I like this show and it is funny and the shitty Salem puppet is a highlight of my life.
I don’t have much to say about this episode besides a reminder to my future self to think of their outfits around the number three cauldron when they made the just desserts spell.
Oh! Also! Sabrina’s nemesis the evil math teacher in this episode goes on to become Horatio Caine’s nemesis in CSI Miami.
I suggested Horatio against witch crime and was assured that if that had come up in CSI Miami, there would have been a plot that explained that Horatio actually came from a long line of witches and that’s why he’s so resistant to the sun.
Oh, I love this show. I grew up reading the books and this show captures a lot of the feeling. The Farnons physical comedy is choice.
Speaking of the Farnons, I keep thinking that if either tried to kill the other, I would not blame them. I think Siegfried would have more of a vicious biting attack, but Tristan might try poison or traps. He’s tricky.
Them gossiping over James and how to help him out like old wives was absolutely choice. I loved it. Helen is lovely. I see why they want him to marry her so much.
Siegfried’s ‘I am basically your father and mother’ at James and Tristan’s dismay is also to my delight.
I accidentally clicked the modern one when I was trying to set up for watching and I knew something was wrong the moment I saw how good the film quality was. I’m not sure I want to watch that one. It’s not something I think of for a prestige channel.
I didn’t expect it to actually be named Episode 1 when I went back to put it in the post title! There you go.
So, my friend has been on me to watch Grantchester and her main selling point was that I would have a new ‘ginger prince’ by which I assume she’s trying some sort of CSI Miami intervention. I will never forsake my Hocaine. Never.
Though she was right, Sidney is a very pretty (also very large) man.
As for the show itself, my main thought was ‘this absolutely belongs on a channel called Masterpiece Theatre, this is absolutely the branding going on here’ – I wasn’t excited but I enjoyed it enough I’ll watch the next episode.
I’m not some thrill a minute addict or anything! It was just a little high on the soulful glances and war flashbacks.
I watched the whole first series a while back during the CSI Miami binge in what I can only describe as my body taking over, no commands from my brain, and turning on something, anything, that wasn’t CSI.
A fun show! It makes me want to watch more Horrible Histories.
I REALLY like Kitty. She is so sweet and funny.
The main couple are really funny/fun to watch, and the rest of the cast is fun. Pat is adorable. The concept of a caveman ghost is *excellent*.
Onto series 2 once I drag myself out of the CSI hole again. I don’t usually stick with sitcoms, so it’s nice to find one that I keep thinking about.
In fact, this is the entry I had to add the category ‘sitcom’. Previously it was just:
I’m trying to watch something that isn’t CSI once in a while so I don’t fry something in my brain. I was in a Lucy Lawless mood, so I watched the second episode of My Life Is Murder.
Two thoughts: She needs to treat Madison a LOT better because Madison is an utter delight.
Second, this episode starts in early with her stealing milk from her cat’s dish for her cereal and I was like ‘oh right! She’s a gremlin in this show! A total gremlin!’
I was really rooting for the Malones. What a sad ending.
So back when CSI NY was first airing, I had what is known as a ‘drinking problem’ – I saw most of these episodes blitzed out of my mind originally. I’m noticing as I watch this that some of my memories don’t line up with the episodes. Like I thought they had a holodeck recreation thing in the first season? But no? Why has no one asked me ‘what are you talking about’ when I talked about that? Do they just assume THEY saw it?
Anyway, these particular block of episodes I’m noticing I’m remembering less and less what happened. Initially when I started I skipped two episodes because I remembered those plots and did NOT like them (The one with the rape in Central Park, the one with the amputee thing) but by the time I reach Hush, I have no memory. None. No idea what’s coming or who the killer was. And for Til Death Do We Part, I don’t know if I remembered the episode or just instinctively recognized them using an old urban legend.
From here on out, it should be like a first watch, maybe? I dunno. I certainly don’t recognize the next episode summary. Sobriety is fun and exciting.
I DO know I’ve seen the end of this season though – I remember Mac firing Aiden because he loved America so much. Although that memory might be a little distorted. I will miss Aiden. She is a fun character.
I’m deeply depressed right now and putting myself in a CSI-induced coma. Okay, with that out of the way, I’ve watched three+ seasons of CSI within a few days and now most of a season of CSI NY (to catch up to the crossover episode) and I have a few thoughts.
Given that I refuse to acknowledge CSI Cyber (computers! from the land of ghosts and witches!) because it’s stupid, rating the CSIs I have come to the surprising conclusion that based on what I’ve seen so far, CSI NY is actually the weakest of the CSIs which is a shame because it has the mathematically hottest cast, especially Stella Bonasera who has been my crush for years.
I keep pausing episodes of NY to go do other things like make characters in videogames, etc.
Anyway, things I like about CSI Miami:
Horatio is my ginger prince, the anti-pire, the one ginger who can stand in the direct Miami sun and not catch fire. I can’t even tell wtf is going on with his brother’s plot at this point and the whole Bob/Suzie/Cainechilde thing and it’s funny as hell that Horatio and Yelina both saw the Cainechilde in direct sunlight with her red hair and was like ‘she has the power… she is a caine!’
I like how Horatio is so dumb around Yelina. I mean, it’s absolutely frustrating to watch but if you pretend you hear a computer bluescreening whenever she asks him a question and he pauses, it gets pretty funny.
Calleigh is a delight. No notes.
Things I like about CSI NY/observations in good spirit:
Stella. Stella. Stella. The fact she was ready to remove the bullet from that horse with her own teeth out of bloodthirst.
That horse was going down, one way or another.
When the parkourers ran away with all the cartwheels and flips and Mac and Stella watched emotionlessly.
The absolute inappropriateness of their theme song. “Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals” No, fuck you guys, if you saw a cow you’d cry. I think the CSIs ny believe there are three kinds of animals: Rats, cats, and pigeons. Dogs and horses are just ‘bigger rats’. They may think Flack is a rat. They definitely think Danny is a rat.
It’s been almost 20 years and I have yet to figure out what the British doctor and the wheelchair-using doctor are actually doing/their roles on the show. They just show up, give Mac advice, then leave. They may be ghosts?
I thought I remembered this show having a holodeck.
And finally I accidentally clicked on an episode of Miami when I meant to watch NY and I knew immediately I was on the wrong show because of the colours. I really enjoyed that particular choice by the makers.
I’m not sure what I hated about this episode most. The camera work, the dialogue, the scene direction, or the acting direction. I absolutely understand why Gary Dourdan had ‘creative differences’ after Tarantino and then this episode.
I hate stunt director episodes.
Somehow this episode gave me one of my biggest crushes (Warrick) topless and just made me feel gross instead.
Also… was he roofied and raped? What the hell was that.
