Here's a quick list of the finale and premier dates for the shows you can find on this blog. The dates compiled here were found on TVRage. If these dates change or when information currently unavailable becomes available this post will be updated as will the list on the left-hand side of the blog.
Finale Dates:
Blue Bloods (US): Friday, 13th May, 2011
Breakout Kings (US): Sunday, 29th May, 2011
Hawaii Five-O (US): Monday, 16th May, 2011
Vampire Diaries (US): Thursday, 12th May, 2011
Premier Dates:
Luther, Series 2 (UK): Date currently unknown
Offspring, Series 2 (AUS): Monday, 16th May, 2011
Rookie Blue, Season 2 (CDN): Thursday, 23rd June, 2011
Tangle, Series 3 (AUS): Date currently unknown
White Collar, Season 3 (US): Tuesday, 7th June, 2011
Updated 25th May, 2011 to reflect new airdate for Rookie Blue.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
CDN Television: Blood Ties, Season 2
Season Two, Episode 1: D.O.A.
Original Air Date: October 12, 2007
A former colleague of Vicki's from the force, Paul "Dirty" Deeds hires her to find out where his body is and how he became a ghost. The problem is Vicki is the only one who can see Paul. Things take a turn for the truly unusual when Paul shows up apparently alive and the investigation leads toward a corrupt police officer. Paul's body is walking around and his ghost is still working with Vicki and the only clue they have is a fondness for raw meat.
Season Two, Episode 2: Wild Blood
Original Air Date: October 19, 2007
The animalistic murder of one of the mayors friends forces Mike to turn to Vicki for help when the woman he arrested as a suspect in the case exhibits supernatural characteristics. Vicki and Henry turn up the possibility that she is a skinwalker meaning that the woman in custody was the cat-like animal that committed the murder. The case changes when a jaguar is seen in town while the woman is in police custody. Investigation of the victim shows he had a secret of his own which led to his murder.
Season Two, Episode 3: 5:55
Original Air Date: October 26, 2007
At 5:55, Vicki awakens from a dream where she and Henry accompany a client to retrieve an expensive artifact, and a simple recovery case takes a supernatural turn that ends in death. Once awake, things from her dream start happening. Again, Vicki awakens after having gotten farther into her dream. The day keeps replaying and Vicki must prevent those she loves from dying and stop a box, Pandora's Box, from being opened and unleashing a deadly force.
Season Two, Episode 4: Bugged
Original Air Date: November 2, 2007
Vicki is hired by the owner of Careen's favorite goth club to investigate the death of one of its patrons in an alley adjacent to the club. Careen goes with Vicki on her walk into the dark side as her investigative partner. Her life is in danger when she goes undercover to help the case. Meanwhile, Henry has his own problems when someone leaves the body of a dead young woman literally at his doorstep. Surprisingly, he turns to Mike for help with news there is another vampire in the city and things are just getting started.
Season Two, Episode 5: The Devil You Know
Original Air Date: November 9, 2007
More deaths at the hands of the vampire put Henry, Mike and Vicki even more on edge than they were before. Henry knows Christina is in town. She shows up at his condo wanting his help. She informs him there is another vampire, Alexander, following her wanting to ruin her life. The deal: if he helps her, she must leave. Is Christina being honest with Henry or is she playing him yet again?
Season Two, Episode 6: Drawn and Quartered
Original Air Date: November 16, 2007
While accompanying Vicki to place a bug in a suspects office, Henry asks Vicki to accompany him to an art show he has for the following evening. She agrees, but before they can go on their first "date", Jude, the owner of the gallery goes missing. Vicki takes the case of trying to find him. Vicki and Coreen work the opening for information about Jude while Mike and Dave are called to investigate the murder of a man found posed in an empty parking lot: Jude. Autopsy shows he drowned--on paint that appeared to come from within his body. Everything goes back to a painting in the gallery that changes before someone dies and a young painter who takes a liking to Coreen.
Season Two, Episode 7: Wrapped
Original Air Date: November 23, 2007
Two thieves get more than they expect when they try to steal Incan gold from the body of an Incan mummy. One dies and the other is forced into servitude by the resurrected mummy. Henry awakens to a nightmare of the Incan mummy flooding his apartment with light, killing him. Since vampires do not dream, Henry is worried the end of his existence may be close at hand. The mummy wants Henry's soul to give him ultimate strength and eternal life. Will the choice Vicki makes to save Henry's life destroy their friendship?
Season Two, Episode 8: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Original Air Date: November 30, 2007
Vicki is summoned to prison by a confessed murder who now claims he didn't kill the victim he was accused of killing. He tells her he's psychic and confessed because he was confused. He saw the girl being killed as a vision. A voice in his head has told him the real killer has chosen a new victim, although he cannot see who she is. Looking over the case information causes Vicki to remember her time on the force as Mike's partner and to arguments between she and Mike. Henry arrives at Vicki's office questioning if she or Careen have had any dreams, hallucinations or bad feelings or of Vicki's marks have flared up. The tension between Vicki and both Henry and Mike is great but can they all put that aside to work together to find the truth about who is killing the women?
Season Two, Episode 9: We'll Meet Again
Original Air Date: January 3, 2008
Vicki is hired by a very young man who wants her to find his soul mate. He tells her they have been reincarnated for centuries and he needs to find a way to contact his love this time around. When they find her, she is already married. She later confides in Vicki that she is pregnant with her husbands child and the two women talk about the two men in both of their lives. When her client wants to "reset" he and his soul mate's lives, Vicki must stop them. Meanwhile, meets with an old friend, Augustus, to plan a move. Mike is in trouble with Crowley. Vicki is saddened when she learns Henry is thinking of leaving town.
Season Two, Episode 10: Deep Dark
Original Air Date: January 10, 2008
Careen is possessed by Astaroth when she seeks the services of Madame Andrea searching for advice regarding Vicki's romantic problems. When they find Careen, an even bigger problem arises: Astaroth has taken her heart and the exorcism they have planned will certainly kill her. Meanwhile, a young girl is abducted and Mike is on the task force to find her. A call from Vicki regarding Careen interferes with his performance on the task force. Will his involvement in Vicki's mission to save Careen end his career and, quite possibly, his life? Has time finally come for Vicki to make a choice between Henry and Mike?
For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com: http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties
Original Air Date: October 12, 2007
A former colleague of Vicki's from the force, Paul "Dirty" Deeds hires her to find out where his body is and how he became a ghost. The problem is Vicki is the only one who can see Paul. Things take a turn for the truly unusual when Paul shows up apparently alive and the investigation leads toward a corrupt police officer. Paul's body is walking around and his ghost is still working with Vicki and the only clue they have is a fondness for raw meat.
Season Two, Episode 2: Wild Blood
Original Air Date: October 19, 2007
The animalistic murder of one of the mayors friends forces Mike to turn to Vicki for help when the woman he arrested as a suspect in the case exhibits supernatural characteristics. Vicki and Henry turn up the possibility that she is a skinwalker meaning that the woman in custody was the cat-like animal that committed the murder. The case changes when a jaguar is seen in town while the woman is in police custody. Investigation of the victim shows he had a secret of his own which led to his murder.
Season Two, Episode 3: 5:55
Original Air Date: October 26, 2007
At 5:55, Vicki awakens from a dream where she and Henry accompany a client to retrieve an expensive artifact, and a simple recovery case takes a supernatural turn that ends in death. Once awake, things from her dream start happening. Again, Vicki awakens after having gotten farther into her dream. The day keeps replaying and Vicki must prevent those she loves from dying and stop a box, Pandora's Box, from being opened and unleashing a deadly force.
Season Two, Episode 4: Bugged
Original Air Date: November 2, 2007
Vicki is hired by the owner of Careen's favorite goth club to investigate the death of one of its patrons in an alley adjacent to the club. Careen goes with Vicki on her walk into the dark side as her investigative partner. Her life is in danger when she goes undercover to help the case. Meanwhile, Henry has his own problems when someone leaves the body of a dead young woman literally at his doorstep. Surprisingly, he turns to Mike for help with news there is another vampire in the city and things are just getting started.
Season Two, Episode 5: The Devil You Know
Original Air Date: November 9, 2007
More deaths at the hands of the vampire put Henry, Mike and Vicki even more on edge than they were before. Henry knows Christina is in town. She shows up at his condo wanting his help. She informs him there is another vampire, Alexander, following her wanting to ruin her life. The deal: if he helps her, she must leave. Is Christina being honest with Henry or is she playing him yet again?
Season Two, Episode 6: Drawn and Quartered
Original Air Date: November 16, 2007
While accompanying Vicki to place a bug in a suspects office, Henry asks Vicki to accompany him to an art show he has for the following evening. She agrees, but before they can go on their first "date", Jude, the owner of the gallery goes missing. Vicki takes the case of trying to find him. Vicki and Coreen work the opening for information about Jude while Mike and Dave are called to investigate the murder of a man found posed in an empty parking lot: Jude. Autopsy shows he drowned--on paint that appeared to come from within his body. Everything goes back to a painting in the gallery that changes before someone dies and a young painter who takes a liking to Coreen.
Season Two, Episode 7: Wrapped
Original Air Date: November 23, 2007
Two thieves get more than they expect when they try to steal Incan gold from the body of an Incan mummy. One dies and the other is forced into servitude by the resurrected mummy. Henry awakens to a nightmare of the Incan mummy flooding his apartment with light, killing him. Since vampires do not dream, Henry is worried the end of his existence may be close at hand. The mummy wants Henry's soul to give him ultimate strength and eternal life. Will the choice Vicki makes to save Henry's life destroy their friendship?
Season Two, Episode 8: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Original Air Date: November 30, 2007
Vicki is summoned to prison by a confessed murder who now claims he didn't kill the victim he was accused of killing. He tells her he's psychic and confessed because he was confused. He saw the girl being killed as a vision. A voice in his head has told him the real killer has chosen a new victim, although he cannot see who she is. Looking over the case information causes Vicki to remember her time on the force as Mike's partner and to arguments between she and Mike. Henry arrives at Vicki's office questioning if she or Careen have had any dreams, hallucinations or bad feelings or of Vicki's marks have flared up. The tension between Vicki and both Henry and Mike is great but can they all put that aside to work together to find the truth about who is killing the women?
Season Two, Episode 9: We'll Meet Again
Original Air Date: January 3, 2008
Vicki is hired by a very young man who wants her to find his soul mate. He tells her they have been reincarnated for centuries and he needs to find a way to contact his love this time around. When they find her, she is already married. She later confides in Vicki that she is pregnant with her husbands child and the two women talk about the two men in both of their lives. When her client wants to "reset" he and his soul mate's lives, Vicki must stop them. Meanwhile, meets with an old friend, Augustus, to plan a move. Mike is in trouble with Crowley. Vicki is saddened when she learns Henry is thinking of leaving town.
Season Two, Episode 10: Deep Dark
Original Air Date: January 10, 2008
Careen is possessed by Astaroth when she seeks the services of Madame Andrea searching for advice regarding Vicki's romantic problems. When they find Careen, an even bigger problem arises: Astaroth has taken her heart and the exorcism they have planned will certainly kill her. Meanwhile, a young girl is abducted and Mike is on the task force to find her. A call from Vicki regarding Careen interferes with his performance on the task force. Will his involvement in Vicki's mission to save Careen end his career and, quite possibly, his life? Has time finally come for Vicki to make a choice between Henry and Mike?
For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com: http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties
Friday, March 25, 2011
CDN Television: Blood Ties, Season 1
Season One, Episode 1 & 2: Blood Price
Original Air Date: March 11, 2007
Ex-police detective and current private investigator Vicki Nelson witnesses an attack and murder. She tries chasing down the suspect but he vanishes. Her former partner (and close friend) Mike Celluci is the officer called in to investigate. When the girlfriend of the murder victim hires Vicki to find out what happened to him, Vicki gets more than she bargained for. A mysterious, handsome, charming and potentially dangerous man comes into her life: Henry Fitzroy, a 480 year-old vampire. Henry's knowledge of the supernatural gives Vicki an extra edge to help find who murdered her client's boyfriend.
Season One, Episode 3: Bad JuJu
Original Air Date: March 18, 2007
Minutes after Vicki is hired by a young woman from New Orleans to find her missing brother she and the girl are attacked by a voodoo-resurrected zombie that is after her client, Angelique. Vicki is determined to protect Angelique no matter what the cost and no matter how much Henry warns her of the dangers. Vicki is surprised to learn that her client isn't as innocent as she thought.
Season One, Episode 4: Gifted
Original Air Date: March 25, 2007
Vicki reads some of Henry's graphic novels to learn more about him. Vicki is hired by a woman to find her missing son-in-law, Steve, as her daughter was recently murdered and Steve needs to care for their young daughter. She's surprised to learn that Steve wants nothing to do with his daughter but even more surprised to find out why. Mike learns Henry's secret.
Season One, Episode 5: Deadly Departed
Original Air Date: April 1, 2007
Mike is still angry Vicki never told him Henry was a vampire. A series of murders, all with strange circumstances, lead Vicki and Henry to only one conclusion: they were committed by a dead man. They must find out how the murders are being committed and who is truly behind them before anyone else dies. Wanting to know more about his past, Mike begins an investigation into Henry.
Season One, Episode 6: Love Hurts
Original Air Date: April 8, 2007
Vicki is hired by a man to find out whether his wife is having an affair or not. The woman Vicki is hired to investigate turns up dead and she, Henry and Mike are drawn into a deadly, and supernatural, case of passion and jealousy. Henry is unable to use his charms on the dead woman's three best friends. When a second woman is killed, Vicki places herself in danger to stop the killer.
