A little more TV catchup. Thankfully Fringe wasn’t on last night or I’d be swamped. CSI took on hoarders last night in a way that cable television doesn’t. That was a woman with a serious obsession, wanting even the dead pen that her case worker had loaned her daughter momentarily to fill out a form. My wife’s uncle was something of a hoarder. We cleaned out his apartment after he died and I found an air conditioning unit in one room, though it took us a couple of days to get the point where it was visible. There were stacks of boxes that you had to navigate, something like the tubs on that episode. The place was fairly clean, though. We found no dead bodies.
The Mentalist took a page from Dick Francis, staging a murder mystery around the world of horse racing. Also used the “evil twin” trope, except in this case the so-called evil twin was a horse. Poor Van Pelt, trying so hard to get involved in the case because she grew up around horses, and then Jane risks her life on a hunch. Nice guy. No pizza for him. Lisbon got to throw around her favorite epithet one more time (“sheep dip,” for the record) and Jane spent $5000 to win $500 to prove a point. Lisbon also got into a horse race with the culprit at the end. Favorite line of the show takes place in a scene where Cho is expressing his disdain for horses and dogs. “It’s all an act with dogs. They do it for the food.” Rigsby has a good comeback. “We all do.” To which Cho responds, “That’s deep.” I also like it that they took off after the wrong woman, who bolted because she had a bench warrant against her.
I also caught up on the third episode of Law & Order: UK. I don’t remember the original L&O episodes well enough to see how these scripts are derived from its progenitor, but I liked the forensic reveal that proved the lie in the defendant’s claims. And The Event is still on my radar, though I have to confess that it’s primarily because of Vicky and Leila, who are both easy on the eyes.
