Re: OT: Raines (minor spoilers)

On Mar 25, 9:06 pm, Todd <twrexxnos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:53:37 -0700, Tim Hall <whoca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >This is rapidly becoming my favorite crime drama since H:LotS.  The
> >only downside is that I have to hit rewind on my Tivo occasionally
> >because Goldblum likes to mumble.
>
> I went back and watched the first two episodes of Raines and found it
> most enjoyable.  It makes me sad that NBC is already moving it into
> the kiss of death slot--Friday nights.
>
> Goldblum's sardonic wit works well in this role.  I particularly liked
> his disdain for the idiot beat cop.
>
> I like this show.  It takes itself less seriously than Medium.  Go
> back and watch it on nbc.com if you get the chance.
>
> Todd

It was alright. Sardonic thing a fairly transparent imitation of
House. Jokes need work: that mistaking "therapist" for "the rapist"
was funny over twenty years ago. Turning "Close the door" into a
***ual inuendo was brainless, even for prime time.

And why did he make fun of the sketch artist's drawing after he'd
insisted that the sketch artist do it, when the sketch artist had
already warned it would be too speculative? The beginning of the
episode had Raines say that the sketch artist was like himself because
he seemed to be projecting his own limited experience into the unknown
subject. That one part of the episode seemed to be at the kernel of
truth of the series.

I question how the Martinez guy was drawing time for manslaughter in a
self-defense case, but I guess they ran it by LA legal advisors when
they wrote it. Obstruction of justice, maybe, but not manslaughter.

We'll see. After I'd watched the first episode of The Mary Tyler Moore
Show I concluded it was one of the worst shows I'd ever seen! Three
weeks later I was a hopeless addict.