참교육 - Teach you a lesson - season 1

This is about all the bad things that can happen in school, it has to do with bullies a lot, really a lot. It’s not easy to review this series because almost everyone is right, meaning those that applaud it and those that do not accept it. On one hand we have real criminals, they may be young, minors, but they’re not just taunting or mocking their classmates, they’re real criminals however you look at it, and on the other hand there’s an ex military man that beats them up. He never uses weapons of any kind, which is very important in my opinion; I know this is just a tv show, it would never work on real life, for many reasons: first of, only the bullies from poor families would be targeted, not the sons of rich men, because the real world is like that, really rich or powerful people only care about themselves; second, very very important, is that who would you ever trust to be the judge of that? On tv we know that a vigilante believes in all the best ideals and we can appreciate what he does, but in real life, who could you really trust to really have the right ideals and all that? 

This series is indeed satisfying because you see the bullies get punished - never killed or tortured, just beat up and maybe made to feel what they do to others. Morally we can often see that there are reasons, like they’re sort of educated to be that way by their families, but that’s not a justification, just an explanation. In an ideal world those adults should not be powerful or rich or well-placed in society, but anyway it doesn’t change the fact that those minors are criminal and should be taught some consequence or they’ll grow up to be much worse. 

So, because this is a tv show and not a news report, I did like it. I just hope this world could, sooner or later, understand that bullying is just pathetic, done by those that have nothing else going for them other than their fists or money. Every idiot can throw a punch or spend their parents’ money, big deal, but are they really if you take that away? … yeah, that’s the point. 

The show now:

This new Bureau is a Minister’s special project, very personal of course, which is another point: both the Minister and the male lead Hwa-jin have a very personal reason for doing this. People only care about things when they’re personally touched (which is not necessarily a negative things, for most people, it’s absolutely human, but for people in power one might wish for more).

As I was saying, this Minister supports Hwa-jin in everything. In the first episode we even see him going against a fellow politician, and it was all very weird, that he would care so much for poor kids to go against the powerful… and all because a young teacher had been killed by a student… until we realize that the poor girl was not a nobody, not just a school teacher, she was the Minister’s daughter and Hwa-jin’s fiancée. At least now it makes a bit of sense that he’d actually care so much about her.

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This is about some bullies, kids with powerful parents who act like they’re gods, superior to anyone, but mostly doing it to feel powerful, in the most pathetic way. The leader of the three  is the son of a politician, so he thinks he’s untouchable. These three kids spent their school days beating up other boys, day after day, punches and kicks to the stomach and everything that made them feel strong - because one needs to be so strong to kick someone who can’t fight back - until Hwa-jin arrives and everyone can see the pathetic underneath the façade. Hwajin is the Department for the Right to an Education, they call him Inspector but he’s the only member, it’s a very new department. He has the power to do whatever is necessary, so he slaps one of the three a few times, sending him on the floor. 

A boy, who they tormented, begged them to stop ruining his parents business, begged the leader to tell his father to stop, that he’d do anything, and so he killed himself because the little sh+t told him to. When his dad tries to stop the Bureau, he’s stopped himself because the Minister gathered lots of information before succeeding in creating this Bureau. With his father in disgrace, the kid is no more who he was but he doesn’t want to give it up, he’s still crazy and tries to burn some students inside a class, until Hwajin comes and turns the fire on him - what obedient fire,  only following the bully and ignoring everything else, even though the kid had thrown inflammable stuff on the door and everything. The kid is so scared he crumbles. In the end the three bullies are arrested, and their names appear on the papers.

My favourite line in this episode was Hwajin telling another poor tormented boy that ‘good adults do exist’… 

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Some people start protesting against the Bureau for his methods, but the Minister personally replies to journalists talking about students rights; he speaks of how schools now are filled with violence, gambling,  drugs, how there’s no more respect for teachers, and that poor kids have no other choice but to attend public school, so the Bureau works to guarantee their right to an education.

The opposing political party starts plotting against him.

Geun-dae goes undercover at a school where all kids keep fighting to be noticed by the local gangster that they admire and think he’s so cool. They study engines here, both electrics and mechanics, and the top fighters are Seong-hwan and In-beom, fighting to get noticed by Gwon-hyeok… who I think is actually a student as well, but he’s never at school, of course, he lives like a gangster. Geundae finds a friend, Hyeong-ju, a nice boy who wants to learn a job and who has a lovely mom who works a lot and is happy when she sees them together, that her son found a friend.

Hwajin beats them up and gives them a strict schedule , but nobody wants it, they don’t care about school  and learning because they want te easy money promised by Gwonhyeok, something they think can really change their lives. They tell Gwonhyeok about the Bureau and he comes to the school to fight Hwajin, sure he can win, but he doesn’t - because of course our hero is the best trained ever.

Opposition: found out that Hwajin was captain of the special forces unit.

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A girl, Ye-ri, very active on social media, fabricated lies to ruin the teachers that she found annoying because they weren’t kissing the ground she stepped on: the worst case was a man who tried to reason with her, and instead she accused him of abuse in a post online: people sent him threats and he worried for his family, and eventually took his own life. She also tried to frame female teacher Jung for violence. The poor man knew Yeri had manipulated the video to make her look bad, he had seen her, so Yeri destroyed him because she hates teachers and we’ll learn why in a future episode. Maybe because it’s a female school, Hwajin doesn’t go, he’s hired Im Han-rim, and she goes instead. She starts by taking away cell phones during lessons and kicking Yeri’s phone away when she refuses because she films live even during class, then she makes them exercise.

Hwajin is here because some girls contacted the Bureau to protect teacher Jung, and he lets her read the girls letters, and tells her about his fiancée murdered by a student. He promises to protect her, and that she should also try harder to help those girls that need her so she acts tough and hits Yeri’s palms until she agrees to solve a problem at the blackboard. Now Yeri is furious and at home she plans to destroy teacher Jung, but tech-wiz Geundae deletes all her posts and uploads the unedited one where everyone can now see how she was faking it and what her goal was. She’s ruined now, everybody sees she’s fake and hates her. Still, teacher Jung is worried, and opens the door when Yeri comes to her house ,but Yeri doesn’t want to talk, she wants to kill her and maybe die together. Yeri throws her out the window, but at that moment Hwajin arrives and jumps after her, protecting her and taking the impact himself, who apparently is made of steel. The teacher is well, Yeri is arrested and all is well.

The opposition divulges the Minister and Hwajin’s close connection to the dead teacher, speaking not of justice but personal vengeance.

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This starts with a top student hitting a famous professor, one that Hwajin once admired. Between the allegations of vengeance and this admiration, Hanrim doubts him and is very troubled by it, because he helped her when she was a child and then she served under him, I think. 

Thing is, for years this famous professor has favored the kids of rich people because they could help him in his long rise to politics or something. He was even the one that started Yeri’s hate for teachers, because he ruined her academic chances, somehow. Now, he’s doing the same to this kid who is very good at school but has normal working parents. He caused trouble for the parents and then took away the boy’s tutor, and now wants the Bureau to stop him from doing the admission exam, but the Bureau doesn’t, so the only thing the prof can still do to make the rich girl pass is to give her all the answers so she’ll get full score. It’ll be a shock for him to discover that the papers have been swapped so the same questions now have the opposite answer - A or B - so the girl got a 0. The Bureau discloses names and it’s all rich, entitled people, of course. Geundae was thinking of transferring to another department but he changed his mind.

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A young teacher at maternity school is driven mad by one mum, who calls her constantly, criticizes everything she does and blames everything on her. When this mom actually files an abuse complaint against her, the teacher is almost driven to suicide, but luckily her mom contacted the Bureau. Hwajin takes her place at school and starts calling that mom at all hours, for every small thing, until she yells at him to stop it, also yelling at him about how angry her husband is about it so Hwajin goes to the man’s place of work and makes a big scene of apologizing , painting him in a bad light. The man gets angry at his wife, and they  both want the school to fire him.  For the second time,  one of U-jin’s parents storms into the classroom and takes him away. Once again she wants to set all the mothers against a teacher, but this time Hwajin gets there first,  and he also accused her of abuse on a minor, exactly what she dd to the previous teacher, who btw is still the target of her rage, but Hwajin prevents the woman form getting to her. This bully keeps saying she acts in the best interest of her child, and then we hear poor Ujin say that he thinks mom hates him, that she’s always angry and never smiles at him. The mother goes on trial for stalking the poor teacher, it seems. So the teacher is back at school, to Ujin’s delight.

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This is about four kids under 14 who know that the law can’t touch them because they’re too young, so they run wild, stealing cars, vandalizing them, hurting classmates, dealing drugs even. There’s nothing they wouldn’t do. The Bureau has its own rules though and the Minister has his power, os the four baby criminals are put in a juvenile prison and the have to stay there with the real prisoners. Their heads are shaved, and when they think they can beat up Han-rim, she shows them which way it goes. When they misbehave, Hanrim forces them to exercise; when they’re finally allowed to meet their parents,  the leader Ji-un shows that he has not learned his lesson when he threatens poor girl Yun-jin instead of begging for forgiveness. In prison again, they’re terrified of a guy who is in there because he killed his bullies. Same guy that Jiung attacked before knowing who he was. They don’t know the guy agreed to help the Bureau because he believes it can help kids and prevent them from becoming like him. When someone in the drugs business wants to stab Jiung, Cho Gyu-cheol gets in the was and is slightly injured.

