James Cole
aka, that Bruce Willis character from "12 Monkeys". One of my favorite guilty pleasures.

"I think maybe the actress playing the daughter skipped her acting lessons to go to Young Republicans meetings. "

I only have second-hand experience with watching babies grow into toddlers, and I'm with you: Cuddy's girl looks a quite a bit past walking stage to be still pooping into diapers.

Talk about extremes with the PsOTW
With the wheelchair boy and skateboarding girl, the director apparently asked the actors to dial up the melodrama. This week, the mother and adult daughter appear to be on heavy doses of Ritalin. And the last scene where the daughter talks out loud to the infant about how her…

A lot of half-baked plots
For the first 30 minutes of the show, I was left wondering where this story was going, and not in a good way. It seemed like a long way to go to an uninspiring revelation.

I was thinking the same thing. Two song references for the price of one.

I agree with the problems of too many villains, but I think it's with having "A" villains and "B" villians on evvery episode. Add to this another subplot tonight involving the kids, that's a lot to juggle around in a one-hour show.

I do have a couple of Junkyard cassettes from that period. They were in that "Blooze" genre somewhere between LA Guns, Black Crowes, and Motley Crue. Still enjoyable to listen to.

I could see what the show was going for…
…but it wasn't successful on its own terms.

Alt-rock just before SLTS
I was a sophmore in college in 1990, and I had just begun delving into this vein of music, guided mostly by MTV and some of my dormmates. Here's what sticks out in my mind from the year before the outside world heard about "grunge":

Can't disagree with much here…
One of the annoying traits of this show is that, in order to highglight House's abrasive perssonality, the supporting cast is portrayed as more naive than you would expect from college-educated and worldly people. That's why I liked the scenes between House and the author, someone who…

High School Football Friday Night
The Kenney Chesney song racks up the sentimental points trying to immortalize high school battles for the sake of adult life challenges, but it's way too weepy and too narrowly focused.

Basic Instinct
Back when Basic Instinct opening in theatres, some gay and lesbian groups got pissed about the depiction of the bisexual character played by Sharon Stone. Thus, they formed a group to protest the movie called "Beth Did It", after the character who the movie said did the killing (notwithstanding the…

Bizarro world "Burn Notice"
I see the similar structure with Matt Nix's other show, but I think tonight's show demonstrates the limitations of putting local cops nominally accountable to bureaucratic superiors into plots that require the near-superpowers of underground TV spies. The comedy works for a while, but the…

Good point. The box got damaged, maybe Eric stumbled onto the tracks and got knocked down the tunnel? Although the damage to Eric didn't really show that.

A placeholder episode
There weren't any major reveals (Walter's Kent Street escapades notwithstanding), and this wasn't a stand-alone MOTW episode. So it's hard to talk about anything in the episode. It's done OK, but it just seems like marking time between the big plot point of the season premiere (Olivia getting…

I always considered "Unsatisfied" a song you blast out from your car speakers when you're angry, not an introspective weepy song.

L&O - as Todd said, the anti-glamorous detective and legal procedural that was a breath of fresh air when it started; then (IMO) they turned Jack McCoy into Don Quixote, ADA, and stopped being even-handed in its politics.

I thought the House-Cuddy fighting at the end was the culmination of each of them pulling punches earlier. They were reverting exactly back to prior years' form, except that in the earlier episodes, they knew enough to keep that fight away from the POTW's loved ones.

*Groundlings*