I'm seeing CM the way I first saw SG-1, all out of order. Except for Patinkin and the other guy I have no idea what season I'm watching.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
quester - Jun 04, 2010 5:34:30 pm PDT #5621 of 11837
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
brenda m - Jun 04, 2010 5:39:27 pm PDT #5622 of 11837
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Rossi and Prentiss are a huge bonus from Gideon and Elle. (Though the first Elle episode I saw was when she was going off the rails, so I might not have given her a chance. Emily still kicks her ass.)
The Luke Perry one is amazing, and yeah, when they bring in a guest star they really work it.odd how unusual that is.
One of the capital C creepiest eps is set in my mom's home town. Ew.
brenda m - Jun 04, 2010 5:40:20 pm PDT #5623 of 11837
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Quester, it took me a long time to get that figured out too.
quester - Jun 04, 2010 5:42:04 pm PDT #5624 of 11837
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I thought for a while that Prentiss and Elle were the same person. I just couldn't figure that out! I still get them mixed up.
Vortex - Jun 04, 2010 8:48:16 pm PDT #5625 of 11837
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
True Night (the Frankie Muniz one) is really good. Profiler, Profiled is amazing. Also Mayhem. And Penelope is really good, too.
Kathy A - Jun 05, 2010 6:26:21 am PDT #5626 of 11837
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I seem to always discover procedurals when they're late in their shows run. My first CSI:Vegas ep was the S5 Tarantino-directed finale, I just started with NCIS last fall, and now I'm thinking about watching CM and Leverage due to y'all.
sumi - Jun 05, 2010 6:49:40 am PDT #5627 of 11837
Art Crawl!!!
Leverage is starting with a 2 hour season premiere 2 weeks from Sunday.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2010 7:05:26 am PDT #5628 of 11837
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If we're calling out CM guest stars I gotta put in a vote for James Van Der Beek (who coincided with the start of Reid's first deep arc) who redeemed just about all of the ill will I might have borne for him because of Dawson's Creek. He was marvellously creepy.
I don't miss Gideon or Elle either. Gideon was stuffy and insufferable, and NOT IN CHARGE. But the show wasn't agreed on that, and I thought it messy. Elle was cardboard "I'm a chick, but tough as the guys, and sassy!" Prentiss is so much better. She's a woman, who lays down the law. And Rossi just cracks my shit up. The way they introduced him, to underscore that this isn't your sensitive Gideon (who never shot anyone, unlike the rest of his team) was pretty funny.
Barb - Jun 05, 2010 7:07:05 am PDT #5629 of 11837
“Not dead yet!”
And of course, in all of the CM "Which eps should Maria watch?" none of us mentioned "100."
Maybe because it's this last season and so it's not gonna be on A&E or ion, yet, but oh holy shit, is it gut-wrenching.
And another excellent one is the S4 ep with Alex O'Loughlin as the Unsub (The Big Wheel). He was so cast against type and it was amazing.
ETA: ita, yeah, I gotta agree with you on James Van Der Beek as well. Again, just cast against type and worked it tremendously. I think that's the thing that the show does so remarkably well with its guest stars-- it really asks them to stretch and go to really unfamiliar places as actors.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2010 7:14:47 am PDT #5630 of 11837
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know which episode of CM I can't rewatch, because it's so fucked up? North Mammon. And it's not that it's a visual thing. It's the premise, which comes clearly to mind every time I delete it off my TiVo. It was just so horrible. I mean, CM is a show of rescuing people from dark things, hopefully--they don't always get there to stop things, but North Mammon...
Lowest body count ever, but high psychological count.