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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>I started COUNTDOWN on the Primes. Starring Jensen Ackles, Eric Dane, and
>Jessica Camacho (the girl who crashed into me on my bike in Santa Monica)
>about an FBI task force in L.A. trying to track down a WMD on a ticking
>clock.

>It was okay. Typical Hollywood stereotypes of cops and police work--
>everyone's improbably attractive, all action, no paperwork or real
>investigating. And when they catch the bad guys-- if they're still alive--
>they do the standard Hollywood cop thing of immediately handing them off to
>the nearest no-name officer in uniform and totally forget about him. No
>booking, no paperwork, no taking him to his arraignment, nothing. But the
>girls are cute and the stunts are decent, so I'll stick with it for now.

I find myself unable to suspend disbelief for impossibly cute girls, but
hooray for Hollywood. I want to be entertained.