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A card game, David Mamet, and Ricky Jay: how could it go wrong? I didn’t react as unfavorably to this episode as many others did, but it was a disappointment.
This episode was repeated last Sunday night. I wasn’t planning on posting about this episode, because it is a repeat from last season and therefore out of sync, but, damn, it is a beautiful piece of work. I’m putting almost the entire discussion below the fold because of spoiler concerns.
This was depressing, and maybe a bit disappointing. After a hiatus of three weeks since the last episode, I think most fans were hoping for more, especially because the prior episode ended on a bit of a open-ended note. Reading some forum posts, many people seemed to have believed that the crisis that diverted the [...]
Well, this has certainly taken me all week, but fitting, perhaps, because this is a cliffhanger 2-part episode. The episode had 2 main storylines. One, about Kim and her shady boss is concluded in this episode. The second, about the team planning and executing a raid on a supposed anthrax manufacturing plant in Uzbekistan, is [...]
In order to prod myself to write here a bit more regularly, I’m going to try regular episode blogging of one or more TV shows, starting with The Unit. This show is in its 4th season, and has never been a giant hit, but manages to get renewed every year so far. Produced and sometimes [...]
