Which sounds like Hudson & Rex.
But it's not.
Andrea and I finished up season 1 of Blue Skies, a cop show about a National Park Service detective (Jodie Larsen) who rather not have to work with people and the partner (her dog Blue) who is not people.
Over the course of the season, we found out Blue's former human companion was ex-military, like Jodie. When that human died, Blue went off in search of another human and found Jodie.
How exactly Blue came to Jodie's front door is not explained.
I still think Jodie's dead mom guided this canine companion to her daughter's home, knowing she needed a friend.
There is nothing to support this supernatural theory.
Speaking of Jodie's dead mom...
The season long arc surrounding her mountain climbing death is resolved. No, Mom was not murdered but her fall was connected to her investigation into a someone who was murdered and the subsequent conspiracy to cover it up.
Jodie's dad and her possible love interest Ryan have been investigating this mystery on the down low, away from Jodie.
Jodie, a trained police detective, is not happy she was kept out of the loop but she moves on a brings the case to a close.
Set in the environs of a national park, Blue Skies is certainly a pretty show to look at it. And Blue the dog is just so frickin' adorable.
But the writing on this series is so perfunctory and the acting so flat. Blue Skies is a pleasant enough diversion of TV viewing but it's no Hudson & Rex.
Speaking of which....
Our luck held out for a second week. Episode 2 of Hudson & Rex season 9 got posted and the drama continues to unfold.
Joe is still in the hospital recovering from being hit by a car and the police chief as put Sarah in charge of the Major Crimes Unit.
Sarah is also still being frosty towards Charlie.
Jesse confronts Sarah about this and Sarah makes it plain she's just not prepared to deal with this. She grieved for a whole year thinking Charlie was dead. Everything can't just snap back to the way it was before.
You know, I get that but girl, I still think you owe Charles a conversation at least. There is so much sadness in those beautiful eyes of his.
QUIT ASKING IF I'M GAY! Can I not as a straight man objectively assess that another man has beautiful eyes?
By the way, we're down one Hudson.
Mark Hudson apparently has a on-again/off again relationship with a woman in Halifax named Laura who is now pregnant (after an on-again moment) so Mark's leaving St. John's to make that relationship work.
The moment at the end of episode 2 when Mark says good-bye to Rex and Rex looks sad about is so... so...
No. Dammit! No, we don't.
As one Hudson goes, another returns.
Charlie Hudson completes his re-certification.
His gun test on the artillery range: 6 shots, dead center.
Charlie's eyes are sharp as well as beautiful.
I'M NOT GAY!!
Charlie's psych eval goes well enough but we and the psychiatrist can both sense that he's got a lot of trauma to process.
And he's going back to work with Major Crimes with a girlfriend who is not his girlfriend and is now his boss?
I hope our luck holds out and we get episode 3.
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Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is back for it's 3rd season.
Apparently the tire store is doing well enough for Georgie to pull $2500 out of petty cash to bail Connor out of jail.
Things are still tense between Georgie and his mother because Mary Cooper has the temerity to date Fred Fagenbacher, the epitome of evil amongst tire store owners.
But Fred has been very kind and gracious towards Mary. Is he really trying to be a better person like he claims or is this just long range fuckery to get back at Georgie?
I've got a bad feeling it's the latter but I hope it's the former, especially after Mary gives Fred a big damn kiss.
Mandy still has her TV job doing the weather and fluff pieces. She does a feature on a prize winning pig owned by Wade, the old dude who was a frequent customer at Mee Maw's gambling room on Young Sheldon.
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage continues to be kind of just OK for me. I still think Montana Jordan as Georgie was a better actor when he was younger on Young Sheldon.
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$ Game Show Side Quest $
Musician Lisa Loeb went to the bonus round TWICE on last week's Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and solved the puzzle TWICE and won $100,000 for charity TWICE!
Lisa was up against 2 other female musicians I've never heard of before and do no remember after. Sorry to... whoever they were.
I was here for Lisa, still rockin' that sexy librarian vibe.
It's been 32 years since Lisa Loeb debuted with her hit song "Stay" and I think it's terribly impudent of her to not age.
The music video for "Stay" was directed by Ethan Hawke who HAS aged a LOT since 1994. He presented a category on Jeopardy last week.
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Coming up on future editions of the Tuesday TV Touchbase:
- We're back to the MCU with VisionQuest.
- A quick pop in on new Law & Order
- The return of Happy's Place
- And sooner or later, I will finish season 2 of Batman: Caped Crusader
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.
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