October Eighteenth 2015’s Episode

There will be another doubleheader for this episode. That basically means that I will isolate the episode to VHS (probably, at least) and watch the end of it (well, anything that airs from 9 Central afterwards) before I see the whole episode on VHS. It’s weird that I do that, isn’t it? I see a lot of TV shows out of order. I’m so much of a junkie that there are times when I’m recording a show while recording a different show while watching a third show. And with Sundays, it depends on what is on and what comes in. I just hope that everything works out with the recordings or that I can watch things live. I’ll make sure to see this episode and blog about it somehow.

You might be wondering about the movies I was watching. Well, I have added both Ghost Town and The Pelican Brief to the list. I have also watched Northanger Abbey. What a weird and worthless movie that was. I’ll probably have to look up the synopsis of it online to actually understand it.

Last week’s episode will be blogged about later. It was isolated to VHS. This episode aired at an even longer delay, but it aired at a nice enough one that I could record this episode on my laptop. Now I thought that the delay of this would preempt the new CSI: Cyber, but it didn’t. So I won’t be creating a blog about it just yet. I might do that in the future, if that happens at all.

Today’s episode is brought to you by a 58 minute delay. We begin with Alicia possibly getting a client in court. We then get to her going back to bond court. It is just me, or is this judge a total asshole? He seems like one to me. Anyways, she meets with a person accused of selling drugs, but he wasn’t actually seeing illegal drugs.

Act two has Eli in a small office for the moment. As I have not currently seen the second episode of this season, I don’t know for sure if he’s on good terms with Peter again or not. Things being out of order can be confusing. Actually, I have seen some of that episode, but not all of it yet. Alicia’s two different tactics to help her client both fail. We then find out that he might not be all that he says he is.

Act three has Alicia and her mother on a live cooking show that, as usual, doesn’t go well. Things never tend to go well for Alicia. Her client might actually be an FBI informant. He doesn’t want a new lawyer or he will tell the judge about Alicia’s plan to perjure himself. The new cast member, whose name I can’t remember, might be evil in some way, but we can’t tell how just yet.

Act four is when we find out why the FBI informant is undercover and on trial. He is part of a sting operation against the judge. They are trying to get him to accept a bribe to dismiss the case. Alicia informs Eli of the situation. The advice that Alicia gave to the old man may turn badly against her (as usual) as he is planning on suing them, from what we can tell.

Act five is the moment of truth when it comes to the judge’s case. At first it seems as if he didn’t accept the bribe. But, it turns out that Eli tipped him off about it. So is Eli evil? I always thought that he might possible be. This is strange. The rift between Alicia and the new cast member is resolved for the moment. I don’t know what to make of the old guy storyline. Maybe they’ll be more of that later with his romance with Peter’s mother.

On the next Good Wife, we have more problems with the judge and a new client of Alicia’s is in trouble too. So what will happen? Will there be another sports delay? I hope that there’s at least not another doubleheader for a while. Although, I do hope that I can get an episode ahead on Madam Secretary so that these blogs can be in sync, if only for a moment at least. It’s possible that they’ll never be in sync again. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

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.

May Tenth 2015’s Episode

Okay, let’s do a bunch of random crap in my introduction to the blog. You may notice that this blog post regarding the season finale of the Good Wife is with the old VHS episodes. Why is that? Mother’s Day. That’s why. I missed all the other shows that week and only saw the Good Wife, not recording anything else. So I didn’t get to see the season finale of Once Upon a Time which I may have to give up due to inconvenience. The Last Man on Earth ended its season already so I didn’t have to worry about that. No 60 Minutes, Bob’s Burgers, A. D., The Simpsons, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Family Guy, American Odyssey, or Battle Creek. Speaking of Battle Creek, I will not be doing a blog about Battle Creek as the criteria I would have used to create that blog never happened. It was a good show, although not as good as I would have wanted. But now it is cancelled after a strange (but not bad) finale. But it looks like the Good Wife survives until the next season. That’s good news. Also, you will not see the font comic sans ms in this blog post as I have not seen any of the episode before I start watching it.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. The first act starts confusingly with a voice message for Alicia making her think that this person was being arrested. I think that he was being kidnapped, but we don’t know for sure yet.

The second act has people finding out that Louis Canning’s wife is now working at Alicia’s firm. Peter Florick is also running for either president or vice-president. There are more things that people wonder about Alicia’s possible client. They also try to find Kalinda and she shows up.

