spodso's reviews

I'm old now and don't care anymore but I continue to watch "not-current" television, including Cagney & Lacey and Cold Case and The Closer and Major Crimes. One reason is that for the most part the schedule is Sunday through Saturday; no week-end variance. All of the START TV programs have Female Leads. In this episode Cagney and Lacey were undercover on an assembly line and they were pathetic. I continued to think of Lucy and Ethel on the Chocolate assembly line, which was a much better TV show. Cagney and Lacey were one of the "break throughs" on TV as "Police Women". The first, and possibly the best was "Amy Prentiss" with Jessica Walter; a spinoff from Ironside; but it didn't last. I guess the problem was that the audience wasn't "woke" enough at the time. The Cagney and Lacey TV Show was totally unrealistic. I will say that Lacey; Tyne Daly; was very good in one of the Dirty Harry movies. Off topic, but Kyra Sedgwick, had the worst "Southern" accent ever in The Closer. How that series lasted I will never know. Sometimes I actually watched it muted and read the closed caption. From that series my advice in legal matters is to never believe what the police say.

I wasn't a regular Matlock back in the day when it started and was original but I've started watching it on METV at 10:00 AM eastern time. It was definitely suffering from late season, and in this case last season, syndrome. About half of the episode was repeats from earlier episodes; saves a lot of money that way. As I'm watching this episode right now I think maybe repeats were more than half, and if I keep watching it may be way more than half. I don't like to watch any anniversary film clips of any series but at least that celebrates the series. This episode is TERRIBLE! I stopped watching it but I'm recording it and i may go back and time the "repeats" against the total time.

Matt is NEVER evenhanded. When the falsely accused killer knew he was innocent why would he stay and face "justice" in 19th century Kansas. Not sure what episode, but Matt took an innocent man to hang and he knew it! Matt gave him chances to escape but the "criminal" was too honest to try. Matt should have arrested him in the first place.

In another a convicted murderer escaped and Matt was sure he was innocent. Another prisoner killed the guard but he was charged with murdering the guard. He had a wife and newborn baby but Matt and Chester still go after him. Even when they find out that it wasn't this man that killed the guard they didn't give up. He left with his wife and baby and Chester was the one who found them and Chester was the one that had a heart. When Matt showed up he did end up agreeing with Chester as the couple rode away, but it just seems to me that Matt is VERY inconsistent. He always talks about "the Law", but he never thinks about justice.

Cagney and Lacy?! Jessica Walter easily acts better than those two. This series wasn't given a chance. Apparently in 1974 TV wasn't ready for a Female Chief of Detectives in a major city. This is one of many series that I thought was great but didn't last, and this one hardly lasted at all. He and She! East Side, West Side! They stuck with Seinfeld and look what happened. I'll fill this out so it has enough lines to be posted. I'll fill up the rest of the review to reach ten (10) lines. This is a test to see if IMDb actually looks or reviews any of their reviews. I think this is the tenth (10th) line so I'll see if it works. I goofed. This is the tenth (10th) line so maybe this will be posted. Why do you need 10 lines here but not in the other comment section?

This is one of my favorites for a couple of reasons. It's one of many where L&O gets things wrong for most of the episode. But my favorite scene, and one of the best ever, was when the Doctor was on the stand talking about how and why the victim died and the defendant's lawyer said something about the medical prognosis and the witness asked something like "and what medical school did you graduate from" and the defendant's lawyer responded with "Harvard, and I'm asking the questions here". Absolutely one of the best scenes ever! And after the sister's testimony I'm surprised it even went to the jury. Too many times Jack and company go for the jugular for wrong reasons. And personally I miss Jamie Ross.

I'm watching this episode this morning on TNT for the (I don't know how many)time(s). When the defendant was in court regarding a plea and bail as usual the ADA called remand and the defense lawyer said he should be free on his own recognizance. I'm not sure exactly what the judge said because I wasn't recording it but what I heard was that on behalf of all the unborn future doctors and lawyers she agreed to remand. I'm not sure how this makes sense to her; the Judge. I'm somewhat ambivalent on the abortion political issue but it seems to me that the doctor was "killing" possible future doctors and lawyers. One of my sons can probably get it on Netflix or somewhere for me to see/hear again.

I watched the beginning of this movie this morning on LMN and read where it was about bullying. Then I saw the girl take a selfie of herself to send to her boyfriend. Not sure but why do I think that any girl who does this deserves whatever happens. I am so glad and grateful that cell phones weren't around when my two children were in high school, but I'm also convinced that neither of my children would send incriminating selfies over the internet. I like "instant" digital cameras. I remember the Samsung I bought several years ago that I bought to take pictures during my annual fishing trip to the Adirondacks. I remember reading a review that said you could take pictures of yourself and the reviewer said that might be useful at times. I thought why in the world would that be useful. I guess he was more aware than me of how the current youth in the U.S. are totally spoiled and into themselves.

I have liked every Jesse Stone "movie" I have seen! Today Hallmark is re-broadcasting all six, including the most recent, which I have not seen. Unfortunately they are are in the order of the time/year they were broadcast instead of the chronological order of the books/events. Very confusing! And I wonder how much of the "movies" are being cut. The first episode; Sea Change; at noon EST not only had commercials, they essentially had infomercials. Unfortunately infomercials are everywhere disguised as regular commercials. Some 30 minute shows go 36 minutes occasionally and I hope that's so they can include more commercials in order to see the "real" full length episode, but on some blogs I've read where it's not even the case when they are given extra time. I watch Encore West for Gunsmoke and their episodes are commercial free for 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes of commercials for Encore West. I'm still not sure whether these episodes are not edited.

This episode bothered me. A "pet" calf? It's like the Walton family doesn't know where beef comes from? To keep a calf/cow as a pet during the depression was absolutely stupid! Sorry, but that's just what I believe. I was born in 1941 so I missed the worst, but this story made no sense for the time. How do I get to ten lines when I really don't need to get to ten lines? It reminds me of a Leave it to Beaver episode when he tries to add a bunch of words that are meaningless. This is why I seldom comment on IMDb because it doesn't take ten lines to express my opinion. I think I have to make one more line to get to the ten lines required.