Favorite Thing of Last Week (1/2/14- 11/8/14)

NOOP!: No Flash this week, Supernatural is building up tension for their 200th, and Agents of Shield is off so I've chosen the wrong week to quit not watching TV.

First off. Shout out to Gotham for having a spectacularly cathartic sequence for Jim Gordon this week. That scene of him and Harvey on the attack and finally on the same team was uber refreshing. It's that point where two seemingly opposite people realize they work great together (a la The Heat, Hot Fuzz, and literally every other buddy cop comedy.) "Penguin's Umbrella" had the culmination of all those tasty crumbs the show's first few episodes laid out. Det. Jim Gordon out for blood. Totally awesome. Last week had their best individual case with Spirit of the Goat which shot right into this monster of an episode.  However it is not my number one. 

(Two Four Grace: Forewarning for our readers (we know you're out there)- When we speak of "Winston's World" we are referring to the show commonly known as "New Girl." The show that pulled us in with Zooey Deschanel, hooked us with Schmidt, and keeps us watching because Winston is one of the most brilliantly written characters in comedic television history. Seriously Deschanel could leave the show for all I care.)

NoOp: Next up is indeed this week's Winston's World. My favorite thing this week goes to Duquan Feldman lighting it up at the end. "Big Brother Wimston's World" (that's a double change, New Girl became Winston's World which was adapted to Duquan's monologue commencing exclamation) slamming home joke after joke this week. Every single male character was absolutely incredible. Really putting the HA into BackgrHAound Checks.

Winston Bishop- Favorite Thing of Our Lives

TFG:  It truly was a great week for Winston humor, with lines like:

"I'm pretty sure they call her the fish because she's tough, but fair. Just like most fish I've interacted with."

-and-

"You guys are like rubbing alcohol. You sting me in the now but you save me in the later."

-plus-

"Like I always say you can't put peanut butter and jelly on the same shelf and expect them not to mix, heh heh. Because somebody gotta eat a sandwich."

Of course out of context line reading it does no justice to Lamorne Morris' expert delivery, so you should really just go ahead and watch the episode. This would probably be a good place for a clip but there is a severe lack of "Best of Winston Bishop" videos on the Youtube and, well, I'm not very adept to making video compilations.

NOop: BOOM! (I think)

Still nOOp: I'm also really glad they are giving Winston a respectable story line. He's insane, yet the other character's lives are the ones that are pathetic. Homeboy's gonna be a cop!

He puts the POINT in GRACEPOINT.
As in, you know, he's the whole point
of watching that show.

TFG: A lot of the shows I watch took a break this week, so I guess this would be a good one to bring up some Gracepoint. Still not what I'd call spectacular, but interesting enough (and Tennant enough)...
(Noop: Tennant to the max!)
TFG: ...to keep me watching. My favorite thing of this week is going to go the awkward failed sexual passes seen on Gracepoint this week. Starting with co-star Anna Gunn's character (Detective Miller) getting a drink request from unnoticed background character- crime scene investigator Hugo ("I'm happily married" "lots of people are... happily married, though"). Followed soon after Detective Carver (Tennant) asking Gemma Fisher (Sarah-Jane Potts) if she wanted to "relax... in bed with me here tonight." Is this show about a small town murder investigation or my failed attempts at relationships in high school?

NoOP: Hugo was actually a bearable character until that hilarious massacre of a scene, one of the few left as nearly every character is stupidly and detrimentally hiding something. Guess he's hiding his nature as a total creep. 

Carver's supremely awkward and out of nowhere pass at Gemma (who, by the way, after seeming oddly familiar, was learned to be the sister of Primeval's Andrew Lee Potts), I'd say that's a slightly less off putting situation as neither really seemed to be too affected by it or into it after both acknowledged their mistakes. Also I keep thinking they are great for each other as they're both British until I remember that Tennant is doing a phenomenal job as an American.

Was it me or did both of those scenes seem like none of the actors wanted to be a part of them?

My stab at determining the killer is that I no longer care as every character is a jagbag, but I do hate that crazy, friends-with-rapist lady the most. I don't hate Carver yet and Tennant is still enough to keep me fully invested in this passable The Killing-esqe drama. 

Did you notice Nick Nolte quoting King Theoden while looking like the Maine version of King Theoden. What do you call people from The Pine Tree State? Mayonnaise? A Mayonnaise King Theoden. 

TFG: Wicked beard: ☑ Tragic loss of son: ☑. Okay I'll give you that one. If this show accomplished anything it's the first time I've ever truly mourned the end of a Nick Nolte role. His was a very interesting and well executed story line. Now we only have to look forward to how the whole crazy lady story pans out (or, if we're lucky, she dies and embarrassingly horrible death next episode).

TFG final thought: One more thing I wanted to address before posting this already late Favorite Thing of (last) Week: Constantine. It's the Doctor (as in Doctor Who) of the supernatural world, amiright? Okay time to take out the nifty check marks again-
whimsical and lovable brit ☑ genius in the world the show takes place (Supernatural as opposed to DW's Time and Space sci-fi) ☑ female companion joins as newcomer to said world to provide a compass for the audience ☑ AND NEW FROM THIS PREVIOUS EPISODE: Has psychic paper (or Tarot Card to fit the nature of the show) that appears to viewer whatever they need to see so the Doct... er... Constantine can get where ever he needs to go to progess the story ☑

Noop: Lets take it one step further and one show deeper. Not only does Constantine deal with the supernatural, it might as well BE Supernatual, as in the show. It not only looks like the same world, they say the same Latin demon banishing spells. Constantine is not only the Doctor, he is both Winchester brothers. 

TFG: Oh and I can't forget, Constantine is in the possession of Doctor Fate's helmet. Doctor Fate.

Geronimo