The third act has more confusing things happening. Why does this show have to be so confusing? Alicia is trying to make sense of the situation with her client. She also doesn’t want a memoir about her to be written. There’s also a scene of her talking to Kalinda. I do wonder how they are getting rid of Kalinda exactly. I guess that she is just leaving after the strange events that are happening.

The fourth act has Louis Canning reacting to his wife apparently getting fired from Alicia’s firm. The client talks more about what happened while he was possibly illegally detained. I do wonder if some of this is a set-up for next season. I just hope that they don’t have terrible story arcs like they did this season. The race for state’s attorney made nothing good on this show. Alicia burns a letter from Kalinda in front of Lester. When Lester is here, then you know things are inconceivable.

The fifth act has more of the end of Kalinda’s story on this show. Alicia is also talking to the person who ended up replacing Will about a possible romance between the two of them. They didn’t do any romance, but Alicia seems to regret that decision. At the end of the episode, Louis Canning shows up wanting to partner with Alicia. I guess that they will end this season with the same sort of thing that they ended the last season with. I just hope that the question isn’t ignored in the next season premiere until the very end of that episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

April Twelve 2015’s Episode

Well, here we come to another late post of mine. There could be a tendency for me to do this a lot, although I don’t know yet whether we will or not. I don’t know whether or not this will become a habit. I just know that as long as sports delays cause this show (and others on CBS on Sundays) to run late, I more than likely will put the show on VHS which means that it could be a while before I am able to watch it. If you see a change of font, that was when I could start watching the rest of the episode on VHS and I blogged about that before I saw the whole thing, including the ending again. I don’t know if I would ever do a podcast about this show or not, but if I did, then I would make sure to run a timer based on the delay the episode aired at. Sometimes, they even plan delays, which is why I created this blog in the first place.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 16 minute delay. We get a recap of the metadata that Kalinda faked. We then get to a voting scandal. Alicia is watching the news about it. Diane learns about the metadata problem. She goes straight to Kalinda about it. There was a hacking device at one of the voting precincts. Alicia also catches her daughter watching a dramatization of her hacked emails.

In the second act, we get to a hearing about the election. We also go more into the metadata thing. It’s hard to tell what’s happening in this episode as usual. You see, Alicia thinks that her husband might have had something to do with this, but it seems that something else might have happened.

In the third act, we get to recorded evidence that makes it seem like Alicia’s opponent was benefitting from election fraud. We also return to the metadata case and the madness that goes along with it. Alicia’s sort of lawyer goes after Peter in the voting case.

In the fourth act, there is more on the election that Peter rigged. You know, this is one of those things that should be more important than it is in the show. The hacking devices in various voting precincts is discussed.

It is this point around the 9:00 mark that I start watching the episode. Remember that the font changed because I saw this part sooner than the rest of the episode. Eli insists on doing a recount of the election. Somebody wants Alicia to step down from her elected role as state’s attorney. She’s not sure what exactly happened.

In the next act, Peter thinks that they should fight against the recount of the election. Having originally missed the beginning of this episode, I’m of course confused by the ending at the moment. Cary also addresses Kalinda about the drama with her metadata change. It seems that Alicia must be removed from her elected job as district attorney. I don’t know who this person is yet without the beginning of the episode. It looks like she won’t get the job she wanted after all. They sure have stumbled their way around this story arc this season.

On the next Good Wife, it looks like Alicia won’t be becoming state’s attorney after all. She is tearful and upset at the whole situation. But that’s a different blog post, one you might have already seen, depending on the order things are posted at. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

November Twenty-Third 2014’s Episode

Due to CBS’s tendency to have sports games that delay their programming on Sunday nights, I have this old episode recorded on VHS. Well, I was finally able to watch it on 3-8-2015. Hopefully, they’ll be no other ones to record for a while, but that could wind up happening… Anyways, this is the first in an installment of old VHS episodes I need to get caught up on. Don’t worry: I’ll get to the season finale at the end of this. You see, for me, the rest of the season (and this episode from before the beginning of my blog posts but unseen until I had started this blog, if that makes sense) is on VHS tapes for me to watch until I start blogging about the next Good Wife season. So enjoy these next three posts before the next season starts.

