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"Give us the boat, yogurt lady!" Burn Notice 5.03, Suits 1.03
Okay, you know how sooner or later I was going to run out of steam to do full-length episode commentary on non-Game of Thrones shows? This is the sooner or later. That was my steam. Also it's Saturday and it's remarkable how much I can forget about what happened in a TV show between Thursday and Saturday.
Burn Notice 5.03 - Mind Games:
- Overall that was really good and a pretty awesome return to BN form with a very BN-style case, though I wonder how they're going to keep that up with the CIA backing.
- TREY. TREY TREY TREY. BEST MICHAEL COVER EVER. SERIOUSLY I WOULD JUST WATCH TREY: A STUDY IN DUDEBRO SHIRTS AND HIGH-PITCHED YELLING. "Give us the boat, yogurt lady!" The referring to himself in third person. The everything. I dunno if that was supposed to be a Nate impression, Michael, but it was freaking adorable. Also: lifetime yogurt supply. Come on, Fi, like there was some way Michael was supposed to not help the yogurt lady. You are probably lucky he didn't leave you for the yogurt lady.
- The bit with the one guy turning out to be FBI was well-played; I didn't actually see it coming until they were ransacking his apartment, but I didn't think it was contrived either, and it's hard to make something both not predictable and not contrived. It was a really good cover (though no Trey!), is the thing, and it made it hard not to oh-shit sympathize with the agent when Michael accidentally realized he got him in trouble. Pictures of his family = nice touch.
- It's always neat when they throw in characterization details about Michael being bad at everyday life stuff, like pop culture and babies. That = what separates him from irritating overpowered spy man-hero characters, so they should keep that up. His name is Michael Westen, and he used to be an awkward spy.
- How is it that the entirety of the Miami crime scene still hasn't heard of Michael Westen? I guess that's really the central conceit of the series' suspension of disbelief, not "how does Fiona run in those heels" or "where does Sam get so many different Hawaiian shirts."
- More fixing up the Charger!!! The Charger was like the fifth man in their five-man band :( RIP Charger :(
Sluts 1.03 - Inside Track:
- I am running out of patience with bullet points and also I have stuff to do today.
- Louis is a dick. Harvey is a dick. Everyone, in fact, at Pearson Hardman is a dick (hehe, hardman) (hard man) (hehe), which is probably the most realistic thing the show portrays about the legal profession, is that it consists of a bunch of bitter, petty, overworked snots boiling in an acid pit of their own paranoia, and they just get better at hiding it as they get older. I take no issue with the fact with every single young associate has been utterly mean to Mike, because this is also my 100% experience with young associates. Then there is the occasional Louis older associate and the always nicer-seeming but faraway and apathetic Jessica senior partner. Woohoo law!
- I love Mike and I love Mike's actor, since he has some of the cutest line delivery and facial expressions I've seen on a TV show lead in ages. He looks like Neil Patrick Harris's ingenue little brother. Come to think of it, he is kind of Mike Howser, J.D., except his version involves a lot more suffering and questionable interaction with his boss.
- I also love Harvey, and I don't really want to love Harvey -- however -- "My I-want-the-Tesla policy."
- If the season carries on like it is right now, it is just going to be a Harvey Specter/Mike Ross yaoi anime, so I'm not even going to go into how I've been corraled into shipping them. I guess Mike is getting involved with his ex-boyfriend's girlfriend, which does not seem like a healthy relationship. Rachel seems more likely to be the long-term love interest. As for Harvey and long-term love interests, I kind of have a perverse desire for Harvey/Jessica to happen (even in a will-they-won't-they His Girl Friday sense) because they're always back-and-forthing and she knocks him down all the necessary pegs, but maybe that's because it reminds me of pre-badness House/Cuddy.
- Harvey fistbumped Mike, though. :D I think if he never validated him ever he would get kind of irritating to watch, like a show about Peter Parker and J. Jonah Jameson.
Burn Notice 5.03 - Mind Games:
- Overall that was really good and a pretty awesome return to BN form with a very BN-style case, though I wonder how they're going to keep that up with the CIA backing.
- TREY. TREY TREY TREY. BEST MICHAEL COVER EVER. SERIOUSLY I WOULD JUST WATCH TREY: A STUDY IN DUDEBRO SHIRTS AND HIGH-PITCHED YELLING. "Give us the boat, yogurt lady!" The referring to himself in third person. The everything. I dunno if that was supposed to be a Nate impression, Michael, but it was freaking adorable. Also: lifetime yogurt supply. Come on, Fi, like there was some way Michael was supposed to not help the yogurt lady. You are probably lucky he didn't leave you for the yogurt lady.
- The bit with the one guy turning out to be FBI was well-played; I didn't actually see it coming until they were ransacking his apartment, but I didn't think it was contrived either, and it's hard to make something both not predictable and not contrived. It was a really good cover (though no Trey!), is the thing, and it made it hard not to oh-shit sympathize with the agent when Michael accidentally realized he got him in trouble. Pictures of his family = nice touch.
- It's always neat when they throw in characterization details about Michael being bad at everyday life stuff, like pop culture and babies. That = what separates him from irritating overpowered spy man-hero characters, so they should keep that up. His name is Michael Westen, and he used to be an awkward spy.
- How is it that the entirety of the Miami crime scene still hasn't heard of Michael Westen? I guess that's really the central conceit of the series' suspension of disbelief, not "how does Fiona run in those heels" or "where does Sam get so many different Hawaiian shirts."
- More fixing up the Charger!!! The Charger was like the fifth man in their five-man band :( RIP Charger :(
Sluts 1.03 - Inside Track:
- I am running out of patience with bullet points and also I have stuff to do today.
- Louis is a dick. Harvey is a dick. Everyone, in fact, at Pearson Hardman is a dick (hehe, hardman) (hard man) (hehe), which is probably the most realistic thing the show portrays about the legal profession, is that it consists of a bunch of bitter, petty, overworked snots boiling in an acid pit of their own paranoia, and they just get better at hiding it as they get older. I take no issue with the fact with every single young associate has been utterly mean to Mike, because this is also my 100% experience with young associates. Then there is the occasional Louis older associate and the always nicer-seeming but faraway and apathetic Jessica senior partner. Woohoo law!
- I love Mike and I love Mike's actor, since he has some of the cutest line delivery and facial expressions I've seen on a TV show lead in ages. He looks like Neil Patrick Harris's ingenue little brother. Come to think of it, he is kind of Mike Howser, J.D., except his version involves a lot more suffering and questionable interaction with his boss.
- I also love Harvey, and I don't really want to love Harvey -- however -- "My I-want-the-Tesla policy."
- If the season carries on like it is right now, it is just going to be a Harvey Specter/Mike Ross yaoi anime, so I'm not even going to go into how I've been corraled into shipping them. I guess Mike is getting involved with his ex-boyfriend's girlfriend, which does not seem like a healthy relationship. Rachel seems more likely to be the long-term love interest. As for Harvey and long-term love interests, I kind of have a perverse desire for Harvey/Jessica to happen (even in a will-they-won't-they His Girl Friday sense) because they're always back-and-forthing and she knocks him down all the necessary pegs, but maybe that's because it reminds me of pre-badness House/Cuddy.
- Harvey fistbumped Mike, though. :D I think if he never validated him ever he would get kind of irritating to watch, like a show about Peter Parker and J. Jonah Jameson.