Lost: Season 6
Monday, February 22, 2010

I have a love and hate relationship with this show.

I often dislike its convoluted scripts, and the way it bounces back and forth through time, and doesn't say so. It takes a while to figure out what is going on. The writers force you to study the show, and pay attention to follow its hard-to-follow (or non-existent) plot lines.

From what I've read, a lot of people monitor Lost hard enough to get what's going on. I enjoy their theories. One day I will patiently go back and watch it back to back, and see if it's more coherent that way. I watch a lot of shows. Watching back to back reveals a lot more than piecemeal episodes and tons of disruptive commercials.

Perhaps that is the essential appeal of Lost: you have to pay attention.

I started watching Season 6: The Substitute first. This episode was about John Locke, one of my favorite characters, although second to Sawyer. I thought this was a flash back, and not until I went back and watched the first episode did I realize it was about a different time-line. Watching it, you can tell they sorta-experienced the Island Lost Life, but also went on to live as they did. The Island Lost Life is from where they get that deja vu feeling.

Oh, I know about deja vu. I am not one who remembers faces, but when I visit certain places overseas, I feel like I've lived there before.

The series introduces a new character named, Dogan, played by Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada. May I say how cute he is? I cannot believe the guy is 50. He doesn't look a day over thirty-something. Hmm.


I'd jump (lick) the guy. Seriously.

I hope the show wraps up the multiple convoluted and confusing plots, but if there's a movie in the future, I doubt they will. I only hope they give the show a better ending than what happened with X-Files.

Labels: Dogen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Lost

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The Closer
Monday, February 8, 2010


I love watching an entire TV series on DVD back to back. I've watched about eight episodes of The Closer, and I really enjoy it so far.

This show is about a woman, Kyra Sedwick aka Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, who leaves Atlanta, where she was a top cop of sorts (at solving crimes). The ethics inquiry in Atlanta made her relocate to Los Angeles at the urgings of her ex-boss and new boss, J.K. Simmons, who plays Asst. Police Chief Will Pope. If you were a fan of the Law and Order: Criminal Intent series, his face will be recognizable.

I try not to look too closely at Kyra Sedwick. She's got a (scary) mouth, which is  much bigger than Julia Roberts. I didn't think that was possible. Two fists and a whole chicken could fit into that bad boy. She likes to keep it open all the time too. Odd. Maybe all that plastic surgery leaves a slack jaw as her only option to be "expressive."

Great show. I really like it. Very diverse cast. I wonder how long it will be before the only black woman there will last. I've not seen season two yet, so we'll see.

One of her co-stars on the show, Corey Reynolds, as Sgt. David Gabriel is so cute. He's got lovely big brown eyes. He must have been such an adorable looking little boy. I know he's a big, grown man, but he has such a young face.

I find Johnson's "romance" with Jon Tenney, as FBI Agent Fritz Howard, unbelievable, but she needs someone in her corner, and that's fine.

I like the way she's able to connect the dots and figure out who committed the murder, because she listens so well.

Once again, it's a great show, and I look forward to watching the entire series.

Labels: Corey Reynolds, J.K. Simmons, Jon Tenney, Kyra Sedwick

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