Saturday, March 08, 2014

Archer, Mentalist, White Collar

                             



 Television Series


It's very hard to live productive lives when we spend 6 hours a day in a White Collar sensory deprivation tank. And 2 to 3 more hours with the Mentalist.  And (me alone) at least one hour with Archer and that's nearly a day spent with no reference to what's happening in the world. 



By the By, IMDB trivia for WhiteCollar: Season 4, Episode 1 Wanted (10 Jul. 2012)


I just submitted the following correction:

Mozzie's (Willie Garson's) chosen alias in this episode is "Barry Soetoro," which is a play on Barack Obama. When Obama was a preteen and teen, he preferred the nickname of Barry (instead of his given name of Barack, which exposed him to bullying), and his stepfather, his mother's second husband, was named Lolo Soetoro. After Lolo legally adopted him, Barry Soetoro became Obama's legal name (and he maintains Indonesian citizenship). A wink of an alias for Mozzie.

Con man Mozzie is the real star of White Collar in our opinion.  Somewhere midstream the series took on distinct undertones of Mission Impossible.  Great fun; great excitement.



If you're going to watch just one Archer (on Netflix), make it this oneHeart of Darkness II.  Caution, this FX series contains strong sexual content (but no full  frontal toon nudity or penetration), and filthy langauge.  How is this shown on televison?  Yes, I know.  But, it's funny as hell. Adults only.



Mother Superior has been watching The Mentalist (CBS) for months, and got me hooked in January.  As near as I can tell, nobody is streaming this series (for free, anyway); so we get by watching the 3-4 rerun episodes a week (from TNT I think),  and Sunday night's new episode.  Will you like it?  If you like Sherlock Holmes, I would think, yes.  Great fun, and excitement.

2 comments:

DougM said...

White Collar: a definite yes! Love the narrow escapes … yeah, and Mozzie.
Archer, the previous seasons: yes! Great stuff!
Archer, current season: yuck. They seriously screwed it up.
The Mentalist: watched two episodes, and it looked like a confusing/overacted/uninteresting version of Lie to Me, which I really, really liked.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Yeah, it took me some time getting into The Mentalist, despite the wife's continued insistence that I'd like it. Finally I agreed to sit through 2 or three of them, and they happened to be the right ones. I like the humor.

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