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Body of Proof: Now That’s What I Call A Series Finale

Posted on May 29, 2013 Written by ripitup

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Body of Proof series finale, Daddy Issues, aired on Tuesday this week.

 

It just sucks when such a fun series is cancelled.

 

Yes, all good things come to an end. But I wish they didn’t while they still had great storylines to explore.

 

Yeah, yeah, we get it. It’s about ratings and advertising revenue. But it’s not the healthiest sytem, and hey, the show’s time slot also affects things.

 

But let’s not get into the whole archaic Nielsen thing, or the advertisers’ inability to make the most of the show’s social media followers and international viewers…

 

I read that the creators are looking to find another network, but I’m not holding my breath.  Survival after cancellation has been known to happen, but none of my favorite (cancelled) shows had such luck.

 

But at least, Daddy Issues was a great finale. It tied up all the loose ends, and even though their final choice of the main villain is a bit implausible (and questionable), it makes up for it by:

 

(*includes spoilers for  season 3, episode 5 (Eye for an Eye), where Henry Ian Cusick first guest-starred.)

 

1)   letting us finally know what happened to Megan’s father and why.

2)   bringing back my favorite “villain” – therapist Dr. Trent Marsh (Henry Ian Cusick) who was the only guy that got away from Megan. He was intelligent enough, and he was worth sympathizing over. Even though he had killed 3 people (in episode 5), all those people had committed cold-blooded murder. One of the victims was Marsh’s wife.

3)   Megan (Dana Delany) finally beginning to see how there might be shades of grey when it came to “bad guys” and “good guys”

4)   Megan finally having a non-evasive talk with Tommy about where they stand.

 

 

The finale works, both as a season and a series finale.

Even if I don’t get any more of Megan Hunt, I’ve got closure- something prematurely-cancelled (but awesome) *Lie to Me or *Awake couldn’t provide.

 

Now, if you want to find out more, dig into a spoiler-rich plot summary:

 

Megan is too busy solving her dad’s murder to get into the case-of-the-week, so it’s Ethan (Geoffrey Arend), Kate (Jeri Ryan) and Curtis (Windell Middlebrooks) working on it.

 

Megan and Tommy (Mark Valley) are shocked to find out that her father’s grave is empty. This proves Megan’s theory one more time. They try the next logical angle: going  after some old records, which they also find that were taken by the killer.

 

And as Megan is trying to deal with the emotional strain, Marsh “runs into” her. She’s a bit “easier” on him this time, as she’s more concerned about catching her father’s killer.

 

After Megan finds a hidden key in her father’s belongings, she finds a hidden file on an assaulted and killed woman, supposedly by a serial killer (Kurtwood Smith, Red of That 70s Show), convicted for several other murders.

But he tells Megan and Tommy that she wasn’t one of her victims, and their search takes them to the cop in charge of the case years ago.

 

Megan is adamant that he’s the killer, but they only have a theory. Marsh finds her, and tells her he can help her. Megan refuses, though she seems to be less judgmental of him now.

 

When the cop is shot in the back, it makes you wonder whether a certain “villain” didn’t keep his promise.

 

But the victim in Kate’s case turns out to be the partner of the cop. When Megan goes to the police station to find Tommy, she runs into Tommy’s boss – who “kidnaps” Megan.

 

As it turns out, the killer is none other than Tommy and Adam’s (Elyes Gabel) boss Chief Angela (Lorraine Toussaint)  (yeah, her connection is explained.)

 

And when she is about to shoot Megan, it is when Marsh comes and shoots her, saving Megan’s life. A shocked Megan can only whisper “thank you” after he is gone.

 

After Tommy arrives at the scene, she tells him who saved his life. But when they go to his office, he is gone- having left   his book, along with the note “You’re Welcome” for Megan, who doesn’t seem that bummed that he has eluded them.

 

She makes up with her mother.

 

The she goes to Tommy’s house, finally admitting her feelings to Tommy, and we see their first on-screen kiss.

 

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I’d kinda hoped Megan would hook up with the therapist (at least before we found out he was the murderer.) Even then, I was kind of hoping that Megan would understand him. This episode I got that chemistry again- and I had a feeling……wouldn’t mind.

 

But I’ve always liked Mark Valley (Boston Legal, Fringe), and Tommy’s been a very entertaining character. So it was about time they got together. But Marsh would have made a risky, grey and interesting love interest. Oh, well…

 

And if you want to see Cusick play a real villain (as in a villain killing anyone who gets in his way and gets off on it), watch his guest appearances as Tommy Volker on The Mentalist.

 

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Lie to Me’s ending wasn’t good for a series finale. It was barely good enough as a season finale. Don’t get me wrong, it was a first-class episode. It didn’t move anything forward, apart from Lightman finally admitting to his daughter that he loved his partner Gillian- something we always knew.

 

Awake’s finale, had it been a season finale, would have been one of the best in the history of television. But as a season finale, it was just disappointing that we didn’t get the answer to the show’s promise: which of the worlds he was living was real?

 

Body of Proof answered everything we needed to know, moved the story forward, avoided the cliche of Megan winning over every criminal….