Season One, Episode 7: Heart of Ice
Original Air Date: April 15, 2007
The brutal murder of a homeless woman leads her friend, Annie, an old acquaintance of Vicki's from her time as a beat cop to come asking for help in solving her friends death and the deaths of three other homeless people. Her investigation leads Vicki and Henry to a deadly and horrifying killer that even Henry may be no match for. Meanwhile, Mike and Dave investigate the murder of a prostitute that has what looks like vampire bite marks on her neck. A mysterious man is seen in the crowd of onlookers which interests Mike but he's looking at Henry as the killer. When the mysterious man from the crime scene shows up at the police station, Mike ends up making a deal that could cost Henry his existence.
Season One, Episode 8: Heart of Fire
Original Air Date: April 22, 2007
Mike and Vicki must save Henry from the evil clutches of Javier Mendoza before he can kill him. An old vampire friend of Henry's, Delphine, is also being held prisoner by Mendoza. Vicki and Mike learn Mendoza was a grand inquisitor during the Spanish Inquisition specializing in encouraging confessions out of witches. Mendoza's torture has caused Henry to go near-mad. Can he remember how he felt about Vicki enough to keep from killing her and Mike?
Season One, Episode 9: Stone Cold
Original Air Date: April 29, 2007
Mike is still dealing with having been bitten by Henry. Vicki is hired to find a missing young male model. She and Henry suspect a beautiful club owner of knowing more than she's admitting. The case becomes complicated when Mike falls under the club owner's spell. Vicki must work quickly to save not only Mike but a number of other young missing men as well as Henry.
Season One, Episode 10: Necrodrome
Original Air Date: May 6, 2007
Vicki is hired by the owner of a mortuary when a body literally walks out of the mortuary and a mysterious man is caught on videotape entering just moments earlier. The investigation leads her to the Necrodrome, an arena where two men, two dead men, battle until one "kills" the other. Vicki and Henry have less than 24 hours before the next battle will be underway at the Necrodrome.
Season One, Episode 11: Post Partum
Original Air Date: May 13, 2007
Vicki, with Mike posing as her husband, goes undercover at a strange fertility clinic when a husband hires her because of concern for his wife who is there for treatments. She quickly learns there is something supernatural happening at the clinic. If she doesn't figure out who, or what, is behind all the strange goings on she might not make it out of the clinic alive. Henry and Careen learn something about the children born to the mothers of the clinic that is troubling.
Season One, Episode 12: Norman
Original Air Date: May 20, 2007
A few drops of blood landing on the floor of Norman Bridewell's old apartment brings Norman back into the realm of existence. A woman goes to Vicki claiming to be a psychic with news that she saw her, her office and something in it that wanted to hurt her. She tells her of 3 powerful objects (a stone chalice, ancient dagger and a book) that was being used to kill her. One by one, Norman works to collect the three objects working his way to Vicki.
For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com: http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties
Original Air Date: March 11, 2007
Ex-police detective and current private investigator Vicki Nelson witnesses an attack and murder. She tries chasing down the suspect but he vanishes. Her former partner (and close friend) Mike Celluci is the officer called in to investigate. When the girlfriend of the murder victim hires Vicki to find out what happened to him, Vicki gets more than she bargained for. A mysterious, handsome, charming and potentially dangerous man comes into her life: Henry Fitzroy, a 480 year-old vampire. Henry's knowledge of the supernatural gives Vicki an extra edge to help find who murdered her client's boyfriend.
Season One, Episode 3: Bad JuJu
Original Air Date: March 18, 2007
Minutes after Vicki is hired by a young woman from New Orleans to find her missing brother she and the girl are attacked by a voodoo-resurrected zombie that is after her client, Angelique. Vicki is determined to protect Angelique no matter what the cost and no matter how much Henry warns her of the dangers. Vicki is surprised to learn that her client isn't as innocent as she thought.
Season One, Episode 4: Gifted
Original Air Date: March 25, 2007
Vicki reads some of Henry's graphic novels to learn more about him. Vicki is hired by a woman to find her missing son-in-law, Steve, as her daughter was recently murdered and Steve needs to care for their young daughter. She's surprised to learn that Steve wants nothing to do with his daughter but even more surprised to find out why. Mike learns Henry's secret.
Season One, Episode 5: Deadly Departed
Original Air Date: April 1, 2007
Mike is still angry Vicki never told him Henry was a vampire. A series of murders, all with strange circumstances, lead Vicki and Henry to only one conclusion: they were committed by a dead man. They must find out how the murders are being committed and who is truly behind them before anyone else dies. Wanting to know more about his past, Mike begins an investigation into Henry.
Season One, Episode 6: Love Hurts
Original Air Date: April 8, 2007
Vicki is hired by a man to find out whether his wife is having an affair or not. The woman Vicki is hired to investigate turns up dead and she, Henry and Mike are drawn into a deadly, and supernatural, case of passion and jealousy. Henry is unable to use his charms on the dead woman's three best friends. When a second woman is killed, Vicki places herself in danger to stop the killer.
Season One, Episode 7: Heart of Ice
Original Air Date: April 15, 2007
The brutal murder of a homeless woman leads her friend, Annie, an old acquaintance of Vicki's from her time as a beat cop to come asking for help in solving her friends death and the deaths of three other homeless people. Her investigation leads Vicki and Henry to a deadly and horrifying killer that even Henry may be no match for. Meanwhile, Mike and Dave investigate the murder of a prostitute that has what looks like vampire bite marks on her neck. A mysterious man is seen in the crowd of onlookers which interests Mike but he's looking at Henry as the killer. When the mysterious man from the crime scene shows up at the police station, Mike ends up making a deal that could cost Henry his existence.
Season One, Episode 8: Heart of Fire
Original Air Date: April 22, 2007
Mike and Vicki must save Henry from the evil clutches of Javier Mendoza before he can kill him. An old vampire friend of Henry's, Delphine, is also being held prisoner by Mendoza. Vicki and Mike learn Mendoza was a grand inquisitor during the Spanish Inquisition specializing in encouraging confessions out of witches. Mendoza's torture has caused Henry to go near-mad. Can he remember how he felt about Vicki enough to keep from killing her and Mike?
Season One, Episode 9: Stone Cold
Original Air Date: April 29, 2007
Mike is still dealing with having been bitten by Henry. Vicki is hired to find a missing young male model. She and Henry suspect a beautiful club owner of knowing more than she's admitting. The case becomes complicated when Mike falls under the club owner's spell. Vicki must work quickly to save not only Mike but a number of other young missing men as well as Henry.
Season One, Episode 10: Necrodrome
Original Air Date: May 6, 2007
Vicki is hired by the owner of a mortuary when a body literally walks out of the mortuary and a mysterious man is caught on videotape entering just moments earlier. The investigation leads her to the Necrodrome, an arena where two men, two dead men, battle until one "kills" the other. Vicki and Henry have less than 24 hours before the next battle will be underway at the Necrodrome.
Season One, Episode 11: Post Partum
Original Air Date: May 13, 2007
Vicki, with Mike posing as her husband, goes undercover at a strange fertility clinic when a husband hires her because of concern for his wife who is there for treatments. She quickly learns there is something supernatural happening at the clinic. If she doesn't figure out who, or what, is behind all the strange goings on she might not make it out of the clinic alive. Henry and Careen learn something about the children born to the mothers of the clinic that is troubling.
Season One, Episode 12: Norman
Original Air Date: May 20, 2007
A few drops of blood landing on the floor of Norman Bridewell's old apartment brings Norman back into the realm of existence. A woman goes to Vicki claiming to be a psychic with news that she saw her, her office and something in it that wanted to hurt her. She tells her of 3 powerful objects (a stone chalice, ancient dagger and a book) that was being used to kill her. One by one, Norman works to collect the three objects working his way to Vicki.
For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com: http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties
Thursday, March 24, 2011
CDN Television: Blood Ties, Introduction
Shows like The Vampire Diaries and True Blood are getting a lot of attention right now because vampires are one of the hottest things in Hollywood at the moment. Twilight cannot take the credit for that because since the very first vampire was put onto film in 1922, Hollywood has had a love affair with the supernatural creatures. Their popularity has come and gone many times but they've always been around and will return again once they fade from this burst of attention.
There have been many shows on television that have dealt with vampires in some shape, way or form. Shows such as Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (originally made in 1979 and re-made in 2004), the UK's Being Human (re-made in Canada for US television in 2011) and Ultraviolet from the UK and Canada's Forever Knight all chose to depict vampires in either the traditional sense or in an updated, more scientific way. There have even been children's shows based around the vampire legend. Young Dracula aired for two series in the United Kingdom (and has recently been renewed for a third series) and dealt with issues many children face in a humorous and fantastical, but also realistic way.
Blood Ties was a short-lived Canadian drama of 22 hour-long episodes based on the Blood Books series by Tanya Huff. Blood Ties was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and aired first in the United States on the Lifetime Network before airing later in Canada in Citytv and Space. It ran from March 11, 2007 to January 10, 2008 with twelve episodes comprising season one and ten season two. The show, set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, starred Christina Cox, Dylan Neal, Kyle Schmid and Gina Holden.
The series follows Vicki Nelson (Cox), a former Toronto police detective who left the job because of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive vision problem that will eventually lead to blindness. She opens a private investigation office so she can continue doing the work she loves. She meets and develops a working relationship with a 480 year-old vampire, Henry Fitzroy (Schmid) who helps her deal with the supernatural aspects of the cases she takes. Her old partner from the force, Mike Celluci (Neal) provides her with a link to her old life and tension in her new life because of his jealousy and dislike of her new partner, Henry. Her secretary, Coreen Fennel (Holden), is a former client with an interest in the occult who provides insight and research assistance into some of the strange supernatural aspects of the cases.
The first episode starts off a tad slow but once you are introduced to all the characters and the action picks up and takes off, it really takes off. I, personally, would say this show is a bit like Supernatural meets the Rockford Files. You've got a great private investigator story working but it's not the normal kind of cases you'd expect a P.I. to work on. Every single one of Vicki's cases have a supernatural aspect to them. Everything from demons to Medusa to voodoo to mummies to Wendigo's. Jim Rockford never encountered anything like that in a days work!
Vicki Nelson is super tough. She takes nothing from no one and does things on her own terms despite objections from those close to her and her physical limitations. She is reluctant to believe in vampires and the supernatural at first. She becomes quite comfortable with everything very quickly once she sees those 'unbelievable' things with her own eyes (as well as she can see them, anyway) and experiences them firsthand. Christina Cox does a brilliant job making this character very believable and she most certainly makes Nelson a strong female lead. Something that is often much-needed on television.
Henry Fitzroy is an interesting vampire. He doesn't kill but he's not the kind of vampire that has weened himself off human blood. You won't see him raiding any blood banks or preying on Bambi and Thumper in the woods. He feeds from willing subjects and never to the point of killing unless the subject wants to turn and he feels turning them would be appropriate. (One of Vicki's cases involves an old love of Henry's that he turned.) He's a charming, handsome, soft-spoken guy with a dry sense of humor who just happens to be the illegitimate son of Henry VIII (Fitzroy is Henry, Duke of Richmond) and works in the modern day as a graphic artist. In his 480 years he's known every aspect of life from poverty to extreme privilege. Henry has a severe dislike for magic because, having been around for almost five centuries, he knows the dangers and costs that go along with it. Henry's vampirism is traditional (he sleeps during the day, must have blood to survive, cannot be out in daylight and has many supernatural vampiric powers) but there are also a few nontraditional aspects to him. Crosses and holy water do not harm him, he doesn't sleep in a coffin filled with the soil of his birthplace and he isn't a savage killing machine that exists only to claim as many lives as possible and get as much blood as he can.
All of the characters are very likable in this series. Even when Mike and Henry are at odds over their relationships with Vicki and fighting like two little boys, you still like them both. Mike and Henry can actually work together for the greater good without letting their dislike for one another get in the way so their antagonism for one another isn't always being thrown in the viewers faces. No one is whiny or lingers on the "this stuff can't be real!" lines for too long. They might complain a bit, then see something that changes their mind and they move on. The shows are sprinkled with just enough humor to lighten the mood where necessary but not to make the show an outright comedy. The atmosphere is dark and mysterious which adds to the theme and look of the show and there aren't any silly aspects like sparkling vampires thrown in.
I think it is important to say you needn't be a vampire fan to enjoy Blood Ties. Yes, one of the main characters is a vampire but the show isn't exclusively based around Henry and his lifestyle. There's a wide variety of supernatural aspects to this short-lived series. If you're someone who enjoys a good mystery that delves into the more unusual side of things, I'm positive you can find at least one episode of Blood Ties that is right up your alley. It would have been wonderful had this series lasted longer than 22 episodes. The writing was strong, the acting excellent and the stories engaging. Had it aired a few years later when the vampire craze had fully taken hold it might still be on the air as it had, and still has, a loyal fan base.
There have been rumors that there is a sequel of sorts to Blood Ties being planned. In April of 2010, it was announced that Fremantle Corporation and Kaleidoscope Entertainment were developing a new series titled Smoke & Mirrors based on Tanya Huff's Smoke series. (Kaleidoscope made Blood Ties). It's rumored that Fremantle and Kaleidoscope are shopping around for support of the series which will be about Henry Fitzroy and the supernatural adventures he experiences on a fictional TV series shoot. As this is all still very new and nothing is set in stone, there is no news as to who might play Henry. Personally, if this does come to fruition (and being a huge fan of Blood Ties I most certainly hope it does), I wouldn't mind seeing Kyle Schmid on the small screen again. If the writing and acting quality, and the same dark atmosphere that made Blood Ties so great are all in place for Smoke & Mirrors, I can only imagine that will be one series I'll definitely have to check out!
The entire series of Blood Ties is available on DVD and Blu-Ray in either the complete first season and complete second season or as the entire series.
Complete Series, DVD
Complete Series, Blu-Ray
Complete Series One, DVD
Complete Series Two, DVD
For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com: http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties
There have been many shows on television that have dealt with vampires in some shape, way or form. Shows such as Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (originally made in 1979 and re-made in 2004), the UK's Being Human (re-made in Canada for US television in 2011) and Ultraviolet from the UK and Canada's Forever Knight all chose to depict vampires in either the traditional sense or in an updated, more scientific way. There have even been children's shows based around the vampire legend. Young Dracula aired for two series in the United Kingdom (and has recently been renewed for a third series) and dealt with issues many children face in a humorous and fantastical, but also realistic way.
