Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label This Gun For Hire

What's To Watch? - Aug 4-10 - Menace, Murder, Meaning and Memories

         Another week where I start this expecting to be dropping a short piece due to other pressing matters, but then I remember this, then that, and it swells.        At least through the 22nd of this month I'm under the gun concerning some other matters, and it will likely continue to wreak havoc on the rest of my life. So, the following two Friday columns after today may be light. We'll see.       Arrived on Netflix yesterday was the second half of the second season of The Lincoln Lawyer . As mentioned several weeks ago , this is an adaptation of Michael Connelly's 2011 novel The Fifth Witness .      In the face of the ongoing strike, and very likely just as part of constant experimentation to see which method works best for generating viewer interest on these streaming platforms, they broke this second season into two, five-episode halves, hoping to generate a mid-season cliffhanger buzz. I...