October Eleventh 2015’s Episode

I’m not entirely sure how to begin this blog post at the moment. So I’ll just ramble as usual about rambling things that I’m rambling about. Since I tend to talk about sports delays in this blog of mine, I might as well mention doubleheaders, something that happens during football season. Now during the fall part of the schedule, there are doubleheaders with football that tend to create at the very least, a 30 minute delay. This is planned in advance. You can tell by the epg on your remote. They know that there is no way of the game ending at 6 so they plan a delay. That means that if the game ends sooner than 6:30, they will air stuff to make the delay fit exactly so that people using DVR and the like will actually see their whole show as they intended to. But, if the game lasts beyond 6:30, they will have to delay the show even longer than planned. That is how shows have ending up airing in the time slot of a different show, such as this airing in what is now CSI: Cyber’s time slot.

To make a long story short, I’ve put this episode on VHS and have already seen everything that aired from it from 9 onward. Depending on if Quantico comes in and if I do create that blog about CSI: Cyber, I might not always do something like this in this blog of mine. I could move it to that other potential blog. For now, I’m keeping things like that in this blog, even if it is confusing for me. At least I will see the whole episode over time.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 33 minute delay. Act one has Alicia talking to a client in bond court that was given to her by that one new female character. He admits to doing the case, it seems. Eli and Ruth continue to butt heads. I wonder if they hired Margo Mardindale because they had cancelled her previous show. It was a CBS show so it makes sense that they would want to keep her around. Makes you glad that she didn’t bash anyone after The Millers was cancelled. Alicia’s client is crazy. I wonder how this fits in with the part of the episode I’ve already seen.

This is the episode that introduces Howard and I talk about him a lot in future episodes. Only I couldn’t remember his name a lot so don’t be surprised if I just call him that old guy. Also, Jason appears now and I thought that he had previously appeared in the show, but I guess that I was wrong about that. Don’t be surprised if you see posts in the future about how I thought he had previously worked for Alicia as a campaign manager. Doesn’t he look like that at least? Meanwhile, it turns out that the stolen photos are of the client naked and he wants to get rid of them. What a long paragraph. I’m going to split it up. In case you are confused by things that I’m writing, I change things a lot. I see things out of order sometimes and that’s why things can be confusing for me and whoever might be reading this. They are probably wondering why I didn’t post this episode sooner.

Act two has Diane and Cary talking about Howard and his problems. Also, I’m reading through what I’ve written about the rest of this episode and things will make more sense, although don’t be confused by me being confused about things in the future. Anyways, Alicia thinks that there is something wrong with the judge. Ruth is wondering about Eli’s mention of the movie It Follows. Howard is his weird, funny self. There is problems with Amanda, the PI Alicia hired. Meanwhile, the case continues as my past self starts watching and writing about the episode.

It is this point around the 9:00 mark that I start watching the episode. Eli is talking to Alicia about her election scandal. He has an idea that sounds bad to her. Of course, his crazy plan makes complete sense to himself. Is it something that she will try? Will it work? Alicia and other lawyers talk about the case from earlier that I haven’t seen just yet. But I’ll catch up. I need to remember the name of the new character. Also, Quantico isn’t coming in so I won’t be able to watch it, which actually works perfectly with my plans for today.

The next act has Alicia apologizing to the person that is probably the reason that she is not state’s attorney. She is told to vote no on the next vote. She fires a person relating to her law firm. I’ll probably understand more about that later. The case at hand related to copyright. They have to obey Maine law which doesn’t help them in the case.

The next act has the topic of child pornography brought up for some odd reason. There are some sort of stomach problems that are complicating the case. Weird. A man is strange in front of women. Diane gets mad at Cary for this, blaming him for this man showing up. Why are they showing erotic paintings on this show? And, more importantly, how do network standards allow them to air this? Maybe there’s a reason that this aired on the day of a doubleheader when they knew a tape delay would happen. Although, I don’t know yet what aired at the earlier part of this episode. I should really stop saying that as you are going to read this whole thing the way it was meant to be seen and not out of order like I’m watching it. You’ll read this after the part that aired earlier. So why am I doing this?

The next act Alicia talks to her (former?) campaign manager. She then talks to her daughter who wants to get paid. Finally, they are making the daughter look good by giving her a fun job. I didn’t like her portrayal before. They tend to not make Christians look good in this show which can be kind of offensive. It looks like the case is getting resolved in a good way. It looks like Peter’s new campaign manager might be working with his old campaign manager. Also, Alicia gets a deal or offer of some sort from this man who used to be her lover.

On the next Good Wife (which I might have already blogged about), Alicia thinks that she’s being set up. She’s also doing a cooking show with her mother. As usual, vague promo is vague- ding! For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

October Fourth 2015’s Episode

I’ll tell you when the important part of this blog begins in the event that this blog post rambles for far too much. CBS airs sports right before primetime is to start on Sundays at 6 Central. If the sports game doesn’t end before 6, then there will be a delay before the programming starts. When I started a previous blog about a different show (Madam Secretary) that airs right before this show, I thought to myself that there would be certain criteria that could be met that would cause me to create a blog about this show. That same criteria applies to possibly creating a blog about CSI: Cyber, since it now airs after this show.