Blood Ties was a short-lived Canadian drama of 22 hour-long episodes based on the Blood Books series by Tanya Huff. Blood Ties was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and aired first in the United States on the Lifetime Network before airing later in Canada in Citytv and Space. It ran from March 11, 2007 to January 10, 2008 with twelve episodes comprising season one and ten season two. The show, set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, starred Christina Cox, Dylan Neal, Kyle Schmid and Gina Holden.
The series follows Vicki Nelson (Cox), a former Toronto police detective who left the job because of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive vision problem that will eventually lead to blindness. She opens a private investigation office so she can continue doing the work she loves. She meets and develops a working relationship with a 480 year-old vampire, Henry Fitzroy (Schmid) who helps her deal with the supernatural aspects of the cases she takes. Her old partner from the force, Mike Celluci (Neal) provides her with a link to her old life and tension in her new life because of his jealousy and dislike of her new partner, Henry. Her secretary, Coreen Fennel (Holden), is a former client with an interest in the occult who provides insight and research assistance into some of the strange supernatural aspects of the cases.
The first episode starts off a tad slow but once you are introduced to all the characters and the action picks up and takes off, it really takes off. I, personally, would say this show is a bit like Supernatural meets the Rockford Files. You've got a great private investigator story working but it's not the normal kind of cases you'd expect a P.I. to work on. Every single one of Vicki's cases have a supernatural aspect to them. Everything from demons to Medusa to voodoo to mummies to Wendigo's. Jim Rockford never encountered anything like that in a days work!
Vicki Nelson is super tough. She takes nothing from no one and does things on her own terms despite objections from those close to her and her physical limitations. She is reluctant to believe in vampires and the supernatural at first. She becomes quite comfortable with everything very quickly once she sees those 'unbelievable' things with her own eyes (as well as she can see them, anyway) and experiences them firsthand. Christina Cox does a brilliant job making this character very believable and she most certainly makes Nelson a strong female lead. Something that is often much-needed on television.
Henry Fitzroy is an interesting vampire. He doesn't kill but he's not the kind of vampire that has weened himself off human blood. You won't see him raiding any blood banks or preying on Bambi and Thumper in the woods. He feeds from willing subjects and never to the point of killing unless the subject wants to turn and he feels turning them would be appropriate. (One of Vicki's cases involves an old love of Henry's that he turned.) He's a charming, handsome, soft-spoken guy with a dry sense of humor who just happens to be the illegitimate son of Henry VIII (Fitzroy is Henry, Duke of Richmond) and works in the modern day as a graphic artist. In his 480 years he's known every aspect of life from poverty to extreme privilege. Henry has a severe dislike for magic because, having been around for almost five centuries, he knows the dangers and costs that go along with it. Henry's vampirism is traditional (he sleeps during the day, must have blood to survive, cannot be out in daylight and has many supernatural vampiric powers) but there are also a few nontraditional aspects to him. Crosses and holy water do not harm him, he doesn't sleep in a coffin filled with the soil of his birthplace and he isn't a savage killing machine that exists only to claim as many lives as possible and get as much blood as he can.
All of the characters are very likable in this series. Even when Mike and Henry are at odds over their relationships with Vicki and fighting like two little boys, you still like them both. Mike and Henry can actually work together for the greater good without letting their dislike for one another get in the way so their antagonism for one another isn't always being thrown in the viewers faces. No one is whiny or lingers on the "this stuff can't be real!" lines for too long. They might complain a bit, then see something that changes their mind and they move on. The shows are sprinkled with just enough humor to lighten the mood where necessary but not to make the show an outright comedy. The atmosphere is dark and mysterious which adds to the theme and look of the show and there aren't any silly aspects like sparkling vampires thrown in.
I think it is important to say you needn't be a vampire fan to enjoy Blood Ties. Yes, one of the main characters is a vampire but the show isn't exclusively based around Henry and his lifestyle. There's a wide variety of supernatural aspects to this short-lived series. If you're someone who enjoys a good mystery that delves into the more unusual side of things, I'm positive you can find at least one episode of Blood Ties that is right up your alley. It would have been wonderful had this series lasted longer than 22 episodes. The writing was strong, the acting excellent and the stories engaging. Had it aired a few years later when the vampire craze had fully taken hold it might still be on the air as it had, and still has, a loyal fan base.
There have been rumors that there is a sequel of sorts to Blood Ties being planned. In April of 2010, it was announced that Fremantle Corporation and Kaleidoscope Entertainment were developing a new series titled Smoke & Mirrors based on Tanya Huff's Smoke series. (Kaleidoscope made Blood Ties). It's rumored that Fremantle and Kaleidoscope are shopping around for support of the series which will be about Henry Fitzroy and the supernatural adventures he experiences on a fictional TV series shoot. As this is all still very new and nothing is set in stone, there is no news as to who might play Henry. Personally, if this does come to fruition (and being a huge fan of Blood Ties I most certainly hope it does), I wouldn't mind seeing Kyle Schmid on the small screen again. If the writing and acting quality, and the same dark atmosphere that made Blood Ties so great are all in place for Smoke & Mirrors, I can only imagine that will be one series I'll definitely have to check out!
The entire series of Blood Ties is available on DVD and Blu-Ray in either the complete first season and complete second season or as the entire series.
Complete Series, DVD
Complete Series, Blu-Ray
Complete Series One, DVD
Complete Series Two, DVD
For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com: http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Recommendation of the Month: Republic of Doyle
There are tons of things I watch that I don't blog about. I thought I'd start a new monthly feature where I would recommend some of those things to you. Some of the shows are currently airing and others aren't. I won't recommend anything that doesn't currently air on television that isn't available on DVD or Blu-Ray (or both) because if you can't find it, you can't give it a try, right?
So, on or around the first day of each month you can expect one of these chatty (but not too chatty!) little posts about a television show I dearly love. While keeping things as brief as possible, I'll try to introduce you to the characters and give you a bit of an idea as to what the show is about so you can decide whether or not it might become one of your favorites, too.
So, let's get going!
If someone told me I had to choose five television shows, past or present, that I absolutely couldn't live without there is one that I wouldn't hesitate for a second to include on that list: Republic of Doyle.
Republic of Doyle is a Canadian private eye series set in St. John's, Newfoundland. The show is currently enjoying its second season and has already been renewed by the CBC for a third. Doyle stars series creator, writer and executive producer Allan Hawco as former policeman turned private eye, Jake Doyle. His business and investigative partner is his father, Malachy Doyle (Sean McGinley). Malachy is a retired policeman himself and full of witty lines and always ready to trade a barb or two with his son. Rose, the love of Mal's life, helps the Doyle boys by carrying out investigations from the office.
Republic of Doyle has been compared to The Rockford Files and Magnum P.I. and I think those comparisons are quite fitting. Both Rockford and Magnum had strong lead characters, compelling supporting characters and a perfect blend of mystery, action and humor. Doyle is no different.
Jake Doyle is a character you can't help but love. He's flawed (very flawed!), he's got a quick and ready wit, he'll go the extra mile to help his client out of a jam (as long as that extra mile doesn't threaten him with severe bodily harm) and he takes his fair share of punches. Jake has quite an affection for the ladies. When the series starts, he's going through a less than amiable divorce from Nikki Renholds. At the same time, he's got eyes for the local constable who looks more like a beauty queen than a policeman, Leslie Bennett. Jake's dad, Malachy Doyle has long since given up on trying to keep his son out of trouble because he knows no matter how hard he tries, Jake can't stay out of trouble.
Tinny Doyle is Malachy's sixteen-year-old granddaughter who lives with her grandfather and Rose. Her relationship with Rose is a little tough at the beginning but, as the series progresses, they go from angry teen/frustrated Rose to two women who can get along and work together. We're first introduced to Des Courtney when Jake and Mal are chasing him down because he's spray painting graffiti all over buildings in St. John's. The dislike between he and Jake goes to new heights when Des spray paints "Dick for hire" on the side of Jake's beloved GTO. Des is given an option: turn his life around and help the Doyle's or he will be turned in. Of course, he chooses the former and becomes the newest member of the Doyle team. He's also completely and hopelessly in love with Tinny and doesn't really hide that fact very well (even though he thinks he does).
The writing on the show is strong and focuses not only on providing viewers with an interesting and entertaining story each week but with creating compelling characters you can come to really care about. You want to know what will be happening next with prodigal son Christian or if Jake will ever get things straight in his love life or just how much trouble Tinny is going to be getting herself into with her current plans. The female characters aren't weaklings who need the men to bail them out of trouble at every turn. They can stand on their own two feet and, in many occasions, give the guys a run for their money. The crimes are unique and sometimes hilarious (how often on television do you see an investigation into a stolen chip truck?).
Allan Hawco has done a brilliant job focusing on St. John's and Newfoundland with Republic of Doyle. The series theme song, Oh Yeah is by Newfoundland band, Great Big Sea. (Trust me, after becoming a Republic of Doyle fan you'll never say the phrase "oh yeah" again without thinking of RoD or even singing the theme song.) Lots of famous faces from Newfoundland have had guest starring roles in the show including Gordon Pinsent (Maurice Becker), Michael Coady (registration, sign-in guard), Shaun Majumder (Benny Natchie), Mary Walsh (Miranda Cahill), Mark Critch (Ned Bishop) and Joanne Kelly (Stacey Layden). The awesome Gordon Pinsent has appeared as Maurice Becker twice and will no doubt be seen again as he has a score to settle with Jake. Victor Garber also made an incredible appearance in season one as novelist Garrison Steele who is always ready to give the bad guys, or Jake, what they really deserve: a good slap. Garber will be returning in season two. The city of St. John's is as much of a character as Jake, Malachy, Rose or Des. It provides the beautiful and colorful backdrop for the action. At times, the picturesque images of St. John's and the Atlantic Ocean on which it lies almost steal the scenes from the actors themselves.
Season one of Doyle is available on DVD in Canada. The series can also be bought on iTunes. Episodes of season two can be watched on the official CBC website for the show (Canadian residents only). Republic of Doyle has started airing in countries other than Canada. In October of 2010, viewers in the United Kingdom were introduced to the Doyles. Australian and Brazilian viewers were able to follow Jake and Mal on their weekly adventures starting in November of 2010. With a little bit of luck, this amazing Canadian television show will continue to expand to other countries so more viewers can enjoy the action, humor and amazing characters Republic of Doyle has to offer.
Characters:
Jake Doyle: Allan Hawco
Malachy Doyle: Sean McGinley
Rose Miller (Doyle): Linda Boyd
Tinny Doyle: Marthe Bernard
Des Courtney: Mark O'Brien
Leslie Bennett: Krystin Pellerin
Dr. Nikki Renholds (formerly Doyle): Rachel Wilson
Walter McLean (Jake's lawyer): Sean Panting
Christian Doyle: Jonathan Goad
Republic of Doyle airs Wednesday nights on the CBC at 9:00 p.m. (9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland).
For more information:
Republic of Doyle Official CBC Website: http://www.cbc.ca/republicofdoyle/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1297754/
TvRage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-24461
So, on or around the first day of each month you can expect one of these chatty (but not too chatty!) little posts about a television show I dearly love. While keeping things as brief as possible, I'll try to introduce you to the characters and give you a bit of an idea as to what the show is about so you can decide whether or not it might become one of your favorites, too.
So, let's get going!
If someone told me I had to choose five television shows, past or present, that I absolutely couldn't live without there is one that I wouldn't hesitate for a second to include on that list: Republic of Doyle.
Republic of Doyle is a Canadian private eye series set in St. John's, Newfoundland. The show is currently enjoying its second season and has already been renewed by the CBC for a third. Doyle stars series creator, writer and executive producer Allan Hawco as former policeman turned private eye, Jake Doyle. His business and investigative partner is his father, Malachy Doyle (Sean McGinley). Malachy is a retired policeman himself and full of witty lines and always ready to trade a barb or two with his son. Rose, the love of Mal's life, helps the Doyle boys by carrying out investigations from the office.
Republic of Doyle has been compared to The Rockford Files and Magnum P.I. and I think those comparisons are quite fitting. Both Rockford and Magnum had strong lead characters, compelling supporting characters and a perfect blend of mystery, action and humor. Doyle is no different.
Jake Doyle is a character you can't help but love. He's flawed (very flawed!), he's got a quick and ready wit, he'll go the extra mile to help his client out of a jam (as long as that extra mile doesn't threaten him with severe bodily harm) and he takes his fair share of punches. Jake has quite an affection for the ladies. When the series starts, he's going through a less than amiable divorce from Nikki Renholds. At the same time, he's got eyes for the local constable who looks more like a beauty queen than a policeman, Leslie Bennett. Jake's dad, Malachy Doyle has long since given up on trying to keep his son out of trouble because he knows no matter how hard he tries, Jake can't stay out of trouble.
Tinny Doyle is Malachy's sixteen-year-old granddaughter who lives with her grandfather and Rose. Her relationship with Rose is a little tough at the beginning but, as the series progresses, they go from angry teen/frustrated Rose to two women who can get along and work together. We're first introduced to Des Courtney when Jake and Mal are chasing him down because he's spray painting graffiti all over buildings in St. John's. The dislike between he and Jake goes to new heights when Des spray paints "Dick for hire" on the side of Jake's beloved GTO. Des is given an option: turn his life around and help the Doyle's or he will be turned in. Of course, he chooses the former and becomes the newest member of the Doyle team. He's also completely and hopelessly in love with Tinny and doesn't really hide that fact very well (even though he thinks he does).
