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Anyone else watching this show?
I finally caught up with the first 6 episodes (will have to check if the 7th episode was on last night as it airs on Sunday nights on the USA network, and it's a decent show with a large pool of witsec situation to write about. I'm glad they are moving away from the mom/sister time filler subplots (though some of it does integrate itself into the A plot occasionally). I'll keep on watching the show as long as Mary McCormack is the lead, she's fun to watch.
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Re: In Plain Sight
I can't believe that no one had strated a thread about this show, yet. I have watch 3 or 4 episodes. It is a decent show, but not on my must watch or record list. I did like the episode with Dave Foley and Mary McCormack is "easy on the eyes".
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This is another hit from USA. Along with Burn Notice, Psych and Monk I spend a lot a recording time on the USA network.
It get this she has it bad with her mom and sister but I could do without the mom/sister subplot and just the two agents do their thing. Once you know that she has to deal with her personal life and that causes her problems with her professional life you get it. You don't really have to be reminded about it with each episode.
I don't mind seeing Nicky Hiltz all the time though. Talk about easy on the eyes.
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What's interesting is that the guest stars have some impact as to the quality level of each episode, so each episode can be hit-or-miss (more hit than miss, for me). I wasn't too thrilled about the first episode, but I'm glad I stuck with the show.
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Paul Ben-Victor's characters all tend to have the same quirks, no matter which side of the law he's on.
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NYPD Blue,
John From Cincinnatti, even a guest star turn as a sleazy lawyer on
CSI.)
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Anyone notice the sexual tension between Brandi and Rafael?
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A blind person would have noticed it.
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Re: In Plain Sight
About the sister and boyfriend;
Warning Spoiler! Click to showUnfortunately if you've seen the previews USA had been running for the show since January, you'd have already known that the sister sleeps with her boyfriend (and maybe her mom sleeps with him too?).
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I like this show and I see it only getting better as time goes on. You have to give it to USA for having Psych, Monk, Burn Notice and now In Plain Site on during the summer. It really gives me some great programs to watch.
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I'm into this show as well mostly because i've always been somewhat facinated with the witness protection program, I cannot begin to fathom what it would be like if I had to dump my life and everyone in it to start over someplace else with a new name.
I actually honestly don't think I could do it, being killed is almost better than losing my entire life with the people I love, life wouldn't be worth living without them IMO.
Anyhoo, enough deep stuff, it's a fun show with two charasmatic leads and yes, I commented to my best friend how much Marshall sounds like Randell from Clerks lol.
And I agree about Nichole Hiltz...yummy! I actually don't find Mary to be all that attractive, she's too butch for me I guess.
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I kinda like the marshall who's name is Marshall joke. Reminds me when I was on the road somewhere in AL or FL back in 2000 or 2004, I saw a sign for the current sheriff's re-election. His last name was actually Sheriff! Sheriff Sheriff! I nearly drove off the road I was laughing so hard! Then it occurred to me, what if his son or daughter worked for him? They'd literally be Deputy Sheriff!
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I think this episode went off the rails during Mary's mom's screed on Mary when she notices Mary at her audition. The family stuff does make you wonder how in the world did Mary become a US Marshall given her family's reluctance to adhering to laws in general.
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I didn't like this episode, either, it was permiated with an ugliness to where it became uncomfortable to watch.
I'm not enjoying the sister and her problems and Mary is becoming far too serious, I mean what happened to the Mary in the pilot who faked an orgasm over the phone to obtain information?
In short, this show needs to seriously lighten up a bit.
At this point the show is on life support for me and it'll only take another ep or two like this one for me to pull the plug.
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Wonder how many ball players might test positive due to the lines being rolled on the field? It does make you wonder if they had that bit planned from the get-go by making Rafe a ballplayer. All the family stuff got a little too sordid and sloppy. "I am superior!" (not exactly the tact you take to win friends and influence people, Mary).
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I pulled the plug after I started watching the ep where Mary slept with the crooked cop in witness protection, the guy was a scumbag and it merely felt out of charcter for her to do it, but they had'nt had a love/sex scene since the pilot and they needed one. It had become to formuliac. Can you give me a spoiler on what happened?
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Off topic maybe, but I watched the episode again to make sure I was correct, and the cop was not "crooked" in the way that word traditionally implies. That cabal of officers wasn't taking bribes, blackmailing and ripping off dealers, or distributing narcotics themselves. Nor were they assassinating suspected perpetrators if I remember correctly. They were planting evidence on "criminals" who got released on technicalities or if they just couldn't gather all the evidence for the DA to take them to trial in the first place. That's why they thought they were in the right and why Mary's ex-cop witness said that although some of the guys would have taken the deal offered by the FBI/Justice Dept, some of them would just have spit in the agents' faces. These guys are referred to in large part as "rogue" or "renegade" cops, not crooked.
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