Life: I Love Rock N’ Roll

It doesn’t get much better than this week’s episode, the mystery of the murdered lead singer of a Kiss-style, rock cover band.  And the witty banter that gives Life its momentum continues with Crews trying to figure out a proper nickname for his partner, Dani Reese, on their way to the murder scene.  He concludes that Doc Reese is the perfect nickname after realizing her initials are D.R.  Reese, not a nickname person, gives a less than welcoming expression at the thought of being called Doc Reese, as they walk in to the club where the dead body of the lead singer, Mitch Wagner, lies underneath a gigantic mirror ball.  “Love Hurts” plays in the background as Crews and Reese search for a possible cause of death.  But other than the heavy stage make-up on the victim’s face, there is no blood or stab wounds.  What they do find is a piece of plastic stuck to a nearby vent with stage make-up smeared all over it that is eventually confirmed as the murder weapon.

Wagner was lead singer of Hot Lead, a cover band for Heavy Calibre.  Wagner’s voice was eerily similar to Heavy Calibre’s lead singer, Jude Hayes, who became a rock legend after dying mysteriously many years before.  Obsessed fans, a womanizing band member and drug toting dentist, a Hot Lead audition reject, and a welder who claimed he was the next Jude Hayes all compete as possible suspects.

And on the personal front, Crews receives a visit from his father who says Olivia has left him and will not marry him until he resolves his issues with his son.  Ted admits he’s still in love with Olivia, and Crews asks him to tell Olivia instead of constantly telling him.  The conspiracy theory still eats away at Crews.  And while Ted remains in limbo about his love for Olivia, Tidwell and Reese’s relationship heats up as Reese rewards Tidwell for giving up his booze for her.

Meanwhile as they go over the case, Tidwell wishes he had been a rock star, and after Crews asks him what his band name would have been, he and Reese blurt out simultaneously, The Tidwells.  And who could blame Tidwell for wanting to don heavy make-up, a big hair wig, tight pants—hopefully in a leopard skin print—and rock out with the chanting of fans and groupies who wave their flaming lighters from side to side?  This week’s episode ends on a vague, Eddie and the Cruisers style note with Crews and Reese kind of solving their case. And what could be a more appropriate ode to the age of the rock ballad, but having White Snake’s “Here I Go Again” playing during the closing scene, as Wagner’s murderer is taken away in handcuffs while implying he may be the not so deceased Jude Hayes…  I think I’ll go put another dime in the jukebox, baby.

Season 2, Episode 14: Mirror Ball (oriringally aired February 11, 2009)

For another take on this episode, read Hot Lead by Cameron Cubbison.

For more on Life, click here.

Wednesdays at 9/8c, NBC
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Life: Take that, Lost.

So apparently this latest episode of Life is the last of the year. I was not aware of this little fact while I was watching it—which probably justifies my screaming like an eight-year-old girl who just saw her Malibu Barbie get ground up in a Cuisinart—when the TV announced that new episodes return February 4th. Or maybe you had to be there, like I was. At any rate, it’s going to be a long wait for the best show on network television to return, and yes, I’m aware that having just typed that statement, a mad-dog posse of Lost fanboys (and girls) is forming to come set me on fire. All I can say is bring it on.

As for Life, the episode—which is one of the season’s best and most offbeat—begins with Crews and Reese being called to a crime scene where three Russian guys (an engineer and two construction workers) lie executed. Life has taught Crews that there are no coincidences, so he immediately thinks there is a connection to Roman Nevikov, and consequently, a connection to FBI special agent Bodner, Mickey Rayborn, Jack Reese, and all the evil men who slaughtered his friends and framed him for the crime twelve years ago.

But there appears to be no obvious connection between Roman and these guys, except Crews finds a “Pardon Our Dust” sign in Roman’s club. So Roman was doing some kind of construction in his club, and three Russian construction guys are dead. That seems solid, except that the LAPD can’t find any evidence of any construction work at the club.

