I know these are way overdue, but bear with me. The migration/redirect from the old site did not go as smoothly as I initially hoped, and it put a delay on pretty much everything I was working on over the weekend. I’m hoping to be back on track, and mostly on time, by the start of next week’s new episodes, which I think are a little scant because of that thing called the Sochi Olympics…
Psych
Gus takes the lead! The Twitter hashtag for the day was #WWGD (as in, what would Gus do?) which was a lot of fun.
When Lassie turns up an apparent suicide and Gus sees the dead guy’s apartment, he realizes that this guy was JUST like him. Though it’s a pretty cut and dried suicide scene, even Shawn’s finger-to-forehead mechanism doesn’t pick anything up, Gus demands an investigation into whether it might be murder.
Shawn is mostly disinterested in the case, but Gus actually starts finding things and putting together a pretty substantial case. Luckily for him, he also meets a pretty girl in the process. Yay!
By the end, it turns out to be murder after all, and even Shawn and Lassie have to admit they were wrong. However, Gus realizes how dull and monotonous his life has become in his pharmaceutical job, so he quits, and Shawn, realizing how little money he has without Juliette and Gus to lean on, gets a job. For forty-five minutes. As a bartender.
Oh and Blueberry gets destroyed. AGAIN. But Gus rocked that scene and saved the day, so it wasn’t a total loss.
And… SCENE.
Nashville
As I suspected, there’s no trouble in paradise for Avery and Juliette. Not yet, anyway. She’s holing up, having lost her label, her reputation, and her tour, and is clinging to Avery because he’s the only thing that’s right in her life at the moment.
Deacon is recording his live album at the Bluebird, and it goes off without a hitch. More than that, it’s awesome. Everybody involved says so, and despite her recent press debacle, Juliette turns up and congratulates him.
Scarlett is still on her No-Doze pills, and she is killing it at work, but she really needs a good night’s sleep.
Rayna finds out about her father’s involvement in her mother’s death, and she now wants nothing to do with him, again. Meanwhile, dear old dad is convinced Teddy informed on him, but we know it was actually Tandy. They get into an argument at Teddy’s office and Lamar starts to have what looks like a heart attack. Teddy freezes, apparently considering whether to call the paramedics or let the old man die on his carpet. I’m sure he’ll do the right thing–call the ambulance, that is–but they left a cliffhanger for the next episode.
Men at Work
Tyler is trying to get the new boss (David Krumholtz) to like him, Milo has started dating a goddess called Sasha (aka Emmanuelle Chriqui) and Gibbs is ready to fake marry his playmate so she can get a greencard. It just hit me, or it’s just hitting me again, those two know each other! They were side by side for years on Las Vegas! Small world, eh?
Milo’s trouble is that his new girlfriend has an ex-girlfriend whom she works with making sexy scented candles. At first, he thinks it’s hot, but then Gibbs tries to have him imagine that the ex is a man, a really good-looking man like Ryan Phillippe (oh, guest appearance by Ryan Phillippe, by the way!). From that perspective, it really makes Milo nervous. As much as I love Emanuelle Chriqui, she’s a little too hippy-dippy in this role to be a good fit for Milo, so it’s probably best things didn’t work out.
Gibbs, meanwhile, goes way overboard on his fake wedding, thinking it could be the only one he ever has, so he may as well milk it, for grandma’s sake. However, after his girlfriend sees how serious he’s taking it, she suggests they maintain their existing relationship and she find someone else to marry her for a green card.
Tyler doesn’t really succeed in winning over the new boss, but he does get the interlocking high-five, the holy grail of high fives as far as Myron is concerned, so maybe he’s on his way there.
Rake
This guy is like a bad penny. Everywhere he goes, he draws in bad people, bad juju, and bad luck.
This week, Kee is gambling with Tony Hawk. When he needles Hawk a little too much about his poker face, Hawk decides not to attend the charity benefit at Kee’s son’s school, putting him in an awkward position since everyone is already expecting the pro skater to turn up.
His new client is a mother with a gambling problem, just like him, who’s really gone off the reservation: she has been pretending her youngest son has cancer in order to earn money to play the slots at the casino. Even she believes the lie, because it’s been so ingrained for so long.
While Kee can’t defend her on the basis of the truth, he can argue that gambling is a serious addiction, and the casino took advantage of an already troubled woman’s home life, focusing on the fact that everyone on the jury has something they can relate to when it comes to addiction. And he pulls it off. Way to go, counselor!
Kee finally makes some money to pay off part of his debt, but he ends up throwing almost all of it away on an auction item in a pissing contest with his ex-wife’s new boyfriend.
As a result, his bookie (not sure if she’s his bookie exactly, but he owes her a lot of money) makes him move into the place above her family’s restaurant, at a 200% mark-up on rent to make him pay down his debt faster.
You can’t help rooting for him, but on the other hand, you just want to smack him upside the head and go, dude, get your shit together!!
Reign
Catherine is in for it now! What a twisted, and may I say, Shakespearean, turn of events! After her poisoned blade failed to kill the new regent, Bash, Catherine takes matters into her own hands. Her family has arrived, but offers her little assistance or support, only a way of taking her own life. (This seemed odd to me because it’s a mortal sin in Catholicism to commit suicide, but perhaps I misinterpreted their intentions in giving her the stone…?)
Catherine even tries to make up with her husband, whom she has not gotten along with for years, and it almost works, too, but when she tries again to disqualify Bash from the line of succession by retrieving a pagan object from Bash’s mother’s room, the king kills the witness she used, and teaches his son a lesson about obstacles–cutting them down is better than finding a way around them.
Bonus for Bash’s chances, at least! It looks like Francis may never have been legitimate at all, as we learn that Catherine had an affair during her marriage, and Francis may well have been the result of that affair.
However, Catherine is not about to go down without a fight. In a last ditch effort, she enters Mary’s bathroom while she is taking a bath, and tossing the stone that has poisonous or drowsy-inducing vapors when dissolved in water, into the tub with Mary, and then presses a dagger to her throat. The fumes begin to overpower both of them, and Mary slides underneath the water level. Bash arrives moments later, hearing a commotion inside, and forces his way in. Catherine looks to be beheaded for her attempted murder, and Bash rescues Mary before she drowns. No love lost between the future king and queen of France and Catherine. Mary looked positively livid.
It seems Bash has been mostly concerned that Mary won’t love him, even though she’s marrying him, and he speaks to her about keeping an open heart and mind toward him so that perhaps one day, she can learn to love him. Mary plays it cool, and assures him her heart is open. However, I think it’s more than open. She may have fallen in love with Francis, knowing that he was supposed to be her husband all those years, but it isn’t hard to fall for a good man like Bash, and I think she’s well on her way.
Up next:
Too much. Lots of stuff from last week, and more from this week. I am determined to catch up!
Since it’s the first post this week, I’ll do a quick run-down of what’s coming for the rest of this week:
Wednesday, it’s a new Men at Work, and everything else is off through the Olympics!
Thursday, Rake is still holding on with a new one, but everything else is taking off until the end of the month!
Friday, I got nothing! Just Bill Maher, for me.
Also, Sunday, I’ve been watching True Detective on HBO. It’s gritty, heavy and horrifying, but it’s awesome. I won’t recap it since it’s already like four episodes in and it would take way too long to catch you up on it if you haven’t already been watching, but if you want to jump in on your own, go for it. Well worth it, plus with everything else off on Sundays, you may as well 🙂
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