Missing Prime Suspect Already
It honestly just hit me that I am nearing the end of the U.S. Prime Suspect. Previously, I had been going through, enjoying the show for what it is, but here am I, on episode 11, two left to go before the end, and I’m finding myself kinda sad about it.
Part of it is just my love for crime procedurals. I don’t watch nearly as much of them as I used to. Back in the day, each and every Law and Order was appointment viewing for me. I would watch them as they aired and then catch old episodes in reruns, which almost seems novel to me now. It’s such a fruitful genre that allows for so many possibilities, not least of which just a hundred auxiliary characters that are all bold and fun.
There’s no dearth of procedurals on T.V. but none of them hit me like Prime Suspect does right now. The setting is one t hing. The characters are all more rough around the edges than what you’ll find on Criminal Minds or C.S.I.
But jeez. It’s also just a great show. I always look forward to seeing that, and not just for the good Mario Bello or the fucking great Kirk Acevedo and Kenny Johnson. (Side note: I was real, real happy to see The Unit’s Michael Irby in this episode, too. Shawn Ryan represent.)
I think the entertaining shows, the shows designed to be watched a week at a time and not in huge DVD chunks, can have some weight to the characters, some interest in the stories. So, I’m sad to see the U.S. Prime Suspect go.
With any luck, the U.K. version will soften the blow when I get around to it.
Exclaim!:
Fittingly enough, this jaunt is being dubbed the “Welcome 2 Canada” tour.
Who’s being welcomed 2 Canada? Are we welcoming Prince to Canada? Is he welcoming us to our country? Is he welcoming himself?
I was thinking to myself earlier that it would be great if I could give blood without having to go in and do the whole needle thing. The only solution I could come up with was some sort of Star Trek transporter technology. Problem with that is, by the time we’ve got this whole transporter thing figured out, I think we’ll be set on the blood front.
The Globe and Mail:
Mayor Rob Ford called police to his Etobicoke home Monday morning over concerns about a CBC camera crew stationed outside.
The television crew had tried to ambush the mayor for a segment on the news parody show This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
CBC spokesman Chris Ball told the Globe and Mail that a team from 22 Minutes remained at the bottom of Mr. Ford’s driveway to speak about Movember, the annual month-long campaign that has convinced numerous public figures to grow moustaches to draw attention to mens’ health issues.
Ford is saying that 22 Minutes wouldn’t let him get into his van. I say, he can let them quiz him about moustaches and stuff. Next up: Rob Ford calls the police when he feels threatened by the Royal Canadian Air Farce’s Chicken Cannon.
Herman Cain says his much-touted 9-9-9 plan is the product of extensive testing and thinking, but the only man he cited as involved with its research — Rich Lowrie of Cleveland, Ohio — is not a trained economist.
To summarize Politico: Cain says this guy is an economist, but he isn’t, and Cain says he won’t release the names of any of his other economic advisers because he doesn’t “want to compromise their confidentiality at this point”.
All Cain has is the economy. He can at least do that right and pretend the 9-9-9 tax plan wasn’t chosen the same way I picked my Tumblr background: I found it personally amusing.
“We pitched them last year where maybe the characters could find a library with a generator and do a Bing search,” Sean Carver, a marketing director at Bing, tells the New York Times.
The proposal was quickly shot down by AMC execs.
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Liz Kelly Nelson. “The Walking Dead kills Bing product placement proposal.” From Inside the Box.
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Next thing I knew, another speaker—more like a screamer—was yelling about how the FBI controls the media. Then there was a spoken-word artist I missed (“He read a modified pledge of allegiance to corporations and the man,” I’m told), but I made it back in time to hear the lady yelling, “HOW MANY IRAQIS HAVE DIED? HOW MANY IRAQIS HAVE DIED?” and then whispering that Ron Paul is “the only one,” and adding, “And one last thing. They all need to go. They all need to go. Right and left. And no more hate! NO MORE HATE! I’m not Muslim, k? I’m not Christian, k? I’m spiritual, I’m not religious.
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Christopher Frizzelle. “You Know, I’m Totally with the Protesters, I Am the 99 Percent, But, Um, Some of These Speeches…” Slog.
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A group of religious castoffs has been attacking fellow Amish, cutting off their hair and beards in an apparent feud over spiritual differences in the deeply traditional community, a sheriff said Thursday.
Members of a group of families disavowed by mainstream Amish have cut the beards off men and the hair off a half-dozen or more men and women, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said. He said the cutting apparently was meant to be degrading.
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AP. “Beards, Hair Cut Off In Amish-On-Amish Attacks.” NPR.
Looks like HBO has a new series for development. Or at least Showtime.
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