Isn't her thing getting inside victim's heads? I'd assumed that's what the title meant now.

Though the previews imply it's about getting stuck inside serial killer's heads.

GF: Well. And that didn't get picked up. That's just wrong. The premise is killer - I mean come on - "You are needed." Yes, you, you Ordinary (yet highly skilled in something) Jane . How is that not going to grab an audience made up of Ordinary Jane and Joes ? Ah, well.

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That's interesting. I'd just been thinking of The Inside as referring to the institution... like, the inside of the serial crimes unit or something. It is a title open to various, co-existing interpretations.

Village Voice Interview with Peter Coyote

He's kinda sexy, no?

Oh, he's been sexy for SOME of us for 20 some years or so.

reflects happily that being old does lead to fine vintage crushes.

Tim won't take me to see the mummies at the museum.

I love mummies SO MUCH! They're like zombies taking a nap.

But I am too poor to buy a ticket to see the mummies. I spent too much on the nephew. Again. All my mummy money is gone.

GF pilot returns!

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"In the first episode, when Locke is, at last, face to face with the killer, and he threatens her while explaining the deranged thinking behind his modus operandi—he’s intent on exposing the falseness of the dreams that bring young women to Los Angeles—she says, “The joke’s on you. I was made a nobody a long time ago, and by something a hell of a lot scarier than you.” Here Locke is out of control, abasing herself before a psychopath who preys on vulnerable women, and then getting all up in his face, in the space of one sentence. Her gift fails her when she needs it most. She’s just been fired from this new job (or so she thinks), and her dejection has erased her professionalism. This hardly ever happens to men on TV shows who have dangerous jobs to do; they may screw up, but not because they’re bummed out."

I'm probably being stupid, but when Rebecca says "I was made a nobody ..." I assumed she was talking about when she was kidnapped as a wee lassie. To me the article writer seems to be suggesting that it was her getting fired that's made her a nobody.

Also, I thought that scene was showing her at her strongest.

I don't think the critic is saying that UTTAD, because she discusses Rebecca's past just a paragraph or two, before. She's blaming what she sees as a lapse in Rebecca's professionalism, on her just losing her job. But it seems to me Franklin missed that the killer's compulsion involves wanting to prove to those who pretend to be somebody, that they're actually nobody. She seems to miss that Rebecca intentionally admitted to having been made a nobody, in part, to disarm him. I thought that played clearly on screen. It did to me, at least.

I figure this show is going to need a few weeks to catch on. We've known about it for months. We've learned stuff as the premise and cast changed, in real time, and have had time to talk and think about it. I figure a good chunk of the entertainment reporters who have known they'd cover it, have only been looking at it for a couple of weeks, max. There are so many pilots each season, I can't imagine them giving any one too much attention, until it clear that the show is a go.

Waitaminnit, Jen, I had that tag first!

I mean, great minds think alike.

We can totally share.