Oct 12 [link]

If you missed Luther the first go 'round, it's being rebroadcast on BBCA starting August 22.

Also, new episodes of The Monroe Show (some people call it Grimm) begin August 17.

Oh, thanks, I had dropped the season pass for Grimm.

And it looks like it's airing tomorrow, so, check listings, I guess.

The season finale of Longmires is today at 8:00 10 PM though not on any channel I subscribe to. If you happen to be watching it today a friend of mine is in it for a minute in Flashback. It is a speaking part. Friend is mildly plump, below average height, brown hair, balding, over 50. I won't say what he is playing because it would be a (super mild) spoiler. But I'll mention the role late today or sometime tomorrow. His wife is also in it in a flashback for a non speaking part. She is tall, brunette, thin, has dancers muscles and is a very pretty over 50. her part is probably blink and you will miss it length.

I really like Longmire. I will miss it after the season ender.

It is one of those weird things where I cannot watch live, but it is on my on-demand.

No wonder I could not find it. 10PM.

OK, well that was some posts about nothing. My friends' scene was cut out. There was a flashback to the courtroom where the rapists were acquitted. My friend was the prosecutor who failed to convict the boys. His wife was a courtroom observer. Since it ran three minutes over anyway I see why they had to cut it out. But it is still a shame for my friends.

Ignore my side note. Didn't realize that she was chief of investigations.

Closer finale: So the big consequence of all her murders and bullshit is that Brenda gets a new prestigious job as a public servant? Aside from setting up people to be killed, haven't her new bosses noticed that she is insubordinate, does not play well with others an does not believe the rules apply to her? And she still has not learned: the hill she chose to die upon was refusing to accept a reprimand for attacking a murder suspect in front of five witnesses in the absence of any threat?

Major crimes: Predendaza is angry about plea bargains? Aren't about 95% of all criminal cases settled in plea bargains? Also he is mad about a deal for 30 to life? Even though California is a death penalty state,aren't executions comparatively rare there? Or it is the "wrong crime"? The crimes the perp confessed to are ones he was actually guilty of under California law. So he gets off for other ones, but that is nature of a plea bargain - confessing to some of what you are guilty of in return for not being convicted of other things. And for a veteran with a background of mental illness, the death penalty is not certain anyway. So Raeder was right - from the prosecution standpoint a really good deal, one they might have made even without budget constraints. The rule about staying in place after officer involved shooting even when in hot pursuit of a dangerous shooter is something that would not happen in real life. Part of the cop show meme about "poor persecuted Po Po having to operate under all the red tape placed there by people who don't understand what police have to go through" . In practice you can't even convict a cop of murder when shooting an unarmed man, lying on the ground who has already been shot. Or for that matter for tasing the *victim* of a crime [link]