December Thirteenth 2015’s Episode

I have impending problems with movie watching that I’m doing when the next year starts. I have this rule with most movies where I only watch them once in a single year. That means that if I dream about them after watching them a year, it means that I have to wait until the next year to add it to the list. You can probably guess that my problem with it relates to having too many movies to all add at once from the beginning of next year. I am working out potential solutions to this problem. One of them would be if I don’t finish watching Christmas movies in that time. We’ll see if that ends up happening or not. The other solutions are waiting until I finish watching my aunt and uncle’s movies, waiting until the summer happens, or waiting until I finish watching a TV show on DVD (Survivor: Palau).

There was no new episode on 12-6-2015 due to a special airing in its place. I don’t know when the next new episode is. What I do know is that this show doesn’t air many reruns. That’s really annoying in a way. Not even during the summer does it air reruns. It seems stupid. But so does a lot of things that CBS does. (Cough, tape delay, cough). Anyways, I know that the episode is airing the next week. But will there be yet another fucking doubleheader? Those will never go away and I hate having to wait at least half an hour at best to watch a show. It makes you wonder why they haven’t just changed it to 30 Minutes since that would be a better show/idea with the constant tape delay.

There was no doubleheader on CBS today. That’s good. But there was still a delay on one of my affiliates so yet again, there will be no blog yet on CSI: Cyber. But there will be. Meanwhile, I’m wondering if I’m one of the only people who likes CSI: Cyber.

Today’s episode is brought to you by either 28 minute or no delay. We begin with a bunch of cell phones all lined up where Cary works. These people are planning on leaving for Louis Canning’s firm. Were these people ever discussed before? I don’t think that they were. Meanwhile, Ruth is looking into Jason hoping that he’s not having an affair with Alicia. As for Alicia and Lucca, they are working on a case with a surgeon. The corrupt judge continues to be an ass. Alicia confronts him with the fact that he is corrupt and that she can figure it out.

Act two has more of the mystery of the case that Alicia is doing which seems to involve the idea of rape fantasies, but not necessarily rape actually happening. How does one classify this? Anyways, there’s not much to be gathered from this.

Act three has problems with Jason happening as he accepts work at a different firm. Cary still tries to figure out how to get his team back. The case doesn’t seem to be going anywhere as they are not sure that his wife should testify on stand.

Act four is when Eli hooks up with the woman from this episode. They talk about various things. I don’t know what to think of the lawyer subplot at Cary’s firm as he fires them all right after he made it seem like they were all returning to his firm. On the conspiracy charge, Alicia’s client is found guilty.

Act five has the judge vacating the jury’s verdict. Can judges do that? I guess that he did. Does he actually favor Alicia’s side now? Eli talks to Alicia and ends up confessing the message that Will left at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2. She is upset at him at this. Thus the episode ends. There is no scene from next time, so I guess the new episodes will return sometime next year and I’ll find out what happens then. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March Twentieth 2016’s Episode

With Elementary posed to start airing after this show, I could wind up creating a blog about it. But since I never had to create a blog about Battle Creek, then I’m not sure I’ll have to create an Elementary one, at least not yet. Maybe I would in future seasons if it gets renewed and stays at the same time slot it is at now. It seems more likely to get more seasons now than Battle Creek did. But it is possible that a sudden ratings drop can happen to it.

With the movies, I watched The Fugitive with commentary and replaced that on the list. I also watched Finding Nemo and it remains on the list so I can watch it later with commentary. I watched less movies than usual due to a crowded church service leading me to go on Saturday and not watching a movie on that day of the week. 

There were things that I was doing the day this aired so I recorded it on VHS. Now I didn’t know what the delay would be (I knew that there would be a delay due to March Madness), but I was able to get a good sense of when to record it and everything worked out well with the recordings.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 35 minute delay. I’m blogging about this later than usual. It turns out that this will be the last time that this show will be affected by tape delay. Let’s have a 35 minute moment of silence. Actually, let’s not do that. I can never remember the silence anyways. We begin with a series of moments shown in the life of a black man and his daughter. She is killed in some sort of shooting. There are issues now about guns and a billboard. I don’t fully understand what is going on. Alicia gets a call from Eli updating her on more of the grand jury trial. The judge decides that the billboard is defamatory and wants damaged paid. The issue of whether or not to invoke spousal privilege in the grand jury case is brought up. Grace is accused of plagiarism. They sure are putting a lot in this episode.