The writing on the show is strong and focuses not only on providing viewers with an interesting and entertaining story each week but with creating compelling characters you can come to really care about. You want to know what will be happening next with prodigal son Christian or if Jake will ever get things straight in his love life or just how much trouble Tinny is going to be getting herself into with her current plans. The female characters aren't weaklings who need the men to bail them out of trouble at every turn. They can stand on their own two feet and, in many occasions, give the guys a run for their money. The crimes are unique and sometimes hilarious (how often on television do you see an investigation into a stolen chip truck?).
Allan Hawco has done a brilliant job focusing on St. John's and Newfoundland with Republic of Doyle. The series theme song, Oh Yeah is by Newfoundland band, Great Big Sea. (Trust me, after becoming a Republic of Doyle fan you'll never say the phrase "oh yeah" again without thinking of RoD or even singing the theme song.) Lots of famous faces from Newfoundland have had guest starring roles in the show including Gordon Pinsent (Maurice Becker), Michael Coady (registration, sign-in guard), Shaun Majumder (Benny Natchie), Mary Walsh (Miranda Cahill), Mark Critch (Ned Bishop) and Joanne Kelly (Stacey Layden). The awesome Gordon Pinsent has appeared as Maurice Becker twice and will no doubt be seen again as he has a score to settle with Jake. Victor Garber also made an incredible appearance in season one as novelist Garrison Steele who is always ready to give the bad guys, or Jake, what they really deserve: a good slap. Garber will be returning in season two. The city of St. John's is as much of a character as Jake, Malachy, Rose or Des. It provides the beautiful and colorful backdrop for the action. At times, the picturesque images of St. John's and the Atlantic Ocean on which it lies almost steal the scenes from the actors themselves.
Season one of Doyle is available on DVD in Canada. The series can also be bought on iTunes. Episodes of season two can be watched on the official CBC website for the show (Canadian residents only). Republic of Doyle has started airing in countries other than Canada. In October of 2010, viewers in the United Kingdom were introduced to the Doyles. Australian and Brazilian viewers were able to follow Jake and Mal on their weekly adventures starting in November of 2010. With a little bit of luck, this amazing Canadian television show will continue to expand to other countries so more viewers can enjoy the action, humor and amazing characters Republic of Doyle has to offer.
Characters:
Jake Doyle: Allan Hawco
Malachy Doyle: Sean McGinley
Rose Miller (Doyle): Linda Boyd
Tinny Doyle: Marthe Bernard
Des Courtney: Mark O'Brien
Leslie Bennett: Krystin Pellerin
Dr. Nikki Renholds (formerly Doyle): Rachel Wilson
Walter McLean (Jake's lawyer): Sean Panting
Christian Doyle: Jonathan Goad
Republic of Doyle airs Wednesday nights on the CBC at 9:00 p.m. (9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland).
For more information:
Republic of Doyle Official CBC Website: http://www.cbc.ca/republicofdoyle/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1297754/
TvRage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-24461
Friday, September 10, 2010
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.13 "Takedown"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Thirteen, Takedown
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
Callaghan put in an offer to buy a house and asks Andy to live with him. Peck and Epstein are involved in a secret undercover operation with Detective Boyd. Andy and Diaz go to a disturbance at Epstein's girlfriends house and end up blowing the undercover operation. Peck must step up to help Diaz before it's too late.
Uh-oh. Looks like Andy has a hand in blowing yet another undercover operation. First, she blew the one Sam Swarek was working on at the beginning of the season by arresting him. Now, she and Diaz have blown a major drug operation. Both Swarek and Barber can see where Andy acted as a normal cop would by seeing something suspicious in a vehicle and checking it out. Boyd is still furious. Swarek ends up getting the man Andy arrested to give him information about the drug buy.
Swarek calls Angel, Gabe's drug contact and, posing as Gabe, manages to set up another deal with him for that night. Andy wants to go undercover as his girlfriend for the operation. She and Callaghan argue because he's not sold on her going undercover. She's angry because Callaghan is worried about her safety but Swarek tries to convince her that Callaghan is backing her up because he's on the team to help during the drug buy.
The situation of the drug buy changes and Swarek must leave with Angel to go get the drugs. Andy stays behind with Angel's friend. McNally gets info from Angel's friend that Swarek is walking into a situation where he'll certainly be killed because they will know he isn't Gabe.
Peck and Diaz investigate a warehouse and get trapped in a room together after Diaz is stabbed by someone in the warehouse. The suspect they've been looking for arrives at the warehouse. They think they've been rescued when they hear that the police have stormed the warehouse but gunfire erupts. Gail covers Diaz's body with her own to protect him.
When she hears that someone was killed in the shootout Andy is genuinely afraid that it might be Swarek and is very relieved to learn he's OK. I can't help but think that she's so worried about him not just because he's her partner but because he truly does mean something to her. She truly does care about him more than she's allowing herself to admit.
Everything wraps up quite nicely for the characters this season. Epstein and his girlfriend make up with one another, Diaz lost a lot of blood but he will be fine, Peck refuses to leave his side when he's taken to the hospital and Andy and Callaghan make up because she sees that he was there for her.
I was hoping that we might see some fireworks between Swarek, Callaghan and McNally and I guess we'll have to wait for season two to see if anything like that develops. Swarek really is being the great guy about everything and Andy should be able to see that he's always there for her and believes in her even when she doesn't believe in herself.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Thirteen, Takedown
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
Callaghan put in an offer to buy a house and asks Andy to live with him. Peck and Epstein are involved in a secret undercover operation with Detective Boyd. Andy and Diaz go to a disturbance at Epstein's girlfriends house and end up blowing the undercover operation. Peck must step up to help Diaz before it's too late.
Uh-oh. Looks like Andy has a hand in blowing yet another undercover operation. First, she blew the one Sam Swarek was working on at the beginning of the season by arresting him. Now, she and Diaz have blown a major drug operation. Both Swarek and Barber can see where Andy acted as a normal cop would by seeing something suspicious in a vehicle and checking it out. Boyd is still furious. Swarek ends up getting the man Andy arrested to give him information about the drug buy.
Swarek calls Angel, Gabe's drug contact and, posing as Gabe, manages to set up another deal with him for that night. Andy wants to go undercover as his girlfriend for the operation. She and Callaghan argue because he's not sold on her going undercover. She's angry because Callaghan is worried about her safety but Swarek tries to convince her that Callaghan is backing her up because he's on the team to help during the drug buy.
The situation of the drug buy changes and Swarek must leave with Angel to go get the drugs. Andy stays behind with Angel's friend. McNally gets info from Angel's friend that Swarek is walking into a situation where he'll certainly be killed because they will know he isn't Gabe.
Peck and Diaz investigate a warehouse and get trapped in a room together after Diaz is stabbed by someone in the warehouse. The suspect they've been looking for arrives at the warehouse. They think they've been rescued when they hear that the police have stormed the warehouse but gunfire erupts. Gail covers Diaz's body with her own to protect him.
When she hears that someone was killed in the shootout Andy is genuinely afraid that it might be Swarek and is very relieved to learn he's OK. I can't help but think that she's so worried about him not just because he's her partner but because he truly does mean something to her. She truly does care about him more than she's allowing herself to admit.
Everything wraps up quite nicely for the characters this season. Epstein and his girlfriend make up with one another, Diaz lost a lot of blood but he will be fine, Peck refuses to leave his side when he's taken to the hospital and Andy and Callaghan make up because she sees that he was there for her.
I was hoping that we might see some fireworks between Swarek, Callaghan and McNally and I guess we'll have to wait for season two to see if anything like that develops. Swarek really is being the great guy about everything and Andy should be able to see that he's always there for her and believes in her even when she doesn't believe in herself.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.13 "Takedown"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Thirteen, Takedown
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
Callaghan put in an offer to buy a house and asks Andy to live with him. Peck and Epstein are involved in a secret undercover operation with Detective Boyd. Andy and Diaz go to a disturbance at Epstein's girlfriends house and end up blowing the undercover operation. Peck must step up to help Diaz before it's too late.
Uh-oh. Looks like Andy has a hand in blowing yet another undercover operation. First, she blew the one Sam Swarek was working on at the beginning of the season by arresting him. Now, she and Diaz have blown a major drug operation. Both Swarek and Barber can see where Andy acted as a normal cop would by seeing something suspicious in a vehicle and checking it out. Boyd is still furious. Swarek ends up getting the man Andy arrested to give him information about the drug buy.
Swarek calls Angel, Gabe's drug contact and, posing as Gabe, manages to set up another deal with him for that night. Andy wants to go undercover as his girlfriend for the operation. She and Callaghan argue because he's not sold on her going undercover. She's angry because Callaghan is worried about her safety but Swarek tries to convince her that Callaghan is backing her up because he's on the team to help during the drug buy.
The situation of the drug buy changes and Swarek must leave with Angel to go get the drugs. Andy stays behind with Angel's friend. McNally gets info from Angel's friend that Swarek is walking into a situation where he'll certainly be killed because they will know he isn't Gabe.
Peck and Diaz investigate a warehouse and get trapped in a room together after Diaz is stabbed by someone in the warehouse. The suspect they've been looking for arrives at the warehouse. They think they've been rescued when they hear that the police have stormed the warehouse but gunfire erupts. Gail covers Diaz's body with her own to protect him.
When she hears that someone was killed in the shootout Andy is genuinely afraid that it might be Swarek and is very relieved to learn he's OK. I can't help but think that she's so worried about him not just because he's her partner but because he truly does mean something to her. She truly does care about him more than she's allowing herself to admit.
Everything wraps up quite nicely for the characters this season. Epstein and his girlfriend make up with one another, Diaz lost a lot of blood but he will be fine, Peck refuses to leave his side when he's taken to the hospital and Andy and Callaghan make up because she sees that he was there for her.
I was hoping that we might see some fireworks between Swarek, Callaghan and McNally and I guess we'll have to wait for season two to see if anything like that develops. Swarek really is being the great guy about everything and Andy should be able to see that he's always there for her and believes in her even when she doesn't believe in herself.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Thirteen, Takedown
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
Callaghan put in an offer to buy a house and asks Andy to live with him. Peck and Epstein are involved in a secret undercover operation with Detective Boyd. Andy and Diaz go to a disturbance at Epstein's girlfriends house and end up blowing the undercover operation. Peck must step up to help Diaz before it's too late.
Uh-oh. Looks like Andy has a hand in blowing yet another undercover operation. First, she blew the one Sam Swarek was working on at the beginning of the season by arresting him. Now, she and Diaz have blown a major drug operation. Both Swarek and Barber can see where Andy acted as a normal cop would by seeing something suspicious in a vehicle and checking it out. Boyd is still furious. Swarek ends up getting the man Andy arrested to give him information about the drug buy.
Swarek calls Angel, Gabe's drug contact and, posing as Gabe, manages to set up another deal with him for that night. Andy wants to go undercover as his girlfriend for the operation. She and Callaghan argue because he's not sold on her going undercover. She's angry because Callaghan is worried about her safety but Swarek tries to convince her that Callaghan is backing her up because he's on the team to help during the drug buy.
The situation of the drug buy changes and Swarek must leave with Angel to go get the drugs. Andy stays behind with Angel's friend. McNally gets info from Angel's friend that Swarek is walking into a situation where he'll certainly be killed because they will know he isn't Gabe.
Peck and Diaz investigate a warehouse and get trapped in a room together after Diaz is stabbed by someone in the warehouse. The suspect they've been looking for arrives at the warehouse. They think they've been rescued when they hear that the police have stormed the warehouse but gunfire erupts. Gail covers Diaz's body with her own to protect him.
When she hears that someone was killed in the shootout Andy is genuinely afraid that it might be Swarek and is very relieved to learn he's OK. I can't help but think that she's so worried about him not just because he's her partner but because he truly does mean something to her. She truly does care about him more than she's allowing herself to admit.
Everything wraps up quite nicely for the characters this season. Epstein and his girlfriend make up with one another, Diaz lost a lot of blood but he will be fine, Peck refuses to leave his side when he's taken to the hospital and Andy and Callaghan make up because she sees that he was there for her.
I was hoping that we might see some fireworks between Swarek, Callaghan and McNally and I guess we'll have to wait for season two to see if anything like that develops. Swarek really is being the great guy about everything and Andy should be able to see that he's always there for her and believes in her even when she doesn't believe in herself.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.12 "To Serve or Protect"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Twelve, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
It's evaluation day for the rookies. Williams and McNally respond to the death of a teenage girl, Julia, at a party. Nash's ex is wanting back in the picture and Jerry seems a bit worried about it.
Diaz and Epstein find copies of their evaluations and aren't pleased at what they say. Knowing they have one more shift before they receive those evaluations, they want to prove everyone wrong, prove that they are good cops.
McNally is worried when her father didn't show up for one of the nightly meetings he's been attending. He returns her call saying he attended another meeting.
Andy finds ID on Julia's body but it doesn't belong to her. She and Williams go to the address on the ID and find the ID belonged to Julia's older sister. Williams orders Andy to do the death notification. The mother is a soldier on leave and apparently approaches everything, including her parenting, with a military attitude.
While speaking with two of Julia's friends, Epstein learns that she was seeing a boy named Adam who they thought was a bad guy. Adam and Julia had a heated argument at the party. Swarek and Peck get him into an interview room to try and get the truth about what happened to his girlfriend. He tells them Julia was pregnant.
Julia's mother, Dana goes downstairs and Andy finds her sitting at her desk holding a gun. Williams is able to talk Dana into putting the gun down and they cuff her for her own safety.
Diaz confiscates all the cell phones at the party and on one he finds a video of Julia falling to her death. The video clears Adam of pushing her from the roof. Julia slipped and fell.
At her evaluation, Andy is clearly bothered by the nights events. She is convinced that Dana would have killed herself had Williams not arrived when she did. She's afraid that the longer she stays on the job the worse things are going to get and that she will not "be able to take the uniform off" and will become like Dana.
