See Jane Clack – Poker After Dark, Denis Leary, Buffy Update
It’s been an interesting week in Jane’s World, with TV poker, those ultra-cool Rescue Me spots, and Buffy season six shooting to the top of my Clack list. Read on, and feel free to clack your heart out in the comments.
I don’t really get watching poker on TV. I caught part of Poker After Dark the other night, and it’s just not interesting at all. Maybe it’s like golf, where you have to BE a golf or poker player to get into watching it on TV. My son happily provided the hushed narration for Poker After Dark for me: “He’s picking a card up … and now… he’s putting a card down …” That about sums it up. Although I checked out the site and was fascinated to learn that actress Jennifer Tilley is now a professional poker player. That’s pretty darn cool.
Damages – season three predictions
Aside from the heart-stopping twists and turns the Damages season two finale provided, we were left with just enough loose ends to keep us guessing — and interested — in what season three will have in store for us. I’ve got a couple of predictions about Ellen and Patty, Daniel’s fate, Claire Maddox, Patty’s family troubles and Ellen and Wes.
First of all, Ellen and her job offer. A couple of CliqueClack commenters have some interesting thoughts about this. Hot Mama 62 thinks the job offer is from Patty, to be a partner in the firm. CJ thinks perhaps Ellen and Claire Maddox will team up. Either of these could be a possible scenario, and both would be f-u-n.
Arthur Frobisher says “Bend over, bite down hard, and just take it”
So … I think this episode of Damages can be summed up in this quote:
“Take this from me. Don’t engage with her. You step in the ring with that woman, she will cut your balls off and jam ‘em down your throat. My advice … when she straps one on, bend over, bite down hard, and just take it. Anyway, good to see ya!” - Arthur Frobisher to Walter Kendrick
Other stuff that popped out at me:
Walter Kendrick is still reminding me of Tony Soprano. Come to think of it, Patty is sort of like a female Tony Soprano. When those two stare each other down, it’s like Tony times ten.
What’s their game, Patty and Walter? First, she slanders him on national TV. Then he sues her for defamation. Then she makes a deal to donate to his environmental charity (in West Virginia, no less). Then Patty sues him on behalf of “a major UNR shareholder….”
What?! Patty is working with Frobisher? Mind-twist.
Damages – Did the Walter Kendrick roast seem really weird?
Admittedly, I haven’t been in corporate America for some years, but did the roast of Walter Kendrick seem really weird? Is this like a Hasty Pudding thing where guys dress up as ugly dames? What was that all about?
And yikes, I guess Kendrick has no sense of humor about anything. After one of his cohorts said some pretty racy things during the roast, Kendrick punched him out in the bathroom and gave him a toilet head-butt! This guy reminds me of Tony Soprano.
And what’s his game with Daniel Purcell? Now that Kendrick has paid off Purcell — who henceforth screwed Patty over in court (ruining his changes of having an open relationship with his and Patty’s son) — he wants Purcell back on the team?
I guess he wants to keep him close and keep an eye on him. Is that what you’re getting out of it?
Damages – What is up with Wes?
I’m not sure what to make of Wes Krulik. First, he makes friends with her in group therapy, and before you know it, he’s telling her to let him know if she ever needs a gun (well, not in so many words, but that’s what he meant).
OK, first of all, that just seems weird for two people in grief counseling together. I mean, if he’s trying to set her up, that seems like a lame way to do it. And why doesn’t she suspect that he’s not all that he seems? If someone wanted to get me a gun and teach me how to shoot it, I’d be a little suspect about the whole thing.
Then, after a gun-shooting session — where Ellen is weirdly saying she’s going to shoot that target if it’s the last thing she does! — she leaves, and Wes calls a mystery person on the phone and says, “Suddenly, she wants to learn how to use a gun. I don’t know if you’re safe.” There’s an awful lot of mystery people on the phone in this show. And I have no idea who any of them are.
Damages – Is Patty protecting herself by not knowing everything?
I’ve said it before: Patty Hewes is one cool cat. Well, most of the time. Unless she thinks she’s being had by one of her own, as in this week’s episode.
Everything Patty does is calculated. At the beginning of the episode, she was so sweet to Ellen, taking her to the spa and inviting her to the 10-year party for Tom at her apartment. And then afterward, saying how nice it was to have Ellen there. Aw, soft puppies and warm sunlight. Patty seems almost human and friendly.
See Jane Clack – Glenn Close, vampire sex, and those KFC commercials
There was plenty of clacking going on inside my head this week, everything from those stupid KFC commercials to Moonlight to the Super Bowl. Take a peek, and let me know if you agree or disagree in the comments section:
I wish 24 and Damages were better this season. Sure, it’s swell having them back, but so far, I’m not rabid for the next episodes or anything. That saddens me, because I really love both of these series, and it doesn’t get much better than Glenn Close and William Hurt. Hopefully, both shows will get better and have me pining to see what happens next. Or maybe I just expect too much. I didn’t even realize I felt this way about Damages until Modwild pointed it out to me in the comments last week. Mod, I don’t know whether to thank you or curse you!
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