Crews and Reese identify the dead engineer as a guy named Pavlo, who had an American girlfriend. According to the girlfriend, Pavlo was a sweetie who helped her with her math homework and who would never be involved in anything nefarious. The girlfriend also reveals that often on their dates, they would go to a particular coffee shop and “people watch” (remind me to try that one next time I’m out and about, it sounds like a blast). The catch is that this coffee shop looks out on a federal building that is soon to be finished. Crews and Reese think that this supposed people-watching was really some kind of recon. Clearly there was something going on between Roman and Pavlo, but Roman isn’t talking, plus he’s still protected by Bodner, who may or may not be actually working for Roman. Things get worse when Pavlo’s girlfriend—and the two LAPD officers who were watching her—go missing.

Crews and Reese more or less solve the case but get only a glimpse at what Pavlo was building for Roman. Is Roman a terrorist in addition to being a mobster? The episode doesn’t give us an easy answer, so we still have a very hazy idea of what Rayborn, Roman, and Bodner are about, how they are connected, and how all that connects to Crews. The writers keep building the conspiracy layer by layer, but I’m confident they will parcel out valuable bits of information to reward viewers when the show returns.

There’s a lot more going on in this episode. Ted is in prison on the bogus parole violation that Bodner cooked up last week. He’s about to be clobbered behind bars when a hulking beast of a man steps in to protect him. That’s right, Crews got his best friend and world-class bodyguard to protect him until Crews can get him out of there. There’s a hilarious scene where Ted uses his enforcer to make the guy that was going to beat him up give him his extra pie at lunch. Only on Life do you get wonderful little moments like these that exist outside the procedural framework.

Also, Crews sends Rachel to an undisclosed location after Roman threatens her, but not before he shoots his father in the leg after mistaking him for a burglar in his house. And Reese falls off the wagon. I haven’t even mentioned the out-of-nowhere cliffhanger the episode concludes with that left me wide-eyed and pounding the table with my fists. If you haven’t seen it already, you really need to. And if you haven’t watched Life at all (why would you do such a thing?), now is the perfect time to get caught up (the first season is eleven episodes and is available on DVD, and all of the second season can be found online). The show needs strong ratings when it returns in a couple of months if it is going to survive, and it deserves to survive. Watch the show, and if you get nothing out of it, I will give you my first-born son. Just give me your contact information and we’ll work out the details.

Season 2, Episode 12: Trapdoor (originally aired December 17, 2008)

For another review, read Who framed Charlie Crews? by Elma Rahman.

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Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC
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Life: Because the Museum of Killing and Chaos was closed.

Life is in typical good form in this week’s episode, which finds Crews and Reese being called to a particularly gruesome crime scene that consists of a man being buried up to his head in a back yard in the suburbs, with flower petals all around. From a distance the victim looks like a large flower, which is quite similar to the modus operandi of a cult serial killer named Johnny Hazlit who bit the dust in the 70s. Naturally the detective duo think there’s a connection, but is this a copycat or tribute killing?

Turns out the victim, Frank, was a food bank deliveryman whom everyone loved, so Crews and Reese begin by checking out his deliveries. This brings them to an incredibly odd home just a stone’s throw from the crime scene. The tenants are a middle-aged man and woman named Flint and Maude who insist they’re only roommates and seem quite put out that neither the late Frank or the detectives have brought them food. When questioned about the murder, they claim that they stayed in all night watching tv, since it was the woman’s turn with the remote, and the man never leaves the house anyway because he fears people will steal his “stuff.” There’s clearly more to these folks than meets the eye.

Captain Tidwell orders Crews and Reese to check out the LAPD archives to find out more about Johnny Hazlit, but Crews has a better idea. Instead of wading through cold storage, they go on a field trip to a museum. The L.A. Museum of Murder and Mayhem that is, a joint that focuses on, surprisingly, murder and mayhem. They have rooms set up recreating famous crime scenes and have an entire section on Hazlit. Another odd pair own this place, Tex and Squeaky (still better than Apple and Moses). Crews and Reese look around and discover that Hazlit had eight wives and, get this, 43 kids. No wonder the guy was nuts. Each kid took their mother’s maiden name for protection, and two of them live close by: Maude and Flint.

Crews and Reese return to their home and take them in for questioning. Their alibi remains a little flimsy, but they just don’t seem like killers, not to mention why would they have killed their meal ticket? Actually, Flint had quite a connection with Frank, as Frank was the only person he told about being a Hazlit descendant.

