I'm going to start today's post about a show:
- With a police officer.
- Whose partner is a dog.
Now you're thinking that sound like Hudson & Rex, well, yes, it does but that's not the show we're talking about today.
The show is called Blue Skies and it's about a police detective named Jodie Larson played by Scarlet Hunter.
Now THAT is a NAME! Scarlet Hunter!
That could be a super hero name!
"I am vengeance!
I am the night!!
I am Scarlet Hunter!!!"
OK, some back story: after finishing up her tour of duty in the military, Jodie Larsen has returned home to rebuild her relationship with her father after the death of her mother. Jodi has a job as a police investigator with the National Park Service. Her beat: Crystal Ridge National Park.
Apparently national parks are a hot bed of criminal activity as there is always something to keep Jodie and her team busy.
Like Jesse on Hudson & Rex, Blue Skies has their resident tech nerd who can call up anything on his 'puters.
Like Charlie and Sarah on Hudson & Rex, Blue Skies has it's own chaste as hell heck flirtatious relationship between Jodie and Ryan, a high school "friend" who runs a coffee shop and also is an expert climber who helps with search and rescue missions in the mountainous Crystal Ridge National Park.
And like Hudson & Rex, Blue Skies has... a dog.
Blue is a yellow lab who just shows up at Jodie's cabin one day.
Efforts to extricate herself from Blue do not succeed. No matter what Jodie does, Blue inevitably appears by her side.
And it turns out that Blue is an extraordinarily gifted tracker.
Who is this dog? Where did he come from? These are mysteries the show will explore.
I'm gonna call it: Blue is Jodie's reincarnated dead mom!
I'm gonna admit: that's probably not it.
In addition to the mystery of what is the deal with this dog, Jodie has questions about the death of her mother. She presumably died in a mountain climbing accident but there are questions about this "accident".
The location of the fictional Crystal Ridge National Park is left vague. I thought it was a Canadian park but it might be in Colorado.
Blue Skies has a lot of gorgeous park scenery to look at and the calm, measured pace of the show is in line with all the natural scenery.
Blue Skies is very family friendly as befits a show that is on UP TV and it's UP Faith and Family streaming service.
Like Hudson & Rex, we came to Blue Skies for the dog and Blue is quite the scene stealer.
But the mysteries around Jodie, what happened to her mother and where the hell heck this dog came from, is keeping our attention.
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ABC has launched a new season of Jeopardy Masters.
Victoria Groce, Yogesh Raut, Andrew He, Paolo Pasco, Juveria Zaheer and Long Nguyen are the players for this year's contest.
Yogesh is as insufferable as ever, cocky and arrogant when winning, pissy and grumpy when he's not.
Victoria is as charming and delightful as ever.
But....
After three episodes, Andrea and I came to a most unfortunate conclusion: Jeopardy Masters is boring.
It's hard to play along. The clues are more obscure and trickier than regular Jeopardy.
It always seems like a foregone conclusion on which 2 of the initial 6 contestestants are going to wash out. This year does not look good for Long Nguyen.
But after Andrea and I said the quiet part out loud about how Jeopardy Masters just wasn't doing it for us, the game got interesting on night #4.
Long Nugyen has a kick ass dominating game and vaults into the top 4.
You just never know with Jeopardy.
We've got another week and a day of this fershlugginer thing.
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Late Nite With Seth Meyers is on a very long hiatus (from August 1st to September 21st) as I wrote about here.
But we are not being denied A Closer Look. Seth is joining writer Sal Gentile for podcasts to cover some of the Trump world shenanigans going on while the show is in reruns. The podcast series is called A Closer Look: Out of Office (or AKA "Proof of LIfe").
While a typical Closer Look segment can run on average about 10 minutes or so, the podcasts are nearly an hour long as we watch Seth and Sal talk it out in real time all the bullshit that Donald Trump and his syncophants are up to and it's a lot.
As such, the podcasts are a bit unfocused, a major pet peeve I have with a lot of podcasts. Still, the form does allow Seth to stay in the loop while he is away.
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That is that for this week's the Tuesday TV Touchbase:
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
Ubu really likes it when we watch crime shows about dogs!