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Cho is the one who killed Hwajin’s girlfriend. This episode is about gambling. A guy in school gets the kid to try this game, and when they inevitably lose he suggests someone who can lend the money, at absurd rates of course. When they can’t pay, the parents are involved and pay to save their child. Geun-dae goes undercover again and they get to him too, he stupidly believes he can win and when he loses he borrows money. When they call Hanrim thinking she’s him mother and she refuses to pay - to get to the big names of the operation - when Hanrim is distracted by food Geundae is abducted, taken away and put to work. When the Bureau finds his location, Hanrim storms inside loudly calling Geundae’s name, and she calls him cute and smart… it was funny that Hwajin kept telling her to contain herself, keep her cool, “and she ties her hair” so he gives up :lol: Of course they save Geundae and also the other kids held there, and when they call themselves victims Hwajin reminds them that they had their chances to stop before it went too far, and maybe the real victims are the parents that were ruined trying to save them. 

The Bureau for once is going great with the public opinion, and opposition leader Hwang Kitae is not happy. When a man comes to tell him there might be a way to end the Bureau, Kitae goes to meet Cho Gyucheol in prison.

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This episode is about a mother obsessed with the idea of her son becoming  doctor, a good title so they’ll be respected; al his life this poor kid has done nothing but study, he can’t sleep much, he can’t eat much, he can’t go out, and she’s the first to give him some pills, as suggested by other mothers, that should help him focus. When the boy asks for a stronger pill - something that might help him go on - the mother accepts the suggestion of a random guy on the internet and does not notice what everyone can see from a mile away, that the kid is not well. When he fainted during an exam and was brought to the infirmary, his mother came and sent him right back to class - when the Bureau forces the students to take a urine test, it comes out that it’s a drug, 100% dangerous drug, and that it’s hurting the kids. And of course it’s illegal, without the right prescription given only in rare cases. The Bureau takes Hyeon-min to the hospital while Hwajin tries to teach her how he felt, because it’s not her who sacrificed everything for him, it’s the son who sacrificed everything for her. So Hwajin tells her to get in medical school herself, but it takes very little for her to complain about the schedule and reach a breaking point. Still, when Hwajin finally takes her to see her son, she immediately asks if he’s studying… but at least the time away gave the kid time to get better and realise that to get better and stop wanting to die he must stop this intense studying. But he says it kindly and even hugs her…

Cho Gyucheol gets released early with the help of that politician, and wants to go back to school.

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Cho goes back to school, and keeps playing the remorseful-guy card. Cho himself shows up at the Bureau - anyone can enter, just like that? - saying that a kid at his school is being bullied. Hwajin follows the cases, and sees how one guy Chi-ho and his two friends take advantage of Seong-gu to use his hotspot and his accounts for whatever they want, even to con people sometimes, who then get angry at Seonggu. Hanrim goes undercover, pretending to be a student because after Seonggu finally asked for the Bureau’s help - adviced by Cho - Chi-ho accuses him of bullism, turning things upside down and everyone believes him - also secretly adviced by Cho. Hanrim easily becomes the group’s next target, but with her team they infiltrate Chiho’s and his friends’ accounts to play his own tricks on him, so the truth comes out and Seonggu’s name is cleared. Now that the truth is out, Chiho complains to Cho that he’s ruined, but instead of accusing him, he says that the Bureau ruined his life and his family and he sees no other way out than to die. Cho records these words and then pushes him off the roof. Cho then gives the usb to Kitae who understands what he did but will use it anyway, even after Cho confesses that talking to him was his idea since the beginning, getting his early release.

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Now Cho protests against the Bureau, saying it caused Chi-ho’s suicide. Hwajin knows about Cho’s drugs racket. That’s why he killed Hwajin’s girl, she had tried so hard to help him and had found all his pills so he killed her. Cho provokes Hwajin who punches him outside the school; Kitae jumps on this chance and shuts down the Bureau. Feeling free, Cho seriously begins his business again, using students as carriers, and other students in other schools to give the first pills for free to get more buyers. Of course Hwajin knows about it, that’s why he punched him, so that without the Bureau Cho would feel safe enough to expose himself. The Minister asked for all schools’ teachers help, and a dozen show up at the Bureau with the drugs they found hidden at their school. They start collecting all the drugs they can, the Minister publicly accuses Cho Gyucheol of distributing it, and so the Bureau is again operative. They go to search the school, finding nothing of course, but Hanrim is out of the fight for a bit because she inhaled the drugs and has hallucinations. Geundae takes care of her while Hwajin confronts Cho, but his friends have a knife at Seong-gu’s throat so for a bit there’s nothing he can do and Cho stabs him, many times too! But remember that earlier episode, he’s made of steel!

When Hanrim can finally help a bit, freeing Seonggu, I think, Hwajin’s attention is all on Cho and beats him up but does not kill him. Mission accomplished , bad guys arrested, someone will eventually see to Hwajin’s wounds which he treats like a small inconvenience and nothing more. His girl was stabbed once or twice and died…he’s a real die-hard guy…

Kitae is arrested for his role in it, and the Bureau is now a consolidated reality, and the series ends with the team going to another school where there is violence to stop.

I liked seeing in two other episodes those two ex wanna-be gangsters of Seong-hwan and In-beom, now wearing school uniforms and acting more like kids than gangsters :)

Kim Moo-yul is Na Hwa-jin

Jin Ki-joo is Lim Han-rim

Pyo Ji-hoon is Bong Geun-dae

ITA Lezioni vere

Dept. Q season 1

I’m glad they’re making a season 2, I liked this one and would like to see them again.

my review after seeing it all: I’ll say that it was a good series, very British, if only one counts the swear words :lol: Merritt’s seclusion was very hard to watch and feel, very claustrophobic and emotionally heavy. I liked that it was set in Edinburgh. The case was a bit difficult to follow as in who-is-who, but that’s because I have trouble with faces and names, but at least at the end it did make sense. I very much liked the Akram character, liked him from the start and at the end he was my absolute favourite. He’s kind, calm, collected, patient, but also skilled, trained, prepared to do what’s to be done but never uselessly reckless. Love him.

I also liked the interactions between the other characters. How Hardy found back his will to live by working on their case, how Carl cares about Jasper even if he doesn’t say it, how Moira tried her best to make her station work, even how Rose tried courageously to move on after her understandable breakdown, and fought to find a spot for herself where she could be useful. What I didn’t care about at all: the therapist thing there was no therapy that we saw, and I found her a bit annoying. I dread to think that she’ll may become a love interest, that would be so boring and disruptive. This is a British show, will they resist the temptation? American shows never manage to resist :-/

Called Q because it’s the showers quarters, I think.

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Well,  the beginning was indeed of deep impact. Anyway, this sad but interesting first episode follows two storilines: 1-Merrit is a prosecutor who loses a murder case, and she has a stalker insulting and threatening her on texts and emails. She also has a mentally challenged brother who can become violent sometimes. When she’s at work Claire takes care of him (Moaning Myrtle’s actress!). Claire sings at William and doesn’t seem to like Merrit much.

2-DCI Carl Morck, a cop. He and DI Hardy were in the area and appear at a murder scene to take a look. Agent Anderson was waiting for the team that he called. Morck is rough with the poor rookie, only three months in the force, and tells him to check around, all windows, and when Anderson does that, a man covered in black appears in front of him and shoots all three. Anderson dies, Hardy is left paralized, Morck heals and after four months can be back at work. Nobody likes him and the feeling is mutual.

His boss Moira (I like her) makes him head of a new department of one:him down in the basement, where he’ll work on cold cases. When he asks for an assistant, Akram Salim is sent to him, a man from Syria who was so eager to work in the police. At the end of the episode , we see Akram chose a case he deems worthy: Merritt disappeared four years ago, in 2021, and he thinks she’s alive and that they can find her. Morck doesn’t seem to agree , but we see that he was right.

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They start the investigation on Merritt, even talk to Claire who is fair and says Merritt would never willingly leave William, she loved her brother. We see that she’s being kept prisoner by a couple who has never appeared in front of her, they talk but there’s voice distortion. There’s a press release to announce the new department and their first case, and Morck has a panic attack after it. Akram helps.

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William sees the reopening of the case on tv and escapes the institute. They find him at Claire’s and he gives them a picture he drew. He can’t communicate with words but he’s great at drawing. He didn’t see a face, but he saw a man with a baseball cap and drew the image on it. Rose asks to join Morck’s department and finds something out about the cap. 

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Merritt doesn’t even know why they’ve taken her, and all this time they’ve kept asking her but she hasn’t guessed right yet. Jasper is Morcks’ stepson. His mother left him with Morck to go away with another man and also to work as a flight attendant or something. Morck has trouble interacting with him. 

They find out she had some occasional lovers. 

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We learn about Kirsty, who made a deal to testify in Merritt’s murder case in exchange for getting out of prison - for drug possession, I think - but Merritt’s boss didn’t let her use this testimony, Merritt lost the case and Kirsty was almost killed for talking. She lost an eye. Thinking the woman at the institute, as William’s legal guardian, is stealing his money, they go check and find him sedated, so they take him away and to Claire. Hardy, Rose and Akram are all working on this and very useful. Moira is worried about Morck.

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A big guy threatens Jasper to stop Carl, and Carl gets there when the guy exits and he understands something and beats the guy up, and it’s all on tape. The guy did not fight back, didn’t even try, it was a trap: the guy stopped where they would be seen very well by the cameras. They think Finch, the guy who killed his wife, Merritt’s murder case, threatened or hurt everyone he could, and even got to Merritt’s boss Stephen.

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Merritt has to take out her own teeth with pliers when it gets infected. Carl talks with Jasper.