The case takes a turn for the worse when the media somehow gets deeply involved, even though the LAPD hasn’t released any info about the Hazlit connection. At a press conference, Tidwell tries to tell the press that it’s just a routine investigation, but guess who comes strolling up squealing about how Frank was killed and who Maude and Flint are? Yep, Tex and Squeaky. They also out Flint’s son Clifton. Crews and Reese immediately take them in and treat them as suspects, out of which Tex and Squeaky get a perverse satisfaction. They claim they were at an auction for murder memorabilia and that they got their information from the LAPD, which “leaks like a sieve.” The detectives leave them alone for the time being, but they don’t get far.

Soon the detectives respond to shots fired at the museum. Tex is dead and Squeaky lies grazed and crying in the corner. When Crews asks her if she saw anything, she says that Johnny Hazlit did it. Yeah, right…the dead guy. Except his gun is lying next to the body and was used as the murder weapon. Naturally, Crews and Reese interrogate Clifton, who had motive and may have had access to the gun. But Clifton has an ironclad alibi: the media, who have been swarming him nonstop for days (hey at least they’re finally good for something). Crews and Reese have to go back to the drawing board to find out who did it. The reveal of the culprit isn’t exactly surprising, but the murderer’s motive is truly disturbing because it is all too logical.

On the conspiracy front, Crews continues to feel out Mickey Rayborn, trying to figure out what he’s all about. All he gets from Rayborn is that FBI agent Bodner, the guy who threatened to put Crews back in prison if he went after Rayborn a few episodes back, actually works for Roman, a memorable criminal from last season who the FBI took from Crews after he got him on a murder rap, claiming he works as an informant.

Bodner hasn’t harmed Crews yet, but he’s going after Ted. Everybody that watches Life loves Ted, and seeing what happens to him in this episode made me want to go hide in a corner and cry. I have no doubts though that Crews will rescue him and lay the smackdown on these rotten scumbags. Until then, that’s all folks.

Season 2, Episode 11: Canyon Flowers (originally aired December 10, 2008)

For another take on this episode, read Elma Rahman‘s review here.

For more on Life, click here.

Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC
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Life: Eval is as Evil does

Money, guns, evil with the convertible and the pointy red shoes…and deer stew. That’s the recipe for Life this week, which returned after a short hiatus. Crews and Reese are called to investigate the murder of the last sheriff on an Indian reservation. John Hawes stayed on as sheriff (and sole white guy) after everyone else left when the reservation population formed their own police force in response to the new casino being built on their lands. Now, our detectives find themselves in the middle of a turf war between the tribal police and the county sheriff’s office.

This is not an easy case. For one, Crews and Reese are outsiders in a very insular community that is suspicious of strangers. Also, the suspect pool is vast; a tribal policewoman explains that no one on the reservation liked Hawes. Well no one except Anna, a young woman who brought him deer stew and had a mysterious, surrogate father/daughter relationship with him. She’s also engaged to the prime suspect Tomas, the man behind the casino. Hawes was against the casino and Tomas has a mean edge to him. But alas, he also has an alibi for the night in question.

Crews and Reese have nothing until they discover that Hawes left a message right before he died warning about evil. Had he become superstitious? Eaten too much deer stew? No, because he wasn’t actually talking about evil but Eval, a non-native who was living off the reservation and building the casino with Tomas. The detective duo go to track him down only to discover that their car has been stolen. Lucky for them though, the reservation has taxis.

Turns out Eval has a whole garage full of old muskets. He claims they’re props for the casino, but he secretly plans to make them functional and sell them. There’s more involving ghosts and birth certificates, but the investigation didn’t really hold my attention this time around. It was a good setup, but it just wasn’t fleshed out in a particularly interesting way. Still, a lesser episode of Life is still better than most things on tv.

And again with the romance crap…too much with Reese and Tidwell. It was amusing and well-played for awhile, but the writers have gone overboard with it now. There is however a very funny scene when Crews hears unquestionable evidence that they are an item. Ted pops up for a while to tell Crews that Rachel didn’t come home last night (she was with some guitar twit) and to lament that he’s in love with Olivia…Crews’ soon to be stepmom. But he really has nothing to do this time around.