Act two has Diane’s firm countersuing as they cannot see any losses suffered by the person they are against in their court. Alicia sees Jason kissing (possibly at least) some woman at a function of some sort that he is at. Is it really what it seems?

Act three has Alicia talking to Lucca about what she saw. Jason learns what might be considered plagiarism and that it could just be a common phrase that is flagged. Jason also helps Diane with her case finding that other businesses were affected. The judge mentions a chicken and egg problem regarding causality. He must not realize that the chicken came first. Lucca confronts Jason about the woman from earlier. Alicia is brought against the grand jury and she decides not to invoke spousal privilege as she is playing them at Eli’s request. The lawyer there suspects something is up, but isn’t able to prove anything concrete.

Act four has more of the case of Diane’s which seems to have some leeway that is being fought against by the prosecutor. There are problems with the grand jury proceedings and Eli isn’t able to listen to them as someone is cleaning the spy bathroom. The line that was said to be plagiarized is from the Sermon on the Mount. Should there have been quotation marks and a source cited? Why wouldn’t Grace have mentioned this before? Alicia and Jason seem to reconcile, over what, I can’t really tell.

Act five is when Alicia has the idea to bring a class action suit against the college people due to the program that there were using. Grace decides to go into the law as college. The judge sort of works in favor of Diane’s side by saying only if the sign remains in the future can it be fined and it will only be fined by ten cents a day. I’m not even sure if I understand what the problem was with Jason and Alicia or why he was kissing someone. But it looks like everything is resolved for now.

On the next Good Wife, people want to take down Peter Florick. Eli is looking for help with stuff. Of course, you will find out more about this later in episodes I’ve already blogged about. There are two more episodes left of the show for me in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

November Twenty-Ninth 2015’s Episode

With the Thanksgiving holiday now behind us, Advent has officially started today. This basically means that I’ll be starting what I refer to as Christmas watching. That’s when I do my annual watching of various Christmas specials and movies. Sometimes what I watch changes certain years. For instance, there are shows that have Christmas episodes that I’ll be watching. I typically don’t watch episodes of shows that relate to a specific holiday outside of that holiday. But there are some times when things are different from time to time.

Since I will be watching various Christmas movies and whatnot, you will not be seeing any updates from me for a while about my aunt and uncle’s old movies that I’m watching. I will return to those either in January or once I’m done seeing all these Christmas movies this year. Saturday was the last time I could have watched any of them, but that didn’t end up happening.

You know, Thanksgiving and Black Friday always tend to affect live shows. Sometimes they air new episodes on either one of those days. I never like that. Some Sunday shows can even be affected as well. Meanwhile, the Friday shows that I typically watch are Reign, Undateable, Grimm, Hawaii Five-0, and Blue Bloods, although sometimes I watch other shows like Shark Tank, 20/20, or Dateline. Thankfully, none of these shows were on with new episodes (well, those that I typically watch at least). They mostly air Christmas specials two days too soon.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 61 minute delay. We begin with a bunch of computery things happening. Chum Hum is brought back and they are accused of having racist maps. Luccia, who is the new character whose name I’m probably spelling wrong, is hired to protect Chum Hum at the request of Louis Canning. Diane Lockhart and her firm are on the side of the plaintiffs. Alicia touches Jason’s arm which convinces Ruth that Alicia could be having an affair. Ruth is pretty much based on this one moment cemented as a female version of Eli. I wonder if her and Eli will ever wind up in bed together. I say the countdown to that starts now.

Act two has more of the case against Chum Hum and Chummy maps. The person who is helping Diane’s firm, whatever her name is, thinks that the ads are racist as they go towards a certain racial audience. Meanwhile, there might be evidence found by Alicia that proves that there is racial profiling going on. But is there? Meanwhile, Eli digs into more of Alicia and Jason and confronts them both about it.