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It’s revealed that Merritt’s captors are Harry’s mother and brother. Harry is the boy that wanted to steal from Merritt’s brother to give the jewels to her as she wished to have money and go away from there, when she was young, but the house wasn’t empty so he beat William into a coma. Merritt sees the brother Lyle and it is the man she knew as Sam. It seems Sam and Lyle were in a community together, as kids. Lyle’s mom was always a psycho and used the hyperbaric chamber to punish her sons, and that’s where Merritt’s been these four years. And now I understand: Sam Haig looked like Harry, they weren’t the same, but Lyle followed him like he was Harry. And it wasn’t Harry who beat William, but Lyle who had followed him. The island’s constable Cunningham had been told by Lyle that Merritt had died at sea and said nothing, but now he sees her in the chamber and can’t ignore it, so Lyle kills him with a hammer. He killed the real Sam as well. Now Lyle and his mom plan to go away leaving her there, but Carl and Akram get there and find her in time. Lyle shoots, Carl stands before Akram and is shot in the shoulder then Akram kills Lyle and they save Merritt who can see his brother again. Lyle’s mother tried to leave the island but shoots herself when she finds officers waiting for her. There months later, Merritt is better. Carl goes to her boss, who threw the Finch case after the guy threatened his daughter, and Carl tells him he will not report him, but he’ll give his department more budget and he’ll manage to make Akram a DI. Carl says “he’s a political refugee who’s here on asylum” and who is a good cop. Carl also asks for a new car :p

Hardy comes back walking with crutches, to work with Carl, but there are stairs once he exits the elevator…

Matthew Goode as DCI Carl Morck

Chloe Pirrie as Merritt

Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim

Moira is Kate Dickie

ITA Dept.Q- sezione casi irrisolti

20세기 소녀 - 20th century girl - 2022

I’m so angry at this film, it is so light and happy for, like, 3/4 of it, and then it’s all tears and tears. Why, what was the point? There was no reason to end it like this, now it’s ruined and it’s like so many others with the same ‘switch’, it was uncalled for here. I understood it in Pavane, but not here.

Edit, reading this now - not watching the film again, once was enough - I can see it being a good finale in a sort of artistic way, but the thing is, I don’t really care about that, the whole thing was so light that I never wanted or expected a tragic ending, and never wanted it. 

Na Bo-ra is best friends with Kim Yeon-doo who has a weak heart and must leave for America to undergo surgery. Bora promises she’ll write often and tell her all about the boy she likes. For a long time Bora keeps following and watching Baek Hyun-jin, so much that they get to know each other and he asks her out. This is so wrong, she strongly refuses, but she can’t explain the reason for all her interest. Watching Hyun-jin also makes her know Poong Woon-ho, his best friend, and they start working together in the school’s ‘news’, and they start liking each other. She even tells him so during a school trip after she drinks too much but she won’t remember it. Still, they spend time together and they like each other, but then Yeon-doo comes back, finally, and they’re so happy to be together again. Bora has always been protective, and now that Yeon-doo is here it comes out that there was a mistake, Yeon-doo never heard the name of the boy she liked, she read it on his jacket, which was borrowed. Yeon-doo likes Woon-ho, not Hyun-hin, he wore his friend’s jacket because he had just arrived, he was in New Zealand. Bora is sad, but because of her protectiveness she keeps her feelings from her friend, and tells Woon-ho they won’t be together. Bora helps her friend see him, meet him, until Hyun-jin tells Yeon-doo that “they like each other”. Yeon-doo is angry that Bora lied to her, but she won’t stay angry forever. They’re best friends and love each other above everything. So when it’s time for Woon-ho to go back to New Zealand, where he still has a mom and little brother, Yeon-doo tells her to hurry, to not let him leave like this, and Hyun-jin is waiting for her on his bike to take her to the train station, where she confesses to Woon-ho that she does like him, very much, and they promise to exchange emails often, and he promises to come back to her as soon as he can. This all happened in 1999, and they exchange email through Christmas and New Year, but all of a sudden he stops writing, doesn’t answer his phone, totally disappeared. She’s hurt, it hurts very much; she attends college, moves on, starts working, and then years later her father receives a package. Bora is invited to an art exhibition, and finally learns the truth. Joseph invited her, and he’s Poon Jun-jo, Woon-ho’s younger brother, who is no more 5, he’s an adult and he tells her that Woon-ho died in an accident, so she can now stop being angry at him and can go back to remember the good times together. 

Bora is Kim You-jung

Woon-ho is Byeon Woo-seok

Hyun-jin is Park Jung-woo

Lockwood & co. season 1

I’m not sure how to describe/review this series because I didn’t love it, but I would have watched a season 2 for sure, had they made one. Netflix cancelled it. I must ask them all, stop making cliffhanger endings unless it’s sure there will be a second season, because from now on I will ask around if a series has a finale or not, and not watch it if it doesn’t have one, it’s very annoying.

The characters/actors weren’t the best, but were also intriguing enough that I wanted to watch more.

The George character was really sacrificed, I never felt all that friendship towards him because he was barely in. They could have showed simple, quick images of how they got to know/work together in that first year together that we don’t see at the beginning. Quick images to show us how close the three of them had become, in a way, how closely they worked, anything.

Other than that, it was nice to.-)

1- Lucy Carlysle is 13 when her mother, if I can use such a word for her, sells her to an agency. Lucy has the gift of ‘listening’, very useful in this world where ‘the Problem’ is a big thing, ghosts are real and can be seen and heard, can kill or cause people to fall into a vegetative state. Apparently only minors can have the gifts to fight them, so the adults use them. Lucy’s mom gets all her wages while she trains and risks her life every day. Luckily she finds comrades in arms and also a best friend, Norrie, but their adult supervisor Jacobs is only good for drinking. When they find a ‘visitor’ much more dangerous than they were told, she’s sent back to Jacobs for help. When she runs back she finds them dying and Norrie unresponsive. Jacobs sees it all but doesn’t help, he shuts them in and goes away scared. Still, at the trial he blames it all on Lucy, so she’s fired. Of course her ‘mother’ cares nothing about the truth or what she feels and only cares about the money, insisting she’ll have to apologize and beg for her job back, so Lucy runs away to the big city, London. Unfortunately, without a parent or proper documents nobody even listens to her. Her last chance is a new agency, Lockwood and Co., and she’s hired. Both Lockwood and his friend George are teenagers like her, and there’s no adult supervisor here. One year later, Lucy and Lockwood work together to free a haunted house, but during the work the house catches on fire and they flee. Lucy got strange emotions and images from this ghost, she feels something, so when they find the woman’s corpse inside a wall, Lucy takes her ring.

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Lucy is brought to a hospital but sneaks out after a nurse says she tried to call her mother. Lockwood is told the insurance will not pay for the damages to the house because they didn’t follow the right procedure - well, it’s true that they didn’t have the chains - so they have to pay 60.000 pounds in two weeks. George thinks Lucy is too weird and things got worse/weirder since she’s with them. The ring, not the body, is the source of the ghost who appears in their house so now she has to tell them about it.

For some reason the inspectors are very much against the Lockwood agency. They tell Lockwood to fire her because she’s not qualified - true, and he knows it. They tell her to go home because Lockwood is a charlatan - but still better than home.

Lucy tells her story to George so now he understands her. To raise the money, Lockwood chooses to solve the ring-ghost case: she was an actress, Annabel, 40 years ago then she was murdered, and even though Lucy asked him to leave her name out of it, he named her on tv. 

She connected with the ring and felt how Annabel’s lover choked her to death. Lucy almost leaves, sure they don’t want her and don’t really value her, but Lockwood gets her to stay and promises to always tell her the truth. Someone breaks into their house to steal Annabel’s ring. Lockwood put it in the basement, but Lucy took it back so she still has it.

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Not only they owe 60.000 pounds, but they can’t do anything without adult supervision, so Lockwood accepts a job from rich Fairfax who need professionalism and confidentiality, to be done in secret without telling the inspectors. This ‘country house’ is huge and ‘a lot’ has happened there over the years, and those who tried to do the job before, all died. There’s great danger but together they make it, thanks to Lucy who finds a hidden door first and then the source, and thanks to the bomb Lockwood smuggled inside. It’s not a triumph though because Lockwood realized they got it wrong before, in the last episode they accused an actor working with Annabel but no, it was Fairfax who killed her, who sent his assistant to steal the ring and who now tried to have them killed by his house. Before they can go out, Fairfax is there with a rifle demanding the ring. Afraid he might shoot Lockwood, Lucy stands up and shows them all she has the ring. She tosses the ring in the air an Annabel comes out and kills Fairfax, then she vanishes when they lock the ring away. Inspectors come and even some important man, and many things are taken away. At first the three are arrested, but then they’re let go free after they sign a document, to never speak of what happened. George and Lucy are relieved that their debt has been paid and they don’t need supervision anymore, but Lockwood is upset because they can’t talk about it and they’re not named in the case, and Fairfax’s name will somehow come out clean. As boss of his agency, Lockwood promotes Lucy to 4th grade, so now she’s qualified, but then she stupidly unlocks something in the skull case and she faints. 

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Lucy sleeps for 14 hours or such, and at first doesn’t remember anything that happened. They’re hired to open an unknown grave and contain the ghost within: it’s all metal with chains and stuff, just like they do nowadays to protect against ghosts, only this man died like 100 year ago, a long time before the Problem started. There’s also a mirror that enchants George for a moment, but he sees the ancient writing and is excited to translate it: “the truth lies beyond”. George knows who the man is and a lot of things that I’m not sure when he figured it out, but he shows his knowledge to outshine the Fittes squad. Still, the inspector decides to have both teams on the case, because the mirror has disappeared. Lockwood and the squad leader, whatever his name, really can’t stand each other, and they make a bet so who fails to solve the case first loses the bet and can not work anymore. During the opening of the grave Lucy starts remembering stuff, and once home she goes downstairs to open the skull container, just a bit, and indeed the skull talks to her. It’s incredible, she’s freaking out and excited all at once, because there’s only one person in the world who can talk to type-3 ghosts, Marissa Fittes the legend. The fact that Lucy can do it means she’s really powerful, and both boys do not believe her. Well, at first Lockwood wanted to consider the case closed and was arguing with George who insisted on translating the inscription, so neither boy was in the best, most open state of mind, but Lucy felt bad. She questioned if he minded so much the idea of being n.2, or something like that, and he told her that if she kept questioning him or his locked room upstairs, they’d be done! I guess he feels bad about it later because he goes to her room to take care of the wound on her arm, and admits that for someone who likes the spotlight so much it’s hard to realize that his role is to give the spotlight to someone else.

