I'm just baffled as to why he was giving his wife a loaded gun.

That's what made me think he was just disguising it by putting it in the gift box. I really think he meant to kill her and probably a few coworkers at the party.

erin, Ion has stopped doing the Criminal Minds so much and is now showing old episodes of Without a Trace ... I'm not sure if this is good or bad at this point.

The ION schedule has changed, but not by a lot. Tonight it's 3 eps from 9 to midnight. Tomorrow 2 eps from 10-midnight. Thursday one ep at 11 pm. Friday nothing.

Next week it's the same, with Monday following the Tuesday schedule...

Yay! I'm watching CM right now :)

Either this Sunday or next, they're going to start showing S5 CM on A&E, right before they air eps of their new series, The Glades.

So, it seems (and I say that because I'm bitter, not because I don't believe) Skeet Ulrich will be starring in L&O:LA.

WhatEVER. I want Cutter back.

I was watching the Criminal Minds marathon yesterday. It was most of the second half of S3, with the first two S4 eps after.

I ended up keeping Tabula Rasa on my dvr for rewatching, for the smackdown Hotch gave the defense attorney in court and the flashbacks to four years earlier (I'll have to rewatch to see if they explain the lack of Gideon--did he join Hotch's already-formed team of Morgan and Reid later?). Hated the spray-on hair for Morgan, loved seeing Morgan and Garcia first meeting, loved Reid's connection with the victim's dad.

The other eps were mostly okay, but they all had little moments that were interesting. Reid's shock over seeing the mob dad who was in witness protection shoot his daughter's kidnapper was well-portrayed. I liked the development of JJ's character over these eps, outside of the relationship/pregnancy (too bad they didn't continue with it, from what I've heard). The two-case ep with Hotch and Rossi dealing with the emotionally abused wife who killed her husband was pretty straightforward, but her kids were horrific in how they absorbed their dad's opinion of their mom.

The season finale/premiere with the bomber was ok, I guess, but my favorite part was Morgan driving the ambulance out of the hospital garage and leaving the bomber behind, fruitlessly trying to trigger the bomb dialing the cellphone, screaming in frustration, followed by his telling Garcia that he never wanted to have her stop talking to him over the phone.

I liked that moment, too.

Okay, new procedurals report:

I saw "The Glades" the new show on A&E and I just finished "Rizzoli and Isles" on TNT.

R&I is definitely a show worth watching. It's got some of the standard procedural/crime tropes, but Angie Harmon is okay (though not unlike her "Women's Murder Club" character). She and the other actress (whose name I forgot) have good chemistry, so I'm in there for the long haul.

"The Glades" on the other hand, is terrible. The lead actor is very off-putting, the tone of the show is a bit too jokey jokey ha ha for me. And the actions of the main character are bizarre and completely unrealistic. I will not be back.

I was hoping Rizzoli and Isles would soothe my soul for all the female losses in procedurals recently. It's good to hear it was promising. I dvr'd it to watch later.