Act three is when we see that Jason has somehow heard some of the conversation between Alicia and Eli about their relationship. There are more problems with the Chum Hum case as they seem racist in different ways. Are they though? Hopefully we’ll find out.

Act four has Alicia’s team going through nearly everything they can and sending it to Diane’s firm. Only they are able to find out about the black woman being labeled as an animal. When you think about it, though, aren’t all humans animals? I thought that they were. It’s hard to keep track of the Eli subplot in this episode. It looks as though Alicia’s team might have lost their case.

Act five has the end of the case where it actually ends in Alicia’s favor after all when they find out more about the client of it. Also, Cary and Luccia might have some sort of secret connection that leads them to a club at the end of the episode. Eli tells Alicia about Jason’s file on her. The episode ends on the music that we’ve been hearing throughout it. There are no scenes from the next episode this time. It makes me wonder when the next new episode will be. I still don’t know if this show will go on hiatus like it did last season. We’ll have to wait and see if that happen or not. Whenever the next episode is, I’ll be back for it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March Sixth 2016’s Episode

Well, as you might have noticed, the day of the week I'm posting this blog has changed again. At first the roll made it so that it was on Fridays. Then a different roll moved it to Saturdays. Now the updates will be on Sundays for a while. Also, when I roll a certain TV show, I update my blog about TV. The next day, I update my blog about Madam Secretary. The day after is when I update this blog. Thus, this blog is moved back again. But I doubt that I will roll anything on Sundays since I normally don't watch a TV show then. Sometimes I do, but I'll always keep you updated on why there was a change in the new post. I should post this every Sunday in the near future. As for why I'm posting this episode when I normally alternate between the rest of last year and the beginning of this year, it's to keep it in line with my Madam Secretary blog. That stays with the normal back and forth.

It’s kind of annoying having shows go on and off the air from time to time. At least this show is going to probably keep airing until its end from this episode onward. And we only have to worry about three more tape delays messing with it. Well, three at least. Meanwhile, I don’t know what will replace this show. I feel that it’s kind of dumb to expect that a courtroom/political drama has to air in the future on CBS. It doesn’t matter to me what replaces it. Plus, this show was originally a replacement for Without a Trace so it could be anything that replaces it. It could be two comedies. I’m just guessing that an existing show will be moved to this timeslot at the new show that replaces this will air some other time.

I don’t tend to reveal that many details about which football teams that I root for. It’s mostly because of where I live. Honestly, I’m not entirely sure which team I will root for. But I’ve got it down to two teams: the Broncos and the Rams. Whenever they play each other for the first time in the upcoming football season, somebody tweet me the score (my account is @IamAdamDecker). I will root for the winner of that game. Now I’m not entirely sure if they even play each other. I’m not entirely sure how the football games are decided to be played. Is it like baseball where there are two leagues that normally don’t play each other? I’m not entirely sure of that. I’ll have to discuss this with someone sometime. But who? Well, I’m bound to know someone who’s into football.

When it comes to watching my aunt and uncle’s old movies, I’m slowly making progress with that. I was able to watch The Devil Wears Prada. That remains on my list so I can watch it again with commentary. I also listened to one of the commentaries for Pleasantville and it remains on the list since it has another commentary that I need to listen to. I also watch another part of the Bourne series. I still have more of that to watch so that stays unchanged for now. I then watched Liar Liar with commentary and replaced it with a different movie choice.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with the most awkward gathering of people in the history of television. Alicia and Jason were having sex off and on before people showed up to her place. First her mother shows up, than her brother, after that Eli and a friend followed by someone else. She gets served. I loved that opening scene. That might have been the best opening scene ever.

Act two has even more awkwardness than before. Alicia’s mother talks to a lawyer about the case at hand. Also, who does Zach Grenier play? For being an important character, I never see him. Anyways, Alicia brings Eli to a handicapped bathroom so he can hear the grand jury testimony. Cary talks about possible issues with Diane.

