I have already discussed elsewhere much of my feelings about last night's Boston Legal, but to recap: frankly, I felt cheated. Actually, the TV I watched last night was entirely about being cheated, wasn't it?
On Boston Legal the new folks pushed out the old folks with nary a mention of what happened to them. Well, there were one or two mentions for some of the people, but the vast majority got nothing said about them. Nothing on the disappearance of Claire, nothing on the disappearance of Paul, no reason why Brad became an ADA. It all sort of just was.
Then, there was the true cheat. Alan won his case last night (wherein Shirley wanted to rescind a donation to Stanford University) because the old fogey judge didn't understand the argument. I know that the show isn't a straight-up legal show, and that even legal shows don't necessarily follow the law, but this was a complete cop-out of a result. It was, simply put, cheating. The lawyers at Crane, Pool, and Schmidt need to win the case for something they did, not because the judge simply doesn't understand the facts of the case. The show can function as a decent soapbox for the producers' beliefs (and does regularly), but those beliefs need to be borne out through the result of the trial and not be a completely different entity.
Speaking of different entities (you know you like that transition), I watched Reaper last night, and boy, did I have fun. I didn't particularly think the show was terribly brilliant and unquestionably expect more out of Tyler Labine than I got last night, but it was funny. Labine plays the same irreverent social outsider that he usually gets to be, but his Bert "Sock" Wysocki seemed more sad and pathetic last night than the usual outsider. I don’t think that was intended, maybe it means I'm getting old, which would be a huge disappointment. Or, maybe the irreverence will increase and sense of patheticness decrease in the future
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1 - Benjamin Cossel
Does anyone remeber the name of a show that ran on FOX in the late 80's early 90's that had a similar storyline as Reaper only very, very dark. The lead character was a cop who had to capture demons escaped from hell. The demons were marked as tattoos all over the mans body and everytime he caught one, the tattoo went away....
2 - Ian Woolstencroft
Benjamin, Brimstone is the one you're talking about I think.
As for Reaper I really enjoyed it, although it treads similar ground to Chuck, allbeit with a supernatural bent.
3 - Thea Hillyard
I was looking for this show myself, it is called Brimstone. You can find it to buy on Amazon. I hope that helps.
Thea