During the Holy Week break (from Christian faith), I had the chance to watch a new season of Criminal Minds. In my head, in every episode I was screaming to stop watching but I can’t. I can’t.
Wow! Back then, Arashi was my escape from watching too many American series and work at the office. It’s one of those I had before I entered the Arashi fandom. Now, it’s ironic that CM’s a sweet escape from watching too much Arashi.
After CM, I tried watching Numb3rs. But my mind’s screaming for more Criminal Minds. I don’t really like the deaths and the blood, but then, they are not the focus of each episodes (although there are some REALLY sick episodes where I can’t help but cover my scared eyes). The focus is on how these group of people work together (and unbelievably seem to read or have the same minds; the team think alike) to solve the mysteries. God, Tantei Gakuen Q might feel almost the same maybe if I am natural at the Japanese language. It’s reading the human behaviors and finding pattern to a series of crimes that makes it appealing to me. And by season 3, most of the characters got their blossoming romantic involvements, how nice (it starts to show they got lives too, uhuh).
I found a similar series with "profiling" and FBI and investigation as their common theme but it lacks the excitement (or cruelty maybe) of CM. It is an older but still ongoing series called Without A Trace. Ok, there might be more exciting titles in the store that I could have bought but as much as possible, I don’t like deaths (and blood and tortures) except for the bitter pill that is CM. Maybe I like the way it is done.
Oh yeah, I saw the pilot of Sho’s The Quiz Show. I’m not exactly into it. It feels boring. Maybe it’s the lack of "cinematic" feel (not that’s it’s meant for the cinema, but you get what I mean?) The canned laughs and boos from the audience are boring. The supposed tension between the staff weren’t exactly convincing.
Or maybe it’s just the fact that I didn’t like seeing Sho’s hair and his (and every of the casts’) pimples on HD and the shallow acting that turns me off, I don’t know. And the story line is predictable. It has the feel that you can get how the story will end at the first 5 minutes. So in the end, you’re just really left with checking out Sho and Yoko’s "intimate" scene afterall. I stopped anticipating even though everybody tells that the series is promising. But hype is hype, you really can’t do much about it. Although it’s still tempting checking out Yoko’s wickedness. Because Yoko is sexy like that. God forgive all these strikeouts I’m making because I’m starting to believe the only thing that is important in this post are these striked-out words.
So, like I guess I’ll watch TQS when it ends while I catch up on more episodes of Criminal Minds. I still have Prison Break, Numb3rs, Lost, Without A Trace to continue while waiting for YokoxSho to get subbed. And I don’t really like watching shows with give-away solutions at the very start.
Thank you for reading this rant. This was written days ago.
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