Happily, the drugs are working - a pleasing side effect of which is that I slept through the night both Wednesday and Thursday night - no thanks on Wednesday night, though, to the stressful Law & Order, Criminal Intent rerun viewed just before bed.
Uncool, CI peoples!
Law & Order, CI is my tea cozy L&O series. Here is what I want (and what they routinely deliver, rerun after rerun after rerun, seven days a week) - 3-5 minutes at the beginning to meet people, 1 minute of discovering a body, 35 minutes of clues and misdirection, and then Bobby Goren f'n with the guilty party's head until said guilty party collapses into a shivering mass of confession. This formula is soothing. It is conducive to a good night's sleep.
Here is what I don't need.
Eames kidnapped out of her home by a serial killer (who also, apparently, killed Eames's bird) and then Eames tied up, gagged and blindfolded in a kill space while the killer tortures and kills someone in her hearing, while Goren frantically and unsuccessfully tries to find her. If I wanted this sort of thing, I would be watching Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, which I don't watch anymore because, while Stabler is attractive, he is insufficient payoff for a steady, unending stream of raped and/or mutilated and/or tortured and/or killed women and children.
So happily Eames escaped, but by the time I saw that my late evening Dorothy Sayers was taking a right turn down Patricia Cornwall Lane, it was too late: I was tense and upset, but unable to turn it off because I needed to make sure that Eames would be OK. Fortunately, she was, (and I took some comfort in the fact that her escape was due to her own effort and ingenuity) but, dude, lets go back to the formula, yes?
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3 comments:
"I don't even know what a tea cozy is, but I want one."
:-)
This is all I thought about as I read this post.
sorry.
yes, I am a total dork. I'm okay with that.
:-)
i, too, was a fan of the SVU until Stabler became rather unstable and then all the mutilated female corpses started piling up.
come on, writer peoples! can't you rape/kill something other than women or children? oh, that's right. that only leaves men. guess not.
And *motivation* is far more interesting to me than a who done it where you can automatically dismiss anyone who doesn't have a penis and the motivation is both crude and unvaried.
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