He tells her “I was orphaned at the age of 6. So, all I can say is I don’t really enjoy talking about my past, and that’s what’s behind that door” and “the problem is, when you like the spotlight as much as I do, it’s quite an adjustment to realize that the real reason you might be here is to shine it on somebody else”.

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George is obsessed with that mirror, keeps thinking about it. Lockwood and Lucy meet Flo, a relic hunter he knows, for information. Since they found Danny’s corpse, they’re now looking for his partner. I think Danny helped Lockwood once, and then he became… a relic hunter? I think. To find his partner Jac, they leave a message on a wall as Flo suggests, but when Jack shows up at their house, it’ll be too late. Jack has been stabbed and can only say a few words before dying. Anthony and Lucy also checked the warehouse of some relic hunters to see if they have the mirror, and when he talks to a young boy a woman sort of tasers him and he wakes up on some sort of electric chair. A man wants to know who he is, who he works for and how he found them, the obvious things, but he doesn’t say much. Then Lucy is captured, basically the same way, and all of a sudden Lockwood is all ‘kill me but let her go’ and when she saves them both - because she wakes up much quicker than he did - and they’re out, she questions what was he doing, trying to get himself killed, and what is happening to him…

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Jack Carver mentioned a bone glass, and they’re now researching it. George tells them about Bickerstaff, a respected clinician and psychiatrist. Mary Dulac went to one of his meetings and disappeared, and reappeared many years later completely mad. The skull wants Lucy to free him, and he calls Bickerstaff ‘his master’, and leads her around his house, Bickerstaff’s house, in search of his documents. George studies the papers: Bickerstaff was studying the sources, “murdering his own patients to make sources”, but simply doing that would not guarantee the bodies would become sources, so he took “parts of them whilst they were still alive” to make sure, that would indeed cause lots of trauma. Seven ghosts, the recipe for the bone glass. George also found out Dulac wrote a book and the only copy is “in the black library at Fittes”. Luckily they’ve been invited to their ball for their 50th anniversary. Kipps, the Fittes squad leader, offers her a job and asks her to the ball, and also out for a coffee, but she turns him down. At the ball, Penelope Fittes also offers her a job, but Lucy refuses. When Lockwood sees Norrie’s picture and they talk  about her, he asks “you lost her?” - “ghost locked” - “you never said” - “never asked”, and indeed he never did. She told George because he asked, but Lockwood never did. He gives her a necklace: “it belonged to someone I was very close to”. According to Penelope, she made sure Jacobs “will never be in charge of agents ever again”…

Lockwood and Lucy find the book in the library but then a man comes in. They hide, but he sees the map Lockwood used - how did he get that map anyway? maybe George made it for them…- so they have to fight a bit and escape. The guy has a gold, or golder, rapier. 

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Flo told them last episode of a private relic auction for tonight, os they all go, them three and Flo to help them.They sneak in and are found out by an undercover agent, like a policeman, investigating humans, who warns them to go away. She’d go, understanding the situation, but Lockwood refuses, he wants to get the mirror. They argue, she says he’s obsessed with winning. “yeah, of course I care about winning, I have to, I don’t have anyone around me to pick up the pieces if I fail” and “if there are things I haven’t told you about myself, it’s probably for your own good”. But she’s not having it. “Two hours ago, at that party, you were petrified at the thought of me leaving you. You made me believe that you, me and George could be a family. But Lockwood & co. can never be that, because at the center of it is you. And at the center of you is just a…” - “is what? A cold, dead heart of stone?” - “yeah, maybe, but who knows, though? ‘cause you don’t actually show anyone” - “nothing good comes from letting people in. Everything ends and everyone leaves. When my time comes, I don’t intend on leaving anyone behind who’s gonna lie there every night wishing I would just walk through that door one more time” - “then you never should have let me in. Or George. Because now it’s far too late”. They wear the cloak and hood like all the buyers, and witness the auction.

So… the bone glass is the mirror, it’s just one item, not two, they’re looking for.

He’s found out, she causes a diversion, and he takes the mirror. The agent dies to help them escape. Lockwood is shocked “they just killed him like that” and “what did he die for?”. Lucy: “because they’re bastards!” - “it’s because I am”.

Flo helps George realize he’s bsessed with the mirror. Lockwood and Lucy have to fight the man with the golden rapier - Lucy helps a lot - then they throw George and Flo the mirror and escape by jumping in the river from the roof.

Flo takes George to Deprac’s door - the inspector or whatever - but he can’t give the mirror away, she underestimated its power.

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Lockwood thinks it’s over, Lucy is very upset because now every relic hunter is after them. He apologizes. They read Mary’s book, she’s the one who killed Bickerstaff, and she explains about the mirror: it’s actually a window, she wrote, “since that glimpse, I am damned. All I want to see is more” and they finally realize that George is under its spell. George has gone to the cemetery, to Bickerstaff. 

Lucy says: “can’t stand mirrors, there’s always this stupid girl staring back at me” :lol:

Lockwood and three of Kipps team stay out to fight the bad guys while Lucy goes down to the catacombs to save George. The skull tells her he was there when the mirror was created but he was never so fool as to look into it: “the way to look is with someone else’s eyes, someone weak, someone curious, someone vulnerable”.

George trusted Joplin, believed her a scientist just like him. She does want to know, and she planned to use George whether he wanted to look in the mirror or not, but since they met Kipps - and George helped him because he’s growing up and losing his talent - she plans to have Kipps look into the mirror… until she learns about him losing his talent. George understands that she killed Carver because he sold the precious mirror instead of giving it to her. Before Lockwood can go down, the man with the golden rapier calls him insignificant like his parents and shoots him. With a gun. 

Lucy begs Joplin to use her, to let her look in the mirror ad not George. But then, when Joplin uncovers the mirror, Lucy turns her head and puts the skull in front of the mirror. Joplin looks into the mirror, vanishes and when the mirror breaks, the seven ghosts go away, finally free. But Bickerstaff’s ghost is now free of his chains, somehow, but Lockwood comes to help and saves theem. For some reason, Lockwood doesn’t tell inspector Barnes who shot him. Anyway, the case is closed, bad guys arrested. Kipps and Lockwood make peace.

The man with the golden rapier was of course working for Penelope - we did see him with her before - Lucy keeps sending voice tapes to Norrie, she’s glad she was wrong in thinking George hated her, and also glad that even though “Lockwood almost died1000 times, but I think he’s decided he’s better off alive, which is really good”. Lockwood tells them “the golden blade” shot him and that “he mentioned my parents, said their deaths were insignificant, like mine would be” and he also wants to show them  both the locked room… but of course it ends here, we would know if there was a season 2 but Netflix cancelled it, who knows why. 

Pamela Joplin is Louise Brealey (Sherlock’s Molly Hooper)

Gilmore girls season 3

This is the season when they eat 4 Thanksgiving dinners. Also: Dave is Lane’s Dean, while Rory’s Dean gets fed up with her, dates another and proposes too. Rory dates Jess but not for long. Dave reads a bible and can take Lane to the prom. Yale beats Harvard.

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Lorelei has a dream of living with Luke and being pregnant with twins, so she calls Rory in the middle of  the night to tell her. Rory is in Washington with Paris. They talk to congress people and Paris is asked out by Princeton Man and Rory has to explain to her because she hadn’t realized :) Whey Rory gets back, she dresses up hoping to see Jess, but then she’s gets upset when she sees him kissing a girl. She tells her mom about the kiss, and Lorelei rightly tells her that she’s treating Dean very badly. When Lorelei tells her parents that she’s not seeing Chris, she hasn’t seen him all summer, Emily starts ranting at her until she explains about Sherrie’s pregnancy. Now Richard is all on Chris’ side, because he’ll do the right thing and marry Sherrie and ‘have a family’, like he proposed to do with Lorelei all those years ago. Lorelei goes out and to Luke’s; they’re still not as they once were together, but now she cries and he listens. So they’ll go there again now.

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Chilton 2002-2003, Rory’s last year. Rory speaks as the Vice President of the “student body government”, but the Puffs can’t stand Paris and they put Rory in the middle, and Rory doesn’t tell the truth to Paris. Lorelei has lunch with Emily who tells her she called Christopher. Emily tells her she should fight to keep Chris but Lorelei doesn’t want her to get involved. She doesn’t, but since neither Lorelei or Rory answered his calls, he shows up at the Friday’s dinner, and they both yell at him because he hurt them both. There’s nothing he can do, he still intends to marry Sherry so there’s not really much to talk about and both girls are very hurt. Rory then fights with Jess about his girl, saying it surprised her after they kissed… which is stupid because he’s right, she never called him and she’s still with Dean.

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Rory thought she had her application papers all worked out, but it turns out her choices were the worst, she freaks out and talks to a Harvard family for help. Taylor wants to open a soda shop. Lane meets Dave, a guy who answered her ad and has a band.

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Lane has a place in Dave’s band, with Zach and Brian, and has to find a way to go rehearse in Hartford. Her mom has chosen the colleges she can apply to and as an act of rebellion she dyes her hair purple. Rory is very rude to the beauty shop girl, only because she’s Jess’ girl. Lorelei and Luke go to Rory’s old high school, and she was excited about it but all the kids’ questions are about her pregnancy when she was 16, and the moms are not happy. Lane turns back to black, she died her hair black again.