Act three has Eli snooping in the bathroom to learn more about the case that he reports to Alicia and Peter’s lawyer. We also see more of the FBI guy originally from the drug case that related to the judge. I hope that makes sense as I’m bad with names on shows. Something happened in 2012 and it relates to something of some sort or another.

Act four is when we find out more about the case they are trying to find out about and Eli thinks that this Mr. Lock person might be the son of Peter. Alicia talks to Diane about Cary and Diane once thinking that they should have an all female firm where she works. Diane is a bit vague with her response about it. I think that she wants Alicia to be her replacement/main partner.

Act five has Jason solving the problem with Alicia’s mother. Alicia talks to Lucca about Diane’s plan to have only female partners at the firm. We don’t know yet if that is the plan with it or not. Meanwhile, the episode ends where it begins: Jason and Alicia are in bed and watching something gory. There are no scenes from next time so I guess that we’ll be back whenever with the next new episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

February Twenty-First 2016’s Episode

I don’t know the planned schedule of these posts just yet. I just know that the series finale will be the last one that I post and there will be at least one more post after that. It will mention whether or not I’ll continue the blog in the future. This show has a tendency to not resolve things. Let’s just say that I don’t have the best of hopes for the series finale being good at the moment. It might be good as this show generally is. I’m pretty sure that they planned the finale enough in advance so that it probably won’t be a cliffhanger ending. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t be good automatically. But we’ll see. If it is a good ending or even just average, then I will continue this blog with cast updates and probably do a look back of the whole series by getting the show on DVD. If the ending of the show is bad, then I’ll have one last post of this blog and I won’t update it again. You’ll see what my plan is then when I do a farewell to this show. Until then, we’ll just have to wait until then to see what happens.

Since I can still do these movie updates in this blog for now, I might as well get to what things have changed. I watched the commentary with Bend it Like Beckham and replaced that movie choice with American Dreamz. I also watched Catch me if you can and replaced it with Finding Nemo.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Alicia going to some secure place with military people where they discuss secret things. Eli hires the crazy redhead lawyer to possibly defend Peter or at least find a different lawyer to defend him. Things are a bit strange at the Lockhart firm as they are taking pictures with just the women. Cary wants to ask Lucca out to a meal (date?). Anyways, Alicia talks about who is and isn’t a threat to security while Peter and Eli try to defend against charges against Peter.

Act two has Alicia changing her mind on something for a moment. I still don’t know where she is or why she is there. Maybe this relates to the previous episode that I have not yet seen. Anyways, someone in Peter’s office has given the FBI some information relating to the case at hand. Alicia and Jason hook up by the looks of it.

Act three is when a person is excused from the proceedings concerning a possible leak. Meanwhile, the strange redhead lawyer continues to be strange (and redhead) by excusing herself from the case for reasons unknown. But she does lead them to her ex-husband who can help or also be excessively strange like her. They might still have feels for each other or they are just strange people. Meanwhile, the NSA is still listening into Alicia’s phone calls. I love the NSA. They are great. And they knew I was going to say that.

Act four has the NSA mentioning who they think the leak is while also commenting on various other aspects of Alicia’s life. They are able to track the redheaded lawyer by using Jason to follow her. Not much else is happening this act and for the umpteenth time, they have neglected what they should be putting into the story regarding Diane Lockhart’s firm. No wonder Noel Kirkpatrick hates the show. I’m just surprised that he still watches something that he hates. Why would anyone hate watch a show? That makes no sense. In case you don’t know who Noel Kirkpatrick is, he writes reviews of shows at the website www.tv.com.

Act five continues the thread of not wrapping up storylines as well as they could. I just wonder if they’ll ever go back to this or if they’ll expect us to never care that it is unresolved. This reminds me of the film Gone with the Wind that went from one plot point to another barely resolving things or having any consistency (I was not a fan of that movie). But the point is, the person they were talking about was killed in the airstrikes. Anyways, it’s possible that one of the NSA people was the leaker in question. Will we see more of him in the future? We’ll see. There are no scenes from next time, so I’ll be back later with the next new episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.