"A spoof of crime documentaries about the arrest and trial of a beloved poetry professor from a small town in South Carolina, who is accused of brutally murdering his wife, and the young Northeastern lawyer hired to defend him."
Pros:
1. The cast:
John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun) as the lead Larry who is really dumb and may have murdered his wife.
Nicholas D'Agosto who plays Josh, the lawyer hired to defend him.
Sherri Shepherd who plays Anne and has all these variety of disorders like not knowing people's faces called facial amnesia.
Anne: I don't recognize my husband. It's like sleeping with a different man every night.
Carol (Jayma Mays from Glee) plays the prosecutor.
2. It was light, fun, and funny.
Cons: None.
Comparisons:
Black woman judge: Have you noticed this before? The judge is often played by a black woman. I have written about this before on my blog.
My opinion: I watched the first 2 eps because they aired back-to-back. It was fun and all, but I never watched it again. It got a 2nd season and it aired in the summer. Then it got cancelled.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5511512/
https://showsnob.com/2018/08/07/trial-error-canceled-nbc/
Powerless:
"Follow the staff of an insurance company, specialising in products to protect defenseless bystanders from the collateral damage of Superheroes and Supervillains."
Pros:
1. The cast:
Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) is the lead Emily who starts her new job at the insurance company.
Danny Pudi (Community) is a worker there.
Alan Tudyk (Dollhouse) is the boss.
2. The dialogue:
Dad: What you do in your own quiet way, can change people's lives for the better.
My opinion: I'm going to put that in my inspirational quotes.
Emily: To get the best out of people, you need to get to know them on a personal level.
My opinion: That seems like job advice for a manager on how to motivate workers.
3. It was realistic. Emily is a woman in her late 20s and she got this supervisor job at this big company. I thought it wasn't realistic because if you were to get that kind of job at this big company, you have to be in your late 30s. You have to have years of experience.
It was realistic, when the workers tell her why she got hired (spoiler alert):
She was the 5th new boss that year.
Cons:
1. They live in Charm City. I don't like how TV shows have names with City at the end.
Starling City- on Arrow.
Central City- on The Flash.
National City- on Supergirl.
My opinion: I watched the pilot and then I never watched it again.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5083928/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Nov. 3, 2018 Letterkenny: The show came out in 2016, but it was on Crave. Then in mid-season 2017, CTV aired the pilot.
"Quick-witted fast-paced snappy comedy about hillbilly hicks getting by in a small town."
Pros:
1. It's a Canadian show that is going very well.
Cons:
1. It was offensive. There was a lot of profanity. When I saw the promos, I was under the impression that it was going to be like Corner Gas about a small town of fun and funny characters.
2. I didn't find it funny.
3. I didn't really like the characters.
My opinion: I saw the pilot and then I never watched it again.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4647692/?ref_=nv_sr_3
24: Legacy: I never watched the original 24. I was a teen back then. This reboot listed the original star Kiefer Sutherland as an exec producer.
"A military hero who returns to the U.S. with a whole lot of trouble following him back. With nowhere else to turn, the man asks CTU to help him save his life while also stopping one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil."
Pros:
1. It had a good opening with a house that's trashed and a guy tortured. The bad guys want something.
Then it shows Carter (Corey Hawkins) coming home and how he was a soldier in the Counter Terrorism Unit.
2. Good ethnic diversity.
3. Good action with fight scenes and shoot outs.
4. There is lots of drama, conflict, and tension to stop a terrorist attack.
Cons: None.
My opinion: The pilot was average and then I never watched it again. I like FBI and action shows, but I didn't really connect with the show.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5345490/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Blacklist: Redemption: I saw The Blacklist pilot when it first came out. It was good, but then I never watched it again. Here is the spinoff:
"Covert operative Tom Keen joins forces with Susan "Scottie" Hargrave, the brilliant and cunning chief of a covert mercenary organization that solves problems that are too dangerous for the government."
Pros:
1. There is a good opening where they are on a plane a bad guy is being tortured. There is good action here and a surprise.
2. The cast: Ryan Eggold plays Tom Keen from the original show.
Famke Janssen (X-Men) plays Scottie.
Terry O'Quinn (Alias) plays Howard.
3. Good ethnic diversity.
4. There is a good action with the fight scenes. They go on a mission like a black- tie event and it's just like Alias among other shows.
Cons: None.
