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!

H50 - damn William Baldwin is looking and sounding so much like Alec it's a little eerie.

Isn't he?

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"?)

My DVR apparently didn't feel like recording CM last night. Fortunately I noticed. Unfortunately, not until 35 minutes in. I got the gist of the unsub stuff, but what was the deal with the pranking? (The first I saw was Reid's cell ringing and him screaming at it).

Apparently, Morgan was dumb enough to try to be in a betting pool with Reid. According to Reid, it took Morgan three rounds to notice he was being hustled. In retaliation, when Morgan gave out contact information to the press for the case, he gave Reid's name and cell number, which prompted Reid's phone to ring like mad and him to flip out like a mammal.

While I don't mind the pranking, I can't imagine that Morgan would have actually given out Reid's number as retaliation while they're in the midst of a case like that. I'm with Kathy in that this one felt like you had two writers working on the main storylines-- one for the case and one for the personal stuff and then they tried to stitch the two together. Especially awkward was Emily asking Hotch about Jack because she "had a feeling." It would've been one thing if he'd been reading the progress report the teacher gave Hotch at the beginning of the ep and she noticed it, but the way she just bopped over, plopped herself in front of him and asked, "How's Jack?" prompted a little bit of whiplash for me.