As for Mickey Rayborn, I have no idea what’s going on there. Last episode’s cliffhanger involving Rayborn ostensibly kidnapping Crews is sidestepped in the beginning of the show. I don’t really understand what went down and I’m not sure I buy it. He reappears at the end of the episode to tease Crews (and us) about what he’s really up to. He’s about to explain his agenda when…the episode fades to black and the credits roll. Damn it! But that’s the job of any tv show if it’s going to be successful: make you tune in next week to see what happens. Which I will definitely do, and I hope others will join me because too many good shows are biting the dust due to people not checking them out, and this is certainly one that is worth saving.

Season 2, Episode 10: Evil…and His Brother Ziggy (originally aired December 3, 2008)

For another take on this episode, read Cowboys, Indians, and Cops with Money by Elma Rahman.

For more on Life, click here.

Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC
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Life: Don’t Leave Me Yet. . .

Life returned with another inventive episode in its new time slot on Wednesday night. Wednesday night is better than Friday night, so at least NBC is trying…but I guess I still have to accept that Life is nearing death. Why no one watches all the smart, inventive shows instead of America’s Next Top Gigolo, I’ll never understand. It’s an odd feeling when you know something you love is on its deathbed and you’re waiting for it to die. I even fell off the wagon watching this latest episode and succumbed to the forbidden, fattening monstrosity known as Ben and Jerry’s. Okay, I sense I’ve gone too far…

The plot this week is typically offbeat: Crews and Reese are called in to investigate the murder of a woman living in an expensive penthouse. They find a keychain with the initials “LWA” on them, but the victim’s driver’s license lists her name as Hannah. Reese, however, draws on her experience attending Alcoholics Anonymous and realizes that the “A” stands for anonymous. But what about the first two letters? Get this: the group is Lotto Winners Anonymous. That’s right. Apparently more than 80% of people who win the lotto wish they never had. Sure, I can understand that…winning enough money to go swimming in sure sounds like a traumatic experience.

The other members of the group become suspects when Crews and Reese discover that the victim was involved with several of them. They all knew she loved them for who they were, not for their money, since she had money. Except she didn’t, because she was a con artist pulling a job with a mystery man. Crews and Reese figure if they find him, they find the killer.

The lotto angle is a fun setup, since Crews also more or less won the lottery by winning a multimillion-dollar wrongful imprisonment suit. Damian Lewis has fun playing Crews as he shows off his wealth to work his way into the lotto group, and Sarah Shahi reacts off him perfectly, as always.

The B storyline is especially involving, with Rachel Seybolt coming to stay with Crews in his empty house. We’ve been waiting (wait, wrong pronoun, “we” implies multiple people are watching the show) for this moment all season, waiting for Rachel to open up to Crews and for them to reconnect. The scenes they share in this episode are carefully developed and feel completely genuine and never manufactured, and that’s not an easy thing to pull off. Hats off to the writers, once again.

We’re also treated to a couple of fun scenes between Reese and Captain Tidwell as they try to deal with the aftermath of the romantic moment they shared in “Did You Feel That.” My only complaint isn’t really a complaint as much as a wish regarding Constance Griffiths, Charlie’s former lawyer now turned Assistant District Attorney. Maybe it’s my imagination, but earlier in the season I felt that she was hiding something from Crews and had maybe turned against him somehow. The show doesn’t need her to function, but it’s even further testament to the power of the writing (I know I sound like a broken record here, but clearly no one’s listening so I’m not too worried about it) that all of the female characters are so memorably written and performed-Reese, Jennifer, Constance, Olivia, Rachel, etc.

I know you won’t be here for long Life, but please don’t leave me yet. Give me more time to get used to the idea. Four or five years tops, I promise.

Season 2, Episode 7:  Jackpot  (originally aired November 5, 2008)

For another take on this episode, read Elma Rahman’s review here.

For more on Life, click here.

Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC
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Life: The Grass Is Always Greener

I love marveling at the thought of someday being the lucky owner of a winning lottery ticket-being at some 7 Eleven, just happening to stop to shell out a buck or two, and suddenly wondering how to tell my boss that I’m stinking rich and planning on never having to work a 9-to-5 job ever again…  This week’s episode of Life manages to dispel the notion that lottery winners are happy people when detectives Crews and Reese investigate the stabbing of Hannah, a young woman they later discover is a member of the LWA, Lottery Winners Anonymous.  The detectives track the group down to a church parking lot where various exotic and expensive cars are parked.  The group-exclusive to lottery winners who have won $20 million or more-meets at the unassuming church regularly.  They also find that the victim was having affairs with three other members, including Ben whose name was also a tattoo on her body.

