Rizzoli & Child
Is it time for a catch up? I have decided that it is. Firstly, Rizzoli & Isles second season is shaping up to be so fucking good, except for EPISODE FOUR. What, just what the fuck was episode four. It was like they took all the most uncomfortable and mawkish parts of crime procedural episodes involving children and stitched them together into a patchwork of turds and gender essentialism and tears.
The victim's tiny, sad little brother draws cute crayon pictures that provide essential clues as to the location of the victim. This made a bad plot point in Supernatural, a show which has magic and ghosts in it and is eighty percent bullshit. Rizzoli & Isles is meant to be set in the real world and they think all is lost but then Rizzoli notices that the tiny child has drawn thirty fucking lighthouses and then it turns out it's because HE WAS SUBLIMINALLY REMEMBERING THE LICENSE PLATE OF THE CAR HIS SISTER WAS ABDUCTED IN WHICH HAD A LIGHTHOUSE ON IT. Oh my god, haha. The amount of 'moments' in this episode was so high it almost drew out into one long 'moment', with the crazed-with-grief Annoying Father having to be pulled away from the crime scene, Maura talking to a dead girl's body and promising her justice, and Annoying Father having to be pulled away from almost everything in fact, including the interrogation room his daughter's abductor is in.
I spent most of this episode alternating between being bored, offended, amused and mortified until the last five seconds where the victim's family all hug and it is implied that the mother and Annoying Father should get back with each other even though none of the issues of the split have been resolved, for no visible reason apart from maybe this show's massive single mum prejudices. At which point I went away to eat some chocolate bars and snuggle in some blankets and have a wank and basically anything to make it up to myself.
I was going to write about some other stuff, but I wouldn't want it to be spoiled by this episode. Tomorrow!
The victim's tiny, sad little brother draws cute crayon pictures that provide essential clues as to the location of the victim. This made a bad plot point in Supernatural, a show which has magic and ghosts in it and is eighty percent bullshit. Rizzoli & Isles is meant to be set in the real world and they think all is lost but then Rizzoli notices that the tiny child has drawn thirty fucking lighthouses and then it turns out it's because HE WAS SUBLIMINALLY REMEMBERING THE LICENSE PLATE OF THE CAR HIS SISTER WAS ABDUCTED IN WHICH HAD A LIGHTHOUSE ON IT. Oh my god, haha. The amount of 'moments' in this episode was so high it almost drew out into one long 'moment', with the crazed-with-grief Annoying Father having to be pulled away from the crime scene, Maura talking to a dead girl's body and promising her justice, and Annoying Father having to be pulled away from almost everything in fact, including the interrogation room his daughter's abductor is in.
I spent most of this episode alternating between being bored, offended, amused and mortified until the last five seconds where the victim's family all hug and it is implied that the mother and Annoying Father should get back with each other even though none of the issues of the split have been resolved, for no visible reason apart from maybe this show's massive single mum prejudices. At which point I went away to eat some chocolate bars and snuggle in some blankets and have a wank and basically anything to make it up to myself.
I was going to write about some other stuff, but I wouldn't want it to be spoiled by this episode. Tomorrow!