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I just saw the Cold Case episode "Officer Down" and, well, SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!! Best episode of the season, narrowly beating Wednesday's Women, which I didn't think was going to happen.
I can tell when I've just watched fantastic, emotional TV because it leaves me feeling totally wrung out. That's how I feel right now. I could squee for England, again, but I'll just cut and paste the review I posted on the Cold Case Forum, Look Again.
Holy wow! Just...woah. I rushed home from work tonight so I could watch this and it was definitely worth it. I had such high expectations for this episode that I was scared that it wouldn't deliver but I needn't have worried, it did what I thought no ep would do, it knocked Wednesday's Women off my "Best Ep of the Season" list
Umm, where to start? The first 10 minutes was one of the most gripping series of scenes I can remember watching on CC. From Vera's frantic "Officer Down! Officer Down!", to the shots of our detectives getting the call. I adored that sequence to bits, watching Scotty practically run over his date in his haste to leave, Kat hustling Veronica out of bed to get her to grandma's. Great set up.
The story was excellent and extremely well told. Someone's already commented on how much was fitted into this episode without it feeling rushed, and I have to wholeheartedly agree. There wasn't a single wasted minute and yet there was still time for slower scenes like Vera's hilarious apology to the poor guy in the chapel. The side bar with Stillman and Doherty was brilliant - I totally believe Stillman would beat the crap out of anyone who tried to screw over one of his detectives and the actor playing Doherty did a beautiful job of conveying both menace and then wary caution. Great scene, would have been easy to overplay but it, like the rest of the episode, was paced just right.
I adored all the Kat scenes in this ep, my favourite, apart from the adorable shot of her asleep with her daughter at the end, was when she extracted the food place Valentine worked at from Pops' granddaughter and every single detective outside the room promptly moved to go and find him. That was a lovely moment, to show that it wasn't just the guys and gals we know who were invested in catching whoever shot Will.
The scene with Lilly at the end was really powerful - I think it was partly dealing with her own shooting, you could tell it was on her mind from the minute she stared at the bloodstains on the cabinet door in the store to when she said to Will "Feels like you've been hit by a truck, huh?" (or words to that effect). Relief, pain, release, it was all there in that moment, very, very powerful way of ending an emotional episode.
There is probably more I could squee about - I've barely mentioned Vera who was totally made of awesome with a side order of awesome sauce - but I think I've run out of ability to express it coherently. So I'll finish off by giving my own, personal rating to this episode....
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I can tell when I've just watched fantastic, emotional TV because it leaves me feeling totally wrung out. That's how I feel right now. I could squee for England, again, but I'll just cut and paste the review I posted on the Cold Case Forum, Look Again.
Holy wow! Just...woah. I rushed home from work tonight so I could watch this and it was definitely worth it. I had such high expectations for this episode that I was scared that it wouldn't deliver but I needn't have worried, it did what I thought no ep would do, it knocked Wednesday's Women off my "Best Ep of the Season" list
Umm, where to start? The first 10 minutes was one of the most gripping series of scenes I can remember watching on CC. From Vera's frantic "Officer Down! Officer Down!", to the shots of our detectives getting the call. I adored that sequence to bits, watching Scotty practically run over his date in his haste to leave, Kat hustling Veronica out of bed to get her to grandma's. Great set up.
The story was excellent and extremely well told. Someone's already commented on how much was fitted into this episode without it feeling rushed, and I have to wholeheartedly agree. There wasn't a single wasted minute and yet there was still time for slower scenes like Vera's hilarious apology to the poor guy in the chapel. The side bar with Stillman and Doherty was brilliant - I totally believe Stillman would beat the crap out of anyone who tried to screw over one of his detectives and the actor playing Doherty did a beautiful job of conveying both menace and then wary caution. Great scene, would have been easy to overplay but it, like the rest of the episode, was paced just right.
I adored all the Kat scenes in this ep, my favourite, apart from the adorable shot of her asleep with her daughter at the end, was when she extracted the food place Valentine worked at from Pops' granddaughter and every single detective outside the room promptly moved to go and find him. That was a lovely moment, to show that it wasn't just the guys and gals we know who were invested in catching whoever shot Will.
The scene with Lilly at the end was really powerful - I think it was partly dealing with her own shooting, you could tell it was on her mind from the minute she stared at the bloodstains on the cabinet door in the store to when she said to Will "Feels like you've been hit by a truck, huh?" (or words to that effect). Relief, pain, release, it was all there in that moment, very, very powerful way of ending an emotional episode.
There is probably more I could squee about - I've barely mentioned Vera who was totally made of awesome with a side order of awesome sauce - but I think I've run out of ability to express it coherently. So I'll finish off by giving my own, personal rating to this episode....
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
ecstatic