This is really weird.
We know, come the final season, what will happen with Van Buren. But she stopped wearing her wedding ring this season. Or it might have been last season. Sorry, but my eyes latch on to stuff like that. And I doubt the show runner(s) plan that far ahead.
So I checked S. Epatha Merkerson's IMDb, and she got divorced in 2006, which was during season 17. Now I'm wondering if the wedding rings she wore were her real rings. See, in Bollywood, the actors and actresses who are married, well, okay, I can think of only two, but they wore their wedding rings, even when their characters weren't married. Or married to the love interests yet. One is my NUMERO UNO FAVORITE actor (Amitabh Bachchan), and the other was one of my favorite actresses (Hema Malini).
So that made me wonder, all of a sudden, if Merkerson's rings were her own. Yeah, I'm weird.
On to this season.
I'm really, really, and I mean REALLY not liking the heavy-handed right in my face political angle. Yes, when Schiff was DA, there were scenes of dialogue how his constituency needed him to do A or B, but it wasn't partisan. I really disliked the in your face dialogue in "Illegal" for instance. And "Quit Claim" was so, so, utterly ridiculous. Wait, I take that back. Of course every MAN (except for Mike and Jack, thank goodness) were taken in by Kim or whatever her real name was. Even the jury. UGH.
What Mike did to Connie in "Tango" was not a good look for him. Or Jack's line about having to "use what we have", especially after what happened with the jury foreperson in "Hubris."
Next up is "Betrayal" which had so many of us on TWoP, posting "Mike and Liz so DID IT!" when it aired and Elizabeth testified how she had a relationship with a police detective who had lost his partner in the line of fire. And I still wish Logan could have appeared to pop Jack one for betraying Elizabeth's confidence. Yeah, there were a lot of Mike and Elizabeth shippers over there.
But I also can't stand the same damn "ominous" and depressing music this show plays that is the EXACT SAME MUSIC used in Criminal Intent. This show IS NOT CRIMINAL INTENT. It doesn't need all those Criminal Intent plot devices and music that was used in the last few seasons.
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