I haven't watched my dvr'd of CM:SB, but last night's original recipe show was boring!! Ugh, I just really did not like it at all.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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]
Kathy A - Feb 17, 2011 4:50:16 am PST #7107 of 11834
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Barb - Feb 17, 2011 5:47:34 am PST #7108 of 11834
“Not dead yet!”
SB threw me out of the story almost from the beginning because of the sloppy research. It was supposed to be Cleveland, yet the suburban landscape they showed had dusty mountains in the background. They also had the liaison be from the Cleveland PD-- Cleveland is like LA-- the city proper is actually small and in Cleveland's case, very urban. Any suburban area like what they were in would be in its own city and would have its own police department.
I know I know this only because I lived in the Cleveland area for ten years, but I'm accustomed to the franchise being a little more careful with details like that. Like in "A Thousand Words..." last season, they set it just outside Tallahassee and the roads they referenced were correct for the area they were talking about and even the outdoor scenes showed large oaks with Spanish moss draped over them-- totally apropos.
I'll still give it a go for a while longer though.
Toddson - Feb 17, 2011 8:13:20 am PST #7109 of 11834
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I really dislike the turn CM is taking this season - and what's developing into a long-running story about Prentiss and her past irks me. But I hated the whole Hotch/Reaper storyline and it looks like this is going to hit me the same way.
The CM spin-off ... I'm not sure about it. I'll give it a few episodes. I was struck by how much ... rougher, I suppose, the cast and sets appear. The main CM people seem sleeker, more professional, where this bunch runs around in jeans and scuffed-up leather jackets.
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2011 8:21:56 am PST #7110 of 11834
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I loved the Reaper storyline, and in fact, can tie my disappointment in CM with the end of it.
They're being too mysterious about Prentiss, and knowing it's laying the ground for...what it's laying the ground for doesn't make me like it any more.
erikaj - Feb 17, 2011 8:40:34 am PST #7111 of 11834
Always Anti-fascist!
I love Jeannine...I had an attendant in college that could be her twin...it freaks me out sometimes.
Zenkitty - Feb 17, 2011 10:45:15 am PST #7112 of 11834
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I loved the Reaper storyline, and in fact, can tie my disappointment in CM with the end of it.
This is my feeling exactly.
Toddson - Feb 17, 2011 11:57:42 am PST #7113 of 11834
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Ah well ... this is why there's more than one show on TV.
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2011 5:26:36 pm PST #7114 of 11834
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, Hightower was totally badassed there at the end of The Mentalist. And then...they quoted Firefly.
Maybe not a purposeful ref, but amusing.
billytea - Feb 21, 2011 2:25:56 am PST #7115 of 11834
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Tonight over here they showed the return of the Gravedigger on Bones.
...
What the hell was all that about?
Vortex - Feb 21, 2011 3:01:26 pm PST #7116 of 11834
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm watching old eps of "Prime Suspect", it's so interesting to watch the forensic bits (or lack thereof), because they don't know anything. We're so used to things like "Bones" where they seem to have the cause of death in 5 minutes. It's interesting to hear things like a sketch of the victim will take three weeks.