The investigation grows more complicated as Crews and Reese get an intimate glimpse into the lottery winners’ world of isolation, excess, and disposable friends. Soon, they also learn that Hannah was simply a con artist who had been trying to scam the LWA members.  Not only had she been in prison for various acts of fraud, but she continued to “grift” with a couple that lived downstairs as part of a bank fraud ring.  After questioning the couple, Crews and Reese return to find their stabbed bodies and try to hunt down a possible suspect, Hannah’s mean con artist boyfriend, Lenny.  Meanwhile, Hannah’s LWA lovers, Ben, Dale, and Tom struggle with their own demons after Hannah’s murder.

Amidst the investigation, Tidwell tries to talk to a very evasive Reese about their recent kiss and Rachel moves in with Crews and Ted.  Rachel also struggles with demons, including the theory of whether or not Crews actually killed her family.  And in between it all, she convinces Crews to get a kitchen table.  Reese, upset after finding out her father just left her mother after their long marriage, accidentally confides in Tidwell who tries to convince her he’s not such a bad guy.

I’ll be the first to admit, I had doubts about this show.  And even now, I’m still on the fence about whether it can actually survive another season.  That being said, I don’t know whether it’s the less than perfect characters, the better than average dialogue, or the really bizarre murder cases that finally got to me, but it did get to me.  Maybe it’s just like Crews admitted in this episode, sometimes all you can do is tell a stranger the absolute truth.  And sometimes, it’s great to watch a show that strives to do the same thing.

Season 2, Episode 7:  Jackpot  (originally aired November 5, 2008)

For another take on this episode, read Cameron Cubbison’s review here.

For more on Life, click here.

Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC
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Life: Beating the Odds

There are two television tragedies I can’t stand:  one, when a great show with a lot of potential is prematurely canceled way before its time and two, when a great show with a lot of potential just doesn’t do it for me.  For me, Life, the show that was miraculously spared by the network gods from being the former, is one of those shows that falls into the latter.  I just don’t get why I can’t get into it.  Here it is this fresh show about an ex-cop who is now a detective after being sent to prison for 12 years for a crime he didn’t commit. So when this week’s episode, The Business of Miracles, aired, I really tried to get into the plot about a scientist who is killed by being frozen into a solid mass with liquid nitrogen.  I guess you can always count on people to figure out knew ways to kill, and okay, I’m so sick of seeing liquid nitrogen being used in cooking shows as the next hot trend that I’ll take murder via liquid nitrogen any day.

After discovering Dr. Auerbach’s frozen body, along with “Animal Testing is Murder” spray painted in his lab, Detective Crews and Reese’s first suspect is animal rights activist, Betsy Warren.  Oh wow, didn’t see that coming, an animal rights activist, but there really has to be more to it than that.  And there is, when the detectives discover old love / hate letters that get traced back to Betsy who was not only having a dysfunctional love affair with Auerbach, but had also once been his lab assistant as well.  Case closed, right?  Wrong, because Detective Crews is way too perceptive about love and life to believe it’s that easy.  Sadly, Crews isn’t as perceptive when it comes to his own love life after being punched in the face by his ex-wife’s husband for asking his permission to sleep with her again.  You have to admire the tenacity, although it drives an even larger wedge between him and his ex-wife who shows up at his house and slaps him across the face during Ted’s very important interview with the Dean of a business school.  Well, his wisdom doesn’t get him back his wife, but it does help him figure out another possible suspect, Billy, another activist who was also in love with Betsy.  But animals weren’t the only ones being mistreated by Auerbach, as Crews and Reese learn that Auerbach threw a lab book at the janitor for accidentally breaking a beaker and mistreated his current assistant as well.

Crews’ past continues to haunt everyone, as Dani finally gets up the nerve to ask her father if he sent the wrong man to prison in the middle of an otherwise delightful family dinner.  Detective Reese kicks Dani out of the house.  She drives back to work where she runs into Captain Tidwell who rescues her hair which had been caught in the car door and continues to awkwardly flirt with her.  Crews is also able to record Jack Reese’s conversations in the car, breaking new ground and closing in on his thoughts.  The phantom reporter continues his interviews, including one with Jack Reese.

