The Good Wife and Parks and Rec (I'm behind)
The Good Wife 4.8
Hard to sympathise with Will for being motivated by greed (well, and wanting to run his own company without the Trustee). Well, harder for me than Diane! Easy to criticise how they went about proving their biased judge case. It was also nice to see that for all Will’s strategical reason for picking Alicia, it backfired because of the judge (I don’t remember what his issue with Alicia is and I only slowly remembered who the lady Will had history with was.) Alicia’s feelings about facing her protégé were more sympathetic. And that was the right ending to the case, because Lockhart & Gardener’s client did seem guilty, even if the judge should too have recused himself.
There was Will-Kalinda time, which I always love unrestrainedly. I don’t know why, but it’s possibly my favourite platonic interaction on the show. It’s just the way they play off each other (actors and characters) - there’s a comrade in arms thing going on, and the way they get the other to open up.
One of my least favourite interactions is Kalinda and the delightful Nick. And now Cary is in the middle of it. Ugh, Nick.
I suppose Zack would be more motivated than most, but is he really that much of a wunderkid at IT? Eli’s influence on him was almost funny. (Does Peter have no opinions on the kids?) Poor Grace, I can’t imagine how weird an experience that would be (and the online/social media echo chamber was effectively drawn and seemed so much worse, speaking as someone for whom the internet wasn’t something I really accessed until I went to university. And in those days there was Netscape. So it was quite a different world.) And then there were Boy!feelings. I mean, he’s-a-bad-boy-who’s-misunderstood-with-an-earring and Grace is flummoxing him. What fourteen to fifteen year old could resist that? He could only not be more catnippy given that this was a teen-friendly supernatural show/film/book.
Nice job on showing Alicia’s worries and why she’s worried and why the kids are a little careless (eg about the trackers, mixing technology and politics). The last moment where they were kind of coping and all right and Alicia was an observer hit the right note.
Parks and Rec 1.05 The Banquet
Hearty laughs. (I can't give you analysis for this show, just a laughometer reading.) Tom is almost convincing as an evil genius and then you realise he’s so not.
I liked that we had the little look to the camera from Leslie about what she really thinks of Andy and at least she knows that her mother has that nickname, even if she genuinely thinks it’s a fond one.
I find I’m really invested in Leslie and Ann’s friendship, although at least one episode should have Leslie and camera crew shadow her nursing. You know, the easy-peasy nursing.
Must remember to watch the second part of the double bill whenever.
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Hard to sympathise with Will for being motivated by greed (well, and wanting to run his own company without the Trustee). Well, harder for me than Diane! Easy to criticise how they went about proving their biased judge case. It was also nice to see that for all Will’s strategical reason for picking Alicia, it backfired because of the judge (I don’t remember what his issue with Alicia is and I only slowly remembered who the lady Will had history with was.) Alicia’s feelings about facing her protégé were more sympathetic. And that was the right ending to the case, because Lockhart & Gardener’s client did seem guilty, even if the judge should too have recused himself.
There was Will-Kalinda time, which I always love unrestrainedly. I don’t know why, but it’s possibly my favourite platonic interaction on the show. It’s just the way they play off each other (actors and characters) - there’s a comrade in arms thing going on, and the way they get the other to open up.
One of my least favourite interactions is Kalinda and the delightful Nick. And now Cary is in the middle of it. Ugh, Nick.
I suppose Zack would be more motivated than most, but is he really that much of a wunderkid at IT? Eli’s influence on him was almost funny. (Does Peter have no opinions on the kids?) Poor Grace, I can’t imagine how weird an experience that would be (and the online/social media echo chamber was effectively drawn and seemed so much worse, speaking as someone for whom the internet wasn’t something I really accessed until I went to university. And in those days there was Netscape. So it was quite a different world.) And then there were Boy!feelings. I mean, he’s-a-bad-boy-who’s-misunderstood-with-an-earring and Grace is flummoxing him. What fourteen to fifteen year old could resist that? He could only not be more catnippy given that this was a teen-friendly supernatural show/film/book.
Nice job on showing Alicia’s worries and why she’s worried and why the kids are a little careless (eg about the trackers, mixing technology and politics). The last moment where they were kind of coping and all right and Alicia was an observer hit the right note.
Parks and Rec 1.05 The Banquet
Hearty laughs. (I can't give you analysis for this show, just a laughometer reading.) Tom is almost convincing as an evil genius and then you realise he’s so not.
I liked that we had the little look to the camera from Leslie about what she really thinks of Andy and at least she knows that her mother has that nickname, even if she genuinely thinks it’s a fond one.
I find I’m really invested in Leslie and Ann’s friendship, although at least one episode should have Leslie and camera crew shadow her nursing. You know, the easy-peasy nursing.
Must remember to watch the second part of the double bill whenever.
This entry was originally posted at http://www.dreamwidth.org/12345.html.