We start with an empty courtroom that Cary looks at. This is before his big trial. I know a lot of what’s going to happen, but not much. I was actually supposed to watch the last forty minutes (since this episode aired at a forty minute delay, in my region at least), but that didn’t end up happening. If you ever see the font change to this during a post than that will mean that I’ve already seen part of the episode an am blogging about the first part of it later. We’ll see how often that winds up happening. Why it will happen will be explained in a later post should it ever happen. Anyways, Diane and Alicia talk about Cary’s options heading into the trial. We also get to Peter’s strange mother again. Alicia wrote a joke note that contained a threat that wound up being delivered to Grace’s teacher and is considered a threat. Also, the judge is preoccupied with his own personal life to give any real credit to the trial at hand, in the first act of the episode at least. Since this episode is before Thanksgiving, there are also Christmas commercials for me to add to a list that I’ll post in www.adamdeckertv.blogspot.com (my TV blog) as soon as I can finish counting them, which will be fairly soon as I’m getting caught up on VHS tapes at the moment.

In the second act, the prosecutor might be in cahoots with someone, but I can’t tell who. We also go more into the note that seems to be hurting Alicia’s campaign. As usual, it is hard to tell exactly what is happening for sure.

In the third act, Kalinda was called to the stand by the prosecutor in the case. There is also something going on with juror eleven. He has hearing problems sometimes which affect the trial. The scene before he is dismissed from the jury is a bit humorous, although not as much as they were going for.

In the fourth act, we go more to the threatening note which was not found as funny by Eli as she was trying to understand. They seem to be setting up Alicia with the new character, which I think is her campaign manager. The main problem with having a love interest for Alicia is that she’s married and any other relationship would be an affair. We also have Kalinda meeting the black kid that I saw in future episodes. (Sorry if calling him a black kid is considered racist. I don’t think it is. I’m not racist, but I find it hard to remember certain names especially when they don’t mention what those names are a lot so I mention something easily identifiable about them. Plus, a lot of black comics make fun of white people a lot, which they don’t get in trouble for stereotyping us. I’m white, by the way. And black people are normally right when they complain about us.)

In the fifth act, a witness for the defense doesn’t do what the defense wants him to do. The scene gets very emotional for Cary as he doesn’t really know what to do regarding the charge he’s under. The note that Alicia wrote was resolved in a possibly illegal way. In the end, regarding Cary, he is pretty much forced to take the plea deal as he is left with no other options at the moment. But things will actually turn out well for him in the future. Not much else to say outside of this paragraph, so I might as well end things here. This is Adam Decker, signing off.

May Third 2015’s Episode

This blog is tied into another blog of mine about Madam Secretary. That show is airing its season finale, but the Good Wife still has more episodes to air. This could mean that you’ll see even less of the blog than you should. This could put the two blogs out of whack, unless this show gets cancelled. That is within the realm of possibility as this show doesn’t get the ratings it needs to. Well, it gets good enough ratings, but not as good as one would like.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We start with Alicia having to thank people for donating to her campaign. One of the people she was planning on thanking wasn’t actually a donor. He turned out to be a former client seeking help with a case. I don’t remember if he has actually appeared in the show before. Anyways, it turns out that Alicia is probably going to help with his case.

The second act has Alicia researching the old case on cassette tapes. That was her method of recording. It seems like this is supposed to be a link to the first season of this show, but why didn’t she have better methods of recording? You’d think that she would have, but maybe not. They still have not addressed what might have happened with Kalinda just yet. She appears during flashbacks helping with the case. There might be a hole in the case that they are trying to address. Is there a hole? Will they be able to fix the hole? What could prevent the case from succeeding?

The third act has the Kalinda explanation as pretty much being that she is gone in some way. Maybe she’s dead or she just left for somewhere else. Alicia continues to get Cary’s help with the case. It seems that there might be more than one hole in it. A tape that could have helped no longer has what it needs to on it. The client was a drug dealer at one point. Not sure how to summarize what’s going on. I should work on fixing that problem of mine.

The fourth act has more of the case happening. How will they solve cases without Kalinda? I don’t know for sure how that will work. There could always end up being a new person who will do that. Anyways, they keep trying to figure out how to prove that their client was innocent.

The fifth act has Alicia saying where she got the information from. Well, she might have lied about it, but it gets the case dismissed. She wants to start her own firm and that could be where we go with the next season if there is one. She asks another lawyer for help. This show has a way of making people work together and then against each other. That happens a lot it seems.

On the next Good Wife, there is a usually vague promo as usual. I’m not sure why they even air promos at all if they say absolutely nothing about what the upcoming episode will be about. Anyways, the season finale is the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.