 

Yeah, I’ll miss the show. If another network buys it, I’ll keep watching.

 

What did you think of the finale?

 

 

Also on Body of Proof

 

Body of Proof starring Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop & Jeri Ryan

 

Body of Proof is Back for its 3rd Season: And It’s Even More Fun!

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Body of Proof is Back for its 3rd Season: And It’s Even More Fun!

Posted on February 23, 2013 Written by ripitup

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Body of Proof Season 3 Cast
From left: Mary Mouser, Elyes Gabel, Jeri Ryan, Dana Delany, Windell Middlebrooks, Mark Valley, Geoffrey Arend.

 

 

Body of Proof is a crime/drama/thriller starring Dana Delany and it is back for a 3rd season. It’s one of my favorite shows to tune in. Before moving on, you can refresh your memory with my initial review for the show.

 

Why I’ll Always Appreciate Another Body of Proof Season

When you like a show purely for its concept, and it doesn’t attempt to lure you in with serial story lines, it has a higher chance of keeping you interested.

There’ve been shows that I initially liked more than Body of Proof, but while some of those shows produced entire seasons I didn’t enjoy (Supernatural, Alias, Fringe), there hasn’t been one episode of Body of Proof that bored me. Sure, some episodes are better than others, and some two-parters (Going Viral, Season 2, Episodes 18 & 19) have been great. But all in all, to me, it is better to be entertaining all around than to be awesome for a while (e.g. Supernatural Seasons 1,2,3) and then bore me to death (Supernatural seasons 6 & 7).

Story Background with Some  Major Spoilers for Season 2

If you are new to the show, you can read my review for the first season. But I prepared a quick fix for you anyway:

  • You don’t have to watch an entire season to catch up. All you need to know is that Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) is a brilliant surgeon-turned-medical examiner. She’s divorced with teenage daughter Lacey (Mary Mouser), and a total workaholic; with an addiction to finding the truth no matter what. Nope, she’s not the easiest person to work with.

 

Yes, she acts like examiner/detective, driving a lot of people crazy in the process. But just like Lightman (Lie to Me) is the best at reading faces and bodies, Megan reads dead bodies like no one else can. And as much as her friends and colleagues complain, she’s the best, and there’re tons of killers who wouldn’t have been caught if it weren’t for her.

 

And like most brilliant and unorthodox TV characters, she’s really fun to watch.

 

  • Season 3 brings in 2 new characters, after killing off the second main character, Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop), Megan’s friend/MI and potential love interest. Unfortunately season 2 ended with a cliff-hanger Megan panicking next to a bleeding Peter, whose survival chances seemed slim. The two cops (played by (John Carroll Lynch, Sonja Sohn) Megan collaborated with were also change. Apparently the show was suffering from low ratings, so the producers decided to vamp up the show with new blood.

 

While I liked Peter’s character and her dynamic with Megan, I didn’t have to worry about his departure when Mark Valley was brought in. And instead of being the new MI, he is one of the two cops Megan will be working with. Oh, and to make things more complicated, they do have a history, which ended with him screwing up and annoying Megan to no end.

 

His partner Adam (Elyes Gabel) is also likeable, young, capable and not above teasing Valley’s Tommy Sullivan about his past relationship with Megan despite Sullivan’s death threats.

 

Season 3, Episode 1

Megan comes back to work 3 months after Peter’s death, bored from having stayed away from work but still shaken up. She has to put up with a rookie MI, and finds out that she has to work with 2 new cops, one of them being her ex flame….

The case they are working on however is bigger than any of their issues: someone is kidnapping veterans, removing their spleens and killing them later. While “the why” haunts them, the brains of the operations find the perfect way to eliminate Megan-through her daughter Lacey.

Episode 2 will serve as the second part of season opening. You can watch the promo for 3×02 here.

 

 

 

 

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Body of Proof starring Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop & Jeri Ryan

Posted on November 2, 2011 Written by ripitup

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Body of Proof starring Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop and Jeri Ryan

Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) is a former successful neurosurgeon-turned-brilliant medical examiner due to a car accident and the loss of a patient. Her career as a surgeon cost her marriage and her relationship with her 12-year-old daughter Lacey. Now, she is solving cases with the wit of Patrick Jane (Simon Baker’s character in The Mentalist). While Megan is deemed to be anti-social and difficult to work with, she is the friendliest and most agreeable person compared to House.

Show’s comedic relief comes both from the banter between Megan and her co-workers- especially Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop), and the interactions of young Dr. Ethan (Geoffrey Arend) and Curtis (Windell Middlebrooks), Megan’s superior. After the first couple episodes, Megan’s genius pretty much accepted, and she starts developing friendlier relationships with the two cops, Sam (Sonja Sohn) and Bud (John Carroll Lynch) that are usually assigned to her cases.

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Body of Proof is a very fun crime drama. Sure, it has the obligatory emotional moments as leading characters of these shows usually come with baggage, especially the head crime solvers. Megan’s often criticized by caring too much about the dead, and she replies that 1) she has to, because no one else will listen to them now, and 2) she is feeling guilty about her  former career when she did hundreds of operations and yet didn’t know any of her patients on a personal level.

