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 one—Heart
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.
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White Collar: a definite yes! Love the narrow escapes … yeah, and Mozzie.
ReplyDeleteArcher, 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.
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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