How I Met Your Mother – Glitter
Robin Sparkles was back! I loved Robin Sparkles the first time, liked her the second, and am pretty well over her now. I honestly hope this plot device is over and done, but I expect if the show comes back next season it will recur.
This episode was really all about Robin’s and Lily’s friendship, and how the dynamic has changed now that Lily is trying to get pregnant. There was, of course a lot of miscommunication, they ended their friendship, they both apologized, and they are both back to being best friends.
Barney’s run of reality show competition send offs was the best part of this episode for me. I watched it twice. I don’t know if NPH is a huge reality buff, but I do know he is a big fan of Big Brother, so I knew as soon as he started he would say “You have been evicted from the Big Brother house” which he did.
House – A Pox on Our House
At first I thought I was watching either an episode of Lost or had accidentally switched the The History Channel. However, it ended up being House and of course being relevant.
There was a distinct possibility that a family had been infected with smallpox, or at least exposed to it. The daughter in the family was exposed to something, and the team, and the CDC believed it to be smallpox. Then the father developed symptoms, and he actually died, but not before House went into the room thinking it wasn’t smallpox, and exposed himself to whatever the father had.
They finally figured out it was R-pox, not smallpox, which was treatable. The daughter, who might have died had they not figured it out, survived, and House also survived, of course. It was a shame that the father died before they figured it out.
Last week House lied to Cuddy about something; a test I think. I honestly don’t remember, but Cuddy does. She discovered he lied to her last week, but didn’t confront him about it until this week. While she put it aside when she thought he might die, as soon as it was clear he was going to be fine, she picked her anger and frustration right back up again. She is very angry with him, and this won’t be resolved soon.
Mike & Molly – Mike’s New Boots
Molly got Mike a pair of rattlesnake cowboy boots. Mike and Molly go to an OA meeting together, where he wore the boots and got flirted with by a new woman at the OA meeting. The woman asked to Mike to be his sponsor, after Mike introduced Molly to her as his “friend”. Molly got pretty upset about that, and I believe she had every right to get upset.
Mike went to talk to Carl about it, and Carl’s nana talked to Mike about what happened. During the conversation, Mike admitted that he loves Molly! As soon as he said it, he said it again, intentionally. At the same time, Molly and her sister were talking, and she said she loved Mike!
Mike went to Molly’s and apologized for not introducing her as his girlfriend. Then he started to say he loved her, but stopped himself, and said he loved his new boots. He did make it clear to her he meant more than that, but neither of them said I love you to each other. I don’t know if they both thought it was too soon to say it, or if they wanted it to be a different time to say it the first time, not when they had been arguing but in a better moment, but they didn’t say it yet.
Castle – Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind
Explosive decompression killed this week’s victim. Castle was intrigued from the first, since he thought perhaps it was the result of an alien abduction. I immediately thought her assistant was odd, and hiding something. The entire episode definitely felt like the better episodes of The X-Files, and Castle constantly referencing Mulder and Scully certainly didn’t hurt.
Lyle Lovett guest-starred and all I can say about him is that I never realized how much he reminds me of Leonard Nimoy/Mr. Spock. I thought he was fine in the role, but it really could have been anyone in the part, and it felt like unnecessary stunt casting.
The final outcome was that it wasn’t extraterrestrials that killed the victim, but her boss who was working as a spy/agent for the Chinese government. Both the boss and his Chinese handler were arrested, and the case was closed.
When Danny started talking about Bon Jovi, I literally applauded. I am a fan, and that cracked me up. Scott Caan really steals this show.
A female assassin seduced and killed a member of the advance team for a violent dictator. When they finally identified her and caught up with her she was hit by a bus and killed. When her phone was dumped, it was discovered that the last person she called was Taylor, a man who was hired to protect General Pak, the dictator. He also happened to be someone McGarrett had worked with in the military, and someone he had trusted. As soon as the team discovered this, they got the General to a safe house and called for backup. His phone had been cloned however, and help didn’t come, only Taylor and his team.
While they waited for help to arrive, the General admitted he had come to the US Taylor
Our team killed all the bad guys, the General got his asylum, and he headed off to testify to the UN.
The Event – For the Good of Our Country
I am not going to recap this show today. The story just gets more and more convoluted and I don’t have the brain power to try and unravel it today. Basically, Sean got shot and Leila kidnapped a doctor to help him, which he did. So, Sean will be okay, but hampered in the next few episodes. President Martinez and Director Sterling realized that Vice President Jarvis was involved in the attempted assassination of the President by the airplane piloted by Michael Buchanan. Jarvis was working with Dempsey who wanted the President dead to stop the announcement about the people being held in Alaska
So, it appears there are basically three factions at work here. The President and the people loyal to him, who were at least okay with the President announcing there were “others” being held in Alaska
