TV Right Now: The good, the bad and the totally sucky

[doodler]

Grimm question...
what is it about the Grimm that the others see that we don't/can't? They see him for what he is right away, with no changes to what we are seeing. But he sees them... and we see WITH him... as if their disguises have been removed.

Grimm: "How long do you think it would take us to do 10 miles?"
Partner: "Depends on how fast we drive."

[doodler]

Have seen the Awake commercial several times during Grimm and only one Asian ... NOT Wu. It's the actor who played the police psychologist on one of the L & Os (I think.)

[Tony_]

 Doodler, re Awake, the guy lives in two different worlds, with everybody similar but not the same.  They show one Asian guy mostly, but then, glimpses of another who looks like Wu.  We'll have to wait and see.

Tonight's Grimm.  No Wu, nor even his name listed in the cast.  Anyway, we learn the Vessen have royal families and the grimm's boss is a royal, and Portland is his canton.  And, since they date back centuries to when everybody was Catholic, of course, there are some priests amongst the Vessen, and when angry, they do NOT sprinkle holy water.  That was quite a dervish one eating the wayward vessen, at the end.  Certainly not something an Episcopalian would do  .  They prefer golf.

As to how they know the grimm is a grimm, well, my guess is that they sense being seen.  Or maybe it's grimm-dar.

I do believe a possible plot line is that the girlfriend is vessen royalty and part of the plan is to produce a child part grimm, part vessen.  She started acting really weird over discovering the wedding ring.

But, whatever; we weally need the weturn of Wu !!!!

[doodler]

What she discovered was an engagement ring, not a wedding ring. And it is a much bigger deal in the straight world, grimm as it may be.

Second, where in the Awake preview is the "glimpse" of the second Asian? Also, he doesn't live in two worlds. He experiences two separate dream worlds... one with his wife still alive and one with his son still alive. Since he has different people in each world... partners, shrinks, etc... it ought to be fairly easy for him to tell which one he's in. Is one of them the REAL world? And if not, is he ever in the REAL world, the one where all his family is dead... where he would have to have yet a third partner... and probably yet another head doctor? Hope he has good medical insurance!

Oh, and the only Asian listed in the main case is B. D. Wong.

[jack]

  Still haven't learned if the actor who plays officer Wu, on Grimm, is one of the two oriental-Americans that seem to be in Awake.

fyi, oriental is furniture and carpets, tony, asian is people.

[Tony_]

fyi, oriental is furniture and carpets, tony, asian is people.

  Thanks for the correction, Jack.  Am a fan of Detective Cho on the Mentalist, but, although Asian-American might apply, I just think of him as Cho  .

As for the guy playing officer Wu, on Grimm, if they dropped him, I think it's a big mistake. I'll check the NBC site, when I can.

[Tony_]

 Checked the NBC site, and only found a thread asking where Wu was, as he hasn't been seen for two weeks.  No replies, yet.  Blutbads?

The actor playing Wu is Reggie Lee, and although he was born in the Phillipines, may be also of Chinese descent as he speaks Mandarin.

The asian-american actor on Awake is listed as B.D. Wong, openly gay (why that's listed on the tv info site, I don't know), and a father.  This show looks like it may be a bomb.  But that's just a first impression.

Reggie Lee needs to return !!!

[doodler]

Oh, and the only Asian listed in the main case is B. D. Wong.

[suelyblu]

Just watching a program about films and because it's Oscar night... the people there were asked to name the travesties of films that were beaten for an award by some other rubbish film. Brokeback Mountain was on everybody's lips and asked if the Awards panel had even watched it !! So we are not the only ones who think like this ......even film critics do. Hooray ....at last.....but too late 

[Cally]

That's good to know.

[Tony_]

 Monday night is now the big one, for me.  The Voice was great.  Had never really heard any of Christina Aguilerra's songs, and so was really surprised when she went on with her last pick for her team and sang, very, very well.  They've all got their teams now.

Smash no longer undulating.  This makes two weeks in a row, where it's all coming together.  Great tv !!!

[jack]

i hope they have replays or on demand viewing.  i got caught up in a project and forgot all about them.

[doodler]

They're both on again on the weekends.

[Tony_]

i hope they have replays or on demand viewing.  i got caught up in a project and forgot all about them.

 There are those repeats, Jack.  But also, if you have a smoothly humming computer, you can go to the network sites, NBC.com. for instance, get to the show page, and re-play the last, or other episodes.
  I don't know if there's a block on this for our overseas friends, but it's worth a try.

[doodler]

For me, Mondays are TOO good, if you can believe that and Sundays as well. Three hours of double viewing. Unfortunately, the Sunday shows I'm skipping... TAR and Apprentice... do not repeat during the week. Oh well!

Tuesdays are good as well... NCIS, The River and sort of pick-whichever-looks-most-interesting at 10. Lately, I've opted for Body of Proof  which I avoided when it first started. It's growing on me... sort of a female Quincey with less humor.

Saturdays, for the last few weeks, have been fine with repeats of Smash, then The Firm, and a L&O repeat

Wednesdays need a 9 o'clock. Thursdays are a blank slate, but maybe Awake at 10 will help and the Ashley Judd show is starting in two weeks at 8.

Which leaves Fridays... Shark Tank, Grimm and nothing.

All in all, not bad for network tv!