Andy decides she wants to stay on the job and all five of the rookies pass their evaluations with flying colors to become full fledged members of 15 Division. Everyone goes to the bar to celebrate. Peck asks Swarek if they can 'get some air'. Andy sees them leave together and she can't help but watch after them as they are leaving. Please, Rookie Blue writers, don't put Peck and Swarek together. Not a good pairing, there.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Twelve, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
It's evaluation day for the rookies. Williams and McNally respond to the death of a teenage girl, Julia, at a party. Nash's ex is wanting back in the picture and Jerry seems a bit worried about it.
Diaz and Epstein find copies of their evaluations and aren't pleased at what they say. Knowing they have one more shift before they receive those evaluations, they want to prove everyone wrong, prove that they are good cops.
McNally is worried when her father didn't show up for one of the nightly meetings he's been attending. He returns her call saying he attended another meeting.
Andy finds ID on Julia's body but it doesn't belong to her. She and Williams go to the address on the ID and find the ID belonged to Julia's older sister. Williams orders Andy to do the death notification. The mother is a soldier on leave and apparently approaches everything, including her parenting, with a military attitude.
While speaking with two of Julia's friends, Epstein learns that she was seeing a boy named Adam who they thought was a bad guy. Adam and Julia had a heated argument at the party. Swarek and Peck get him into an interview room to try and get the truth about what happened to his girlfriend. He tells them Julia was pregnant.
Julia's mother, Dana goes downstairs and Andy finds her sitting at her desk holding a gun. Williams is able to talk Dana into putting the gun down and they cuff her for her own safety.
Diaz confiscates all the cell phones at the party and on one he finds a video of Julia falling to her death. The video clears Adam of pushing her from the roof. Julia slipped and fell.
At her evaluation, Andy is clearly bothered by the nights events. She is convinced that Dana would have killed herself had Williams not arrived when she did. She's afraid that the longer she stays on the job the worse things are going to get and that she will not "be able to take the uniform off" and will become like Dana.
Andy decides she wants to stay on the job and all five of the rookies pass their evaluations with flying colors to become full fledged members of 15 Division. Everyone goes to the bar to celebrate. Peck asks Swarek if they can 'get some air'. Andy sees them leave together and she can't help but watch after them as they are leaving. Please, Rookie Blue writers, don't put Peck and Swarek together. Not a good pairing, there.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.12 "To Serve or Protect"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Twelve, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
It's evaluation day for the rookies. Williams and McNally respond to the death of a teenage girl, Julia, at a party. Nash's ex is wanting back in the picture and Jerry seems a bit worried about it.
Diaz and Epstein find copies of their evaluations and aren't pleased at what they say. Knowing they have one more shift before they receive those evaluations, they want to prove everyone wrong, prove that they are good cops.
McNally is worried when her father didn't show up for one of the nightly meetings he's been attending. He returns her call saying he attended another meeting.
Andy finds ID on Julia's body but it doesn't belong to her. She and Williams go to the address on the ID and find the ID belonged to Julia's older sister. Williams orders Andy to do the death notification. The mother is a soldier on leave and apparently approaches everything, including her parenting, with a military attitude.
While speaking with two of Julia's friends, Epstein learns that she was seeing a boy named Adam who they thought was a bad guy. Adam and Julia had a heated argument at the party. Swarek and Peck get him into an interview room to try and get the truth about what happened to his girlfriend. He tells them Julia was pregnant.
Julia's mother, Dana goes downstairs and Andy finds her sitting at her desk holding a gun. Williams is able to talk Dana into putting the gun down and they cuff her for her own safety.
Diaz confiscates all the cell phones at the party and on one he finds a video of Julia falling to her death. The video clears Adam of pushing her from the roof. Julia slipped and fell.
At her evaluation, Andy is clearly bothered by the nights events. She is convinced that Dana would have killed herself had Williams not arrived when she did. She's afraid that the longer she stays on the job the worse things are going to get and that she will not "be able to take the uniform off" and will become like Dana.
Andy decides she wants to stay on the job and all five of the rookies pass their evaluations with flying colors to become full fledged members of 15 Division. Everyone goes to the bar to celebrate. Peck asks Swarek if they can 'get some air'. Andy sees them leave together and she can't help but watch after them as they are leaving. Please, Rookie Blue writers, don't put Peck and Swarek together. Not a good pairing, there.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Twelve, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 9, 2010
It's evaluation day for the rookies. Williams and McNally respond to the death of a teenage girl, Julia, at a party. Nash's ex is wanting back in the picture and Jerry seems a bit worried about it.
Diaz and Epstein find copies of their evaluations and aren't pleased at what they say. Knowing they have one more shift before they receive those evaluations, they want to prove everyone wrong, prove that they are good cops.
McNally is worried when her father didn't show up for one of the nightly meetings he's been attending. He returns her call saying he attended another meeting.
Andy finds ID on Julia's body but it doesn't belong to her. She and Williams go to the address on the ID and find the ID belonged to Julia's older sister. Williams orders Andy to do the death notification. The mother is a soldier on leave and apparently approaches everything, including her parenting, with a military attitude.
While speaking with two of Julia's friends, Epstein learns that she was seeing a boy named Adam who they thought was a bad guy. Adam and Julia had a heated argument at the party. Swarek and Peck get him into an interview room to try and get the truth about what happened to his girlfriend. He tells them Julia was pregnant.
Julia's mother, Dana goes downstairs and Andy finds her sitting at her desk holding a gun. Williams is able to talk Dana into putting the gun down and they cuff her for her own safety.
Diaz confiscates all the cell phones at the party and on one he finds a video of Julia falling to her death. The video clears Adam of pushing her from the roof. Julia slipped and fell.
At her evaluation, Andy is clearly bothered by the nights events. She is convinced that Dana would have killed herself had Williams not arrived when she did. She's afraid that the longer she stays on the job the worse things are going to get and that she will not "be able to take the uniform off" and will become like Dana.
Andy decides she wants to stay on the job and all five of the rookies pass their evaluations with flying colors to become full fledged members of 15 Division. Everyone goes to the bar to celebrate. Peck asks Swarek if they can 'get some air'. Andy sees them leave together and she can't help but watch after them as they are leaving. Please, Rookie Blue writers, don't put Peck and Swarek together. Not a good pairing, there.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Friday, September 3, 2010
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Ben Bass Interview
Anyone who has read any of my Rookie Blue posts the past few months has got to know that I'm a fan of Ben Bass' character, Sam Swarek. I'm a definite cheerleader for Team Swarek hoping that, eventually, Andy McNally and dashing officer Swarek will find happiness together. (I've been a fan of Bass for a while now so maybe I'm a little biased.)
tvfanatic.com recently published an exclusive interview with Ben Bass where he talks about the show, his character and the people he works with. He also reveals that they started working on season two of Rookie Blue on September 1st. It's a great interview and well worth the few minutes to read if you are a fan of the show, of Bass or his character.
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/08/exclusive-interview-ben-bass-on-rookie-blue-character-second-sea/
tvfanatic.com recently published an exclusive interview with Ben Bass where he talks about the show, his character and the people he works with. He also reveals that they started working on season two of Rookie Blue on September 1st. It's a great interview and well worth the few minutes to read if you are a fan of the show, of Bass or his character.
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/08/exclusive-interview-ben-bass-on-rookie-blue-character-second-sea/
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Ben Bass Interview
Anyone who has read any of my Rookie Blue posts the past few months has got to know that I'm a fan of Ben Bass' character, Sam Swarek. I'm a definite cheerleader for Team Swarek hoping that, eventually, Andy McNally and dashing officer Swarek will find happiness together. (I've been a fan of Bass for a while now so maybe I'm a little biased.)
tvfanatic.com recently published an exclusive interview with Ben Bass where he talks about the show, his character and the people he works with. He also reveals that they started working on season two of Rookie Blue on September 1st. It's a great interview and well worth the few minutes to read if you are a fan of the show, of Bass or his character.
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/08/exclusive-interview-ben-bass-on-rookie-blue-character-second-sea/
tvfanatic.com recently published an exclusive interview with Ben Bass where he talks about the show, his character and the people he works with. He also reveals that they started working on season two of Rookie Blue on September 1st. It's a great interview and well worth the few minutes to read if you are a fan of the show, of Bass or his character.
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/08/exclusive-interview-ben-bass-on-rookie-blue-character-second-sea/
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.11 "To Serve or Protect"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Eleven, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 2, 2010
Epstein and Diaz see someone in their squad car as they are leaving a call. They chase the person but he gets away. The call they make reporting the incident becomes a tool to make a point at the next briefing (as well as a good joke). McNally and Swarek do a favor to his nurse friend Monica by taking a statement from a patient. The statement leads to the discovery of the murder of a man that was a suspect in one of McNally's fathers old cases. Some of the evidence in the murder points towards Tommy McNally. Shaw finds the person who was in Diaz and Epstein's car, The Guardian, was accessing information in the car.
Epstein and Diaz go to the apartment of the drug dealer The Guardian accessed information about and find Guardian at the building when they arrive. They manage to capture him this time. When they get him back to the Barn, the seasoned officers are right there with their cameras to take pictures and further tease Epstein and Diaz. The more Diaz and Epstein talk with Terry Porter (Guardian), the more they learn he isn't what they originally thought. He's a guy who made a mistake as a kid and is trying to do something good. Using photographs Porter was able to take, the police can work to make a case against a local drug dealer.
Gail Peck is upset because her mother is getting a lifetime achievement award and she has to introduce her mother at the banquet and she's got stage fright. Nash tries to help her with the speech she needs to give so she will feel more comfortable. Gail is afraid to fail. This is the first time this season that Peck has actually seemed like a normal human being and not some self-absorbed, spoiled girl that thinks she's better than everyone else. It was nice to see that she has vulnerabilities and is afraid of them even though she still ends up chickening out and not giving the speech.
McNally and Swarek go to her father's apartment to ask him about the man that was found murdered and find blood on the wall outside and her father bloodied with no memory of what happened. Tommy McNally feels he has to follow the suspect because no one else will. He was following him when he was murdered but claims he blacked out. Swarek locks Tommy's gun, which had been fired recently, away and tells him to not talk to anyone or answer the phone. They need to put together what happened before everything comes back to Tommy implicating him in the murder. Not only is Swarek trying to protect Tommy McNally but he's trying to protect Andy. He doesn't want any negativity from this case to stick to her.
Swarek is familiar with the old case and lets Andy in on the details. Tommy was drinking heavily then and his mistakes caused the case to be pled down to weapons charges and a walk on rape and murder. Both Andy and Swarek are shocked to see Tommy McNally walk into the office with his case notes saying he's there to help. Callaghan is angry when he learns that Swarek and Andy kept information about Tommy from him as he sees him as a suspect. Everything changes with the victims widow confesses to Swarek that she was the one who committed the murder. Swarek also finds a traffic camera that recorded Tommy McNally in an area nowhere near the murder scene.
Andy refuses to cover for Tommy anymore and doesn't want to be part of his life because of all the mess his drinking causes. Not wanting to live without his daughter, Tommy McNally attends his first midnight meeting for his addiction to alcohol.
The moment between Andy and Callaghan in the interview room near the beginning of the show was almost sickeningly sweet. Yeah, I get it they are the happy lovers united once again after a nasty bout but the moment was still a bit too cutesy. Callaghan was with Andy when she took Tommy to his midnight meeting but Swarek is always there to be Andy's saviour when she needs one most. At some point, I can't help but think that Andy will be able to see that when she needs someone to actually be there for her, be understanding and not judgmental, only one of the two men in her life actually fits the bill.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Eleven, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 2, 2010
Epstein and Diaz see someone in their squad car as they are leaving a call. They chase the person but he gets away. The call they make reporting the incident becomes a tool to make a point at the next briefing (as well as a good joke). McNally and Swarek do a favor to his nurse friend Monica by taking a statement from a patient. The statement leads to the discovery of the murder of a man that was a suspect in one of McNally's fathers old cases. Some of the evidence in the murder points towards Tommy McNally. Shaw finds the person who was in Diaz and Epstein's car, The Guardian, was accessing information in the car.
Epstein and Diaz go to the apartment of the drug dealer The Guardian accessed information about and find Guardian at the building when they arrive. They manage to capture him this time. When they get him back to the Barn, the seasoned officers are right there with their cameras to take pictures and further tease Epstein and Diaz. The more Diaz and Epstein talk with Terry Porter (Guardian), the more they learn he isn't what they originally thought. He's a guy who made a mistake as a kid and is trying to do something good. Using photographs Porter was able to take, the police can work to make a case against a local drug dealer.
Gail Peck is upset because her mother is getting a lifetime achievement award and she has to introduce her mother at the banquet and she's got stage fright. Nash tries to help her with the speech she needs to give so she will feel more comfortable. Gail is afraid to fail. This is the first time this season that Peck has actually seemed like a normal human being and not some self-absorbed, spoiled girl that thinks she's better than everyone else. It was nice to see that she has vulnerabilities and is afraid of them even though she still ends up chickening out and not giving the speech.
McNally and Swarek go to her father's apartment to ask him about the man that was found murdered and find blood on the wall outside and her father bloodied with no memory of what happened. Tommy McNally feels he has to follow the suspect because no one else will. He was following him when he was murdered but claims he blacked out. Swarek locks Tommy's gun, which had been fired recently, away and tells him to not talk to anyone or answer the phone. They need to put together what happened before everything comes back to Tommy implicating him in the murder. Not only is Swarek trying to protect Tommy McNally but he's trying to protect Andy. He doesn't want any negativity from this case to stick to her.
Swarek is familiar with the old case and lets Andy in on the details. Tommy was drinking heavily then and his mistakes caused the case to be pled down to weapons charges and a walk on rape and murder. Both Andy and Swarek are shocked to see Tommy McNally walk into the office with his case notes saying he's there to help. Callaghan is angry when he learns that Swarek and Andy kept information about Tommy from him as he sees him as a suspect. Everything changes with the victims widow confesses to Swarek that she was the one who committed the murder. Swarek also finds a traffic camera that recorded Tommy McNally in an area nowhere near the murder scene.
