I finished the first draft of a short story I’ve been wrestling with for a couple of weeks. It came in long, so some of it’s got to go, but I’m happy to have it down. I’ve known for quite a while how it was going to end, but for some reason it just took me a while to get there. Plus I was working on other things—one of which you’ll find out more about in a couple of days. Part of an ongoing project that sounds cool.
I wonder if we got a hint about what will happen with Jax on Sons of Anarchy. He’s always been obsessed by his father and now there’s an indication that John Teller might have run his motorcycle into a transport deliberately, supposedly to save his MC and his family. Does the same fate lie ahead for Jax? Even his strongest supporters are starting to wonder if he’s in control. And was I the only one who thought for a moment, when Gemma found the dead birds in her bed, that Abel was responsible? That kid is getting ready to explode and it’s hard to know exactly what’s going to happen when he does. Is he the one who is going to be Gemma’s downfall? Because Gemma deserves a downfall: everything bad that’s happened this season has been a result of her deadly impulsive actions. It was fun to see her squirm for a while when she was summoned to the cabin, sure that she was about to be executed.
The amazing child actress, Millie Bobby Brown, who played Madison on Intruders (and then something other than Madison) was a guest star on NCIS this week. She started out as the child of the victim and then turned into so much more at the end. The kid has a future. Ever since we saw her on Intruders, I’ve suggested she could play the lead in a feature adaptation of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
I finished the first season of Case Histories, the BBC Scotland adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s novels. It’s in six parts, with each pair adapting one of her Jackson Brodie novels. They’ve tweaked things a little, moving Brodie front and center in places where he wasn’t quite and relocating everything to Edinburgh (the first book was set in Cambridge), but they maintained the sense of random and coincidence that makes her novels so appealing and charming. I’m glad they resisted the urge to tie things together neatly. Amanda Abbington (Watson’s wife on Sherlock and Martin Freeman’s real wife) is the DC who has a love/hate relationship with Brodie. The little girl who plays his daughter is a precocious cutie, and there’s an engaging teen-aged nanny in the third part, a Welsh actress who has this Billy Idol twist to her upper lip from time to time. It was good enough for me to get the second season. They’ll run out of novels in this one, so some of the stories must be original. Edinburgh looks very nice on this series.
