First, let me extend my gratitude to the fine folks at CBS for their tireless airing of every single March Madness game played each year. Me? No, I’m not bitter. I’m just not a huge sports fan and would prefer to know when my shows I enjoy watching will air. Cold Case started a bit before 10 PM ET here last night. Um, I ended up watching it today as it’s just not on my life schedule to watch at 9:50 PM. The voices told me not to watch it until today. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
The whole story seemed a bit contrived and a lot incongruous. They had been hyping the John Lennon music featured on the show in promos all week. I didn’t pay close attention, but figured it would be a cold cold case. Nope. Any cold case which features the same actors playing the past and present roles is a tad lukewarm to me. This one was five years ago which is better than the non-cold case at all we had last week.
I’ll admit the beginning of the show when they used the viewpoint of the schizophrenic character did take me back to acid flashbacks from the 60s or something. The voices and the mumbo-jumbo going on had me thinking that it couldn’t be coming from my television, so I blamed my noisy neighbors. Alas, it was just their way to show us the voices in his head.
The show taught me some new terminology — cheeking meds is hiding your medications in your cheek instead of swallowing. (I used to do that with vegetables when I was very young, but they always caught me.) Then there’s gorking a patient — overmedicating him until he’s in a zombie state. So, the show wasn’t a total loss. I have previously unknown odd terms forever stuck in my mind now. And, they didn’t even have to gork me.
I said it was contrived, right? Yep, could tell the doctor did it instead of the troubled patient right off the bat. Cold Case … I’m not all that pleased as of late. But I did enjoy the snippets of Lennon. I just would have rather seen them in a better written colder cold case, thank you very much.
Clacked by Jackie Schnoop 
on Mar 24, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