Andy refuses to cover for Tommy anymore and doesn't want to be part of his life because of all the mess his drinking causes. Not wanting to live without his daughter, Tommy McNally attends his first midnight meeting for his addiction to alcohol.
The moment between Andy and Callaghan in the interview room near the beginning of the show was almost sickeningly sweet. Yeah, I get it they are the happy lovers united once again after a nasty bout but the moment was still a bit too cutesy. Callaghan was with Andy when she took Tommy to his midnight meeting but Swarek is always there to be Andy's saviour when she needs one most. At some point, I can't help but think that Andy will be able to see that when she needs someone to actually be there for her, be understanding and not judgmental, only one of the two men in her life actually fits the bill.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.11 "To Serve or Protect"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Eleven, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 2, 2010
Epstein and Diaz see someone in their squad car as they are leaving a call. They chase the person but he gets away. The call they make reporting the incident becomes a tool to make a point at the next briefing (as well as a good joke). McNally and Swarek do a favor to his nurse friend Monica by taking a statement from a patient. The statement leads to the discovery of the murder of a man that was a suspect in one of McNally's fathers old cases. Some of the evidence in the murder points towards Tommy McNally. Shaw finds the person who was in Diaz and Epstein's car, The Guardian, was accessing information in the car.
Epstein and Diaz go to the apartment of the drug dealer The Guardian accessed information about and find Guardian at the building when they arrive. They manage to capture him this time. When they get him back to the Barn, the seasoned officers are right there with their cameras to take pictures and further tease Epstein and Diaz. The more Diaz and Epstein talk with Terry Porter (Guardian), the more they learn he isn't what they originally thought. He's a guy who made a mistake as a kid and is trying to do something good. Using photographs Porter was able to take, the police can work to make a case against a local drug dealer.
Gail Peck is upset because her mother is getting a lifetime achievement award and she has to introduce her mother at the banquet and she's got stage fright. Nash tries to help her with the speech she needs to give so she will feel more comfortable. Gail is afraid to fail. This is the first time this season that Peck has actually seemed like a normal human being and not some self-absorbed, spoiled girl that thinks she's better than everyone else. It was nice to see that she has vulnerabilities and is afraid of them even though she still ends up chickening out and not giving the speech.
McNally and Swarek go to her father's apartment to ask him about the man that was found murdered and find blood on the wall outside and her father bloodied with no memory of what happened. Tommy McNally feels he has to follow the suspect because no one else will. He was following him when he was murdered but claims he blacked out. Swarek locks Tommy's gun, which had been fired recently, away and tells him to not talk to anyone or answer the phone. They need to put together what happened before everything comes back to Tommy implicating him in the murder. Not only is Swarek trying to protect Tommy McNally but he's trying to protect Andy. He doesn't want any negativity from this case to stick to her.
Swarek is familiar with the old case and lets Andy in on the details. Tommy was drinking heavily then and his mistakes caused the case to be pled down to weapons charges and a walk on rape and murder. Both Andy and Swarek are shocked to see Tommy McNally walk into the office with his case notes saying he's there to help. Callaghan is angry when he learns that Swarek and Andy kept information about Tommy from him as he sees him as a suspect. Everything changes with the victims widow confesses to Swarek that she was the one who committed the murder. Swarek also finds a traffic camera that recorded Tommy McNally in an area nowhere near the murder scene.
Andy refuses to cover for Tommy anymore and doesn't want to be part of his life because of all the mess his drinking causes. Not wanting to live without his daughter, Tommy McNally attends his first midnight meeting for his addiction to alcohol.
The moment between Andy and Callaghan in the interview room near the beginning of the show was almost sickeningly sweet. Yeah, I get it they are the happy lovers united once again after a nasty bout but the moment was still a bit too cutesy. Callaghan was with Andy when she took Tommy to his midnight meeting but Swarek is always there to be Andy's saviour when she needs one most. At some point, I can't help but think that Andy will be able to see that when she needs someone to actually be there for her, be understanding and not judgmental, only one of the two men in her life actually fits the bill.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Eleven, To Serve or Protect
Original Air Date: September 2, 2010
Epstein and Diaz see someone in their squad car as they are leaving a call. They chase the person but he gets away. The call they make reporting the incident becomes a tool to make a point at the next briefing (as well as a good joke). McNally and Swarek do a favor to his nurse friend Monica by taking a statement from a patient. The statement leads to the discovery of the murder of a man that was a suspect in one of McNally's fathers old cases. Some of the evidence in the murder points towards Tommy McNally. Shaw finds the person who was in Diaz and Epstein's car, The Guardian, was accessing information in the car.
Epstein and Diaz go to the apartment of the drug dealer The Guardian accessed information about and find Guardian at the building when they arrive. They manage to capture him this time. When they get him back to the Barn, the seasoned officers are right there with their cameras to take pictures and further tease Epstein and Diaz. The more Diaz and Epstein talk with Terry Porter (Guardian), the more they learn he isn't what they originally thought. He's a guy who made a mistake as a kid and is trying to do something good. Using photographs Porter was able to take, the police can work to make a case against a local drug dealer.
Gail Peck is upset because her mother is getting a lifetime achievement award and she has to introduce her mother at the banquet and she's got stage fright. Nash tries to help her with the speech she needs to give so she will feel more comfortable. Gail is afraid to fail. This is the first time this season that Peck has actually seemed like a normal human being and not some self-absorbed, spoiled girl that thinks she's better than everyone else. It was nice to see that she has vulnerabilities and is afraid of them even though she still ends up chickening out and not giving the speech.
McNally and Swarek go to her father's apartment to ask him about the man that was found murdered and find blood on the wall outside and her father bloodied with no memory of what happened. Tommy McNally feels he has to follow the suspect because no one else will. He was following him when he was murdered but claims he blacked out. Swarek locks Tommy's gun, which had been fired recently, away and tells him to not talk to anyone or answer the phone. They need to put together what happened before everything comes back to Tommy implicating him in the murder. Not only is Swarek trying to protect Tommy McNally but he's trying to protect Andy. He doesn't want any negativity from this case to stick to her.
Swarek is familiar with the old case and lets Andy in on the details. Tommy was drinking heavily then and his mistakes caused the case to be pled down to weapons charges and a walk on rape and murder. Both Andy and Swarek are shocked to see Tommy McNally walk into the office with his case notes saying he's there to help. Callaghan is angry when he learns that Swarek and Andy kept information about Tommy from him as he sees him as a suspect. Everything changes with the victims widow confesses to Swarek that she was the one who committed the murder. Swarek also finds a traffic camera that recorded Tommy McNally in an area nowhere near the murder scene.
Andy refuses to cover for Tommy anymore and doesn't want to be part of his life because of all the mess his drinking causes. Not wanting to live without his daughter, Tommy McNally attends his first midnight meeting for his addiction to alcohol.
The moment between Andy and Callaghan in the interview room near the beginning of the show was almost sickeningly sweet. Yeah, I get it they are the happy lovers united once again after a nasty bout but the moment was still a bit too cutesy. Callaghan was with Andy when she took Tommy to his midnight meeting but Swarek is always there to be Andy's saviour when she needs one most. At some point, I can't help but think that Andy will be able to see that when she needs someone to actually be there for her, be understanding and not judgmental, only one of the two men in her life actually fits the bill.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Friday, August 27, 2010
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.10 "Big Nickel"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Ten, Big Nickel
Original Air Date: August 26, 2010
The rookies spend some time with Shaw at the shooting range for re-certification. McNally is the only one who qualifies. Swarek and McNally are assigned to transfer a prisoner. Peck and Epstein are assigned to the case of a naked John Doe claiming to have amnesia. Detective Barber has lost the case notebook for a case he has coming up and Nash and Diaz help him try to reconstruct the case in his mind. The four rookies who didn't qualify go back to the shooting range for a second chance.
McNally doesn't like the thought of spending 10 hours in a car with Swarek and even he begs Williams to take over for him. Williams refuses, of course. Swarek doesn't want to talk at all and Andy is uncomfortable with that. While at a diner, the atmosphere between the two gets very awkward so to ease the tension a bit, Swarek makes some old jokes with the waitress that McNally gets a good laugh from.
The prisoner they pick up appears to be a very nice and courteous man. He makes innocent conversation with them, thanks them for letting him have the cuffs in front rather than behind his back and critiques Swarek's attitude. He proves himself to be less than charming when they pull over to the side of the road for Swarek to head into the bushes to go to the bathroom. He fakes an allergic reaction to the hot dog he's eating and when McNally opens the back door to help him, he kicks the door, knocks her down and escapes.
Swarek is livid when he finds out the prisoner is gone and reads Andy the riot act. They head into the woods looking for him knowing that if they don't find him they're both in major trouble. They finally find him and catch him by working together.
Swarek proves he's a nice guy when he genuinely compliments Callaghan to Andy. He even goes to Callaghan and tells him that he tried something with Andy and she shot him down and that he shouldn't screw the relationship up. Callaghan and Andy end up back together.
While going through the case paperwork with Barber, Diaz notices a difference in numbering on two evidence sheets. The differences lead Barber to realize that the prisoner Swarek and McNally are bringing in isn't a witness but the shooter.
I liked that Detective Barber had a larger than normal role in this episode. His character is pretty cool but you don't get to see much of him. A precious few episodes have had him in them for more than a few minutes total which is a shame. Noam Jenkins is a great actor and I'd love to see an episode with his character as the main focus. I know, I know. Missy Peregrym is the star so that will never happen but I can hope, can't I?
Epstein genuinely wants to try and solve the mystery of their amnesiac John Doe but Peck wants to hurry him off to the the doctors and let him be their problem. Peck has issues and is apparently using her bad attitude to hide them and not have to deal with them. She really should face them head-on. She'd be a much more likable character in my eyes. As much as I've disliked her this season I am interested to see just how the writers will end up handling her.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Ten, Big Nickel
Original Air Date: August 26, 2010
The rookies spend some time with Shaw at the shooting range for re-certification. McNally is the only one who qualifies. Swarek and McNally are assigned to transfer a prisoner. Peck and Epstein are assigned to the case of a naked John Doe claiming to have amnesia. Detective Barber has lost the case notebook for a case he has coming up and Nash and Diaz help him try to reconstruct the case in his mind. The four rookies who didn't qualify go back to the shooting range for a second chance.
McNally doesn't like the thought of spending 10 hours in a car with Swarek and even he begs Williams to take over for him. Williams refuses, of course. Swarek doesn't want to talk at all and Andy is uncomfortable with that. While at a diner, the atmosphere between the two gets very awkward so to ease the tension a bit, Swarek makes some old jokes with the waitress that McNally gets a good laugh from.
The prisoner they pick up appears to be a very nice and courteous man. He makes innocent conversation with them, thanks them for letting him have the cuffs in front rather than behind his back and critiques Swarek's attitude. He proves himself to be less than charming when they pull over to the side of the road for Swarek to head into the bushes to go to the bathroom. He fakes an allergic reaction to the hot dog he's eating and when McNally opens the back door to help him, he kicks the door, knocks her down and escapes.
Swarek is livid when he finds out the prisoner is gone and reads Andy the riot act. They head into the woods looking for him knowing that if they don't find him they're both in major trouble. They finally find him and catch him by working together.
Swarek proves he's a nice guy when he genuinely compliments Callaghan to Andy. He even goes to Callaghan and tells him that he tried something with Andy and she shot him down and that he shouldn't screw the relationship up. Callaghan and Andy end up back together.
While going through the case paperwork with Barber, Diaz notices a difference in numbering on two evidence sheets. The differences lead Barber to realize that the prisoner Swarek and McNally are bringing in isn't a witness but the shooter.
I liked that Detective Barber had a larger than normal role in this episode. His character is pretty cool but you don't get to see much of him. A precious few episodes have had him in them for more than a few minutes total which is a shame. Noam Jenkins is a great actor and I'd love to see an episode with his character as the main focus. I know, I know. Missy Peregrym is the star so that will never happen but I can hope, can't I?
Epstein genuinely wants to try and solve the mystery of their amnesiac John Doe but Peck wants to hurry him off to the the doctors and let him be their problem. Peck has issues and is apparently using her bad attitude to hide them and not have to deal with them. She really should face them head-on. She'd be a much more likable character in my eyes. As much as I've disliked her this season I am interested to see just how the writers will end up handling her.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.10 "Big Nickel"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Ten, Big Nickel
Original Air Date: August 26, 2010
The rookies spend some time with Shaw at the shooting range for re-certification. McNally is the only one who qualifies. Swarek and McNally are assigned to transfer a prisoner. Peck and Epstein are assigned to the case of a naked John Doe claiming to have amnesia. Detective Barber has lost the case notebook for a case he has coming up and Nash and Diaz help him try to reconstruct the case in his mind. The four rookies who didn't qualify go back to the shooting range for a second chance.
McNally doesn't like the thought of spending 10 hours in a car with Swarek and even he begs Williams to take over for him. Williams refuses, of course. Swarek doesn't want to talk at all and Andy is uncomfortable with that. While at a diner, the atmosphere between the two gets very awkward so to ease the tension a bit, Swarek makes some old jokes with the waitress that McNally gets a good laugh from.
The prisoner they pick up appears to be a very nice and courteous man. He makes innocent conversation with them, thanks them for letting him have the cuffs in front rather than behind his back and critiques Swarek's attitude. He proves himself to be less than charming when they pull over to the side of the road for Swarek to head into the bushes to go to the bathroom. He fakes an allergic reaction to the hot dog he's eating and when McNally opens the back door to help him, he kicks the door, knocks her down and escapes.
Swarek is livid when he finds out the prisoner is gone and reads Andy the riot act. They head into the woods looking for him knowing that if they don't find him they're both in major trouble. They finally find him and catch him by working together.
