The Practice virgin’s diary – Toilets, purse-snatching, clowns, and Richard Schiff
(Season 2, Episodes 21-24)
I can still stack the complaints I have about the show all the way past the roof of the nearby 42-story building, but I’m also really enjoying The Practice. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “Oh, wow!” of late. Jimmy and Ellenor haven’t changed, and I still think Bobby’s a cry-baby, but some of the moments that have taken place on screen these last four episodes have just shocked me, in a really great way. It’s Eugene carrying the load, but I can see a glint in some other eyes. Plus, the guest casting still works miracles.
2.21 “In Deep”
Lindsay got stuck with a doozy of a case: a man who needs more flush than city ordinances will allow him. Without getting into it all, the most glaring thing about the entire incident was how she placed her personal pride before her client’s wishes. However weird it was, he felt he needed to be allowed this exception; she was so embarrassed by arguing the case before a high-profile judge that she tried to convince him to plead guilty. Way to lawyer, Lindsay. Read the rest of this entry »
Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – Number Six carves a boat out of a single tree in an afternoon
(Episode 4 – “Checkmate” & Episode 5 – “The Chimes of Big Ben”)
I have to admit that, going into “Checkmate,” I wasn’t digging this show. I loathed to hear the awful “music” again, and … well, that’s about it. The music really is that bad. Fortunately I seem to have gotten somewhat used to it and have somehow allowed myself to ignore it for the most part.
After hearing basically the same episode intro for the fourth time, I’m finding myself analyzing it more. The show opens the same way, with Number Six (we never know his real name, at least not yet) racing in his cool-ass car to what is presumably his boss’s office to resign. Thunder booms and awful music plays over whatever he’s ranting about to his boss, he walks out in a huff to his car and speeds off home. There, he’s packing his things for what looks to be a getaway somewhere tropical, someone gasses his flat and he passes out. Then he wakes up in The Village and we hear the same dialog again and again (from Wikiquote):
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