Posted 11:30 AM by Gerald So
This new show piqued my interest because it stars Kristin Kreuk and because it's adapted from a book series (by the late L.R. Wright). Rossif Sutherland plays former big city cop Karl Alberg, who moves to the seaside town of Gibsons hoping to de-stress. He becomes the police chief, but unlike Jesse Stone and others, he's not haunted or plagued by hindering hangups.
Refreshing, too, Kreuk doesn't play a cop in Alberg's charge with whom he begins a forbidden romance; she plays a librarian only connected to the culprits because everyone lives in Gibsons. Like COLUMBO, MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN reveals culprits early and spends the rest of its time fleshing them out as people. This is a slower-paced, character-driven show that almost seems out of place on broadcast TV today. I'm glad it's on, though, and I hope it stays.
The first episode guest-starred James Cromwell, and the fourth episode guest-starred Erica Durance.
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
Saturday, October 05, 2024
It's My Party
Posted 12:30 AM by Gerald So
Not a political post. Today is my birthday and a traditionally significant one at that. I always have such expectations for my birthday, they're almost never met. I'd like to think being a little selfish on the day is fine, but I also wish the day would pass into the rest that are in no way about me.
I'm grateful to be here, to have not noticed how long I've been here. Instead of lamenting anything I may have lost to time, I consider everything I'm able to do today that I wasn't yesterday, last week, last year, five years ago...
Update: On his way to visit his daughter in Connecticut, my friend John Ricotta surprise-dropped by, representing my best friends from Hofstra, and delivered a gift card, wildly exceeding expectations:
Not a political post. Today is my birthday and a traditionally significant one at that. I always have such expectations for my birthday, they're almost never met. I'd like to think being a little selfish on the day is fine, but I also wish the day would pass into the rest that are in no way about me.
I'm grateful to be here, to have not noticed how long I've been here. Instead of lamenting anything I may have lost to time, I consider everything I'm able to do today that I wasn't yesterday, last week, last year, five years ago...
Update: On his way to visit his daughter in Connecticut, my friend John Ricotta surprise-dropped by, representing my best friends from Hofstra, and delivered a gift card, wildly exceeding expectations:
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
The Misdirection of MATLOCK
Posted 8:30 AM by Gerald So
Sunday night CBS gave a sneak peek of its Matlock series starring Kathy Bates. Madeline Matlock presents herself as a do-gooder attorney cheated and mistreated by her ex-husband and in need of money as a result.
She hustles her way into a job with a New York firm and proceeds to help the firm with a case. Toward the end of the pilot, though, we learn "Matty" is not at all who she appeared to be.
I'll leave it at that to avoid spoilers. Clever as the twist was, I felt egregiously hoodwinked, made to empathize and root for Matty based on an utterly false backstory, down to her use of the earnest, folksy Matlock name. This show shouldn't be called MATLOCK.
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Sunday night CBS gave a sneak peek of its Matlock series starring Kathy Bates. Madeline Matlock presents herself as a do-gooder attorney cheated and mistreated by her ex-husband and in need of money as a result.
She hustles her way into a job with a New York firm and proceeds to help the firm with a case. Toward the end of the pilot, though, we learn "Matty" is not at all who she appeared to be.
I'll leave it at that to avoid spoilers. Clever as the twist was, I felt egregiously hoodwinked, made to empathize and root for Matty based on an utterly false backstory, down to her use of the earnest, folksy Matlock name. This show shouldn't be called MATLOCK.
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