Swarek proves he's a nice guy when he genuinely compliments Callaghan to Andy. He even goes to Callaghan and tells him that he tried something with Andy and she shot him down and that he shouldn't screw the relationship up. Callaghan and Andy end up back together.
While going through the case paperwork with Barber, Diaz notices a difference in numbering on two evidence sheets. The differences lead Barber to realize that the prisoner Swarek and McNally are bringing in isn't a witness but the shooter.
I liked that Detective Barber had a larger than normal role in this episode. His character is pretty cool but you don't get to see much of him. A precious few episodes have had him in them for more than a few minutes total which is a shame. Noam Jenkins is a great actor and I'd love to see an episode with his character as the main focus. I know, I know. Missy Peregrym is the star so that will never happen but I can hope, can't I?
Epstein genuinely wants to try and solve the mystery of their amnesiac John Doe but Peck wants to hurry him off to the the doctors and let him be their problem. Peck has issues and is apparently using her bad attitude to hide them and not have to deal with them. She really should face them head-on. She'd be a much more likable character in my eyes. As much as I've disliked her this season I am interested to see just how the writers will end up handling her.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Season One, Episode Ten, Big Nickel
Original Air Date: August 26, 2010
The rookies spend some time with Shaw at the shooting range for re-certification. McNally is the only one who qualifies. Swarek and McNally are assigned to transfer a prisoner. Peck and Epstein are assigned to the case of a naked John Doe claiming to have amnesia. Detective Barber has lost the case notebook for a case he has coming up and Nash and Diaz help him try to reconstruct the case in his mind. The four rookies who didn't qualify go back to the shooting range for a second chance.
McNally doesn't like the thought of spending 10 hours in a car with Swarek and even he begs Williams to take over for him. Williams refuses, of course. Swarek doesn't want to talk at all and Andy is uncomfortable with that. While at a diner, the atmosphere between the two gets very awkward so to ease the tension a bit, Swarek makes some old jokes with the waitress that McNally gets a good laugh from.
The prisoner they pick up appears to be a very nice and courteous man. He makes innocent conversation with them, thanks them for letting him have the cuffs in front rather than behind his back and critiques Swarek's attitude. He proves himself to be less than charming when they pull over to the side of the road for Swarek to head into the bushes to go to the bathroom. He fakes an allergic reaction to the hot dog he's eating and when McNally opens the back door to help him, he kicks the door, knocks her down and escapes.
Swarek is livid when he finds out the prisoner is gone and reads Andy the riot act. They head into the woods looking for him knowing that if they don't find him they're both in major trouble. They finally find him and catch him by working together.
Swarek proves he's a nice guy when he genuinely compliments Callaghan to Andy. He even goes to Callaghan and tells him that he tried something with Andy and she shot him down and that he shouldn't screw the relationship up. Callaghan and Andy end up back together.
While going through the case paperwork with Barber, Diaz notices a difference in numbering on two evidence sheets. The differences lead Barber to realize that the prisoner Swarek and McNally are bringing in isn't a witness but the shooter.
I liked that Detective Barber had a larger than normal role in this episode. His character is pretty cool but you don't get to see much of him. A precious few episodes have had him in them for more than a few minutes total which is a shame. Noam Jenkins is a great actor and I'd love to see an episode with his character as the main focus. I know, I know. Missy Peregrym is the star so that will never happen but I can hope, can't I?
Epstein genuinely wants to try and solve the mystery of their amnesiac John Doe but Peck wants to hurry him off to the the doctors and let him be their problem. Peck has issues and is apparently using her bad attitude to hide them and not have to deal with them. She really should face them head-on. She'd be a much more likable character in my eyes. As much as I've disliked her this season I am interested to see just how the writers will end up handling her.
For more information:
Official Site: http://abc.go.com/shows/rookie-blue
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/rookie-blue
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442065/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Rookie_Blue
Saturday, August 21, 2010
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.9 "Girlfriend of the Year"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Nine, Girlfriend of the Year
Original Air Date: August 19, 2010
Andy confides in Tracy that she hooked up with Swarek but that nothing happened because the lights came back on. Swarek gives McNally and Nash the job of putting shredded documents back together until a bigger case calls them all away. Epstein and Shaw are working together and Peck and Diaz are partnered this week catching speeders. A routine speeding case ends up as the search for an abducted little girl, Rebecca.
A car and a truck that speed past Shaw and Epstein end up in an accident. The driver of the truck is nowhere to be found but the woman driving the car is in serious condition. After running the plates, they learn that an Amber Alert was issued for a little girl last seen in that truck.
Peck and Diaz find Rebecca's backpack and jacket but no sign of her. McNally and Swarek are assigned to the parents while Nash and Williams are assigned to stay at the mothers home in case Rebecca comes home. Swarek is suspicious of the mother and wants to focus on her, believing she is hiding information. He and McNally discuss the case with Callaghan. It's clear the tension between McNally, Swarek and Callaghan is playing a part in their working relationships. However, when the truth starts to emerge about the details of the case, Swarek and Callaghan see eye to eye on what should be done.
The woman injured in the automobile accident tells Epstein she was chasing the truck because she saw the license plate on the Amber Alert. She tells him the driver wasn't a man but a woman and gives a description.
Nash finds a bottle of prescription drugs in the mothers medicine cabinet with the downstairs tenants name on them. She and Williams go into the neighbors home and they find a CD with a message from Connor Chapman, their suspect, on it.
When the woman injured in the accident positively identifies the downstairs neighbor as the woman driving the truck, the investigation intensifies. McNally is sent in to speak with the mother who opens up and tells her the truth about what happened the day Rebecca went missing. Thanks to a tip from a cabbie, Rebecca is found with Connor Chapman and his girlfriend on a bus and returned to her parents. The case seemed to greatly affect Officer Shaw. I wonder if there's something more there that might be revealed in a later episode?
Callaghan questions McNally about her and Swarek. McNally tells him the truth and he leaves. He's angry at her and it's clear they now have some serious damage control that needs to be done in their relationship.
We're almost through the first season of Rookie Blue so it's about time for the big issues to start coming out. We have our weekly cases but the secondary story lines my favorites. I'm very interested to see how the whole McNally/Swarek/Callaghan love triangle thing turns out. Of course, I'm cheering for Sam. I like the friendship developing between Nash and Williams. I'm hoping that Diaz and Peck are over with for good. He's too nice for her.
Here's hoping next weeks episode is full of fireworks in tension between McNally, Callaghan and Swarek!
Season One, Episode Nine, Girlfriend of the Year
Original Air Date: August 19, 2010
Andy confides in Tracy that she hooked up with Swarek but that nothing happened because the lights came back on. Swarek gives McNally and Nash the job of putting shredded documents back together until a bigger case calls them all away. Epstein and Shaw are working together and Peck and Diaz are partnered this week catching speeders. A routine speeding case ends up as the search for an abducted little girl, Rebecca.
A car and a truck that speed past Shaw and Epstein end up in an accident. The driver of the truck is nowhere to be found but the woman driving the car is in serious condition. After running the plates, they learn that an Amber Alert was issued for a little girl last seen in that truck.
Peck and Diaz find Rebecca's backpack and jacket but no sign of her. McNally and Swarek are assigned to the parents while Nash and Williams are assigned to stay at the mothers home in case Rebecca comes home. Swarek is suspicious of the mother and wants to focus on her, believing she is hiding information. He and McNally discuss the case with Callaghan. It's clear the tension between McNally, Swarek and Callaghan is playing a part in their working relationships. However, when the truth starts to emerge about the details of the case, Swarek and Callaghan see eye to eye on what should be done.
The woman injured in the automobile accident tells Epstein she was chasing the truck because she saw the license plate on the Amber Alert. She tells him the driver wasn't a man but a woman and gives a description.
Nash finds a bottle of prescription drugs in the mothers medicine cabinet with the downstairs tenants name on them. She and Williams go into the neighbors home and they find a CD with a message from Connor Chapman, their suspect, on it.
When the woman injured in the accident positively identifies the downstairs neighbor as the woman driving the truck, the investigation intensifies. McNally is sent in to speak with the mother who opens up and tells her the truth about what happened the day Rebecca went missing. Thanks to a tip from a cabbie, Rebecca is found with Connor Chapman and his girlfriend on a bus and returned to her parents. The case seemed to greatly affect Officer Shaw. I wonder if there's something more there that might be revealed in a later episode?
Callaghan questions McNally about her and Swarek. McNally tells him the truth and he leaves. He's angry at her and it's clear they now have some serious damage control that needs to be done in their relationship.
We're almost through the first season of Rookie Blue so it's about time for the big issues to start coming out. We have our weekly cases but the secondary story lines my favorites. I'm very interested to see how the whole McNally/Swarek/Callaghan love triangle thing turns out. Of course, I'm cheering for Sam. I like the friendship developing between Nash and Williams. I'm hoping that Diaz and Peck are over with for good. He's too nice for her.
Here's hoping next weeks episode is full of fireworks in tension between McNally, Callaghan and Swarek!
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.9 "Girlfriend of the Year"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Nine, Girlfriend of the Year
Original Air Date: August 19, 2010
Andy confides in Tracy that she hooked up with Swarek but that nothing happened because the lights came back on. Swarek gives McNally and Nash the job of putting shredded documents back together until a bigger case calls them all away. Epstein and Shaw are working together and Peck and Diaz are partnered this week catching speeders. A routine speeding case ends up as the search for an abducted little girl, Rebecca.
A car and a truck that speed past Shaw and Epstein end up in an accident. The driver of the truck is nowhere to be found but the woman driving the car is in serious condition. After running the plates, they learn that an Amber Alert was issued for a little girl last seen in that truck.
Peck and Diaz find Rebecca's backpack and jacket but no sign of her. McNally and Swarek are assigned to the parents while Nash and Williams are assigned to stay at the mothers home in case Rebecca comes home. Swarek is suspicious of the mother and wants to focus on her, believing she is hiding information. He and McNally discuss the case with Callaghan. It's clear the tension between McNally, Swarek and Callaghan is playing a part in their working relationships. However, when the truth starts to emerge about the details of the case, Swarek and Callaghan see eye to eye on what should be done.
The woman injured in the automobile accident tells Epstein she was chasing the truck because she saw the license plate on the Amber Alert. She tells him the driver wasn't a man but a woman and gives a description.
Nash finds a bottle of prescription drugs in the mothers medicine cabinet with the downstairs tenants name on them. She and Williams go into the neighbors home and they find a CD with a message from Connor Chapman, their suspect, on it.
When the woman injured in the accident positively identifies the downstairs neighbor as the woman driving the truck, the investigation intensifies. McNally is sent in to speak with the mother who opens up and tells her the truth about what happened the day Rebecca went missing. Thanks to a tip from a cabbie, Rebecca is found with Connor Chapman and his girlfriend on a bus and returned to her parents. The case seemed to greatly affect Officer Shaw. I wonder if there's something more there that might be revealed in a later episode?
Callaghan questions McNally about her and Swarek. McNally tells him the truth and he leaves. He's angry at her and it's clear they now have some serious damage control that needs to be done in their relationship.
We're almost through the first season of Rookie Blue so it's about time for the big issues to start coming out. We have our weekly cases but the secondary story lines my favorites. I'm very interested to see how the whole McNally/Swarek/Callaghan love triangle thing turns out. Of course, I'm cheering for Sam. I like the friendship developing between Nash and Williams. I'm hoping that Diaz and Peck are over with for good. He's too nice for her.
Here's hoping next weeks episode is full of fireworks in tension between McNally, Callaghan and Swarek!
Season One, Episode Nine, Girlfriend of the Year
Original Air Date: August 19, 2010
Andy confides in Tracy that she hooked up with Swarek but that nothing happened because the lights came back on. Swarek gives McNally and Nash the job of putting shredded documents back together until a bigger case calls them all away. Epstein and Shaw are working together and Peck and Diaz are partnered this week catching speeders. A routine speeding case ends up as the search for an abducted little girl, Rebecca.
A car and a truck that speed past Shaw and Epstein end up in an accident. The driver of the truck is nowhere to be found but the woman driving the car is in serious condition. After running the plates, they learn that an Amber Alert was issued for a little girl last seen in that truck.
Peck and Diaz find Rebecca's backpack and jacket but no sign of her. McNally and Swarek are assigned to the parents while Nash and Williams are assigned to stay at the mothers home in case Rebecca comes home. Swarek is suspicious of the mother and wants to focus on her, believing she is hiding information. He and McNally discuss the case with Callaghan. It's clear the tension between McNally, Swarek and Callaghan is playing a part in their working relationships. However, when the truth starts to emerge about the details of the case, Swarek and Callaghan see eye to eye on what should be done.
The woman injured in the automobile accident tells Epstein she was chasing the truck because she saw the license plate on the Amber Alert. She tells him the driver wasn't a man but a woman and gives a description.
Nash finds a bottle of prescription drugs in the mothers medicine cabinet with the downstairs tenants name on them. She and Williams go into the neighbors home and they find a CD with a message from Connor Chapman, their suspect, on it.
When the woman injured in the accident positively identifies the downstairs neighbor as the woman driving the truck, the investigation intensifies. McNally is sent in to speak with the mother who opens up and tells her the truth about what happened the day Rebecca went missing. Thanks to a tip from a cabbie, Rebecca is found with Connor Chapman and his girlfriend on a bus and returned to her parents. The case seemed to greatly affect Officer Shaw. I wonder if there's something more there that might be revealed in a later episode?
Callaghan questions McNally about her and Swarek. McNally tells him the truth and he leaves. He's angry at her and it's clear they now have some serious damage control that needs to be done in their relationship.
We're almost through the first season of Rookie Blue so it's about time for the big issues to start coming out. We have our weekly cases but the secondary story lines my favorites. I'm very interested to see how the whole McNally/Swarek/Callaghan love triangle thing turns out. Of course, I'm cheering for Sam. I like the friendship developing between Nash and Williams. I'm hoping that Diaz and Peck are over with for good. He's too nice for her.