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Luke is not happy because a family with babies occupies his diner and a woman even breastfeeds. Dwight is Lorelei’s new neighbour and asks her to water his lawn and flowers inside while he’s away. Lorelei and Michel go to an auction organized by Emily, where Lorelei learns her mom is called ‘cobra’ by her friends, and she meets a man. She’ll have to ask Emily for his name and number. They go out on a date and it’s so boring… Emily is more excited about it than she is, because she’s friends with his mother and Richard with his father. Dad scolds her because this could upset ‘Emily’s world’, where “it is very very important that she have the first cup of tea” and “if my wife wants the first cup of tea, she’s going to have it!” :-) So Lorelei has to go to the already planned concert with boring Peyton.

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Lorelei hasn’t talked to Christopher since he left but Rory has, and now Sherry wants her at her baby shower, and Lorelei gets stuck there too, and after a while she gets frustrated with all Sherry’s talking of her baby girl, of Harvard being so close Rory could visit all the time, and how Christopher is wonderful with her and the baby… 

Jess buys a car, he’s been working secretly at a Walmart. Rory suggests she and her mom throw Sherry’s boiled eggs at it.

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Paris goes out again with Jamie from Princeton because he missed her and showed up again, so Rory has the weekend free and her mom wants ot do the town’s dance marathon together and win. They make it almost to the end, but then Lorelei leaves her to dance with Dean while she gets Luke to repair her shoe’s heel. Dean has been a saint all this time, but now he’s fed up because Rory keeps looking at Jess and talking to him or about him, so Dean breaks up with her. Rory storms out and Kirk wins the marathon.

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Richard wants to show Yale to Rory, and both grandparents take Rory and Lorelei there and they’re all having a great time until Richard tells them he set an interview for Rory with the “Dean of Admissions”, which starts a fight with Lorelei who accuses him of manipulating Rory who wants to go to Harvard while he throws back in her face that she never went to college. Rory is also upset because he didn’t tell her so she wasn’t prepared as she liked to be. Rory and Jess are together now. Luke seems happy at first but then acts all over protective of Rory. After kissing Jess she goes to knock at Dean’s window to say sorry for hurting him. 

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Thanksgiving. Emily wants them at her house, no excuses. So now they have 4 Thanksgiving dinners. They try to get out of Luke’s but he looks disappointed so they go. Rory doesn’t want to kiss Jess in the street where people, or Dean, might see them. He’s quite upset. Lorelei tells Dean they don’t have to avoid each other. First they eat at Lane’s, where there’s Dave playing guitar, to stay near Lane. Next they eat at Sookie’s, where she’s upset because Jackson is cooking, putting the turkey in a “vat of boiling oil”. Kirk gets a cat, but it scratches him very badly. At Luke’s, there’s Jess too and Rory explains how she thinks everybody’s watching her now that she’s with Jess. At her parents’ house, Lorelei learns that Rory also applied to Princeton and Yale, other than Harvard. She’s very very upset.

Lane’s mom got Dave to play for hours, for only 20$, but he still wants to date her, and he gives her a kiss. Sookie is getting drunk to survive the night and Jackson and his friends frying everything, burning the lawn and breaking stuff. They stop at Luke’s, where Rory kisses Jess and Dean sees them. They didn’t actually eat at Emily’s, “because of the upset”, so they get something to go, they’re not too full.

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Paris spent Christmas at her boyfriends’s house (Jamie) and he told her he loved her. Dean stops by to give her back her stuff and helps Lorelei with a big spider. Then they casually meet and get a slice of cake together and decide to stay friends. When they attend Richard’s birthday party, grandma Trix suddenly appears sending Emily out of her mind. Trix yhen comes to watch Lorelei’s house. Rory goes to the town’s carnival. Jess refuses to go, but changes his mind when they meet Dean and his sister Clara invites her to go with them. Lorelei dines at her Inn with her parents  and grandma. Trix plans to leave London and come to live here. Francie has everyone meet when Paris is not there, to change her decisions, and it upsets Rory.

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Paris is ok but Rory is on a war path against Francie, so Francie schemes and gets her to fight with Paris. Sookie meets an old friend but is shocked to learn, when they meet again, that he thought it was a date, because he’s always liked her. Lorelei should give a deposition to help Emily who has been sued by an ex maid, but she doesn’t want to lie and can’t say what Emily wanted.

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Since they promised Lane that her band can play in their garage, Lorelei and Rory now need to clean it up because it’s full of stuff. Lorelei accepted a date with Alex, and then said she too loves fishing so she now has to learn. Luke offers to help. Paris is so furious she wants to throw Rory out of their student council, so the Headmaster scolds them both. When Lorelei comes back, she keeps the fish in her bathtub. Luke asks Taylor’s lawyer out on a date. Lane’s mom won’t let her go out with Dave because he’s not Korean, even if she likes him.

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Rory is invited to Sherri’s C-section to see her sister born. There’s a lot of remembering when Lorelei was young with Christopher and when she didn’t enter the dress Emily wanted because she had gained weight, because she was pregnant. Christopher’s parents were very much against it and her. Sherry’s labour a week earlier so Rory joined her at the hospital, but she wa the only one there and was freaking out when they told her she should be present at the delivery, so Rory calls her mom urgently. It’s a very sad episode in my opinion, because we get to see the difference from now and when it happened to Lorelei. Sherry has Rory and Lorelei and a loving Christopher, while Lorelei went alone and when Emily came she kept scolding her and wasn’t allowed to enter. And Christopher wasn’t there.

And when he came he spoke of having to get married, but we know she didn’t like that plan.

Lorelei buys Emily a dvd player with dvds of films she likes. Back then, Emily found a note after Lorelei left home. 

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Rory is forced to tell Emily she’s now dating Jess, so Emily wants him to come but he shows up late and with a black eye. He won’t tell her what happened so they have a big fight - because she thinks he fought with Dean - and he leaves. The next day Emily scolds Lorelei for letting Rory go out with him. Jess will tell Luke that it was a swan, and Luke makes him a speech on how to deal with a girl like Rory. Lorelei went to New York with Alex, Sookie and Jackson for the weekend.

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The “Doose clan” will stay at the Inn where Lorelei works. Grandma Trix comes to stay at Richard’s home making Emily crazy. Rory keeps staying home waiting for Jess’ call until Lorelei scolds her telling her to go out. Emily sees Trix kissing a man. Lorelei tries to convince her to be superior and let it go, but when Trix attacks her again she reveals it in front of her lady friends. Emily feels terrible later. Rory went to the hockey game with Lane. Dean was playing but they lost. He has a new girlfriend now.

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Lorelei says Rory wants to become “a foreign correspondent”. Sookie can’t taste food well because she’s pregnant. When Jackson learns the news he starts thinking of money. Rory and Paris compete to take the speech for the bicentennial of Chilton. Lorelei meets Medina again.

Paris and Rory both win and are to combine their speeches. Paris shows up at her house to tell her she slept with Jamie, and they make peace. Rory is ready for her speech but Paris isn’t, she shows up unkempt and starts saying in front of everybody that she won’t go to Harvard, she had sex but won’t go to Harvard, and it’s very embarrassing… She doesn’t care because she’s so sad she cries and cries, all her family went to Harvard but they didn’t accept her. Lorelei apologises to Medina but he tells her he’s ok… until they kiss and he admits he’s not over it. Rory has been accepted into all three, as the big envelopes show.

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Rory makes a pro and cons list to choose the university, but all town is sure she’ll go to Harvard. There was a fire at the Independence Inn during the night, so Sookie and Lorelei burst into Luke’s to take over the place for breakfast. The girls give up their beds to hotel guests, so Rory sleeps at Lane’s and Lorelei at Luke’s. Lorelei thought the hotel would reopen soon, but when she enters they can see it’s in bad shape. Yale’s pros are so many, Lorelei turns encouraging towards her going to Yale, now.

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Both grandparents are thrilled that Rory will go to Yale. Luke is invited to meet Nicole’s parents. He also sees Jess skipping school. Richard gives Lorelei a cheque for 75.000$ for an investment he made in her name when she was born… and she uses it to repay Emily for what she paid for Rory’s school. It’s a hugemess. Richard met her at a restaurant to give her the money for a reason! Lorelei wanted to pay back the loan because it was weighing on her, but Emily’s real upset thinking they won’t go to their dinners now.

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His principal tells Jess he won’t graduate because he missed too many days. There’s a 20-days limit, he missed more than a month - well, I thought more…

Lane’s band plays at a guy’s house. Jess is upset, so he gets aggressive and rude making Rory cry, so when Dean sees her he hits Jess and they fight until the police arrive. Medina doesn’t want to be in close proximity to Lorelei. Lane drank beer and got drunk and called her mom to say she likes Dave.

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Fran of the bakery died, so now Lorelei and Sookie think they might buy the Dragonfly. Lane’s mom doesn’t react, not even when Dave shows up himself to say he wants to take Lane to the prom. He shows up again after having read the bible in one night so mom gives them permission to go together. Dean tells Rory he proposed to Lindsay and she accepted. Jimmy, Jess’ father, shows up at the diner. Luke tells him to go away. Jimmy introduces himself to Jess and then he goes away. Jess and Luke have a fight, Jess does not want to repeat the year and graduate, so Luke says he’s got to go away.

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I had to look it up because I had no idea who Gore Vidal was or what he had to do with Rome, anyway it was just a passing line :p

The kids are 18, and Jess left home to go see Jimmy in California. Santa Monica. His partner Sasha seems a great woman to me, her little girl too, but Jimmy seems… not responsible at all, to say the least, he doesn’t even ask Jess why he’s there or if he’ll stay the night or more… Lorelei and Emily have another arguement, and for once finally Rory says something, calling Emily stupid - well, acting stupid. 

Jess asks to stay for a while but Jimmy says he can’t stay, and things like that”I’m not a father, never was, I left you because I wasn’t a father” and how he’s not able to take care of him or raise him…Jess doesn’t know what to do so Jimmy accepts. Rory was named Valedictorian, apparently.

