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Page 16 Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023
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’Quantum Leap,’
Mondays on NBC,
Season 1, Episode 11, “Leap. Die.
Repeat.” on Jan. 30 debuted a twist
on the leaps of Dr. Ben Song (Ray—
mond Lee) that I don’t recall being
experienced even by Dr. Sam Beck-
ett (Scott Bakula) on the original
series, as Ben spends an episode
re-leaping into the same moment of
time, just before the explosion of a
nuclear facility in the 1960s, each
time as one of the five victims of the
blast in the control room.
Ben name-checks “Groundhog
Day” and “Rashomon,” as he uSes
the repeating time loop to try and
learn as much as he can, during
each leap, from the perspectives of
an Army colonel, two nuclear scien-
tists, a civilian news reporter and a
janitor for the facility, turning it into
a murder-mystery with a limited
number of resets, after Ben learns
the blast was caused by an explosive
device, planted and set off by one of
the five people he’s leaping into.
Ben’s attempts to winnow the list
of suspects is complicated by inad-
vertently setting off the bomb during
one of those leaps, without realizing
it, making him the “murderer” dur-
ing that leap. y
Ben’s initial “death,” in the first of
those leaps, also shows his fiancee,
Addison Augustine (Caitlin Bassett),
finally, fully losing her composure,
in stark contrast to the stressed—
out but relatively unruffled military
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veteran we’ve seen up to this point.
And the nuclear facility bomber’s
initial self-assuredness over'the
moral righteousness of his cata-
strophic actions gives Ben pause,
when combined with the cryptic
warnings from his team’s adversary-
in-residence, Al’s daughter Janis
Calavicci (Georgina Reilly), about
whether his team’s good intentions
might nonetheless lead to disastrous
_-outcomes, especially with Addison’s
fate somehow hanging in the bal-
ance in the future.
Night Co‘urt',’
' Tuesdays On NBC
Season 1, Episode 4, “Dan v.v
Dating” on J an.’ 31 inverted one of
the most reliable traits of sarcastic
attorney Dan Fielding (John Lar-
roquette) from the original “Night
Court” series, as the previously un-
repentant serialwomanizer of the v
1980s and ’905 has found himself
fending off the amorOus advances of
older women throughout the court-
house, as a “silver fox” of a widower.
As many idiot adolescent guys
grew up admiring suckup scumbag
horndog Dan Fielding for all the
wrong reasons —- I’m talking about
myself here —— I’ve been pleasantly
surprised to see that not even crit—
ics of the new “Night Court” object
to Dan’s evolution, almost assur—
edly because Larroquette managed
to give Dan a sense of depth even at
‘ his most stereotypical.
Larroquette made Dan a man
who actually aspired to be a shallow,
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self-serving jerk, but was often
brought down by the bummer of a “I
realization that he did indeed pos-
sess a conscience, no matter how
well-hidden he usually kept it from
his coworkers.
Ifthe unseen fiancé of Abby
Stone (Melissa Rauch) turns out to
be not such a nice guy, Dan’s back—
ground makes him uniquely suited
to seekvdirty-pool' retribution against
anyone who might hurt Harry’s "
daughter. I "
In the meantime, it was welcome
to see Larroquette playing off the
under-used talents of guest—starring
romantic interest Wendie Malick,
who’s managed to enliven sitcoms
ranging from HBO’s “Dream On” to
(NBC’s “Just Shoot Me!”
The B-plot of prosecutorOlivia
(India de Beaufort) and bailiff Gurgs
(Lacretta) sharing an office builds .
~ on the fun rapport they developed in'
the previous episode, leaving left-out
court clerk Neil (Kapil Talwalkar)
the most likely to be sacrificed to the
second-season retooling gods, since
the new “Night Court” has already
been confirmed to receive a Season
2. '
’Poker Face,’
Thursdays
on Peacock
Season 1, Episode 5, “Time of the
Monkey” on Feb. 2 finally gave aim—
less amateur sleuth Charlie Cale
(Natasha Lyonne) an opportunity
to pass the Bechdelrtest, when a
stint as a retirement home atten-
dant introduces her to bohemian
best friends Irene and Joyce (played
by “Law & Order” stalwarts Judith
Light and S. Epatha Merkerson),
who spin entertaining tales of their
political activism during the 1970s. .
While the trio of women’s inter—
actions ultimately involve a man,
about whom the two older women
harbor conflicted feelings —— “like
a fire hydrant” is a notable compli-
ment both older gals pay him, be-
cause streaming services like Pea— ’
cock'don’t' have to play by primetime
network TV rules —— I have to admit,
I could have watched fellow Gen-Xer
Charlie bond with Boomer hippie
chicks Irene and Joyce for an entire
episode, simply because of the great '
vibe they had going.
Of course, because “Poker Face” is
a murder—mystery, it turns out Irene
and Joyce’s political activism was
less sympathetic than they made
it out to be, but the fact that a hu-
man lie detector like Charlie could
be taken in by their half—truths
points to a blindspot in her ability to
spot intentional falsehoods, because
Irene and Joyce sincerely believed
their own self-serving justifications
for even their ,most extreme “politi-
cal” acts. '
My only complaint is that Charlie
needs to start expecting some push—
back when she goes after murder-
ers, but on the plus side, the show
appears to have gained a recurring
character in FBI agent Luca Clark
(Simon Helberg), so that should
complicate Charlie’s flight from her
pursuers. ’
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