07.00 The Closer
08.00 CSI
09.00 Prison Break
11.15 NewsRadio
The Closer. Season 4, Episode 9. "Tijuana Brass" Surely this is one of the show's cleverest endings ever? Brenda sends the bad guy to prison under the wrong name. She uses the name of the man that he has marked for death. And when he is killed (which we learn in the closing seconds) it means that his intended victim is free to start a new life with new name. Clever Brenda.
This is also a good episode for showing us how much she cares about her team. And (in a rare moment of gushing praise) she shows them how much she cares, too. Nice.
CSI. Season 6, Episode 4. "Shooting Stars" It doesn't look or feel like a CSI episode. Gil and Catherine follow tracks (from a crime scene) out into the desert and find themselves exploring a vast underground complex. With 11 dead bodies. From a cult.
It's a mesmerising story. And - again - it's always good to see all the cast members working together on one case.
Clea DuVall only appears in the closing scenes, but she is wonderful in them. She was a highlight of Carnivalé and she was one of the two things I liked about Heroes when I tried to watch it.
(I gave Heroes a shot when it started. I didn't like it but, being a comic-book reader, I felt I should give it every chance. But rubbish is rubbish no matter how hard you try to like it, so I gave up after four dreadful episodes. But while I was watching I did like DuVall and - of course - the awesome Greg Grunberg.)
Prison Break. Season 4, Episode 14. "Just Business" Many episodes of Prison Break are full of twists and turns, particularly in the last few weeks. But few are as upsetting as these ones. Every thing that could go wrong... goes wrong. Our heroes are battered and bruised. Surrounded and captured, in various ways by various foes. I have no idea for how they are going to get out of this...
NewsRadio. Season 2, Episode 22. "Injury" Matthew takes centre-stage for this moderately amusing episode. He injures himself goofing off at work. Dave tries to get him to lie that it was an on-the-job injury. While Mr. James (who thinks that it was an on-the-job injury) tries to get him to lie and say that he was goofing off at work.
The tug-of-war is... moderately amusing and there's a nice warm bit at the end which reminds us that Mr. James might be an eccentric billionaire but he's a decent guy and he does like the gang at WNYX.
Highlight? Prison Break (how are they going to get out of this?)
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Tue, Dec 9, 08 - The Closer, CSI, Prison Break, NewsRadio