Why would I do that? Well, sometimes the sports delays are weird and different games air on different CBS affiliates. That could cause either two different time delays or no time delay for one affiliate while a different affiliate does air on delay. I can only speak for two different affiliates here and know that if one of them isn’t on delay, I can watch shows as I normally do. There are also cases where the delay is so long that the show that airs at 9 is preempted entirely as it would start at an airtime of over an hour later than it should air at. If either of these situations are met, when the show airs normally on both of my affiliates, I will start a new blog about that show. In fact, I’d probably do one about the whole CSI franchise and wind up collecting the DVDs of other shows that have ended to blog about them at some point. I’d also have to get Without a Trace on DVD, but none of the other shows connected with CSI as I have either not seen them or not cared for them. I’ll also make sure to catch up this blog and my blog about Madam Secretary to more current episodes so that it can be more linked with these shows.

You know, my very first blog contained an introduction to the blog itself. Every blog I created afterwards has just jumped right into the show after the most recent episode where I started the blog at. My Survivor blog started after an episode I thought was so great, I had to do a blog about Survivor. It has become my most predominate blog and I normally update it every Wednesday (although the time I post it changes at times) or at least once a week even when Survivor isn’t on the air. Meanwhile, my OCD helped create a blog about Madam Secretary and this blog too. Those also started without an introduction. Unfortunately, I do not update this blog as much as I should. I mean, I posted the episode that aired on Easter in June and I still have the rest of the most recent season to post about before I start with this one.

I had a dream where I created or otherwise had a blog about the TV show Bob’s Burgers. I don’t know if I’ll create that blog or not. I might. I might not. At first, only having two blogs made sense. In fact, I’ll still have only one blog were it not for what I considered to be one of the greatest Survivor episodes of all time. Then, I had a dream where I had a Madam Secretary blog, so I added one of those. After that show aired at an hour long delay (which made it air during the timeslot of this show), I created this blog once it aired at a normal time again.

Now I have a habit of rambling in my blog posts. I’m sure that you know that. One of the habits that I’ve had in a different blog was that I would post what movies that I was watching as I tried to watch a specific one. An OCD habit of mine has me having a list of movies to watch (currently two in this case) and I roll for one of the choices. There’s six choices on each list, where the alphabetically first choice is number 1 and there are no repeating movies of the same letter on a single list. Now I won’t tell you about all the choices on the list. For my birthday over the summer, an aunt and uncle of mine, gave me various movies for my birthday. I have since watch am hour long Nature (PBS) special and the movie Easy A. I have since added A Time to Kill to a list. I have decided that I will update you on what of their movies I will add to the list and watch.

Now, I’ve added the movie Night at the Museum to the list. After I watch it, it will remain on the list so I can watch the two commentaries that go along with it. I have seen the movie once so far. I didn’t release how much its first sequel was better than it was at first. Also, I’ve added Bend it like Beckham to the list as well. I end up watching a Time to Kill and replaced it on the list. Then I added Catch Me if You Can to the list. I watched the first of two commentaries for Night at the Museum.

I added Liar Liar to the list and ended up watching it shortly thereafter. It stays on the list so I can listen to one of the commentaries later. I listen to the other commentary for Night at the Museum and replace it with The Princess Bride. Remember that I’m only telling you about the movies that my aunt and uncle gave me and not any others that I’m watching. I’ll tell you when I’m done with all of them. I add the movie Raising Arizona to the list. I watched The Princess Bride and replaced it with Northanger Abbey. I add the movie Absolute Power to the list. I watched Raising Arizona and replaced it with Rush Hour. Those are all the updates regarding movies for this blog post. It looks like shows are running on time on CBS tonight so I’ll get to the point of this blog post.

THE IMPORTANT PART OF THIS BLOG POST BEGINS NOW! Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with police chasing a man. Well, there are many police officers chasing different men. It possibly relates to a plot of this episode. Now, Alicia is unable to find work since the scandal of her possibly rigging an election (which we know is not true as others rigged the election for someone else) and is mostly hated by the general public nowadays. She was trying to work as a bar attorney, but that didn’t end up happening. We learn that she declined partnering with Louis Canning, which seems like a wise idea, although it could have helped him become a cast member of this show, something that isn’t going to happen since they made some other unknown person a cast member. She also gets a client regarding a lack of a will with her mother. Eli thinks that there’s a perceived injustice done to him by Peter so he turns against him.

Act two has more of Alicia’s struggles being a bar attorney for the day. What is that anyways? We learn more of this case where she is facing off against Diane. Doesn’t that happen a bit too often? They were friends then enemies then friends again then enemies again. Were they always just frenemies? Peter also explains why he needs a new campaign manager.

Act three makes me think that it is bond attorney and not bar attorney. Bond attorney makes more sense, although I’m not as familiar with it as I’d want to be. Obviously, I wouldn’t be as confused about these things if there were more explanation with them. Now Eli wants to work with Alicia and that will hopefully get him out of the slump that he is in this episode. A note in a roomba vacuum cleaner has the word Selena who is the housekeeper at the place where the dead person’s belongings are. This episode will probably inspire me to once again make a will. Something like that does need updated every once in a while. I haven’t even made one this year yet.

Act four has Alicia held up at bond court. The black woman whose name I can’t remember helps Alicia with her case regarding the inheritance. It’s possible that she’s the new cast member. An Illinois law prevents the housekeeper from getting the painting so it goes to her daughter, I’m guessing.

Act five gives us a quick recap on everything. There’s not much for me to say about it. We might see more of the black lawyer from this episode, but I’m not sure yet if we will. Louis Canning was somehow responsible for the case in this episode winding up in Alicia’s hands. She might work with him again in the future. We’ll see if that happens or not.

On the next Good Wife, the promo for the episode is vague as usual. We’ll see more of Mamier Gummer by the looks of it. I hope that I spelt her name right. We’ll see more of Margo Martindale’s character by the looks of it. And I’m not sure what else there is to say. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.