My TV Musings

Apparently some time had passed since the previous episode because Matt (Ron Livingston) was back even though it seemed that he had quit before.
He and Emily weren’t getting along well and that led to them almost ruining a negotiation with a corporate executive who had taken a board room full of execs hostage over a […]

When I found out this series was burning off its’ final episodes I wasn’t planning on watching them. But then I received a few comments praising its’ virtues, so I tried it out. And I enjoyed what I saw so I kept watching it and now I actually care what happens to Matt […]

Some observations I had throughout the show:

Who lets these cons have a room to themselves to plan a riot?

It took way to long for the place to go on lockdown

Oh this is just a juvie facility? Coulda fooled me!

Emily thinks kids are easier to talk down?

There’s a phone in the yard??

Rome, the guy in […]

For all the policies the government had, why not one about two people who USED to have a relationship not working together in a high pressure situation? That would have solved this whole pissing contest between Cheryl and Sam.
But since they went there, Cheryl should have been more professional and picked one: either let […]

My first thought was that the artist had taken the child and that the parents should have been asked for their description, especially since he signed the drawing.
How nice Emily must have felt when the suspect they were questioning said she was reason he turned his life around.
Why do the co-workers act surprised that Emily […]

Hell hath no fury, as they say!
Darah sure didn’t back down when given a chance to show Keegan how she felt about being kidnapped! When she struck the first blow and he was still alive, I shouted “Do it again!” and she did…again and again and again. Here you have this sleazy cult […]

You have to remember I’m new to this show. But my first thought, when the second crisis tore Matt away from Emily and Carrera, was: can’t the women handle a crisis on their own? Doesn’t LA have enough hostage negotiators to handle several crises at once? And then Emily actually called […]

Well, I watched the latest Standoff episode, No Strings, didn’t even fast forward through the parts with the redhead in it. And I realized this is an intense, exciting drama, not just a relationship show. That’s the trouble I had with it when it first started. It felt like they were jumping […]

I got home early from work today and lo! and behold there was a comment about my highlights for tonite about Standoff. This person invited me to watch the show because Gina Torres has an upcoming episode centered around her. Well I told you I like her and I didn’t want to take […]