# Jeff Goldblum's new show, Raines: Anyone gonna give it a try? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030 "2007-03-15T13:50:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/61 "2007-03-19T19:28:58Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] Did anyone else catch that the girls apartment was Marlowe’s apartment from “The Long Goodbye”? [/QUOTE] Interesting; I thought it looked familiar. Actually, I thought it might have been used in the movie _Dead Again_. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/62 "2007-03-19T21:58:59Z")
I like the cast. Of course I love Goldblum from way back, & it has Nicole Sullivan & Malik Yoba! ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/63 "2007-03-19T22:45:28Z")
I’m looking forward to watch how it progresses. The pilot had real promise. Of course, with Linda Park in it, it needs some decontamination scenes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/64 "2007-03-20T12:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] Interesting; I thought it looked familiar. Actually, I thought it might have been used in the movie _Dead Again_. [/QUOTE] That’s exactly where I recognized it from, so I think maybe everybody’s right. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/65 "2007-03-20T15:53:27Z")
I’m agog that people can remember what apartments in movies looked like. I wish I had that kind of memory, or that I paid attention to details like that. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/66 "2007-03-20T16:09:04Z")
I don’t think someone who is seeing things who is aware that he is seeing things has a mental illness. I think that stays in the territory of very vivid imagination. If he was seeing things and thought they were real, then he would be in schizoland. But I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/67 "2007-03-20T16:41:38Z")
I don’t believe that you can _knowingly_ hear imaginary voices and recognize them as _imaginary_ if you have schizophrenia. But I’m no psychiatrist. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030/68 "2007-03-20T18:51:37Z")
Re: mental illness and Raines’ “hallucinations”: A key issue is that they are functional for him, and not impairing, apparently. They are also volitional, in that he can choose to have them or not. He recognizes himself as the source of them, and can essentially change them at will. One thing that was interesting, and that threw me a curveball regarding the status of his partner, is that his partner could not percieve the young woman. (I happened to turn the show on right at the point where she was skating around and his partner was asking about her, so I had no inkling that his partner was anything other than corporeal.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeff-goldblums-new-show-raines-anyone-gonna-give-it-a-try/396030.md?page=3)