So listless

[cornerofmadness]

so tired. But I DID find this and it made me laugh and think of enemytosleep. I'm sure she can guess why.



I decided to deep six my plan to go to the renn fest this week. It was 90 today. It'll be 90 tomorrow and it was a whole hell of a lot of screw that nonsense.

Weirdly I can write away from my computer but not at it. I hope I get over this nonsense soon.

Work still sucks.

Know what else sucks? I couldn't even find my novel in AMazon's search engine. THAT sucked. We were sharing books on my author social media and I put in the title and things that didn't even come close to matching popped up before it. That was just sobering.

But in much better news, I DID find a show on TV that I liked and since spikedluv asked me for my thoughts, here they are. In some ways it doesn't offer anything new. It's a cop show with a profiler. We have a loose cannon (the profiler) and even him using the idea of talking to a serial killer isn't new, shades of Silence of the Lambs anyone? And even that is rooted in real cases where they've done this.

Malcolm Bright is a freshly fired FBI profiler tapped by an old friend who's a detective with NYPD because he has a copy cat killer who is using Malcolm's father, Dr. Whitly 'The Surgeon' (and he was a thorax surgeon) killing method. The family is wealthy. Sis is now a reporter. Mom still doing the things rich women do. Malcolm on the other hand is all kinds of majorly fucked up.

So a broken young man, that is my sick catnip so here I am. WIthout spoilers, I can say Michael SHeen as Whitly is delightfully creepy. Tom Payne as Malcolm pulls off PTSD, borderline bonkers very well. And oh, Lou Diamond Phillips is Malcolm's boss. 30 years has changed nothing. I still want that man. On the downside, I think Mom doesn't look old enough but okay whatever.

And for a We have the eyerolling stereotypical dude handcuffed to a bomb scenario. I honestly don't know how probable it is to make a bomb you can't defuse by simply removing wires from the bomb and it's not something I'm likely to google for obvious reasons.

Anyhow Malcolm's solution to this is to take an axe and lop the man's hand off and have the other cop put it on ice for reattachment. Um...okay. So let's examine this. Yes this is an apartment of a dom (in the S&M scene) but wtf is the axe about? It's not a sex toy. This is a NYC apartment, what the fuck could he possibly be axing? And the killer isn't using an axe on anyone. So we have a handy dandy axe to multilate someone.

Now, I suppose losing a hand and having it reattached is better than getting blown up but then NOTHING ELSE is said about this other than 'well you cut a man's hand off?'

I find that SO unbelievable. For one, I see the city being sued (even though the guy made it out alive). I can't see him remaining employed after this. And it was just so VERY unnecessary to establish that Malcolm is close to insane. There's plenty of that especially with him chaining himself to his bed because of his night terrors.

And then when he has a night terror in the break room at work no less than 6 cops nearly shot him. That made me uncomfortable because of how many cops HAVE pulled the trigger needlessly in the last few years. We're talking an unarmed man on the floor flailing around screaming and the lady detective had to lay over him to shield him. Hmm excellent police work