That was cute. Quote from Waking the Dead:
"Are you busy?"
"I've got seven corpses to examine."
"And a penguin."
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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]
billytea - Oct 12, 2012 3:02:17 am PDT #9319 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
shrift - Oct 14, 2012 5:00:59 pm PDT #9320 of 11831
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I finally gave myself permission to stop watching CSI.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2012 5:28:05 pm PDT #9321 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had not watched L&O:UK past Bamber getting shot...
I've been thinking all this time he recovered and was skipping gaily through the flowers in the meadow.
Oh.
Oh.
D:
sj - Oct 28, 2012 2:35:13 pm PDT #9322 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Can somebody PLEASE send a memo to the casting people on CSI - if there's ONE actor that we REALLY recognize, we KNOW who the killer is! Can we either hire some Fake-out Knowns or give some more Unknowns some work?
The Elementary people too. This last episode the murderer was way too obvious.
Connie Neil - Oct 28, 2012 3:21:12 pm PDT #9323 of 11831
brillig
The Elementary people too. This last episode the murderer was way too obvious.
well, I didn't know who it was. I guess I don't watch enough TV. But I definitely agree that too many shows suffer from "The Guest Star is the Killer" syndrome, if they don't have "Anyone other than the regular cast who has lines is the killer." Castle at least likes to throw weird characters in just for the sake of weird characters.
sj - Oct 28, 2012 3:26:08 pm PDT #9324 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Connie, I don't know her name, but anytime she was on L&O she was always the killer.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2012 3:44:00 pm PDT #9325 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The Elementary people too. This last episode the murderer was way too obvious.
well, I didn't know who it was.
Me, neither.
I guess I don't watch enough TV.
Me, too.
Jesse - Oct 28, 2012 4:01:30 pm PDT #9326 of 11831
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What's awesome about watching the old L&Os is that sometimes the killer is the person who went on to become the most famous.
Calli - Oct 29, 2012 6:20:03 am PDT #9327 of 11831
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Sometimes shows will have the famous actor playing someone related to the victim. I remember seeing Robin Williams on H:LOTS as the husband of a tourist who gets killed. I think it was the first time I ever saw him in a straight up dramatic role. I was pleasantly surprised.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2012 8:38:43 am PDT #9328 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
He did that as a personal favor to Barry Levinson, who needed a name to keep his show from being cancelled.(Baby Jake Gyllenhaal is a victim's son because his dad, Stephen, directed.) The first ep of TV David Simon ever wrote on, and as you can probably tell, one I consider hugely underrated. Could I sound more like Abed right now? But Melissa Leo killed it in that one. As did all the teens they cast. "I had the power, but forgot who I was." (/Procedural Abed)