blizobrien Reviews

Southland: Two Gangs (2009) Season 1, Episode 5

Moretta and Bryant kick Gang Leader Reggie's butt, Salinger's night from hell

[8/10 · 13 June 2015]

Moretta and Bryant investigate a suspect held to a wheelchair and looking innocent, but is dirty Gang Leader Reggie. Main plot centers around Det. Salinger trying to keep things silent about an affair with a sketchy girl in a nice suit named Mia. Salinger is trying maintain his self-respect while he has a domestic conflict riding on him. The tension of cops like Bryant and Moretta doing their jobs and Adams on a possible sex offender is complicated by the politics and dumb stuff that Salinger wishes never happened.

This a great look at the other guys besides Cooper (Cudlitz) and Sherman (McKenzie). Lot of fun and very tense.

The Walking Dead: I Ain't a Judas (2013) Season 3, Episode 11

Laurie Holden's Stands Proud in 3.11

[9/10 · 20 March 2014]

For Plot I could accept only a C, 7/10, 70%, but for acting performances, this gets an A for Laurie Holden and Dania Gurira. There is some tension because Andrea befriended the deceitful Governor. My favorite part besides Andrea is Merle living with Prison group from Hershel's farm, and giving CIA intelligence to destroy the Governor's Wood-be-real-paradise. Michonne and Andrea are a big intense family sibling rivalry only matched by Daryl being the nice guy and Merle the snake. Please watch this for Andrea and I like putting myself in her shoes as she goes to the Prison and then draws a knife on the Governor who wants a nonviolent peace offering with Rick and the Governor. Lots of important info for what happens in the last 2 episodes of S 3, with 3.15 and the finale, 3.16. Put 3.11 and 3.16 together and you get truly Shakespearean tragic ending to Andrea and Season 3. Andrea might at as well be Desdemona to Iago, the Governor. Some people are too gullible, hence, dictatorships and fascism.