They hit another home run with the sensitivity class diatribe. I also liked the chief's line about Carly Simon, the bathtub, and the chunky peanut butter "for traction".
Great Ep last night all tragic things. The whole bit about the bone marrow was hilarious. The way the show turns a subject like dontating Bone Marrow into something funny is why I love this show. Great TV.
Yep, an absolutely fantastic episode. It was like watching a season finale what with all the life changing events going on. I'm really enjoying how the really follow through with their plot points. Even the sexual harrassment thread is going strong with neither of them doing much more than begrudgingly dealing with the other.
Keela was tragic, but I was sinking down when she said she fed some pills to her bear. Tommy just went through an amazing rollercoaster. Tommy's reaction to the bad news, Janet's reaction to what Tommy does were all superb and felt authentic (and scary).
Chief coming to understand and interact with his son (not his gay son haha) was also excellent.
I'm really loving this show. I've suddenly come to the conclusion that between this, Battlestar Galactica, Comedy Central's Stella and Reno, and Monk that summer is now my favorite time to watch television. How did that happen?
Broadcast TV decided to go with an "all reality" format, which exposed their soft white underbelly of "we can't be bothered to produce content". Cable used this opportunity to stick it's shiv of entertainment into the abdomen of the nation and continues to jerk it violently upward with each passing week. The blood and viscera of broadcast is falling to the floor as it hemorrhages bad show after bad show (such as Life with Bonnie and Better than Perfect) in a futile attempt to lure viewers back. By the next season ABC, having expunged its good shows in search of the Bible-belt viewer, not knowing they have abandoned Tv for internet porn, will be unable to contend with FX's new edgy series, like Lesbian Nazi TJ Hookers.
I don't know how this show keeps topping itself week after week, but it's such compelling stuff, able to mix in comedic insight and showing how human the characters are, not always doing the virtuous thing, but they keep fighting for what they want, even if it means pushing away what they need.
Patrick, I'm thinking the same thing. Shows like Lost and Alias show that they are not completely out of ideas. I could name several more but I don't think broadcast TV is too worried about what cable is doing.
This was a pretty dark episode without much humor, but it was still fantastic nonetheless. It looks like Tommy wised up at the end about snatching his kids back.
I think the guy that voices the Quizno's baby is an actor who used to be on "Herman's Head" as the fathead personality. He shows up as a big burly dude in most of his other appearances on TV or in films.
Man, I'm really liking where they've been heading with the various threads so far. I'm glad they're not closing down the Chief/son relationship so easily, and next week's preview may suggest that his son may be purposefully antagonizing things. Talk about showing a fresh take on the 'walk in on your parents doing it' plotline.
But man, nobody gets off easy. Tommy does a good deed keeping vigil with a mother over her critically injured son and gets heat for ignoring his own kids. Chief is relieved to find out that his wife isn't cheating on him unwittingly again only to find the reason for the disturbance was his son being the 'woman' in the relationship. And Marco admits that he has a problem and reaches out to Tommy only for Tommy to brush him off and effectively let him flounder (and I assume fail) on his own.
Next week looking to be a lighter episode, which is probably good. This much drama and they'd have to move the show to TNT.
Garrity and the probie picking up women at the NA meetings is too much. It looks like Sheila is out of the picture for the time being, and Tommy might hit a rough patch with his pill shortage. I wonder how long it'll be before the ex shows up?