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Lorelei and Rory want to go backpacking through Europe, but the backpacks are really heavy. Luke wants to close the diner and go two weeks away with Nicole. The Independence Inn is closign so Lorelei hasn’t got any money anymore. They can’t buy the Dragonfly now because they don’t have “financial aid for Yale” anymore, becaues those 75.000 made them look rich so they lost the aid. Rory asks a loan from her grandparents, so they’ll pay for all her schooling. So now she tells Lorelei to buy her Inn. It’s Rory’s graduation: Sookie, Jackson and Luke are there too, but Christopher is not. Paris has her nan with her three kids that love Paris, and she loves them. 2003. Rory makes her speech filling it with love for her mom. Jess calls her without saying anything, so she says her piece and her goodbye.

end of season 3.

Gilmore girls season 2

This is the season when Lorelei does not get married, but Sookie does. There’s a new Jess in town and Cristopher has a new Sherrie, then he has an old Lorelei but then again, he has a pregnant Sherrie… Lane hides a Korean boy from her mom and loses him, Richard loses a job and starts a new one, and Lorelei graduates.

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Stars Hollow is full of yellow daisies. Lane is worried her parents will send her to Korea forever. Everyone in town, even Rory, thinks Luke has feelings for her. Lorelei tells Max yes, and Sooki cries when she tells her. Lorelei has glasses at home… Rory invites Dean to her grandma’s special dinner in her honor. Surprisingly, Richard is more hostile than Emily, awkwardly hostile, so much Rory gets upset too. When Sooki tells Emily about the wedding, Emily insists Richard will have to apologize to Rory. She’s hurt that Lorelei didn’t tell her.

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Rory freaks out because she doesn’t have charity credits that will help her enter Harvard, while Paris has been doing it for years. Lorelei is hurt by Emily’s lack of reaction when she tells her.

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Three months go away quickly, it’s already two weeks to her wedding. She says she loves him and he’s the love of her life, and he sleeps at her house and they go on a double date with Rory and Dean, an adorable date :-D Taylor gets a traffic light installed in front of Luke’s diner, and the light blinds Kirk who drives into it. At Lorelei bachelorette’s party, Emily is there, and Emily and Patty start talking about how excited they were, but Lorelei isn’t. And she still hasn’t given him the keys to her house. I guess Summer’s over. The wedding is that same weekend, Luke even made her a huppah, brought it at her house to get married under it, but all of a sudden it feels so wrong not to be as excited as everyone said they were when they got married, that she takes Rory and they leave for a trip of five or six days… they leave so early in the morning nobody sees them… but they still have to stop at the red light. I hope they’ll warn everyone so they won’t gather all at an empty house…

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They’re on a trip not knowing where they’re going. She calls Sookie to tell her the engagement is off, and to tell Patti so everyone will know soon. They stop at a B&B, she thought a sort of friend owned it, but the new owner is a woman who named it The Cheshire Cat, the decoration is full of flowers. They have a bit of fight, and Lorelei says “I wish I did love him”. They go looking at Harvard, to take a look around, and Rory attends a lesson. They’re actually back before the weekend. Lane is back.

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Luke’s sister Liz sent her son to live with him. He’s 17, Jess. Rory hopes for a truce with Paris to work together on the paper. It doesn’t start well. And she feels awkward seeing Max. So Paris gives her the big interview with Mr Medina…

Luke and Jess are invited at Lorelei’s house, but it doesn’t go well. Jess hates being there. Jess looks and acts like a rebel but he knows books. OmG, if he loves books, we know already how it will end, right?

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Emily's friends tell her to send Rory to a debutante ball. Lorelei calls Christopher to tell him because the father should escort the daughter in. He agrees, and comes here. Richard and Emily keep fighting. He’s got work troubles, and doesn’t want to ever stop working. Emily can always ruin things, bringing up how Lorelei should have had a ball like that. Christopher has a woman, Sherrie, and they live together and it’s serious.

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At the Chilton, they say that Rory doesn’t interact much, always reading alone, so she sits at a random table and it turns out those girls are all in the n.1 sorority club, the Puffs. Rory gets Paris to sit there too, she really wanted to. Lorelei gets trapped into helping out a group so she has the event at the Independence Inn and she models next to her mom. They’re actually cute together. The sorority girls ‘kidnap’ Rory and Paris for their initiation, only Lorelei warned Rory beforehand so she’s all cute. They’re blindfolded and made to ring a bell in the headmaster’s office, but they’re caught and scolded. Rory is veery upset. Now she’ll be allowed to read at lunch :lol: 

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Lorelei and Sookie are seriously talking and discussing opening their own Inn, but Fran of the bakery doesn’t want to sell. Mia, the Independence Inn’s owner, is back. Lorelei appeared at her door 15 years ago begging for a job. When Lorelei tells her of her project, Mia is not upset but glad she might now sell the Inn. Lorelei is so upset she fights with Sookie. Emily comes to meet Mia, a brief chat and then Emily asks for old pictures.

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Rory and her school group must play a Shakespeare scene and there’s Tristin too, and they’ll rehearse at Miss Patti’s (she’s on the internet). Tristin of course bothers Dean. She asks Tristin to not tell him that they kissed once. At the end, he can’t even act in the play because he’s pulled out of school, so Paris plays Romeo instead. Even Sookie tells Lorelei that Luke is into her, so she sort of asks him out… but also not, apparently, it’s not clear. Anyway, it appears they’re going to ignore it.

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There was a big dinner party planned at the Inn but they can’t come because of the snow. It was already paid, luckily, so Lorelei and Sookie invite the whole town. Jess and Dean of course do not get along. Richard and Emily are there too, and he appears all happy, then it turns out he’s not working anymore. Lorelei is jealous of Sherrie and doesn’t like the idea of Rory going to stay with him/them. Emily is upset Richard didn’t tell her he left his job, but they make peace of course. 

11-

Lorelei’s home porch is full of termites. She has a big fight with Rory because she refuses to ask her parents for money but Rory tells Emily anyway. At the end the only way she can get a loan is if Emily signs too. Lane is a cheerleader at her school, and so cute at it.

12-

Now that Richard’s home all the time, Emily is going crazy so she asks Lorelei to keep him occupied a whole day. After months of working on it, Dean has finally finished Rory’s car. Taylor puts Rory’s face and name on the Vhs rental shop because they put all inappropriate videos behind a red curtain. Poor Richard feels useless now.

13-

One of the town’s tradition is that the girls put together a basket, boys buy it and then they eat it together, but Jess buys Rory’s basket because Dean could not outbid him. Dean doesn’t want her to go but Rory goes anyway, she shares the picnic with Jess, they talk about books and then go for a pizza and she likes him… of course… 

Lorelei tries to tell her to stay away from him, but stops when Emily agrees with her. Lane was still with Henry Cho, but never actually seeing each other because she had not told her mother, so he leaves her and she’s so sad. 

14-

Chris comes to the Chilton to see Rory’s debate, and Sherrie is with him. She wants to meet Rory so they go out together and Chris joins Lorelei at her parents. So Emily yells at Lorelei because she always wanted to see the family back together and is worried that Sherrie won’t just steal Chris but Rory too.

At the end, Lorelei tells Chris that maybe deep down she could never commit to anyone because she was waiting for him but now she can move on… and of course he’s not happy, he gets angry because it does sound like she’s blaming him for her ‘unhappy years’, meaning for her failed stories, and it’s not right.

15-

Lorelei hires Jess to do some work on the house because Rory insisted, she likes Jess and wants them to get along, she makes a speech to both of them about this. Luke rents a new apartment to have more space for himself and Jess, and it turns out Taylor owns the building, so the contract is null. Dean notices that Rory isn’t wearing his bracelet anymore so she looks everywhere for it. She lost it two weeks before at the picnic but never noticed , and seeing how crazy she’s acting now, Jess puts it in her room under her bed so she can find it. Lorelei saw him coming out of her room and now the peace is broken because she thinks he stole it and bad words are exchanged.

16-

Luke is having works done at his apartment above the diner. Lorelei goes to a spa with Emily for the weekend, two days. Emily talks a lot but honestly for once she’s not antagonistic, it’s Lorelei that needs a good check. It’s actually nice until Emily dances with a man and freaks out, and chooses to go home earlier. She complains that they can’t have a relationship and wonders why.

Since she’s home alone, Rory wants to stay alone -  no Dean - to do the laundry as she likes it and eat Indian food that Lorelei doesn’t like. Paris shows up asking for a bit of study review and then Jess shows up with food, lying and saying Luke sent it. He wants to stop and eat so Rory has Paris stay too, and when Dean comes to see her, it’s awkward and he gets angry so Paris lies for her, volunteering that she asked Rory to invite Jess for her. At the end, after they eat at Luke’s, Rory goes to pay and stays a bit to talk to Jess, and Dean watches from outside wondering ‘Rory wouldn’t lie, would she?’ … well, she’s a teenage girl, not the saint her mom paints her to be.

17-

Luke books 9 rooms at the Inn because an uncle died and he plans the funeral, but then no relatives want to come, and even the veterans in town don’t want to go because Louie was bad, mean to everyone. The Gilmore girls help at the diner while he runs around to arrange everything, even Jess helps after Rory finds him and drags him to the diner…

Emily learned of Sookie’s wedding and started making suggestions, which quickly developed into insanity, like acrobats and things imported from all over the world, until Lorelei brings her back to reality.

The veterans do come to play instruments at the funeral and then they all gather at the diner for the wake.

18-

Rory leads a project for school and enlists Richard’s help, and he helps a lot and enjoys it, and gets enraged when they don’t win. Still, he liked the experience so much he wants to start working again, as a teacher and counselor. Lorelei has a word with Dean about his calling Rory 14 times a day, so he stops, but he knows she likes Jess. 

