I had completely forgotten about this. Thankfully the DVR didn’t and recorded the first episode since the hiatus. Not sure if this is considered the new season or the second half of the old one.
I wonder how this is going to work. Aren’t most series on cable 13 episodes? I can’t see them running this for 6 or 7 now and the rest over the summer. So are they officially making this a fall premier show or are they going to increase the episode count to something closer to the standard 22 or 23?
I have to admit that the overarching plot devices are getting pretty worn but I still really like this show.
This is the second half of the season. USA has been splitting up pretty much all of their shows into winter and summer seasons (and some other networks are starting to do the same). Really, outside of DVDs, it doesn’t really matter whether this is the second half of one season or the first half of another season. Most of the half-seasons usually have their own overarching plot.
They didn’t have the hero (Mike) demonstrate Superhuman Recuperative Powers, having to deal with his injury throughout the entire episode (and, based on the previews, into next week).
I also liked the darker turn with the psycho bomber. Typically in this series, even while bullets and bombs are zipping back and forth, you don’t have this vibe of dread, but we did last night. Combine that with the even darker turn by Jesse at the end, and this isn’t quite the same series that it was I don’t think.
I know I can look it up, but do you know if that’s how it will work with White Collar, In Plain Sight and pretty girl at CIA (can’t remember the name)? Thank you.
You know, I like the light and sometimes comedic air of the show but if they can keep that and go to some darker places at the same time, I’ll be very happy. (still haven’t watched the latest episode, just saw it was there and watched the nice recap of the summer episodes).
I also enjoyed the darker edgier Jessie. I can’t shake the feeling he is gonna keep getting eviler, until he does something really bad, then have a tearful redemption and then get killed off while saving the rest of the gang. The bomber reminds me of a young Christian Bale, I think he played the looser dock worker in the Wire.
Agreed. I remember one thing that initially drew me into the series was in the first where Michael gets punched by a wimpy looking drug dealer after previously getting beaten up by some bodyguard types and says "It doesn’t matter how much training you have; a broken rib is a broken rib. "
The first five minutes of the episode were pretty crappy – where they ask the lady about the bomb and she just starts dropping all of the information they need in a tight and tidy manner without having any particular reason to do so. But yeah, after that point it was pretty good.
I was more taken aback by everyone’s reaction. Let’s see, we have a
CIA black ops specialist,
ex Navy SEAL, and
IRA operative specializing in explosives.
When Jesse solved the problem, Sam should have said, “Thanks, first Mojito is on me”, Fiona should have offered to pay for the second, and they all should have left to some beach bar (well, dispose the bombs then to the beach bar). These are not the type of people who agonize over Jesse’s quick decision making.
I…keep trying to want to watch it. But I just don’t have the interest I used to. That Bank Hostage episode really jumped the entire marching band full of sharks for me when it came to believability.
They’ve blown up half of Miami, shot up the other half (average police response time - 2 hours) and that was the point where you suspension of disbelief was broken? The shark-jumping motorcycle is still in the garage.
It’s been established that Mike & Co. won’t kill anyone in a purely casual manner, but only once all other means are exhausted. Remember Mike facing that guy in the office a season or two ago at gunpoint? Once he tires of all the talk, Mike whips his gun out lightning-quick and pops the guy (IIRC if he didn’t act, someone else would have been killed by the guy’s allies).
Now they will, rather often, let someone else kill them, and you could argue that this demonstrates a sort of hyprocrisy on their part (let this one crook think that his brother has gone completely cuckoo, and he’ll “take care” of the problem for you), and I won’t necessarily disagree with you.
I also agree that the Curiously Absent Police Response thing often pushes the show a bit too far into pure fantasy (at the very least, there should be someone on the police force who is at least curious as to how this “Michael Weston” guy is always getting involved in things revolving around gun battles and big explosions, but I guess the producers realize this will drag the show’s basic format down into the crapper to toss this anchor around their collective necks-having to always give this or that excuse to the detective every time he finds them at a crime scene).
I think it was more surprise that Jessie did it than any real problem with him having done it (though Fiona also had the issue that all of her stuff was in there so she might have preferred a peaceful resolution for that reason). After the commercial, Mike thanked him for doing it.
Oh, and good thing they dropped the line about her not wanting some fool to be the first one bringing explosives into her new house or it would really have gone up. Though one wonders why kind of armament they’d find in there if it had been a few more days.
I nominate Maddy for TV Mom of the Year for her “whatever” speech to Michael. It doesn’t make a difference to her why Mike does what he does. All she cares is that he’s a good guy that she can be proud of.
