Telly (Thursday to Friday)
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shallownessThe Good Wife - 4.15 Going for the Gold
I thought I might enjoy Eli’s story (Tascioni having to deal with Josh and court as foreplay, Tascioni seeing Kalinda at work and the prep that Eli clearly didn’t know about) more than seeing how Alicia dealt with being the boss, but it all became interconnected, pretty much. But the emotional heart was Peter (listening to Alicia) turning to Eli, who gave debate-saving advice.
I was glad Will and Alicia talked, even if they didn’t address much. But I’ve been wondering if they’d go down this route with Will and Helen, (even though it’s an epically bad idea) for a while.
JACKIE! (I doubt he will, but Eli should tell Alicia to tell the kids to be nice to her.)
Ooh, interesting to have other associate views on Alicia. (As a formal exercise, it might be interesting to have an episode that’s all about Alicia, but without her on screen.)
I don’t know if that ‘no’ was a '...for now' from Elsbeth to Josh, but it was delicious, but so was their interplay (apart from him presuming too much at dinner). I loved her face as she weighed things up after he asked her out.
4.16 Runnin’ with the Devil
Wallace Shawn! Beaming so genially, but underneath... I worked out that he was there to intimidate sooner than Alicia.
Her story was quite a lot darker thanks to Bishop, who even messed up his rare redeeming point, because his son probably would have a better shot at life with his aunt as his guardian. I would like to think that Alicia had a soul aside from being a mother, Liz (although it was interesting to have an antagonist from that long ago and to see someone who had made different life choices to Alicia – her son being in preschool and not a teenager). And I was so sad when she lied to the judge.
Good to see Kalinda and Cary having screen time (although there was one combo of suit jacket, tie and handkerchief from the latter that I disliked.)
So...they offscreened. Can he handle it? Can she?
I liked the new investigator, I like that she is competent – that’s probably the way to gain Kalinda’s respect, and let’s all hope she does nothing to make Kalinda go after her person or property with whatever weapon’s to hand.
But I am glad that Cary got a little happiness – he has matured – after being in a place where he considered he’d walk out on the firm.
My favourite part, because I’m ridiculous, was Will serenading Diane, because it meant that David Lee’s mom and pop jibe had gone home. But I loved the emotional content of Diane’s need to be cautious (WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL? I kept expecting someone to come up with the compromise of expanding by just one floor) and Will eventually getting that, responding to it...and thus getting his way. I felt that the echo of his suspension reverberated through all that too.
TGW is my very favourite show at the moment.
On Friday, I caught up on (most of) 5.20 Red Velvet Cupcakes
Granted, he should have turned up at the scene, but Jane was incredibly forebearing at Rigsby’s inattentive stint as his eyes.
The PTB give: Jane responding to Lisbon pulling out ‘I need you’ immediately and saying that it’s nice to be needed and her response. And they take away: 'Ours is a platonic love'. That'll teach all of us shippers like the receptionist.
Instead we get the ‘ship of Van Pelt and Rigsby. I know she was late (unprofessional) but he was out of order in the way he talked to her in front of a witness and she should have called him on it later, instead of being quite so nice.
Jane’s spiel about the CBI being a thing and needing to check that it had a website made me smile. Otherwise I think I'd have hated the radio appearance.
Every single time Cho spoke plainly was great.
I liked that the plan went just as arranged around the Dwayne/Stace session.
Ugh, again with Demand five cutting off before the end of the show, so I don’t know how Lisbon and Jane’s conversation ended. Was it giving or taking? It was interesting that they went to them and not to Rigsby and Grace.
I had hoped to watch the next Mentalist episode live, but totally mistimed it. Instead I actually caught the end of American Idol and saw clips of the top three straining their voices.
I thought I might enjoy Eli’s story (Tascioni having to deal with Josh and court as foreplay, Tascioni seeing Kalinda at work and the prep that Eli clearly didn’t know about) more than seeing how Alicia dealt with being the boss, but it all became interconnected, pretty much. But the emotional heart was Peter (listening to Alicia) turning to Eli, who gave debate-saving advice.
I was glad Will and Alicia talked, even if they didn’t address much. But I’ve been wondering if they’d go down this route with Will and Helen, (even though it’s an epically bad idea) for a while.
JACKIE! (I doubt he will, but Eli should tell Alicia to tell the kids to be nice to her.)
Ooh, interesting to have other associate views on Alicia. (As a formal exercise, it might be interesting to have an episode that’s all about Alicia, but without her on screen.)
I don’t know if that ‘no’ was a '...for now' from Elsbeth to Josh, but it was delicious, but so was their interplay (apart from him presuming too much at dinner). I loved her face as she weighed things up after he asked her out.
4.16 Runnin’ with the Devil
Wallace Shawn! Beaming so genially, but underneath... I worked out that he was there to intimidate sooner than Alicia.
Her story was quite a lot darker thanks to Bishop, who even messed up his rare redeeming point, because his son probably would have a better shot at life with his aunt as his guardian. I would like to think that Alicia had a soul aside from being a mother, Liz (although it was interesting to have an antagonist from that long ago and to see someone who had made different life choices to Alicia – her son being in preschool and not a teenager). And I was so sad when she lied to the judge.
Good to see Kalinda and Cary having screen time (although there was one combo of suit jacket, tie and handkerchief from the latter that I disliked.)
So...they offscreened. Can he handle it? Can she?
I liked the new investigator, I like that she is competent – that’s probably the way to gain Kalinda’s respect, and let’s all hope she does nothing to make Kalinda go after her person or property with whatever weapon’s to hand.
But I am glad that Cary got a little happiness – he has matured – after being in a place where he considered he’d walk out on the firm.
My favourite part, because I’m ridiculous, was Will serenading Diane, because it meant that David Lee’s mom and pop jibe had gone home. But I loved the emotional content of Diane’s need to be cautious (WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL? I kept expecting someone to come up with the compromise of expanding by just one floor) and Will eventually getting that, responding to it...and thus getting his way. I felt that the echo of his suspension reverberated through all that too.
TGW is my very favourite show at the moment.
On Friday, I caught up on (most of) 5.20 Red Velvet Cupcakes
Granted, he should have turned up at the scene, but Jane was incredibly forebearing at Rigsby’s inattentive stint as his eyes.
The PTB give: Jane responding to Lisbon pulling out ‘I need you’ immediately and saying that it’s nice to be needed and her response. And they take away: 'Ours is a platonic love'. That'll teach all of us shippers like the receptionist.
Instead we get the ‘ship of Van Pelt and Rigsby. I know she was late (unprofessional) but he was out of order in the way he talked to her in front of a witness and she should have called him on it later, instead of being quite so nice.
Jane’s spiel about the CBI being a thing and needing to check that it had a website made me smile. Otherwise I think I'd have hated the radio appearance.
Every single time Cho spoke plainly was great.
I liked that the plan went just as arranged around the Dwayne/Stace session.
Ugh, again with Demand five cutting off before the end of the show, so I don’t know how Lisbon and Jane’s conversation ended. Was it giving or taking? It was interesting that they went to them and not to Rigsby and Grace.
I had hoped to watch the next Mentalist episode live, but totally mistimed it. Instead I actually caught the end of American Idol and saw clips of the top three straining their voices.
