The Writer's Life 12/12 - Ions

Kudos to Fox for sticking with Gracepoint despite low ratings. Episode ten was riveting. The series is unlike most network dramas, which go for the spectacular. It is grounded, realistic, geared toward adults. I look forward to the last two episodes.
There was a particularly amusing moment on Elementary last night. When Holmes and company approach the office of the NYC FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, he sniffs contemptuously and rips into it as ineffective. Apparently, the writers were having fun with CBS’s wildly successful Criminal Minds, which is based on the work of that unit. Reruns of its first three seasons must be into their 50th showing on ION. The show taps into America’s fascination with serial killers. I once viewed it with keen interest. I now can’t stomach more than a few minutes of it. Yet I’m enjoying the syndicated run of the violent The Walking Dead. It’s easy to rationalize that the killing of zombies is not on a par with the violence perpetrated by the psychopaths on innocents on Criminal Minds, but the show also includes much human on human mayhem. Its redeeming feature is the exploration of the dynamics of survival. I find myself wondering what I would in the situations.

I expected a warming trend to begin today. It was colder than yesterday. Fortunately, the sun popped out now and then to keep me from freezing. I didn't have to take shelter in my car until the last half hour of the session. My thanks to Joan, who bought a discount copy of A Hitch in Twilight and promised a critique, and to Mikhail, who purchased Tolstoy's War and Peace in Russian, and to the woman who bought Agatha Christie's A Pocketful of Rye, first published in 1953. The woman always reminds me to be on the lookout for any book by Margaret Yorke, another Brit who specializes in mysteries, which seem the UK's national pastime. I don't recall having ever seen one.

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Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f

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