19-

Luke asks Rory to tutor Jess after the principal tells him he’ll loose the year if he doesn’t change.Lorelei is worried. It’s definitely more a date than a study session. They go driving and have an accident. Rory only has a wrist fracture but Lorelei gets mad and yells at Luke. Rory’s car is in bad shape. Lorelei calls Chris and he comes. At the end, the town watches Kirk’s film and the girls hear Babette saying Luke sent Jess back home.

20-

Richard rented an office, but he’s about to abandon “The Gilmore Group” project when his old secretary Margie prefers to stay at her present, old job. Lorelei offers to help him set up. A new shop opens in town, a music shop, and Lane is enchanted. Rory is sort of upset that everyone in town blames Jess and always Jess, and only Jess for their accident.

Lane checks the music shop and now wants to become a drummer. Richard feels so good, and Lorelei is so good at her job, that Richard wanted to keep working with her, together, but she already has a job so pushes him to choose a new secretary. He chooses Karen. Rory yells at her mom because of Jess. Only Rory and Luke agree that it wasn’t his fault - an animal crossed the street in front of them.

21-

It’s the end of Lorelei’s business class and she’s about to graduate, so Rory secretly invites her grandparents. Rory chooses to ditch school and take a but to New York to go meet Jess, ‘because he had not said goodbye’. Lorelei is embarrassed that her parents come with a videomaker, but then she’s glad that they’re there. Rory isn’t though, her bus runs late and she misses the ceremony. She confesses going to New York and feels very bad for missing it. Apparently Lorelei “has been going to business school at the Community College for three years”.

22-

Paris runs for school president, and she’s of course competent, but nobody likes her, so Paris asks Rory to be her vice-president . Christopher and Sherrie may break up, so he spends the night with Lorelei, and they decide to make it work, or well, to try…

Jess comes back to ask Luke if he can come back, Luke agrees so he stays. If Rory and Paris win, she’ll have to spend the Summer in Washington. Jess goes to tell Rory that he moved back, and she kisses him before running away. All three Gilmore girls were happy to have Christopher with them, but then Sherrie calls to say she’s pregnant, so he goes to her.

Sookie gets married, and the two Gilmore girls are her bridesmaids. It seems Paris and Rory won. 

End of season 2.

The mentalist season 1

This is a positive enough review, it’s a good crime show, in the usual style of crime shows but with the new addition that is so much the fashion these days (well, years). I like that this Patrick Jane has no powers and doesn’t pretend to be (not anymore), he is just someone who has been raised since he was born to notice little things, trained to read people, and that is now his specialty. It may seem too much to someone, but considering it’s his specialty talent, his maybe only talent, concentration and memory, it is acceptable.

I also like that not being a cop or any agents, he only does the mental work but then steps aside and lets the cops arrest the bad guys.

His character is also moving and tragic; he acts every day like it’s all a big joke, like he’s having fun, all to mask the deep pain inside for having lost his family, the great sense of guilt because it was a little bit his fault… because of this, there really is no love story for him and there won’t be for a good while, until he will sort his past. I haven’t seen that happening yet, I have yet to finish all the seasons but have no doubt whatsoever that he will end up with Lisbon, that is the norm in every show where a man and a woman work together, apparently the world doesn’t believe in friendship, respect and stuff like that without sex or marriage becoming part of it.

Since they couldn’t write love banters between the two main leads, they wrote a love story between two of the other cops. There has to be one, apparently it doesn’t matter that it’s a crime show, there has to be a love story/sex story somewhere, it must be one of the rules on how they write screenplays.

Only thing that I didn’t much like: despite having Patrick Jane totally on the rational side, there is one character, Kristina, that is treated like a real psychic… we’ll see in future series if she’ll keep true or turn out to be another con artist… I also don’t believe in how easily they hypnotize people in this show, both Jane and other experts… I know many people believe in hypnosis but I don’t and will never believe that a person can be hypnotized without even knowing it and made to do stuff, I will never believe that anyone could do that to me and it annoys me to see how easily it is used in films and shows because it’s such an easy way-out in a way, and it’s absurd.

Mentalist: someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion. A master manipulator of thoughts and behaviour.

So, here I write about all the episodes, what is enough for me about them.

1- 

A missing girl is found dead. Patrick tells the mother that he once earned money pretending to be a psychic but he’s just someone who pays attention. Jane knows she suspects her husband, so he asks him directly and when he denies it the woman can see he’s lying and shoots him dead. Jane got suspended for that. Next case: it’s Red John, Lisbon didn’t want him on the case for how he acted, but he asks her boss. A married woman and a gay man are murdered and there’s a red smiley on the wall as Red John’s signature… but Jane knows this time it’s a copycat. Van Pelt believes in psychics: Jane says there are no real psychics but she believes her cousin to be one. He doesn’t believe in anything after death.

He’s been after Red John for years. He was already helping the police, when he pretended to be a real psychic they asked his help with Red John, and so Red John killed his family. 

The cops question the husband and his brother and their close relationship is broken when it comes out the dead woman was having an affair with her brother-in-law. Jane knows it was their doctor who killed them to cover up his theft, so he tricks him into revealing himself with a fake diary. The cops are not happy with him. Jane still sleeps in hte room where his wife and daughter were killed, there’s still the red face on the wall, but there’s only a mattress on the floor. 

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A girl is murdered. Jane sort of hypnotizes her friend/coworker so she tells him the girl was in love with her drug-dealing cousin. Lisbon wants to arrest him but Jane suspects the chef where the girl worked, but even he’s surprised when they find he did it with the help of his wife.

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A child finds a 15-y-o girl dead on a beach, so CBI California Bureau of Investigation is called. They start investigating while Jane makes a big sandcastle on the beach, and still they find him already there when they check their first suspect. In the end it was her four friends together, because she didn’t want to cover up the fact they accidentally killed a guard. One of the boys’ father is also arrested because he had sex with the 15-y-o girl. Lisbon is touched by the girl’s family because they lost the wife/mother just like she did, though hers died in a car crash.

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A man is thought missing but Jane guesses the safe door’s combination and he’s there, dead. He had lost a lot of money, he was also laundering money for some people, and he had planned to escape with his lover and daughter. The wife did it to get the diamonds that was all he had left.

5-

A girl is found dead, under her car in the woods, and soon her friend is found covered in blood and in a state of shock. She remembers nothing and the sheriff thinks she did it. Jane wants to solve the case, but he also does not want her to live not knowing if she killed her friend, so he takes her out of the hospital and helps her remember the man who killed her friend Kara and tried to assault her but she ran away. Kara had confessed to her she had slept with her fiancée to prove to her that he was not worth her time, and then she tried to help her when the murderer showed up, but he killed her. 

The murderer is now one of the guys pretending to help the police in the research, and also alone with Lisbon when Jane finds out and tells her on the phone, but she and Rigsby arrest him.

I like that the two girls were really friends, that Kara really cared about her in her own way, and her death proves it, and how Jane cared about them as well. 

6-

A meter away from the Nevada border, on the road, a severed hand is found. It belonged to Jim who managed a casino, so they go there. Jane borrows 100$ from Lisbon and wins a lot, like 250.000, and he bought two really beautiful parures, green for Lisbon and red for Van Pelt, and two not so beautiful but very expensive watches for Rigsby and Cho. He also tries to explain to them how his “memory palace” works. The girls wear it for one night then give it back, the men don’t. 

Jim’s wife had an affair with Matt, head of the hotel’s security, and the body is found in Matt’s garage. Jim also saw a video of his daughter Jessica entering the rom of a “whale”, one of those who play big money, often playing in private rooms. Her husband had lost all his money so he “put up his wife against 50 grand”, then he lost again so he sent her to his room so the guy could have sex with her as payment. Now Jane is playing with them in a room; the guy loses and leaves, then he plays with Jessica’s husband who uses Jim’s 100.000 fiches because he was sure he’d win. He still loses of course, but that marks his end and he confesses the murder: Jessica’s father had seen how he was using her and confronted him, and got killed. All the money Jane won at that game, he gave it to the woman with a sick mother in a hospital. She worked at the casino and cheated to pay for her mom’s medical care, so now she can do it :-)

7-

The next case is of a widow, Rosemary, killed with a car. In her will she named Jeremy, a photographer who has already gotten money from other widows before, and also Kristina who also has gotten lots of moeny from widows by pretending to be in touch with the dead. Van Pelt is very eager to believe psychics esixt, while Jane is a bit upset because he does not believe in it at all and he’s sure Kristina is conning these people - like he did before. He even suggested more than once that Kristina had something to do with the murder, but no, the daughter did it. At the end, Kristina comes to talk to Jane in private; she says she got a message from his dead wife on a question he’s always asked himself, and tells him that his daughter never woke up ,she was never scared because she never knew what was happening, she was not awake and terrified while a man murdered her and  her mom. Kristina then goes away, he says thanks and starts crying, so Van Pelt closes the room’s door to give him privacy.

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A witness and a girl are murdered. The local cops think he was the target, but no, it was the girl. A young cop killed them, thining she was having an affair with his father, the righteous cop, but he wasn’t, she was his daughter not his mistress, so Jane gives the old couple their ‘granddaughter’, the baby girl who is now without parents.

9-

Rich is killed in a fire on purpose. Another man met the same end three years prior. When the chief almost dies too, Rigsby ges him out. These men weredrugged before someone set the fire. He dies, but the third man caught in a fire will live, because he was locked in with Jane and so somehow they got out - no idea how. The two dead men and thislast one had killed Dave three years ago for money, and now his friend Tommy took revenge. Tommy was never a suspect because everyone thought he was retarded, but it was just a play, he’s done it for years. When Jane talks to him he drops the façade. Since the episode is about revenge, Jane comes clear with Lisbon and tells her that when they catch Red John he will kill him. She says they’ll arrest him, and she’ll try to stop Jane if he tries somehting, or arrest him if he does it.