Believe it or not, I want this show to make it, I really do.  It’s an underdog that actually made its way back to a second season.  And it has great actors like Adam Arkin who played Adam in Northern Exposure—Adam in Northern Exposure!  But looking back on shows I loved more that couldn’t even get past a season or two, I just don’t have that same warm and fuzzy feeling about yet another show about quirky, not-so-perfect detectives and the-trying-too-hard-to-be-different-but-aren’t murders they come across every week.  Still, I have hope for the misunderstood, bright-eyed red head, Crews, and his offbeat sidekicks.  Maybe the show will make me regret my words this season and prove it wasn’t just a miracle that saved this show.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Business of Miracles (originally aired 10/06/08)

For another take on this episode of Life, read Cameron Cubbison’s review here.

For more on Life, click here.

Wednesdays at 9/8c, NBC
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Life: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant

To be perfectly honest, I have a really hard time writing about this show. The reason for that is simple: I’m in love. When I try and express what I feel and what I think about Life, my brain shuts off. I can’t find the words. My heart races whenever each episode starts and I feel like I can’t breathe. It’s the first thing I think of when I go to bed and the first thing I think of when I wake up. There hasn’t been a single episode thus far that hasn’t made me laugh hysterically, get goosebumps and cry at least a couple of times (to be clear, when I say cry, I don’t mean whiny sobs, just little manly water sprinkles). I would take a bullet to save this show, no questions asked.

With that out of the way, now I’ll try to do some honest to goodness reviewing. The catalyst for this week’s perfect episode is the discovery of a family man who is found brutally murdered and bound to a chair at the bottom of an empty pool. (One of the great things about Life is that each crime of the week is very visual and economically sets up the conflict without relying on over-the-top visual effects like CSI.) It appears to be a gang hit, but Crews and Reese visit the dead man’s family and learn from the youngest daughter that the father went to go pick up the oldest daughter from a party-that’s where he was killed. To find out more, Crews goes undercover in a place he knows all too well: prison. He overhears two inmates talking about the steroid monster who murdered the man.

Crews and Reese track the steroids to a posh (and shady) gym in Beverly Hills and quickly finger the perps: a group of rich punks who think they are above the law. They think they own the world, and that they can have everything they want…all the time. Crews and Reese’ job is to show them they’re wrong, but their task isn’t easy. The evil trio is aided by their money and by the unethical and immoral therapist who sees them all and gives them alibis. In an awesome scene, Crews goads the steroid freak of the group into assaulting him so they can arrest him and start squeezing the slimy shrink and the rest of the group.

As always, it’s a true delight to see how the villains test Crews and Reese and how the unlikely partners work together to solve the case-Crews with his unconventional tactics and quirks and Reese with her toughness, self-sufficiency and unbendable force of will.

But there’s way more to the episode than just all that. Crews tries to break through to Rachel Seybolt-the psychologically damaged young girl who was the sole witness to the crime for which Crews was wrongfully convicted-whom Jack Reese hid until Crews found her at the end of last week’s episode. Toward this end, he enlists the reluctant help of his ex-wife Jennifer (who also knew Rachel twelve years ago before her family was killed). Jennifer divorced Crews while he was still in prison but he still loves her, and finally they reconnect in this episode in a wonderful scene that is incredibly poignant without feeling unbelievable or conveniently staged.

And in the most disturbing scene, Jack Reese tries to turn Crews’ loveable friend/roommate/money manager/conspiracy-investigative helper Ted against Crews by threatening to get him sent back to prison. This is a twist I never ever saw coming and is even further testament to the show’s brilliant brilliant brilliant writing. We know that Ted owes Crews his life and cares deeply for him, so when we see him thinking about selling out Crews to Jack Reese to save himself, we feel for both Crews and Ted. That being said Ted (hey that rhymes), if you turn on Crews I will find a way to metaphysically jump into the TV and I will happily kill you. Don’t do it.

This show is as good as anything that has ever been on the air, and if you’re not watching it, you’re committing a crime and should be locked up. You’re harming humanity, you’re being evil. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, the only thing necessary for evil to prevail is if good people do nothing. So watch the show and don’t let NBC kill it. Please.

Season 2, Episode 2: Everything…All The Time (originally aired 10/3/08)

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