Xander ,'Lessons'
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
It feels like a season ending episode but how I convinced myself it was the end of season 2 I have no idea. I didn't even believe you when I first read your post. I googled "Wee Jock's Lament" before I copped to my error.
And I've only read two of the books & barely remember Towser being in one of them.
I know!
It's like we were glamoured or something.
Suspicious.
baffling.
So cute!
LOL, reminds me of the "Ross and Joey take a nap" episode of Friends!
Am I the only one who thinks that the new blond female cop internal affairs show looks like a hot mess?
I've been playing "Guess the secret trauma" on all the previewed female cop shows--dead lover, dead kid, raising her kid as a single mom after the lover/husband dies, mysterious death of loved one that only she can solve--the usual.
I kind of miss that about the Dragnet era, the cops didn't have tragic backstories, they were just tough people doing a tough job.
I keep seeing those ads, Vortex, and, yeah, it looks bad.
Agreed, re Internal Affairs, Vortex.
Connie, I do too! I'm overall tired of intense personal drama in my cop/lawyer/doctor stories. Or at least, tired of their personal drama driving the plot. They can have their drama, as long as they do it the old-fashioned film-noir way, and keep it where it belongs, at the bottom of a bottle of cheap Scotch... Come to think of it, that's one thing I'm really enjoying about Rizzolli&Isles... they have their troubles, but no one is Driven by intense personal drama.
I'm rewatching my Criminal Minds dvds (currently in the middle of Reid's drug-use arc), and I like how their personal backstories infuse the texture of the show, but only rarely are they directly addressed.
In "Seven Seconds," that whole scene where Morgan and Reid are tossing the missing girl's house and bedroom and discussing cookie-cutter neighborhoods suitable for Rockwell containing deep waters, kids being afraid of the dark, and then Morgan finding her mutilated Barbie and figuring out her molestation, that was all about their backstories as much as it was about the girl's. But, if this was the first ep you've ever seen and you knew nothing about them, you wouldn't pick up on that underlying thread.