As I noted recently, staying awake long enough to be able to
go to bed at a reasonable time is a plight for those of us who are creeping up
in age. Or if you like—geezers. But as long as you have a viewing companion who
will take notes while you are sleeping and you are willing to do the same for him or her, there’s no harm, no foul. And only occasionally do I play fast and loose
with the plot details. Assuming I remember them.
We recently watched a two-hour, mega-crossover TV event: NCIS
and NCIS-New Orleans. We’d recorded it so we wouldn’t drift off during the
commercials. Everything was fine until the beginning of the second hour. The
young NCIS agent Ellie was transporting (from Washington
DC to New
Orleans—hence the “crossover” between the shows) the
body of some Russian—a diplomat or spy or someone--who had been poisoned.
That’s when I drifted.
So when I woke up, the
bad guys and some redheaded woman were shooting it out with some other guys, I thought one was the rich guy's bodyguard. But I couldn’t tell who was doing what to whom. My
spouse came to the rescue.
I asked, quite logically to me—“Why is Longmire’s daughter in
a battle with the billionaire’s bodyguard?”
My husband understood my question. It helps if your TV companion has similar viewing habits. So you can use a shorthand for the characters. He knew I was referring not really to Longmire's daughter but to the
pretty, young, redheaded actress, Cassidy Freeman, who in the mega-NCIS crossovers was playing a Russian spy. But she is best known to us as the daughter (also a pretty young redhead but a lawyer in that program) of Sheriff Longmire in the series of the
same name.
We recently had binge-watched the series Longmire, well, more like watched an episode or two at a time, before one or both of us
dozed off. Took us a few months to get through the first three seasons. The
mysteries in each episode are enticingly plotted and the acting and scenery are
outstanding.
As a result of that well-known phenomena that an actor is
often remembered for the most prominent role you first saw them in, in our
parlance, this young actress is forever to us known as Longmire’s daughter.
We were happy to hear that the Longmire series has been picked
up by Netflix for a fourth season. So we have a lot more TV programs to snooze
to.
