – at least Jane suspects him, unlike Grace’s ex.
The Team pulled some delightful faces throughout this episode, by the by – of course Wayne loves musicals. Heh.
But let’s move to the show’s other ace – guest casting. The producer’s voice reminded me of Robert Downey Jr’s. Of course Donna Murphy sang, otherwise what was the point of casting her in this role? But also there was the delight that was Mary Bennet, Jazz Dancer. I’ve been wondering for a while if I’d see LBD faces on TV.
The scene in the car with Jane coaching LaRoche about performance was totally undermined by the green screen.
Most of this post would have been up last night if LJ hadn't been down, so it's an extended one.
The Good Wife 4.13 The Seven Day Rule
Really good episode.
I was so happy for Alicia for her promotion, her elation was so infectious. Although as soon as the $600,000 stake was mentioned, suspicions were sown, but I fixated more on how bad an idea it was for Peter to lend her the money (surely, between still being the SA and his political run, it’s a bad idea. I also have a kneejerk response to her borrowing money from him.)
I then loved that Diane called her on sulking –because, hurt pride aside, Cary’s pragmatic attitude made more sense. But oh, Baranski’s acting, in particular, when right at the end, you could see from Diane’s face that she was ruing the lack of progress, that women like her and Alicia couldn’t get their dues in a meritocratic world, and maybe appreciating that they had hurt Alicia to do what they felt they had to for their firm.
There were lots of little details like that, like Alicia bumping into a chair in her excitement, like her letting off steam with Mattie, like Cary doing a sideways fist bump to Kalinda because they’d found something by working together, and hey, that that was thanks to Trustee Hayden. And it was a nice end (? I hope he passes the bar and comes up against them) for his doings with this messy firm, from the moment between him and Cary to his interaction with Will and Diane.
Alas, poor Eli, you don’t have a special relationship with Alicia that your new deputy can’t claim to have. Just more mileage.
As ever, David Lee was fun – see also the contrast between his cynicism and Cary being able to play human more when interacting with their client.
As a Will/Alicia shipper, I was a little saddened by this episode, but the story was so well told this ep.
Person of Interest 1.22 No Good Deed
I thought this would be the season fianle, but it wasn’t.
Lots of exposition at the beginning. The boys were a bit snippy, as Reese tried to find out more about Finch and, with the reference to social butterflies, I got to make a bird reference. And it was a bit rich of Reese to put down the NoTW and Finch for not having social lives when he doesn’t have much more of one either.
Anyway, good to have more Finch and his Machine backstory, and his turn to have a number turn personal. You got why Henry did everything he did, but could see that it wasn’t helping his survival chances as Reese did his Batman stuff and Finch worried.
I thought it was hilarious that they found a way to bug the Not!SA’s surveillance place.
Lionel being the cop listening to Henry’s monologue was great, but given that Henry put it all, mostly, together, picking up a phone was Not Smart. He still believed in the system. Bless. And then he was slow to realise who Harold was, I thought. His smartness was a bit inconsistent.
But with him out of the way, we got back to the slightly more interesting stuff, from Brent Cullen’s character creating ‘Contingency’ to Reese finding out a little more about Finch. I don’t know about people who don’t watch The Good Wife, but there was a lot of good will from me because that was Tascioni, if Tascioni lite – from what we saw, Grace was quirky enough for it to make sense that she and Harold would work. But still, the guardian angel bit and that he watched her (yes, even in the creepy surveillance world of POI, and the episode had examined the danger of knowing about the Machine so closely that it got over my usual dislike of people/women not being able to make decisions with all the information and other people/men making the decision for them). I presume she’s going to come back, hopefully in flashback so we can see how he sort of faked his own death (why didn’t Brent Cullen’s son know about that?) and in the now because that’s some epic angst to show.
And then the reveal about Alicia was nice, because she hadn’t known, and up until now, I’d thought she was running from the Machine – which she never liked – but this ep opened up that she was running from the people (older white men; and apparently only white men work for the Not!SA) using it. Ah, show.
The Mentalist 5.18 Behind the Red Curtain
AKA the one fans of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries might want to catch a few minutes of.
Grace is back and everyone is ignoring the actress’s body shape. I thought it was a shame she didn’t get to use her awesome skillz forthwith. But then, I thought this episode was in a weird order. The stuff about Lennon surely should have happened in the previous episode, which came right after Lorelai’s death. I kept wondering if I’d missed an episode. That creepy cop was creepy as he creepily killed Red John’s potential downfall. And with all that ‘Friend’ stuff, it’s clear who’s side he’s on – at least Jane suspects him, unlike Grace’s ex.
The Team pulled some delightful faces throughout this episode, by the by – of course Wayne loves musicals. Heh.
But let’s move to the show’s other ace – guest casting. The producer’s voice reminded me of Robert Downey Jr’s. Of course Donna Murphy sang, otherwise what was the point of casting her in this role? But also there was the delight that was Mary Bennet, Jazz Dancer. I’ve been wondering for a while if I’d see LBD faces on TV.
The scene in the car with Jane coaching LaRoche about performance was totally undermined by the green screen.
