Weekend ketchup

Katie Holmes comported herself quite well on this week’s Eli Stone. She starts out in a vision as a jazz club singer and turns up later as a butterfingered attorney bound for Kenya. She knows how to use her eyes, that’s for sure. I hope she shows up again on the show. She and Eli go well together.

Once they got all the eyes bleeding and heads exploding out of the way, Fringe was pretty much by-the-numbers, though Olivia did get to show some gumption by the way she stood up to both her boss and the pharma guy. The show’s on hiatus for the next two weeks.

The domino surgery was an interesting gimmick on Grey’s Anatomy, and Private Practice played an excellent trick on viewers with a carefully crafted trailer that made the teenage boy seem truly sociopathic. The detail that had me doubting that he was that way all along was the fact that his personality changed after his father died. So far as I understand it, sociopathic behavior doesn’t get triggered the same way bipolar disorder can. And I’m glad the therapist (Amy Brenneman) finally spoke up about the dysfunction in the practice. It was a good scene for her.