Without a Clue
Lost was a rerun so Liz and I's latest adventure was a show called, I don't know, "Suspicion of Doubt" or "Shadow of a Case" or something. A crack team of FBI agents were called in for a child abduction case, and the acting is hilariously bad. Mandy Potempkin tries way too hard to be CSI's Gil Grissom-- cold and analytical with bursts of insight and passion. CSI's gimmick special effect was the ZOOM INTO EVIDENCE which I was convinced was a super power of Forensics Experts until some highway patrolman did it. This show has two gimmick special effects, one being the "walk in front of a green screen where possible scenarios of the crime play out" and the other is some kind of grainy memory cam. There was a fully loaded cast of other people, I'm not even sure what they were doing there. One was the totally unempathic liason, another we just referred to as "the academic." Young, Johnny Depp look alike with an all-brown suit, tie, and longcoat and a messenger bag. "He's young! He's fresh! He has a new perspective on things!" Whatever. We ended up making fun of everyone, yes, even the father with terminal cancer. I can understand if this makes you frown, but in truth his was the worst acted part in the show.
Oh then we watched our respective local news shows, and we were somewhat befuddled to learn that there had been child pornography ring busts in both our areas-- turned out to be the same ring. Freaky.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a mouse, so in the middle of conversation I was shouting things like, I don't know, "COME HERE YOU LITTLE BASTARD *kick kick shuffle* WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING IN MY KITCHEN? *shuffle shuffle kick* WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO EAT THE POISON AND DIE!"
And then Liz dropped pills everywhere!
Good times.