Max Martini is totally becoming the new Mark Sheppard - pops up in all your shows sooner or later, and always knocks it out. With added growly hotness, so I approve.
I don't normally watch CM, but I'll have to check that out for the scruffy ginger goodness. I saw him on a preview for something else, but I don't remember what.
I love that Castle finally gave us a Ryan episode. Well done, Seamus. However, the new lighting approach is really starting to get to me. I mean, I love dark and shadowy. It's lovely. It's just not Castle. Especially in the precinct and the loft. Those have always been the the safe spaces, where the warmth helped bring out the family dynamic. The actors were working against the lighting in that toast scene at the end. I don't mind darkness, literally or thematically, but it's a lot more powerful for this show when used in moderation.
I just saw a tweet comparing Esposito and Ryan to Merry and Pippin. Ha!
He has a (so-far) minor role in Revenge too.
H50 - damn William Baldwin is looking and sounding so much like Alec it's a little eerie.
I just saw a tweet comparing Esposito and Ryan to Merry and Pippin.
I think my brain just exploded. It's so right but so wrong!
Isn't he?
He put on some weight in his face from since his younger days and it practically erases any differences there are between them. The voice I suspect may be on purpose.
Could be-- he's really reminding me a great deal of Alec in the Working Girl days, but perhaps with a bit more wear around the edges.
He has a (so-far) minor role in Revenge too.
That's probably the preview I saw.
Got home from class and watched last night's CM and CSI.
CM: Sad case, well done by all the victims-of-the-week (including the unsub). However, the rather heavy-handed team stuff seemed shoehorned into the ep, although I liked each of the elements on its own. They're still trying to find the right groove, which is sad from a show that's in its seventh season, and just shows how much of an upheaval firing AJ and Paget was last season, and then losing Ed Bernero due to all the screwing around by TPTB at the network.
The humor in the Reid-Morgan pranking, as well as Reid profiling JJ as a Mean Girl, was handled nicely by the actors but didn't fit into the rest of the show. I just saw "52 Pickup" over the weekend, and that was an ep that seamlessly blended humorous character stuff with the horror of the murders. This week was tacked on. Also, having Reid be an MIT grad just seemed a gratuitous thing to make him an expert in pranking; I preferred the fandom fanwank of him having gotten his BAs from UNLV, since that fits with him still being a kid in college and having to take care of his mom.
CSI: Much more at ease than CM, even with having a new guy in the mix. Ted Danson is really doing a great job here! Love the way that his character bellows names to get other character's attention, and I'm really liking his continued demonstration of his closeness with his wife. And even the new girl, Ecklie's daughter, is fitting in well. (BTW, isn't she the one who played the twin daughters of the DA in the S1 CM ep "Broken Mirror"?)
