Life: okay, Ted just became infinitely more awesome this ep at 50 minutes in.

And all the parrallels between Crews and Farthingale and the sparse houses and impersonal desk spaces was just charming.

I'm a little perturbed that Dani has taken zero interest in her partner's potential involvement in Ames' murder. She doesn't seem to care that he may have done it, and she doesn't seem to care that he may not have done it, and be defensive for him.

And holy crap that the white-haired-dude is her father!

I loved this episode. A lovely, twisty case of the week and amping up on the conspiracy theory and Jack Reese being involved (did he kill Ames?!! They were arguing in that first scene.) And I freakin' loved the team Charlie/Lt/Dani in the conference room with the bottles of wine and the baseball caps. The Lt., in all appearance, is an antagonist to Charlie yet she's also a good cop and recognizes that Charlie is one as well. I really like the ambiguity.

I like the idea that the LT, and also Bobby Starks in this respect, are good cops with motivations outside of setting up Crews, and yet in the process of being good cops they are following the letter of the law which makes them do things that possibly aren't favorable to ultimate justice (acting upon planted evidence, suspect motives, etc.)

I freakin' loved the team Charlie/Lt/Dani in the conference room with the bottles of win and the baseball caps.

It was a nice scene, but the clues were SO over the top obscure that once they got to the payoff I was just WTF? I mean, even Crews doesn't keep track of stuff in that manner. It was like something out of Myst.

I think I liked the fact that it was Dani and the LT working together more than I was befuddled by the revelation of a serial bomber we knew nothing about. I really cared more about the characters than the made-up revelation.

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I think I loved the scenes where Dani was at one house and Crews was at the other and they were a. realizing that the guy was married to two different women, living two different lives and later b. that he had that same set up in each house - where he could work on what he was really investigating.

And I also loved the parallels between Crews and Farthingale. And how much Ted rocked.

I missed Life this week and last so I'm really going to have to catch up. I watched CRiminal Minds my brother and FSIL are in town and we ended up watching it together. As soon as Smokin' hot guy was interested in Garcia I said I hoped that it didn't turn out bad because the only time a hot guy is interested in someone who looks like Garcia he wants to use/hurt her. Because shows always go there, the only exception I can think of is China Beach when whathisname fell for Ricki Lake's character.

I ended up getting in an argument with my brother because he didn't believe that I could have guessed that Hottie would have turned out bad just from him being interested in Garcia, I had to have gotten it all from the foreshadowing. It kinda ruined the evening because once again my brother can't like I actually do know what I'm talking about and has to contradict me. I wanted to argue that I know television so I do know what I'm talking about, but it felt lame and so I dropped.

Ted totally rocked, and with that one action, became eight times more interesting. I mean, he's been a fine character in the past, as a foil to Charlie, but now that they've given him something interesting to do? Oh, yeah.

I'm glad Constance is back, though I dislike her new haircut. What I love, though, is how Charlie is different around her. Like most of his mask falls away, and he's suddenly a real person.

Okay, so if she's working for the D.A.'s office now, will she have to recuse herself from any case that Charlie's involved in?

Between Life and PD, Wednesday is by far the best night on television. Who would have guessed at the start of the season?

Life gets repeated on either USA or TNT late Sunday night. (11 or 12)