Here's hoping next weeks episode is full of fireworks in tension between McNally, Callaghan and Swarek!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.8 "Honor Roll"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Eight, Honor Roll
Original Air Date: August 12, 2010
Detective Callaghan asks Swarek to help get McNally out of work on time so they can sneak away to Callaghan's fishing cabin for the weekend. Senior officers are scheduled for off-duty retraining and rookies are assigned to work community outreach at local high schools. Peck gets to help with the re-tests. Nash and Epstein are assigned to a prep school while McNally and Diaz go to a public school. McNally and Diaz become involved in a case of police corruption when their outreach at the public school falls through.
Peck strikes again. As Nash is getting ready to leave for the prep school with Epstein, Nash mentions she doesn't want to spend the day with teenagers. Peck just has to take the opportunity to say it's because it brings up bad memories for Nash: teen mother, unpopular and shunned. I really dislike Peck but I've got to give Charlotte Sullivan major credit for her portrayal of her. She knows how to bring a very unlikeable character to life vividly.
Things are tense between McNally and Swarek. Wonder why? I've said it before and I'll say it again: she's with the wrong guy. Mr. Pretty Boy Detective is the wrong guy for her. Swarek is tough, smart, cool and he really seems to care about her a lot. I know if I had to make the choice, it wouldn't take me very long to make it and there wouldn't need to be that much thought involved!
Swarek challenges the detectives at the retraining session. Officer Williams takes down the detective she goes against pretty swiftly. Swarek and Callaghan go head to head and Swarek takes all of his aggression out on him during the session.
The dates are wrong with the school McNally and Diaz were assigned to and, after they leave, they see a beaten man in an alley. A policeman is implicated in the beating by witnesses. The case goes downhill fast when it becomes clear that the policeman, the partner of Gail Peck's brother, is a dirty cop. They take what they know upstairs and Swarek steps up and admits that they tried to talk to him about it but he was distracted.
McNally and Diaz do the right thing but it causes a lot of problems for them. Gail chooses her brother over Diaz. Steve Peck warns Diaz to watch his own back because no one else will. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in future episodes. Just how hard things will get for the two of them before they get better.
Season One, Episode Eight, Honor Roll
Original Air Date: August 12, 2010
Detective Callaghan asks Swarek to help get McNally out of work on time so they can sneak away to Callaghan's fishing cabin for the weekend. Senior officers are scheduled for off-duty retraining and rookies are assigned to work community outreach at local high schools. Peck gets to help with the re-tests. Nash and Epstein are assigned to a prep school while McNally and Diaz go to a public school. McNally and Diaz become involved in a case of police corruption when their outreach at the public school falls through.
Peck strikes again. As Nash is getting ready to leave for the prep school with Epstein, Nash mentions she doesn't want to spend the day with teenagers. Peck just has to take the opportunity to say it's because it brings up bad memories for Nash: teen mother, unpopular and shunned. I really dislike Peck but I've got to give Charlotte Sullivan major credit for her portrayal of her. She knows how to bring a very unlikeable character to life vividly.
Things are tense between McNally and Swarek. Wonder why? I've said it before and I'll say it again: she's with the wrong guy. Mr. Pretty Boy Detective is the wrong guy for her. Swarek is tough, smart, cool and he really seems to care about her a lot. I know if I had to make the choice, it wouldn't take me very long to make it and there wouldn't need to be that much thought involved!
Swarek challenges the detectives at the retraining session. Officer Williams takes down the detective she goes against pretty swiftly. Swarek and Callaghan go head to head and Swarek takes all of his aggression out on him during the session.
The dates are wrong with the school McNally and Diaz were assigned to and, after they leave, they see a beaten man in an alley. A policeman is implicated in the beating by witnesses. The case goes downhill fast when it becomes clear that the policeman, the partner of Gail Peck's brother, is a dirty cop. They take what they know upstairs and Swarek steps up and admits that they tried to talk to him about it but he was distracted.
McNally and Diaz do the right thing but it causes a lot of problems for them. Gail chooses her brother over Diaz. Steve Peck warns Diaz to watch his own back because no one else will. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in future episodes. Just how hard things will get for the two of them before they get better.
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.8 "Honor Roll"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Eight, Honor Roll
Original Air Date: August 12, 2010
Detective Callaghan asks Swarek to help get McNally out of work on time so they can sneak away to Callaghan's fishing cabin for the weekend. Senior officers are scheduled for off-duty retraining and rookies are assigned to work community outreach at local high schools. Peck gets to help with the re-tests. Nash and Epstein are assigned to a prep school while McNally and Diaz go to a public school. McNally and Diaz become involved in a case of police corruption when their outreach at the public school falls through.
Peck strikes again. As Nash is getting ready to leave for the prep school with Epstein, Nash mentions she doesn't want to spend the day with teenagers. Peck just has to take the opportunity to say it's because it brings up bad memories for Nash: teen mother, unpopular and shunned. I really dislike Peck but I've got to give Charlotte Sullivan major credit for her portrayal of her. She knows how to bring a very unlikeable character to life vividly.
Things are tense between McNally and Swarek. Wonder why? I've said it before and I'll say it again: she's with the wrong guy. Mr. Pretty Boy Detective is the wrong guy for her. Swarek is tough, smart, cool and he really seems to care about her a lot. I know if I had to make the choice, it wouldn't take me very long to make it and there wouldn't need to be that much thought involved!
Swarek challenges the detectives at the retraining session. Officer Williams takes down the detective she goes against pretty swiftly. Swarek and Callaghan go head to head and Swarek takes all of his aggression out on him during the session.
The dates are wrong with the school McNally and Diaz were assigned to and, after they leave, they see a beaten man in an alley. A policeman is implicated in the beating by witnesses. The case goes downhill fast when it becomes clear that the policeman, the partner of Gail Peck's brother, is a dirty cop. They take what they know upstairs and Swarek steps up and admits that they tried to talk to him about it but he was distracted.
McNally and Diaz do the right thing but it causes a lot of problems for them. Gail chooses her brother over Diaz. Steve Peck warns Diaz to watch his own back because no one else will. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in future episodes. Just how hard things will get for the two of them before they get better.
Season One, Episode Eight, Honor Roll
Original Air Date: August 12, 2010
Detective Callaghan asks Swarek to help get McNally out of work on time so they can sneak away to Callaghan's fishing cabin for the weekend. Senior officers are scheduled for off-duty retraining and rookies are assigned to work community outreach at local high schools. Peck gets to help with the re-tests. Nash and Epstein are assigned to a prep school while McNally and Diaz go to a public school. McNally and Diaz become involved in a case of police corruption when their outreach at the public school falls through.
Peck strikes again. As Nash is getting ready to leave for the prep school with Epstein, Nash mentions she doesn't want to spend the day with teenagers. Peck just has to take the opportunity to say it's because it brings up bad memories for Nash: teen mother, unpopular and shunned. I really dislike Peck but I've got to give Charlotte Sullivan major credit for her portrayal of her. She knows how to bring a very unlikeable character to life vividly.
Things are tense between McNally and Swarek. Wonder why? I've said it before and I'll say it again: she's with the wrong guy. Mr. Pretty Boy Detective is the wrong guy for her. Swarek is tough, smart, cool and he really seems to care about her a lot. I know if I had to make the choice, it wouldn't take me very long to make it and there wouldn't need to be that much thought involved!
Swarek challenges the detectives at the retraining session. Officer Williams takes down the detective she goes against pretty swiftly. Swarek and Callaghan go head to head and Swarek takes all of his aggression out on him during the session.
The dates are wrong with the school McNally and Diaz were assigned to and, after they leave, they see a beaten man in an alley. A policeman is implicated in the beating by witnesses. The case goes downhill fast when it becomes clear that the policeman, the partner of Gail Peck's brother, is a dirty cop. They take what they know upstairs and Swarek steps up and admits that they tried to talk to him about it but he was distracted.
McNally and Diaz do the right thing but it causes a lot of problems for them. Gail chooses her brother over Diaz. Steve Peck warns Diaz to watch his own back because no one else will. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in future episodes. Just how hard things will get for the two of them before they get better.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
CDN Television: Rookie Blue, Episode 1.7 "Hot & Bothered"
Rookie Blue
Season One, Episode Seven, Hot & Bothered
Original Air Date: August 5, 2010
A heat wave is going through causing some people to act strangely, thus causing more work for the police. Swarek and McNally pull over an ice cream truck that is being driven erratically only to find that the truck was being driven by a young girl. Peck and Epstein find themselves faced with caring for an agoraphobic woman going into labor in her home. Shaw and McNally respond to a case that might possibly tie into the ice cream truck incident earlier that morning. The power goes out across the city turning things into a nightmare for the police.
Peck and Epstein must deliver the baby on their own as they can't reach emergency services because of the power outage and ambulances are backed up and cannot get to them. Peck is rather whiny about the entire situation and actually wants to arrest an agoraphobic woman in the middle of labor to get her out of the house and to a hospital. Great people skills, huh? Epstein refuses to let her do that and they end up delivering the baby beautifully. Epstein's caring nature even succeeds in getting the woman to leave the house to accompany her premature baby to the hospital. Of course, later, Peck thinks she was "pretty great" during the whole delivery. I don't think so!
Swarek and McNally seem to be joined at the hip much to McNally's displeasure. She doesn't feel he trusts her as a police officer much and is writing all the reports and getting his coffee. As Epstein put it, she's his "hot secretary with a gun".
When Swarek is injured and his nurse "friend" arrives at the station to administer nitroglycerin to someone else, the nurse insists he stay to get stitches in his hand. Rather than send McNally out on her own, Swarek partners her up with Shaw. They respond to a call of shots fired but instead find it to be a case of a missing young girl. The mother was worried about her daughter and feared the police wouldn't respond if they didn't think the situation was more dire.
Swarek talks to the little girl who stole the ice cream truck for McNally and finds out that she was running from a man at the park. Swan is in a mess of trouble when the man the girl was running from hits him over the head when Swan comes too close to discovering his secret. The man shoots Swan but, thankfully, his vest saves his life but McNally must go after the man before he can kill the little girl.
McNally is forced to shoot the man when he draws on her. She did as Swarek advised her at the beginning of the show, she followed her instincts. Of course, she's shaken by what happened. Callaghan surprises her by wanting to spend time working on the case of the man McNally just shot instead of spending the evening with her. She talks with Swarek for a few minutes and he tells her if she needs to talk just call him. She goes home and spends some time crying then leaves and goes to Swarek's house. She doesn't want to talk and she and Swarek end up in his bedroom when the power comes back on. He gets up to turn a few things off (WTF??!!) and McNally gets a call from Callaghan. She doesn't answer it but she gets dressed to leave all the same.
What was Swarek thinking? Let the TV blare! Let the radio go. Let the blender blend to its heart content. When he got up to turn things off he really turned things off. Just when I thought Team Swarek was going to score some major points. Sigh. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what comes about from all this. McNally is clearly having serious doubts about her relationship with Mr. Pretty Boy Detective so I'm holding out hope that Swarek still has a good chance.
Season One, Episode Seven, Hot & Bothered
Original Air Date: August 5, 2010
A heat wave is going through causing some people to act strangely, thus causing more work for the police. Swarek and McNally pull over an ice cream truck that is being driven erratically only to find that the truck was being driven by a young girl. Peck and Epstein find themselves faced with caring for an agoraphobic woman going into labor in her home. Shaw and McNally respond to a case that might possibly tie into the ice cream truck incident earlier that morning. The power goes out across the city turning things into a nightmare for the police.
Peck and Epstein must deliver the baby on their own as they can't reach emergency services because of the power outage and ambulances are backed up and cannot get to them. Peck is rather whiny about the entire situation and actually wants to arrest an agoraphobic woman in the middle of labor to get her out of the house and to a hospital. Great people skills, huh? Epstein refuses to let her do that and they end up delivering the baby beautifully. Epstein's caring nature even succeeds in getting the woman to leave the house to accompany her premature baby to the hospital. Of course, later, Peck thinks she was "pretty great" during the whole delivery. I don't think so!
Swarek and McNally seem to be joined at the hip much to McNally's displeasure. She doesn't feel he trusts her as a police officer much and is writing all the reports and getting his coffee. As Epstein put it, she's his "hot secretary with a gun".
When Swarek is injured and his nurse "friend" arrives at the station to administer nitroglycerin to someone else, the nurse insists he stay to get stitches in his hand. Rather than send McNally out on her own, Swarek partners her up with Shaw. They respond to a call of shots fired but instead find it to be a case of a missing young girl. The mother was worried about her daughter and feared the police wouldn't respond if they didn't think the situation was more dire.
Swarek talks to the little girl who stole the ice cream truck for McNally and finds out that she was running from a man at the park. Swan is in a mess of trouble when the man the girl was running from hits him over the head when Swan comes too close to discovering his secret. The man shoots Swan but, thankfully, his vest saves his life but McNally must go after the man before he can kill the little girl.
McNally is forced to shoot the man when he draws on her. She did as Swarek advised her at the beginning of the show, she followed her instincts. Of course, she's shaken by what happened. Callaghan surprises her by wanting to spend time working on the case of the man McNally just shot instead of spending the evening with her. She talks with Swarek for a few minutes and he tells her if she needs to talk just call him. She goes home and spends some time crying then leaves and goes to Swarek's house. She doesn't want to talk and she and Swarek end up in his bedroom when the power comes back on. He gets up to turn a few things off (WTF??!!) and McNally gets a call from Callaghan. She doesn't answer it but she gets dressed to leave all the same.
What was Swarek thinking? Let the TV blare! Let the radio go. Let the blender blend to its heart content. When he got up to turn things off he really turned things off. Just when I thought Team Swarek was going to score some major points. Sigh. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what comes about from all this. McNally is clearly having serious doubts about her relationship with Mr. Pretty Boy Detective so I'm holding out hope that Swarek still has a good chance.
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