While the characters of the show constantly joke that Megan has no friends, I’d say that she has become pretty good friends with Peter. Their relationship borders on flirty, and it wouldn’t exactly shock the viewers if they started dating. Fortunately though, this is a show that works perfectly fine with or without romance. The show is more about the murder case they are trying to solve each episode, as well as Megan’s personal growth.

It might not be the most original thing on the block, but it is sure capable of entertaining you for over 40 minutes. The dynamics between the characters are fun, the murder cases are interesting –even if you pride yourself in being able to guess who’s guilty during these kind of shows. Get over it, folks!  After seeing our share of the crime drama/thrillers, it is no longer about finding the killer. It is how the killer is found, which one-liners are provided and who the main character pisses off in the process.

6.9/10 on IMDB. A solid 9/10 from me.

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Fun Body of Proof Facts:

–          Dana Delany co-starred in Desperate Housewives for many episodes, from season 4 to season 6. She was the neighbor Mike dated when he and Susan were divorced.  Interestingly enough, one of her character’s love interests was played by Nathan Fillion, who went on to star in his own crime drama Castle.

 

–          In season 6, one of the Desperate Housewives guest stars was Jeffrey Nordling, who played the husband of Angie Nolan, the new neighbor. In Body of Proof, he plays Megan’s ex-husband.

 

–          Dana Delaney just might be the proof of Hollywood is growing up. At 55, she is the leading actress of a criminal show. She is gorgeous, and from the looks of it, it is natural.

 

–          Dana Delaney co-starred with Timothy Hutton in the movie Multiple Sarcasms. Timothy Hutton is the star of another crime/mystery/thriller TV-show Leverage.

 

–          Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Riley Marc Blucas co-stars in the episode Dead Man Walking (Season 1, Episode 5). He is one of the main suspects. Marc Blucas is no stranger to crime or medical dramas as he also guest-starred in Castle & House.

 

–          Jeri Ryan, who plays Dana Delany’s boss, played the DA in the first season of the crime/law drama Shark. She also guest-starred in the two episodes of Boston Legal.

 

Recommended TV Shows: Other Crime or Medical Dramas You Can Enjoy

Castle starring Nathan Fillion & Stana Katic

 House starring Hugh Laurie

The Mentalist starring Simon Baker

The Closer starring Kyra Sedgwick (esp. the first seasons)

Leverage starring Timothy Hutton

 Bones starring David Boreanaz & Emily Deschanel

Crossing Jordan starring Jill Hennessey

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Shark TV Series starring James Woods, Jeri Ryan & Danielle Panabaker

Posted on October 13, 2010 Written by ripitup

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Shark starring James Woods
Shark starring James Woods.

Sebastian Stark (James Woods) is the most brilliant defense lawyer in town. He is loaded and he gets a kick out of being the best. Winning his recent trial however changes things forever: a wife-beater has almost beaten his wife to death but apparently called 911 and saved her. Sebastian wins his case, on the grounds that if he’d intended to kill her, he wouldn’t have called 911. Both his defendant and his beaten wife are grateful.

But at night, he gets a phone call. This time, the guy has actually killed his wife. He is not in shock or depressed but smug that Sebastian will make him walk free again. This makes Sebastian reconsider his career as a defense lawyer. He’d no doubt soon shake the shock and guilt and move on, but he gets an interesting offer: he is proposed to work with the D.A’s (Jeri Ryan) office.

Suddenly finding himself on the opposite end of the table, Sebastian is now determined to put every criminal behind bars. He starts by training and showing his “rookie” young lawyers team (Sophina Brown, Sarah Carter, Sam Page, Alexis Cruz) some tough love. They are not all that impressed about his approach, but at the end of the day, they know he is the best and they have a lot to learn.

Sebastian’s personal life is also about to have a major change: His ex-wife is moving to New York and taking their 16-year-old daughter Julie (Danielle Panabaker) with her.

However Julie makes a surprising decision and Stark’s life begins a very different chapter.

Sebastian Stark is the much more social version of House. He is equally brilliant. He knows how good he is. But he is also aware that he hasn’t been the perfect father and he does his best to make it up to his daughter. It is impossible not to like and admire Stark and James Woods make him a great character to watch.

Shark is a first class drama/thriller with lots of entertaining moments. Unfortunately it only lasted for 38 episodes. It is from 2006 and if you like your mystery shows, Shark is a must. Watch a couple of episodes and you will probably be upset about the fact it only aired for 2 seasons.

Favorite Line from Episode 1, Season 1:

Sebastian Stark: (his first reaction to the Mayor’s offer): Me a prosecutor? I eat prosecutors for breakfast, they are my main source of fiber. Come on!

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You like your shows thrilling and leading characters brilliant? Here are some other shows you might like (if you already like them, please drop by and leave your comments):

24 starring Kiefer Sutherland

The Closer starring Kyra Sedgwick

The Mentalist starring Simon Baker

House starring Hugh Laurie

Leverage starring Timothy Hutton

Castle starring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic

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