This week’s “Brooklyn Nine-NIne” revolves around Jake’s murder case of a wealthy Brooklyn man–he’s been working on it for weeks, and the DA’s office is pressuring the precinct to find the murder weapon. Captain Holt asks Jake if he needs resources, but Jake insists on working alone. Once Santiago and Holt convince him that the Captain wants department cooperation, he chooses Doyle as his second (because he won’t steal his thunder).
Jake and Doyle are re-combing the building for clues by questioning the doorman (Andy Richter) and other neighbors when Diaz calls with an important tip: the murder victim’s wounds resemble those of a murder she solved a while back, where the weapon was a corkscrew. (more…)
Eric Zayne — who puts his unique spin on Pop/Rock, Soul-infused Electronica to the mirth of the masses — is poised to do just that with his latest breakthrough EP ‘Between Us.’ Opting to focus his efforts on Alternative Pop since his arrival in Los Angeles earlier this year, ‘Between Us’ is the culmination of that re-focusing, bringing that vision to fruition in a way that is as out-of-the-box as it is infectious. (more…)
Title: Uses For Boys
Author: Erica Lorraine Scheidt
Genre: YA Fiction
ISBN: 1-25-00071-19
Published: January 2013, St. Martin’s Griffin
Purchase: Amazon, MacMillan
Main Characters: Anna, her mother, Toy
Synopsis: Anna is alone. She has a mother, sort of. She has no father. She never has. She’s trying to grow up on her own, desperately searching for a place to belong or some sort of sign that she’s on the right path, that where she is now is where she’s supposed to be. Every time she makes a new decision– a new apartment, a new friend, a new boy– she hopes it’s the one that will finally make her life make sense. “Tell me again,” she says. Will she ever find a reason to smile?
Review: This book reminds me of the way I felt when I was a teenager. Our situations were nothing alike, but I can identify with the overall feeling– not knowing where you’re going, where you belong, if you’re lovable…
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By last season’s finale I felt more confident that “The Mindy Project” had finally found its comfortable zone. Tonight’s season two premiere seemed to pick up easily in that same stride, and I’m hoping that it’ll stay at this level.
Mindy and her minister boyfriend, Casey, seem to lead a content life in Haiti building hospitals. One morning, Casey surprises Mindy with a ring; as they try to consummate their engagement, Mindy feels a sharp pain. Cut to: Mindy in a clean hospital bed, after having been airlifted back to NYC for emergency gallbladder surgery. As her partners visit her in the hospital, Mindy and Casey reveal their engagement, and we’re not even going to pretend that Dr. Danny Castellano wasn’t visibly disappointed.
And what’s a “Mindy” episode without a prominent guest star? James Franco is paying an extended visit to the series as Dr. Paul Leotard, who has taken Mindy’s place at the practice. His portrayal of Dr. Leotard reminds me that Franco is actually capable of being funny when he’s not taking himself too seriously. (more…)
Michael Schur, one of the creators of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” spent six years in Lorne Michaels’ writing room. The other, Dan Goor, was a writer for Conan O’Brien, so perhaps he inherited some of that same humor by proxy. Perhaps’s that’s why the pilot episode felt a lot like an extended SNL short. (I love SNL shorts so I’m an easy sell.)
Like Schur and Goor’s other successful pet project, “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” seems to be following the ensemble formula of focusing on a quirky main character, and his interactions with peripheral but equally as quirky characters. Here, Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is the comic lead of a group of cops in the fictional 99th Precinct. My guess is that the setting matters less than the dynamic between the characters, although I’m sure it’ll come in handy for the odd hipster/yuppie jokes.
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