Review: "The Blacklist"

[livingdeb]

Enjoy Yourself

This morning after the third snooze, we heard these lyrics:
"Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

It's not really a song about having to pull yourself out of a warm bed in the morning, but those lyrics fit.

"The Blacklist"

Last night we watched the first episode of "The Blacklist," a crime drama that Robin's co-workers talk about a lot and that I had never heard of.

It seems to be a TV show about Hannibal Lecter working with Clarice Starling to catch bad guys. Clarice does it because they really are some pretty bad guys. Lecter seems to be doing it to groom Clarice to follow in his footsteps. And we see evidence that Clarice might just be up for that.

Both Clarice and her husband seem to think that she can be an FBI agent but put her family first--haven't they watched any TV at all? Some of Clarice's co-workers think Lecter is in it to try to get their intelligence--also idiotic; he clearly knows more than they do on every issue. So I don't like any of the characters, even if the evidence that Clarice's husband isn't what he appears is planted rather than real.

The whole episode was scary and stress-inducing. I think the show is just going to be unpleasant. Robin wants to try watching another episode or two, though. Just in case.

The Job

I still have no information on today's training and have e-mailed my old instructor to see if he knows. My new boss was talking about possibly carpooling, and though I don't think she'll actually get around to organizing that, if I haven't heard anything by 11:30 or so, I'll head over to the office in case people are meeting there.

Blog Entry of the Day

Toilets Are Supposed To Flush. That's Pretty Much It. - This entry from Step Away from the Mall is probably my favorite on wants versus needs.

"Seriously?!?! I know it’s ugly but I 'need' to do the kitchen and baths?!?! And yes… they mean 'need.' Like they wouldn’t move in until it were completely done over.

"The good news is that I’ve heard things like this so many times over the years, that I’ve almost perfected the response:

"...The stove and oven only cooked food! And the fridge only kept my food cold! I have to rip it all out and start over! I can’t believe the woman who owned it before me and raised six kids here wasn’t arrested for child abuse. ..."

It's a pretty amusing response.

Comments

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

I can see how you'd feel that way about "The Blacklist". I love it, myself, but I like dark. And personally I love James Spader's character. He's vile, but in an awesome way. I'm not as fond of the female agent (and as you watch more of it, you get clues as to why he's actually so laser-locked on her), but clearly they're doing the whole Mulder-Scully relationship (why should I believe you even though you've been right about everything every time) and you just sort of go with it.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Heh. We'll see if I get inured to the evil.