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Subject: Re: Blue Bloods "Two of a Kind" 5/10/2024 (was: What Did You Watch?
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On Sat, 11 May 2024 22:37:39 -0000 (UTC)
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> 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.



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Rhino