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I am a big fan of this series, but this episode really dropped the ball.
In the previous episode, we are introduced to the tragedy of Hildy being diagnosed with cancer and preparing to probably die, while agonizing over what will happen to her daughter. In this episode, she is greeted with the news that her test results were accidentally switched with someone else's, and now that the correct results have reached her doctor, it turns out she doesn't have cancer at all.
Seriously? They nix the whole cancer plot with a "mix-up at the lab"? What's next? Have her wake up and we learn that her break-up with her husband years ago was all a dream?
We also have two separate incidents in this same episode involving mistaken gun crimes. A store clerk shoots a guy trying to rob him at the counter because the guy shows a gun. Because the thief never actually pulled OUT the gun or pointed it at the clerk, the police are questioning the clerk's shooting. Later in the same episode, Terry pursues a suspect out of an apartment and shoots him dead becuase he thinks he is going for a gun in his waistband, but he turns out later to not have any gun at all.
So we have the police questioning a private citizen's use of a gun, and then we have a cop himself being questioned for the same reason. Could the comparison and "social issue" connection be any more painfully obvious?
I've come to expect better from this series in terms of unexpected plot twists and multiple parallel plot threads that cleverly intertwine. This installment was just amateurish and sloppy by comparison.
I am a big fan of this series, but this episode really dropped the ball.
In the previous episode, we are introduced to the tragedy of Hildy being diagnosed with cancer and preparing to probably die, while agonizing over what will happen to her daughter. In this episode, she is greeted with the news that her test results were accidentally switched with someone else's, and now that the correct results have reached her doctor, it turns out she doesn't have cancer at all.
Seriously? They nix the whole cancer plot with a "mix-up at the lab"? What's next? Have her wake up and we learn that her break-up with her husband years ago was all a dream?
We also have two separate incidents in this same episode involving mistaken gun crimes. A store clerk shoots a guy trying to rob him at the counter because the guy shows a gun. Because the thief never actually pulled OUT the gun or pointed it at the clerk, the police are questioning the clerk's shooting. Later in the same episode, Terry pursues a suspect out of an apartment and shoots him dead becuase he thinks he is going for a gun in his waistband, but he turns out later to not have any gun at all.
So we have the police questioning a private citizen's use of a gun, and then we have a cop himself being questioned for the same reason. Could the comparison and "social issue" connection be any more painfully obvious?
I've come to expect better from this series in terms of unexpected plot twists and multiple parallel plot threads that cleverly intertwine. This installment was just amateurish and sloppy by comparison.
