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Thursday Wonderland, Bad Dad, Hobbies and Hackers

13 October 2013 by Jess

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

I haven’t watched Once Upon a Time, so this won’t be a comparison post. Alice in Wonderland has always been one of my favorite stories, so this one drew me in more than the original OUAT premise.

It’s an interesting take: Alice is an adult in a mental institution, surrounded by doctors who don’t believe her story about Wonderland. But she’s despondent; either she’s truly come round to the idea that she imagined out all, or she wants the doctors to believe she has so they’ll release her.

The story begins with flashbacks while she speaks to the doctors, flashbacks to the time spent in Wonderland. We learn she was in love with a handsome young genie named Cyrus whom she met and freed.

We also get to meet the Red Queen who is perhaps the most devious and evil incarnation of the character we’ve ever seen. The Queen has an angle to capture Cyrus, but he dies in the altercation, tumbling off a cliff into the boiling sea. Alice is inconsolable, and it’s at that point that she decides to abandon Wonderland and forget all of it because it’s too painful.

But when the White Rabbit shows up with an exiled knave claiming Cyrus is alive, Alice is thrust back into the world she had hoped to leave behind for good. At first, she isn’t sure whether to believe the Rabbit, but the longer she stays, the more she believes it.

There are quite a few unknowns in this one, with Alice, the Knave, the Queen, and Cyrus all being played by actors with very little familiarity to an average television audience, but I think everyone’s been well-casted, and Lithgow as the White Rabbit is a nice touch. Though I saw him last as the Trinity Killer on Dexter, his portrayal of the White Rabbit recalls his role as Lord Farquaad in Shrek.

The story combines multiple fairy tales and fantasy stories, beginning with Wonderland and adding in One Thousand and One Arabian Nights with genies and even the queen gets a visit from Jafar. It looks to be interesting, and they’re selling it as a romance, but I’m not sure it’s going to hold my interest for an entire season. Still, with The Millers out of that timeslot, I may tune in for a while anyway.

The Crazy Ones

Lauren recognizes a symbiotic relationship between Andrew and Zach where Andrew picks off all of Zach’s leftovers–from his snacks to his women. Though it bothers Andrew at first, he realizes it’s not a bad set-up after all.

Meanwhile, Simon and Sydney recall her first driving lesson for a new car insurance ad, but it ends up bringing up bad memories and the fact that Sydney still doesn’t know how to drive. The ad is a hit, but it makes Simon realize he traumatized his daughter instead of being the cool, laid-back dad he thought he was.

Even if the driving lesson didn’t go well, Sydney is glad for all of the other wonderful things her father taught her.

The Michael J. Fox Show

Mike and Annie fight over what activity to put their youngest son in; Mike wants hockey and Annie wants pottery. Parkinson’s or not, Mike is still extraordinarily coordinated on skates.

At the office, Mike gets into it with a former colleague Susan, played by Anne Heche, who once left him in the Everglades. Heche is sassy and funny, if still less likable than Mike.

Meanwhile, Eve gets into a Twitter battle with a school bully, which her aunt makes worse by posting as Eve. Her remarks are vicious and occasionally clever, but she has to take credit for them to get Eve out of trouble.

Though I agree Eve is the strongest character of the three children, it seems a little strange that she gets so much more screentime than her siblings. If that was the plan, they should have only had her and the younger brother. The older brother is basically negligible thus far, which is a shame because I think he has some potential.

Elementary

Holmes and Watson get hacked. Phones, email, internet accounts–the whole shebang. After taking a case to find a government agent who leaked secret information, Holmes tracks the man’s associations to some hackers/activists.

Once the hackers learn Holmes is onto them, they proceed to hack all his and Joan’s accounts and send ridiculous information across them. Sherlock is less affected because he uses fewer accounts, but Joan just signed up for an online matchmaking account and has had some pretty crazy stuff go out to her potential beaus.

Though Holmes gives Watson a hard time about the dating site, she throws it back saying he needs to deal with his Moriarty feelings so he can move on. What she doesn’t know is that this has just been made more difficult by a letter Holmes has received from Moriarty, hoping to reconnect.

Up next:

More Thursday recaps are still coming, along with Friday, but I’ve come down with a sinus infection so this is all taking me way longer than I originally anticipated.

Sunday night recaps should go up tomorrow barring any severe change to my condition. Back soon!

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