I received my contributor copies of Cemetery Dance #65 in the mail last night. It’s been a while.
Dear headline writers. “At Last Singer Etta James Dead” does not read to many people the way you intended.
I hope next week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy isn’t as totally and utterly lame as it looks from the preview.
So I can pick up on clues. It seemed to me at the beginning of the season that Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) was getting ready to leave CSI and the storyline has just gotten around to that now. I’m gathering she makes it out of the show alive since the actress has said the producers have left it open for her to return if she ever wants to do so. The lulling music before the fusillade at the end of this week’s episode was a dead giveaway. But it went on for so long that I was lulled into thinking I was wrong. So I guess that’s a win.
The famous “occupy” episode of Law & Order: SVU aired this week. Famous because real occupy protesters found out what they were doing and occupied their set, shutting down production for a while. Turns out that the movement was only peripheral to the episode, which was mostly about a Blackwater-type company operating with apparent impunity abroad. It was actually pretty good, and Harry Connick, Jr. is the kind of amiable addition that the show could use to help it get over itself a bit.
Justified is back, with a vengeance. It had slipped my mind how last season ended. I would have sworn that all the Bennett boys were dead but lo and behold there was one of them in prison when Boyd showed up. I have a sneaking suspicion that Boyd either had himself put away on some personal mission, or he and Raylan have something up their sleeves. Watching Raylan trying to get his mojo back at the beginning reminded me of Roland Deschain after his lost his fingers to lobstrosities. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If Ron Howard is looking for the perfect Roland, they need look no further than Timothy Olyphant. It was fun seeing “Quinn” from Dexter playing the part of the bad guy. Funny that he made a comment about Raylan’s hat, given the atrocious one he wore. Nice setup, showing us how he did the “count to 10” trick with a less savvy person and then repeating it against Raylan. “Sorry about your tablecloth,” Raylan said to Winona after he did a little bit of hocus pocus that changed the usual outcome of that ploy. It wasn’t a kill shot, though, so maybe we haven’t seen the last of Nix. Did he intend to only wound him or was that his rustiness showing through? Looks like some seriously bad dudes are moving in to the area.
