Medium Review: Joe Day Afternoon (MED-054)
Ugh, I am so behind on updating the Episode Summaries with guest stars and links to their IMDb pages.
Luckily for you, Brett at TVSquad never falls behind. His review of Joe Day Afternoon is up. Go check it out! A tiny excerpt to get you all tingly and excited:
This was another strong week for Joe. He was cool under pressure and I really liked his logical reasoning argument to Bruce. Plus, when the stuff hit the fan, he covered up Melinda.
Scanlon on a milk carton as “missing?” Brilliant!
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7 opinions for Medium Review: Joe Day Afternoon (MED-054)
Brett
Apr 5, 2007 at 8:54 am
It’s amazing what you can do with three minutes and a copy of the GIMP. :D
Sheila
Apr 5, 2007 at 9:11 am
I confess. I had to look up GIMP. And now I have yet another groovy program to play with and figure out how to use. Damn you, Brett!
Brett
Apr 5, 2007 at 9:52 am
Yeah, GIMP is probably the best free photo editor you are going to find, and it has the bonus of running on just about anything. If you are using Windows though, you might also look up paint.net. It’s a free replacement for the Paint program that adds a lot of features.
nansee
Apr 5, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Brett, that Scanlon milk carton thing is hilarious! Very cool.
Despite being Scanlonless, I did love, love this ep, and it *totally* made up for last week’s demon-seed-LSD-candy crap. Larry Kind (amazing) and Adam Goldberg were great, as was Jake Weber. I actually was likin’ the Joe for once. All of them deserve Emmy nominations IMO for this ep. I’d figured out who was going to die from the beginning (you can’t kill a way pregnant woman or Joe), but it didn’t matter because the acting and suspense were so good.
Scanlonwise, it’s funny, as soon as the ep was over a friend rang me and asked where he was … as if I know …! I don’t have a tracking device on the man. She said that every scene she kept expecting to see him.
ITA that the main plot of a police/hostage situation made it especially obvious he was missing. As soon as I saw it was a Joe-centric ep in the previews, though, I knew there’d be no Scanlon. TPTB do not know how to incorporate the two men in one ep. This is a shame because there is room for both of them.
Brett
Apr 5, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Nansee, are you mixing up Larry Miller and Richard Kind there? Because now that you mention it, they do share some similarities. Thinking back on it, they probably could have just given every scene with Devalos at Aerodytech to Scanlon and it all would have made much more sense.
Holly
Apr 5, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Any episode with a lot of Joe is a good episode in my book. I did notice that there was no Scanlon–wouldn’t it have made of sense if it was him there instead of Devalos? I don’t know, it seems like they could have worked him in somehow, but I guess every episode can’t be perfect. They integrated Ariel’s stuff in perfectly–I kept wishing the principal would just let her use the stupid phone! And the dread and hope stuff was really cool. Acting, of course, was superb! Awesome episode.
I, too, really liked your Scanlon on a milk carton picture. I always enjoy reading your review. Nice work, Brett.
nansee
Apr 5, 2007 at 8:01 pm
LOL, Brett, I created a new person. I wonder where that combo came from … I’m not sure what goes on in my brain. It seems to have a mind of its own. Yikes, this is almost as bad as a friend of mine mixing up David Arquette and John Laroquette.
Not that I don’t love Devalos, but it completely would have made more sense if it were Scanlon in those scenes instead. I wonder what the writers, etc., were thinking. Maybe David Cubitt is filming something interesting? I can only hope.
I loved that they included Ariel, too! She was great.
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