Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Blue Bloods "Two of a Kind" 5/10/2024 (was: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-10 (Friday)) Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 18:42:30 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 92 Message-ID: <20240511184230.000030f7@example.com> References: <20240511152138.00003aaa@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 00:42:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d6301b4750ccbd4f07f9dbb8bafed9cc"; logging-data="2411971"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18lT7hTJUU9aawflIgjzubVdVGHvTJ4TCI=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:6Oql5tzsTKy+NNINWOab7hAGlW4= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240511-6, 5/11/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 5925 On Sat, 11 May 2024 22:37:39 -0000 (UTC) "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > Rhino wrote: > > >Blue Bloods - the penultimate episode of season 14A. Season 14B will > >apparently be just 4 episodes unless the cast and producers of the > >show manage to convince CBS to un-cancel it. Frankly - forgive the > >inadvertent pun - if I was another network with some holes in my > >Friday night schedule, I'd look seriously at picking this up. > >Apparently, the ratings are still very strong (despite the > >ever-weaker writing) and everyone still wants to do it so why not? > > >As for plot, we see the first time in a very long time where > >Danny's plumper son finally got something to do but sit at the dinner > >table. After being robbed on campus, he and his dad set out to catch > >the robber. Also, Eddie and her partner untangle a landlord-tenant > >dispute that turns out to be more complicated than it appears. Erin > >discovers a legal aid attorney is not giving his client good advice > >and works to take down the attorney which has unexpected > >consequences for the client. Jamie and Joe Hill actually engage in > >some off-duty fisticuffs - with each other! - and Frank has to > >figure out how to make them get along. > > Gawd this was awful. None of the stories had anything resembling a > plot. Is Sean supposed to be at Columbia? The student robbery plot was > ridiculous. Danny tells Sean to wait till the next night, and all he's > going to have Sean do is wait at the police station for the identity > parade. Instead Sean goes out that night, interferes with another > robbery in exactly the same spot, recognizes the robber as an employee > and gets stabbed. The victim thinks Sean saved her and he gets a date. > Fortunately for the purpose of Danny not having to do any > investigating, the perpetrator returns to work and gets arrested. > Based on the Law of Conservation of Characters, the mastermind is the > head of campus security who had recruited ex cons for campus jobs > then told them whom to rob. Not sure how he was tracking student > movement. > > Wow this script goes out of its way to make Edit massively stupid. In > the landlord-tenant dispute, once again, Edit immediately sympathized > with the landlady who claimed the tenant had threatened her on several > occassions but never once filed a complaint nor did she try to force > the tenant to move. She also lied to police about her wherabouts. The > case is blown wide open because Edit and Badillo have found all of > the stolen furniture and personal effects in a storage locker rented > by the tenants. This would have required a moving truck that no one > saw despite the florist across the street watching every movement. > > I had no idea Edit had access to Penelope's couch database, now > updated to include storage space rental agreements. > > The wife was setting up the landlady out of revenge for the affair she > had with her husband, wrecking their marriage. Edit helpfully opines > that the husband, only, was at fault. Last I looked, it took two to > cheat. The only thing they can think of to charge the wife with is > making a false police report. > > Erin's story is beyond awful. She completely sympathizes with a > criminal who is facing numerous "possession of" charges as a getaway > driver, and offers the guy a ridiculous plea bargain, which he > rejects. Erin raises an objection at arraignment to the failure to > plead guilty. > > Can she do that? Obviously the defendant has a right to trial. > > The defendant keeps insisting that he's innocent, that he had no idea > what his co-conspirator was going to put into his car. Well, he KNEW > it was a burglarly, so whatever was going to be put into his car > would be stolen goods. That's kind of how burglarly works. > > The defense lawyer is representing both conspirators but this > defendant is unaware of the enormous ethical conflict. Somehow his > fighting his own charges is better for the other defendant? It makes > no sense. > > Surely the two men would have been tried simultaneously and the lawyer > representing both couldn't have been hidden. Even if both defendants > waived conflict, the judge sure as hell would have said something. > > For no particular reason, Joe Hill and Jamie get into a stupid fight. > Jamie is being such an ass that Joe is less unsympathetic. Franks > threatens to make them ride together in uniform in the highest crime > beat at night but they end up walking during daylight on a street > without crime. > > I think I hit the lowlights. Was Baez even on episode? I don't recall. -- Rhino