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Just checked out the season premiere. I’ve always thought of this show as pretty average and not quite up to the standard of weekly viewing, but I really liked this season premiere. A good, interesting case (though with an abrupt, unsatisfying, and not really convincing ending). I liked Archie Panjabi’s subtlety and smooth, casual authority as an investigator (though her tag-team investigating with Kelli Giddish struck me as a bit Charlie’s Angels). Didn’t have much interest in the Eli Gold subplot, and the Muslim/Jewish tension felt heavy-handed, but I’d say the good outweighed the bad, and the bad wasn’t really all that terrible anyway (except the ending to the case, which in addition to being abrupt was shocking glib considering the brutality of the crime).
I’ll watch another week, see if this show draws me in any further.
ReplyCopy URLIt wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. Maybe my expectations were set a little high, but on the whole it was a bit underwhelming.
Absolutely loved the build up to what was happening with Alicia and Will’s relationship, but everything else was a little flat for me. But in saying that, in comparison with some of the other garbage around these days it will still a top notch hour of television.
Grade: B+
MVP: Julianna Marguiles
ReplyCopy URLKalinda working with Eli was pretty nice. And what about that hint “Do I know you?”. How great that he might know her as Leela and is a little involved in the “Kalinda’s past” plot.
Christine Baranski finally had something to do with those last scenes and I’m expecting this to go in very interesting directions.
ReplyCopy URLI really liked this episode, and even more than the premiere. Christine Baranski and Josh Charles were really strong in this episode. Also Zack was very good in his scenes too. Like I said before, this is my first time watching this show, and I am now kicking myself in the ass for not watching this from the very beginning. One of the best shows on television by far! I also found Eddie Izzard to be good in this episode as well.
Grade for “The Death Zone”: A-
Season 3 Grades:
1.”A New Day”: B+ MVP: None
2.”The Death Zone”: A- MVP: Baranski
ReplyCopy URLThe second episode was a lot more intriguing than the premiere due mostly to the case. On the very rare occassion this show wraps up a case in an interesting, surpirsing way. This season is lacking the darkness and tension that the last one began with. I get the sense that the writers are giving up any non-procedural ambitions and are gonna settle for a traditional procedural/soap. That’s pretty much we’ve seen from this series since the beginning of 2011. That’s fine if that’s all you want out of this show, but I saw greater potential in most of 2010’s episodes.
ReplyCopy URLBetter than the opener, but I don’t know. These court cases are always the weak links. But I get they have to be there not because its CBS, but the lead is a lawyer. Love the interactions w/Kalinda and Eli. And some stakes were raised w/that ending. And Julianna Margulies is really impressing the hell out of me.
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I actually really liked this episode. The mediation proceedings were totally new to me, so the case became a much more interesting part of the episode. Especially strong ensemble work – I loved the small scene between Cary and Kalinda. I also really like the way the writers are dealing with Zach finding out about the second affair.
This did not have the paint-by-numbers procedural feel that the second episode did.
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