My opinion: The pilot was average and then I never watched it again. I like action shows, but this didn't stand out.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5592230/?ref_=nv_sr_2
My week:
Nov. 17, 2018 "Stay of execution": Today I found this article by Grant Robertson in the Globe and Mail. It's about monkeys who lived in research labs. They then retire into this other facility because they are healthy and don't need to be euthanized. When I was reading it, I see how the monkeys are so much like humans and not just in physical shape, but in mental and emotional behavior.
It's a very good read.
Sun. Nov. 18, 2018 Work: On Sun. Nov. 11, 2018, it was busy at the restaurant. There were 30 customers. My co-workers W and Ca told me I needed to calm down.
Today, there were 14 customers. I was calm today and I pointed it out to my co-workers.
Mon. Nov. 19, 2018 Crazy day: I woke up early today though I worked late last night. I just woke up. Yesterday I was emailing back and forth with this woman to get info and set up an interview. I went to the interview today. I thought I could wait at this bus stop, but there was a sign to wait at another. I walked a block to it. Then a guy there said I had to wait at another.
I then got on the LRT to get there. I was going to be late so I called her and she said it was fine. The interview was 30 min. long with some deep questions:
How do you deal with rejection?
How do you keep smiling after a hard day?
Find an item on your person and sell it to me.
It was a sales job. The whole time I'm reading the newspaper on the commute. I also recycled some pens at Staples because it was close by.
New Age social event: I attended this event. It was New Age and out of the box. It was average.
Nov. 20, 2018 Syncrude thermos: My dad had this old metal Syncrude thermos and I was using it since 2015. Then the plastic lid broke and I taped it up. However, it still kind of leaks. I might as well recycle it. I had it for 4 yrs.
PennyDrops: "PennyDrops is a student-run non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of financial education in Canada. Our mission is to ensure that all Canadian students have the knowledge and confidence to make informed financial decisions post-graduation. With the financial backing of BMO, PennyDrops is paving the way to financial freedom for students coast-to- coast."
Scotiabank Giller Prize: I watched the award show of the best book.
Spoiler alert: The winner was Esi Edugyan for her book Washington Black.
The host was Rick Mercer and it was mainly light and fun jokes like: "We held the award show in Toronto, because Calgary voted against it."
Calgary voted against the 2026 Olympics being hosted in their city. I would say that's good because they would be going into debt hosting it.
Nov. 21, 2018: Today I was at home looking for and applying for jobs on the internet.
Nov. 22, 2018: Today I went out and passed my resumes to restaurants in the morning.
Job search complaints: I was thinking about that TV show Dollhouse.
Boyd: You can't always predict or control the consequences.
I mentioned this before about how the Dollar Tree at Jasper Gates closed down. I passed my resume there in 2017.
The Dollarama on Stony Plain Rd closed down too. There was a fire at the Chinese restaurant that was right by them, and this Halal place that got burned down too. The Dollarama looked stable, but it was torn down.
I passed my resume to that Dollarama in 2017. I guess I'm complaining because I got never got a callback from them and now I won't.
I was also at the HSBC building/ City Centre. I had mentioned that I passed my resumes to the Mucho Burrito, Subway, and Starbucks there. I see that they closed down the Second Cup right by it. I applied to all those places in 2017.
I can't predict or control who is going to call me or hire me. I can pass my resumes and apply to as many places as possible.
West Ed mall:
King Tut's store closed down. It opened last year. I passed my resume there.
My Pet store closed down. I didn't apply there.
Penguins fan gets kidney:
For 31-year-old hockey fan Kelly Sowatsky, the sign that she brought to a Pittsburgh Penguins game in April was a chance to save her life. In need of a kidney and with her health declining, the hockey community came through for her.
The large piece of Bristol board that she brought to the game had a simple message: ‘Calling all hockey fans. I need a kidney! Gratefully yours, Kelly.’
Jeff Lynd, who, like Kelly, is a teacher and Penguins fan, reached out via Facebook and offered to donate his kidney to her, someone he had never met.
“I saw desperation and, you know, I saw courage,” he told Good Morning America while holding the sign that changed both of their lives. “I had this feeling that it was just something that I had to do.”
The two met, it was confirmed that they were, in fact, a match and the successful transplant occurred two weeks ago.
It was a common love of the sport and some social media magic that connected the two of them. Now, Kelly and Jeff will be linked by more than just their love of the Penguins for the rest of their lives.
Nov. 23, 2018 The highlight of the week:
Job interviews: I went to 3 interviews. The first was a sales job that I didn't get hired at. I went to a restaurant interview, and I don't know if I got hired there. The cook was really nice and gave me a few of these deep fried cheese sticks when I came in.
I went to a sales interview today. I don't want to work there.
