It sounded like a fairly promising concept in the promos, but it’s really not working for me.
You know which TV show did this idea right? Homicide. It once had what was basically a “Break Room of the Damned,” and it was pretty eerie.
And Sunset Boulevard ALMOST did this.
By the way, the music at the beginning and end was “Sleepers Awake” by Bach. Ha ha.
Did I miss something? or was there no resolution of the creepy model house dead Bonaduce rockstar story? And did Sam die from hit gunshot wounds last week? One throway line each from Brass and Catherine didn’t seem to confirm or deny it. wth?
You didn’t miss anything… I did take the exchange between Catherine and Brass to indicate Sam’s demise… “It helps to work” would not indicate that Sam survived.
We (the entire sim-family) enjoyed the episode… nice break from formula.
Producer: So, what have you got this week?
Writer: Nothin’…just a bunch of ideas for some murders and how they happened, but no real story line yet.
Producer: Oh…by the way, your request for a raise was denied…sorry.
Writer: OK…then here’s the completed script for next week.
That has to be one of the funniest things I have read on here in a long time… Probably too close to the truth…
I must be a Bach fan without having known it. This is the third time in the last week or two in which I have commented that I thought a song was really interesting and nice to listen to, and was told subsequently that the piece was by Bach.
For some reason I have this idea of Bach’s music as being just technically good, but sans soul. I think I must be wrong about that.
(BTW the parts of “Sleepers Awake” which were played on the show sounded like I could probably learn them without too much difficulty, though I don’t really have that much piano training. Indeed–learning the piece may help me develop a skill I need to work on, which is, doing very “indepnedent” things with my left and my right hands. Is the rest of the song about that simple, as well?)
-Kris
I hope we don’t end up looking back at this episode as the moment when CSI jumped the shark.
It was actually a piano transcription of a piece for chorus and orchestra. I’m not a musician, but I’ve tried playing a few similar pieces on a keyboard, and some of them are surprisingly easy. Try “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, especially the Prelude #1 in C major.
When I watched Rescue Me (some early parts of the first season), it was pretty normal, as far as these things go, for Denis Leary’s character to find himself seeing the ghosts (or at least thinking he is seeing them, I’m not sure) of people he couldn’t save, including his cousin who died when the WTC collapsed. (The guy pretty much always hangs out at his house, giving the main character brotherly advice.)
One notable scene I remember is him going to a funeral of a girl killed in a car accident, and sitting next to her in one of the rear pews and having a conversation with her about why he was there. As far as I know, this kind of thing still happens pretty regularly on the show.