10-

When a man, who was about to speak at a university campus, dies, dr Sophie Miller calls Jane. It was her ex-husband, and Jane believes her when she says she didn’t do it. She was his “psychiatrist”, right after the tragedy he spent some time in a hospital for a breakdown and she helped him. A group against experiments on animals is also suspected, because these people are neuroscientists and of course they experiment on animals. This group is just a crazy guy who loves cats. The real murderer was the university chancellor, to ‘protect’ his school and its stellar scientist, because the experiment he was doing with Sophie does not work and for a year they’ve “been falsifying data” to cover that up and the man who died knew it. Jane is glad Sophie didnt’ do it and his ‘debt’ is now paid in full: she saved him and now he saved her. He kisses her on the cheek and says his goodbye. Nice episode, showing Jane’s vulnerability.

11-

A  man in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, tells Jane he can give him important info on Red John, and he knows a detail nobody else knows, that Red John printed his wife’s nails, so Jane investigates his case because the deal is: prove his innocence to know what he knows. The chief won’t allow it, so Jane quits but the team wants to help anyway so the chief goes away for a week. The guy’s mother did it, because the girl Jared loved was actually his sister, the secret daughter of his father. So Jared is let out of prison, and runs away immediately, deciding that it’s too dangerous to betray Red John. They find him but Red John has already found him and killed him, and then he calls Jane’s phone to laugh in his face. 

12-

A missing 16-y-o was missing but Jane finds his body under the flying crows. There was stuff around to throw suspicion over the town’s witch - who does a spell on Cho because Jane gave her his full name, Kimball Cho. To be nice, Jane gives him some ashes in a glass jar saying it was from Tamzin, so he’d feel more at ease, because he was actually worried about her spell. 

The kid was killed by his violent, abusive father. 

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A guy is murdered and a famous painting stolen. An artist makes copies, adding something so it can’t be passed as the original. A suspect is another man who tried to buy the painting but he has diplomatic immunity or something, so Jane, Rigsby and Cho go talk to him without Lisbon’s permission. How easily Lisbon dismantles their lies :lol: “Rigsby’s not on a date because he’s in love with you” she tells Van Pelt :lol: Both rich men had copies, the real painting was taken by the woman who sold it at the auction, or however she procured the art for them, and the dead guy had confronted her. Jane scolded the rich man for caring more about the painting than his daughter’s pain for having lost her husband. 

The artist is dubbed by Roberto Pedicini :-) *love*

14-

A rich woman is killed while she was with her lover, a guy who defines himself as “a pick-up artist, a woman whisperer”. A waitress is still in love with him, they were together once.

Jane takes Cho shopping so he looks even more handsome, like in a k-drama, so he can pick up waitress Katie and see what happens, and it was Katie’s boss in love with her. Jane called the ‘artist’ stupid because he has a good girl there who still loves him, so he goes to talk to her. Cho spent some time listening to her after she burst into tears and he felt bad for her. At the end, two women ask Jane to join them at their table, and he refuses saying he’s married, he still wears the ring.

15-

A rich woman dies of poisoning, so they investigate her country club. She used to sell drugs, and that’s why she was killed. Another woman dies too because she wanted to pick up the business. They died because a girl had taken those pills and they killed her, and her mom never recovered. After she confesses, Jane asks her if she feels better now, but “it doesn’t change a thing”. At the end, Rigsby goes out to dinner with one of the club’s women.

16-

Someone puts a bomb in a van near Cbi Hq, and sends a message to Jane’s phone. He finds it but there’s no time, the bomb goes off killing the man tied up inside the van. Jane is hurt by the explosion, the concussion makes him lose his eyesight. Van Pelt is all smiles because she sort of have a boyfriend, but of course it’s him, who thinks the victim and Jane are responsible for ruining his life, when Jane told his mom about his dad cheating on her and stuff like that, and towards the end he came to the office to see her. Rigsby tries making a ‘you treat her well’ speech and then gets beaten up so it’s just Van Pelt and Jane. Well, Jane of course understands it on his own, while Van Pelt gets a call from Lisbon with the guy’s name. They manage to escape when a guard sees them - and we’re not told how the poor man is doing, but I think he only got injured. Since Van Pelt has her hands handcuffed behind her back, she can’t drive, but Jane’s blind, so it’s a desperate escape indeed, and they crash into all the cars parked around there, and do not succeed in reaching a road or whatever, but Lisbon gets there in time to shoot the bad guy. Of course at the end Jane can see again.

Now you tell me, in such conditions, a blind man and a girl with both hands behind her back, wouldn’t it be smarter to keep running instead of trying to used a parked car?

17-

A rich guy wants to kill a woman who wants to leave his company and go to the competition, so he plays the crazy-bomber card: he sends the police messages and he kills a random member of his group by sabotaging a parachute, then he puts a bomb under his bed but the bomb does not go off for what is believed to be a silly mistake in making it. Third, he shoots the woman. Pretending to suspect another man, Jane puts him in front of a bomb that he ‘clumsily’ activates, then Jane ‘tries to defuse’ it, as part of his plan, but the guy jumps in in a fright with the right way to do it. They arrest him. Throughout the episode the police suspected a poor man who had good reason to hate that company, since they did not give him the money he had been promised and even fired him, so the money he makes now only covers mantaining his family of three kids, but it’s not enough to pay the medical care for his wife who has cancer. At the end, Jane makes a deal: the first murder, down to manslaughter 1, no mention of the bomb whatsoever and of course no death penalty on the table, in exchange for a 500.000 $ cheque for the poor family.

18-

I did not like this episode, it was all about everybody getting hypnotized. It starts with a man carrying a dead girl in, thinkingit was a sack of potatoes, and it ends with Rigsby hitting a suspect and then almost killing Jane. The story was that a girl was in love with her boss and also very jealous of her sister who was always the one people liked, so she killed her sister thinking the man would love her once her sister was no more, and when he didn’t she wanted to kill him too. It was all stupid.

19-

Felix is killed: he did campaigns against drugs, was married to an actress and was producing her new film. The actress used her stepdaughter’s boyfriend to kill him and then she almost killed the boy. It was a very boring episode, pretty obvious the whole time, and not very well done.

20-

Lisbon’s birthday. Jane guesses each one of their gifts, but his own is late to arrive. Lisbon is a bit upset thinking he forgot to get her one. The very last scene will be of the pony he got her, the pony she always wanted as a child I think.

The case: a witness is found shot dead. He was an ex mafioso and now he sold weed to kids and had a romantic relationship with the female U.s. Marshal. His wife found out and killed him; Jane met the mafia boss and got his number (!) so at the end he scares her saying he’d give her name to the vengeaful boss, so she confessed and got arrested.

21-

Rigsby is very sick, but he’s got to stay at work anyway. A rich man’s body is found, hanging on his yacht’s anchor, and they find out that he hid a lot of money, 10 millions I think, so he wouldn’t have to share it with his ex-wife. He kept the key on a chain around his neck and a guy killed him for it. There is a woman who pretended to be a psychiatrist for months, but is actually a con-woman. She was actually in love with the guy, so he gave her the key, but she didn’t know the hidden place.

At the end she goes with Jim’s financial advisor or whatever, because he knew the place but did not have the key? I guess so, because he killed Jim for it, but he only got a fake key, she got the real one.

When you eventually see them both enter the train station it all becomes clear, but it was late enough for me to still be a nice twist, because he was in a wheelchair, but once she gets the money he stands up and takes it from her… but of course the team was watching and they were both arrested. It was nice when Jane explained how he knew because he’s had the habit of checking the shoes of people in wheelchair, and for the first time it actually turned out to be useful, and he called it “very gratifying”.

22-

I didn’t like this story because there was a scumbag ‘doing it’ with an underage girl under his responsibility, and there were kids afraid of  a ‘legend’ called Zacharias which is pretty much like being terrified of Freddie Kruger in real life. 

A boy, Justin I think, is found dead in the woods with “an electronic monitoring device on him” because he was attending “a wilderness program for troubled youth” called Bright Arch, a usually one-year high school but it can be longer. Justin had found out that a boy, using the fear of Zacharias, was manipulating a girl into accepting the abuse, and since he was not afraid of Zacharias he wanted to do something and confronted the evil kid, and got killed. Both evil kid and adult will be arrested, of course. 

News on our team: Cho says “a little deprivation and discipline is good for the soul” and that “this is like spring break compared to juvie”, which means that he was once in a juvenile Hall, juvie prison, and he thought Rigsby knew by reading his file, but Rigsby hasn’t read anyone’s file. Cho has.

23-

A girl found dead per Red John’s method, and then a plane draws the smile in the sky. The girl’s twin is missing. Jane finds a woman who might know Red John but she’s blind. Jane fights again with Lisbon because he doesn’t care about procedures here because he has no intention of arresting Red John, he wants to kill him and of course she can’t let him.

When she goes to get a warrant, he won’t wait and goes ahead with the sheriff, who turns out to be the son of Red John’s accomplice who died in prison. Sheriff Hardy wanted one of the twins, so he left the other twin to Red John. When Lisbon rushes in to stop Hardy and arrest him, Jane is not happy, he wanted her to wait for Red John to arrive, even if he died in the process, but when they’re outside and Hardy shoots a cop (I think… how is he?) Jane shoots him with a rifle before he can shoot Lisbon. And then he lets the weapon go as if it burned him. They take the surviving girl home to her parents and brother.

End of season.

A Korean woman in a shop asks Cho if he’s married, and then tells him about her niece :lol: and next time they see each other she has a picture to show him :lol: 

Tim Kang is Kimball Cho

Simon Baker is Patrick Jane

Robin Tunney is Teresa Lisbon

Amanda Righetti is Grace Van Pelt

Owain Yeoman is Wayne Rigsby

Leslie Hope as Kristina